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Tout le monde a lu, lit ou lira Les Trois Mousquetaires. A la fin du roman, les héros paraissent un peu fatigués, et on les comprend après tant de chevauchées et d'exploits. Mais Vingt ans après, ils reprennent vie et repartent vers les grandes aventures de la politique et du coeur avec autant...

Agnes Marshall lived with her papa and mamma in a tall dark house in a narrow street of Manchester. Her papa was busy all day long with the workmen in his mills and the goods -in his warehouse, and her mamma was often ill, so they never could leave the town. Poor Agnes had never been in the country....

Borkin Krauk, a young longbowman on the planet Ernall, enlists as a mercenary to fight for religious freedom. Over a period of eleven years he fights in three wars. In time, he learns that it is less clear than he thought who are the good guys and who the bad ones. A strange event catapults him into...

A special kind of travel journal... A German rides to the largest motorcycle party in the world with a 92ci (1500cc) Victory bike and some good American friends from St. Paul (Minnesota) to "STURGIS" (South Dakota). He lets the reader/viewer get a taste of his impressions of the landscapes,...

When the “Sexiest Man Alive” reneges on his book contract, no-nonsense editor Erin Andersen is sent to rein him in. She heads to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to confront Stephen Spence. Spence doesn’t have writer’s block. His problem is something worse. He enjoys life too much to slow...

I had totally closed myself off from other people—my family, my friends. I knew I had stacked up every brick, slathered on the mortar of anger, to keep this wall up. I also knew that each brick had to be taken down, and it would be painful. I am going to be BRUTAL, but in the scheme of things, would...

Trivia-on-Book: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently quiz-formatted...

Figuratively Speaking. Contemporary Naive Art from Finland, is an introduction to new wave of popular art in Finland. The reader will meet ten artists, who have renewed, revived and reformed the concept of Naive art. Naivism is the lingua franca for all sorts of people. It does not require a guide or...

In the year 18- I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L-. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject of which it...

In the penitential psalms the religious beliefs of the Babylonians and Assyrians attain their ethical zenith. The term "penitential psalms" is, of course, purely general; but in view of the striking similarity which some of these compositions bear to certain Biblical psalms, both in tone and sometimes...

The attempt which was made by the Western Union Telegraph Company, in 1865-66 and 67, to build an overland line to Europe via Alaska, Bering Strait, and Siberia, was in some respects the most remarkable undertaking of the nineteenth century. Bold in its conception, and important in the ends at which...

Can you call yourself a fan of *The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared *by Jonas Jonasson? The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, written by Jonas Jonasson, follows the travels of Allan Karlsson. Allan Karlsson currently resides in a nursing...

The failure of the old-time firm of Edgerton, Tennant & Co. was unusual only because it was an honest one-the bewildered creditors receiving a hundred cents on a dollar from property not legally involved. Edgerton had been dead for several years; the failure of the firm presently killed old Tennant,...

Trivia-on-Book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently quiz-formatted...