Fiction Books

Envers Et Contre Tous

  [french | 1874]  

Amedee Achard

Summary: [La suite des Coups dpe de M. de La Guerche]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 53

Les Coups Depee De M De La Guerche

  [french | 1863]  

Amedee Achard

Summary: [Vers lan de grce 16... il ntait pas dans lancienne province de la Marche dennemis plus irrconciliables ni damis plus intimes que le jeune huguenot Armand-Louis de la Guerche et son voisin le catholique Renaud de Chaufontaine. Lorsque aprs la prise de La Rochelle par les troupes de Richelieu M. de la Guerche senfuit en Sude charg de documents prcieux pour le roi Gustave-Adolphe il retrouve dans ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 160

Le Crime De Sylvestre Bonnard

  [french | 1881]  

Anatole France

Summary: [The Crime Of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France. Anatole France 16 April 1844-12 October 1924 born Francois-Anatole Thibault was a French poet journalist and novelist. He was born in Paris and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Acad emie ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 273

Le Livre De Mon Ami

  [french | 1885]  

Anatole France

Summary: [40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin Intelligent Design God OxyContin and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania is a 2007 non fiction book about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial of 2005. Author Matthew Chapman a journalist screenwriter and director (and the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin) reported on the trial for Harpers magazine]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 266

Le Mannequin Dosier

  [french | 1898]  

Anatole France

Summary: [Histoire contemporaine est le titre gnrique dun ensemble darticles dAnatole France parus dans lcho de Paris en 1896 et qui dsignera plus tard une srie de quatre romans publis chez Calmann-Lvy: lOrme du mail (1897) le Mannequin dosier (1897) lAnneau damthyste (1899) et Monsieur Bergeret Paris. Dabord attach construire une violente satire anticlricale lauteur puise son inspiration dans les faits ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 270

Le Puits De Sainte Claire

  [french | 1895]  

Anatole France

Summary: [Prologue: The Reverend Father Adone Doni.--San Satiro.--Messer Guido Cavalcanti.--Lucifer.--The loaves of black bread.--The merry-hearted Buffalmacco.--The lady of Verona.--The human tragedy.--The mystic blood.--A sound security.--History of Don?a Maria dAvalos and the Duke dAndria.--Bonaparte at San Miniato.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 87

Les Dieux Ont Soif

  [french | 1912]  

Anatole France

Summary: [Sous la rvolution franaise le glissement inexorable dun pur vers labus de pouvoir et lassassinat lgal --puis la mort en Thermidor.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 490

Les Sept Femmes De La Barbe Bleue Et Autres Contes Merveilleux

  [french | 1886]  

Anatole France

Excerpts: [... lui planta trois pouces d'un couteau de cuisine dans le ventre. Il en pensa mourir, mais ne se d'epartit point de sa douceur coutumi`ere. ]
Genres: [fiction | fairy tales folk tales mythology] Downloads: 233

Thais

  [french | 1890]  

Anatole France

Summary: [Thas tait ne de parents libres et pauvres adonns lidoltrie. Du temps quelle tait petite son pre gouvernait Alexandrie proche de la porte de la Lune un cabaret que frquentaient les matelots. Certains souvenirs vifs et dtachs lui restaient de sa premire enfance. Elle revoyait son pre assis langle du foyer les jambes croises grand redoutable et tranquille tel quun de ces vieux Pharaons que ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | religious] Downloads: 97

All Cats Are Gray

  [english | 1953]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in deep space the normal may be reversedfor humans at any rate.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 137

Galactic Derelict

  [english | 1959]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton. Three men undertake a perilous journey to investigate an alien spaceship wrecked during prehistoric times.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 257

Key Out Of Time

  [english | 1963]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Once On A Time is a fairy tale created by A. A. Milne. Written in 1917 Milnes own introduction begins This is an odd book and indeed it is very difficult to classify. Ostensibly a typical fairytale it tells the story of the war between the kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia and the political shenanigans which take place in Euralia in the kings absence all supposedly rewritten by Milne from the ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 162

Plague Ship

  [english | 1956]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [A fast-moving suspense tale full of unusual detail and unexpected turns. Several highlights make the book really shine: the sunset gorp hunt on the reefs of an oily sea a raid on an asteroids emergency station and a landing in the Big Burn resulting in an encounter with the mutant life-forms that reside there...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 476

Ralestone Luck

  [english | 1938]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne - but with no family money or prestige the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead - Pirates Haven. Their only hope is to find the sword that was the familys talisman for generations the Ralestone Luck and restore it to its proper place. If they succeed the family fortunes will follow.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 333

Rebel Spurs

  [english | 1962]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Rebel Spurs by Andre Alice Norton. Kindle edition of sci-f fantasyi writer Andre Norton with active table of contents.]
Genres: [fiction | westerns] Downloads: 281

Star Born

  [english | 1957]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [When the oppressive global dictatorship of Pax took over Earth they put a stop to space exploration. Still a few rebels escaped in the sleeper ships to found free new colonies -- or perish in the attempt. Those few colonists that reached inhabitable worlds were cut off for centuries and in that isolation and freedom they developed the mysterious mental powers that civilization had all but ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 68

Star Hunter

  [english | 1961]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala there was a man in hiding--a man whose mind had been reconditioned with anothers brain pattern and for whom there was a fabulous reward. STAR HUNTER is a thrill-packed account of that other-worldly game of hide-and-seek between a man who did not know all his own powers and an interstellar safari that sought something no man had a right to find...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 301

Storm Over Warlock

  [english | 1960]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Stranded on the alien world of Warlock Shann Lantrees expedition camp has been wiped out by the Throgs beings so alien that humans have yet to communicate with them. Lantree must quickly learn how to survive under harsh conditions while being chased by the Throgs -- and how to distinguish the real from the dreamed when he meets the mysterious Wyverns.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 431

The Defiant Agents

  [english | 1962]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system -- and the U.S. scientists are losing! In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 479

The Gifts Of Asti

  [english | 1948]  

Andre Alice Norton

Summary: [Varta the last priestess of Asti lives alone with Lur a telepath of the lizardfolk in Astis isolated mountain retreat. Decadent Memphir has long since drifted away from the austere paths of Asti and now the barbarians of Klem are sacking the city and the smoke of its burning drifts up to the temple.]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | short stories] Downloads: 162