Bernard: 3655 books

excerpt:She would come by once or twice a week to look in on him, though he was nothing to her but a neighbor. Yesterday, her excuse for doing so amounted to no more than the fact she’d just, an hour before, baked up a big batch of cookies. She and Kevin would never eat them all, or at least...

Hochsommerliche Hitze und heftige Gewitter belasten die Menschen im Süden Frankreichs, als ein brutaler Mord geschieht. Eine Professorin der Elite-Universität Marsac liegt ertrunken und grausam gefesselt in der Badewanne. In ihrem Rachen steckt eine Taschenlampe. Ohrenbetäubende Musik von Gustav...

According to the Preface: "Fanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface. But its lesson is not, I am sorry to say, unneeded. Mere morality, or the substitution of custom for conscience was once accounted a shameful and cynical thing: people talked of right and wrong, of honor and dishonor,...

If you're looking for sweet, clean romance, you've come to the right place! In the Gold Rush town of Poppy Valley, California, Silas Hanson spends his days surrounded by molten iron and steam as the local blacksmith. It's a lonely existence until one day the new mine foreman comes to town with...

Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust “Born in a small town outside of Warsaw in 1889, Bernard Goldstein joined the Jewish labor organization, the Bund, at age 16 and dedicated his life to organizing workers and resisting tyranny. Goldstein spent time in prisons from...

Un concert de rock à l'Olympia met le feu à Paris... Deux papys ricanants attendent de pied ferme des chasseurs venus pour leur trouer la peau... Une employée de péage harassée décide d'aligner au fusil gros calibre le premier qui dira un mot de travers......

Antoine, dit Loulou, artisan serrurier, spécialiste des clefs et mécanismes anciens, s’est rangé des voitures de Vitry entre lesquelles il a coulé une jeunesse difficile en devenant restaurateur pour les musées. Rangé, vraiment ?  Presque. Pour se payer le tour de façonnage ultramoderne...

Décidé à faire passer la contre-société alternative à la vitesse supérieure, le collectif libertaire "ZO" organise son "université d'été" dans un camp naturiste. Parce qu'à poil on ne peut plus rien cacher ! Au programme, donc : plage, surf, amours libres et... prises...

J’ai démarré au kilomètre 85 dans une descente. Je fonce. À partir de maintenant, faut tenir. Dans la dix-septième étape du Tour de France, Lilian Fauger, un jeune coureur dunkerquois, s'échappe contre toute attente du gros de la troupe avec une telle hargne qu'il...

This novel offers a rare glimpse of life in America through the eyes of an African American boy maturing on Chicago’s West Side. The character’s journey unfolds in the late 1950’s; passes through the turbulent 1960’s and enters the 1970’s.Robert Rowell’s parents were among tens of thousands...

The great Irish playwright’s impassioned dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Three years after Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920, George Bernard Shaw brought to the stage a more complex and human portrayal of the fifteenth-century French martyr, creating one of the theater’s...

For a sweet, clean romance that will make you smile, take a trip to Poppy Valley. Nathaniel Barclay has been unlucky in love, and in a mining town full of men his prospects aren't promising. In a desperate attempt to find a wife, he places an ad for a mail order bride. After the tragic...

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.  Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This edition of You Never Can Tell includes a table of contents.

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.  Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This edition of Captain Brassbound’s Conversion includes a table of contents.