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Title : Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - John Gray - book
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Men and women don't speak the same language! Hence the frustrations, misunderstandings, and heartbreaks... Mars, god of War, Venus, goddess of Love: the two sexes have little in common in the way they act and express their feelings. Years of marital experience have allowed John Gray to analyze these differences and turn them into a source of mutual enrichment rather than conflict. A worldwide bestseller, this guide is essential for communicating and living in harmony with the opposite sex.
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Title : The Bald Soprano - Eugène Ionesco - book
Summary : (English bourgeois interior, with English armchairs.) While everyone has heard of The Bald Soprano, few know its source: it was from the dialogues of The Englishman Without Trouble by the Assimil method, featuring an English couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, their maid Mary, and their guests, that Ionesco's lines were naturally assembled, producing what the author calls an "anti-play," a true parody of theater. With its spirit of derision that goes against tradition and its sketches leading to a denouement worthy of the surrealists, The Bald Soprano, created in 1950, is one of the emblematic works of the theater of the absurd and the symbol of modern theater in progress.
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Title : Always by my side - Kazuo Ishiguro - book
Summary : Kath, Ruth, and Tommy attended Hailsham in the 1990s; an idyllic school in the English countryside, where children were raised to believe that their personal well-being was essential to society. But why were they brought together there? Years later, Kath tries to make sense of their shared past. With Ruth and Tommy, she realizes that their seemingly happy childhood has continued to haunt them, to the point of adulterating their adult lives. Kazuo Ishiguro deals with subjects that touch us deeply: the loss of innocence, the importance of memory, the value we each place on others. This futuristic masterpiece tells a story of humanity and love in contemporary England. It is destined to become a classic of our fragile lives.
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Title : The Master Has More and More Humor - Mo Yan - book
Summary : When Lao Ding, at the age of sixty, is fired from the Red Star factory due to bankruptcy, a world is falling apart. But a new China is being born, founded on private initiative, where the ingenuity of the common people, the corruption of the executives, the solidarity of generations and every-man-for-himself are all deployed together... Master Ding finds enthusiasm and vigor thanks to a brilliant, very audacious idea, and the unfailing support of his faithful apprentice who has become a tricycle driver. He does not know that at the beginning of winter, a night of terror awaits him...
Mo Yan once again casts his scathing eye on contemporary Chinese society. This short novel is brimming with tenderness and humor.
Mo Yan Mo Yan, born in Shangdong in 1955, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. A dozen of his novels and short stories have been translated into French and published by Seuil, including Beautiful Breasts, Beautiful Buttocks (2004), The Torture of Sandalwood (2006), Forty-One Shots (2008), The Harsh Law of Karma (2009), Frogs (2011) and The Calf followed by The Long Distance Runner (2012).
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Title : The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq - book
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The pitch? What pitch? It is impossible to reveal one. Michel Houellebecq's fourth novel, by its scope, its ambitions, its very own way of defying all predictions, escapes this lazy practice of modern criticism. So what can we say about it? To think that the most important foreign publishers (US, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Japan?) read it in manuscript and immediately bought it. It should also be said that they were not stingy with compliments. One praising his offbeat humor, another celebrating his lyricism, the third admitting how much he had first laughed, then shuddered, before this admirably constructed fresco, where everything is in its place, without apparent effort, as if raised by an intelligence that challenges reason, a salutary warning. In a word, whispered by the author himself: "I think this is my best book."
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Title : A Dangerous Relationship - Douglas Kennedy - book
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What if the man of your life became your worst enemy? From Cairo to the suburbs of London, a terrible descent into hell masterfully orchestrated by a Douglas Kennedy more devious than ever.
On assignment in the Middle East, Sally meets Tony. She's a reporter for the Boston Post, he's a reporter for the Chronicle. She is bubbly, he is charming. She's single, so is he. What must happen happens: love at first sight. But Sally still doesn't know that the dream is about to turn into a nightmare. And that the worst will come from the one she thought she knew well, her husband...
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Title : The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell Dustin Thomason - book
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Since 1499, scholars have been trying to decipher a Renaissance masterpiece, The Dream of Poliphilo. Written in five languages, adorned with erotic and violent engravings, this text has resisted all attacks, shattering destinies, friendships, and lives. Yet, two Princeton students dare to confront it and, through hidden messages, discover the story of a Quattrocento prince and the existence of a secret crypt that conceals incredible treasures. They believed they could escape the curse of this enigma. But to defend it, some are ready to die, and to kill. Unravel the mysteries of the most beautiful book of all time.
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Title : Constance and the Winter City - Alain Dubos - book
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Spring 1900, in the Landes and Gironde regions. Alain Dubos constructs a novel about absence, guilt, and childhood wounds, centered around the tumultuous reunion between a father and his daughter, against the magical backdrop of the Arcachon Bay. After thirteen years of adventure in the Colonies, Captain-Medic Rémi Darrast returns home to the "family fortress" of Arcachon. There, he finds an aging and hostile family. Above all, he goes to meet his daughter, Constance. At fifteen, she is an unpredictable and solitary child, marked by the pain of abandonment. The sandy scenery of the Gironde "little sea," the affection of the fishermen and the oyster farm workers are the only comforts for the "little fairy of the riparian zones." In the wild or falsely peaceful world of the Bassin, Constance shelters her orphaned grief and her heavy childhood secrets. With her and Leopoldine, a pianist with whom he has fallen in love, Rémi will experience the most perilous of his adventures, that of a father trying to reconnect the threads of lives put on hold for too long.
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Title : The Adventures of Huck Finn - Mark Twain - book
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Title : The Imprint - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich - book
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The shocking revelation of 2019. A disturbing work of literary nonfiction about the death penalty and abuse within the family. Harvard law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a fierce opponent of the death penalty. Until the day she crosses paths with a killer imprisoned in Louisiana, Rick Langley, whose confession horrifies her and shakes everything she believes in. For her, there is no doubt: this man must be executed. Shocked by this visceral reaction, Alexandria soon becomes aware of her origins by discovering a completely unexpected link between her past, a family secret, and this terrible case, which awakens buried feelings within her. She will then tirelessly investigate the underlying reasons that led Langley to commit this appalling crime. In the line of documentary series like Making a Murderer , this story at the crossroads of thriller, autobiography and investigative journalism, clearly shows how the law is something eminently subjective, the truth being always more complex and disturbing than what we imagine. As disturbing as it is heartbreaking. Readers' Grand Prize She 2019 Essays category International Foreign Book Prize
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Title : The Flavors of Life - Maeve Binchy - book
Summary : Since they met as students at the Dublin Hotel School, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have shared a dream: to become the best caterers in the city. It is this ambitious project that the two friends will attempt to bring to fruition during a year full of adventures. Around them gravitate many characters, often colorful, who will help and support them, or on the contrary, discourage them and put obstacles in their way. For example, Neil, Cathy's husband, a kind-hearted lawyer, has set his mind on saving half the planet and cannot imagine his wife having other concerns. As for Hannah, Neil's mother, she still hasn't come to terms with her son's marriage to his cleaning lady's daughter. Tom isn't much better off with a girlfriend obsessed with the success of her top modeling career and parents who stubbornly wait for him in the family masonry business...
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Title : Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek - book
Summary : Twelve-year-old Josy, the daughter of the famous Berlin psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, suffers from an illness that no doctor can diagnose. One day, after her father accompanies her to one of his colleagues, she disappears. Four years have passed. Larenz still has no news of his daughter when a stranger knocks at his door. Novelist Anna Spiegel claims to suffer from a rare form of schizophrenia: the characters in her stories come to life before her eyes. However, Anna's latest novel features a little girl who suffers from a strange illness and vanishes without leaving a trace... The psychiatrist then has only one obsessive goal: to know the rest of her story.
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Title : The Blue of Your Eyes - Mary Higgins Clark - book
Summary : Five years ago, Timmy witnessed his father's murder. Before fleeing, the killer, with very blue eyes—something the boy remembers precisely—told him: "Tell your mother she's next." Since then, the child and his mother, Laurie, have lived under this threat. The young woman, a famous TV producer, is launching a shocking series on unsolved cases. The first episode focuses on the "Graduate Gala" case: twenty years ago, Betsy Powell and her husband organized a grand party in honor of their daughter's graduation. That same night, Betsy suffocated to death. As preparations are underway to reconstruct the crime scene in the Powells' splendid home, someone is spying on Laurie from the shadows, someone with dazzling blue eyes... Thus begins a breathtaking closed-door drama. A delightful opus. The mistress of suspense proves that she has retained her expertise. Catherine Balle, Le Parisien .
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Title : The Bottom of the Impasse - Frances Fyfield - book
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How to make yourself loved? For Emma Davey, who loves life and precious stones, nothing could be easier. Everyone loves her... Until the day a murderer covers her head with a garbage bag and kicks her to death. For others, this quest is more delicate. Elizabeth Kennedy, a disgraced police officer and Emma's older sister, believes she is not entitled to love, or even respect. Emma's death haunts her; she blames herself for forcing the alleged killer to confess. When she, in turn, is the victim of a sordid attack, she decides to cut herself off from the world. Taking refuge in her eccentric London apartment, located at the very top of the belfry of a disused church, she believes she has finally found safety...
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Title : The Sap and the Ashes - Alain Dubos - book
Summary : The Haute Lande, in the 1920s. On this damp, flat land, licked by the salty ocean winds, nothing has changed since the 19th century. Wealthy distillers continue to make their fortunes prosper from the resin and the misery of sharecroppers. Far from Paris and the noisy Roaring Twenties, two women from the Landes will shake off the yoke of the established order. Heiress to endless pine forests where the sap flows like gold, Maylis decides to run the estate herself, much to the scandal of her family. Madeleine is a peasant woman thirsting for justice and knowledge, who takes the lead of a nascent union movement. The fight between them reveals them to be sisters in rebellion and courage.
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Title : The Bird of Darkness - Michael Connelly - book
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All the stars in Hollywood are vibrating at the trial of David Storey, a producer that Inspector Harry Bosch has sworn to confound in the dock, when Terry McCaleb, the hero of Blood Debt receives a visit from Detective Inspector Jaye Winston, who still cannot solve the murder of a small-time crook, Edward Gunn.
McCaleb glances at the file and is petrified by what he discovers: with his hands behind his back and his head in a bucket, Gunn has strangled himself by tightening the noose attached to his feet.
Even stranger, the killer wrote on his gag, "Beware, beware, God sees." Where did the murderer want to lead the police with these words?
EAN : 9782020562362
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Title : The Other Side of Life - Philippe Ragueneau - book
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This book tells a simple yet extraordinary story: beyond her death, Catherine Anglade, the much-loved wife, continues to communicate with Philippe Ragueneau as she did during his lifetime. She guides him, protects him, and accompanies him every day. Deeply tender and human, this book of great emotional truth is also a wonderful message of hope for all those who have lost a loved one. "From painful, the tears that arise from this reading become joyful. By the effect of love. By this mystery that is love. By the happiness that little by little emerges from these pages. By the revelations that Catherine distills in half-words. For the assurance that she brings from the Beyond." Henry Bonnier
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Title : The Denture Gang Breaks the Bank - Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - book
Summary : Märtha and her cronies have left their squalid retirement home for Las Vegas. They're not here to gamble, they're out to win. Their assets: dentures, walking frames, and the innocence of their venerable years. The chips are down. Millions rich, the gang returns to Sweden for a golden retirement and a Robin Hood-style redistribution of wealth. But the tables are turning: the diamonds are gone, the money is gone, and a gang of bikers could very well put them out of business... "We never tire of the wheelchair acrobatics of Märtha, the Genie, the Rake, Anna-Greta and Stina." ELLE
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Title : The Best of Us - Sarah Vaughan - book
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“Remember: baking is a proof of love.” Kathleen Eaden, The Art of Baking, 1966. England, present day. The competition to elect the new Kathleen Eaden has begun! Five candidates are in the running, united by a common passion. But making a cheesecake or a Paris-Brest isn't always enough to make us forget the hurts and sorrows. Jenny, a curvy fifty-something, abandoned by her husband; Vicki, who aspires to more than raising her little Alfie; Claire, the young cashier and single mother who no longer even dreams of another life; Karen, whose apparent perfection hides many secrets; not forgetting Mike, a widower in the middle of culinary therapy... During a competition as delicious as it is wild, everyone will learn that the art of life is at least as difficult as that of baking. Generous and inspiring, full of emotion and humor, a first novel to devour in one sitting, populated by irresistible characters. A declaration of love to all the flavors of life! Translated from English (United Kingdom) by Alice Delarbre.
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Title : Purge - Sofi Oksanen - book
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“A true masterpiece. A marvel.” I hope all readers in the world, the real ones, will read Purge." Nancy Huston
In 1992, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Estonian population celebrated the Russians' departure. But old Aliide, fearing looting, lived hidden in her house deep in the countryside. So, when she finds Zara in her garden, a young woman who seems in great distress, she hesitates to open her door to her. These two women will get to know each other, and a heavy family secret will be revealed, linked to the past of the Soviet occupation and the love Aliide felt for Hans, a resistance fighter. The old lady will then decide to protect Zara until the end, whatever the cost.
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Title : The Sun of the Scorta - Laurent Gaudé - book
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Eugène Dabit Prize 2004 - Prix Goncourt 2004
Because rape founded their lineage, the Scortas were born into disgrace. In Montepuccio, their small village in southern Italy, they live poorly and will not die rich. But they have vowed to pass on, from generation to generation, the little that life leaves them as an inheritance. And aside from the modest family tobacco shop, created with what they call "New York money," their wealth is as intangible as an experience, a memory, a shred of wisdom, a spark of joy. Or even a secret. Like the one that old Carmela—whose voice here joins the objective chronicle of events—confides to her contemporary, the former priest of Montepuccio, for fear that words would soon fail her. A radiant, deeply humanist novel, Laurent Gaudé's new book depicts, from 1870 to the present day, the existence of this Puglian family to which each generation, each individual, tries to bring, according to its own destiny, the pride of being a Scorta, and the revelation of happiness.
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Title : The Kingdom - Emmanuel Carrère - book
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"At one point in my life, I was a Christian. It lasted three years. It passed. Case closed, then? It must not be entirely closed for me to feel the need to return to it twenty years later. These paths of the New Testament that I once traveled as a believer, I travel them today - as a novelist? As a historian? Let's say as an investigator."
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Title : De Gaulle my father - Interviews with Michel Tauriac, volume 1 - Philippe de Gaulle - book
Summary : If there is one statesman who has inspired biographers, it is Charles de Gaulle. But who can know him better than his own son, this privileged witness who experienced every stage of his epic journey up close? Who can better describe him with his family, with all the doors of the house closed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and lovingly watched over by his wife, listening to him when he speaks and does not want to be heard, translating the slightest inflection of his voice and his silences? Who can reach his heart even in the most secret moments, share his confidences on everything, as much on his private life as on History, on his arm wrestling with Churchill and Roosevelt, on his quarrels with Pétain or Giraud? On poetry and on the forest, as on the failure of Dakar, his relations with the resistance and his face to face with Stalin? If Philippe de Gaulle agreed for the first time to engage so deeply with Michel Tauriac's incisive questions, it was not only to answer the questions that continue to be asked about the author of his days, but also to destroy fabrications and abusive interpretations, set the record straight, and shed light on the mysteries that still hover over various affairs - such as the assassination of Darlan and the General's coup against the Allies to liberate Paris, retain Strasbourg, and cross the Rhine. More than a collection of interviews, this book is an unprecedented testimony that reads like a novel.
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Title : The Princess Exchange - Chantal Thomas - book
Summary : In 1721, Philippe d'Orléans was Regent of France. The exercise of power was enjoyable, and he took a liking to it. Then a brilliant idea arose in his head: to propose to Philippe V of Spain a marriage between Louis XV, aged eleven, and the very young Infanta, Anna Maria Victoria, aged four – who would therefore not be able to give birth for a decade… And he didn't stop there: he also proposed to give his daughter, Mlle de Montpensier, as a wife to the young Prince of Asturias, future heir to the throne of Spain, to strengthen his position and consolidate the end of the conflict with the large neighbor.
The reaction in Madrid was enthusiastic, and things quickly fell into place. The exchange of princesses took place in early 1722, with great pomp and ceremony, on a small island in the middle of the Bidasoa River, the river that served as the border between the two kingdoms. Everything could be going well. But nothing would go as planned...
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