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  • Audiobook

    Stories From The Shadows – The French

    Embrace the darkness

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    by Jean Giono ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    ‘A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man’s efforts can change the future for so many. It’s a real message of hope.’ Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and to the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds

    by Jean Richards ...
    Illustrated by Anca Hariton ...
    Many seeds travel inside fruits. The fruit is like a suitcase for the seeds. It protects them on their trip.Readers will learn how fruits are designed to protect a plant's seeds and also to help the plant spread its seeds to new places.With prose perfect for read-alouds and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds delves into the world of seeds, their purpose, and how ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Nausea

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Louisiana French

    As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

    The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Francs et Orientaux dans le monde des croisades

    by Jean Richard ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This latest volume by Jean Richard is concerned with the evolution of the crusading movement and with the interaction between crusaders and indigenous peoples of the Near East. The articles look at changes in the concept of crusading, means of financing it, and forms of indulgence; at how the adoption of maritime transport created a need to control the sea, and how contacts with the Muslims could ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Pontescuro

    Daphne is the beautiful daughter of the Pontescuro land owner and townsfolk employer. She lets herself be adored by the men, earning her the ire of the town's women. Then there is Ciaccio, the orphan close in age to her, whom she befriends. The story is lyrically told by unusual witnesses: the river, fog, a bird, an insect. When Daphne dies, her father brings in a retiring inspector. But even the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Louisiana French

    As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

    The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Diving-Bell And The Butterfly

    Narrated by Richard Derrington ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    Whilst suffering from a condition whereby he was unable to speak and his only movement was the blinking of an eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby devised a code for each letter of the alphabet and dictated this book about his experiences and feelings. He died just after it was published. This moving, extraordinary book is read by Richard Derrington. ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

  • The Biophysics of Cell Membranes

    Biological Consequences

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant to the functioning of biological membranes. The first chapter describes innovative methods to mimic ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Fantastic Stories Presents the Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2

    Series Book 25 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe Super Pack. Collected in this oversized edition are more than 100,000 words of science fiction and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus