Title : The Rancor of Inheritance - Michelle Brieuc - book Summary Upon the death of his father, to escape the miserable fate promised to him and not submit to the rule of birthright, the young Pôl decides, with a heavy heart, to leave the farm and go and earn his own living. Why not join the Johnnies and, like them, try to make his fortune in the onion trade? Braving all his fears, Pôl undertakes this apprenticeship which leads him to the coasts of England. A long journey, on land and sea, this road of onions grown in Brittany. And a moving life lesson to the rhythm of the chaotic seasons. But the dreamy boy toughens up. And soon he is no longer afraid to face the obstacles that will make him a man and allow him, when the time comes, to return to his land of resentment to take over, with a firm hand, the reins of the family farm. EAN : 9782848865782 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Of Flesh and Soul - Boris Cyrulnik - book Summary We can discover within ourselves, and those around us, the means that allow us to return to life and move forward, while retaining the memory of our wounds. The paths of life lie on a narrow ridge, between all forms of vulnerability. To be invulnerable would mean impossible to hurt. The only protection consists of avoiding the shocks that destroy, as much as avoiding over-protecting ourselves from them. Each age has its strengths and weaknesses, and the unwounded moments of existence are explained by our ability to control, even overcome, what, in us, is a matter of constant reorganization, of the biological, the emotional, and the social and cultural environment. Happiness is never pure. Why must a burst of happiness so often provoke the anxiety of losing it? Without suffering, could we love? Without anxiety and emotional loss, would we need security? The world would be bland and we might not want to live in it," BC This book establishes a new biology of attachment. It explains why, for each of us, life is a permanent conquest, never fixed in advance. Neither our genes nor our background prevent us from evolving. Everything remains possible. A message of hope, full of tenderness and humanity. Boris Cyrulnik is a neuropsychiatrist. He is also a teaching director at the University of Toulon. He is the author of numerous books, all of which have been huge successes, including A Wonderful Misfortune, The Ugly Ducklings, and Talking About Love on the Edge of the Abyss. EAN : 9782738121202 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - book Summary In the United States, Robert Penn Warren is critically acclaimed as the greatest living writer, the equal of Faulkner and Hemingway. All of his novels have been acclaimed, bestsellers, and several have been adapted for the screen. In 1946, All the King's Men won him the Pulitzer Prize, launching a brilliant career marked by the highest literary accolades. This masterful novel was a huge success. A novel with a lush style, where powerful images constantly emerge, where allegory is mixed with the unfolding of admirably executed intrigues. A novel rich in historical content: Senator Huey Long, assassinated in 1935 in Baton Rouge, in the southern United States, provided Warren with the model for Willie Stark, one of the ringleaders of the King's Jesters. EAN : 9782253043256 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Only Son - Stéphane Audeguy - book Summary "We haven't heard from him since then, and that's how I remained an only child," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Confessions, referring to his elder brother, François Rousseau, who was forced to leave Geneva where things had gone wrong for him. Jean-Jacques considered François a rascal and a libertine. The latter apparently never denied this, and he didn't think it necessary to leave us an account of his life. It seemed to me interesting to remedy this oversight." Stéphane Audeguy. EAN : 9782070349135 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beloved - Axel Gauvin - book Summary The large old hut is barricaded against the wind. Outside, thousands of mangoes already cover the ground. Aimé gets out of a taxi, as if born of a cyclone. He has known hell. He is dying. Marguerite will cure him of his wounds and his nightmares. She will finally experience the strongest and purest passion with this eleven-year-old man, her son's son. Every page of Axel Gauvin's novel reveals an inspiration nourished by his native island. But the author is far too much of a writer to fall into exoticism. His subject is love, love as inexhaustible as a natural element, love stronger than death. Born in 1944 in Réunion, where he lives. An associate professor of natural sciences, he writes in French and Creole. He edited, among other publications, an issue of Action poétique on Réunion poetry. L'aimé is his third novel in French. EAN : 9782020164863 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Unsuspected - Tanguy Viel - book Summary "Should we deprive the reader of the joy of discovering, detail by detail, the bottom line - if it really exists - of this double-bottomed machination, like the seemingly unsuspected suitcases concealing disturbing secrets? Certainly not. And yet, revealing everything from the outset would not be of capital importance, because with Insoupçonnable, we are not in one of those detective intrigues where knowing certain keys in advance, or even the outcome, spoils the pleasure. As in his three other novels, Tanguy Viel, who knows how to build suspense and does not hold back, is more deeply interested in something other than this narrative scheme. In the atmospheres, which he knows how to create remarkably well, in the places - the sea is often present, is it because he was born in Brest? -, to the objects, to the frightening, unimaginable behaviors that people who seem at first glance harmless can have, to their quirks, their family secrets, their unspeakable desires. A chic wedding by the sea: a nice start. Don't be fooled. The narrator, Sam, has just been a witness at his sister Lise's wedding to a rich man who is 50 years old - twice her age. Henri Delamare, the groom, a widower for some time, owns a family fortune, which he has managed to make grow. He is an auctioneer. Lise worked in a night bar frequented, discreetly, by very well-to-do gentlemen. She refused to make love, unlike others. However, it was only with her that Henri wanted to spend his evenings. And, one fine day, he asked her to marry him. Why did she accept, when she was living with a man? That's a whole part of the story. We quickly understand that Sam is a cheap brother and a real lover, Lise's, and that this marriage hides an unsuspected plan. Another case of the perfect crime, like the hold-up in The Absolute Perfection of Crime had to be perfect and without a drop of bloodshed. Here too, in principle, there will be no violence, just a clever way to recover money - what do you dream of when you are short of money? - and to escape to America, or rather to the States, as Lise says, trying to imitate the accent of the American stars. Of course, it will fail, but we will not tell you here how - and, ultimately, Tanguy Viel also asks you to guess it even more than he shows you. (Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde) EAN : 9782707320643 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lake - Jean Echenoz - book Summary Franck Chopin is not one of those men who had a purpose in life very early on. There was no vocation in this individual other than that of veterinarian, around the age of ten, when he so loved treating small mammals, then at twenty that of leader of the world revolution (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Chopin) - then nothing. Then he went on to study science, which brought him back to caring for animals - but his object of study became the insect, the fly more precisely, which is a type that is not treated. And four or five times in his life, he disappeared for two months; as he knew few people, no one was too worried. "Echenoz loves places. He has a mad talent for suggesting, describing an anonymous residence, an artificial lake, a Parisian train station, all the poetry of Paris in the windows of an RER. He is from that journalistic and traveling generation that no longer believes in the novel, as Balzac did: naively. » (Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point) « Lac's narrator doesn't just multiply the twists and turns without taking himself seriously. Pieces of reality are captured in the meshes and shimmers of his descriptions for laughs. The suburbs, for example, are present with an intensity that will inform future historians about Parisian urban planning in the 1980s. It will do so better than photographs, because smells lurk around the jumble of forms, destinies slip through them, and customs are imprinted there, as on the demolition walls where shreds of worn wallpaper remain hanging from the headboards of beds, hanging soap dishes, and other vestiges of fossilized daily gestures. Lac also bears witness to the disjointed way of speaking and remaining silent, in the same era - ours. Film producers would be well advised to spot the high notes of the lines. » (Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Le Monde) EAN : 9782707320520 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Good Son - Pascal Bruckner - book Summary This is the story of a child with fragile health. Born after the war into a family of German origin and culture, he is sent to a village in Austria to treat his lungs. Under the snow, he prays every night to the Lord to bring about the death of his father. The latter, an anti-Semite and racist, is a perverted husband who beats his wife. His only son will do everything to become his counter-model. He will be a student of Jankélévitch and Barthes, the spiritual twin of Alain Finkielkraut, and then a renowned writer. Until his dying day, however, he will accompany this stranger who gave him life. For beyond the contempt and rage, this story is the confession of a son's undeniable love for his father, to whom he paradoxically owes all his work. Some chapters grab you by the throat, others, superbly crafted, make you shiver with admiration. Frédéric Beigbeder, Le Figaro Magazine . Dizzying. Eric Aeschimann, The New Observer . EAN : 9782253182795 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Destructive Innovation - Luc Ferry - book Summary According to Luc Ferry, what will save us is not degrowth, but innovation. Even if it destabilizes the world, even if it can be formidable and, at the same time, destructive. Innovation is both vital and distressing: in a century of deconstruction, France must resolve this dilemma. "It is time to get a clear idea of ​​the reasons why capitalism, as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century had already understood century, Joseph Schumpeter, inevitably devotes us to the perpetual logic of innovation for innovation's sake and, by the same token, to that of rupture, also incessant, with all forms of heritage, patrimony and tradition. If my reader agrees to follow me for a moment in this analysis, he will quickly understand how irreplaceable it is for understanding the present time. Luc Ferry EAN : 9782259223317 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Joy of Reading - The Pleasures of Reading - book Summary Few objects awaken, like the book, the feeling of absolute ownership. Fallen into our hands, books become our slaves - slaves, yes, because they are living matter, but slaves that no one would dream of freeing, because they are dead leaves. As such, they undergo the worst treatment, fruits of the wildest loves or dreadful furies. And let me dog-ear the pages for you (oh! what a pain, every time, this vision of the dog-eared page! “but it’s to know where I am!”) and let me place my cup of coffee on the cover, these halos, these toast marks, these suntan oil stains... Daniel Pennac Emma Bovary, Marcel Proust, Julien Sorel, Nathalie Sarraute, Guy Montag... Writers and great fictional characters share here their relationships with reading and books. Fragments of novels, autobiographies, essays, these texts represent from various angles the joy of reading. EAN : 9782070314515 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Darkness and Night - Michael Connelly - book Summary As Los Angeles celebrates the New Year, Detective Renée Ballard is called to an ordinary crime scene. But the victim, an indebted mechanic, wasn't killed randomly during the festivities. This murder is linked to another, once worked on by the illustrious Harry Bosch, who was only too happy to return to work to help Ballard. Especially since she already has a lot on her plate, tracking down a sinister duo of criminals nicknamed the "Midnight Men." The monsters Ballard and Bosch are looking for are ready to do anything to keep their secrets. Michael Connelly is very close to current events. This is what makes his novels so powerful, as they are both well-researched and well-constructed . Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire . The book is not read, it is devoured . François Forestier, L'Obs . EAN : 9782253243946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Murderous Forest - Cécile Valey - book Summary Two murders in two days is a lot for a small town in the Landes region that attracts more and more tourists and second homeowners, but remains peaceful, especially in autumn. And who is this devil of legends that everyone talks about, who supposedly haunts the forest and the lakes? A man? A woman? A killer who plays on fears and beliefs to mask his crimes? Why did he murder two people who, a priori, didn't know each other and had nothing in common? How many killers are lurking in the pine forest? Suffice it to say that the gendarmerie captain in charge of the investigation must answer a lot of questions to solve this enigma. Not to mention that he must also remain pragmatic in an environment where superstitions sometimes take the place of a breviary and where traditions dictate behavior. In this thriller, Cécile Valey also depicts mentalities and deploys a whole palette of colors to describe this territory nestled between lakes, pines and the ocean, which she knows perfectly. EAN : 9791097150181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fashion through the centuries - Jean-Louis Besson - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782070593583 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Lesson - Mitch Albom - book Summary Everyone in their youth has known someone who understood their aspirations and concerns, helped them find their way, and helped them become an adult. For Mitch Albom, this man was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor. After losing sight of him, Mitch learns that Morrie has a terminal illness and has decided to turn his death into a final lesson in philosophy. Mitch will visit him for many months, searching with him for the answer to the question that haunts us all: how to live? EAN : 9782266145176 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Olga's Challenge - Henri Troyat - book Summary Olga Kourganova, an eighty-year-old widow, lives in Paris, trapped in the false memory of Tsarist Russia, which she left as a child. Walled in by her nostalgia, she is saddled with a son, Boris, fifty-year-old but infantile, suddenly abandoned by his two loves: Caroline, from whom he divorced, and Viviane, his mistress. The two women have decided to move in together, forcing Boris to return to purr in the maternal bosom. Olga feels reborn: delighted to have her son back, she is also asked to publish his boarding school memories. Initially wary, she will eventually accept this opportunity to achieve belated fame... From that moment on, her gratitude to France, which adopted and recognized her, will counterbalance the call of an illusory past. Will the need to renew her inspiration and the dismantling of the communist USSR persuade Olga to make the journey to her native country? EAN : 9782290043103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On Dreams - Sigmund Freud - book Summary At the end of 1899, but dated 1900, as if to mark a new century, Die Traumdeutung appeared: it is the book of dreams down to its baroque, abundant composition. A year later, this little book appeared, commissioned by a publisher, and whose purpose is quite different: this time, it is an exposition on dreams and which takes a more classical, sometimes didactic form. As Didier Anzieu indicates in his preface, Die Traumdeutung constituted and still constitutes an initiation into the unconscious. On the dream, it is an introduction to psychoanalysis. It sets out the results acquired by a then completely new science. If the object here is the dream, Freud does not intend to confer exceptional value on it. On the contrary, he frees himself and his reader throughout from a romantic or mystical "overestimation," which would make the dream the place of some ascent of the soul towards the unknown. He therefore focuses his attention primarily on the processes of "dream work," illustrating them with numerous examples and encouraging us to find them at work in other productions of the unconscious. On dreams, yes, but above all for analysis, for a method. EAN : 9782070325542 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Weekend in Paris - Robyn Sisman - book in English Attention book in English Summary See photos EAN : 9780140280968 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Die weise Frau - Philippa Gregory - book in German Attention book in German Summary See photos EAN : 9783442431113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : INAZUMA GO! T1 WARRIOR SPIRITS - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782266269964 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : Little Nicholas - René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé - book Summary At first glance, little Nicolas is a child like any other. However, the story of his adventures never ceases to surprise with the number of mischiefs that he and his little band of friends constantly unleash! And you have to be incredibly patient and have a lot of merit, like your teacher or your parents, to live with such a little devil! No adult seems to be able to resist Nicolas and his friends, Agnan the darling, or Eudes the strong one, nor the school photographer, nor the inspector himself, nor even the headmaster or the poor supervisor, Mr. Bouillon. In short, little Nicolas and his whole gang sow joyful disorder and a beautiful discord wherever they go. EAN : 9782070364237 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Mad Love - Catherine Hermany-Vieille - book Summary In 1509, at the age of thirty, Joanna of Castile, daughter of Isabella the Catholic and Ferdinand of Aragon, heiress to the greatest empire in the world, was imprisoned in the dark citadel of Tordesillas, where she remained for more than forty-six years in absolute secrecy. Widow of Philip the Handsome, sovereign of Flanders, she had loved him madly. What had Joan done to deserve this punishment? Why did her son Charles V keep such a close watch on her? What mystery hovered over the old castle? As a historian and novelist, Catherine Hermary-Vieille delved into the terrible fate of this Queen of Spain. A multitude of clues allowed her to answer the enigma of Tordesillas and find meaning in the existence of a solitary woman in love, abandoned by her father, deceived by her husband, and betrayed by her son in this refined and violent century. EAN : 9782266075343 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Clay - Franck Bouysse - book Summary In the heart of Cantal, in the heat of the summer of 1914, the men resign themselves to going off to fight, far away. Joseph, just fifteen years old, must take care of the family farm with his mother, his grandmother, and Léonard, an old neighbor who has become his friend. On the property next door, Valette, kept away from the war due to a withered hand, broods over his grudges and his rage. And now he must take in his brother's wife, Hélène, and his daughter, Anna, who have come to take refuge with him. The arrival of the two women will finally upset a hitherto immutable order and reawaken buried passions. EAN : 9782253086468 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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