Having been raised in the system, Louis never envisioned he'd have the life he had: A loving partner, his dream job bringing music into the world and three children, four if you counted Dario; a shy, anxious and extremely talented student who didn't recognise his worth. Louis stepped in to be his father when Dario's own had failed him. Still, as the years went on and Dario sunk deeper into depression, Louis began to question if his efforts were working....

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year...

Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.

Young Mary Elizabeth relates the humorous misadventures of her brother Louis and the other wacky members of her unpredictable, very odd family.

When Sarah's brother, Louis, is eaten by a Gulper, Sarah does not panic but follows the trail as the Gulper is eaten by a series of other creatures until finally she has her chance to rescue Louis from them all.

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at Vendme, it examines the life and theories of a boy genius fascinated by the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688—1772).

After the untimely death of their St. Louis kingpin father, David and Davita, half-siblings with very different childhoods, must take up the mantle and try to keep the crime family together despite their mothers' meddling.

Versailles, August 1715. Back from hunting, Louis XIV feels pain in his leg. A serious fever erupts, which marks the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turns at his bedside sensing the impending power vacuum, the Sun King struggles to run the country from his bed. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and at the **Toronto International Film Festival**....

A simple but fact-packed overview of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, covering their origins, their home field, famous players and managers, and well-known plays throughout the team's history. The crack of the bat...the cheers of the crowd as the batter rounds the bases.... From the first pitch to the last out, nothing beats baseball for pure sports enjoyment! Kids love this sport--and they'll love reading about it in this colorful, photo-packed...

La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons. Club, vous présente son second opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire Louis XIII, fils d'Henri IV et de Marie de Médicis, est roi de France et de Navarre entre 1610 et 1643. Son règne, marqué par l'affaiblissement des Grands et des Protestants, la lutte contre la maison de Habsbourg et l'affirmation de la domination militaire française en Europe pendant la guerre de Trente Ans, est inséparable...