Louis: 5538 books

Louis Pergaud (1882-1915) "– Attends-moi, Grangibus ! héla Boulot, ses livres et ses cahiers sous le bras. – Grouille-toi, alors, j’ai pas le temps de cotainer, moi ! – Y a du neuf ? – Ça se pourrait !" A la fin du XIXe siècle, deux bandes...

Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of...

From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, comes the young adult novel THE CARDTURNER, an exploration of the human condition.   How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!   The summer after junior...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of pirates, treasure, and daring deeds on the high seas Jim Hawkins, son of an English innkeeper, finds a map promising buried treasure and feels the call of adventure. Enticed by the promise of untold wealth, Jim goes to sea as a cabin boy. The Hispaniola...

Laissez les bons temps rouler - Until somebody gets killed of course.  Murder along the bayous of south Louisiana's Cajun Country doesn't go unpunished. Grab a gator by the tail and follow this fast-paced mystery set in a casual Creole parish. Catch each episode of A Cajun Murder Mystery Series.  Louis...

La suite tant attendue de Proteus, le thriller économique qui a envoûté les lecteurs numériques « La création d'une intelligence artificielle pourrait être le plus grand événement de l'histoire de l'humanité, mais elle pourrait aussi être le dernier, si nous n'apprenons pas à en...

Quel sera l'avenir de notre monde ? L’intelligence artificielle de Proteus a atteint un niveau préoccupant. Ses créateurs ont perdu tout espoir de le contrôler et ils ne comprennent pas ses intentions. Les autorités américaines s’apprêtent à détruire le supercalculateur. Trop tard ?...

Une leçon de macroéconomie aux allures de roman policier... « Proteus : dieu grec qui vivait dans une île ; il pouvait changer d’apparence et prédire l’avenir. » Axel Woodstone, jeune professeur d’économie, reçoit une proposition insolite : superviser l’installation d’un...

CONTENTS: TREASURE ISLAND THE BLACK ARROW PRINCE OTTO THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE KIDNAPPED THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE THE WRONG BOX THE WRECKER CATRIONA THE EBB-TIDE WEIR OF HERMISTON ST. IVES HEATHERCAT (UNFINISHED NOVEL) THE GREAT NORTH ROAD (UNFINISHED NOVEL) THE YOUNG CHEVALIER (UNFINISHED NOVEL)

From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here...

This volume edited by Golden Deer Classics contains the following classic children's novels: - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell...

50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...

Edouard Manet: 29 Masterpieces by Louis Hourticq. Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass...

Hollywood—crossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politics—was dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda to further his own desire...