Title : Metaphysical Meditations - René Descartes - Book Summary : To lay the foundations of all philosophy and all knowledge, by tracing the path that leads from radical doubt to indubitable science: such is Descartes's undertaking in his Metaphysical Meditations. Throughout this original work, which combines demonstration and asceticism, truth is founded as the reader discovers and forms himself, experiencing, after the uncertainty of all knowledge, the existence of the thinking subject, of God, of material things, the distinction between the soul and the body and their union in man. The Meditations, of which we give here the Latin and French texts, are followed by Objections formulated by illustrious theologians and philosophers - including Arnauld, Hobbes, Gassendi - and the author's Responses, through which the exposition of his metaphysics is extended. EAN: 9782080703286 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sculpture of the Self - Michel Onfray - Book Summary : An aesthetic morality requires us to live a life transfigured by the sculpture of the self : it presupposes overflowing vitality, the restoration of the resurgent virtù against Christian virtue, the talent for heroism that strong individuality allows, consent to abundance, the capacity for magnificence. From a hedonistic perspective, this ethic gives all their power to politeness, elegance, the given word, friendship and elective affinities. It is at this price that a jubilant and resolutely contemporary morality will be possible. Michel Onfray. EAN: 9782253942252 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Librarian - Gudule, Christophe Durual - Book Summary : Why does the old lady who lives across the street from Guillaume write so late at night? Who is this young girl who only leaves her house after dark? To solve these mysteries, Guillaume embarks on a fantastic journey to the land of books and writing. EAN: 9782013218658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Shhh! - Janine Boissard - Book Summary : A beautiful castle surrounded by vineyards, near Cognac. It belonged to Edmond de Saint Junien, producer of the "nectar of the gods." Family motto: "We keep quiet, we hold on!" No matter what. Even when it comes to Roselyne, the eldest daughter, who has been "lost," and of whom there has been no news for years. The arrival at the estate of his eighteen-year-old son, Nils, whose existence was unknown to everyone, will explode a family secret and shatter the apparent unity of the Saint Junien family... "Novelist Janine Boissard is to family sagas what Agatha Christie is to suspense, a high priestess of the genre." Direct Matin EAN: 9782266244442 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Grandfather - Marina Picasso - Book Summary : Picasso, the greatest genius of the century, seen through the eyes of a child, Marina, his granddaughter. In 1973, when the painter died, she was twenty-two years old. For thirty years, she remained silent. It took her all these years to put her suffering into words, to caress this scar with infinite emotion and full of modesty. In the most intimate, the most terrible way, Marina Picasso writes beyond the pain, to where her freedom lies today: her children and those at the ends of the earth. EAN: 9782070427529 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Read at Night - Seamus Deane - Book Summary : Was he a hero or a traitor, this uncle Eddie, an IRA volunteer, whose family legend claims he disappeared in 1922 in a distillery explosion? In Londonderry in the 1950s, the young narrator, the third child in a working-class family of seven, lives under the yoke of this family secret, between a mother closely linked to the mystery and a father kept in ignorance of a truth even more terrible than the one he believes he holds. It is through fragments that Seamus Deane captures the very essence of a distrustful and troubled era, in a city whose social fabric was torn apart by the bloody conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Vibrant and modest, his novel masterfully blends family sorrows and political violence and offers a lyrical and intimate reading of the "Irish problem." EAN: 9782742756780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sleeping Dog - Thomas Perry - Book Summary : They called him the Butcher Boy. At the time, the Mafia couldn't have found a better killer than this man who appreciated a job well done. Now, Michael Schaeffer is a peaceful American citizen living in England. Hidden away because a price has been put on his head. But when the past reawakens and old enmities resurface, Michael Schaeffer understands that his routine life risks turning into a nightmarish odyssey. Hunted by the Mafia, local police, and the FBI, the Butcher Boy is forced to return to his original profession and reconnect with his good old habits. EAN: 9782266112673 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Life is not a punishment - Pascal Dessaint - Book Summary : Our life had its ups and downs, not really high ups, nor really low downs, no, it was just a small swell, not enough to capsize a rubber dinghy. I told myself that if a storm were to upset things, to capsize the dinghy with us in it, it wouldn't be our fault, unless we had checked the weather forecast beforehand and hadn't taken into account the precautionary advice. And then, in that case, it was also possible that other parameters, other interventions would come into play without us being able to do anything about it. That night would fall and another, stronger boat would hit us and send us to the bottom, for example. That's basically what happened. EAN: 9782869309708 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Violation - Darian North - Book Summary : A reception in a castle. Théa leaves the gathering. She takes in the cool of the evening. Then nothing. Pitch black for several months. Waking up from a deep coma, Théa is a mother. Her child was born from a pregnancy she has no memory of. Only recurring nightmares haunted by Ronnlie Rusket, her attacker. He was convicted without her ever having seen him. One thing is certain: he is not the father of her son, David. Fourteen years later, the nightmare begins again. David has set off alone to track down his father. She has received only an email from him from New York, the very city where it all began. To find him, Théa must delve into her past and finally agree to put faces to the ghosts that shattered her life. EAN: 9782266114516 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Third Lie - Agota Kristof - Book Summary : Inter Book Prize 1992 Across the border, the war is over, the dictatorship has fallen. To live, to survive, they had to lie all these years. Klaus and Claus T. discover the hard way that newfound freedom is not synonymous with truth. What if their existence itself was a lie? Thus ends the trilogy inaugurated with The Big Notebook , and translated today in around twenty countries. EAN: 9782020257817 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : King Zibeline's World Tour - Jean-Christophe Rufin - Book Summary : "My friends," cried Benjamin Franklin, "allow me to say that, for the moment, your affair is strictly incomprehensible." "It's a long story," said Auguste. "A very long story," added Aphanasie, his young wife, whom Franklin no longer took his eyes off. "It crosses many countries, it depicts dramas and violent passions, it takes place among distant peoples whose cultures and languages ​​are different from anything known in Europe..." "Never mind! On the contrary, you have piqued my interest..." The authentic story of a young nobleman born in central Europe, a contemporary of Voltaire and Casanova. By turns officer, prisoner, navigator, and expedition leader, he will become king of Madagascar and fight to give this island its freedom and independence. EAN: 9782072793257 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Yorkers - Laura Jacobs - Book Summary : Iris Biddle approaches her forties with discretion and elegance. She left Chicago after an unexpected divorce and settled in New York, where she makes lampshades for a wealthy clientele. What began as a homemaker's hobby has become Iris's livelihood and the darling of Manhattan. Lana Burton is a thirty-four-year-old journalist determined to break into the highly aristocratic world of ballet criticism. She gradually finds her place, experiencing dubious friendships and rivalries along the way. Through the portrait of these two women, Laura Jacobs invites us on a stroll through the heart of a city that gradually becomes the main character and whose heroines transmit a singular palpitation. New Yorkaises is a glamorous and delicate novel. EAN: 9782743611286 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This Too Shall Pass - Milena Busquets - Book Summary : It's summer, Blanca's favorite season. After her mother's death, she leaves Barcelona to settle in the family vacation home in Cadaqués. In this land rich with memories of her childhood, under the Mediterranean sun, she seeks peace. But she doesn't leave alone; a disparate and unlikely group accompanies her: her two ex-husbands, the sons she had with them, her friends Sofía and Elisa, her lover Santi, and, of course, her deceased mother, to whom she never stops talking beyond death, so difficult and unacceptable is this loss. Swimming, boat rides, and naps in the hammock will follow one another, as will those long summer dinners during which words are exchanged as easily as joints or love. Memories then surface, intertwining past and present. Blanca thinks back to that whimsical mother, the free and demanding intellectual she loved so much and hated so much. She mentally writes him a silent and intense letter in which she tries to take stock as honestly as possible of their painfully complex relationship. She tells him in her tender, funny, and poignant words that in the face of death she chooses elegance, lightness, life. She tells him that she chooses summer and Cadaqués because she knows that this, too, will pass. A book highlight at the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, translated and published in some thirty countries, this second novel by Milena Busquets is a small prodigy of balance and intelligence. EAN: 9782070149117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In My Skin - Memoirs of a Prostitute - Kate Holden - Book Summary: Straight to hell. How can a young girl from a good family, cultured and reasonable, fall into the spiral of drugs and prostitution? Kate's story begins with the sounds of Nirvana and the swirls of student parties; it continues in the intoxication of bodies and the ecstasy of illicit experiences. It tells the true story of a flirtation with the devil, of a young woman who discovers her power over men at the same time as her vulnerability to the addictions of drugs and sex. Why did Kate fall? And beyond her personal experience, why do some people give in? This document explains, with disconcerting simplicity, the insidious mechanisms that cause a life to slide into the twists and turns of addiction. It is also a text of great literary significance. "I earned money I never imagined I would earn, I wore velvet dresses and gleamed under the lamps. I walked tall through the crowd, knowing I was desired. I was given luxurious gifts. I was a princess in her kingdom, and men couldn't get enough of me." EAN: 9782350871165 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shadow of Your Smile - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : At a time when the grandnephews of the recently deceased Dr. Alex Gannon are fighting over his fabulous inheritance, should Olivia Morrow reveal the terrible secret that only she now knows? Isn't revealing the existence of her granddaughter Monica a betrayal of the promise she made to her cousin Catherine and a betrayal of her memory? Who could suspect Sister Catherine, a nun on the verge of beatification, of having had a child with Alex at the age of seventeen and then abandoned him? Revealing what Alex himself didn't know would endanger the young girl's life. An enormous inheritance is at stake. Because Alex Gannon, the child's father, who knew nothing of his son's fate, left a colossal fortune upon his death, which his greedy grandnephews are already fighting over. They are ready to do anything to prevent Alex's legal heir, Monica Farrell, daughter of the billionaire's child with Catherine, from receiving the inheritance... By revealing her secret, Olivia not only breaks the promise she made to her cousin, but also endangers her life and that of Monica... A fantastic thriller in which the great Mary Higgins Clark intertwines science, faith and the quest for identity in a breathless race against death. EAN: 9782226208415 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl from the Moon Harbor - Simone Gelin - Book Summary : A first novel...inspired by a few years of teaching experience in a city school. EAN: 9782819500292 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shield of Saint Odile - Yves-olivier Muhlheim - Book Summary : WINNER of the Femme Actuelle prize in the CLASSIC genre: "NOVEL OF SUMMER 2010" President of the Jury: Paulo COELHO 3rd edition of the Summer Novel Prize with FEMME ACTUELLE. 2010 EDITION: 600 manuscripts received (500 classic genre), only 1 winner in the Classic Genre. 1000 reading sheets received to reveal THE winner (best average satisfaction rating of all manuscripts evaluated - excluding thrillers) EAN: 9782917144619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nativities - Michèle Gazier - Book Summary : Two women converse, a mother and her daughter. They exchange, as they say, news, a way of letting the banality of everyday life speak for them and of preserving the complicity and tenderness of silence. But in the interplay of these two voices, stories are born, stories of birth, precisely. "We are born," wrote Rousseau, "so to speak, twice; one to exist and the other to live." Jean-Jacques forgot the women who are also born into life by giving existence and the price they pay for this privilege. Far from the unctuous and glorious natalities of imagery, the stories that intersect here, funny or cruel, pathetic or tender, draw most of their strength from the ability to grasp the ordinary nature of the event, the lived nakedness of this upheaval. We find there, a little, of what is sung elsewhere, the expectation, the wonder, the sharing; but also and always what we are accustomed to keeping quiet, the anguish, the humiliation and this terrible solitude in the face of what is sometimes called being born and sometimes also dying. EAN: 9782020231978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rapture of the Innocents - Taiye Selasi - Book Summary : This is the story of a family, the breakups and heartbreaks that occur within it, and the efforts made by each to work towards reconciliation. In the space of one evening, the peaceful life of the Sai family collapses: Kweku, the father, a Ghanaian surgeon highly respected in the United States, suffers a blatant professional injustice. Unable to bear this humiliation, he abandons Folá, his beautiful Nigerian wife, and their four children. From now on, Olu, their eldest son, will have no other goal than to live the life his father should have had. The twins, the beautiful Taiwo and her brother Kehinde, the renowned artist, will see their adolescence turned upside down by a tragedy that will haunt them long after the fact. Sadie, the youngest, is jealous of all her siblings. But the outbreak of a new tragedy forces them all to question themselves. The experiences and memories of each character intertwine in this irresistibly original and dazzlingly powerful novel, spanning generations and cultures, traveling back and forth between West Africa and the suburbs of Boston, between London and New York. EAN: 9782070142675 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Commercial Court Mafia - A Tour of France's Corruption - Antoine Gaudino - Book Summary : In ten years, the shenanigans within the commercial courts and the proven dishonesty of too many consular magistrates and legal representatives have cost the country a million jobs and businesses billions of francs! This is the distressing assessment drawn up by Antoine Gaudino at the end of a mind-blowing tour of France of this form of institutionalized corruption. From Brittany to the Mediterranean coast, from Bordeaux to Boulogne-sur-Mer, via Bobigny and Nanterre, the former inspector of the Marseille financial brigade, who revealed the scandal of hidden political financing, opens his files, denounces a perverted system, paints an uncompromising portrait of many actors and calls for respect for the law. How can we accept this concerted sharing of spoils among insiders, in defiance of the law? How can we understand that cases can drag on for years, while the fee counter continues to tick? For daring to denounce these practices, a Breton lawyer found himself in prison. Because, it seems, no one should disturb the vultures' meal... All governments, although aware of the extent of the disruption, have so far backed down in the face of pressure from the magistrates and delayed essential reform. EAN: 9782226100221 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Silver Forests - Maurice Rheims - Book Summary : It could be the story of a chance encounter between a man and a woman ten years his senior: he, an obscure lawyer; she, the ultimate heir to a line of foresters. It is the story of an attachment, cemented by the long course of two lives sealed by power, might, and money. And it is much more. What binds these two beings with a bond stronger than the passing years belongs to the universe of the great legend, to the immemorial essence of the world. Between them have never ceased to grow the intertwined roots, the profuse foliage, the dark mosses, and the dense humus of a multitude of trees, woods, and forests. It is this story that makes two lives a mystery. EAN: 9782070742219 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Become a Rock Star (or Not) - Anne Percin - Book Summary : Maxime, who was abandoned in the hands of police officers at the Gare du Nord because of a contraband phone, while his dear Natacha had just boarded a flight to London, is trying to get back on track as best he can after his (failed) Christmas vacation. To avoid going straight back to his parents' house, he finds refuge in Creil, with Uncle Christian, whom he met in Season 1. This loser seems to have never left adolescence, his records, his joints... EAN: 9782812603921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to (well) manage your love story - Anne Percin - Book Summary : He'll have to learn to manage love and friendship, especially the inevitably stormy relationship between Natacha and Alex, Maxime's old girlfriend... Dealing with going out with a Sorbonne student, him, the little high school senior: "Sometimes, I feel like Shrek who married Princess Fiona," he thinks. Dealing with the fact that love can be a bit overwhelming some days, when you'd rather spend your time without your girlfriend strumming your Fender... EAN: 9782812603006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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