Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Each book, of the four books in the Dreaming Series is a story in its own right. Each Shaman you follow lives within the boundaries of the lives of others and yet their stories are unique, phenomenal and rich in diversity and ripe in challenge. The Dreaming Series – a flight into another world.Shadow...

Extrait : "Du temps du roi Moabdar il y avait à Babylone un jeune homme nommé Zadig, né avec un beau naturel fortifié par l'éducation. Quoique riche et jeune, il savait modérer ses passions ; il n'affectait rien ; il ne voulait point toujours avoir raison, et savait respecter la faiblesse des hommes."À...

Un ouvrage qui consacre l’art au rang qu’il mérite, au rang le plus beau c’est à dire proche de chacun de nous. Fatma Omar choisit à juste titre la sculpture, cet art troublant qui seul permet de matérialiser la lumière, le temps, l’équilibre. Le héros de son roman, Settir, est cet...

Wedding Tales, Book Two: Honeymoon Caper, brings together all the Tales that were not told in their entirety in Wedding Tales, Book One: Love's Journey. Married during the Blizzard of 1966, newlyweds, Rebecca Butler and Khalil Khoury escaped the deep snows and frigid winds entombing the northeast...

Perseo, Andromeda, Cassiopea e Pegaso sono quattro delle 88 costellazioni conosciute e hanno un denominatore comune: il mito di Perseo, l’eroe marito di Andromeda che sconfisse la Medusa, una delle tre Gorgoni. Questo è solo uno dei tanti splendidi miti raccontati in questo grande libro, il cui...

An ageing, disillusioned, alcoholic Englishman disgraces himself with a paint aerosol in a Beirut underpass. But all is not lost – or is it?

A coming-of-age story set in the isolated, murky swamps of Louisiana   When the mighty wind blows through the swamps of southern Louisiana, it changes not only the land, but the inhabitants as well. Just such a wind brought a lone infant into the care of the Chitimacha Indians deep...

Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as La Vendetta (The Vendetta). This novel is also part of La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy) and is the eighth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life). The series parodies and depicts French society in the first half of the 19th Century.

*Why do crickets have black teeth? *Why do chickens have beaks? *Why do spiders have small waists? The short answer is . . . Ananse did it! You can find the long answers to these and other intriguing questions in this collection of West African folktales.  All twelve stories...

Émile François Zola ( 2 April 1840 29 September 1902) is one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, and one of Frances best known citizens. In his life, Zola was the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Around...

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of his...

What is the book about?:Why do Indians...? is book of short stories about inscrutable Indian customs, traditions and likings. Indians still practice arranged marriage in a big way, they are crazy about cricket and movies, many Indians are staunch vegetarians, those who eat meat may avoid beef...so...

Extrait : "Rien de plus joli que la demeure où s'écoulait l'enfance du petit Adalbert ; c'était la campagne de la Normandie avec ses haies, ses buissons, ses grands prés, ses champs dorés, tous ses parfums, toutes ses fleurs. Ces trésors, Adalbert les partageait avec les enfants du canton, car...

Extrait : "Les plus tragiques scènes de notre monde se passent sur l'Océan ; mais elles n'ont d'autres témoins que le soleil, ou les astres de la nuit, ou les oiseaux voyageurs. Quand le Malabar, vaisseau de la Compagnie hollandaise, s'abîma dans le gouffre de la mer Indienne, nul regard humain ne...