Title : Don't Forget My Little Shoes - Joseph Connolly - book Summary : In this vitriolic satire of contemporary life and morals, we find the characters of Vacances anglaises, a few months after the events of the previous summer, around a traditional Christmas meal. And this holiday season will prove to be daunting for each of them: adventures, adultery, dramas and torrid love stories from which no one will emerge unscathed... After the memorable English Holidays, Joseph Connolly returns with this novel, which highlights with incredible linguistic verve the frustrations, guilty fantasies, and identity problems of British society. Emotion, acid humor, and a series of disasters are all on the menu! EAN: 9782020551328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Desert of Love - François Mauriac - book Summary : Grand Prix for novels from the French Academy 1926 One evening, in a bar, Raymond Courrèges meets Maria Cross by chance, a woman to whom, as a teenager, he showed an ardent and clumsy passion, whom she rejected. In Raymond's memories, which Maria's face brings back to life, we soon discover other shadows, other wounds, such as the ambiguous rivalry of a father and a son for the same woman. It was at the age of forty that François Mauriac published this novel, a disillusioned observation of the sterility of human passions, a melancholic illustration, in the revelry of Paris in the 1920s, of Pascal's theme of the misery of man without God. "The Desert of Love," he wrote, "is the novel of my renunciation. It could be the title of my entire work." EAN: 9782253012344 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Calm chaos - Sandro Veronesi - book Summary : Femina Prize - Foreign Novel 2008 Pietro Paladini is motionless. In the eye of the storm. He no longer leaves his car, parked outside his daughter's school in Milan. This attractive forty-something, whom life had spared, has just lost his wife, Lara. He waits to suffer, but it's not so easy to feel the loss. Friends and strangers come to talk to him, to hug him, to share this suspended time, this "calm chaos" where he now takes refuge. Work colleagues on the eve of an unprecedented financial merger, an opium-smoking brother, a sister-in-law who strips off in the middle of a nervous breakdown—all at one point drop their masks. All renounce social comedy. From this situation worthy of Beckett, Sandro Veronesi constructs a moving, expansive, masterfully woven novel: a blend of the intimate at its most vibrant and the real at its most disturbing. In the wake of a hero who is in no way heroic, eminently contemporary and furiously endearing. Jeanne de Ménibus, Madame Figaro. EAN: 9782253127451 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Netherland - Joseph O'Neill - book Summary : In the aftermath of September 11th, the life of Hans, a financial analyst, is in the same state of ruin as New York. Becoming paranoid, his wife left him to take refuge in London with their young son. Hans has since led a lazy existence. Until the day he meets Chuck. A lifelong friendship will bind him to this strange businessman, whose dream is to launch the cricket trend in New York... Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland in 1964. Formerly a lawyer in London, he has lived in New York for over ten years. Netherlands , the author's first novel to be published in France, received the Pen/Faulkner Award. “Superb, serious and enchanting.” Télérama PEN/Faulkner Award 2009 EAN: 9782757819425 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vodka-cola - Irina Denejkina - book Summary : They talked about the Beatles, the band Ruki Vverkh!, Pelevin and Tokareva, the Internet, dogs, gender, the cosmos, their childhood and friends, family, vodka, the band Anton had just started playing with. It was the most moving night of their lives." Their names are Anton, Liapa, Macha, Oleg, Svietka, Kostia, Volkova. They are 20 years old and live in St. Petersburg. In a Russia in the throes of anarchy, the children of disorder play hide-and-seek. They protect their loves from a world that doesn't love them, and invent songs too simple for their already complicated lives. Irina Denejkina, "the leader of Pop literature in Russia," paints their portraits, as one might draw with chalk on the sidewalk: violent and raw images, incredibly accurate. EAN: 9782020790727 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pamela - Stéphanie des Horts - book Summary : Light, seductive, insolent, Pamela decided early on to capture the man who would lead her to glory. Randolph Churchill, whom she married at nineteen. Ali Khan, Agnelli, Sinatra, Harriman, Druon, Rubirosa, Rothschild... none could resist her charm. If they had power, she exerted a fatal attraction over them. They all desired her. She loved them all. Pamela's conquests were wedding rings, trophies that she brandished without fear of shocking society circles. Scandalous? Schemer? Courtesan? The ravishing Englishwoman with a sultry reputation, who died like a legend in the swimming pool of the Ritz in Paris where she was the United States ambassador, took her secrets with her. Stéphanie des Horts searches for their scents and reveals the flamboyant existence of an extraordinary seductress. An epic portrait. Pierre Maury, The Literary Magazine. Stéphanie des Horts has a fine, alert, dazzling pen. François-Guillaume Lorrain, The Point. An excellent novel. François Busnel, The big bookstore. EAN: 9782253237990 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Love Object - Edna O'brien - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Do you want to share my house? - Janine Boissard - book Summary : Line, in her fifties, has just lost her husband. To keep her beautiful house with a garden near Angers, she decided to share it with three tenants. But living with strangers isn't without its challenges. While she was aiming for a joyful and enriching shared apartment, hell is about to set in with young Priscille, who is hiding a terrible family secret. Will Line emerge unscathed? The "house", a magic word in everyone's mind, a place of meeting, of dialogue, is the central character of this novel, where fits of laughter alternate with tears.  Exquisite, like the previous ones. Modern woman. EAN: 9782253069850 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wanted - Karin Alvtegen - book Summary : For several years, Sibylla has lived in the shadows, fleeing the memory of her childhood, on the fringes of society in which she does not recognize herself. But she is suddenly thrust into the spotlight and makes the front page of the newspapers: a man has been brutally murdered, a man with whom she has just spent the evening. The whole country is looking for her... Soon new murders occur, all signed with a first name: hers... Hunted and alone, Sibylla's only ally is a teenager, Patrik, to whom she confides the secrets of her past. Together, they investigate to find the real killer. Karin Alvtegen paints a subtle portrait of a woman searching for her identity in a psychological thriller that won the award for best Nordic crime novel (Glasnyckeln) and has been published in twenty countries. EAN: 9782020662277 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lazy Girl's Pregnancy - Anna Deville - book Summary : Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you're going to spend 9 months caressing your belly and stuffing yourself with strawberries, I'm a lazy person... While pregnancy is an extraordinary adventure, it's not necessarily the fairy tale you've been led to believe until now. In this guide, we'll tell you everything, especially what others have been careful not to tell you. EAN: 9782501077101 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : L'Assommoir - Émile Zola - book Summary : Edition presented and commented by Gérard Gengembre, professor of French literature at the University of Caen. A battered child, lame from birth and yet so pretty, pregnant at 14 and thrown onto the streets by her lover Lantier, Gervaise marries Coupeau, the zinc worker who soon has an accident and sinks into drunkenness, dragging her into alcoholic decline. The once cheerful young girl becomes a tramp among this suburban people teeming with misfortune who destroy themselves to forget their misery. Possessed to the point of madness and death, painted by Zola with infinite human pity, the couple abandons themselves to the poison of "this slow and stubborn source which floods the immense hole of Paris." In 1877, Zola wrote L'Assommoir au vitriol, as the brandy that ravaged the working classes was called at the time in the Goutte d'Or district. EAN: 9782266205146 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Germinal - Emile Zola - book Summary : Here, in modern, industrial France, is Zola's "Les Misérables." This novel about miners is also Hell, in a Dantesque world, where one "travels to the end of the night." But at the end of the prodigious journey to the center of the earth, from the depths of the underground where he has lived crushed for so long, man finally stands up and emerges in a revolt full of hope. It is Zola's most beautiful and greatest work, the poem of brotherhood in misery, and the novel of the human condition. EAN: 9782253004226 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Liberty & Co. - When employee freedom makes companies happy - Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz - book Summary : Our society has elevated freedom to one of its cardinal values, supposedly governing our political system as well as our private lives. Bosses are often the first to extol its virtues, making it a pillar of capitalism. But these fine words stop short at the corporate gates: in the workplace, hierarchy, control, and constant surveillance seem to remain the rule. However, the investigation by Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz shows that there is another way of acting and invites us into companies where freedom has become the management principle. Employees are allowed to take initiatives instead of being told how to do things. They are treated as responsible adults instead of limiting the information available to them and having their every move controlled by a bloated hierarchy. Risk-taking is encouraged. Located in France, the United States, Japan, and Finland, these companies have been "liberated" by visionary leaders who have completely revolutionized their firm's culture. And at the same time, their profitability has exploded. We are at the dawn of a new era of management. EAN: 9782081290983 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tales to make Little Red Riding Hoods blush - Jean-Pierre Enard - book Summary : The narrator of these Tales to Make Little Red Riding Hoods Blush has a girlfriend. This girlfriend has a little sister, Alice, who is a real naughty girl. She dreams of doing things with the author that are not for her age, and he, to resist temptation, tells her stories! He tells her out loud what the classic children's authors were thinking to themselves: Pinocchio's nose isn't just growing, Mother Michel has lost her cat, and what a cat!, the Countess of Ségur likes "little girls, Bordel," and the Three Little Pigs are three little piggies... EAN: 9782070381401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Worst of Silences - Herbjorg Wassmo - book Summary : After eighteen years of running away, Dina returns from Berlin. Karna is delighted to meet this long-dreamed-of ancestor. But in Reinsnes, her return is frightening. Especially since, seduced by the industrial revolution, she intends to govern the future of the trading post, once again shaking up the established order. And hearts: because Dina awakens the wounds of yesteryear, which we hoped would be buried forever. The words fall like punches on the furious sea and in a wild lyricism the lineage of the Grønelvs unravels: the dead must be buried and the living forgiven. EAN: 9782264034564 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When I Was Five, I Killed Myself - Buten - book Summary : A romance novel. Told by an eight-year-old boy, who disturbs and upsets... Gil, victim of the stupidity of adults who transform his dreams into clinical symptoms, and his love into an attack. Because of what he did to Jessica, he ends up in the "Les Pâquerettes" Children's Home. A story to laugh and cry about, in a wonderfully preserved language. EAN: 9782020059862 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Grégoires, volume 2. Village Smoke - Ludovic Massé - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277237877 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Grégoires, volume 3. The Flower of Youth - Ludovic Massé - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277238799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zadig - Followed by Micromégas - Voltaire - book Summary : Adorned with all human perfections, the young, rich, and virtuous Zadig is preparing to marry the most beautiful girl in Babylon. But "how difficult it is to be happy in this life!" His fiancée betrays him, scoundrels drag him to court, religious fanatics threaten him, an angel disguised as a hermit comes to his rescue... Destiny and Voltaire's admirable malice will not give him any favors. This sulphurous Zadig contains all the genius and all the philosophy of Voltaire, his cruelty, his wit, his gaiety and his hatred of human stupidity. EAN: 9782266289986 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Terminus Belz - Emmanuel Grand - book Summary : Enez Ar Droc'h. The Island of Fools, as the locals call it. For Marko Voronine, an illegal immigrant hunted by the Romanian mafia, Belz seemed the ideal place to hide away. But in this port enclave, foreigners are disliked, and Marko falls out with a sailor, Jugand. A few days later, his mutilated corpse is discovered. Marko knows his time is running out and escape is impossible. Emmanuel Grand, born in Versailles in 1966, spent his childhood in Vendée, twenty kilometers from the Atlantic coast. Belz Terminal is his first novel. “Sometimes a sobering thriller, sometimes an inspired social novel, Belz Terminal deploys its beautiful architecture and musical writing until the last page. Télérama “At once an excellent Breton, Ukrainian, Romanian, mafia and fantasy thriller.” The Literary Figaro EAN: 9782757842812 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Speak Dog - Stanley Coren - book Summary : Is a dog wagging its tail happy? Not always. When it bares its teeth, is it going to attack? Not necessarily. And if it licks you, is it giving you a kiss? Not at all. If you have a dog, if you love dogs, this book is for you. It gives you the keys to effective communication to strengthen the bonds that already unite you. Because dogs speak. They have a language. Listen to what they are trying to tell you, decipher the sometimes subtle signals they send, learn their language thanks to this book full of surprises, where you will find advice, information - and even a small dictionary of "aboyen"! EAN: 9782228897198 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dark Souls - Anne Perry - book Summary : Hester Latterly is hired by a wealthy Scottish family to escort an elderly woman to London. Her only instruction? To make her swallow her fragile heart medicine. On the train, Hester befriends her patient, administers the medicine, and then falls asleep. When she wakes up, the old woman has passed away. The autopsy reveals that it was poisoning, and Hester, accused of the murder, is imprisoned. All of the young woman's friends mobilize: Monk leaves for Edinburgh to investigate with the support of Rathbone, Hester, and Callandra. Together, they will eventually discover the truth... and much more. This new investigation by William Monk gives Anne Perry the opportunity to provide us with a further illustration of the sometimes perverse ingenuity with which she explores the underbelly of 19th-century England. EAN: 9782264029584 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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