Title : The Buenos Aires Quintet - Manuel Vasquez Montalban - book Summary : Pepe Carvalho leaves Barcelona to delve into a completely different world, that of today's Buenos Aires. He goes there to investigate the disappearance, linked to obscure political reasons, of his cousin Raul. Throughout his research, his discovery of the city and the country's gastronomy will be punctuated by numerous encounters, among others with Alma, a beautiful green-eyed activist, a man who pretends to be Borges's natural son, a former torturer, a few corpses too... and many other characters who are all faces of contemporary Argentina. More than ever true to his reputation as a gourmet and disillusioned philosopher, detective Pepe Carvalho draws us, not without humor, into a plot full of twists and turns. EAN : 9782020386661 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man, preceded by Bug-Jargal - Victor Hugo, Roger Borderie - book Summary : "Suddenly, one of the servants took off my jacket, and the other took my two dangling hands, brought them behind my back, and I felt the knots of a rope slowly winding around my close wrists. At the same time, the other was untying my tie. My cambric shirt, the only shred left of my former self, made him hesitate for a moment; then he began to cut the collar. At this horrible precaution, at the grip of the steel touching my neck, my elbows trembled, and I let out a stifled roar. The executioner's hand trembled. "Sir," he said to me, "pardon me! Did I hurt you? These executioners are very gentle men." EAN : 9782070369195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Punishments - Victor Hugo - book Summary : History does not move backward. A bourgeois empire is not founded on the ruins of a republic. For having proclaimed this, Victor Hugo was exiled by the man he called Napoleon the Little, a caricature of the other, the one from Austerlitz. The Republic, he believed, was moral progress, individual virtue, legitimacy, the people justly represented. "Ten million, one hundred million votes voting en masse do not count before this atom, before this particle of God, the soul of the just." Victor Hugo would be the just man who stood up to Prince Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état. "Sound, sound always, trumpets of thought." They still resonate in these grandiose and passionate verses, full of a dream of justice and equality. EAN : 9782253016861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Scent of Farigoulette - Alysa Morgon - book Summary : Upon the death of their father, santon maker Alix Aglietti, a life choice presents itself to Paul and Marinette. The latter, against all odds, decides to take over the family workshop, thus giving her brother the opportunity to fulfill his dream: to enroll in the Beaux-Arts in Paris and become a painter. But not just anyone can become a santon maker! The first attempts at modeling are disappointing. She will have to use her father's molds. Alas, one is missing, and not just any mold: the key figure in the nativity scene! A young woman of character, Marinette is not discouraged. She secretly embarks on a gigantic and highly original creation and ends up accepting the help of her childhood friend, Denis Cadenel, to complete what will be her great work. For Denis and the brave priest, the result is a true marvel! It's a very promising first step on the long road that, via the Marseille Santon Fair, leads to fame. But will Marinette be able to avoid pitfalls and pitfalls, and recognize in her traveling companion the man to whom her heart yearns? With this vibrant novel, Alysa Morgon draws the reader into the fascinating and engaging world of Provençal santons. She immerses the reader in the fabulous story of this family nativity scene that has delighted young and old alike for generations. EAN : 9782848864877 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Carmen and Thirteen Other Stories - Prosper Mérimée - book Summary : Carmen, a gypsy, a girl of no means... What does she possess but her name? For many, that's already too much. Hoping to seize the six letters of this first name, Don José abandons his career. She will shamelessly use the passion she inspires to unleash the brutality that lies dormant within Don José. The simplicity of her attire conceals the soul of a queen: lacking a throne, she will exercise a loving tyranny that spares nothing for her slaves. In collusion with death, Carmen will accomplish her work at the risk of paying the price herself. Carmen: beneath these two syllables, traced by Mérimée, sung in Bizet's opera, a world of images and melodies surfaces, which resonate in the thirteen other stories in this collection. Surly hidalgos and bullfighting scenes in Spain, ancient ghosts in Rome... In the heat of the South, the same sun broods over the marriage of madness and grace. EAN : 9782070365609 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby - book Summary : On December 8, 1995, a sudden stroke plunged Jean-Dominique Bauby into a deep coma. When he emerged, all his motor functions had deteriorated. Suffering from what medicine calls "locked-in syndrome" - literally: locked inside himself - he could no longer move, eat, speak, or even simply breathe without assistance. In this inert body, only one eye moves. This eye - the left one - is his connection to the world, to others, to life. With his eye, he blinks once to say "yes," twice to say "no." With his eye, he focuses his visitor's attention on the letters of the alphabet dictated to him and forms words, sentences, entire pages... With his eye, he wrote this book: every morning for weeks, he memorized the pages before dictating them, then correcting them. Beneath the glass bubble of his diving suit, where butterflies flutter, he sends us these postcards from a world we can only imagine—a world where nothing remains but a mind at work. The mind is by turns sarcastic and disenchanted, with an intensity that grips the heart. When all you have left are words, no words are too many. EAN : 9782221081723 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confidence for confidence - Paule Constant - book Summary : France Télévisions Novel Prize 1998 - Prix Goncourt 1998 We are in Middleway, Kansas—called the little American Oxford—in the home of Gloria Patter, an influential Black academic, the day after the Witches of Middleway feminist conference. A closed-door meeting is established between Gloria and three of her guests: Aurore Amer, a French novelist; Lola Dhol, a Norwegian actress, once famous and scandalous; and Babette Cohen, a professor of Pied-Noir origin who has seamlessly integrated into the United States. They are at the age of taking stock. Their cohabitation will reveal their hopes and disillusionments, their ambitions and failures. Between the moment of awakening and the moment of departure, which will perhaps disperse them forever, a game of mirrors is established, revealing their antagonisms. EAN : 9782070752317 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rye Bread and Thrush Wine - Georgette Laporte-Castède - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782911844065 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In May, do what you please - Christian Carion and Laure Irrmann - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782298105919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Trees Don't Grow to the Sky - Marianne Rubinstein - book Summary : “What does quarantine mean to you?” she stubbornly asks her friends. For her, the "mid-life" began with a breakup and shared custody of her little boy. After the collapse, however, comes the time for reconstruction, for foundational friendships, for fleeting loves, and for a certain sweetness of life. In Trees don't grow to the sky, Marianne Rubinstein subtly evokes this intimate upheaval of forty. In a precise and luminous tone, the author of Not everyone is lucky enough to be an orphan. and the Yaël Koppman's journal analyzes the discoveries, the fears, the joys and the freedom that can result from it. The press “Gentlemen, if women are an eternal enigma for you, read this book without delay. It will prove to you, if need be, that one can be intelligent, cultured, funny and that forty is not the end of seduction or desire. Ladies, you will love it!” Page “A novel full of humility and fluidity.” Metro EAN : 9782226242983 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wind Takes Its Turns Again - Sylvie Germain - book Summary : It's a wanted poster stuck under a bus shelter that will turn Nathan's life upside down. Gavril, the missing old man, saved his childhood from boredom and loneliness with a taciturn mother by taking him to the streets of Paris and enchanting him with poetry and fantasy. Thirty years later, Nathan leads a dull and gloomy life that this sudden reminder of childhood and maternal silences shatters. He, who has never traveled, goes to Romania, where he was unaware that Gavril had experienced the dramas of the war and then the great purges of the post-war period. This journey to the acrobat friend who survived terrible ordeals but who had managed to maintain a magnificent ardor for life, will open him to complete freedom. EAN : 9782226442345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen Liberty Volume 1 - The Empire of Darkness - Christian Jacq - book Summary : Egypt is now a shadow of its former self. An army of barbarians from Asia, riding chariots drawn by horses (the Egyptians had never seen them before!), has swept across the Empire. They are called the Hyksos, the "rulers of foreign lands." They have enslaved the land of the pharaohs. Only one city has not yielded, Thebes, over which the widow of the last pharaoh, Teti the Little, still reigns. And Teti knows that men have given up in the face of the cruelty of the Hyksos, in the face of the incessant torture, the summary executions, and the penal colonies from which no one has ever returned. But Teti has an eighteen-year-old daughter, Ahotep. And Ahotep, she, never accepted defeat: "When you have no choice," she often says, "you are free!" She is proud, beautiful, courageous, she is afraid of nothing. And that is how she decides to rekindle the flame of Egyptian resistance! All by herself! With freedom as a rallying sign... EAN : 9782845630246 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Inconsolable - Anne Godard - book Summary : You never thought you would survive, but you live, you continue, from date to date, and for so long. You live against his absence, against the life that made it possible, against others, because they forget, and against yourself, who can erase nothing. Despite yourself, you remain waiting for something else, but what? EAN : 9782707319401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : God, no one has ever seen him - Maurice Bellet - book Summary : “Whether God exists or not is not our question. What is certain, however, is that there is "God" in human history and in our current society. It is impossible to remove it from there; it occupies too much space... Our little high-speed theology will have only one function: to clear the clutter, to undo prejudices of all kinds, and at the same time to open up the space for speech where "what God is about" can be freely addressed. I mean: that freedom of thought which is not the right to think anything, but the unconditional search for the truth." EAN : 9782226183026 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It tells Sarah - Pauline Delabroy-Allard - book Summary : 2020 Quebec-France Marie-Claire-Blais Prize - France Culture-Télérama Prize - The student novel (from 2014) 2018 It tells of Sarah, her mysterious beauty, her brittle nose of a gentle bird of prey, her eyes like pebbles, green, but no, not green, her eyes of an unusual color, her snake eyes with drooping eyelids. It tells of Sarah the ardor, Sarah the passion, Sarah the sulfur, it tells of the precise moment when the match strikes, the precise moment when the piece of wood becomes fire, when the spark illuminates the night, when from nothingness springs the burn. This precise and tiny moment, a shift of barely a second. It tells of Sarah, of symbol: S. EAN : 9782707344755 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Those Who Remain - Jean Michelin - book Summary : Like every morning, the gray dawn breaks over the unchanging routine of the garrison. But this time, Lulu is missing. Lulu, the always reliable, always solid master corporal, Lulu and her crooked smile that nothing ever seemed to erase, has disappeared. Aurélie, his wife, is used to absences, to empty beds, to the daily grin of a military wife. She copes, but knows that this departure is not like her. Four men, four soldiers, then set out to find him. They are from the same world and carry the same ghosts around on the edge of sleepless nights. If they can't find him, no one else will. This intensely topical story, written by Jean Michelin, follows the investigation of these brothers in arms. A poignant story of camaraderie, the kind that binds people together beneath their fatigues, this uncompromising novel examines what war does to those who leave, to those who return. To those who stay. EAN : 9782350877891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crime at the Hôtel de Saint-Florentin - An Investigation by Nicolas Le Floch - Jean-François Parot - book Summary : Nicolas Le Floch is going through a difficult time: Louis XV is dead, Sartine is appointed Secretary of State for the Navy. Le Noir, his successor as Lieutenant General of Police, is suspicious of him. M. de Saint-Florentin, minister of the new king, charges Commissioner Le Floch with investigating the crime committed in his mansion. A chambermaid's throat has been slit in strange circumstances. His quest will take him to Paris, beyond the walls, to cattle breeders, and to Versailles, where he will secure his position with Louis XVI. He will also be confronted with the mysteries of the Trianon and the horrors of Bicêtre. A phantom carriage, serial murders, an astonishing murder weapon... punctuate this adventure, which mixes money, debauchery, espionage, and all the madness of a young court where old rivalries and clashes persist. Jean-François Parot is a diplomat. His extensive knowledge of 18th-century Paris, its criminality, and court intrigues allows him to recreate the mysteries and customs of the world's capital at the time. EAN : 9782709625142 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : NINA - Frédéric Lenoir - book Summary : Adrien is a Parisian man in his forties, single and childless. He has lost his will to live and decides one evening to commit suicide. He writes his will and a final letter to Nina, the woman of his life, the only one he has ever loved with a passionate and unconditional love. Nina and Adrien were children when they met. Memories of their summer vacation in Ravello, the jewel of the Amalfi Coast, flood back to Adrien. Postponing his suicide for one night, then another, and another, he writes them down in this long letter to Nina, which becomes, as the nights go by, the heartbreaking declaration of love he had never dared to make to the young Italian woman. Adrien had always dreamed of becoming a writer. He had to wait for this final moment to dare to write. Exhausted but at peace, he swallows a mixture of medications and falls into a deep coma. He has no idea that his words will turn several lives upside down: Nina's first, but also those of all those who, near or far, will be touched by his writing. Simonetta Greggio and Frédéric Lenoir have written this novel together, delving into the absolute and simplicity of love that we seek all our lives and that we sometimes only find at the very beginning. EAN : 9782234070219 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Song of the Silent City - Olivier Adam - book Summary : I am the singer's daughter. The girl alone in the back of cafes, filling notebooks, writing down what she feels to know what she feels. The girl who gets lost in the streets of Paris in the early morning. The girl who lowers her eyes. I am the girl whose father left in the night. The girl whose father parked his car along the river. The girl whose father was declared dead. The one who takes a plane on the faith of a blurry snapshot. The one in the streets of Lisbon, on the slopes of Alfama. Who watches for a wandering musician, a star stripped of itself, a hermit who would have left everything behind. The girl who walks through gardens, who is overwhelmed by the living, who is filled by the words of others, the girl who does not want to disappear. Who little by little frees herself. EAN : 9782081422032 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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