Title : Who's There? - Nata Minor - book Summary : Thousands of readers have enjoyed The Ladies' Game, and have been drawn into a fascinating shadow play where truth and falsehood, fiction and memory, seemed to merge or change roles at every moment. Here we find the protagonists, in a new game configuration. After having spoken at length about the whimsical "Mademoiselle," heroine of a thousand and one extravagant episodes, whom he served in another time, the old valet Afanassi chooses silence. How will the narrator, who feels guilty for having stolen his words and his story, now be able to learn more about this character, perhaps fictional from the start? What if the narrator, far from pulling the strings of her characters as she believes, was never anything more than their servant, or their dupe? EAN: 9782253072652 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Who Lied to Women - Carol O'CONNELL - book Summary : Lies are inherent in human nature; most are harmless, only a few are fatal. The one who struck down Amanda Bosch is unspeakable. The atypical detective Kathy Mallory must immerse herself in the cozy world of the upscale neighborhoods to try to discover her murderer. Meanwhile, Charles Butler, a lifelong friend and a fan of the paranormal, would like to help her by making Amanda's ghost speak. Kathy quickly has three suspects, specialists in manipulation on whom she practices her many talents. She senses it, the truth is not far away. But she'll have to act quickly because the murderer is ready to kill again if he feels threatened... EAN: 9782266173117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shadow of the Sun - Christelle Maurin - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2006 The King retires to Marly And from lover, he becomes husband He does what is expected of him at his age. It is the old soldier's destiny Retiring to the village To marry his old whore. Today, the underside of a sumptuous setting, a hotbed of jealousy of power. Will the mysterious assassin of the Château evade the police with impunity, terrorizing gardeners, architects, curators, and fountain engineers in succession? Behind the heavy secrets of history, they believed themselves safe from the stories. And if, at Versailles, these crimes were counted against us! EAN: 9782213615769 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It's better to lose your daughter than the elections - Anne-Valérie Noir - book Summary : On February 17, 1995, Michel Noir, my father, former Minister of Foreign Trade, former deputy mayor of Lyon, representative of the "moral generation," produced my intimate writings during his trial, after my mother had taken them from me. He hoped in this way to escape the battle that opposed him to justice. It was the culmination of a long and interminable succession of cowardice, abandonment, blows to the heart, to my memory as a child, teenager, and woman. Time has passed. It is not easy to be rejected; we all need to love and be loved. Alas, this is not the case for my father, capable of living without his daughter but never without her power. For my two children and for me, with the necessary hindsight, I wanted the truth to be written. Here is the letter I am sending to him. " Anne-Valérie Noir EAN: 9782290316061 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How do you know if you are black? - Espérance Miezi, Félicité Kindoki - book Summary : How do you know if you're black? Admit it, you've never asked yourself the question... Fortunately, thanks to this book, through observations of daily life and numerous examples, you can finally fill this gap! If this question may seem unusual, it's of course because the authors decided to answer it with humor and irony, drawing on facts they have experienced, sometimes funny, sometimes not, to talk about a so-called minority community and yet so visible: Black people! The objective of this book: to relax the zygomatic muscles while making us think. What if, after all, we weren't so different from each other? EAN: 9782290079263 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Prague Stories - Rainer Maria Rilke - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782020063784 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our children will hate us - Denis Jeambar, Jacqueline Remy - book Summary : We baby boomers are leaving our children a weak and worn-out society. The day they understand this, they will hate us. And they will be right. We thought we had invented happiness, because we had the tools in hand, yet we are leaving them debts and an uncertain future. Let us be clear-headed and launch the construction sites of the future, before it is too late! Denis Jeambar, former editorial director of The Express , is director of Editions du Seuil. He is the author of several books, including Accused Chirac, stand up! (Points). Jacqueline Rémy was editor-in-chief at The Express She is the author of several books, including We Are Irresistible, (Self)criticism of an Abusive Generation (Seuil). "A criticism which, while biting, is nonetheless lucid, constructive and, paradoxically, comforting." Le Figaro EAN: 9782757805343 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : But what are we going to do with you? - Michel Drucker - book Summary : Every evening, little Michel watches the Granville-Paris train pass by, dreaming of the day he'll board it, escaping his native Normandy. A dunce in a family where academic excellence is a sacred duty, he flees at a very young age, at seventeen, to escape his father's reproach: "But what are we going to do with you?" The rest of the story is one of exceptional success: Michel Drucker is at once a memory of the small screen, a friend of the stars, a confidant of politicians, and the most popular host on French television, the undisputed ruler of variety shows. For more than forty years, we have known his face, his inimitable tone, his humor, and his kindness. Behind the colorful encounters and anecdotes, this book reveals the cracks of a self-taught man who built his life like a long bicycle race, step by step, to prove his true worth to his loved ones. EAN: 9782266183406 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Enigmas, paradoxes and curiosities - Dhombres Pierre - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782744129766 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Optician of Lampedusa - Emma-Jane Kirby - book Summary : The optician of Lampedusa is like us. He is conscientious, worried about the future of his two sons, the survival of his small business. He is not a hero. And his story is not a fairy tale but a tragedy: the discovery of men, women, and children struggling in the water, their faces swept away by the waves, because they are fleeing their country, persecution, and tyranny. The optician of Lampedusa tells the story of the fate of the one who did not want to see. This parable tells us about the awakening of a conscience; it is an ode to humanity. EAN: 9782290149805 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From Bruises to Love - Hanif Kureishi - book Summary : In a neo-Thatcherite England where poverty serves the general standardization, the heroes of these modern tales do not surrender. Whether they are artists of failure or broken-down outsiders, all seek to exorcise one another from their misery. Even if it means bruising themselves or being seen as failures by constantly rejecting the preconceived existence of others. "Kureishi remains above all an artist, a master of open, ambiguous texts, of mysterious apologues. A one-man band whose music we love." Christophe Mercier - The Point EAN: 9782264028204 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Roses of Solitude - Jacqueline de Romilly - book Summary : This book is made of memories and reveries: it evokes familiar objects, each of which bears the trace of what was my life. Usually, we hardly see them; we are used to them, we do not pay attention. But it so happens that, sometimes, on the occasion of anything and a simple moment of attention given in passing, we rediscover a little of the memories which, over the years, have become attached to it. It is a very simple and very singular experience. I wanted to try to describe it, without changing the truth in any way; it is sometimes simple, sometimes naive, but it does not matter: for once I wanted to tell it just as it was, without inventing anything, without adding or correcting anything. EAN: 9782253122104 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History of the caviar left - Laurent Joffrin - book Summary : Suspicious because nothing explains why a bourgeois elite would rally to the causes of a people from which it did not originate, the "caviar left" irritates. Yet, from Voltaire to Kennedy, including Hugo, Keynes, and Blum, it was a major architect of social progress. Deploring its current dissolution into an aristocracy of money cut off from reality, Laurent Joffrin advocates for the re-engagement of the great men of the left in society. Editorial director of Le Nouvel Observateur, Laurent Joffrin is also a writer and producer. Passionate about history, he has written numerous novels and essays, including La Régression française, available in Points. "Laurent Joffrin traces the history of aristocrats, wealthy bourgeois, and intellectuals who took up the cause of the most humble at the risk of being denounced as traitors to their class. Fascinating." The Parisian EAN: 9782757802298 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Every Day Is a Goodbye - Followed by A Young Man Has Passed By - Alain Rémond - book Summary : The house was sold. A poorly designed house, held together by its wallpaper. It was the house of happiness, the home of childhood, the warmth of the tribe, the games in the yard, among the chickens and rabbits. But it was also the house of unhappiness... A story full of rage and modesty, a magnificent hymn to life. Alain Rémond has long held the column "My Eye" in Télérama, where he was editor-in-chief. He currently contributes to La Croix and Marianne. He is the author of four autobiographical stories: Every Day is a Farewell (2000), A Young Man Has Passed (2002), Like a Song in the Night (2003), I Walk in the Arms of Time (2006). “There are books that you know you're going to love, love very much. From the first page. The first line.” EAN: 9782757803158 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love, always! - Abbé Pierre - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782020189071 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Across the Channel - Julian Barnes - book Summary : To say that Julian Barnes loves France is to state the obvious. In his novels, his characters often cross the Channel to see what's happening in their neighbor's home, which fascinates and intrigues them so much. The ten short stories that make up Across the Channel are all set in France, where English men and women, at different times, travel, live, work, love, or even fight. Playing on the most diverse registers with his well-known skill, Barnes makes us smile, laugh, dream, and tremble in turn. EAN: 9782070410071 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fire - Henri Barbusse - book Summary : The years 1915 and 1916 were decisive for Henri Barbusse. It was in 1915 that he experienced Le Feu in the trenches of Soissonnais, Argonne and Artois, as a squad soldier, then as a stretcher-bearer in the 231st Infantry Regiment where he had enlisted. It was in 1916, during his evacuation to the hospitals, that he wrote his book. This one, published by Éditions Flammarion at the end of November, immediately won the Prix Goncourt. Considered worldwide as one of the masterpieces of war literature, it is one of the truest and most moving testimonies of front-line combatants. Le Feu is followed by Carnet de guerre which allows us to go back to the very sources of the creation of Henri Barbusse's epic novel. EAN: 9782253047414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moon Paths - André-Paul Duchâteau - book Summary : London, 1935. Charles Dickens, aged twenty-three, is then known only for his articles, published in the Evening Chronicle. Ambitious, he already senses that his talents will lead him to success... And to fortune. But it is to the Tower of London that his pen risks leading him for the moment. The corpse of a young man is found, whose assassin has reproduced in detail a murder scene that Dickens wrote... A few hours earlier, in the privacy of his bedroom. Helped by his friend Marie Tussaud, the creator of the famous wax museum, and the great caricaturist George Cruikshank, the budding writer sets out to find those plotting to bring him down. EAN: 9782702496848 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Heart in Pain - Hubert Juin, Joséphin Péladan - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782264005885 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Anonymous Ogres - Pascal Bruckner - book Summary : On his twenty-fifth birthday, Balthus Zaminski, an ogre by trade, promised his valet that he would never eat children again. This time, it was for real, he was making amends. Balthus was not one of those rude, squalling ogres of old. No, he was a gentleman, a young man from a good family who adored great music, cinema, and especially fashion. Alas, the ancestral vice could not leave him so quickly, and soon Balthus, at the sight of a brat and despite his oath, began to salivate and growl again, overcome by an irresistible appetite. So, his servant and guardian took him to consult specialists, entrusted him to a yoga teacher, and administered tranquilizers. There must be a treatment capable of curing one's master! But does one ever recover from being an ogre? Pascal Bruckner has written two children's tales for adults, combining humor and ferocity. EAN: 9782253150947 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nadja - André Breton - book Summary : From the first day to the last, I took Nadja for a free spirit, something like one of those spirits of the air that certain magical practices allow one to momentarily attach oneself to, but to whom there can be no question of submitting. I saw her fern eyes open in the morning onto a world where the wingbeats of immense hope are barely distinguishable from the other noises which are those of terror and, in this world, I had only seen eyes closing. EAN: 9782070401307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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