Malik Gale

Ernest Renan (1823 1892) est un crivain, philologue, philosophe et historien franais. Il se montre en gnral inquiet pour l'avenir de l'humanit, craignant sa mort par puisement de la gnrosit des curs, comme celle de l'industrie peut tre un jour par puisement du charbon de terre. Peut tre nos descendants ne vivront ils que comme des lzards ne pensant qu' profiter paresseusement du soleil. Certains de ces textes comme Quest ce quune nation ou Prire sur lacropole font de lui un intellectuel de rfrence. Dans Quest ce quune nation ?, confrence faite la Sorbonne le 11 mars 1882, il formule lide quune nation repose sur un rel pass commun et une volont dassociation. Ce qui constitue une nation nest pas la langue commune, le groupe ethnographique commun, cest davoir fait de grandes choses ensemble, vouloir en faire encore dans lavenir. Ce texte, comme Prire sur lAcropole, fait dErnest Renan un intellectuel de rfrence. Ce livre comporte une table des matires dynamique. Extrait: L...

Set in those fractious days both preceding and following the death of Edward VI, C.W. Gortner places his fictional squire, Brendan Prescott, into the story. A foundling at birth and brought up in the Dudley household, he seeks to unearth the secrets surrounding his birth. Tasked with a clandestine errand to Princess Elizabeth by Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland, he simultaneously finds himself escorting Princess Mary, and acting as a spy for Elizabeth’s protector, William Cecil, the Master Secretary. In the fraught days following Edward’s death and Lady Jane Grey’s marriage to young Guilford Dudley, Prescott will face the two women he realizes are his arch enemies, the Duchess of Suffolk and Lady Dudley. Both want his true identity to remain unknown and angle for his demise. In a mesmerising manner, Gortner tells a fascinating tale where truth resides alongside fiction, wrapped in a tale of intrigue that will satisfy both lovers of royal intrigue and historical fiction. The T...

Demon Chasers... Protectors of humanity. Sworn to uphold the peace. Oath bound to keep the existence of demons a secret. Gray, a newly appointed Alpha and half blood demon wolf, can only turn during a full moon. With only three days before the next cycle, time is running out to convince the highest ranking female wolf to become his mate. Success will see him become a full blood. Failure will spell his death. It is only a matter of time before the challenges start coming in. Ashlyn, a hard ass Demon Chaser just happens to be human and the pack's newest resident. She is there on Demon Control Agency business. Her attraction for the new Alpha can't be allowed to stand in her way, after all, Gray is already taken. More importantly, she has a serial killer to catch, and then she needs to get the heck out of wolfville. For both their sakes... Please note this book has an actual page length of 100 pages - I write bite size stories my readers can sink their teeth into, so if you...

Zombies in New York? Really? Ok, this is an older novel and very well written. I always have trouble putting down a Pendergast novel, and this was no exception. Two fun characters from previous books are attacked multiple witnesses report the attacker had died weeks before. How can a dead man return to attack people and why these particular two? Pendergast the reason I rated this one a tad lower than normal was because I hated to see my favorite journalist get smoked! Mass Market Paperback I rarely do book reviews because I don't think I'm very good at them but I love Preston & Child books. Pendergast is a great character and I love the entire series. A good book for me is when I can't put it down, find myself reading it when I should be doing something else, and sad when I hit the last page. Worthy of a review even though I can't succinctly delve into the character development or story line to do it justice. So just let me say that the book delivers everything I a...