Robert: 5744 books

Un cancer du sein, ça surprend, un second encore plus. Dans un tourbillon d'émotions, de rires et de larmes, Delphine Apiou en fait la chronique sans concession. Comment annoncer son cancer à sa famille (" Papa, maman, devinette : qu'est-ce qui est rond et qui ne grossit que dans un seul sein...

Le juge Raymond Fawcett et sa secrétaire sont retrouvés assassinés dans la maison de campagne du juge. Il n'y a pas de trace de lutte, pas d'empreintes, pas un seul témoin. Rien. Au bout de quelques mois, l'enquête n'a pas progressé d'un pouce et le FBI est sur les dents. Puis un détenu du...

The ground-breaking biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveals more than any other the man behind the music. The author examines the considerable range of Vaughan Williams's work, from the English pastoral tradition to Modernism, and shows how Vaughan Williams was influenced by the Boer War, the...

L'autobiographie de l'enfant terrible de la télé qui a fait les beaux jours de TF1 et qui, aujourd'hui, reste l'animateur n° 1 sur les ondes. " L'humour m'a sauvé la vie. " Au moment où l'arrivée des radios libres bouleverse les médias, Sébastien Cauet a 10 ans et vient de perdre...

He who makes of himself a sight/By farting with all of his might/Awakens to a new created plight/That all the women have taken flight. Can men catch up, grow up, stand upright and drop the clubs once and for all? Why is it, ominously, that for so many, the image of the ideal male derives from 19th...

Charles Sonny Liston was an ex-con who entered boxing in 1953 after serving a term in prison in Missouri. He learned to fight on the streets of St. Louis. The first two years of the 1960s decade were eventful for Sonny, not just because of speculation of a possible title shot with heavyweight champion...

Joe Louis was the most marketable sports figure on earth at the beginning of 1937. On January 20, 1937 he fought an upstart Jewish boxer, Bob Pastor, at Yankee Stadium. The former New York University football player went the distance, 11 rounds, wounding Louis' ego in the process. This bout occurred...

Carmen Miranda was a sensational star of stage and film who was born in Portugal. She came to Rio de Janiero as a child, where she was raised by her parents. Carmen compensated for her mediocre voice with distinct and alluring movements of her hands. Her hands, she believed, were her most valuable...

The lives and dreadful deeds of 20 horrific medical serial killers, including: Genene Jones: a truly monstrous paediatric nurse who murdered as many as 47 babies and children entrusted to her care. Glennon Engleman:a rather unconventional dentist who moonlighted as a hitman and murder-for-profit...

Mike DeJohn came from a family of boxers in Syracuse, New York. His brother, Joey, was a popular middleweight in the 1950s, as had been his brother Ralph in the late 1930s. Another brother, Johnny, managed Mike for the better part of his boxing career. Mike gained an early unexpected victory with...

Charles the Bug Workman was imprisoned for a generation for the murders of Dutch Schultz and three of his associates. The murders were among the most grisly in the annals of organized crime history. The slayings occurred in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey in October 1935. My e-book looks...

Albert Tannanbaum was a member of the notorious kill for hire organization in Brooklyn known as Murder, Inc. He assassinated people for money and fingered others to be killed. One of the men he was involved in murdering was Hyman Yuran, a dress manufacturer whose body wasn't discovered for many...

Morris "Dimples" Wolensky was an associate of Murder, Inc. founder Louis Lepke Buchalter. Murder, Inc. was a murder for hire operation that flourished in Brownsville, Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s. Buchalter did much to build the national crime syndicate. Wolensky duped Buchalter into thinking that...

Baron Wolfgang von Trips was a German nobleman from the Rhineland of Germany. He gave up his castle and privileged life to enter the sport of Formula One racing in the mid 1950s. By September 1961 he was on the threshold of winning the Formula One World Championship, as a driver of a Ferrari. Trips...