Title : The Slow Waltz of the Turtles - Katherine Pancol - Book Summary : This book is a gust of life... A burning kiss from the only one you must not kiss... Two arms that embrace or kill... A disturbing man, but so charming... A woman who trembles and hopes ardently... A man who lies so skillfully... A woman who thinks she's leading the dance, but passes her turn... Teenagers more aware than the adults... A man who plays the ghost... A father, up there in the stars... who whispers in his daughter's ear... A dog so ugly that we move out of his way... Characters who move forward stubbornly... like stubborn little turtles... who would learn to dance slowly, slowly... in a world too fast, too violent... After the extraordinary success of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (more than 500,000 copies sold), a highly anticipated sequel. EAN: 9782226182319 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Woman - Tim Winton - Book Summary : Fred Scully and his wife Jennifer have decided to leave Australia for a new life in Europe. They fall in love with an old house in southern Ireland. The days are long in this uncomfortable house at the foot of Leap Castle, haunted by ghost riders. Scully is renovating it while waiting for his wife and daughter to go back to Australia to settle some business. Their return is announced, but at the airport, Scully sees only his daughter Billie. His wife has disappeared and his daughter is mute. So begins a desperate flight for Scully and Billie across Europe, to the places where they had lived as a family. The more the hunt progresses, the more mysterious Jennifer's disappearance becomes, the more Scully feels tortured and alone. Billie will save him. EAN: 9782743604301 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vienna at Night - Naguib Mahfouz - Book Summary : Cairo in the 1930s, on the eve of World War II: as an ancient nation enters modernity, a family finds itself faced with the difficulties of daily life. Left destitute after the death of their father, the mother, an omnipresent figure—a living incarnation of eternal Egypt—and her four children manage to overcome a series of trials, allowing them to hope for better days. But this was to ignore the curse that haunts this family. Through the individual destinies of his characters, Naguib Mahfouz leads us into a profound meditation on the secrets of life and human beings, free will and fate, Good and Evil. EAN: 9782070405701 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wild Swans - Jung Chang - Book Summary : The granddaughter of a concubine and a "warlord," and the daughter of high-ranking communist officials, Jung Chang lived in a "cocoon of privilege" until 1965. The Cultural Revolution, with its trail of denunciations and persecutions, placed China under a reign of terror. Jung saw her parents interned in a reeducation camp while she was deported to the countryside where she would become a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a factory worker, and more. Today, Jung Chang, living in Great Britain, offers us these memoirs of a Chinese family, from the Celestial Empire to Tiananmen. A relentless indictment of the Cultural Revolution, a magnificent book of memories woven around three generations of women, an irreplaceable historical testimony to the China of yesterday and today. EAN: 9782266055437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When Politicians Let Go! Bon mots, slips of the tongue and meanness - Olivier Clodong - Book Summary : Making people laugh is second nature to politicians. When politicians let loose, it's a festival of ferocity. Everyone would die for a witty remark, an ironic witticism, a cruel retort that shuts up their opponent, wins over public opinion by sparking general hilarity. None of the big names are absent: from Clemenceau to Santini, including de Gaulle, Chirac, Chevènement, but also all the players in the 2012 presidential election. Olivier Clodong has selected 200 short political phrases and describes the context in which they were launched. Olivier CLODONG teaches political communication. He is notably the author of Policies and wooden language and of Storytelling in action at Éditions Eyrolles. EAN: 9782755506099 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of Marcel Proust - Robert Dreyfus - Book Summary : Published in 1926, these Memories of Marcel Proust bring together letters from Marcel Proust to Robert Dreyfus. The correspondence begins when the former was 17, in 1888, and ends in 1920, two years before his death. We follow the writer at each stage of his life: from the Lycée Condorcet to the years of writing In Search of Lost Time , including his first social events. Proust talks about friendship, salons, but also literature. He mentions Gobineau and Ruskin. Robert Dreyfus frames these letters with autobiographical notes, portraits, and critical comparisons between the life and work of his friend. The new presentation of the book also reveals some mysteries. Dreyfus censored some of Proust's expressions, replacing them with words he deemed more appropriate. Marcel Proust's "affectionately" becomes "yours truly," for example. Propriety, when you hold us... A stroll through the private life of one of the greatest French novelists of the 20th century. EAN: 9782246810346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mushrooms / how to recognize them - Lamaison/Chaumeton - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782263001611 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Profession - Treasure Inventor - Michel Bagnaud - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782850182754 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sleep of the Bear - Christian Gernigon - Book Summary : In Moscow, at the height of winter, homeless people are having their throats slit on the banks of the Moskva River. Fear sets in. In this climate of insecurity, a French boss disappears during a business trip. His distraught daughter Claire calls in the militia. Kidnapping? Runaway? Murder? Inspector Alexei Prigov discovers a link between this disappearance and the murders of the homeless. What political stakes lie behind this sordid affair? Why is Prigov being intimidated? In the clandestine and disturbing world of today's Moscow, populated by strange characters and teeming with outcasts, Claire and Alexei cannot imagine the threat hanging over them and the entire country. We must not wake the sleeping bear... EAN: 9782226057297 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Suzanne's Destiny - The True Canson Affair - Mark Hunter - Book Summary : In 1985, the Louvre Museum acquired, under incredible circumstances, The Sevillian Gentleman, a magnificent full-length portrait by Murillo, the 17th- century Spanish master . Three years later, a scandal broke: the painting's heiress, Suzanne de Canson, died some time after the transaction, stripped of everything, in appalling and highly suspicious circumstances. The young Toulon judge Jean-Pierre Bernard, in charge of the investigation, quickly implicated several prominent figures in what became known as the Canson affair, including Louvre curator Pierre Rosenberg and the famous Marseille lawyer Paul Lombard, while other players in the drama, such as Jack Lang, Jacques Vergès, and Georges Kiejman, clashed in front of the media. Mark Hunter, an American journalist living in Paris, was immediately struck by the Balzacian depth of the case, this unique collision of art, power, and crime, this universe of dark passions where a former bar owner deals as an equal with the Louvre. In January 1989, he set to work. Five years of investigation and hundreds of interviews allowed him to slip into the shoes of each of the main actors in the drama, to unearth facts that had "escaped" justice, and to show through this implacable account that the verdict handed down by the Var Assize Court in October 1991 did not answer all the questions. Far from it. Mark Hunter published The Longest Days with Odile Jacob in 1990. EAN: 9782213592633 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm coming - Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam - Book Summary : I Come verifies Baudelaire's great lesson, namely that the world only runs on misunderstanding. I Come churns out the subjects that upset, racism that dies hard, old age that is a shipwreck, the family that is anything but a haven of peace. I Come illustrates the inept laws of existence and their multiple variants: love is not loved, common sense is the least shared thing in the world, adults are children, the rich reproduce among themselves and prosper on the backs of the poor, etc. But however overwhelming it may be, reality should be able to be written without acrimony, in a language that would be that of farce or vaudeville: I Come is also Charonne's proclamation of her desire to right wrongs, to speak out against inept laws and to spread over the world a breath of benevolence that would dissipate its lethargy and bitterness. EAN: 9782818035412 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Valet - Michel Host - Book Summary : Goncourt Prize 1986 Paris. The river. Privileged places and routes, from the Quai de Bercy to the Quai du Point-du-Jour, from the southern suburbs to the Pont-au-Change... An apartment, Quai des Grands-Augustins... In the confinement he shares with his mother, the narrator, Philippe Archer, leads a quest that throws him on the trail of a distant, unknown, or worse, unrecognized mother, and on those of Charles-Evariste, his father, the one his childish imagination made a "hero," a sort of warrior demigod, who disappeared during the turmoil of the war and the Resistance. Paula Rotzen, a young Jewish girl, like Ariane, will guide Philippe until he finds what he is looking for and makes the two decisions that will henceforth guide his existence. If the hymn to the city and its river is at the center of the book, it is because vast and terrible water is needed to launch the vessels: "I love the city like a mother long underestimated. I love it with a cannibalistic love. To feed myself, I tear its flesh which always reforms in its inexhaustible generosity. You are the infinite region. The only region habitable for weak beings, destitute as I am. They find there diversion and food, enough true life, enough illusion to believe themselves alive." EAN: 9782246373919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fall of the Hawk - Lucio-Maria Attinelli - Book Summary : The modern mafia novel. A suspense thriller with a disturbing taste of truth. On the threshold of the third millennium, the mafia has changed its face. It is a major investor who, from the Atlantic to the Urals, infiltrates all the economic circuits of the planet. At the head of this reconversion is a refined and beyond all suspicion, a Palermo native with a degree from American universities, the Godfather of Godfathers: Joe Licata. Around him, the terror followers have not all disappeared. Licata must outpace the most bestial of them, his longtime adversary, the Sicilian Toto LaRosa, known as the Sparrowhawk. LaRosa brought down former Italian Prime Minister Giulo Andreotti. Now, he threatens police officers and magistrates with death. And His Holiness Pope John Paul II himself. His ferocious ambition compromises the future of the Honorable Society. A woman will push Licata to wage his final battle against him. From Palermo to New York, from Chicago to Moscow, via Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, intelligence will have to measure up to strength, and the art of strategy will have to respond to the sinister vendetta. The man who emerges victorious from this confrontation will be the Godfather of the year 2000. EAN: 9782221078815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Power of the Angel - Bryce Courtenay - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856164914 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the Mona Lisa Spoke - Jean Diwo - Book Summary : A young Sicilian painter, Antonello, sets off on muleback to Bruges to seek out a well-kept secret: oil painting, discovered by Van Eyck. A crazy bet that he wins. Antonello of Messina brings the formula for the new solvent back to Italy after three years of dramatic, humorous, and romantic adventures. From Florence to Rome, from Naples to Flanders, from Milan to the court of Francis I, we follow the prodigious traveling theater of the geniuses of the Renaissance. These actors who give each other the cue with passion, who live their art and their faith until death, love and hate, are called Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Savonarola, the Medici, Raphael, Machiavelli, Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia... We must also add to this fabulous cast the popes, the princes, the condottieri who accompany with the clash of their weapons the most magnificent blossoming of masterpieces in history. This was the time when Leonardo, between two inventions of flying machines, listened to the Mona Lisa speak, whose mysterious face he painted. This poplar panel, which he brought to Amboise in his luggage ten years later, would become the legendary "Mona Lisa." Those who loved Les Dames du faubourg and Les Violons du Roi will rediscover, in the novel of this magical century, the simple and direct art of Jean Diwo and the pleasure of learning history through the daily lives of those who made it. EAN: 9782080666130 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Motionless Watchman - Claire Bonnafé - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782715808041 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Victory in extremis - Harry Stein - Book Summary : In the temple of medical research against cancer, an impressive thriller: in the race to discover a miracle cure, how far will doctors and researchers go? A disturbing dive into a world where personal ambition and financial interests take precedence over concern for human life.... In Washington, at the prestigious American Foundation for the Fight Against Cancer, young Dr. Daniel Logan is recruited as a researcher. It's the chance of a lifetime. But very quickly, he runs into the arrogance of the internationally renowned mandarins who hold the reins of the Foundation. When he discovers, with the support of his beautiful Italian colleague, Dr. Sabrina Como, a revolutionary protocol, carrying very high hopes, everything will change. Daniel Logan becomes the plaything of a machination all the more unimaginable... as time is running out for a very special patient: the wife of the President of the United States. EAN: 9782221079515 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Landfall - Ellen Urbani - Book Summary : On this September morning in 2005, eighteen-year-old Rose Aikens is preparing to head to New Orleans. She's going to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina. But on the road, her car leaves the road and hits a young girl. This stranger, who died in the accident, alone and without any identification, soon obsesses her. Especially since in her pocket is a page from a phone book with the Aikens' contact information. Rose then has no choice but to retrace the victim's journey, step by step, through the hurricane and a city in ruins. Landfall is a gripping novel that reveals the intertwined destinies of two young girls, one white, the other Black. Ellen Urbani paints the portrait of strong and tender women who know how to fight in the heart of the storm. EAN: 9782351780985 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sarum - Edward Rutherfurd - Book Summary : Almost a thousand tightly packed pages for a Michener-esque novelistic undertaking, but coming from England. Sarum is the ancient name for Salisbury, and this great fresco tells the story of the surrounding country, from prehistory to the present day, following the destiny of five family dynasties at different points in time. A vast, well-documented and ever-present chronicle for lovers of long, non-lengthy novels. EAN: 9782856164594 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Streets of Yesterday - Silvia Tennenbaum - Book Summary : Moritz Wertheim runs a prosperous textile business that he will soon pass on to his sons, and in particular to Eduard, the youngest of the siblings, who has just returned from the United States. The Wertheims begin this promising 20th century with serenity alongside their fellow citizens. They are a perfectly assimilated Jewish family who participate in German economic life, celebrate Christmas, and are ready to do anything to defend the Empire, like Eduard, who enlists in the army when the Great War is declared. But with the ensuing defeat and the crisis spreading throughout the country, tension is now palpable in the streets of Frankfurt. The first anti-Jewish laws are passed, and the rise of anti-Semitism forces some members of the Wertheim family to leave. Eduard goes to Switzerland, his brother Jacob to the Netherlands, and their nephews and nieces to the United States or even Palestine. Then World War II broke out, leading several family members to their deaths, leaving the survivors devastated by the discovery of what their country had done to their loved ones. By multiplying the perspectives and sensibilities of these fabulous characters who populate her family saga, Silvia Tennenbaum accurately depicts the complexity of the history of the German Jewish bourgeoisie. Its particular relationship to religion and patriotism, but also its role in the great ideologies of the time: nationalism, communism, and Zionism. The author takes us through these lives, which compose a moving fresco of the first half of the 20th century. EAN: 9782070145720 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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