Paris: 1838 books

Au début du 17e siècle, en France. Un cavalier s’élance et tombe comme la foudre au milieu des brigands épouvantés. Les rapières se croisent, les chevaux se cabrent, des hommes s’écroulent, d’autres s’enfuient. Alors, se découvrant d’un geste, le cavalier s’incline en souriant...

« Chronologiquement, c’est Jules Verne qui, avant Wells, met à l’honneur l’anticipation scientifique. Mais l’inspiration de chacun d’eux est de nature différente. Verne se sert d’une invention technologique dont il donne une version encore inconnue et dont il imagine, dans des intuitions...

Comme toutes les grandes gares suisses, celle de Zurich – le Bahnhof – est luxueusement installée. La place qui s’étend devant la façade est ornée de la statue d’Alfred Escher, témoignage de reconnaissance envers l’homme d’État à qui l’on doit le chemin de fer du Saint-Gothard....

“Enjoyed the way the story flowed her expressive descriptions and writing voice was excellent and the story was a great little teaser as well.” “sexy… real good.” “exciting, enticing, enchanting…” When Bella, a gorgeous professor, takes the train to work, her attention is seized by...

Women of the world - gay, straight, bi, shy or undecided - have you ever wondered what would happen if guilt were against the rules? If you were taken to a hot, luxurious seaside resort and surrounded by beautiful women of all nationalities with only your pleasure – and theirs – in mind? Who...

After a truly incredible evening in her professor’s college office, Sally finds herself having lunch at an expensive restaurant with this almost impossibly glamorous woman. When Sally, 20, points out in a whisper that they have never actually kissed, her blue-eyed professor suggests a very special...

What's a woman to do when the sexy younger man she can't forget tracks her down after a night spent celebrating her fortieth birthday? Charmed into a year of long distance Sunday morning calls, Raphella Dotti agrees to spend a sensual week with Jake Truhorn, exploring all of her no-holds-barred-anything-goes-fantasies. Jake...

Her gift is a double edged sword. Will it be enough to save a cursed bootlegger from becoming a demon's prize? The least of reality show host Cassidy Spencer's worries is banishing the ghost of a handsome bootlegger who disappeared after being accused of murdering his best friend's fiancée....

20th century historical romance with a paranormal twist... Jack Howland, part of an elite group of OSS special agents, can't resist the pull of the moon or the memory of his brief wartime romance with widowed USO hostess, Lulu Lane. After the war, their paths cross again but will the truth...

Something evil stalks Yorkshire. Traveling into the misty moors to investigate the dangerous vampire prowling for victims, the hunter, Lockwood, finds the strange owner of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and becomes trapped in the evil enveloping all of Yorkshire. Driven nearly to madness by his unrequited...

Robert et Laurence Maubray se sont mariés à l’île Maurice, dont le jeune homme est originaire. Ils viennent se fixer à Paris, où leur bonheur serait sans ombre si Robert n’aimait par trop sa liberté. En effet, il n’hésite pas à délaisser sa jeune épouse pour se rendre au Cercle ou...

Etudiant de province fraîchement débarqué à Paris, Dorante ne rêve que de conquêtes. Mais la réalité n'égale pas toujours l'immensité de ses désirs et le voilà qui s'invente des vies parallèles, jouant la comédie, avec l'insouciance de la jeunesse, à tous ceux et celles qu'il croise...

Henri-Émile Chevalier, né le 13 septembre 1828 à Châtillon-sur-Seine, mort le 26 août 1879 à Paris, est un homme de lettres français. Extrait : Rien n'est plus mal que d'exciter les gens à quitter leur patrie en leur forgeant des histoires de prospérité mensongère ! Puis, qu'avons-nous...

Evil dreams plague Emily St. Clair, who uncovers a past life in medieval England. Led to the mystical castle ruins near Stonehenge, she returns to the place of her dreams and finds her true love, the legendary Black Knight of Montavere. To save him from a witch's power, Emily must bring him to the present, but she unleashes a darkness that threatens their love...