L - Libros y biografía

In "One last beat," you are becoming a part of the dramatic past of Lusie, a 22-year-old girl who is facing harsh life and injustice as she gets a shocking cancer diagnosis, which leads her into a new...

"The Arian Controversy: Christianity's Forgotten Crossroads" by Alexander L. Varus delves into the intricate theological battles that shaped early Christianity. This enlightening book uncovers the riveting...

BnF collection ebooks - "Nous avons vu percer des rues là où s'entassaient les maisons, ici où verdoyaient les jardins ; de nouvelles rues ont donné du jour et de l'air aux vieux quartiers ; de nouvelles...

When ghosts start appearing all over town, my witch friend Isabel and I are pulled in to help the necromancers exorcise the wayward spirits. With the dead refusing to stay dead, it's easier said than...

In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream...

Johannes Cabal is back -- a little older, a little wiser, but just as sharply funny, cuttingly sarcastic, and unexpectedly violent as ever. For necromancer Johannes Cabal, dealing with devils, demons...

Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do battle...

She can save everyone she loves… if bound to the man she hates.Chloe never wanted to return to Faerie, let alone fight to save it after it gets poisoned. But when her older sister is captured by mortal...

This is a brief essay on the subject of Nerdfighteria, and especially its beginning.

L. J. Smith, New York Times best–selling author of The Vampire Diaries and inspiration for the massively popular TV show from CW, returns to her thrilling Secret Circle series in this fourth installment,...

What would you do to save the ones you love? Rose Sommers has been helping her brother Liam with his gambling debts for way too long. But this time he's gambled on something that will change her life...

Thankfully, her life will never be the same again… Jen Sweet's life was in a rut. Her job was boring, her love life was non-existent, and she just broke her favourite pair of Jimmy Choo's. After the day...

The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of...

Voici un livre qui contient les premiers éléments positifs de la grande science de la manifestation directe du monde surnaturel, base unique de toutes les religions historiques, depuis la loi majestueuse...

An Egyptian romance of the present time, full of the charm of the land of the Nile and dramatic in plot and setting. The book is a most creditable romance vibrant with human nature and the mystery and...

Two small children, Twinkle and Chubbins, are enchanted by a wicked "tuxix" so that their bodies become those of birds. While so transformed, they can speak to all the birds and animals, and they learn...

This is the illustrated edition including all the beautiful drawings by John R. Neill. John Dough is a gingerbread man who has come alive because the baker who made him poured—quite unwittingly—a great...

This is the illustrated edition including all the beautiful drawings by John R. Neill. This is a series of six little stories about the wonderful land of Oz and its inhabitants written for younger...

After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London...

In this book are several tales of the Beautiful Valley of Phunnyland, a very remarkable place where no one ever dies, and people are always young and beautiful. All the necessities of life—and the luxuries...

Unlocking the truth of his past could end the world's future… Something is wrong with Seth. At least, that's what his mother believed the night she tried to murder him when he was six. Almost twelve years...

This is the complete edition, Volumes I and II in one single book. This edition also is fully illustrated and contains an introduction about how this book really was written. In his "Incidents of Travel...

This is a collection of twelve short stories, or as Baum put it "modern tales about modern fairies". The book includes the following stories: The Box Of Robbers The Glass Dog The Queen Of Quok The Girl...

SACRAMENTO COUNTY is named after the river upon which it is situated, and the latter was named by the Spanish Mexicans, Catholics, in honor of a Christian institution. The word differs from its English...

This was the first of Baum's books for children; it is a collection of very short stories, each based upon one of the familiar rhymes of Mother Goose. In the introduction, Baum explains that many of the...

The charming idea of a life of Santa Claus is one that will appeal at once to every child. Mr. Baum has worked out this story so pleasantly and so ingeniously that it has become a children's classic.

New York Times bestselling seriesThe Return: Nightfall is the fifth book in L.J. Smith’s New York Times bestselling Vampire Diaries series. Elena Gilbert is back from the dead, but she’s come back changed—with...

A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories...

First published in 1963, this is another adventure in the Rick Brant Science series, set on Chesapeake Bay and involving mysterious, sting ray-shaped drones and missing persons. (synopsis by Matt Pierard)

"Sky Island (1912) was the second of three titles written by Baum featuring a spunky girl from California, Trot, and her companion, the old sailorman, Cap’n Bill. Baum had hoped to end the Oz series in...