Phoenix Phoenix: 1848 books

Poète français de grande renommée, principalement pour ses Fables . Ses Fables constituent la principale œuvre poétique de la période classique, et l’un des plus grands chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature française. Ces...

Sel and Hol Danner, identical twin brothers who can exchange thoughts without actually speaking, grow up together in Frederick, Maryland. When the American Civil War breaks out, they separate for the first time in their lives. Sel fights for the North because he hates slavery. Hol fights for the South...

Maverick archeologist Dr. Sky Wilder has never been able to prove any of his outside-the-box fringe theories... until now. When he breaks what had been an impenetrable code, he unearths a long-buried Egyptian stone tablet in Arizona’s Red Rock country. Whoever possesses all three hidden tablets...

Bundle contains: Beggars in Spain (Hugo & Nebula Winner) by Nancy Kress The Hemingway Hoax (Hugo & Nebula Winner) by Joe Haldeman

The lawyer had pleaded insanity. How to explain this strange crime? We had found the bodies of a man and woman embrace. They were rich , worldly , and the police had found no suspect until a nihilist or communist carpenter named George Louis , came to confess to the double crime and himself up. Early...

Boule de suif is a masterpiece ," wrote Gustave Flaubert . Although this is not the first story by Guy de Maupassant, this is the story that has emerged as a master.  

1871. France is at war against Prussia. Lieutenant Lare , who already has several achievements to his credit since the beginning of the conflict, receives a mission to go to the aid of a threatened French troops with annihilation . It starts at night with three hundred men . When he arrives near...

Passing a ruined castle , the narrator is telling the story of the Wild family who lived there. The father, a poacher , had been killed by the police . Soon after, the son went to war and did not give more news. One day the town hall square in the mother Wild four Prussian soldiers of the occupation...

The pristine city of Elysium floats on the water world of Shora, inhabited by "immortals" who have succeeded in unlocking the secrets of life. Outsider Blackbear Windclan wants to share the secret of immortality with his own people, but can he, and the City of Elysium, survive the corruption...

Nancy Kress is unrivaled in her treatment of genetic engineering. In 1991 she wrote the ground-breaking classic novella "Beggars in Spain" (Hugo/Nebula) and since then has only enhanced her reputation for telling outstanding stories set in the near future and dealing with genetics.This collection...

A collection of some of the finest short stories penned by a master of hard science fiction, this anthology includes Charles Sheffield's highly acclaimed novelette, Georgia On My Mind, which won both the Hugo and Nebula when originally published in 1993. The accompanying stories were written by the...

From multi-award winning author, L. Neil Smith:Captain Agot Edmoot Mav, Extraordinary Inquirer for Their Majesties’ Bucketeers, must solve the unsolvable mystery of who has killed a famed, but controversial, scholar.For the killing was done in a windowless room which was locked and...

Three generations of independent women, driven in different directions by one man’s anger. Until his death reconnects them with their mystical Irish ancestors and wonders beyond this limited human existence. Trained in the shamanic arts by her Irish grandmother, Chessie Durand travels to...

There was once on a time a hermit who lived in a forest at the foot of a mountain, and passed his time in prayer and good works, and every evening he carried, to the glory of God, two pails of water up the mountain...