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Cover of A Self-Made Thief
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019

“It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays…!” boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beautiful and mysterious girl. A strange and inescapable force lures Frank on to this life of crime,...
Cover of The Sealed Valley
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019

If you want a brisk tale of adventures, in which leading parts are played by a hidden, almost inaccessible, valley, a remnant of a once-powerful tribe of Indians and a gold mine of fabulous value, then you will find something pretty much to your taste in this book by Hulbert Footner. And when we add...
Cover of Easy to Kill
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019

Another mystery for the famous Madame Storey to solve. Do you like the lifestyle in Newport? Madame Storey prefers New York, for sure. Follow her in this investigation that is both dangerous and difficult. There are many twists and turns that keep it interesting.
Cover of Églantine
by Jean Giraudoux
Language: French
Release Date: April 19, 2019

Comme Bella, ce roman publié en 1927 fait partie de la série sur la famille Fontranges. Églantine est une toute jeune femme de 20 ans, qui est amoureuse de deux « vieillards » de soixante ans…, deux hommes apparemment très opposés mais en fait très complémentaires. Ce sont d’une part...
Cover of L’Impromptu de Paris
by Jean Giraudoux
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2019

Que faire d’un crédit d’impôt de cent millions sinon l’attribuer à l’art théâtral (c’est du théâtre) ? Des critiques qui se cotisent pour éponger les déficits des salles (c’est un rêve) ? Une troupe en répétition – celle de Louis Jouvet – qui explique en un quart d’heure...
Cover of Monsieur des Lourdines
by Alphonse de Châteaubriant
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2019

Monsieur des Lourdines obtient le Prix Goncourt en 1911. La pourpre des noisetiers, le safran des érables, les châtaigniers et les hêtres aux branches alourdies de pluie... L’odeur des champignons, si proche de celles de l’arbre et de la terre... Cette forêt poitevine dont il a parcouru les...
Cover of The Building of Jalna
by Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada’s Mazo de la Roche. In The Building of Jalna, Adeline lay thinking about the journey. They were leaving London. When might she see it again? Perhaps never, with all the dangers of travel....
Cover of Morning at Jalna
by Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

An impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their new home. It is 1863 and life at Jalna is peaceful. Philip, who will grow up to become the master of Jalna, has just come into the world, while Augusta, Nicholas, and Ernest are children....
Cover of El León de Damasco
by Emilio Salgari
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2017

La ciudad de Venecia está siendo invadida por los turcos. Es una pelea entre los cristianos y los turcos. Cada uno tiene su capitán. El capitán tormenta es de los cristianos y el León de damasco, el de los turcos. En esta guerra gana el capitán tormenta y todos lo conocen como hombre, pero en...
Cover of El hijo del León de Damasco
by Emilio Salgari
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2017

La gran historia naval, la más gigantesca librada en el mundo, no tuvo ninguna eficacia, a causa de los secretos designios de Felipe II, que no quería que Venecia reconquistase su antiguo poderío y su pasado esplendor. Los aliados, en vez de aprovecharse del terror de los musulmanes y de la destrucción...
Cover of Le chevalier d’Harmental
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2018

Raoul d’Harmental, jeune aristocrate monté à Paris en 1711, est un aventurier plutôt susceptible et impétueux. S’étant illustré à la dernière victoire de Louis XIV, nommé colonel à cette occasion, d’Harmental se trouve après la mort du roi mêlé au conflit qui oppose le parti des...
Cover of Orchids to Murder
by Hulbert Footner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019

Amos Lee Mappin is visited by the surly and self-centered Major Dunphy, dependent on his beautiful actress granddaughter, Mary Stannard. Mary has disappeared, and the detective soon discovers that she has stood up her wedding party. More than one man was infatuated with Mary, and Mappin finds several...
Cover of Wakefield's Course
by Mazo de la Roche
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018

Renny Whiteoak is keen to sail for Ireland with his small daughter, Adeline, to buy a racehorse, but he's more eager to see his younger cousins, Finch and Wakefield, who have been living in London. On his arrival in England, Renny becomes entangled in his cousins’ affairs of the heart.
Cover of Pauline
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: French
Release Date: November 18, 2018

Pauline est un des premiers romans de Dumas. C’est un livre qu’il a écrit seul, et qui se déroule de son temps. La fiction brode sur les thèmes du roman gothique, en « noir », nuit, cottage en ruine, sentes perdues, passages secrets, brigands impitoyables, héroïne enterrée vivante, substitution...
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