Title : Memoirs of a Lower Breton Peasant - Jean-Marie Deguignet - book Summary : Jean-Marie Déguignet's "Memoirs" constitute a major social and human document on rural life in the 19th century. A man among men, he nevertheless had an exceptional destiny: a farm worker in the heart of Finistère, a soldier in Lorient, engaged in the Crimean and Italian wars of the Second Empire, witness to the catastrophic Mexican adventure, a tobacconist, a pauper in Quimper, dying in a hospice. The journal he kept throughout his life remains unequaled in the annals of time. It is that of a tormented man, an anticlerical and an anarchist slayer of conservatism. A prophet too, who foresaw the destruction of traditional societies. It is in this sense that his testimony, as gripping as an adventure novel, is also a saga of the human condition. EAN: 9782266107297 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tomorrow in Santa Cecilia - Maria Duenas - book Summary : Blanca dreams of a new life. Originally from Spain, she accepts a job at Santa Cecilia University in California. There, she is in charge of organizing the archives of Andrés Fontana, a renowned professor who died thirty years ago. Why is the dean suddenly concerned about these forgotten papers? Despite herself, Blanca finds herself immersed in the secrets of a very distant past. EAN: 9782757834756 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Seen, read, heard - Driss Chraïbi - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782070418138 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crime and Rapture - Judith Summers - book Summary : Claire Green is forty years old, has a husband, four children, and is bored with a life that's too quiet, where the unexpected has no place. Until the day she witnesses a supermarket robbery by a small-time crook. Taken hostage, terrified, Claire thinks her time has come. But Eddy the robber turns out to be an excellent cook, an impeccable homemaker, and an outstanding lover... Finally, a new world opens up to her! A world where luxury and danger rub shoulders. In a word, a world where crime pays. EAN: 9782266089685 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Path in the World - Naipaul - book Summary : With painful intensity and restrained compassion, VS Naipaul reflects on his past and that of Trinidad and the Caribbean. He sees himself again, between the end of his secondary studies and his departure for England, as a clerk in the Civil Registry Archives, trying his hand at his first fictional texts. He recalls his beginnings as a writer in London, the encouragement and humiliations received from an old, fallen writer. Throughout the pages, the reader sees the narrator evolve. He accompanies the aging man as he confronts his memories with the current reality of his homeland, untangling the tangled threads of an improbable heritage. VS Naipaul orchestrates this symphony of lost and rediscovered memory with a singularly dense, rich, and varied style that lends itself wonderfully to all registers of the art of fiction. " Bruno de Cessole, Lire. EAN: 9782264025890 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sole di Corsica - Jean-Louis Andreani - book Summary : After The Salamander of Vizzavona (Black Dawn, 2004), here is the continuation of the adventures of its heroine, Delphine Mailly, the super-blonde who uses more of her brain than her charms - which she is not, however, lacking! - to carry out her new investigation/action on the island. This Corsican thriller follows Delphine and her friends' attempts to prevent the SCI Sole di Corsica from building a tourist complex in a veritable corner of paradise. Their safest bet: planting bombs! Here is a gripping and well-crafted thriller, with intoxicating scents of myrtle... EAN: 9782752601674 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Between the Meshes of the Net - Judith Kelman - book Summary : His name is Eldon Weir, aka "Crazy Ellie" or "Professor Suffering." At twelve, he murdered one of his classmates. He spent time in a reform school, then he started again. Murders with mutilation. Children. Little, skinny, blond girls... Until the day he was arrested. But, by a technicality and a twist of fate, he only served twelve years in prison. Today, he begins his parole. The authorities have planned everything: they've installed him in a small town in Vermont. "No danger!" they proclaim. He's blind, connected by some kind of leash to monitoring devices, and can't leave the property without setting off a chorus of alarms. However, shortly after his arrival, a little girl of eleven, blonde and wiry, disappears... EAN: 9782266152495 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Decameron - Boccaccio - book Summary : If, once again, storytellers are in fashion, the time has come to rediscover the first of them, Giovanni Boccaccio, who perhaps owes to the year of his birth – 1313! – one of the most brilliant literary fortunes of all time. Composed around 1350, translated throughout Europe, imitated, even plundered, for centuries, his Decameron had a posterity as prestigious as it was innumerable, from Chaucer to La Fontaine, from Molière to Potocki. Fleeing the plague that decimated Florence in 1348, seven young women and three young men found refuge in a sumptuous Tuscan villa. For ten days, punctuated by concerts, parties, and banquets, each will strive to entertain the others daily by inventing a tale. Neither emotion nor tragedy are absent from these hundred stories, but the overall tone, as we know, is rather gallantry, a gallantry that is prompt, natural, expeditious, and in any case not given to long sighs. "Anyone who wanted to reduce Boccaccio to the same modesty as Virgil would certainly do nothing worthwhile and would be sinning against decorum by taking it upon himself to observe it," remarks La Fontaine. Complete, faithful, precise, this translation has conformed to this wise advice. EAN: 9782253907022 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What Makes Jane Run? - Joy Fielding - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253076278 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Monsoon - Louis Bromfield - book Summary : That year, in Ranchipur, a semi-independent state in British India, the monsoon had been delayed. Everyone anxiously awaited the arrival of the rains, those abundant, torrential, vital downpours. Finally, they arrived! But, in living memory, no one had seen such heavy, such extravagant rains in Ranchipur. And it was horrific: an earthquake, a burst dam, and the waters of the river, swollen by the monsoon rains, destroyed most of the houses and drowned half of those who had survived the earthquake. Cholera broke out. This catastrophe would be the touchstone by which the characters of the survivors of Ranchipur, whether from the English colony or Hindus, would be revealed and measured. EAN: 9782253005216 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fortune of Alexandria - Gérald Messadié - book Summary : In the year 38 AD, Alexandria, as much and more than Rome, is the queen of the Mediterranean. All races, all gods, all thoughts rub shoulders in its palaces, its alleys, and its dives, where orgy and asceticism, science and magic, Roman administration, Levantine or Jewish trade, the cults of ancient Egypt, Greek philosophy... The disappearance of Delia, a prominent courtesan, after an attempt to poison her, will plunge the city into a whirlwind of rumors and violence. Should we blame Anaxo, the sorceress and spellcaster? Cornelia, the wife of her rich protector Alexianus? Or some religious sect, like the Essenes of Lake Mareotis, whom we know so little about and whom everyone distrusts? With the astonishing erudition and prodigious sense of storytelling that made The Man Who Became God a success, Gérarld Messadié takes us, through a true detective story, into the depths and secrets of this fascinating city, which prefigures the great megacities of today, and whose bustle, colors, scents, and figures he excels in bringing to life. Gérarld Messadié's novel is a mosaic that is both marvelous and frightening... A tidal bore, a violent surge, like the sensuality of the sublime Delia. Gilbert Sinoué, L'Express EAN: 9782253143345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm scared - Chimo - book Summary : Chimo is back. "Lila says that" has brought him a lot of money and his lawyer warns him about the dangers of the taxman. However, it is in the street that Chimo is fleeced by Mr. Dominique, a shark who beautifully conned him. Chimo loses a lot and at the same time meets a gang of small-time crooks. Led by Mona, the little whore with the nice butt, and her pimp Jean-René, Chimo enters the world of scams. Here again, his desire to write, to tell everything day by day, never leaves him. " ( ... ) An authentic, captivating fiction, fueled by extraordinary writing. " Brigitte Kernel - "Femme actuelle " EAN: 9782266083881 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Return to Cayro - Dorothy Allison - book Summary : In this unforgettable story, Dorothy Allison focuses on these existences, atrophied by not seeing the light. But isn't anger a much more powerful fertilizer than happiness for making beings grow to the sun? And her characters lack neither rage nor spite. "Return to Cayro" is a magnificent novel of breath and sand: we hear a kind of crunching of feelings that prevents us from sleeping. Ten years earlier, Delia Byrd abandoned her husband (Clint Windsor) and her two little girls (Dede and Amanda). Too many blows and too many screams. She fell in love with guitarist Randall Pritchard and joined his rock band as a singer. Settling in California, she gave birth to a third daughter named Cissy. But how many shovelfuls of dirt does it take to bury the past for good? Alcohol is a thin band-aid on the pain of her guilt. So, when she learns of Randall Pritchard's death in a motorcycle accident, her decision is made: to return to Cayro - with Cissy under her arm - and find her two other daughters." Marie-Laure Delorme, Le Journal du Dimanche. EAN: 9782264029706 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Testament of Judas - Daniel Easterman - book Summary : A prominent linguist specializing in the study of papyri and Aramaic manuscripts, Jack Gould is what one might call a man without a story until he meets Stefan Rosewicz—an enigmatic and extremely wealthy collector of ancient texts—who asks him for information about a fragment he was previously unaware of. After his brief stay with Rosewicz, Gould finds himself embroiled in strange events: the disappearance of the collector's daughter, suspicious deaths, threats... What is the connection between these dramas? Why are Scotland Yard and the Soviet secret services suddenly interested in Gould? Who is Stefan Rosewicz really? The discovery in the Russian archives of a manuscript which, if made public, would wipe out two thousand years of Christian history, could well provide Dr. Gould with the beginnings of an answer... A multiplicity of intrigues, twists and turns, a perfect knowledge of history, nervous and incisive writing... a brilliant and captivating thriller! EAN: 9782266071536 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Hidden Dimension - Edward Twitchell Hall - book Summary : The hidden dimension is that of the territory of every living being, animal or human, of the space necessary for its balance. But in humans, this dimension becomes cultural. Thus, each civilization has its own way of conceiving the movements of the body, the arrangement of houses, the conditions of conversation, the boundaries of intimacy. These comparative studies shed new light on the knowledge we can have of others and on the danger we run, in our modern cities, in ignoring this hidden dimension: perhaps it is less overpopulation that threatens us than the loss of our identity. EAN: 9782020047760 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Inca, volume 3 - The Light of Machu Picchu - Antoine B. Daniel - book Summary : They came from Spain across the seas to conquer a fabulous empire where gold adorned the temples and palaces. 170 conquistadors led by Captain Pizarro faced 80,000 astonished Incas who were unable to resist... So the Spanish took power, the gold, and settled down. But a conquistador, Gabriel, and an Inca princess with strange powers, Anamaya, have fallen in love, and the destiny of the Incas risks being changed. Anamaya wants to free her people, Gabriel is ready to leave his to see Anamaya alive. After three years of occupation, the Incas launch the offensive. This time, they are armed, while the Spanish still believe they are in conquered territory! The confrontation will be apocalyptic, with Anamaya on one side and Gabriel on the other... Which side will love fight on? EAN: 9782266116770 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The fabulous destiny of Champlain - From Brouage to Quebec - Suzanne Forisceti - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782845613317 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile - Guy Rachet - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277223481 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Scarf - Madeleine Chapsal - book Summary : A lost scarf, a man who brings it back... Love at first sight, love. And that's how Rose's life will change. In her thirties, she was happy with her two children and her husband. But Georges is no freer than she is. He has a wife, depressed, and a daughter, who needs him even more. How, for years, this man and this woman will choose a double loyalty, living between absence and furtive encounters a passion for which they do not want others to pay the price: this is what the novelist of La Maison de Jade and Une femme heureuse tells us here. "There aren't many romance novels in current literature," Rose laments in these pages. Madeleine Chapsal offers us one, clear and moving, illuminated by a tenderness stronger than time and life's obstacles. EAN: 9782253142607 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue of Bees - Laura Alcoba - book Summary : In front of the bathroom mirror, I practice pronouncing complicated words, with lots of r's, g's, and s's between two vowels that tickle the roof of my mouth. I also practice pronouncing words with u's at full speed, and even u's on their own, which I make last as long as possible." At ten years old, the heroine leaves Videla's Argentina to join her mother, who has taken refuge in France, while her father is imprisoned in La Plata. The harsh reality of exile is soon mixed with the enthusiasm of discovering a country and a language. A story told from a child's perspective, tangy, joyful, and deeply touching. EAN: 9782070465972 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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