Title : For a moment of eternity - Gilles Legardinier - Book Summary :
Vincent knows better than anyone what a secret is. A specialist in hidden passages, he's the one the rich and powerful discreetly call upon to hide their treasures or create undetectable exits. As Paris celebrates the World's Fair and its phenomenal Eiffel Tower, Vincent and his team suddenly become the target of assassination attempts. Is one of their clients trying to erase what they know about him? Are they being hunted by occult powers? In a turbulent era, confronted with mysteries from another time, Vincent will do everything he can to thwart the threat and save his loved ones. His discoveries will shatter everything he thought he knew about the world...
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Title: The City of Jars - Arnaldur Indridason - Book
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A new body is found in Reykjavik. Inspector Erlendur is in a bad mood: another one of those typically Icelandic murders, a "stupid and nasty thing" that's wasting the police's time... Pornographic photos found at the victim's home reveal a forty-year-old case. And lead him straight to the "City of Jars," an abominable collection of jars containing organs...
Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason achieved a masterstroke with his first detective novel, which has already been translated into more than twenty languages.
"Swede Hennig Mankell had better watch out, Arnaldur is hot on his heels."
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Title : BM blues - Françoise Bourdin - Book
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Devastated by the death of his sister, burned alive before his eyes in the car their father was driving, Hugo, 22, breaks with his past and his family to join the service of Thève, a gruff industrialist with no driving license. Driving Thève's gleaming BMW M5 is the only way for Hugo to exorcise his sister's accident... and a way to find himself. An initiation into real life... For Thève, his legendary BMW M5 is a rich man's whim, an expensive toy he's no longer allowed to drive. For Hugo, it's a way to exorcise the tragedy of his sister's death, burned alive before his eyes in a car accident. The meeting between the two men is improbable; it shouldn't have happened. Everything opposes them, and yet they need each other. Young Hugo therefore becomes the personal chauffeur of Thève, the successful entrepreneur. But this uneasy collaboration will reveal their flaws... Launched at high speed on icy roads, always on the edge, the breathtaking novel of a return to life.
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Title : One in a Billion Chance - Gilles Legardinier - Book
Summary : I had just turned eleven when I realized what destiny was. It's funny, thinking back to that evening and everything important that has happened to me since, I tell myself that in a lifetime, we never see the events that will really matter coming. "Since that day, no one has hugged me again. Well, until last week. It was again to tell me news that would dynamite my existence. It's not only insects who get hit with slippers. I don't know who gives them, but if it's a god, he has big shoes." Through a story as joyful as it is moving, Gilles Legardinier takes us to the moment when each of us must decide what really matters in our lives. No more time to waste. No more losing our way. Throwing ourselves in without a net. Setting the record straight, saying, doing, hoping. Loving, free as ever.
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Title : No Exit / The Flies - Jean-Paul Sartre - Book
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"Garcin: - The bronze... (He caresses it.) Well, now is the moment. The bronze is there, I contemplate it and I understand that I am in hell. I tell you that everything was planned. They had planned that I would stand in front of this fireplace, pressing my hand on this bronze, with all these looks on me. All these looks devouring me... (He turns around abruptly.) Ha! There are only two of you? I thought there were many more of you. (He laughs.) So, this is hell. I would never have believed... You remember: the sulfur, the pyre, the grill... Ah! What a joke. No need for a grill: hell is the Others."
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Title : All the Love of Our Fathers - Christian Signol - Book
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The Marsac epic began with Pierre. A non-commissioned officer in the army during Bonaparte's heyday, he was able to bequeath to his descendants the Grand Castel, a magnificent building set on a hundred hectares of land, and he entrusted them with the story of his life. Writings that, each in turn, they will decide to enrich. Albine, his daughter, will make the estate prosper by planting vines there. Aurélien, the great-grandson, will ensure its longevity. And finally, Ludivine, of the fourth generation, will become a doctor, and will return to her fiefdom to treat her fellow citizens. All of them will complete the framework of family chronicles where small and large stories mingle, embrace and ignite. "An ode to those who suffer, to the obscure crushed by History. And it gives Signol in its purest form, poignant, human." Gilles Pudlowski – The Point
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Title : Our ancestors the Gauls - François Reynaert - Book
Summary : We all learned that Clovis was the first king of France. In Germany, however, he is considered a German king. Of Saint Louis, we retain the image of the sovereign administering justice under his oak tree. We don't know that he required Jews to wear the equivalent of the yellow star. Joan of Arc is the great heroine of the Middle Ages. Why have we forgotten all the others? Many French people are interested in our past, and many are also sorry they know it so little. To address both, it took a free spirit, that of François Reynaert.
With a light and sure pen, armed with a knowledge that never weighs, Reynaert rewrites the national novel with the talent of a sympathetic myth-breaker. Laurent Joffrin, Liberation. With an informed and alert pen, Reynaert covers two thousand years of history, weighs, turns arguments around, and encourages discussion. Rich and stimulating. François-Guillaume Lorrain, Le Point.
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Title : Family Ties - Danielle Steel - Book
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Family, I love you!
At 26, Annie Ferguson had everything she needed to be happy: a fiancé, a job at a prestigious architecture firm, and a magnificent apartment in Manhattan. Until that tragic stormy night when her sister and brother-in-law lost their lives. Overnight, Annie became the adoptive mother of her three nephews, honoring the promise she made to her sister. Today, at the age of 42, Annie devotes all her free time to her family, even if it means putting her love life on hold. But her nephews have become young adults and are flying on their own. While Annie is torn between the desire to let them flourish and the fear of seeing them leave, an encounter will turn the course of her life upside down and teach her to live for herself again.
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Title : Roommates - Danielle Steel - Book
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The family of c œ ur.
Recently single, Francesca Thayer feels hopeless. Alone, she fears she won't be able to manage the charming Greenwich Village house and the New York art gallery she ran with her ex-partner. There's a solution: a shared apartment! Slowly, the house comes back to life: first there's Eileen, a young teacher from California, then Chris, a divorced father, and finally Marya, a famous cook who has lost her husband. A joyful bond quickly develops between the roommates. Carried by this newfound energy, Francesca feels ready to open her heart again. Marya falls in love with a married man but refuses to lead a double life. Chris fights his ex-wife for custody of his son. Eileen, despite warnings, finds a boyfriend online, but their relationship quickly turns into a nightmare and then a tragedy. The three roommates, devastated by their friend's disappearance, pull together like a real family. Chris and Francesca become especially close, and little by little, their friendship turns into love...
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Title : The Last of the Stanfields - Marc Levy - Book
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My life changed one morning when I opened my mail. An anonymous letter informed me that my mother had committed a crime 35 years earlier. The author of this letter arranged to meet me at a fishing bar on Baltimore Harbor and ordered me not to tell anyone about this story. I had buried Mum in London in early spring; summer was ending and I was still far from having come to terms with my loss. What would you have done in my place? Probably the same mistake as me. Eleanor-Rigby is a journalist at National Geographic magazine , living in London. One morning, returning from a trip, she receives an anonymous letter informing her that her mother had a criminal past. George-Harrison is a cabinetmaker who lives in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. One morning, he receives an anonymous letter accusing his mother of the same facts. Eleanor Rigby and George Harrison don't know each other. The author of the letters arranges to meet them each at a fishing bar on Baltimore Harbor. What is the link that unites them? What crime did their mothers commit? Who is the crow and what are his intentions? At the heart of a mystery that haunts three generations, The Last of the Stanfields takes us from occupied France in the summer of 1944, to Baltimore in the freedom of the 1980s, to London and Montreal today. "A masterfully crafted novel. Magnificent and addictive!" Gilles Tranchant, Librairie Cheminant "Marc Levy has always had a passion for family secrets. But here, he surpasses himself." Josyane Savigneau "Between emotion and suspense: a breathtaking treasure hunt." Philippe Chauveau, Web TV Culture
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Title : The Day I Learned to Live - Laurent Gounelle - Book
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What if it all started today? Imagine: You're strolling along the docks in San Francisco on a Sunday, when suddenly a gypsy woman grabs your hand to read your fortune. Amused, you let her, but then her gaze freezes, she becomes livid. What she's finally going to tell you... you would have preferred not to hear it. From then on, nothing will be the same, and it will be impossible for you to stay on track with your usual routine. This is what will happen to Jonathan in this new novel by Laurent Gounelle. Following this disturbing encounter, he will find himself embarked on an adventure of self-discovery punctuated by experiences that will radically change his vision of his life, of life. This novel, whose plot is based on real scientific experiments, sheds new light on our existence and our relationships with others, and brings a breath of fresh air into our lives. A bright and positive new novel by Laurent Gounelle, the author of The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy , The Gods Always Travel Incognito and The philosopher who was not wise .
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Title : My Friends, My Loves - Marc Levy - Book
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When two thirty-something fathers reinvent their lives by moving under the same roof, they impose two rules: no babysitters and no female presence in the house... In the French village, in the heart of London, a story of friendship, love stories, the intertwined destinies of the characters of a funny and tender comedy.
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Title : The Gates of Hell - Laurent Gaudé - Book
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In the aftermath of a shooting in Naples, Matteo sees all sense of purpose crumble. His little boy is dead. His wife, Giuliana, disappears. He himself sinks into solitude and, night after night, wanders the city streets in his empty taxi without reason. But one evening, he lets a strange customer get into his car who, in exchange for payment, offers him a drink in a tiny café. There, Matteo meets the owner, Garibaldo, the unrepentant priest Don Mazerotti, and especially Professor Provolone, a colorful character, as erudite as he is sulphurous, who makes strange speeches about the reality of Hell. And who claims that one can descend there... Those who die take a little of our life with them to the afterlife, and we despair of ever recovering it, both for themselves and to ease our pain. It is in the awareness of all grief—his own, ours—that Laurent Gaudé opposes death with one of the most powerful myths in the history of humanity. Sunny and dark, captivating and breathtaking, his new novel takes us on a "journey" where time and destiny are diverted by the desire to snatch a being from nothingness.
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Title : The Very Private Life of Mr Sim - Jonathan Coe - Book
Summary : Maxwell Sim is a forty-eight-year-old loser. Doomed to failure from birth (which was unwanted), pursued by failure in adulthood (his wife leaves him, his daughter gently laughs at him), he accepts himself as he is and even finds a certain satisfaction in his condition. But then an unexpected proposition takes him across England at the wheel of a hybrid Toyota, equipped with a GPS with a moving voice, which, through solitude, he will fall in love with. His adventure as a traveling salesman, a salesman of the latest toothbrushes, takes him back to the landscapes and faces of his childhood, notably to his father, about whom he makes strange discoveries: the novel is also a treasure hunt relaunched by the reappearance of letters, journals, manuscripts which introduce as many new elements to the file of the past. And Max always thinks of the Chinese woman and her daughter, seen in a restaurant in Australia, whose understanding and happiness of being together so fascinated him. Will he find them again? And for what new adventure? Joyfully blurring the lines between truth and imposture, Coe the illusionist reserves the last word in the story, which will not fail to surprise us. More than one generation will recognize themselves in this novel which enchants us with a very British humor, much preferable to despair.
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Title : Children of the Earth, Volume 2 - The Valley of Horses - Jean M. Auel - Book
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After the surprise and wonder aroused by Ayla, the young blond-haired stranger they took in, the men of the "bear clan" became afraid of her extraordinary gifts. Because she claimed to hunt like men, because she experienced feelings unknown to them, because she wanted to keep her child for herself, Ayla would be cursed and exiled. "Go in search of your people," Iza the healer told her. "Go north, find your clan and a companion." A long, solitary journey begins, at the end of which Ayla meets two young men. One of them is Jondalar. Like her, he is blond and has blue eyes.
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Title : The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler - Book
Summary : In a house on the outskirts of Stockholm, a family is brutally murdered. Only one boy escapes the massacre, but he hovers between life and death, unconscious. Inspector Joona Linna then decides to use a hypnotist to penetrate the boy's subconscious and attempt to see the carnage through his eyes... A formidably intelligent detective novel and terrifying thriller.
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Title : Without fire or place - Fred Vargas - Book
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Clément Vauquer is a simple soul. He does what he's asked and never asks questions as long as he's left to his only passion: the accordion. When he's accused of being the serial killer terrorizing Paris, Marthe, a former prostitute with a big heart, screams about a miscarriage of justice and asks her friend Louis Kehlweiler to protect "her little one." Louis balks, but Marthe is irresistible. The ideal hideout: the rotten shack he shares with the Evangelists, Mathias, Marc, and Lucien, three friendly scholars and sleuths in their spare time. The investigation can begin.
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Title : The Man with the Blue Circles - Fred Vargas - Book
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Victor, bad luck, what are you doing outside?" For four months, this phrase has accompanied blue circles drawn in chalk, during the night, on the sidewalks of Paris. At the center of these circles, like prisoners, are lost objects: paperclip, candle, pigeon's foot... The phenomenon delights journalists and a few psychiatrists who theorize: a maniac? A gambler? Commissioner Adamsberg, however, is not laughing. These circles and their heterogeneous contents ooze cruelty. He knows it, he feels it: soon, the absurdly innocuous will become tragedy.
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Title : The Emerald Knights - Volume 3 - Trap in the Kingdom of Shadows - Anne Robillard - Book
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At 15, Kira finally achieves her greatest dream and becomes an Emerald Squire. Now accompanying the Knights on missions, the purple princess proves herself a powerful magician during battles against the insect-men army. The lightbearer, the central character of the prophecy, finally sees the light of day. Amecareth then deploys all his forces to eliminate the one whose mission it is to destroy his empire. Will the Crystal Wizard be able to protect the newborn from the sinister machinations of the Black Emperor? While fending off the enemy, Wellan and his valiant Knights must simultaneously answer the distress call of the hybrids of the Shadow Realm, facing terrible dangers in its countless tunnels. They will also discover that the Spirit World is not what it seems.
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Title : A Gift - Toni Morrison - Book
Summary : Set two hundred years before Beloved, A Gift evokes, in the same lyrical and verdant prose that characterized his previous novel, the beautiful, wild and still anarchic world that was 17th-century America. Toni Morrison has rediscovered an urgent, poetic voice that allows her to move swiftly and easily between the worlds of history and myth, between the mundane and the realm of fable. A Gift, the heartbreaking tale of lost innocence and shattered dreams, now ranks alongside Beloved as one of Morrison's most haunting writings to date." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) "The epic force with which Morrison captures space and time surpasses even the skill with which she portrays her characters. She excels at finding a kind of poetry in this brutal, disjointed colonial world, taking her work beyond simply denouncing the infamies of slavery and the difficulties of being African American." (John Updike, The New Yorker)
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Title : The Medal - Danielle Steel - Book
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1940, in a village near Lyon. Gaëlle de Barbet watches in horror as her best friend is arrested by the French police and the German commander requisitions the family home. Her father is killed by the occupiers, and her mother gradually descends into madness. Gaëlle then threw herself body and soul into the Resistance and saved many Jewish children from the clutches of the Nazis. At the end of the war, wrongly accused of collaboration, she left to try her luck in Paris. Years later, her granddaughter waged her own fight to ensure Gaëlle was recognized as the war heroine she was in her youth...
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