Title : The Woman Who Decided to Spend a Year in Bed - Sue Townsend - Book
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For seventeen years, Eva has seen her life slip away from her in her hectic daily life as a mother and housewife. Until the day she goes to bed... and decides to stay there! But word spreads, and soon a crowd of admirers flock to her bedside. Burnout or feminist strike, will Eva find meaning in this unprecedented gesture? The high priestess of British satirical comedy highlights the absurdities of modern life in a fable that is as dark as it is wildly funny. "God save British female novelists, they are irresistible." She
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Title : Innocent - Amy Lloyd - Book
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If she trusts him, why is she afraid of him? Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was arrested and imprisoned for the murder of a young girl in Red River, a small Florida town. While he remains on death row, Netflix is preparing a documentary about his story to seek a retrial. The numerous miscarriages of justice attest to this: Danson's arrest appears to have been framed. Thousands of miles away in England, Samantha, a young teacher, obsessively follows Dennis's case. They begin a pen-and-paper relationship, and soon Samantha leaves her life and her demons behind to join Dennis, marry him, and work for his release. When Dennis is finally released, their return to Red River plunges Samantha into the murky waters of a secluded community, frozen by hatred and haunted by the ghosts of its past. But who to believe and who to turn to when everyone seems to be lying to protect their own secrets? "Written with panache, the book skillfully captures the nature of obsession and its consequences, building to a climax that Patricia Highsmith would have admired." Daily Mail “Intelligent and fast-paced, this debut novel will captivate you.” Sunday Mirror
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Title : The Passenger - Jean-Christophe Grangé - Book
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I am the shadow. I am the prey. I am the killer. I am the target. To escape, there is only one option: to flee the other. But what if the other is myself? Grangé has a knack for constructing his long-running plot with watchmaker-like precision, making credible what his overflowing imagination invents in a totally unbridled manner. Bravo, artist! Blaise de Chabalier, Le Figaro littéraire.
Diabolically constructed according to the principle of Russian dolls, The Passenger is devoured with a mixture of terror and jubilation. Grangé explores the tenuous line that separates reason from madness. The blurred line between good and evil. He draws us into abysses that are all the more distressing because he has drawn them from the ordinary—barely exaggerated—of contemporary society and its excesses. Hubert Lizé, Today in France.
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Title : Wandering Souls - Stephenie Meyer - Book
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Earth is invaded. Humanity is in danger. Our bodies remain the same, but our minds are controlled. Melanie Stryder has just been captured. However, she refuses to give way to the being who is trying to possess her. Somewhere, hidden in the desert, there is a man she cannot forget. Can love save her?
We find what made Stephenie Meyer famous: a boundless imagination and an accessible style. Leisure TV. More mature and stronger than its four volumes, this thriller romance by Stephenie Meyer abolishes the line between children's and adult literature. Nathalie Lacube, La Croix.
Indiana Jones, Asterix, Dune, good ET, bad Alien and a few other references... We find it all in this novel by Stephenie Meyer. And we turn the pages more and more... Jocelyne Remy, The Public Good.
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Title : The Kreutzer Sonata / The Devil / Marital Happiness - Leo Tolstoy - Book
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Love stories that fall apart, characters tormented by their feelings, attractions, and impulses, couples that tear each other apart until death: these are the subjects addressed by Tolstoy in these three stories. The author becomes a moralist and analyzes all the upheavals of relationships between men and women, ranging from desire seen as a drug to married life, experienced as a gradual disenchantment. Denouncing sensuality, debauchery, but also marriage "set up from scratch like a trap" (The Kreutzer Sonata), Tolstoy paints a picture of human relationships that is as fascinating as it is frightening: does a love story inevitably become a story of hate?
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Title : Frozen Memories document - Nicolas Vanier - Book
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After more than twenty years of traveling in the highlands, Nicolas Vanier looks back on his fabulous journeys through Siberia, the Canadian Far North, Alaska, and Lapland. With great humor, he recounts his adventures, alone, with family or in a team, in the company of Indians, trappers or Inuit. Through his memories, he offers us his perspective and his vision of the world, the urgency to stop the degradation of this planet. What better way to convince us of this than to take us to the heart of sublime and unknown territories, where the trace of man disappears before the majestic one of nature?
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Title : The Double Oath of the Templar - Lucille Carameaux - Book
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We are now in the 12th century, at the time of the Crusades, the creation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Order of the Temple. The story told is that of the love affair between Arnaud, son of an Ardennes nobleman, and Aelis, daughter of a local lord, both pursued by Enguerrand, Arnaud's half-brother, who hates him and wants to marry Aelis. Convinced that Aelis has betrayed him, Arnaud decides to go to the Holy Land. There, he meets a Templar who befriends him. He decides to become a Knight Templar himself. But Aelis, who was forced to marry Enguerrand, manages to escape and join Arnaud, whom she still loves, in Jerusalem. A long struggle thus begins for Arnaud, torn between his commitment to God and the love he feels for Aelis. Caught up in the whirlwind of history, will Arnaud and Aelis be able to find each other again? A beautiful historical novel that takes us from the Ardennes to Palestine, introduces us to many of the great figures of the time, and describes this extraordinary and eventful period with great accuracy. A story that will appeal to all those who love history and love stories.
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Title : Towards the Sun - Julien Sandrel - Book
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August 2018. Tess heads to Tuscany, where she's due to join her daughter, Sienna, and her uncle, Sacha, for the holidays. But while she's staying with a friend in Genoa, the house collapses on top of her. A section of the Morandi Bridge has just collapsed, burying the area. Tess is missing. When Sacha learns of the disaster, their entire shared world is shattered. All their lies too. Because Sacha isn't really this little girl's uncle: he's an actor, hired to play this particular role a few days a month for three years. A role he no longer feels like he's playing, so attached has he become to Sienna and her mother. As dangerous secrets resurface, Sacha knows he has only hours to decide what to do if Tess doesn't emerge from the rubble alive: lose this child to whom he has no legal connection forever... or follow his heart and run away with her? In the meantime, he decides to keep the truth from Sienna and protect her at all costs.
EAN: 9782253934882
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Title : The Straw Men - Michael Marshall Smith - Book
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Palmerston, Pennsylvania, October 1991. Two men, wearing long coats and armed with semi-automatic rifles, gun down sixty-eight people in a fast-food restaurant. Before fleeing, they leave these words, written in blood: "The Straw Men." Santa Monica, California, eleven years later. A teenage girl, Sarah Becker, is kidnapped. Around the same time, a couple is killed in a car accident in Montana, leaving a hidden message in the father's armchair: "We are not dead." Three news stories, three mysteries whose key is buried under a leaden blanket.
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Title : Diary of a Pain in the Ass - Laurent Gaulet - Book
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365 days in the shoes of a first-class pain in the neck
Spend a whole year with a first-class pain in the ass. What if it was you? A book full of ideas you should never put into practice if you want to keep some friends... July 13 This morning, it's time to head off on a well-deserved vacation! But I'm afraid my downstairs neighbor will miss me... To remind him of me, I placed my alarm clock on the floor and set it to ring, with the volume turned up, every morning, including weekends, at 5:35 a.m.
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Title : Never Never Season 1 - Colleen Hoover - Book
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Charlie and Silas have begun to understand what happened to them: they have both lost their memories and remember nothing. They have to rediscover everything, but an unforeseen event has further complicated things. Their memories faded again after a few hours, forcing them to start all over again. Yet they make progress in their quest for memories and for themselves. They are now allies in this search despite everything that has separated them and that they must rediscover. And above all, they know that the explanation for this amnesia could be within them and that "never, never," this expression they find everywhere in their past, may be the key to everything.
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Title : The Chamber of Wonders - Julien Sandrel - Book
Summary : Louis is 12 years old. This morning, as he tries to tell his mother, Thelma, that he's in love for the first time, he sees that she's thinking about something else, probably about her work. So he leaves, angry and disappointed, with his skateboard, and races across the street. A truck hits him head-on.
The prognosis is grim. In four weeks, if there is no improvement, Louis's ventilator will have to be disconnected. Coming home from the hospital, desperate, Thelma finds a notebook under her son's mattress. Inside, he has listed all his "wonders"—the experiences he would like to have in his lifetime.
Thelma makes a decision: page after page, she will accomplish these wonders in his place. If Louis hears her adventures, he will see how beautiful life is. Maybe it will help him come back. And if Louis is to die in four weeks, through her he will have lived the life he dreamed of.
But it's not so easy to live out a teenager's dreams when you're almost forty...
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Title : The Flight of the Hornet - Ken Follett - Book
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June 1941. The skies belong to Hitler. Most British bombers fall under enemy fire. As if the Luftwaffe were able to detect the planes... Could the Germans have outdone the British in the development of this new strategic tool: radar? Winston Churchill, deeply concerned by the situation, asks his top agents to clarify the matter as quickly as possible. Harald, an eighteen-year-old Dane determined to fight the German occupiers, has discovered a top-secret German installation that seems to predict the arrival of English bombers. His discovery could turn the tide of the war. But who should he reveal it to? Who can he trust? Harald knows too much; he risks death. Aboard the Frelon, his makeshift biplane, he will risk his life to share his discovery.
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Title : The Reader - Traci Chee - Book
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Once upon a time, and once there will be... Thus begins the story of Sefia, who lost her mother, her father, and then her aunt Nin because of a strange rectangular object. This is a book. In a world where no one can read, Sefia must pursue a triple quest for meaning, truth, and revenge. Supported by a mysterious ally with dark secrets of his own, she will travel jungles and seas, following the stories that make History with a capital H... The first volume of a best-selling trilogy in the United States. A unique reading experience. A masterful novel full of hidden content.
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Title : Fascination - Stephenie Meyer - Book
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Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves sunny Arizona where she lived with her mother to move in with her father. She thinks she's giving up everything she loves, certain she'll never get used to the rain or the small town of Forks. Meeting Edward, a disturbingly handsome high school student her age, might change her mind... What mysteries does this elusive being with such changeable moods hide? Both attractive and unattainable, Edward Cullen is not human. He is beyond that. Bella is convinced of it.
Here is the first volume of the phenomenal saga Twilight sold more than one hundred and twenty million copies worldwide.
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Title : The Inheritance - Volume 3 - Brisingr - Christopher Paolini - Book
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Eragon has a double promise to keep: to help Roran free his fiancée, Katrina, from the Ra'zacs, and to avenge the death of his uncle Garrow. Saphira takes the two cousins to Helgrind, the Gates of Death, lair of monsters. However, since Murtagh took Zar'oc, the sword Brom gave him, Eragon is armed only with the old storyteller's staff.
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Title : The Third Prophecy - Wilbur Smith - Book
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The first two predictions came true: after the locust invasion predicted by the oracle, an epidemic decimated the livestock. The fulfillment of the third prophecy would signal the uprising... The third volume of the Ballantyne family history. Defeated by the Whites, the Matabele are not subdued. Bazon, the nephew of their last king, foments his people's rebellion while pretending to agree to work for the invader. But the revolt can only be triggered when, in a very distant eventuality, the enemy soldiers leave their lands. And the miracle occurs! Tasked with subduing the South African Boers, the English expeditionary force leaves the territory of what is not yet Rhodesia, marking the fulfillment of the third prophecy. The bloodbath can begin. It will sweep away the entire Ballantyne family like a torrent...
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Title : The Leopard Hunts by Night - Wilbur Smith - Book
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The fourth and final volume in the history of the Ballantyne family. When Craig Mellow, who has just achieved success in New York with his first novel, returns to his native Zimbabwe, he hopes to rediscover the paradise of his childhood. But he is quickly plunged into the hell of tribal rivalries. Craig is initially surprised and delighted by the ease with which, thanks to the Mashona minister Peter Fungabera, he buys his family's estate. And when he falls in love with the young Sally-Ann Jay, a talented photographer, his happiness seems assured. However, his former friend, Matabele Tungata, Minister of State, has given him a strangely hostile welcome. For Zimbabwe's political life is only apparently calm. In reality, Matabele and Mashona are violently clashing, and Craig finds himself the victim of these internal struggles. He and Sally-Ann are tricked by Fungabera into participating in a scheme to frame Tungata for the mastermind of a massive poaching and ivory trafficking operation. When Fungabera turns against him, confiscating his property and accusing him of being a CIA agent, Craig finally understands his naiveté. To defend his ancestral land, he will have to fight in a war-torn country. A sweeping novel, like the Zambezi: by turns tumultuous, rugged, profound, and generous.
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Title : Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith - Book
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Ripley wanted it all: money, success, the good life. He was willing to kill to get it all... Patricia Highsmith's second novel, Mr. Ripley , is the birth certificate of one of the most extraordinary detective novel characters of all time: Tom Ripley, an immoralist as seductive as he is dangerous, cynical and extraordinarily intelligent. Charged by a wealthy American to bring back his son who has gone to Italy, he soon devises a diabolical plan: to replace the prodigal son, and live a gilded life in his place... This "superbly amoral" book ( The Times ), winner of the Grand Prix for detective literature in 1957, was adapted for the screen twice. In 1959, by René Clément, with Alain Delon in the lead role, under the title Plein soleil . In 2000, by the English director Anthony Minghella, with a host of young American actors, including Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law, under the title The Talented Mr. Ripley .
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Title : Fontbrune - Brigitte Le Varlet - Book
Summary : Adeline Gontier was born in 1806. Orphaned at the age of three, she was raised by her grandmother and uncle Elie in Fontbrune, in the heart of the Périgord Noir. Without a dowry, her future seemed uncertain.... But Adeline was blessed with an excellent nature: energetic, bold, full of common sense, adoring life and endowed with a fiery temperament. What a spirited woman! Between sowing, harvesting, and grape harvesting, in the scent of mushrooms and heather, in the land of sorcerers and feasting, where patience, cunning, and secrecy reign, but where people have a nimble tongue and a broad laugh, Adeline was loved and loved passionately, violently, but also with a rare tenderness. Through its beautiful heroine and its many characters, Fontbrune is a great historical novel that paints a fascinating picture of provincial France in the aftermath of the Napoleonic epic.
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Title : In the Eye of the Angel - Andréa Japp - Book
Summary : Gloria Parker-Simmons was determined never to work for the FBI again. Because of the danger, but also because of the painful ghosts of her past. When Cagney, her former colleague and fleeting lover, asks her to return to duty, she resists. But murders are on the rise around the thriving Caine ProBiotex vaccine company. A former employee, then Edward Caine's wife, and his English associate, Terry, are brutally murdered. When she discovers the extent of the scandal that is being covered up, Gloria will no longer be able to say no. We are all in the eye of the angel, and certain causes force us to come out of ourselves. Death drives, money frenzy, suspense... After The Parable of the Killer and The Female of the Species , Andrea H. Japp, a worthy rival to Patricia Cornwell, strikes again. Very hard!
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Title : God and we alone can - Michel Folco - Book
Summary : Certainly, the first of the Pibracs did not have the vocation. If the lord of Bellerocaille, in Aveyron, had not urgently needed an executioner, if Pibrac had not had to choose between this state and the galleys, there is no doubt that he and his descendants would not have adopted the motto of those familiarly called "executioners": God and we alone can.
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