Agnes: 634 books

A fictional story of little Jesus, the son of God, and his best friends, who experience a day at the pond. After a time of loud and boisterous play, they realize the need to be calm and quiet for the frogs to be seen and heard. Children learn from this story that it’s ok to be loud and excited sometimes,...

When I lived in the country, — which was a long time ago, — our nearest neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the country indeed, and the family were greatly “respected”; though not, so far as I could discern, for any particular reason, except from their having been...

From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this �golden age� can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busystreet...

Petite musique de vie qui fait monter les larmes aux yeux, met du baume au coeur et fait un bien fou. Un roman apaisant tout simplement ! Gagnant du Prix Femme Actuelle 2011. Coup de coeur des lectrices 2011. Un homme éprouvé par la vie, seul, triste et austère, voilà Olivier, lieutementant...

La success story d'une auteur auto-éditée repérée par les Editions Michel Lafon sur Internet

The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a change in policy to allow transgender military personnel to serve openly. A RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender personnel, the costs of gender transition–related care, and the potential readiness implications of a policy change....

This book brings to light women’s experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women’s difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles. Women like Andrew Sachs' mother had to...

Une réflexion profonde sur les choix de vie et l'ambition de chacun. Yanis et Véra ont la petite quarantaine et tout pour être heureux. Ils s'aiment comme au premier jour et sont les parents de trois magnifiques enfants. Seulement voilà, Yanis, talentueux autodidacte dans le bâtiment, vit de...

Peut-on être heureux quand on se ment à soi-même ? À l'approche de la quarantaine, Hortense se partage entre son métier de professeur de danse et sa liaison avec un homme marié. Elle se dit heureuse, pourtant elle est peu à peu gagnée par un indicible vague à l'âme qu'elle refuse d'affronter...

Constanze, the wife of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, was not the foolish and self-interested individual of popular opinion, much of which is based on the views of Mozart's father, who believed that his son had chosen an inappropriate partner. This strong-minded woman was, however, to be of critical support...

Read for pleasure, for thrills, for escape, for ideas, for involvement. Read books that make you laugh and cry and wonder and think. Read for yourself and not for others. That's the focus of Right Book, Right Time - 500 great reads for teenagers. For all those voracious and eclectic young readers,...

Petit Claude, The Orphan of Auschwitz is the poignant, but also heartlifting true story of a little Jewish boy who was rescued from a Nazi prison and then sheltered in the home of a young French Christian couple. Little Claude Blum - Petit Claude, as he was called then - would never forget his fourth...

This little book is for the future. It is a time capsule for our family, for Hazels descendants. It is her legacy in her words, some transcribed from recorded memories, some composed as stories told in third person. It is her message to the future about times past, as she glimpsed it, so that those...