Title : Tell me how you were born, I'll tell you who you are - Lise Bartoli - book Summary : They say that everything happens in early childhood. But what if our birth already marks our adult life? Lise Bartoli shows us the link between this key moment and our current behaviors, our fears, our blockages. She helps us free ourselves from a weight, from ideas, images, or emotions that have remained frozen. And for you, how did it happen? Were you wanted? Did you come into the world easily? How were you welcomed? Each case is unique, but this fascinating book, built around forty testimonies, will resonate with each of you, and will give you the opportunity to relive your birth to finally be yourself. EAN: 9782228920766 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Race to the Abyss - Dominique Fernandez - book Summary : Rome, 1600. A young, unknown painter arrives in the capital and, in a few paintings of unprecedented power and eroticism, revolutionizes painting. Realism, cruelty, chiaroscuro: he overturns three hundred years of artistic tradition. Cardinals protect him, princes court him. He becomes, under the pseudonym Caravaggio, the official painter of the church. But here's the thing: he is a born outsider, violent, antisocial; the very idea of ​​"making a career" is repugnant to him. In defiance of the law, he is passionately fond of boys, especially bad boys, thugs. He likes to fight, as skilled with a sword as he is a virtuoso with a brush. Sentenced to death for killing a man, he fled, wandered between Naples, Malta, and Sicily, caused further scandals, and died at the age of thirty-eight on a beach north of Rome. Murdered? Probably. By whom? We don't know. Why? Everything is mysterious in this life and in this death. It took a novelist to resurrect, beyond this fabulous era of Baroque Rome, an extraordinary temperament about whom we know nothing for sure, except that he was an absolute genius, one of the greatest painters of all time. EAN: 9782253112754 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire's L'Ingénu - M.-E. Dieval - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218744044 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais - Michel Viegnes - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218740749 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : If the Left Knew. Interviews with Georges-Marc Benamou - Michel Rocard - book Summary : If the left knew... In this unusual and fascinating face-to-face, Michel Rocard answers Georges-Marc Benamou's perilous questions without hesitation. From Mitterrand to Jospin, via the Algerian War, May '68, and Le Pen, this socialist at heart recounts, reveals, confesses, and accuses, breaking the prevailing code of silence. A magnificent lesson in political history at a time when the Socialist Party is searching for a new path. Prime Minister from 1988 to 1991, Michel Rocard is now elected to the European Parliament. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ways Out, available in Points. Georges-Marc Benamou, journalist and writer, was François Mitterrand's last confidant. "Michel Rocard has lost none of his verve. Better still: biting and enjoyable." The Parisian Expanded edition with a previously unpublished interview in which Michel Rocard looks at current events: Jacques Chirac's referendum on Europe, institutions, and Ségolène Royal's presidential candidacy. EAN: 9782757803783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kindness Manual - Hornby Nick - book Summary : In her forties, exhausted by her grueling job as a doctor and a marriage that has lost all flavor, Kate decides to file for divorce. Hoping to keep her, David, her husband, will then change radically: reconnecting with his youthful ideals, the irascible man becomes a model of kindness, preaching the redistribution of wealth and taking in the homeless. Destabilized by this sudden change and these initiatives as generous as they are clumsy, Kate finds herself facing a new and explosive situation... At what point do you become a good person and how far can you go to remain so? In this multifaceted comedy, Nick Hornby tackles political correctness and questions what makes a couple strong. "Nick Hornby has a unique sense of phrasing and a knack for making situations that are not at all comical." Olivia de Lamberterie, She EAN: 9782264051936 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Twilight Child - Warren Adler - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266038508 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Day of the Bees - Thomas Sanchez - book Summary : In The Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez evokes the violence of despair and the elegiac grandeur of two lives transformed by love and exile. An American art history professor travels to Europe to discover why a famous Spanish painter abandoned this beautiful French woman, who was none other than his muse, in Provence during the Second World War. He thus accidentally unearths a secret buried for half a century: this carefully preserved oath, this spell tinged with eroticism that has resisted everything, even death. Two lovers caught in the infernal machine of history, whose universe implodes under the ferocity of their passion, while at the same time the outside world explodes under the blow of global war. Exploring both occupied France, the stories of the resistance fighters fighting in the shadows, and the painter's contemporary retreat on the island of Majorca, the American professor uncovers a passionate love affair that cannot be separated from art and politics. He finds himself at the heart of a mystery that forces him to probe the enigma of his own desire, from which it emerges that History is written as much by those who love as by those who fight. EAN: 9782070425211 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Diamond as Big as the Ritz - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - book Summary : In Fitzgerald's eyes, Hemingway said, the rich were a special breed, surrounded by a mysterious prestige. All his life, the author of "The Gatsby" searched for his "Diamond as Big as the Ritz," the title of the disturbing and delicious masterpiece that opens this collection of short stories. In this fairy tale, in which we see a poor young man enter, at his own risk, a fabulous estate with halls of sapphires and mountains of diamonds, how can we fail to recognize the central theme of his entire work? The thirty short stories collected by his friend and contemporary Malcolm Cowley constitute the most representative part of the art of the extravagant, melancholic, and tender Fitzgerald. Behind the glitter of the Roaring Twenties, we glimpse the extraordinary and sad destiny of the great jazz-age entertainer, hero and martyr of the "Lost Generation." EAN: 9782266062954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island of Muettes - Bachellerie - book Summary : Five kilometers by two. We quickly go around this island. Only tourists find it beautiful. The idiots! You can see they don't live here. And then the wind. Always the wind. It's the wind that drives people crazy here. This winter alone, three suicides. Now a series of murders. Maybe because it's spring. Savage murders, murders full of blood. Crazy murders, really. Murdered Mother Le Garrec. To steal her money. Murdered the kid Gaétane. And raped for extra weight. Five kilometers by two. And the wind, always the wind. It's no life. EAN: 9782702416136 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Unfinished Waltz - Catherine Clément - book Summary : In 1874, at the Redoute ball in Vienna, a young and attractive foreign affairs official waltzes with a masked woman. It's love at first sight. She says her name is Gabrielle. Franz will never see his stranger again. He will receive letters and poems from her. Only sixty years later will he learn the truth. In the meantime, Austria will have experienced a sparkling and dramatic history, the cultural apogee of Vienna, the syphilis epidemic, scandals and suicides, the collapse of the Empire in the First World War... It is from real events - the poems and letters have come down to us - that Catherine Clément unfolds this moving historical and romantic fresco, revealing one of the best-kept secrets of the unknown woman at the Redoute ball: the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth, Sissi. Catherine Clément knows how to teach history by captivating us with stories. We have rarely experienced such joyful celebration and study. Jean-François Josselin, Le Nouvel Observateur. EAN: 9782253139423 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Three Fat Ladies of Antibes - Somerset Maugham - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266014328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Group rate - Hugues Pagan - book Summary : Group Rate, Pagan's eighth novel, airs the factory's dirty laundry—police in internal jargon. The sight of a fast-food dumpster would probably be more appetizing. This cop with the blues doesn't do innuendo. His ex-inspector Chess knows them inside out, these guys who practice the methods of organized crime, under the mask of truth and justice. Cops who gorge themselves: 50 grand on a drug deal. The most sinister crook in history ordered the murder of a prostitute. Why? For nothing. Because she never agreed to have sex with him. She was found dead and tortured in the worst way. Case closed. Chess stirs up the mud. In the end, in this camp, crime pays." (Sylvaine Pasquier, "L'Express") EAN: 9782743607968 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Patience, volume 1 - The House of Others - Bernal Clavel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277125228 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor - book Summary : November 1847. Fleeing a dying Ireland where famine is wreaking more havoc every day, hundreds of Irish people have sold their last possessions to board The Star of the Sea , hoping to start a new life in America. About fifteen privileged people share the first-class cabins, while below, the steerage passengers try to survive a crossing haunted by hunger and disease. Among them, a mysterious man, nicknamed the Ghost, wanders the ship every night, bent under the weight of the terrible mission entrusted to him... Mixing historical documents (letters from Irish immigrants, press articles) and fictional documents (the captain's log, letters and songs from passengers), The Star of the Sea has the breath of great masterpieces. "When we told you that there are adventures from which one does not return with impunity! This magnificent and nightmarish crossing aboard the Star of the Seas attests to it. The crossing of a truly great novel." Frédéric Vitoux, The New Observer EAN: 9782264046741 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song for One Who Desires to Live Volume 1 - Heq - Jørn Riel - book Summary : With this first part of the cycle The Song for One Who Desires to Live , Jørn Riel transports us to the immemorial times of the first humans. Humanity then spread across the five continents, and Heq and his clan migrated to Greenland through the Canadian Far North. During a glacial epic, a fabulous ethnological fresco punctuated by bear hunts and evening gatherings. EAN: 9782264030436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : If You Really Loved Me - Ann Rule - book Summary : Linda Brown, the young and beautiful wife of a millionaire computer scientist, is found dead in her bedroom, shot twice in the heart. The police arrest her fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Cinnamon, who confesses to the murder and pleads guilty. Despite the teenager's confession, investigator Jay Newell and deputy district attorney Jeoffrey Robinson remain convinced of her innocence. Their curiosity and combined efforts will uncover a heinous plot, at the risk of their own lives... EAN: 9782253171966 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Shoulder Defect - Béatrice Bourrier - book Summary : Devastated by the death of his wife, Ruben knows that life must go on at the farmhouse in Midian... So he takes his son to the donkey fair that takes place every year in town. He meets a woman in tears, broken by the loss of her fiancé, who was the victim of a motorcycle accident. She is lost, broken from her family, and penniless. Ruben is incapable of leaving a troubled soul without coming to their aid. So, like his father, who had taken in a mute orphaned girl years earlier, he brings Rita back to the farmhouse. But the stranger's arrival changes the atmosphere in the house and turns the lives of the entire family upside down, starting with that of this solid man, attached to the values ​​of the land. He has no idea that happiness can take unexpected paths and that passion will carry him to hitherto unknown lands. In this gripping thriller, two fascinating female characters confront each other. Béatrice Bourrier once again delivers a powerful and incredibly moving book that sweeps the reader away on a captivating adventure. With refined writing, this is a novel about the power and explosion of emotions. EAN: 9782848864969 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book Summary : Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary. EAN: 9782253128946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bad Blood - Sarah Cohen-Scali - book Summary : I wasn't always a monster. It was my job that transformed me. Let me explain: a doctor must fight pain. He controls it, doses it, plays with it. And one day we realize that we delight in the spectacle of suffering. EAN: 9782081613478 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Revenant - Michael PUNKE - book Summary : United States, 1823. During an expedition across the Great Plains, trapper Hugh Glass is attacked by a grizzly bear. Disfigured and his body torn to pieces, Hugh is entrusted to two volunteers tasked with watching over him until his death and then burying him. But his keepers decide to abandon the wounded man. In the middle of Indian territory, alone, unarmed, and exhausted, Glass survives. His only motivation: revenge. Thus begins the legend of Hugh Glass: the story of an extraordinary man who travels 5,000 kilometers, from South Dakota to Nebraska, to find those who betrayed him. A most judicious adventure novel, a fiction carried by an equally judicious inspiration. Hubert Artus, Lire . It is Jeremiah Johnson And The Count of Monte Cristo together, in the snowy forests of Missouri. François Forestier, Le Nouvel Observateur EAN: 9782253095125 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Left No Longer Has the Right to Make Mistakes - Michel Rocard, Pierre Larrouturou - book Summary : Who can believe that the crisis is over? While unemployment and precariousness are reaching unprecedented levels, François Hollande and the entire Socialist Party are banking on the return of growth to reduce them. However, the country will undoubtedly be marked by a very clear worsening of the crisis... Is the left in power doomed to disappoint? What are the dangers that threaten us and what can be the solutions? Our systems are increasingly interdependent. For the worse, but also for the better: the domino effect could play a role in emerging from the crisis. Michel Rocard and Pierre Larrouturou are holding the French and European left to face up to its responsibilities and putting forward very concrete proposals. EAN: 9782290081778 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Delhi - Khushwant Singh - book Summary : In this novel, I have tried to tell the story of Delhi from its origins to the present day. History provided me with the skeleton. I covered it with flesh and injected it with blood and a generous dose of semen. It took me twenty-five years to achieve this. I poured into it everything I was as a writer: love, desire, sex, hatred, revenge, violence, and, above all, tears. My sole ambition was to share with my readers what I learned about this city from its ruins, its crowded bazaars, its diplomatic corps, and its cocktail parties. I only wanted them to get to know Delhi and love it as much as I do. EAN: 9782809701876 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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