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In 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump, Jerome Hudson uncovers all the things Americans have not been told about our 45th president. We’re surrounded by supposed influencers shouting about the scandals that Americans care about the least, from TV talking heads to social media activists, from feckless Washington swamp monsters to candidates fighting for the soap box.

When good friends J., George and Harris decide that a boating holiday is in order to cure them of the ails and illnesses of the modern age, they set off up the Thames with dog Montmorency at their side. They could never have predicted, however, the set of obstacles and mishaps that awaited them. This supremely English novel has delighted audiences for more than 130 years, having never been out of print since its publication. Star of British television Jeremy Nicholas expertly brings to life the hilarity of the group’s adventures.

Moving from a long hot summer in Mississippi to the rivers of London and beyond to a remote tropical desert island, this collection of fictional travel writing contains some of the most famous novels from the 18th and 19th century and includes Bing Crosby’s superb reading of Mark Twain’s classic coming-of-age tale.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humourist. Passing of the Third Floor Back, first published in 1904, is a collection of early 20th-century short stories portraying the small-minded inhabitants of a building who make life unpleasant for one another. A mysterious stranger arrives, and starts to bring about miraculous changes in the behaviour of the tenants, improving the ambiance and the lives of all.

Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent cette biographie de Charles Quint par Jérôme Hélie, agrégé d'histoire, professeur au lycée Henry IV et maître de conférences à Sciences-Po Paris. Modèle du conquérant mégalomane pour Rabelais, esprit dérangé pour Voltaire, héros romantique pour Hugo, Charles Quint a, de tout temps, hanté l'imaginaire français.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome is a witty 1889 account by Jerome, of a two-week boating trip on the Thames. The author, two friends, and the dog, Montmorency, travelled from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back again. The narrative describes their journey as well as the villages and historical landmarks that they pass, including Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Church, Magna Carta Island, and Monkey Island. The author’s habit of digressing into humorous anecdotes is the element which has made the book a classic.

Three Men on the Bummel, also titled Three Men on Wheels, is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome, published in 1900, 11 years after his best seller, Three Men in a Boat. This time, the three companions J, George, and Harris take a bicycle tour through the Black Forest in Germany. Besides the bicycling travelogue, humorous vignettes or "set pieces" are constructed by a gradual accumulation of detail, including commentary on German culture from the point of view of a British tourist, and sitcom-like scenarios of the interactions between the characters.

End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences is book III of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. In many ways, it brings to an end three things: the sagas of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur; the hunt for the millions of dollars in US and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960; and the murders that followed the robbery.

Werewolves are among our most ancient and deepest fears. The beast run amuck in human form is not a thing of the ancient past, we see headlines about it every day. Shootings, beatings, and other savage acts are part of our lives. Here are seven horrifying classics written between 1939 and 1956, including a shocker from the legendary Weird Tales. Plus the fascinating historical essay, The Origin Of The Werewolf Superstition.

When acclaimed writer, television broadcaster, and gifted audiobook narrator, Steve Matchett, was asked to name his three favorite authors, he swiftly volunteered the names of Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and Jerome K. Jerome. The last of these may not be as widely known, but this only highlights the immense value Matchett places on Jerome’s work. Best known for his comic masterpiece of 1889, Three Men in a Boat, Jerome's captivating tale of an unhurried boat trip along old England’s river Thames.

This is the Italian version of the award-winning children's storybook on bullying, Pepe Builds a Nest. Una meravigliosa storia su come fare le scelte giuste e affrontare un bulli! Pepe, il pinguino, deve costruire un nido per signorina Ambra e se stesso. Ma Otto, il bullo, ruba le sue pietre. Guarda come Pepe e altri risolvono il problema, finalmente portando Pepe e Otto insieme come amici.

Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of The Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in US and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry that were stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960.

Una deliciós divertiment, un monument a la ironia... aquesta novel, la àgil i sense pretensions, protagonitzada per tres homes i un gos emba rcats en una excursió pel Tàmesi, és una joia de l'humor de tots els t emps.

In Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s "Witch Hunt", New York Times best-selling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, PhD meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected to in what the media has simply called "The Mueller Investigation". In late 2018, in an FBI closed conference room with no windows, Dr. Corsi was confronted for hours upon hours at a time by detailed questioning about events that occurred in 2016.

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her parents but thumbed her nose at society and her parent's way of life. A seeming infatuation with Tommie Lupinacci, head of a major crime-infested cartage association based in Brooklyn, led her to move east with the mobster. But when she showed up dead with a bullet in the back of her head, NYPD Detectives Louis Martelli and Sean O'Keeffe were stumped.

In the years before the Grey God's Pact, the Gods of Light and the Gods of Darkness waged war upon the Mortal Plane. Fighting alongside them were armies of men and monsters. The Champion Daniel, a Paladin of the Light, leads a band of warriors into the wilderness to defeat one such being, Rexin the Blasted, before the creature engulfs the entire Mortal Plane in an endless darkness.

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo OHiggins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudos' prime theft and murder suspects.

Solly’s dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy from gifted violin student to adult engineer and scientist, leaving no time for the career in music Solly so dearly wants his son to pursue. In the end, there emerges the essence of redemption as Teddy returns to the violin late in life and fulfills his and his father’s vision. The story, which is a work of fiction based on real events, will fascinate listeners from ages 10 to 100 who are interested in radio, communications, and music.

Alors qu'elle goûtait un repos bien mérité en Italie avec Gabriel Rossetti, Amandine MacLane s'aperçoit que sa carte de crédit a été piratée et abondamment utilisée en Belgique... Il n'en faut pas plus pour mettre le duo sur la piste des fraudeurs et en chemin pour Bruxelles. Leur enquête va les mener de surprise en surprise pour aboutir à un résultat plus qu'inattendu ! Rejoignez Rossetti & Maclane dans le troisième volet de leurs aventures qui sera l'occasion d'en apprendre plus sur Amandine à travers une enquête aussi typique que pittoresque !

Alors que les préparatifs du Festival de Cannes battent leur plein, la responsable d'une agence de communication disparaît sans laisser de traces. Fait divers qui aurait pu être banal, sauf que la disparue n'est autre que Sabine Sasso, la femme du meilleur ami d'Amandine MacLane. Il n'en faut pas plus pour que le duo formé par Gabriel Rossetti et Amandine MacLane se reforme afin de résoudre ce mystère, à l'aide de leurs méthodes bien particulières ! Découvrez la suite des aventures de Rossetti & MacLane, au fil d'une enquête passionnante qui révèlera bien des rebondissements.