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Title: Cavelier de La Salle, etc. [A biography.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in...

Title: L'Archipel de la Manche.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known...

La historia de un guerrillero francés de la Fuerzas Especiales que, tras abandonar el ejército, se alquila como francotirador sicario para algunos gobiernos. La perfección de su carácter solo tiene un defecto: su pasión por los libros. En determinado...

The picture on the front cover may need a word of explanation. Why should the author appear holding a copy of one of his books? I hope this is not an indication of vanity in my case. I plead that the issue at stake here is reflexivity. After a while ...

Percival Stuffington, nicknamed ?Stuffie?, is a good-for-nothing, a womanizer and a crook. He belongs to the theatre of the grotesque. His ignorance and dishonesty is exposed when he poses as a teacher of English to foreign students in a London private...

Beloved friend,The year is 2084, and that famous Margaret Thatcher quote has become a reality: There really is no such thing as society. No one speaks to anyone else. No one looks at anyone else. People don't collaborate, they only compete.I hate to...

It's Poland 1941 and the fortuitous event of a munitions lorry falling into his hands motivates Jan Guterman, a young Czech Jew on the run, to assemble a fighting force of men and women, with diverse skills and backgrounds, to wreak vengeance upon the...

Spiffies and Loonies is a situational comedy developed into 88 episodes. It departs from the typical ones, in which the plot hinges on the emotional and irrational decisions made by the lead characters. The opposite happens here. First of all, Brad and...

Un puñado de relatos, que como los sueños, nos sumergen en la hondura de lo irreal, entonces lo fantástico aparece representado en nebulosos paisajes y personajes, que en su peripecia nos inquietan y sobresaltan, para devolvernos súbitamente, al dar...

The stories in Bob Wild's latest collection are again rooted In real life, working class, work and social situations but unlike the autobiographical stories of his previous collection,"The Dogs of War"; they shift the focus away from his own...

Poverty and the burning desire for love become a powerful force that will drive even the warmest hearted of men to do unspeakable things all in the name of love. In Keith's life exist a world of shadows behind a past he now seeks to leave behind for the...

Her winter fling in the land of his summer. One seeking love the other locked on a path of desintys' calling, becomes a dangerous liaison between two destinies across time's continuum.Upon Alice's return everything from the year before had now evolved in...

The secretary of a banker has been arrested on a charge of fraud. She left on a round-the-world cruise, but the case caught up with her.Other crime novels by David C HanssGuilty!She kept goingThe killer Catchers

An unusual group of unrelated people manage to solve and identify three different murderers.Other crime novels by David C Hanss:Guilty!She Kept GoingThe Smart Secretary

Six crystallised diamonds from another galaxy moved to Earth and they had connected with the planet's main elements: Fire, water, grass, earth, lightning and wind. The supercontinent broke apart and the diamonds had landed on the newly formed Indian...

Francois Villon, thief, killer, blackguard, fornicator, pimp, incorrigible rogue and France's foremost poet, walked through the gates of Paris and disappeared from history on January 5th., 1463, aged 32. Where did he go? What did he do? Terence Morgan...

Slacciava spaghi e fettucce come avrebbe saputo fare con i cordini dei corpetti. Quel modo di sciogliere i nodi, di sfilare i nastri, quasi le turbava. Erano pensieri sconosciuti, che si mostravano con un tremito.

Estamos ante una obra que desborda los límites genéricos. Se incorporan convulsamente referentes poéticos, literarios, filosóficos, científicos, éticos, artísticos... Asistimos a una interdisciplinariedad que trasciende las fronteras entre disciplinas...

La idea es lanzar una chispa y prender el bosque. Eso es este libro: un intento de escribir con pólvora y hacer explotar a quien lo lea, ya sea de ideas, reflexiones, sentimientos, de la risa o lo que sea. "Cuentos Molotov" es una colección de cuentos y...

An amazing English-French bilingual from the U.S., all-American boy Everett B. Cummings is recruited at 18 by the C.I.A. to pose as a Frenchman at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France, under the funny name of Anatole Hildephonse Leroy...

An overheard whispered discussion leads Jimmy Hogg, an accomplished cat burglar, to fear for his life. He has learned the most awful of secrets, one that could bring down the British Government and destroy the very foundations of Great Britain; a plan to...

Life is a journey that has but one final destination. We walk our own path knowing that it will lead to that place. The stories I have written are an opportunity for you to stop now and again at places to visit on the way there.

In the world of nature there are many facts which are known to mankind through his quest for greater understanding of creatures great and small. These discoveries have resulted from centuries of research through which man has been able to record many of...

The story of a young widow whose husband had died under strange circumstances whilst working in a government laboratory.Other crime novels from David C Hanss:The Killer CatchersGuilty?The Smart Secretary

How much time does the average teenager or young adult spend worrying that an aspect of their appearance or personality is unacceptable and attempting to fix it? Learning to trust what feels right, as opposed to what family, friends and the media...

In his first long-range undertaking, the author mixes a variety of genres to explore the themes of the subconscious. The action is already well underway from the outset: he is looking for hints that could lead him to the arms of an ever-evasive woman...

Se le hizo raro estar sin moverse. Se quedó dormido por aburrimiento y ahora estaba muerto. Así comienzan las últimas veinticuatro horas antes de volver al lugar en el que se sintió feliz. Ignacio desgranará ante Berta su vida interior, sus temores, sus...

It's been two years since the destruction of both the Gangster Federation, and Lord Magnus, in Saints City. Daniel Stone, better known to the criminal underworld as the Black Mamba, still continues his amoral mercenary profession for both the British...

""Neanche ricordo come mi sono ritrovata ad avere un profilo Facebook e poi a ruota uno su Instagram; però la possibilità di mostrare al mondo il mio microcosmo mi era parsa una possibilità di fuga. La strada per il ritorno.Così iniziai ad aspettare...

Captain Jack Two Sugars is a Tugboat Captain adored by his family and admired by his community. A very strong but quiet and private man, he comes alive when he tells his fantastic stories. Stories about his adventures at sea; sailing the world with...

Este cuarto y último volumen de las obras en libertad de Agustín Espinosa incluye "Crimen", pieza capital del surrealismo en los años 30, y los textos correspondientes a los años 1934-1936. Se añade una sección de textos complementarios, donde se incluye...

The book deals with the journey of life taken in a positive way. People need to face the challenges of life in courageous way to build success in life. Every person has unique values, which makes him special and valuable in society. He can win by having...

Es una comedia donde se representa la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal. El conflicto mitológico entre lo Apolíneo y lo Dionisíaco,lo llevan adelante los personajes en un juego ambivalente, donde aparecen los demonios de la condición humana.

The fable of the three little pigs is retold here.Understand why they made their building choices! The narrative in this book is set around three ways in which 'value' can be understood, with their associated circumstances, decisions and actions. These...

It's London, 1969 and the Old Bailey sees the end of what was the longest and most expensive trial ever held, dubbed 'The trial of the century': starring notorious Kray Twins, Ron and Reg. Unlike the real verdict, in this fictional story, the verdict is...

A Bucket of Fish and Other Tales is filled to the brim with flash fiction and short stories. Sprinkled with a mixture of comedy, realism and fantasy, the collection of stories is guaranteed to create a SPLASH!

Do you know how to keep a secret? 23-year-old piano teacher, Sophie does and it's kept her hidden for the past five years, but now she's gone and broken her golden rule: Never let anyone 'see' you.Jazz, a wild and carefree comedian, does more than 'see'...