Title : I promise you freedom - Laurent Gounelle - book Summary With his new suspense novel, Laurent Gounelle takes you to the heart of an exhilarating story in which you will lose yourself... and find yourself again.  Imagine: your employer gives you ten days to save your job and, that same evening, your partner lets you know that your relationship is over… In both cases, you are criticized for your personality, but what can you do about it? When a friend tells you about a mysterious man, a member of a very secret brotherhood possessing ancestral knowledge, who has the power to install a completely new personality within you, the prospect may be tempting... This is what happens to Sybille Shirdoon, the heroine of this story: confronted with failure, separation, betrayal, but also happiness, joy, love, she then embarks on an extraordinary path towards the discovery of herself and others. A novel that takes you on a quest keys to your fulfillment and success, by the author of The day I learned to live The man who wanted to be happy And you will find the treasure that sleeps within you The gods always travel incognito The philosopher who was not wise EAN : 9782702165508 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : If I Stay - Forman, Gayle - book Summary Mia is 17 years old. A boyfriend, a budding rock star. Eccentric parents. Precious friends. A cute little brother. Plenty of talent and her whole life ahead of her. When, one day, everything stops. Her dreams, her plans, her loves. There, in a ditch, at the side of the road. A banal car accident... As if detached, her mind contemplates her own body, broken. Mia sees everything, hears everything. Taken to the hospital, she witnesses the rounds of her loved ones, the doctors' diagnoses. Between laughter and tears, she reviews her life before, imagines her life after. Coming out of the coma, fine, but what's the point? Leaving, coming back? If I stay... " If I stay is a breath of optimism." Le Figaro Magazine EAN : 9782298023695 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A hum de calhau volume 1 - The Gascon in 25 lessons (volume 1 - Patrick Guilhemjoan - book Summary Method for learning Gascon Occitan in 25 lessons. EAN : 9782868660572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : As If It Were You - Mhairi McFarlane - book Summary In high school, Anna was fat, ugly, and terribly uncomfortable in her own skin. At thirty, the days when she was the butt of her school, and especially James's, seem long gone: she's beautiful, she has a dream job, and life is smiling on her. But fate sometimes throws strange surprises, and the man who inflicted the worst humiliation of her life resurfaces. Against all odds, James has become considerate, funny, witty... and he's not immune to the charm of the lovely young woman with whom he's organizing an exhibition. He didn't recognize in her the one everyone mocked ten years earlier. Deeply troubled by this unexpected reunion, Anna is ready to do anything to avoid falling in love with her childhood sweetheart again... EAN : 9782811215415 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Forest - Jean Hegland - book Summary Nothing is the same as before: the world as we know it seems to have faltered, there is no more electricity or gasoline, trains and planes no longer run. Rumors are spreading, people are fleeing. Nell and Eva, seventeen and eighteen, have lived their whole lives in their family home, deep in the forest. When civilization collapses and their parents disappear, they are left alone, determined to survive. Their passions for dance and reading remain alive, but faced with the unknown, they will have to learn to grow differently, to fight and to trust the forest that surrounds them, filled with inexhaustible riches. EAN : 9782351786444 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mudwoman - Joyce Carol Oates - book Summary Abandoned by her mother in the Adirondack swamps, Mudgirl is miraculously rescued and adopted by a couple determined to make her forget her horrific history. Now Meredith Neukirchen, the first female university president, Mudwoman, brilliant and irreproachable, devotes herself entirely to her career. A trip to the place of her birth will bring back the ghosts of the past... Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates, a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters, is a prolific short story writer and novelist, winner of numerous literary prizes. Them, The Falls And The Gravedigger's Daughter are notably available in Points. " With Mudwoman, the painter of dark souls, delivers a masterpiece. The Point EAN : 9782757840634 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beyond the Rain - Victor Del Arbol - book Summary The walls of Tarifa shelter the last residence of two septuagenarians who were never destined to meet. A former bank branch manager, Miguel is as measured and predictable as Helena is impulsive and extravagant. The tragic death of a resident prompts them to settle their accounts with life: they hit the road at the wheel of a flamboyant 1967 Datsun, heading for Barcelona, ​​Madrid, and Malmö. Miguel wants to save his daughter from the clutches of a narcissistic pervert and rediscover a disturbing childhood love. Helena, for her part, would like to see her son again and rebuild the ruins that were her life after the disappearance of her father and the suicide of her mother when she was a child. Each will be the mirror of the other in their quest for truth to heal the wounds of the past and finally find peace of mind. And if, during this gripping road movie, we cross the arid lands of illness, prostitution or old age, we come away convinced that living is the most beautiful of journeys. EAN : 9782330146771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Invisible Furies of the Heart - John Boyne - book Summary Cyril isn't "a real Avery" and he never will be—at least, that's what his parents, Maude and Charles, keep telling him. But if he's not a real Avery, who is he? Born to an unmarried mother banished from the rural Irish community where she grew up, and adopted by the Averys, a wealthy and eccentric Dublin couple, Cyril forges an identity through a series of unlikely encounters and learns to fight against the prejudices of an Irish society where difference and freedom of choice are far from guaranteed. A grand fresco on the social history of Ireland transformed into an existential epic. Florence Bouchy, The World of Books . John Boyne shares with John Irving's masterpiece, The World According to Garp, a similar epic breath . Delphine Peras, The Express. A sentimental and political education carried by the art of a novelist who knows how to probe the hearts and minds. Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, The Point . Translated from English (Ireland) by Sophie Aslanides. EAN : 9782253237853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lewis Man - Peter May - book Summary Breaking with his past, Fin Macleod returns to his native Lewis. The tragic death of his young son destroyed his marriage, and he left the police force. The windswept moorland, the fury of the ocean crashing against the shore, the Gaelic voices of his ancestors... he believes he can find meaning in these childhood places. No sooner has Fin arrived than the body of a young man is discovered, miraculously preserved by the bog. DNA tests link the body to Tormod Macdonald, the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, making the old man the prime suspect. But he can't defend himself, lost as he is in the fog of his Alzheimer's disease, so Fin goes to help him. To the rhythm of the flashes that cross Tormod's senile mind, the past resurfaces, painful, dramatic, revealing the fate that Scottish society reserved for decades for orphaned or abandoned children that the Catholic Church sent to the Hebrides. EAN : 9782330014414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Poacher of the Lost Lake - Peter May - book Summary Cognac Prize - Polar for the best international novel 2012 Since leaving the police, Fin Macleod has been living on his native island in the Hebrides, west of Scotland. Hired to hunt down poachers who plunder the wild waters, he finds himself confronted by Whistler, his childhood friend who now lives as a vagabond. After spending a stormy night together, they discover the wreckage of a plane. The plane, believed to have crashed into the sea, contains the body of a murdered man... EAN : 9782330026950 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I, François Villon - Jean Teulé - book Summary After Rimbaud and Verlaine, Jean Teulé could not have better concluded his journey into poetry than by proudly and humbly donning the magnificent rags of François Villon. Human brothers who live after us, Do not harden your hearts against us. He may have been born on the day Joan of Arc died. His father was hanged and his mother tortured. He learned Greek and Latin at the University of Paris. He enjoyed himself, lied, and stole from a very young age. He associated with the poor and the wealthy, students, priests, prostitutes, assassins, poets, and kings. No human feeling was foreign to him. From the most sublime to the most atrocious, he committed all the acts a man can commit. He crossed like a meteor thirty years of the history of his time and disappeared one morning on the road to Orléans. He gave the world powerful and mysterious poems and opened the magnificent path that all other poets would follow after him: absolute freedom. After Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, Jean Teulé slips into the shoes of François Villon to restore the existence of the first of the modern French poets, master of the ballad, a genius flayed like no other, but also a bad boy who assiduously frequented the world of dungeons. EAN : 9782260016830 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Women's Hour - Adèle Bréau - book Summary 2023 Press House Prize Paris, 1967. On the cusp of her fifties, Menie, a middle-class mother, is recruited by RTL radio, which has decided to update its programming. Her role? To get listeners talking. In just a few weeks, it's a tidal wave. Women from all over France confide in "the lady of the heart." Soon, at nap time, millions will be following the show with passion. Among them, Mireille and her sister Suzanne, who discover that they too can control their destiny. As for Menie's life, torn between the whirlwind of a society liberated by May 68 and the torments inflicted on her, it is completely turned upside down. Fifty years later, Esther, a documentary filmmaker struggling to rebuild her life, will delve back into those not-so-distant years when the fate of French women seems like another age. With this new novel, driven by the figure of Menie Grégoire, her grandmother, Adèle Bréau unites the destinies of women who, despite their differences, reach out to one another. Love, motherhood, rights, sisterhood... the author explores the advances, paradoxes, and regressions of the female condition over five decades, bringing them into resonance in a resolutely romantic fresco. Finalist for the 2023 Maison de la Presse Prize "We at RTL obviously couldn't miss Adèle Bréau's book, which I insist on, is much more than a biography, a portrait of her grandmother Menie Grégoire, it's a novel in the full sense of the term with a beautiful gallery of characters and narrative bridges between the Menie years and today." Bernant Lehut, RTL "Through four inspiring heroines from yesterday and today, the author, granddaughter of Menie Grégoire, continues to explore the bonds of sisterhood in this beautiful novel about women's struggles. Fascinating from start to finish." Femina Version “Amazing.” The Parisian “The portrait of a journalist and a liberating era.” Point of View “A touching and topical novel.” SHE “A gripping novel.” Gala “A captivating fiction that questions the place of women in society.” Marie Claire “Vibrant with passion and sensitivity.” Paris Match “A wonderful novel to read and have others read!” TV Z “ A novel that gives pride of place to intergenerational solidarity. » Books Weekly "Adèle Bréau sheds new light on the struggle our mothers and grandmothers had to wage to win their freedom, sometimes not without pain. It is extremely eloquent." France 3 “A story full of love and admiration” The Obs EAN : 9782709669450 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Erotic Potential of My Wife - David Foenkinos - book Summary French Literature - It is often said that there are women's men, but Hector can be considered a man of objects. Far from comparing women to objects, we note obvious similarities, and the anxieties of our hero can be reflected in the anxieties of the unfaithful, and of all men pierced by feminine scarcity. After collecting, among other things, cocktail picks, election campaign badges, paintings of boats at the dock, rabbit's feet, soap bells, noises at five o'clock in the morning, Croatian sayings, banister balls, the first pages of novels, melon labels, birds' eggs, moments with you, hangman's nooses, Hector fell in love and got married. So, he started collecting his wife. EAN : 9782070309771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Shoah - Claude Lanzmann - book Summary It is not easy to talk about the Shoah. There is magic in this film, and the magic cannot be explained. After the war, we read countless testimonies about the ghettos and the extermination camps; we were devastated. But, watching Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film today, we realize that we knew nothing. Despite all our knowledge, the terrible experience remained at a distance from us. For the first time, we live it in our heads, in our hearts, our flesh. It becomes ours. Neither fiction nor documentary, Shoah succeeds in this recreation of the past with an astonishing economy of means: places, voices, faces. Claude Lanzmann's great art is to make places speak, to resurrect them through voices, and, beyond words, to express the unspeakable through faces. (...) Claude Lanzmann's construction does not obey a chronological order; I would say - if one can use this word about such a subject - that it is a poetic construction. I would never have imagined such an alliance of horror and beauty. Certainly, one does not serve to mask the other, it is not a question of aesthetics: on the contrary, it highlights it with such invention and rigor that we are aware of contemplating a great work. A pure masterpiece. EAN : 9782070403783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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