Title : Zombies - Bret Easton Ellis - book Summary : In a Los Angeles saturated with dollars and excess, Bret Easton Ellis paints a scalpel-like portrait of a society riddled with vice and superficiality. Neglected wives, stupid blondes "stinking of suntan oil and sex," rock stars: his zombie-like characters wander the vast void of a flavorless life... "Ellis does precisely to literature what Basquiat did to painting: wake it up." Frédéric Beigbeder, Elle EAN: 9782264026545 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Other Falstaff - Jack-Alain Léger - book Summary : A noble tramp, a magnificent wreck, overflowing with humanity and generosity, with a delightful immorality, the enormous, truculent Falstaff is languishing in a Windsor inn: he is nostalgic for the time when he was the friend of the lords who today vie for the Queen's favor. Who will save him from his melancholy, who will save him from himself? The corrupt great lords whom his bad jokes once so amused? The beautiful Alice who devotes such a candid, pure love to him? Or Shakespeare himself, since "all in this world is buffoonery"? Who will make him discover, in himself, the other Falstaff - the comic character who, for us, embodies the love of life? The writer at the height of his powers - an irresistible blend of verve, gaiety, virtuosity, fantasy, smiling gravity and amused erudition - tells us again, with brilliance, with joy, that the novel is, first and foremost, a celebration. EAN: 9782070402328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die - Christine Arnothy - book Summary : World War II ravaged the European continent. In 1944-1945, the Germans occupied Budapest and sought to win their final battle against the Russians in the martyred city, which was bombarded day and night. Survival was essential under the rubble. Christine Arnothy takes refuge with her parents in the basement of a building on the banks of the Danube. Writing by candlelight, she recounts daily events and evokes hunger and thirst. To fetch water with her father, she has to step over corpses in the streets. After a two-month siege, the city, like all of Hungary, was occupied by the Soviets. Choosing freedom, Christine and her parents crossed the Austro-Hungarian border on foot and ended up in a refugee camp in Austria. This teenager's vocation as a writer was revealed in the face of death. This war diary and its sequel, It's Not So Easy to Live , are read around the world. EAN: 9782253003229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Place Your Bets! - Loren-D Estleman - book Summary : Things are heating up in Detroit, Motorville, with the announcement that casino gambling will be allowed. There are pros and cons, of course, and one hell of a Reverend is thunderously preaching against it. Killers are targeting him, of course, but not the ones you'd think. Because the gang really doesn't want to see the Reverend disappear. EAN: 9782070490967 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City - Shi Dan - book Summary : Yu Chunhe, a eunuch in the palace of Empress Xiaoding, gives us this exceptional account of the daily lives of castrati and their masters. Entering the Forbidden City in 1898 at the age of seventeen, he spent eighteen terrible years there, marked by the war against foreigners, the exile of the court to Xian, the revolution, and the fall of the empire. His memoirs, rich in intrigue and acerbic portraits of court insiders, teach us much more than an official history book. An edifying description of the morals of an era, its decadence and corruption, Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City constitutes a unique historical document, but is above all the moving account of the tragic fate of a teenager sold to the child traffickers of Beijing who supplied the imperial palace with eunuchs. Yu Chunhe reveals what has often been hidden about the private lives of these innocents, forcibly castrated and then imprisoned within the walls of the Forbidden City where they were treated as slaves according to the whim of their masters. EAN: 9782877302388 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Apothecary and the Manor of Shadows - Deryn Lake - book Summary : While quietly working on his preparations, apothecary John Rawlings is surprised by the unexpected entry into his shop of a panicked stranger. But it is a safe haven, not a cure, that the man needs. No sooner has the apothecary hidden him in the back room than a spectacularly beautiful woman enters. She is looking for a man who matches the fugitive's every detail. Keeping his word, Rawlings turns her away but, intrigued, decides to question the man. His name is Aidan Fenchurch, and he has been pursued for years by a former mistress, Ariadne Bussell, who follows him like a shadow. Glad to have spared him such fury, Rawlings is shocked to learn a few days later that the man has been found dead. Everything points to Mrs. Bussell, but she will soon succumb to what looks alarmingly like poisoning. As the victims pile up, John Rawlings, determined to convict the culprit(s), opens the investigation that leads him to the heart of Surrey. EAN: 9782702433713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zoli - Colum McCann - book Summary : A Roma poet with a fiery voice, Zoli fascinates those who approach her but remains elusive. Raised on the roads by her grandfather, who defied the Gypsy ban by teaching her to read and write, Zoli discovered the power of words at a very young age. But putting the history of her community on paper means handing it over to the gadz and a part of the gypsy soul. Adored by the communist regime before becoming an outcast, banished by her own people for having transgressed the rules, Zoli will pay a high price for her freedom... A parable about exile, a praise of difference, Zoli is the journey of no return through Europe from the 1930s to the present day, of a woman with a ruthless will, and, through her, a hymn to the "wanderers of the world" who are desperately wanted to be tied to the earth. EAN: 9782264047502 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Heart Lost - Elizabeth Adler - book Summary : Barely off his private jet in New York, Ed Vincent is shot four times at close range: at the hospital, the days of the billionaire, a universally respected patron, seem numbered. Before falling into a coma, Ed left only one clue, a single word shrouded in mystery: Zelda. An enigma that quickly takes on the face of a pretty, tearful young woman who never leaves her lover's bedside. A prime suspect, Zelda nevertheless leaves the seductive Inspector Marco Camelia indifferent... Together, they will lead the investigation and delve into the life of this man whose fortune hides tragic events. Together, they will plunge wholeheartedly into a surprising face-off with the truth... EAN: 9782266139410 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Forgotten Child - Brigitte Peskine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266082457 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm not here - Olivier Barrot - book Summary : From the most exotic to the most familiar, from the South Seas to the right bank of the Seine, here is a celebration of departure, of distance, of elsewhere and elsewheres, which begin at the doorstep. A bad weather, a look, a memory, the spirit of the place, the ambient atmosphere, the wandering mood: having grasped the world in alphabetical order, Olivier Barrot combines these emotions over the long term. For, more than eternity, he aspires without much hope to ubiquity. Never tired of airports and connections, always happy to return, he has traveled since adolescence, has been everywhere or almost, accompanied by books and notebooks. He has read, a lot, watched, a lot too, and written, a little. From his wanderings, he has brought us some thirty musical moments which constitute both a story of the world and a philosophy of travel. And which form, in a literary exercise of rare happiness, the book of small and large absences. EAN: 9782710330035 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lives and Philosophical Opinions of a Cat - Hippolyte Taine - book Summary : I have studied philosophers and cats extensively. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." (Hippolyte Taine) Life and Philosophical Opinions of a Cat is a short, cynical and humorous text that the historian, philosopher and literary critic, Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), wrote, as if in parentheses, to rest and amuse the reader, in the second edition of Voyage aux Pyrénées, a work published in 1858 by Librairie Hachette. Considered a rare text, often cited, but impossible to find, it is a small classic of literature on cats. EAN: 9782743617776 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everything is language - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : This book is based on a lecture given to psychologists, doctors, and social workers. I wanted to make those involved in the education, teaching, and care of children and young people with physical, psychological, emotional, family, or social difficulties aware of the importance of words spoken or unspoken about events that mark a child's life, often without their knowledge. My aim is to awaken this audience of adults, living in contact with children, to the fact that human beings are above all beings of language. This language expresses their desire to meet another, similar or different to them, and to establish communication with them. That this desire is unconscious rather than conscious is what I want to make clear. That spoken language is a special case of this desire and that, very often, it distorts the truth of the message, intentionally or not. That the effects of this game of truth masks are always vitalizing for the developing child. The child needs the truth, and has the right to it. EAN: 9782253049395 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Loving Without Allowing Everything - Dodson Fitzhugh - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501001823 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everything Happens Before the Age of 6 - Dr Dodson Fitzhugh and Geffray Yvon - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501002189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Effective Parents - Gordon Thomas - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501000031 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Serpent - Clive Cussler - book Summary : Deep in the frozen waters off Nantucket lies the silent wreck of a magnificent Italian ocean liner, the Andrea Doria . Few people know that within its depths lies a pre-Columbian antiquity that is said to prove the existence of relations between the Old Continent and the New World, long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Kurt Austin, leader of the NUMA exploration team, has just rescued Nina Karov, the archaeologist who was attacked off the coast of Morocco after discovering an ancient carved stone head. This is when the unexplained disappearances of several archaeological teams funded by a Mexican billionaire, Halcon, multiply. How are the researchers thwarting the plans of the evil Halcon? What is he up to? Kurt Austin and his team, assisted by Nina, immediately launch into a relentless pursuit and attempt to thwart the diabolical plans that jeopardize the destiny of the United States. EAN: 9782253172291 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : To Bed! - David Baddiel - book Summary : Gabriel Jacoby has two problems: he's an insomniac and, on top of that, he's madly in love with his brother's wife. Until the day the clone of said sister-in-law arrives. Gags and misunderstandings follow one another within a tenderly caricatured Jewish family. Between farce and horror, a comedy with a touch of Woody Allen and Philip Roth. " Alexis Liebart, L'Evénement du Jeudi " David Baddiel slept in the bed of the masters of British humor. Laughing in his company is a miraculous therapy, curing all ills, even the most incurable insomnia. " André Clavel, L'Express EAN: 9782264029461 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mystery of the Source - Fabrice Frémy - book Summary : In the mid-13th century, while Saint Louis ruled as a king of justice and peace, many provinces still lived in violence and misery. Near Reims, a felonious knight, Enguerrand de La Tour Sigy, known as the Ogre of Montlivaut, set fire to the lands of Champagne. Only repentance and love could wash away his crimes. To marry Hildegarde, his lord's daughter, the monster accepted a very strange challenge: to fill the simple bowl presented to him by his confessor, Father Gregory. But the waters of springs, rivers, and fountains refused to accept the enchanted vessel. Joining Saint Louis's crusaders, Enguerrand, accompanied by Guillaume, the altar boy of Montlivaut, must seek his redemption as far as the lands of the Orient. EAN: 9782266123150 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nice 42nd Street - Patrick Raynal - book Summary : I promise, I swear, one day we'll be rich! Without working. Childhood vows are the most tenacious, the most sacred. So, at 35, if the dream opportunity finally presents itself, there's no way I'm letting it slip away. Even if death is part of the game. Even if the stakes are to smuggle a billion francs in cash between Nice and New York, under the combined surveillance of crooks and cops. Question: is the efficient and sensual violence of New York more dangerously inexperienced than the sad, ethereal greed of Nice? For Sam Kowalsky, the sun will always shine in the West. EAN: 9782842190668 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Indian Passion. The True Story of the Princess of Kaparthala - Javier Moro - book Summary : 1908: Anita Delgado, an Andalusian dancer, marries the Maharajah of Kapurthala. 1925: the "fifth wife" separates from her husband and leaves India. Anita lived through twenty years of tumultuous passion, causing one of the greatest scandals of the British Empire. A dizzying journey into the splendor of a world swept away by history, somewhere between a modern fairy tale and the true story of a free woman. Born in Spain in 1955, Javier Moro is an author and screenwriter. He lived in the United States where he collaborated with numerous directors, including Ridley Scott. He notably wrote The Pink Sari , available in Points. “A truly enchanting and historical novel about this fiery woman who traded Andalusian frills for the sari.” Marie France EAN: 9782757805619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The River Upside Down - Volume 2 - Hannah - Jean-Claude Mourlevat - book Summary : The continuation of The River Upside Down ! Hannah recounts the adventures that led her to the village of Tomek, at the end of the desert, in search of the water that grants immortality. In The River Upside Down Tomek took us on his incredible quest: to find the Qjar River and its water that prevents death. We walked with him in Hannah's footsteps. This time, it's Hannah herself who recounts her journey along the dizzying Sky Road, then across the desert. Her story takes us to new lands, but we also find familiar landscapes: the Forest of Oblivion, the prairie, the ocean... EAN: 9782266123136 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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