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Thumper
Stephen B. Martin
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At the age of four, you witness your mother's collapse as the washing machine overflows and sends clumps of soapsuds scudding past her across the kitchen floor. When your father goes to work, he leaves you next door at the Blue Belle Diner, under the watchful eye of Charlie, an ex-boxer... |
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Un château de cartes
Dominique Lelys
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Féodor Alekseïevitch Boronine, un sexagénaire descendant de Russes blancs et grand amateur d'art, fait la connaissance de la jeune Marie à un café de Saint-Germain-Des-Prés. Sa beauté, se rapprochant étrangement de celle d'une Flamande peinte par un artiste de la fin du quinzième... |
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The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Novels, Short Stories.
Baroness Orczy
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"The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy" presents a captivating array of novels and short stories from the esteemed author, highlighting her iconic tales of adventure, romance, and intrigue. At the forefront of this anthology is "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Orczy's timeless masterpiece... |
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Nulle raison d'être
Alain Debroucker
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Dans le Doullenais, la mystérieuse disparition d'une fillette plonge les enquêteurs dans l'incertitude, laissant les responsabilités enfouies dans l'énigme. Les rumeurs et la confusion entourant plusieurs crimes suscitent la terreur dans la ville, et même après le décès du suspect... |
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The Moon in the Mango Tree
Pamela Binnings Ewen
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From Pamela Binnings Ewen, bestselling author of The Queen of Paris and Émilienne, The Moon in the Mango Tree is a lush historical novel set in the 1920s.
It is a dazzling decade, and Barbara Bond is a beautiful young singer torn between her fierce desire for independence and her deep,... |
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The Contents of the Coffin
J. S. Fletcher
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First published in 1928, public domain. J. S. Fletcher (b. 1863, d. 1935) was a prolific British author and journalist. He wrote over 230 titles, both fiction and non fiction. He was one of foremost writers of detective fiction during the Golden Age of murder mystery novels. |
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Milliardaire cherche nounou
Misha Bell
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LillyUne opportunité de fustiger le milliardaire dont la banque m'a pris la maison de mon enfance ? Avec plaisir ! Ce connard cupide et arrogant croit que je suis ici pour un entretien pour le poste d'éducatrice canine (ou nounou), mais il ne se doute pas de ce qui s'apprête à lui tomber... |
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The Keeper of the Bees
Gene Stratton-Porter
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The very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other. A book that examines the healing power that nature and kindness can have upon someone's life. Gene Stratton Porter's... |
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Crook o' Lune
E. C. R. Lorac
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While visiting friends in Lancashire, and looking for a property to settle down in when he retires from Scotland Yard, MacDonald agrees to lend his assistance to investigate some sheep-stealing. Before long he is drawn into a case involving arson, blackmail and attempted murder. |
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The Polyglots
William Gerhardie
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First published in 1925, public domain in the US. The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges... |
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