Title : In the Spring of Monsters - Philippe Jaenada - book Summary : This story is no picnic to summarize. You have to proceed calmly. It's a true story, as they say. An eleven-year-old boy is abducted in Paris one evening in the spring of 1964. Luc Taron. (If you'd rather discover the story in the book, don't read on: stop!) His body is found the next day in a suburban forest. He was murdered for no apparent reason. For more than a month, a madman floods the media and the police with insane letters of demand, signed "The Strangler"; he even addresses vile, diabolical, cruel words to the child's horrified parents. He is finally arrested. He is an ordinary young man, a nurse. He confesses to the murder, is incarcerated, and ostracized from society for the rest of his life. End of story. But of course, if it were that simple, I wouldn't have spent four years writing this big thing (I'm not crazy). In this nascent society that will become ours, everything is murky, everything is artificial. Everyone fakes, lies, cheats. Except for one woman, a point of light. And what we knew is confirmed: the perverts, the madmen, the odious, the monsters are not often those we point to. EAN: 9782080238184 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Virginian - Barbara Chase-Riboud - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253029274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Humboldt's Gift Volume 1 - Saul Bellow - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253028840 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Did you say Serrault? - Michel Serrault - book Summary : Michel Serrault tells his story. For the first time, he undertakes this long-awaited journey through his memories, and shares with us his emotions, his joys, his rants and his bursts of laughter. Let's go behind the scenes of an exceptional career, with his partners Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Aznavour and Sophie Marceau... Let's discover those who have left a lasting impression on him: Les Fratellini, Les Branquignols, Sacha Guitry, Michel Simon... Let's follow him on the sets of "Le Viager", "Garde à vue", "Docteur Petiot", on the sets of Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Michel Audiard and Mathieu Kassovitz... A fireworks display of some 200 films and plays that have established Michel Serrault in a prominent place in the hearts of the French. Let's listen to the intimate song of a rare and magnificent friendship with Jean Poiret, from the delirious duo of the beginnings to the fabulous adventure of "La cage aux folles", and finally let's set off on unforgettable trips in the company of Jean Carmet, Francis Blanche, Louis de Funès, Darry Cowl, meeting colorful characters... Between laughter and tears, Michel Serrault gives us this great film never written before: the book of his life. EAN: 9782266116152 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Mint Lollipops - Robert Sabatier - book Summary : Olivier, the little boy in Swedish Matches , has left his beloved rue Labat to live with his uncle. For the child, this means a change of planet. The bourgeois world, the opulent apartment, and the Desrousseaux family's high society life surprise and disconcert him. Olivier has difficulty fitting in. But such is life, and soon he will realize that his curiosity is constantly aroused. Who is Uncle Henri really? And Aunt Victoria? There are also the cousins, the two maids, and, since we entertain a lot, a whole host of comical, grandiose or ridiculous characters. And then, and above all, the streets of Paris, the Canal Saint-Martin, the astonishing Grands Boulevards, their mysterious passages, their theaters, their cinemas, their music halls... Three Mint Lollipops , a marvelous sequel to Swedish Matches , revives a way of life, a thousand forgotten facts, a whole celebration of life which appears, from page to page, in a universe of truth and poetry. EAN: 9782253034919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of Low Tide - Chantal Thomas - book Summary : Swimming. Swimming to escape constraints, to escape imposed lives, reduced destinies. Swimming to invent her sensuality, to preserve her fantasy. This is what Jackie undoubtedly felt all her life, which began in 1919 and was led according to a secret, stubborn freedom, which made her, at a very advanced age, travel miles to go swimming on her favorite beach, in Villefranche-sur-Mer. In the meantime, she had married, left Lyon for Arcachon, and then, as a young widow, had exchanged Cap Ferret for Cap Ferrat, with its warmer sea, its great summer. What did she leave to her daughter Chantal? Something untamed, or discreetly rebellious, and this intuition that swimming, this practice that leaves no trace, is the opportunity for an elusive freedom, like when, as a young girl in the early 1930s, Jackie casually swam a few lengths in the Grand Canal at the Palace of Versailles under the astonished gaze of the gardeners. EAN: 9782757871553 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fifth Secret - Joanna Hines - book Summary : Jane finds it hard to admit, but her life is slowly falling apart. Her marriage to the handsome Owen is floundering: they are desperately short of money and, despite two adorable children, have almost stopped communicating. Perhaps the young woman has never truly recovered from the tragic death, ten years ago, of Lucien, her beloved brother? A painful past now rekindled by this terrible news: Esme, a childhood friend, has just fallen into a coma following a brutal attack. One ghost calls another: Jane receives a disturbing nighttime phone call from Rob, a childhood companion who mysteriously reappears! Eager to shake up her monotonous existence, Jane delves into her childhood memories. The truth will be particularly painful... EAN: 9782266118774 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lover - Guy Des Cars - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277231929 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Masterfully - Morris West - book Summary : From Florence to New York, behind the scenes of the art market gripped by the fever of profit... Upon dying, the heiress of a prominent Florentine family allows her lover, a young art historian named Maxwell Mather, to choose what he wants from the precious family archives. However, he discovers unknown paintings by a great Renaissance master. How can he appropriate these works without provoking violent protests from the legal heirs? Compromised at the same time in a dark story of murder, Mather will deploy a Machiavellian plan. The author of The Devil's Advocate and The Second Victory, himself a collector and owner of art galleries in Australia, gives us here a thriller with surprising current accents. EAN: 9782253058199 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dying in Frankfurt - Hubert Monteilhet - book Summary : A respectable university professor publishes penny-pinching novels under a pseudonym. To get out of a contract, he brings his publisher a forgotten, barely retouched story by Abbé Prévost. But this plagiarism meets with enormous, unexpected success. Meanwhile, one of his former students, a rigorous and naive young woman who works at the National Library, discovers the deception. The story ends in the overheated atmosphere of the Frankfurt Fair, where foreign publishers are passionate about this bestseller with secrets. Winner of the Grand Prix for detective literature for The Praying Mantes, Hubert Monteilhet takes us here from comedy to drama, with the humor, brilliant erudition, and skill of intrigue that have earned him the favor of a huge audience since Néropolis. EAN: 9782253058014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventurers - Pierre Bellemare, Jacques Antoine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253023852 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Four Englishmen on the Continent - The Beauty of Siena - Bronwyn Scott - book Summary : In Siena, Paris or Venice, the English lords cause scandal. Italy, 1835 By moving to Siena, where his mother is from, Archer fully intended to devote himself entirely to his passion: horse breeding. But his mind is captivated by the beautiful Italian woman with whom he exchanged passionate kisses the day he arrived, during the famous Palio horse race. He soon finds her in Siena's high society, only to learn that she is engaged to a rival of his family. Against his will, moreover, something Archer cannot accept... About the author: Bronwyn Scott first gained attention with a medieval short story. Since then, between her university classes and her beloved family outings, she's been creating captivating and humorous love stories. EAN: 9782280347747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Passing Hero - Patrick Poivre d'Arvor - book Summary : At nine years old, a small peasant from Auvergne born to an unknown father, intoxicated by images of the Napoleonic epic, Alexandre swore to conquer glory. Having amassed a small nest egg in the region's factories, he arrived in the Paris of Louis-Philippe... Lively, audacious, and seductive, he managed to slip into the world of journalism, ruled by Emile de Girardin, the magnate of the popular, high-circulation press. He rubbed shoulders with celebrities, Hugo, Liszt, Gautier, and Nerval, and seduced the most prominent women of Parisian society and demi-mondaine. With the revolution of 1848, a political career opened up to his ambition. Yet it is a shattered destiny, a story of tragically lost illusions, that these feverish, romantic pages tell us, buzzing with balls, duels, intrigues, riots. Pages where the star journalist, author of Les Enfants de l'aube and Lettres à l'absente, seems to speak to us in a low voice about his own wounds. EAN: 9782253144021 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Master of the Ghost Dream - Mudrooroo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782876787384 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Praise of Lies - Patricia Melo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782290323229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 24 Hours to Become a Wine Expert - Jancis Robinson - book Summary : Is it possible to become a wine expert in 24 hours? Jancis Robinson, the renowned British wine critic and official advisor to Queen Elizabeth II's wine cellar, has taken on this crazy challenge and invites you to follow a simple and effective approach: How to choose a bottle? How to taste? How to pair wine and food? Which wines for which occasions? How much should you put in a bottle? Punctuated with tasting exercises and practical advice, this little guide to take everywhere is a summary of everything you need to know about wine! EAN: 9782100779727 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Comedian - William Somerset Maugham - book Summary : From The Comedian, a portrait of the greatest artist of the 1920s, a hugely successful play, Adorable Julia, was made. Today's reader doesn't care who this Julie Lambert was, but he or she is touched by the romantic mystery of this life: a monster of selfishness or a modern woman who, fifty years before the liberation of their sexes, plays her part alone to win? The author of The Razor's Edge leaves us to decide the answer. EAN: 9782264004215 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ladies of Pontignac - Pierre Rétier - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782848864570 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thirteen Strange Tales - Vincent Ravalec - book Summary : There was a meaning to all this and Topin and Lolotte were hiding and watching him, it was a kind of test to see how he would behave, how he was able to face the darkest adversity. There was a meaning to all this. Topin and Lolotte wanted to show him something, something secret [...]. " A tramp in the role of the surprise guest for Christmas, a first day at school seen by a myopic child without glasses, a conference on time that turns into the Foire du Trône, a writer who sees letters floating in the air... So many strange and delicious little tales - thirteen, of course - concocted by Vincent Ravalec. From misfortunes to burlesque adventures, he paints the human comedy in the 1990s version, in the satirical style that established him as one of the best modern painters of the end of the century. EAN: 9782290309988 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Complete Theater - Volume 2 - Aristophanes - book Summary : Through laughter, Aristophanes brings the joy of carnivalesque utopias into the confines of theaters. In The Birds, men weary of earthly bickering join the city of birds to found a new kingdom and compete with the gods for the aroma of sacrifices. On the other hand, it is the world of men that the women of Lysistrata contest: seeing no end to the war, they begin a sex strike, asserting the rights of love and pleasure against the devastation of weapons. The women's chorus of Thesmophoria will extend this hedonistic plea by ridiculing Euripides' misogyny. And that of The Assembly of Women will impose the reign of femininity, by realizing the community of goods that men have contented themselves with dreaming of. As an actor, Aristophanes takes the side of the overthrown orders and enthusiastically joins the joyful procession of rebellious women. Two-volume edition. EAN: 9782070377909 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Other People's Children - Torey Hayden - book Summary : These children are not like the others: Boo, the seven-year-old boy whose mind is absent and who speaks only to repeat the weather reports like a parrot. Lori, also seven, who cannot learn to read because her father fractured her skull and damaged her brain. Tomaso, ten, who plays tough to forget that he saw his stepmother kill his father and brother. Finally, Claudia, shy, secretive. She is twelve years old and pregnant. These four damaged children were gathered in Torey Hayden's class because no one knew what to do with them. Day after day, Torey will try to reassure them, to help them. Above all, she will love them. And we, too, will be overwhelmed by Boo, Lori, Tomaso, and Claudia. As if they were not other people's children but our own. EAN: 9782277225430 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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