Albert: 2833 books

Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life.      Chief among...

What would happen, if a classic comic hero went through all the reboots and reimaginings comics go through. What if he found out he was part of a plan to make money off his fights with his friends who are his villains who he fights continuously? This is his story and what happens will shock you more...

Albert Paine was a late 19th and early 20th century American author who remains best known today for collaborating with Mark Twain on a number of books.

Time's 'Man of the Century', Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book Einstein explains, using the minimum of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory...

**An epic novel stretching out from Samoa to Europe, America and New Zealand, from the turn of the nineteenth century, through the First World War, the Spanish Influenza Epidemic and beyond.**Since the 1960s, Albert Wendt has created a profound and fabulous Pacific world that is uniquely his own....

This wonderful collection of hand-picked Thanksgiving classics will make you fall in love with our sweet little stories and will become a part of your Thanksgiving story-telling traditions: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball)...

Extrait : "Arnauld de Villeneuve est né vers 1245 en France, comme l'attestent Symphorianus Campegius et Joseph de Haitze. Quant au lieu précis de sa naissance il est incertain. Il étudia les langues mortes à Aix, la médecine à Montpellier. Il vint à Paris pour se perfectionner ; la rumeur populaire...

This is a collection of scrapped short stories.Society's Forsaken is a spin-off of the Society's Monsters series and is about two poor souls who are unjustifyably damned by others.Defiled Femininity is a side story of the Choice and Consequence series where a female solider is kidnapped...

"Words do not seem adequate to describe my parents, Albert and Aimee Anderson. You will love reading about my Dad and Mom's memories. I am so glad that Dad started writing before he became bedridden. You will be blessed beyond words as you read this book. (Debbie Chase)

It is 1883, and a patrolman making his midnight rounds in New York City’s Battery Park finds a dead man in the middle of a quiet carriage-way. Looking up from his grim discovery, his startled gaze rests on a bat-like spectre the size of a man, perched on a nearby structure. So begins a pursuit that...

On a dark evening in 1890, a murderer strikes in the middle of New York City’s Washington Square Park. Seemingly no one has seen the attack. Both the police investigators and private detective Joe Phenix are at a loss as to how they can proceed. However, Joe Phenix begins to get tips from a veiled...

Within the palatial home of the leading Wall Street “Money King,” a concealed extortionist seeks a fortune from the magnate. The police detectives can’t discover any suspects, so the obvious choice is to secretly employ the best sleuth in New York City. At his office, Joe Phenix receives an...

Real Witches of Los Angeles’ centers around three friends who are practicing witches and work together in their Los Angeles business called the ‘Cauldron’ performing tarot readings and spell castings for their celebrities and professional clients.

Mankind plays god in more than one way. Diana is a young woman who was about to married off to the family of a small business before she ran away from home. She breaks the statue of the Blessed Mother and appears in a place where human rulers can create their own kingdoms and their own Heaven and...