Title : The House of Return - Jean-Paul Kauffmann - book Summary : Upon returning from three years of captivity in Lebanon, in a trance-like state, the narrator discovers Les Tilleuls, a house lost in the heart of the Landes forest. He decides to buy this property to dispel the memory of his imprisonment. A strange bond of dependence will be created with this residence, which symbolizes the return to the world of the living. In a total, almost pagan fusion with the nature of which he has been so deprived, the narrator camps out amidst the work. He delights in this transitional atmosphere specific to convalescence, this in-between that confusingly separates the end of the ordeal from the return to humankind. A series of unequally picturesque characters parades past: two taciturn and enigmatic workers, the indefinable real estate agent, an architect always in a hurry... Will this house be the place of resurrection? Twenty years later, Jean-Paul Kauffmann evokes his captivity. Allusively. With elegance, he has chosen to avoid being serious for the most part. Never complacent or victim-like, it is on the contrary a jubilant testimony to the joy of being alive, to the refusal of fatality which resists all trials. EAN: 9782070349111 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Freshwater Sharks - Heinrich Steinfest - book Summary : A man's corpse floats in a swimming pool on the roof of a Viennese building. He's missing a leg; he was torn to pieces by a shark... No sign of a shark, just a hearing aid recovered from the bottom of the water. It sounds like a bad joke, but it takes more than that to unnerve Inspector Lukastik. A fervent reader of the philosopher Wittgenstein and a fan of twelve-tone music, this surprising character, who dines on soup every evening at his parents' house and never stubs out his cigarettes, flouts conventions and makes a point of exasperating his superiors. Who else but him could investigate such a strange case? EAN: 9782070444915 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : September 11, my love - Luc Lang - book Summary : On September 11, 2001, Luc Lang traveled to the depths of Montana, following in the footsteps of the Blackfeet Indians. It was there, on the reservation where friends had welcomed him, that he discovered on television the images of the Twin Towers being hit by planes. The horror of the attacks would initially leave far behind the traveler's dreams and questions, upsetting all his writing projects and even his outlook on the world. However, little by little, a narrative on two levels would take shape and impose itself. Current events, of course, with the pathetic voices of the victims found on cell phone messages, the absurdity of the images that scrolled in a loop, the President's devastated face learning what had just happened... But also America. The America of before, that of the Indian genocide, of Hiroshima, of Vietnam. Today's America, its hamburgers, its SUVs, its dollars, its preachers, and its intellectuals. A terrified America... its response. A novelist and winner of the Goncourt des lycéens prize, Luc Lang takes on a major challenge here: to confront the event, without pretense, without hindsight. And to challenge, with it, literature itself. EAN: 9782253108658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And Only Dust Will Remain - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : In two years, four couples have disappeared in the Williamsburg area. Their cars were found, and, several weeks later, their remains... Too little, in truth, for Kay Scarpetta to determine the cause of death. But this time, everything will change: the student who was driving with her boyfriend in a Jeep Cherokee is the daughter of one of the most powerful women in the United States, number one in the fight against drugs, who is determined to move heaven and earth to solve this disappearance. Breathless suspense and all the rigor of police procedure: here we find the subtle combination that made the success of Patricia Cornwell, winner of the Edgar Poe Award and the Adventure Novel Prize. EAN: 9782253114093 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What Roses Live By - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Twice, within weeks of each other, Kerry McGrath makes a disturbing observation: Dr. Smith, a plastic surgeon, gives his patients the face of Suzanne, a young woman murdered a few years earlier. Kerry, then an assistant district attorney, had convicted her husband... But when, seized by doubts, she wants to reopen the case, no one seems to want to, neither her boss, nor her ex-husband, nor even her old friend, Senator Hoover... Soon, Kerry will have to fear for her own life and that of her little girl if she wants to discover the truth. This novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the thirteenth since The Night of the Fox (Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980), is second to none of its predecessors. Crime, threat, and suspense go hand in hand with a laser-like analysis of the psychology of crime... EAN: 9782253143772 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hungarian - Eric Holder - book Summary : Everything about her was imbued with a kind of benevolent weariness, that withdrawal mixed with gentleness that one sees in those who have lived." On the occasion of the funeral of his friend Claude, Éric, a writer, remembers their friendship, and the confidences that the latter shared with him about his life. A young doctor from Bordeaux, broken by his years of war in Algeria, Claude met a mysterious Hungarian family who changed his destiny, Viktor and his two daughters, Véra and Ibolya. For Véra, whom he loved passionately, he left his wife and child. In a musical language, Éric Holder weaves a tale of fascinating power that explores the cracks of deeply endearing people. EAN: 9782290333372 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Germinal - Émile Zola - book Summary : One of the great strikes of the 19th century recounted by a genius journalist who made it an indictment, a formidable "J'accuse" against capital, the novel of class struggle and working-class misery. A book of night, violence, and blood, but which leads to the hope of a new world when the hero, Étienne Lantier, leaving the mine "as a reasoning soldier of the revolution," feels a "black, vengeful army... whose germination would soon shatter the earth" growing around him. Germinal marks the awakening of the working world to the awareness of its rights, and it was to the constantly repeated cry of "Germinal! Germinal!" that the delegation of miners from Denain accompanied Zola's funeral procession through the streets of Paris. EAN: 9782070370016 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History Volume 1 - - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501003681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marie-Tempête - Janine Boissard - book Summary : After years of unclouded happiness, Marie Delaunay's life is shattered when her husband, Pierre, a fishing skipper, tragically disappears at sea. She finds herself alone with her children and the trawler's debts to pay. So, in Pierre's memory and to save their boat, which was threatened by the bankers, she decides to take over. A female fisherman—and skipper!—was never seen before in a small Breton port. Marie encountered hostility from the fishermen and her children. But through courage, tenacity, and her skills, she managed to gain acceptance and respect. It was then that fate decided to turn on her again... EAN: 9782266091589 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Theater volume 2 - Jean Racine - book Summary : The Romantics were offended by this theater without images. To prefer the narrative to the stage exhibition of great murders and great miracles, they believed that this was to flee from difficulty: on the contrary, it was to seek it out, since it was to refuse the help of the physical and the sensitive, of the director and the stagehand, of the lights, the colors, the agitation, of the actor and the spectator himself. The author assumes the entire burden of the drama." Thierry Maulnier, Racine. EAN: 9782080700377 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Reification - Joseph Gabel - book Summary : When men become instruments, when human activities do not have utilitarian ends... EAN: 9782844853233 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Golden Head - Paul Claudel - book Summary : Tête d'Or is a drama written at the age of twenty, in the violence and passion of a youth eager for independence and power, eager to assert itself, conscious of its strength and devoured by desires, revolted against social burdens and the mediocrity of existence. It is the spiritual combat of a heart overwhelmed by sadness and boredom, but thirsty for truth and life, torn between its rationalist convictions and the revelation of the supernatural. It is the search for and the claim of a happiness always threatened by failure and death. Under the fiction of a heroic drama, with flamboyant poetry, saturated with classical memories and biblical references, it is a myth illustrating the eternal and invincible aspiration of man for a joy refused in this world and expected from divine Grace. EAN: 9782070363087 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Are we going to be happy? - Pierrette Fleutiaux - book Summary : This tender and relentless novel intersects the trajectories of two teenagers. Robin is a little French boy living in New York. He desperately wants to be "normal," that is, American. Beauty is born in Miami into a family of prosperous merchants where, alas, she bears no resemblance to what one would expect of a little American girl. An awkward and secretive child, she will undergo a stunning metamorphosis. In the story of the Carel family and the Berg family, there is a "tale of two cities" side, as Dickens would say. We discover the delights and poisons of the American dream, whether in Manhattan or in the posh neighborhoods of Florida. It is the children who rush to the aid of the distraught adults, before having to face in Paris, in a new exile, the weight of what they had wanted to ignore: an environment and a past they can no longer escape. EAN: 9782070400805 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cow's Milk - Deceptive Whiteness - Anne Laroche-Walter - book Summary : The question: Is cow's milk, intended for the calf that gains one kilogram per day for 6 months, suitable for babies and humans, the only mammal to feed on the milk of another species? The answer: Numerous studies have led doctors, hygienists, and researchers to suspect the harmfulness of cow's milk and to consider it a food not specific to humans, responsible for numerous pathologies. This idea overturns what medicine thought it knew, clashes with our beliefs and our emotional relationship with milk, and makes it difficult to take a new look at this food and the dietary changes that result from it. But for many, health comes at this price. Iridologist, nutritionist from the CEHMN (European College of Naturopathy), author of numerous articles and books on healthy living. EAN: 9782883531444 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Anno Domini - George Steiner - book Summary : Under the violence of the effort, his head was sunk into his shoulders as if he were wearing armor, and with each step, beads of sweat beaded at the edge of his red hair. The pain, as well as the constant attention he paid to his precarious balance, clouded his gaze so much that his eyes had taken on an indefinable gray tint. But when, setting his suitcase on the ground, he caught his breath while leaning on his cane like a heron on its long legs, then his eyes regained their natural color, a hard blue. His face, with its thin mouth and delicate bone structure, clashed with his contorted gait. The man was handsome, but of a weary beauty. EAN: 9782070384679 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Evil Eye - Jason Goodwin - book Summary : 1839: The young Abdülmecid succeeds Sultan Mahmut II as head of the Ottoman Empire. The new sultan's inexperience quickly sparks greed and threatens the region's political stability. Surrounded by the Russians and Egyptians, the empire must defend its territory. Amid the plots, Hachim, loyal to the grand vizier, is tasked with investigating a mysterious murder in a Christian monastery. His trail leads him to the heart of power, into the sensual and burning atmosphere of the Sultan's harem, a world apart, governed by fear, ambition and superstition and where certain women are struck by an inexplicable illness... EAN: 9782264060297 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Victoria System - Eric Reinhardt - book Summary : David Kolski is the construction manager of the future tallest tower in France. Insurmountable delays, incessant pressure: he lives only in an emergency. As he prepares for dinner with his family for once, his gaze is caught by a woman of austere elegance, the radiance of a queen. She is Victoria, ambitious and intelligent, beautiful and independent. Director of human resources for a multinational, she manages her life as well as that of her employees. Will the lovers be able to face the demands of their desire? Through the story of a devouring passion, Éric Reinhardt brilliantly continues the study of our contemporary era. A chronicle of an increasingly violent world of work, The Victoria System is a captivating work, where sensuality mixes as much with pleasure as with subjugation. EAN: 9782070446827 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Blue, white, red, volume 2 - Mathilde - Max Gallo - book Summary : From 1848 to the Great War, six families experienced the century's great upheavals. Maximilien Forestier, having become a Marshal of the Empire, chose the cause of the people. At the other end of the spectrum, amidst the pomp of the "imperial festival," the Dussert banker clan continued to grow richer. Then the regime fell, France capitulated. Paris was covered in barricades. After the parenthesis of the Commune, the young republic continued its march, shaken by the Panama scandal and the Dreyfus affair. Once again, everyone chose sides. Pierre Machecoul, who put his pen to the service of royalists like Joseph de Taurignan, Antoine Forestier, Clemenceau's companion, Mathilde, the daughter of the people who climbed the steps of notoriety... So many destinies that intertwine to weave a story that is ours. EAN: 9782266101721 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Pleasure of Honor - Luigi Pirandello - book Summary : Pirandello invites the spectator to witness what is generally hidden from him: what happens on stage when the room is empty; what happens in the mind of the director grappling with the characters entrusted to him; and even more, everything that happens in the heart of an author when characters are imposed on him, and he feels them stronger than he is. EAN: 9782070370634 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ladies' Compartment - Anita Nair - book Summary : One day, Akhila decides to travel to the southern tip of India, where the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arabian Sea meet, to take stock of a life she feels she hasn't lived. On the train to her destination, she meets her fellow travelers, with whom she will share the intimacy of a ladies' compartment for an entire night. Through their confidences about their lives filled with renunciations, frustrations, and sometimes rebellion, Akhila seeks the answers to the questions she asks herself: does a woman need a man to feel fulfilled? How can she become master of her destiny again? There is no doubt that, for the author, the compartmentalization of Indian society is uncannily similar to that of a train: "one compartment is permanently reserved for women; it can be comfortable, provided they don't leave it." (Michel Grisolia, L'Express) EAN: 9782877307475 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mexican Whistling Duck - James Crumley - book Summary : And here we go again for CW Sughrue, the unforgettable private eye already encountered in The Last Kiss, Crumley's equally legendary novel. We don't forget the town of Meriwether, Montana, after accompanying his characters. Sughrue, this time, is tasked by a pair of giant twins with recovering rare tropical fish from a deadbeat known to all for having, one day, chewed a cop's nose before swallowing it. A nice little guy, this Norman the Freak! A bit of a biker leader too, from the worst gang in the country. Nothing serious for Sughrue, who has seen it all. Norman, for sure, will politely return the little wonders with the right amount of clear water... It's just a trifle, a hectic prelude... The improbable is elsewhere. Somewhere. In this immense country that Sughrue will once again cross in search of a mother... EAN: 9782070420537 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nails in the Heart - Danielle Thiéry - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2013 "There are things that ruin your life... they stay with you, stuck in your heart like a nail that a bad joker would enjoy manipulating..." Worn down by his excesses and illness, Commander Revel spits blood and his hatred of hypocrisy. Gruff, taciturn, and haughty, he rages at the unsolved cases at the Versailles PJ: suspicious deaths, disappearances... How could the truth come out of the mouth of an autistic child? His team respects the mysteries of the "boss" and, beyond the simple "truth owed to families", the complex truth of a great cop whose courage imposes death, that of others as well as his own! EAN: 9782213670706 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vino Business - Isabelle Saporta - book Summary : In the terroirs of French viticulture, behind the prestigious labels of our bottles, a merciless French Dallas is playing out, with its rivalries, visceral hatreds, intrigues, and backstabbing. A tragicomedy set against a backdrop of speculation, in which a handful of cunning and rival winemakers wage war, where the pesticides used seem far more harmful than we are led to believe, and where the classification of the great vintages remains a mystery. But shh... because our wine hides colossal stakes. A true red gold, it has become modern oil, snapped up at obscene prices by large industrialists and Asian investors under the benevolent gaze of our public services. An unprecedented investigation into one of the glories of our heritage, protected by a code of silence that resists all scandals. EAN: 9782290113202 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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