Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1893 edition. Extrait: ...evite aujourd'hui, demain menacant. Puis la ruine du bonheur d'Henriette; et cela surtout lui paraissait odieux. Femme deja par l'amour et la douleur, elle admettait presque de faire le sacrifice de sa vertu; mais ce qui lui repugnait, c'etait la perpetuelle trahison qui en serait la consequence. Donc, il fallait quitter cette maison, fuir cet toomme contre qui elle ne saurait pas se defendre, cette femme "qu'elle ne voulait pas tromper. C'etait encore s'immoler, mais elle preferait cette facon de souffrir. Et tandis que le wagon roulait, Madeleine, muette, le corps abattu, s'abandonnait a ce galop de fer qui semblait, comme le tourbillon de ses pensees, l'emporter vers un avenir beant et noir. Car il etait bien loin, bien loin, tout son passe, meme celui de l'heure d'avant. Elle ne regardait plus en arriere; ses yeux, volontaires et fixes, ne se detournaient pas devant les expiations affrontees... A tout prix elle voulait le salut. Tout a coup, le contact d'une main sur son bras lui fit baisser les yeux; c'etait Pierre, qui, assis en face d'elle, avait longtemps contemple la reverie sombre de ce visage et tentait une caresse de consolation. Sa voix murmurait, douce, avec un timide reproche: --Madeleine, Madeleine, allons, souriez Mais de cette pression, de cette voix, elle ne recut nulle emotion physique. Elle restait froide et comme desabusee. Ses sens ne fremissaient plus, son amour etait engourdi. Et, dans sa distraite indifference, elle ne retira pas sa main, que Pierre tenait. Elle dit seulement: --Que...

All the Dirty Cowards

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Adams, Deborah

Mystery

Oconee Spirit Press LLC

Have you ever looked at anything and felt like laughing out loud - while no one else around you saw the humor? Do you find it odd that there are more plastic flamingos in America than the real thing? Does it seem strange to you that the great schism between Christianity in the East and West was nullified and they are still not together? Or that some people eat the second stomach of a cow as a delicacy? Or that the electric chair is supposed to be a humane way to kill? David Hunter takes on these and other absurdities in his latest book.

From Here to Absurdity

Humor & Entertainment

Hunter, David

Humor

A collection of essays on the Mountain South by New York Times best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb. Contents include 'Keepers of the Legends,' 'A Novelist Looks at the Land,' 'The Celts and the Appalachians,' Magic Realism in Appalachia,' 'Nora Bonesteel and the Sight,' and 'Reflections on Historical Fiction.'

Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia

Literature & Fiction

MCCRUMB, SHARYN

Essays & Correspondence

Two American sisters risk their lives in Nazi-Occupied Paris to save British fliers from arrest.  The Gestapo sets a trap and on the bleak Christmas Eve of 1940, death is only a step behind.

Escape From Paris

Carolyn G. Hart

Rendezvous in Veracruz

Hart, Carolyn

Children's Books

In 1966, Ann Severin was a carefree college student in Italy...until she disappeared without a trace. Six years later, wife and mother Janey Hamilton is targeted by someone threatening to expose the truth about her connection to Ann and the horrible crime she committed. Janey thought she had outrun her past, but her secrets cast a long shadow.

Flee From the Past

In 1966, Kay Emory is a gentle and respectable antiques dealer; not even her closest friends know about the long-ago life she tries to forget. But when a business trip to London exposes her to a ruthless killer that only she can identify, Kay must call upon the deadly skills gained in her secret past to save herself and those she loves.

A Settling of Accounts

Genre Fiction

Bart Hastings was born into a military family; his Army colonel father has devoted his life to defending his country and Bart's brother lost his life while fighting in a war that Bart is no longer sure he supports. But when his father is accused of treason, Bart finds himself entangled in a fight of his own as he tries to save his father's career and reputation. No Easy Answers is a fast-paced tale of espionage and murder set in the tumultuous and divisive years of the Vietnam War.

No Easy Answers

Literary

A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House is home to an idiosyncratic collection of art. For over sixty years it has managed on donations from the visiting public and its dwindling trust fund. But tastes in art do change and in trying to restore the house's faded luster, its trustees propose a major retrospective for renowned artist Oscar Nauman. A festive Christmas party in Nauman's honor ends in acrimony--and next morning one of the trustees is found in a most unfestive heap at the bottom of the basement steps. Lt. Sigrid Harald had been an unwilling guest and the party and now she must return to investigate why that trustee was so universally hated.

Corpus Christmas

Maron, Margaret

Gerald Schwartz is a pastor in crisis. His wife abandoned him for a lesbian relationship, his parishioners are defecting to a megachurch where the sacrament of Holy Communion has been replaced by an All-U-Can-Eat Communion Brunch Buffet, and his job is about to be handed over to a graduate of Armageddon Bible College. As the members of Abiding Truth battle over everything from the time for Sunday services to the color of the sign out front, Gerald struggles to hold on to his sanity and his faith. Filled with flawed yet endearing characters, Ash Wednesday presents an unsentimental comedic look at small town life, sexual mores, and the decline of mainline religion in contemporary America.

Ash Wednesday

Eppley, Harold

Humor & Satire

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