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Bruno Oddera

    Giant's Bread
    Black Sunday
    Azteca
    Ventuno racconti
    Illusions
    Des fleurs pour Algernon
    • Des fleurs pour Algernon

      • 252pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Algernon est une souris de laboratoire dont le traitement du Pr Nemur et du Dr Strauss vient de décupler l'intelligence. Enhardis par cette réussite, les deux savants tentent alors, avec l'assistance de la psychologue Alice Kinnian, d'appliquer leur découverte à Charlie Gordon, un simple d'esprit employé dans une boulangerie. C'est bientôt l'extraordinaire éveil de l'intelligence pour le jeune homme. Il découvre un monde dont il avait toujours été exclu, et l'amour qui naît entre Alice et lui achève de le métamorphoser. Mais un jour, les facultés supérieures d'Algernon déclinent. Commence alors pour Charlie le drame atroce d'un homme qui, en pleine conscience, se sent retourner à l'état de bête...

      Des fleurs pour Algernon
      4,3
    • Illusions

      Le Messie Récalcitrant

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.... In Illusions, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.

      Illusions
      4,2
    • Ventuno racconti

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"

      Ventuno racconti
      3,7
    • Azteca

      • 729pages
      • 26 heures de lecture
      Azteca
      3,8
    • When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . . Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with explosives. And he happens to be very, very crazy. That's why a beautiful PLO operative has seduced him. That's why--on Super Bowl Sunday--the world will witness the bloody assassination of the U. S. president and the worst mass murder in history. Unless someone discovers what Michael Lander plans . . . and can kill him first.

      Black Sunday
      3,7
    • Giant's Bread

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in order to write the great masterpiece of his life, he has to make a crucial decision with no time left to count the cost... Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

      Giant's Bread
      3,6