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Title: The Sirens of Baghdad - Yasmina Khadra - book
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A descent into the Iraqi abyss. A plea for the triumph of humanism.
"The blow having been fired, the die was cast. My father fell backward, his miserable sweater on his face, his belly gaunt, wrinkled, grayish like that of a dead fish... and I saw, while the family honor was spilling onto the ground, I saw what I must not see at all, what a worthy, respectable son, what a true Bedouin must never see - this softened, repulsive, degrading thing, this forbidden territory, tu, sacrilegious: my father's penis... The end of the line! After that, there is nothing, an infinite void, an interminable fall, nothingness..." Known and acclaimed worldwide, Yasmina Khadra tirelessly explores contemporary history, campaigning for the triumph of humanism. After The Swallows of Kabul (Afghanistan) and The Attack (Israel; Booksellers' Prize 2006), The Sirens of Baghdad (Iraq) is the third installment in the author's trilogy on the dialogue of the deaf between East and West. This novel clearly places the origin of this misunderstanding in people's minds.
EAN: 9782260017127
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Title: Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - book
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I hope that the adventure of little Volanges, which you seem to make so little of, will be taken into account for something: as if it were nothing, to take, in one evening, a young girl from her beloved Lover, to use her afterwards as much as one wishes and absolutely as one's own property, and without further embarrassment; to obtain from her what one does not even dare to demand from all the girls whose job it is; and this, without disturbing her in any way from her tender love... So that after my fantasy has passed, I will put her back in the arms of her Lover, so to speak, without her having noticed anything.
EAN: 9782070338962
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Title: Captain of the Ship - Patrick O'Brian - book
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Our two heroes, Jack Aubrey, an officer in His Majesty George III's navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's doctor, secret agent, and rat and gannet breeder, are back. This time, Napoleon has just broken the Peace of Amiens, and it's a matter of preventing him at all costs from continuing to cast his bloody shadow over Europe. Aubrey finally receives the long-awaited rank of captain and a new command. But what a disappointment when he discovers his ship. The Navy's shortage of ships forces him to take the helm of a vessel unworthy of sailing, equipped with the worst crew the sea has ever seen. The adventure promises to be more eventful than ever!
EAN: 9782266081986
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Title: The Surprise - Patrick O'Brian - book
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The expedition takes Jack Aubrey to the unusual landscapes and scents of the Indian subcontinent - where he seizes a gunboat and storms a nest of enemy spies who are holding prisoner his friend Stephen Maturin, ship's doctor, musician and secret agent. Then he receives the commander of a frigate, the Surprise, with the mission of conveying an ambassador of Her Britannic Majesty to India. Drifting to the coast of Brazil, descending towards the tip of Africa with passage of storms under the Cape of Good Hope, then ascending towards Asia. Scurvy epidemic, tornadoes and monsoons... Dramatic or tragicomic adventures follow one another, on board and at stopovers, in increasingly exotic lands.
EAN: 9782266081979
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Title: Master on Board - Patrick O'Brian - book
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April 1, 1800... Stephen Maturin, an Irish doctor, nudges a young Royal Navy lieutenant, Jack Aubrey, who, enthusiastic about music, spoils his pleasure of hearing a quartet in the Governor's drawing room at Port Mahon (in Minorca). After dinner, these two terribly different men discover they have a lot in common. Aubrey plays the violin, Maturin the cello; they become the best of friends. Napoleon then reigns over Europe. The only one not to be subject to his influence, England, thanks to the finest navy of all time, exercises an implacable blockade against the continent. Aubrey has just been appointed lieutenant aboard a sloop, "La Sophie." He is preparing to hunt down all foreign ships in the Mediterranean. He is missing a doctor on board. So, quite naturally, he suggests that his new friend embark with him.
EAN: 9782266081993
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Title: Mission to the Ionian Sea - Patrick O'Brian - book
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Bold, seafaring hearts. Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy commander, and Stephen Maturin, Her Majesty's doctor and spy, have returned to their beloved vessel, the drum of alarm, and the smell of gunpowder. While the French fleet puts up increasingly fierce resistance to the blockades imposed by the English, their frigate sails towards Greece and its islands, where a new mission awaits them: to conclude an alliance that would allow the Navy to drive the French from the Mediterranean and deal a fatal blow to Napoleon. Will Aubrey succeed in changing the course of history?
EAN: 9782266111256
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Title: Expedition to Mauritius - Patrick O'Brian - book
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Jack Aubrey yearns for the sea. Trapped in the family routine, he dreams only of commanding a ship. A visit from his friend Stephen Maturin, a doctor and secret agent, brings him deliverance. Promoted to commander, Lucky Jack Aubrey returns to service and embarks aboard the "Boadicea." His mission: to neutralize Bonaparte's French frigates based in the Indian Ocean and reclaim Mauritius and Réunion as colonies for the English Crown. A great adventure thus begins for the "Boadicea" and the other Royal Navy vessels that have come to lend a hand.
EAN: 9782266100199
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Title: Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian - book
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They were believed to be dead, buried forever at the bottom of the southern seas. But, thank God, Jack Aubrey and his accomplice Stephen Maturin are alive and have managed to reach the East Indies. Shortly after this event, Aubrey receives orders to return to England. He embarks with Maturin aboard the "Arrow" for a crossing that promises to be calm. Too calm. Soon, fate intervenes and disasters follow one after another. Fire, shipwreck, drifting... Exhausted, half-dead from hunger and thirst, they are picked up by a Royal Navy frigate. They are not out of the woods yet, however, because, in the meantime, the American colonies have just launched a war of independence against England and are waging a merciless struggle. The first ship that appears on the horizon flies the banner of the insurgents... Also available at Pocket, the first five parts of Patrick O'Brian's great maritime saga: "Master on Board", "Captain of the Ship", "The Surprise", "Expedition to Mauritius" and "The Island of Desolation".
EAN: 9782266104272
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Title: The Baltic Citadel - Patrick O'Brian - book
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If anyone had told Jack Aubrey - a Royal Navy captain - and his sidekick Stephen Maturin - a doctor, naturalist, and secret agent - that one day they would face perils on land greater than those of the ocean, they would never have believed it... Yet that's what's happening to them today. They're forced to leave Halifax as quickly as possible, where they planned to celebrate the Navy's victory over an American schooner. Jack, to escape a schemer who has set her sights on him. Stephen, to elude the French and American intelligence agents pursuing him. In England, Stephen is entrusted with a most delicate mission: to land on a fortified island in the Baltic held by a Catalan brigade in the service of the French and convince their leaders to submit. Naturally, he drags Jack into this adventure.
EAN: 9782266107952
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Title: The Harbor of Betrayal - Patrick O'Brian - book
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Jack Aubrey is a resounding success in the Ionian Sea in the Royal Navy's relentless—and sometimes fraught—war against the ogre Napoleon. But the ships and men have suffered. Here is the captain on enforced rest in Malta, and his favorite frigate, "La Surprise," in dry dock. He discovers an island rife with intrigue, poorly governed, infested with rebels and French spies. Female spies too. For whom exactly is the exquisite Laura Fielding, promoted to Her Majesty's secret agent, working, whose audacity and Neapolitan origins raise fears of betrayal? As for this supposed treasure, held by the French retreating to the African coast, it's a trap, of course.
EAN: 9782266112932
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Title: Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian - book
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The Leopard's voyage is halted in the Sargasso Sea. The trade winds have died down. A calm sea immobilizes Captain Jack Aubrey's ship, while on board an unknown infection decimates the crew. Of the 343 sailors on board, only 200 are able-bodied. The ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin, fears the worst. They must dock urgently. So, when the flag of the Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship with no fewer than 74 cannons, appears on the port side, Jack Aubrey understands that the situation is serious. His ship, a fourth-rate vessel, has only 50 artillery pieces and will not be able to repel a boarding. Would flight be the best course of action? But without a strong northeast wind, how can they escape the impending danger? The "Leopard" may well never reach Botany Bay and thus fail in the mission entrusted to it by the Admiralty: to deliver a cargo as precious as it is dangerous.
EAN: 9782266103022
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Title: An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain - book
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In August 2000, a Russian nuclear submarine sank into the accessible depths of the Barents Sea. Vania Altman is believed to be one of the last survivors. In a port in the Arctic Circle, the Altman family holds its breath: they risk once again colliding with history. Half a century after Stalin's death, a former KGB officer now rules Russia. After taking us behind the scenes at the FBI with The Curse of Edgar, Marc Dugain offers here a true fresco of contemporary Russia. Inspired by true events, it reveals the profound contempt for life displayed by the paranoid guardians of the Russian empire.
EAN: 9782072742088
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Title: The Five People I Met Up There - Mitch Albom - book
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For years, 83-year-old Eddie ensured the fair ran smoothly. Ironically, it was here that he recently died, crushed beneath a ride's gondola while trying to save a little girl's life... Arriving in the afterlife, he finds himself embarked on a vast, multicolored and multifaceted ocean where, as in a waking dream, he will have five overwhelming and decisive encounters: Marguerite, his lost love, but also his former infantry captain, an old woman with white hair, a mysterious blue man and a very young Asian woman holding, in her little horribly burned fingers, the secret of Eddie and his destiny...
EAN: 9782266148023
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Title: Asterix Volume 29 - The Rose and the Sword - Albert Uderzo René Goscinny - comic book
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EAN: 9782864970538
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Title: Asterix - Volume 17 - The Land of the Gods - Albert Uderzo René Goscinny - comic book
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EAN: 9782012100176
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Title: The Island of the Forgotten - Victoria Hislop - book
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Summer is ending in Plaka, a village on the north coast of Crete. Alexis, a young Englishwoman with a degree in archaeology, has chosen to go there because it's where her mother was born and lived until she was eighteen. A terrible discovery awaits Alexis, who knows nothing about her family history: from 1903 to 1957, Spinalonga, the island opposite Plaka, which looks so much like a languid animal lying on its back, was a leper colony... and her great-grandmother is said to have perished there. What frightening mysteries does this island, overlooked by the ruins of a Venetian fortress, conceal? Why did Alexis's mother, Sophia, break so violently with her past? The young woman is determined to lift the veil on the heartbreaking destiny of her ancestors and their dark secrets... A moving plea against exclusion, The Island of the Forgotten , translated into twenty-five countries and sold over two million copies, has conquered the entire world.
EAN: 9782253161677
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Title: Between Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, It's Over - Katarina Mazetti - book
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Linnea still has one foot in adolescence and the other already in adulthood. She will lose a little more of her innocence and naivety by associating with Satanism and the New Age movement, at the same time as she will have her first sexual experience and will find herself wandering the streets of Los Angeles. This is enough material to impress your friends, just tell it like a TV series! Pure Mazetti, author of "The Guy from the Grave Next Door"
EAN: 9782742797738
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Title: Temptation of the High Seas - The Centuries of Discoveries - François Bellec - book
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The high seas are those where all coasts have disappeared from a uniform and circular horizon, where the adventurous sailor has no other landmarks than the sun, the stars and the winds. The high seas are also the eye of all legends, of all myths, where the vanished Atlantis, the lost paradise, but also the bubbling maelstroms of hell, are hidden. When sail propulsion won out over the simple oar, pilots learned to use the winds and currents: the Maoris had long known the routes of the Pacific islands when Arabs and Chinese undertook the crossing of the Indian Ocean while the Vikings made short work of the icy seas of the North. It took the courage and the will of a small people from the far West, the Portuguese, to dare to deliberately set out to conquer the unknown seas. It took the determination of a visionary, Christopher Columbus, to bring America to Europe. Thus, over the centuries, sailors opened the oceans, leaving the lands they had discovered by chance beyond the horizon to soldiers, priests, and merchants. Complete with stunning maps and diagrams and original illustrations, this work by Rear Admiral Bellec, director of the Musée de la Marine, is a history of the science of high-seas navigation that led to the discovery of new lands.
EAN: 9782232104145
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Title: Sphinx - Christian Jacq - book
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There are nine of them. Nine representatives of a mysterious brotherhood called the Sphinx . Nine holders of the secrets of life, scattered throughout the world. Nine people sentenced to death by the new masters of technology, followers of the king of money, whose chilling objective is the definitive takeover of the human brain by machines. From New York, they have launched a relentless hunt to eliminate the members of Sphinx one by one. This is without taking into account the determination of a Scottish journalist, Bruce Reuchlin, a formidable investigator, ready to take all risks to thwart their diabolical plan. For Bruce, every step now poses a deadly threat. The further he advances in his investigation, the more the question frightens him: who really rules our world?
EAN: 9782845639171
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Title: Reiki - Heal Yourself - Brigitte Muller, Horst-H Günther - book
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Reiki (pronunciation (Re-ki), is the ancient healing art of the laying on of hands, rediscovered in Japan at the end of the 19th century by a Christian monk, Dr. Mikao Usui. In Japanese, Reiki means "universal life energy": the space around us, the universe, is filled with infinite and inexhaustible energy. It is this universal, original and creative force that keeps everything alive. With Reiki, this natural healing energy flows in a powerful and concentrated form into the hands of the Reiki giver. He can direct it onto his own body or any other organism. "Reiki, Heal Yourself" gives a vivid and concrete description of Reiki and is aimed at both the seeker and the practitioner. It is based on the authors' moving experiences as well as their long seminar practice developed over many years in Germany and abroad. The reader will learn the history of Reiki from its creation and rediscovery to its contemporary use and daily. The numerous testimonials from trainees and practitioners put Reiki "within our reach." A universal life force that accompanies us always and everywhere, Reiki is a help for ourselves, for our neighbor, for plants, for animals and for planet Earth. Reiki is the gift of healing hands.
EAN: 9782844458759
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Title: The President Has Vanished - Bill Clinton, James Patterson - book
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"On May 1st, a group of pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russian separatists stormed a farm in Algeria where they thought they would find Suliman Cindoruk, with the intention of killing him... However, they were stopped, Mr. President. By a Special Forces and CIA commando. And Cindoruk took the opportunity to escape. Why would the President of the United States order American soldiers to save the life of a terrorist? There are secrets only a president can know, there are decisions only a president can make, and sometimes he has to consider the unthinkable... In this jointly written story, the writer and the former president take us on a 72-hour wild ride that mixes state secrets, impeachment proceedings, plots, traitors, and an unprecedented terrorist attack that could well plunge all of America into the "Dark Ages."
We turn the pages without even realizing it, and above all, we revel in the details provided by Clinton. A novel mastered from the first line to the last. The Parisian.
This book moves like Air Force One. It's fast and powerful. Michael Connelly.
Captivating from the first page. An incredible read! Mary Higgins Clark.
Translated from English (United States) by Dominique Defert, Carole Delporte and Samuel Todd.
EAN: 9782253258421
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Title: The Incredible Secret - Clive Cussler - book
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Mission: to find at all costs a document worth its weight in gold that could trigger a war. Two of the world's best secret agents, Dirk Pitt, the American, and Brian Shaw, the Englishman, compete in a mad race to get their hands on this incredible secret that has been missing for seventy-five years but which the beautiful Heidi Milligan, a brilliant officer in the American Navy, accidentally discovered.
EAN: 9782253037996
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Title: A Dog at My Table - Claudie Hunzinger - book
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One evening, a young dog, dragging a nasty story with her broken chain, appears at the door of an old couple: Sophie, a novelist who loves nature and walks in the forest, and her companion Grieg, already out of the world, sleeping during the day and reading at night, surviving thanks to literature. Where does this wounded beast come from? What has she been through? Are people chasing her? Her arrival will transform the old age of the world, that of a couple, that of a woman, into an ode to life.
EAN: 9782290384978
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