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Ende des 9. Jahrhunderts beherrschen die dänischen Eroberer das gesamte angelsächsische Gebiet - mit Ausnahme eines kleinen Sumpflandes...

Quel était donc le secret de Marthe Robin, cette petite paysanne qui, malade, paralysée, vivant loin de la célébrité dans une discrétion absolue pendant 60 ans, a reçu plus de 100 000 personnes...

"The Hour" by James Bernard Fagan (1873-1923) was published in Poems of the Great War in 1914 on behalf of The Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund. Fagan was an Irish-born actor, poet and playwright.

John Harding’s Murderer’s Row uncovers a name while on a standard protection gig. Soon, they’re plunging into a South American jungle stronghold on a snatch and grab rescue. Under Lynn Montoya’s knife, they learn the kingpin financier’s identity spreading chaos around the world. Harding and his crew race from one locale to the next, one step ahead of a brutal financial puppet master’s plans to wipe them out even after his death. In addition to his ongoing missions, Harding has agreed to fight a behemoth nicknamed ‘The Destroyer' in the converted Oakland warehouse with rigged judges.

Hard Case begins in a back alley warehouse in East Oakland, CA, where Harding fights for money, and to keep his skills honed, coupled with the fact he likes it. Harding does odd jobs with the only guy he trusts implicitly, his handler and manager, Tommy Sands. They bodyguard, escort tourists around the Bay Area, and do bail bond, skip trace work for a lawyer named Tess Connagher.

A sermon by Michael Beckwith recorded on April 17, 2008.

Un coffret renferme l'arme absolue. La plus inattendue, la plus imparable. Le célèbre comique, le Cyclope, est mort d'avoir voulu le posséder. On ne l'ouvre qu'à ses risques et périls... Après "Le Père de nos pères" et "L'Ultime Secret", une nouvelle enquête de Lucrèce et Isidore au cœur d'un des grands mystères humains : le rire.

Après avoir visité les mondes souterrains dans sa trilogie des "Fourmis" et l'au-delà dans les "Thanatonautes", Bernard Werber se lance sur les traces du fameux chaînon manquant, le "père de nos pères". Une course poursuite haletante où l'on rencontre une jeune reporter délurée ex-cambrioleuse, un journaliste à la retraite obèse mais fin limier, un spécialiste de la préhistoire qui en savait trop, un club de savants passionnés, une charcutière industrielle, une star du X, quelques primates avisés et une dame phacochère qui n'a pas peur des alliances contre nature.

Kai es un antiguo soldado de élite que reside en Arbennios, capital del reino de Lénoda, cuya monótona vida se sustenta en tres pilares: un trabajo en la guardia del noble señor Nárenwal, la compañía de su leal grupo de amigos y las furtivas visitas de su amante secreta. Por desgracia, durante un caluroso día de verano tendrá lugar un ataque inesperado que dará un giro a su vida. Condenado por la misma sociedad a la que había defendido durante años.

Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn's works. It is in part an intellectual memoir of the significant turns in an immensely productive and influential scholarly career. It is also alive with people whose actions touched the long arc of history: a struggling Boston merchant tormented by the tensions between capitalist avarice and a constrictive Puritan piety; a charismatic German Pietist who founded a cloister in the Pennsylvania wilderness; and more.

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the abrupt arrival of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary who fought for the Serbian army. He takes refuge in her bedroom after the battle and although he is initially threatening, reveals that he carries chocolate creams instead of bullets. Will Raina marry the posturing Sergius or the chocolate cream soldier?

De New York aux splendides paysages du Montana, une histoire d'amour et d'émotion, et un héros extraordinairement attachant, prêt à payer le prix pour vivre sa vie. Qui n'a jamais rêvé de changer de vie ? De New York aux splendides paysages du Montana, une histoire d'amour et d'émotion, et un héros extraordinairement attachant, prêt à payer le prix pour vivre sa vie.

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States - one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans.

À 28 ans, Jacques Klein rencontre dans son sommeil l'homme qu'il sera 20 ans plus tard grâce à une machine permettant le voyage dans le temps via les rêves inventée par le Jacques de 48 ans. Celui-ci le guide pour retrouver sa mère disparue en Malaisie. Arrivé chez les Senoi, un peuple qui maîtrise le rêve lucide, il tente d'apprendre à atteindre le sixième sommeil, le stade de tous les possibles.

Did you know that Jews are not allowed to tear toilet paper on the Sabbath? Why can't Jewish women read a Bible? Have you heard there's a special Coca Cola made just for Jews? What is the surname of Jesus? Which letter of the alphabet is written upside down in the Bible? Why do Jews not eat cheese-burgers? What's so different about Jewish sexual intercourse? Why do Jewish women wear wigs? Is there a special prayer that Jews say before going to the toilet? Most of the Old Testament is not studied by Jews...why?

A Cockney flower girl is transformed into a charming woman of the world by a professor of phonetics. This is the play that was later to be adapted as the musical, My Fair Lady.

In this allegorical play, the eccentric Captain Shorover's home hosts a cast, each of whom represents some evil in the modern world.

Dr. Rob Elwood, a geologist whose specialty is earthquakes and tsunamis, is having nightmares of "the big one" that are way too real to disregard. His friend, a counselor and retired reverend, does not think Rob is going nuts. To the contrary, he believes the dreams are premonitions to be taken seriously. No one else does, however, even after a press conference. Some live to regret it, most don't.

1943. Deux ans après Pearl Harbor, le " Grand Japon " est aux abois. Ses armées se sont implantées au cœur de la Chine, contrôlent l’Asie du Sud-Est, campent aux portes de l’Inde, verrouillent les îles du Pacifique. Mais les Alliés entament une vaste contre offensive qui s’achèvera par l’horreur nucléaire d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki, puis l’humiliante capitulation.

Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps, the communist guerrillas or, indeed, in opposing the Japanese. This book adds considerable insights into the significance of guerrilla warfare as it relates to modern warfare in general