Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Extrait : "Les temps ne sont plus aux Contes de nos grand'mères : ils disparaissent avec celles qui les narraient si bien, qui leur donnaient l'accent et la couleur. C'est une page d'histoire des plus intéressantes, des plus curieuses, qui s'efface sous nos yeux sans que nous daignions nous baisser...

Sein berühmtestes Werk krönt das Wahrzeichen Berlins, sein schönstes stellt einen Höhepunkt der europäischen Bildhauerei dar: Johann Gottfried Schadow, Schöpfer der Quadriga und der Prinzessinnengruppe, Dieser historische Roman schildert das Leben, die Persönlichkeit und Entwicklung des Hofbildhauers...

A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017! “A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton…” --Cosmopolitan Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton...

Vivait jadis dans la vallée du St-Laurent un petit village admiré pour sa stricte observance du carême, période de jeûne et d’abstinence. Et cela courrouçait le diable qui se jura d’emporter ses habitants avant que tel exemple ne se répande. Pour parvenir à ses fins, il choisit de passer...

Like his three siblings, 32-year-old Alfredo “Freddy Flowers” Falconi has led two lives: the idyllic one before “The Incident”—his mother’s 1984 death—and the complicated one afterward. He was just eight-years-old when his father abandoned the family, and nine when his oldest brother,...

Secret Path is a ten song digital download album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago. Chanie, misnamed...

Bas-Canada, 19e siècle, veille du jour de l’An. Isolés en pleine forêt à des kilomètres du plus proche village, des bûcherons concluent un pacte avec Satan. Afin de rejoindre leurs familles l’espace d’une nuit, ils vont voler au-dessus des montagnes à bord d’un canot d’écorce. Récit inspiré du folklore québécois.

There was in times past in the St. Lawrence Valley (Canada) a small village admired for its strict observance of Lent, a period of fast and abstinence. And that angered Satan who vowed to carry off his inhabitants before this example becomes widespread. To achieve his aim, he chose to go through the...

The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin Jerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat...

**“Absolutely delightful.” —People The enchanting story of a bookshop, its grieving owner, a supportive literary community, and the extraordinary power of books to heal the heart** Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true...

"Carter's warm and beautiful prose brings us love, tragedy, mystery and hope in a moving celebration of America and the people who have come to it."--Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky Us and Away For fans of The Nightingale and Brooklyn comes an exquisite and unforgettable...

A saint is crucified on the same Mediterranean island where, centuries later, a Japanese soprano recovers her lost voice. Youths throw a rock through a car windscreen in urban Accra, and a woman sees this as a sign she will never reproduce. A murderer escapes across the Sydney suburbs, bringing together...

Owner of a small African-American bookshop, Miss Cozy has an unique gift: Customers who walk through her door rarely leave without a book that speaks directly to their life. But when Josephine--"Fina"--and Ross arrive in search of an obscure, unpublished manuscript written by a slave woman,...

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017 The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running...