Lionel: 449 books

Pandora é uma empreendedora bem-sucedida que vive em Iowa com o marido, Fletcher, um homem de temperamento irritadiço, que nunca consegue relaxar. Edison, irmão de Pandora, antes um conhecido pianista de jazz em Nova York, está completamente falido, sem ter onde morar. Contrariando o marido, Pandora...

Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked, untested Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes...

Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the...

A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings...

Every Little Helps...Just Do It...Life's Good The ultimate guide to the world's greatest slogans. Renowned research scientist and former Harvard Visiting Professor Lionel Salem's comprehensive handbook details the most successful - and some of the most forgettable - slogans used by the...

Fasciné par le destin des enfants de criminels de guerre, Marc part à Belgrade en 2010 pour enquêter sur le suicide de la fille du général Mladic, accusé de crimes contre l'humanité par la justice internationale et pourtant vénéré dans son pays. Dans la minuscule république serbe de Bosnie,...

Un écrivain, Augustin, vient de se séparer de la femme qu'il a passionnément aimée. Cette rupture le précipite dans une immense détresse. Il cherche alors à exprimer l'indicible : tout ce qui se joue de si mystérieux, de si vertigineux, dans le huis clos d'un couple. Tandis qu'il écrit sur...

Dans ce nouveau roman, Lionel Duroy poursuit son exploration de l'intimité du couple et se penche cette fois sur les ressorts secrets d'un amour heureux. À l'instant où il l'a vue pour la première fois, de l'autre côté de la rue, à la fenêtre d'un appartement, Marc a été subjugué...

In this lively social history, first published in 1988, Lionel Rose explores in detail the plight of the street poor between 1815 and 1985. He describes the Victorian ‘Rogues and Vagabonds’ who made elicit peddling, begging frauds and other petty crime their profession. He considers the relevant...

Ganador en tres ocasiones del premio más prestigioso del género, el Gold Dagger, Lionel Davidson está considerado una de las leyendas más grandes del thriller. Esta novela, la última y más aclamada del desaparecido autor británico —que Salamandra publica por primera vez en castellano—,...

If you want to have a conversation with God, then you need to do two things: pray and fast. In this primer focusing on these fundamental activities of faith, Rev. Dr. Lionel Stokes shares her transforming life experiences, exploring what the Bible says about prayer; why there are so...

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°5 - Entretiens et interviews Article. Don Johnson, l’homme et la bête : A Boy and His Dog (Mathieu Germain) Dossier Jean-Pierre Mocky Entretien Jean-Pierre Mocky Article. Réflexions d’un ex-chasseur de gueules (Christophe Bier) Article. Sexe, sang et...

Before contraception was generally available, and when abortion was fraught with danger, infanticide was a common solution to the problem of unwanted children. Massacre of the Innocents, first published in 1986, shows the causes and consequences of the high tide of infanticide in Victorian Britain. Lionel...

Há anos um grupo separatista da região de Barba, em Portugal, explode bombas ao redor do mundo como estratégia para conseguir a sua independência. A comunidade internacional vive aterrorizada com os atentados implacáveis e imprevisíveis e a autodeterminação de Barba é um dos temas centrais...