Robert: 5744 books

Tampa, Florida became a hotbed of gambling and mobster activity by the 1930s. In April 1938 nine of its city and Hillsborough County officials were indicted by a local grand jury. In 1949 Florida Governor Fuller Warren closed down gambling joints statewide about a month after he was elected. The Tampa...

Le 6 mars 2017, en pleine affaire Fillon, alors qu'Alain Juppé vient d'annoncer qu'il renonce à se poser en challenger du candidat de la droite, François Bayrou confie à Michèle Cotta : " Tout ceci n'a aucune logique. Je suis sans explication. On est dans le stupéfiant ! " Cette formule...

Convertie à l'islam, Mélodie rencontre sur Facebook le chef français d'une brigade islamiste. En quarante-huit heures, il " tombe amoureux " d'elle, l'appelle nuit et jour, la presse de venir faire son djihad en Syrie et dans la foulée la demande en mariage, lui faisant miroiter une...

L'ordonnance optimiste du " Dr Drucker " L'obsession de Michel Drucker est bien connue : durer et tenir la forme. Il ne veut pas décrocher. À plus de soixante-dix printemps, est-ce bien raisonnable ? Lucide et plein d'autodérision, sans fard, il s'interroge ici sur le temps et l'âge....

Fille aînée de Jérôme Cahuzac, Diane Gontier livre ici un témoignage sans concession sur sa famille, dévastée par l'un des plus grands scandales politico-financiers de la Ve République. Elle raconte comment, confrontée à cette affaire qui a brisé son existence sociale, elle a tenté de...

" L'homosexualité dans le clergé est une question très sérieuse qui me préoccupe. " Pape François Le célibat des prêtres ; l'interdiction du préservatif par l'Église ; la culture du secret sur les affaires d'abus sexuels ; la démission du pape Benoît XVI ; la misogynie du clergé...

De Boris Cyrulnik à Agnès b. en passant par Robert Badinter, Claude Chirac, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Amin Maalouf, Franz Olivier Giesbert, Abd Al Malik, Sempé, Erik Orsenna, Sophie Calle ou encore Michel Édouard Leclerc, une vingtaine de personnalités ont confié leurs souvenirs d'enfance à Mazarine...

Forced to work undercover by Captain Freeman, Detective Reginald Thomas Williams is sucked into a whirlwind of stolen cars, gangsters, a crazy German, and his volatile partner—Officer Carmen Sanchez. Heated sparks fly between Reg and Sanchez, hot enough to burn down the case and kill them both....

With martini glass in hand, Ad Man rips the top off the Wheaties box and plucks the tail fins off the Caddy to tell the true story of what really went on in those offices high above Madison Avenue during the 1960s, the storied age of advertising. Bob Foster (more or less) worked for all the mid-century...

Closing the Circle: A Memoir of Cuba, Exile, the Bay of Pigs and a Trans-Island Bike Journey is a family memoir in three parts intricately interwoven with historical events. The book is structured in 3 parts, somewhat akin to John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, where each part, though quite separate,...

At midnight God smote all the evil doers on earth. Only the Good survived, and I was one of them. This was the beginning of the first day of God’s Kingdom on Earth.

James Wilkinson has been maligned throughout American History as a schemer and an unscrupulous individual. My e-book looks at many incidents in his military career that earned him the reputation as a blackhearted treacherous figure. There are so many instances where he ingratiated himself with superiors...

Have you ever wondered what your cat is thinking or trying to tell you in his language? For many of us, cat language feels foreign, difficult to understand, and even harder to decipher. We all know about the effects that an untrained cat can have on our stress levels and wallet.   Proper...

Discover your perfection and beauty through these meditations. They are a very practical response to the call to know yourself directly by looking inwardly and asking the question, “Who am I?” Come to know the silent, still point of awareness within, and see that life is not about becoming a more loving person, but expressing the love you already are.