Alice: 2648 books

Pity sex with the shyest student in the lab? That’s what Felice Larson’s friends have blackmailed her into. Dev VonRamsberg seems nice enough, if you can see past the hair that hangs in his face, the glasses, and the corduroy slacks. It’ll be embarrassing for her and possibly humiliating...

« Depuis la parution de ce livre en 1979, et aujourd’hui encore, je reçois des lettres de personnes qui me disent que cette lecture a fait venir dans leurs vies le petit enfant perdu, incompris, apeuré qu’ils furent autrefois. Ils m’écrivent qu’il y a des dizaines d’années, ils ont...

In the darker corners of the City of Light, three fashionable young women revel in the glamor of late-1920s Paris nightlife. They model cutting-edge styles at a couture house on the rue Cambon. And, they are vampires. “Vamps of '29” follows their piquant and picaresque adventures as they...

there's a secret - which dad knew about and mum has a clue about - but the remaining edmundsons are none the wiser - apart from one whither over yonder. alice bell's fascinating novel tells the tale of a west yorkshire clan pulling itself up by its bootstraps - all the way back to before the industrial revolution - when being able to afford treacle on your porridge was bliss!

At age twenty-nine, Prince Siddhartha Gautama left his wife and his son, and a life of royal luxury, to seek enlightenment, and he became the Buddha. Centuries later, at that same age, Eckhart Tolle experienced a crisis of consciousness that almost ended his life but led, ultimately, to the writing of...

Christmas lore ranges worldwide and reaches back into the mists of time. Author Alice Adamek has produced an excellent primer of Christmas culture, “Lyrics, Legends & Lore of Christmas”. One can never have too many books of Christmas literature. “Lyrics, Legends & Lore of Christmas,” is wonderful as a reference book, song book, recipe books, and most of all as a valued gift.

No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. Yet liberation is a messy, complex affair, in which cultural understanding can be as...

Het centrale thema in alle boeken van Alice Miller is dat de kindertijd de sleutel is tot het begrijpen van het handelen van de volwassene. De mens heeft geen destructieve 'aanleg', maar kan door mishandeling en verwaarlozing in zijn kindertijd tot een monster worden gemaakt. Voor begrip van de oorzaak...

Un roman sur les parents du peintre Camille Pissarro. Elle s’appelle Rachel et vit au paradis. C’est à Saint-Thomas, une île caraïbe, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Comme beaucoup de familles chassées par les pogroms, les Manzana Pomié, se sont réfugiés là, dans ce comptoir danois...

**A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year Acclaimed author Alice Mattison’s new novel explores the hard choices a young woman and her friends made decades earlier at the height of the Vietnam War.** Decades ago in Brooklyn, three girls demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and each...

Rosemary Alice Muriel Williamson, british novelist (1869-1933) This ebook presents «Rosemary», from Alice Muriel Williamson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- THE WHITE...

Une romance sombre et intense, rythmée par les épreuves et sublimée par l'amour.***Deva rêvait de quitter le Montana pour étudier l’histoire de l'art dans une université prestigieuse ; elle doit rester à Missoula pour ne pas s’éloigner de sa mère, gravement malade.Deva pensait que cette...

« Il m’aime, mais l’immortalité, il l’a déjà offerte à une autre. C’est ce que Tristan vient de me dire. Je reste face à lui, les poings serrés, la mâchoire crispée. J'ai l'impression d'avoir pris un coup en pleine poitrine. Mille questions m’assaillent : qu’est devenue cette femme,...

Questo libro parla di quell’esperienza, raccontata in prima persona da tre studentesse del corso di Lingue. Oggi, a Expo finita, possiamo dire che quel giorno abbiamo visto giusto. Fra i tanti obiettivi raggiunti, nel capitolo della collaborazione fra Milano e l’Esposizione universale del 2015,...