Robert: 5744 books

Une ancienne ville coloniale abandonnée à sa torpeur, que traverse un fleuve boueux: Rihata. Une grande maison délabrée, au jardin envahi d'herbes de Guinée, et ses occupants: Marie-Hélène, Antillaise déracinée, Zek, son mari, directeur régional de la Banque autonome pour le développement,...

Elle était Tiyi, mère des princesses Néfertiti et Meritaton, enceinte d'un nouvel enfant du Soleil Aton. Un an plus tôt, venant de la Guadeloupe en passant par le Venezuela, ils avaient échoué dans la petite ville de Santa Marta, sur la côte caraïbe de la Colombie, avec Mandjet et Mesketet,...

"Aux yeux de ses compatriotes, Belle était une énigme. En ces temps où les femmes ne remettaient en question ni leur dépendance vis-à-vis de l'homme, ni leur sujétion vis-à-vis de leurs enfants, toute sa conduite choquait. Nous avons déjà indiqué la manière dont elle traitait Jean...

When a routine American-Israeli exercise goes wrong, Brick Maxwell's wingman is shot down and taken prisoner by a Palestinian splinter group. Negotiating the flier's release is the President's shadowy, power-hungry special envoy, Rick Solares. Though the pilot is set free, Brick suspects there is...

A poem in free verse and rhyme, written in the style of epic poems of the past, of a mythical man, and a mythical land named Heaven. Readers and admirers of such poems as Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and the Arthurian legends will surely enjoy this piece, as it follows Heaven as he both inspires and...

Have you ever wondered why there are so many different kinds of religions, false gods, and idols throughout the world  - over 4,000 of them?   Is there a conspiracy going on right now behind the scenes to establish a global government?   What are the similarities between...

Lorsque la police découvre le cadavre d'une adolescente sur le bas-côté d'une route peu fréquentée de Caroline du Nord, Temperance craint le pire. Les marques sur le corps de la jeune fille ne laissent aucun doute : ce n'est pas une mort naturelle. La victime pourrait être une immigrante illégale...

Have you ever delivered meals to shut-in trolls or warlocks? Solved a shaman's murder with clues you noticed at the lizard orgy? Ever made one of those wagers with a deity where you just know a dozen mortals will end up insane or beheaded, daughters marrying fathers, & almost always, somebody...

Mark was a year ahead of me in college and we both swam on the swimming team. I was nineteen and a sophomore. He was a junior, but I think he was older than most other juniors because he’d failed at least one year. But his parents were rich and donated a lot of money to the school, so he was never...

Captain Flak, Mezmo, and RetroBution are the local costumed heroes. They have no super powers, but provide super community services, as they like to call them. This night, before they go on street patrol, they will meet their biggest fan – an overly enthusiastic nine-year-old boy, who thinks they really have super powers.

David Thompson is a former Vietnam War conscientious objector in Paris on a quest to find himself in the early days of 1977. When he befriends an Iranian and an Afghan and is invited to return with them to their countries, his quest slowly becomes a descent into his own private hell. On the...

It's 2011 and as the world inches closer to the 2012 Convergence, Tim Christenson, an addicted street thug attempts to rob the wrong man... Forced into a journey of epic consequences by the enigmatic Kuthanaga, Tim learns of the devastating fate in store for all of humanity and must come to terms...

On a South Pacific island in the only radiation-free zone on earth, Cheeta, the Kauri tribe’s storyteller, narrates to children about their ancestors, the Ancient Ones, who caused the apocalyptic war that destroyed life on earth. She sees a glowing object descending like a meteor in the evening...

Numerous authors compare or describe national responses to terrorism by using typologies. This paper synthesizes this prior work into a typological framework. The basis for the framework emerged when mapping the different claims of each author and noticing a distinct dearth of variance among how the...