Séance Infernale

Author : Jonathan Skariton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101970508

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Séance Infernale by Jonathan Skariton Pdf

Los Angeles, 2002. Alex Whitman is hired by an enigmatic collector to locate what could be the first movie ever made—Séance Infernale. Its creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those in the know to be the true inventor of motion pictures—not the Lumière brothers or Thomas Edison. In 1890, Sekular had boarded a Paris-bound train from Dijon, days before he was to present to the world his greatest new invention: a moving picture machine. But he never arrived at Gare de Lyon. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again. When Whitman tracks down what could be fragments of Sekuler’s famously lost film, questions are raised—about Sekuler, about the fate of him and his invention, and about the film itself. And the stakes become ratcheted up as these riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery. At once riveting, atmospheric, and filled with vivid historical detail, Séance Infernale is a heart-pounding work of mystery and suspense.

Author : Jonathan SKARITON
Publisher : Sonatine
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782355846540

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Séance infernale by Jonathan SKARITON Pdf

Un thriller obsessionnel et fascinant Quelle est la teneur de Séance infernale, film mythique aujourd'hui perdu ? Et qu'est-il arrivé à son réalisateur, le Français Augustin Sekuler, mystérieusement disparu en 1890 lors d'un voyage en train entre la Bourgogne et Paris ? Le film est-il lié à une série de meurtres qui endeuillent la ville d'Édimbourg ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles Alex Whitman, chercheur de reliques cinématographiques pour riches collectionneurs, tente de répondre, sans se douter des dangers auxquels il s'expose. De Los Angeles à Genève en passant par Paris, un puzzle diabolique se met en place, sur lequel apparaît peu à peu l'incroyable vérité qui se cache derrière ce film maudit. À la façon de Theodore Roszak dans La Conspiration des ténèbres, Jonathan Skariton s'inspire de personnages et de faits réels (la disparition du pionnier du cinéma Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince), et nous propose une quête passionnante qui devient vite aussi obsessionnelle pour le lecteur que pour son héros.

Author : Jeff Herman
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608684052

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Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017 by Jeff Herman Pdf

Still the Best Guide for Getting Published If you want to get published, read this book! Comprehensive index lists dozens of subjects and categories to help you find the perfect publisher or agent. Jeff Herman’s Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world. Jeff Herman’s Guide is the writer’s best friend. It reveals the names, interests, and contact information of thousands of agents and editors. It presents invaluable information about more than 350 publishers and imprints (including Canadian and university presses), lists independent book editors who can help you make your work more publisher-friendly, and helps you spot scams. Jeff Herman’s Guide unseals the truth about how to outsmart the gatekeepers, break through the barriers, and decipher the hidden codes to getting your book published. Countless writers have achieved their highest aspirations by following Herman’s outside-the-box strategies. If you want to reach the top of your game and transform rejections into contracts, you need this book!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455984

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Florence Bernault
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478002666

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Colonial Transactions by Florence Bernault Pdf

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use of human organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as "transactions." Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon. Overturning theories of colonial and postcolonial nativism, this book is essential reading for historians and anthropologists of witchcraft, power, value, and the body.

Author : Jane Heller
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682303559

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Infernal Affairs by Jane Heller Pdf

In this New York Times–bestselling author’s “very funny novel,” a frustrated woman gets the ultimate makeover—by making an unwitting deal with the devil (Library Journal). Florida real estate agent Barbara Chessner is down on her luck, up several dress sizes, drowning herself in Bloody Marys—and, worst of all, has just been dumped by her husband for a blonde TV weatherperson. Tired of living the life of a woman in a “before” ad, Barbara stumbles outside in the midst of a thunderstorm and beseeches heaven to help her—unaware that someone diabolical might be listening . . . Barbara wakes up with golden hair (not her own premature gray), perfect pitch (she’s tone deaf), a strange black dog (registered to her), no double chin, a waistline . . . and definite cleavage! Talk about a good night’s sleep! Even more bizarre and seemingly wonderful things begin to happen to Barbara, including some potential new romances, and her friends at the real estate agency attribute the inexplicable to everything from hot flashes to dark forces. Not even she knows what the devil is going on. But when she finds out, all hell is going to break loose . . . “Barbara is a terrific character—clever, witty, and truly likable.” —Library Journal “Sly, smart-mouthed fun.” —People “Fiendishly funny.” —Booklist

Author : Paul LÉAUTAUD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433101504284

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Journal Littéraire by Paul LÉAUTAUD Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B3959663

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The American Music Lover by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:$B793293

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American Record Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092329865

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General Catalogue of Printed Books by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015571831

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General catalogue of printed books by British museum. Dept. of printed books Pdf

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B142427

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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900 by British Museum. Department of Printed Books Pdf

Author : Richard Hislop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015016641154

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Auction Prices of Old Masters, 1970-1980 by Richard Hislop Pdf

"This publication lists oil paintings, watercolours and drawings which have been sold throughout the world at public auction in the ten years from October 1970 to July 1980." -- P. 9.

Author : Milo Arlington Wold,Edmund Cykler
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015013609816

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An Outline History of Music by Milo Arlington Wold,Edmund Cykler Pdf

Author : Malcolm Muggeridge
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009072599

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The Infernal Grove by Malcolm Muggeridge Pdf

The author gives an account of his life from the early 1930s through World War II as a journalist and spy in Africa and Europe for the Allies.