Rhys: 329 books

From electric corsets to questioning the existence of God, the story of the profound effects electricity had upon the lives and the worldview of the Victorians Although electricity was known about by the ancient Egyptians, it was not until the Victorian era that its potential really began to be realized....

Sa deuxième mission royale : baby-sitter une princesse bavaroise. Londres, 1932. La reine a confié à Georgie une nouvelle mission délicate : elle doit héberger la princesse Hanneflore de Bavière et jouer les entremetteuses entre elle et le prince de Galles dans l'espoir que ce dernier se détourne...

Jocelyn Tavers faces her 26th birthday, falling on Mother's Day, at the same time as she wonders what happened to a certain officious lawman and a certain deserter father remembers her birthday after only fifteen years of neglect. An ex-boyfriend and the appearance of a complete stranger are...

Months of job-hunting, land Jocelyn in the protective custody of a close friend and seeking the help of a French-speaking public servant whose absence has cracked her façade of laissez faire and nonchalance. Who would have thought a tow truck driver would be her rock in a hard place? Working...

≈≈Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls is the story of a interracial, multicultural American family. David Gitano’s proud Hispanic-American family believes she is using him. Emily Burdis’s Central Valley sister believes he is using her. She thinks: He's a corporate lawyer. He's...

The war has been over for six years but Rupe Smith still fights his demons. Ten years have passed since he left his Maine village. His Wyoming ranch is the one place he wants to be and the last place he can be. There is no escape from the guilt of his parents’ grief or his longing for the girl whose...

What happens in Edinburgh, stays in Edinburgh — if Mike Argent has anything to say about it. Not every woman drops into Mike Argent’s life the way Jakki Hunter has, at his feet straight from the passenger side of a roadster. Every guy Jakki’s ever known has dumped her, but not...

Bienvenue à Dim Sum Asylum : un San Francisco où personne n’y regarde à deux fois quand un flic doit pourchasser une idole divine de soixante centimètres dotée d’une impressionnante moustache quand elle se met à arpenter les rues de Chinatown, disséminant une vague de chaos et de magie...

Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There are no rules. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. Previously loving people become murderous. No-one can tell who will turn and who will not. A work of force and dark brilliance - the perfect expression of the terrors of the 21st Century

This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian science. His career as both man of science and leading barrister and judge spanned the Victorian age, and he also played...

Un racconto della serie Delitti e disastri Si ride e si scherza finché non ci si imbatte nel corpo di un uomo morto. La vita di Alex Martin è piuttosto ordinaria. Dal Planet X Comics, il suo negozio di fumetti, passano i geek e gli strambi, ma ormai lui non fa più caso alle loro stranezze....

Meurtre et complications, tome 2 Celui qui a prétendu le sang plus épais que l’eau n’a jamais, de toute évidence, eu l’occasion de voir une mare d’hémoglobine.  En renonçant à sa carrière de cambrioleur spécialisé dans les bijoux, Rook Stevens pensait avoir découvert...

Kai Gracen n’a pas l’intention d’être le pion de qui que ce soit. Dommage que le destin et le Gouvernement n’ait pas la même vision des choses. Les Traqueurs gagnent leur croûte en pourchassant les monstres et les dangereux criminels... et ils mènent d’ordinaire des vies très...

Meurtre et complications, tome 1 Seuls les cadavres ne parlent pas. Cambrioleur réformé, Rook Stevens a jadis volé d’innombrables objets de valeur inestimable, mais jamais il n’avait encore été accusé de meurtre – jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Déjà surpris de découvrir une...