Title : Melody of Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris - book Summary : A rich work, a distillation of humanity, in which we see the ravages of material and moral poverty, unrequited love and unhappy marriages. Summer 1960, Atkinson, an ordinary small town in Vermont. Divorced from a pathetic drunk who still occasionally knocks on her door at night, Marie Fermoyle is exhausted trying to make ends meet, driven by a fierce ambition for her three children and driven by a pride that prevents her from accepting help from anyone. Her loneliness will make her a prime target for Omar Duvall, a pathetic, smooth-talking crook, who shows up at her house one evening... Oscillating between anger and resignation, mired in their adolescent malaise, neither Alice nor Norm, the two eldest, will be able to oppose Omar, whose disturbing personality will gradually reveal itself. Eager to see his mother finally happy, young Benjy will stubbornly keep his terrible secret: the very day Duvall arrived, he saw him stab a man in the forest... Through the story of the Fermoyles, to which that of their relatives and neighbors is inextricably linked, Mary McGarry Morris has written the chronicle of a small community where hope and fear, lies and shame, obsession with sin and piety clash, where an incessant struggle is played out between the thirst for success and the bitterness of failure. The strength of the plot and characters, the beauty of the style, the heavy and captivating atmosphere that emerges from the novel make it a work apart, among the most remarkable in contemporary American literature. EAN : 9782714435897 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man of My Life - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán - book Summary : Pepe Carvalho is ending his millennium and entering the new one with his fine team: Charo, back from Andorra where she ran a hotel for seven long years, and Biscuter, who is beginning an unexpected plunge into the world of sects. As for Pepe, a little broke but still keen to age with dignity, having overcome all illusions, he has to face the facts: life is a succession of surprises, and the return to his life of the beautiful Yes, the dream girl, twenty years after The Birds of Bangkok, is a big one. The plot unfolds against a political backdrop of extreme urgency: the new challenges facing small nations, so-called stateless nations, on the European chessboard. Quimet, a very influential Catalan, and nevertheless a client of Charo "for his whole life," is considering setting up top-secret intelligence services within a European network. Who better than Barcelona's most famous private investigator to advise such an undertaking, hatched in the minds of placid but devious nationalist politicians and activists ready for anything? EAN : 9782267016208 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cursed Angels of Tourlaville - Yves Jacob - book Summary : A centuries-old tragedy that has forever marked the history of Normandy: the shocking destiny of the lovers of Tourlaville. Tourlaville, in the 17th century. Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet are brother and sister. Inseparable. Exceptionally beautiful. Little by little, their tender childhood games give way to a singular desire. Despite warnings, prohibitions, religion, and their rank, they give in to a devastating passion. Marguerite is then forcibly married, at thirteen, to the much older Lord of Hautpitois, and lives a true ordeal. This separation will not prevent the adolescents from finding themselves like two magnets drawn to each other, fleeing together across the Normandy countryside, drawn against their will into a diabolical spiral, condemned for posterity... EAN : 9782258064607 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Pharaoh - Christian Jacq - book Summary : The temples of Northern Egypt are deserted, the gods forgotten. Everyone now thinks only of making the most profit for themselves. Injustice and corruption reign. Five centuries after Ramses, far from its past splendor, the empire seems headed for irremediable ruin. One man, a Nubian, refuses this inevitability. Piankhy, the "living," the black pharaoh, governs his southern kingdom with wisdom and kindness. In his heart, a single desire: that the gods once again reside in a united Egypt, nourished by justice and love. But the price to pay is heavy for this man of peace: he would have to confront the Libyan Tefnakt, an authoritarian and ambitious northern prince, who wants to restore order and reign in glory—by subduing the country by force. Between the black pharaoh and the Libyan prince, war is inevitable. And the victory of one or the other of these inflexible wills depends on the survival of a thousand-year-old world... Despite his courage and the magic of his wife, is the black pharaoh truly capable of achieving the impossible? EAN : 9782221086254 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Curtain on the Night - Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod - book Summary : French First Novel Prize 1984 After brilliant studies at King's College, Cambridge, Paul Finney returns to the austere, magical, and sensual family home of Greenore with the intention of starting a book there during the summer. But the presence of his family (his father, his mother Theodora, and his sisters Ann, Lisa, and Tuesday) and the thousand temptations of a lazily traditional luxury will thwart his project while sharpening his lucidity and humor. If he misses his own accomplishment from the start, he will succeed, on the contrary—in a sumptuously ferocious manner—in analyzing the destruction of a family unit previously united by fortune and the hushed sweetness of old aristocratic rites. Nourished by the ambiguous and caressing memories of a golden childhood, what will ultimately become of this young man full of love, hope, and mistrust, on the threshold of a dubious future? How can one resist the painful, even desperate, desire to draw the "curtain on the night" in front of him in order to conceal his history, past, present and future included? EAN : 9782070702046 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Masters of Light - Jacques Anquetil - book Summary : Rouen, 1850. Young Jacques Angot, initiated by his father into the art of stained glass and its symbolic language, became a master glassmaker. An avant-garde spirit, he began creating stained-glass windows whose only colored vibrations were an opening onto divine light. His father, the beautiful Béatrice, his friend Flaubert and then Claude Monet supported Jacques in this quest for the impossible: capturing fleeting light. When his designs for the stained-glass windows of Mont-Saint-Michel are rejected as too modern, everything falls apart. And the successive deaths of his loved ones plunge him into great distress, which distances him from God. But when a Benedictine priest entrusts him with the creation of the stained-glass windows of a Romanesque abbey located near Rouen, the master can finally realize his dream and rediscover his faith... With sensitivity and passion, Jacques Anquetil takes us into the fascinating and little-known world of glass artisans who, for centuries, have combined art, poetry, and homage to the divine. EAN : 9782856169056 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Pure Spy - John Le Carré - book Summary : Magnus Pym has disappeared: a wave of panic is sweeping through Her Majesty's secret service. Could the honorable British spy be a traitor, as the Americans keep repeating? EAN : 9782221049037 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Sun Too Late - Anne Ray-Wendling - book Summary : Have you ever had the impression of a very strong invisible presence at your side? That of a deceased person, father, mother, child, spouse, friend, who wanted to communicate, protect you, warn you of a threat, or on the contrary of great imminent happiness? Have you ever felt deep within your being this resulting desire for dialogue? This overwhelming experience can happen to all of us, but, like each of us, Florence, the heroine of this story, was not prepared for it, nor for the twists and turns that followed the contact. Yet, she lives it every day. Throughout the pages of her extraordinary adventure, without artifice or complacency, she takes us with her on these mysterious paths, strewn with pitfalls, doubts and revelations about this unknown world, this parallel universe, from where our loved ones, apparently gone forever, sometimes send us these strange messages. EAN : 9782753800441 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One Night at the Club - Christian Gailly - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782707317735 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thoughts, Maxims and Anecdotes - Sacha Guitry - book Summary : RESETTING July 24, 1957 - 2007 - 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Sacha Guitry Son of Lucien Guitry, Sacha Guitry knew how to make a name for himself. Actor, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, he places himself in the lineage of our best moralists, from La Rochefoucauld to Chamfort. His humor is acid and tender, insightful and destructive. His favorite target was women. Let us listen to him speak brilliantly: "She gave herself to me, and she got me!" "When you lie to a woman, you feel like you're getting paid back!" He sometimes borders on cynicism ("You have women in your arms, then one day on your arms, and soon on your back"), but he redeems himself with an absolute passion for women. "Sacha's" sarcasm weighed heavily ("The little I know, I owe it to my ignorance") but his jokes were light ("When a woman I like asks me on the phone, I quickly comb my hair before going there"), a subtle mixture always accompanied by a slightly disillusioned, but not without tenderness, smile. EAN : 9782749110110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rachel-Rose and the Arab Officer - Paula Jacques - book Summary : The moment the Suez War ended, it was no longer the war but the peace that became terrible. Immediately after the expulsion of French and English nationals, the Jews found themselves, in turn, suspected of imperialism, Zionism, communism, or all three at once. The result, in all cases: arrest, imprisonment, theft of property, and, as a last resort, banishment. For his part, Salomon Cohen still cherished the hope of escape. He had Egyptian nationality. He had never subscribed to any political ideology, that good joke (...). He even considered it a sin to believe that an earthly power was capable of thwarting the designs of divine Providence. Cairo, 1957. Salomon, a prosperous bourgeois, refused to respond to a summons from the Mukhabarat, the Egyptian intelligence service. One night, a police officer shows up at the Cohens' house with a warrant; in reality, he has a personal score to settle with this family where, once, her mother served as a domestic. Rachel-Rose, the eldest daughter, opens the door. She is in her nightie, as if naked under the gaze of the Arab officer. Aware of the trouble he has caused the young girl, the officer Fouad Barkouk will play on her ardent naiveté to punish her mother's former employers. By seducing the teenager, by making her fall under his sexual and emotional dependence, Fouad believes he has satisfied his revenge... With this story of a first love in the arms of the enemy - a metaphor for the eternal war of possession -, Paula Jacques catches us where we least expect it: it is a true psychological thriller that she offers us, with the Egypt of the cosmopolitan years as a backdrop, this original land that marks all her work. EAN : 9782715224025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Out of the Shelter - David Lodge - book Summary : Out of the Shelter is the most autobiographical of David Lodge's novels. The London Blitz in 1940, the evacuation to the countryside, then the years of austerity in a London suburb and the Catholic school. But David Lodge is not working as a historian; he recounts with his usual verve and humor the adventures of sixteen-year-old Timothy - his double - during the summer holidays of 1951, at his sister's house who is working for the American army in Heidelberg. In this environment, he discovers life, partying, the first games of seduction. His encounters will be for him the rite of passage between childhood and adult life. Out of the Shelter is both a coming-of-age novel and an international novel. James Joyce's Dedalus and Henry James's The Ambassadors are the obvious literary models. EAN : 9782869308183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When Will You Come Back? - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Desperate after her little boy was kidnapped in Central Park two years earlier, Alexandra "Zan" Moreland, a beautiful and talented interior designer, is horrified to find herself suspected of having kidnapped the child. Hunted by the police and the media, Zan cannot understand who has an interest in accusing her. Despite her fears, despite her doubts, the young woman, convinced that her son is still alive, launches into an investigation that could well endanger her life and that of her loved ones... A desperate woman, a missing child... Mary Higgins Clark rediscovers in this thriller the breathless rhythm and ambiguity of her greatest thriller, The Night of the Fox . EAN : 9782226221346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Physics of Catastrophes - Marisha Pessl - book Summary : Bleue Van Meer would be a perfectly ordinary American teenager. Except that, at the age of five, she lost her mother in a car accident, and her father, an exuberant and eccentric intellectual, now shuttles her from one university town to another, toward new adventures, always on the road. They share a close relationship, engage in verbal jousting, engage in scholarly quotes, and rewrite the history of literature and quantum physics. But one day, she discovers the hanging corpse of Hannah Schneider, her favorite professor. What can she do? Follow her father's advice and reconstruct the story, with rigor, a touch of comedy, if possible, and plenty of anecdotes. Will that be enough to unravel the drama and uncover the secrets of an entourage more mysterious than it seems? Casually, under the guise of play and humor, Marisha Pessl offers a unique critical vision of American consumer society. At once dark, funny and poignant, this novel, dizzying with verve and brilliance, offers us an unforgettable heroine and marks the spectacular entrance of Marisha Pessl, born storyteller and child prodigy of young literature EAN : 9782070776207 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The American - Franz-Olivier Giesbert - book Summary : "We called him "the American." After the D-Day landings, he met my mother at a ball in Rouen, in honor of the liberators. And he settled in Normandy. He beat me a lot. He especially beat Mom a lot. That's why I spent my childhood wanting to kill him. My hatred for him ravaged everything in me, my lucidity and my humanity. Until his death. But I will never forget the suffering smile he carried everywhere and which, even today, breaks my heart." Franz-Olivier Giesbert. EAN : 9782070771011 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Traitor to Our Taste - John Le Carre - book Summary : They simply wanted to play a game of tennis. Gail and Perry, a young English couple on vacation in the Caribbean, exchange a few balls with other vacationers, the Dimas, an ordinary Russian family. Invited to their party, they unwittingly become emissaries of the mafia. The British secret service is on their trail. To escape, Perry has only one solution: become a spy. EAN : 9782757827994 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Casimir Lives the High Life - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : "My grandfather loved the past. I was like everyone else: I preferred girls, and fucking them. I thought of nothing else. I had just turned sixteen. I was in my final year of high school. I was preparing for my baccalaureate. School bored me to death. And life even more. I hated high school, Mondays, the Russian roulette of exams and, later, competitive exams, the dark noria of days. I hated the world around me and the life ahead of me even more. The world bored me, life scared me. The future looked like an eternal Monday, like a baccalaureate that was constantly starting over. From time to time, at home, some idiot volunteer would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was already quite tall: I was six foot nine. I looked at him furiously. What I wanted to do? Nothing at all, you fathead. I felt like dying." EAN : 9782070407231 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Landless Lady - Volume 3 - Andrea H. Japp - book Summary : 1304. In this third and final volume of The Landless Lady , Andrea H. Japp finally gives us the keys to the multiple intrigues woven into the two previous volumes, The Paths of the Beast and The Breath of the Rose ... The reader discovers who young Clément really is and who ordered the murders at the Abbey of Clairets. The investigation takes us to Rome, right into the entourage of the sovereign pontiff. As for the love story between Agnès and Artus, Count of Authon, it will also have an unexpected end... EAN : 9782253116783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Our Green Years - Robert Merle - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782266025393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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