Title : Passage of Desire - An investigation by Lola Jost and Ingrid Diesel - Dominique Sylvain - Book Summary : Lola Jost, a former police commissioner on early retirement, and Ingrid Diesel, an American masseuse with a troubled past, are neighbors. Nothing brings them together, except for a sordid crime committed in their neighborhood. To find the culprit, this colorful, improbable, and colorful duo delves into the worlds of prostitution, gore cinema, and the twisted world of an obsessive killer. Dominique Sylvain was born in 1957 in Lorraine. She began her career as a journalist, then moved to Japan, where she wrote her first crime novel. She is the author of numerous detective novels, including The Absence of the Ogre , also available in Points. "This novel has won over authors as talented as they are prestigious." She Grand Prix of the readers of She 2005 EAN: 9782757811863 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the veins this river of silver - Dario Franceschini - Book Summary : As his life approaches its autumn, Primo Bottardi decides to return to the places of his youth and find a friend who had asked him forty years earlier a question he had been unable to answer. His journey takes him back to the banks of the Po, among the sturgeon fishermen, in an atmosphere of mist and water that transforms the plain into an infinite mirage. The immemorial presence of the river permeates the actions of men. It nourishes their lives, insinuates itself into their dreams and sometimes seizes them with fear or terror, until the final tragedy which gives the story the definitive accents of myth. One could speak of this novel as "magical realism". The slowness of the journey, the picturesqueness of the characters, the sweetness of the encounters and the spell of many episodes contrast with the silent and obscure pressure of destiny that one feels weigh dully and which will finally reveal its face in an unforgettable and devastating scene. EAN: 9782070437955 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lies and Confidences - Hailey North - Book Summary : Since the disaster of a wedding that never happened, Stacey St. Cyr, director of the advertising agency she created in New Orleans, leaves nothing to chance, especially not her love life. In fact, she no longer has one. Until the day Donna Bell, her friend, convinces her to go on vacation... Stopping in Doolittle, a small, remote town in Arkansas, was certainly not part of her plans. Nor was meeting Michael Halliday. But love and chance play a role. Then, from misunderstandings to misunderstandings, from lies to unforeseen events, the imbroglio quickly reaches its peak and Stacey is besieged. Trapped by love, chained by its contradictions, in this strange battle, she can only be saved by humor. If it comes to her rescue... EAN: 9782290331507 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Idiss - Robert Badinter - Book Summary : I wrote this book as a tribute to my maternal grandmother, Idiss. It does not claim to be a biography or a study of the conditions of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who came to Paris before 1914. It is simply the story of a singular destiny that I have often dreamed of. May it also be, beyond the passage of time, a testimony of love from his grandson. RB A masterpiece of sharp, unvarnished sincerity. This story is ours. The Cross. A family chronicle as much as a tribute to the land of asylum that France was before the Occupation. Moving. Marianne. EAN: 9782253820307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Narrow Gate - André Gide - Book Summary : The door was closed. The bolt, however, offered only a rather weak resistance and with a push of the shoulder I was about to break it... At that moment I heard the sound of footsteps; I hid myself in the recess of the wall. I could not see who was coming out of the garden; but I heard, I felt that it was Alissa. She took three steps forward, called out weakly: - Is that you, Jerome?... My heart, which was beating violently, stopped, and, as my constricted throat could not utter a word, she repeated more loudly: - Jerome! Is that you? Hearing him call me thus, the emotion that gripped me was so strong that it made me fall to my knees. EAN: 9782070362103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The French Testament - Andreï Makine - Book Summary : Goncourt Prize 1995 - Goncourt Prize for High School Students 1995 - Medici Prize 1995 "I remembered that one day, in a humorless joke, Charlotte had told me that after all her travels across immense Russia, coming to France on foot would be no impossibility for her [...]. At first, during long months of misery and wandering, my crazy dream would closely resemble this bravado. I would imagine a woman dressed in black who, in the very early hours of a dark winter morning, would enter a small border town [...]. She would push open the door of a café at the corner of a narrow, sleepy square, sit down by the window, next to a radiator. The landlady would bring her a cup of tea. And looking, beyond the glass, at the tranquil faces of the half-timbered houses, the woman would murmur softly: "This is France... I have returned to France. After... after a whole life."" EAN: 9782070401871 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Léon and Louise - Alex Capus - Book Summary : Léon and Louise were not yet twenty years old when they met in a small French village towards the end of the First World War. Soon lost touch, separated by the twists and turns of history and the headwinds of fate, the two young people would never forget each other. By exploring the secret life of his own grandfather over more than forty years, Alex Capus has written a novel about a love stronger than the whirlwind of life, an irresistible intimate epic. EAN: 9782330028565 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Alliance, Volume 2 - James Albert Michener - Book Summary : From the Boer War, which pitted the descendants of the first European settlers against the British Empire, to apartheid, which legitimized segregation between Blacks and Whites, James A. Michener continues the great saga of South Africa through the destiny of three families, the Dutch Van Doorn, the English Saltwood, and the Black Nxumalo. Through the grace of this story, both historical and romantic, woven with personal adventures and national dramas, the reader witnesses and participates in the painful genesis of a country whose most contemporary events can never again leave him indifferent. EAN: 9782020253758 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pilgrim - Timothy Findley - Book Summary : April 17, 1912: Two nights after the sinking of the Titanic, a man named Pilgrim, author of a famous book on Leonardo da Vinci, hanged himself in his London garden. He was found the next day, and the certificate of his death was signed by two doctors. Five hours later, his heart began beating again. Death had refused Pilgrim. Refugeed in silence, Pilgrim was admitted to the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where one of the doctors, Carl Gustav Jung, was immediately fascinated by this extraordinary case. Is Pilgrim, who claims to have lived several lives, spent time with Leonardo da Vinci, Saint Teresa of Avila, and participated in the construction of Chartres Cathedral, a mythomaniac, a dreaming genius, or the victim of a strange curse? An ambitious, fantastic, metaphysical novel, in which Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Mona Lisa appear... A novel of brilliant and bold construction, with jubilant writing. EAN: 9782070419678 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Serious Opera - Régine Detambel - Book Summary : Daughter of composer Janácek's favorite tenor, Elina Marsch, born in 1926 into a Jewish family, grew up in the company of her father's mistresses, famous singers from whom she learned the art of seduction and a whole repertoire of arias of madness and death before experiencing the vicissitudes of war and fleeing to America. A novel of the divine voice that fascinates, soothes, or terrifies, "Serious Opera" makes the very song of the distant Sirens heard. EAN: 9782330030674 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lisbon - Fernando Pessoa - Book Summary : An iconoclastic author little known to the general public, Fernando Pessoa was an unconditional lover of his country, Portugal, and even more so of its capital. In Lisbon , this eternal flâneur takes us through the alleys of Chiado, the shaded squares of Bairo Alto or the arteries of Belem... A delightful stroll. After Kafka's Prague and Joyce's Dublin, Lisbon makes its entrance into literature, and its "integral passer-by", Fernando Pessoa, is its elusive and melancholic ghost. EAN: 9782264026422 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Paola Affair - An Investigation by Commissioner Brunetti - Donna Léon - Book Summary : Commissioner Guido Brunetti is in the hot seat: his own wife, Paola, is arrested after smashing the window of a travel agency she suspects of promoting sex tourism. Brunetti is temporarily relieved of his duties. But the case escalates with the murder of the agency's owner. As a clue, a letter is found next to the body accusing the deceased of being a "pornographer." EAN: 9782020555296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : Edition enriched by Roger Borderie including a preface and a file on the novel. Victor Hugo was twenty-six years old when he wrote, in two and a half months, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, a novel that undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever made against the death penalty. We will not know who the Condemned Man is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. For the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to expose the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is going to be slit in a few hours. This novel - with its often strangely modern overtones - has such a power of suggestion that the reader ends up identifying with the narrator, whose anguish and vain hopes he shares in turn. Until the very last lines of the book, Victor Hugo's genius makes us participate in a frightened anticipation: that of the grating sound of the blade rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will never forget this striking lesson in writing and humanity. EAN: 9782070413102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : Billy, a 13-year-old boy who preferred the streets of Los Angeles to the beatings he received at home, saw, at 1 a.m., a young woman stabbed in Griffith Park by a man who then fled in a car with the license plate PLYR 1. The anonymity in which the child found his safety no longer existed because the murderer saw him. Quickly alerted by the park rangers, Detective Petra Connor discovers the identity of the victim, Lisa Ramsey, the ex-wife of a famous television actor. Petra immediately suspects the latter and, more seriously for Billy, realizes that someone saw the crime. Shortly after, in a villa that is falling into ruin, an old lady begins to read the newspaper with an assiduity that greatly surprises her companion... EAN: 9782020486262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Terrors - Jonathan Kellerman - Book Summary : In Los Angeles, the capital of neurosis and violence, the worlds of Dr. Freud and Raymond Chandler have always gone hand in hand. Alex Delaware, Hollywood's most perceptive shrink, knows all about it. It's been ten years since he last saw Melissa Dickinson, the rich little girl who came to confide in him about her childhood terrors and the ordeal of her mother, Gina, who was attacked by a jealous lover and has since suffered from extreme agoraphobia. But these are no longer nightmares: the criminal is out of prison, and Melissa is scared to death once again. To protect her from a horrific plot, Alex reverts to his inner private eye. What the shrink can't solve, the detective might be able to. EAN: 9782266072151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : After the War - Herve Le Corre - Book Summary : Bordeaux in the 1950s. The Second World War is still fresh in everyone's memory, yet a new, unnamed conflict has already begun: young conscripts are leaving for Algeria. It is in this context that a series of violent events unfold. Commissioner Darlac, who compromised himself during the Occupation, is himself soon caught up in this spiral of violence... EAN: 9782743631550 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sad Tropics - Claude Lévi-Strauss - Book Summary : The founding book of contemporary ethnology that revolutionized 20th-century thinking. Why and how does one become an ethnologist? How do the adventures of the explorer and the research of the scholar integrate and form the experience specific to the ethnologist? These are the questions that the author, a philosopher and moralist as much as an ethnographer, has tried to answer by comparing his sometimes ancient memories, and relating to both Asia and America. Claude Lévi-Strauss thus wishes to reconnect with the tradition of the philosophical journey illustrated by literature from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, that is to say before a poorly understood scientific austerity on the one hand, and the shameless taste for the sensational on the other, made us forget that we travel the world, first and foremost, in search of ourselves. EAN: 9782266026123 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rose of Jericho - Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Novel of Sophie Trébuchet - Geneviève Dormann - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216865 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724209702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Bicycle - Régine DEFORGES - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724216733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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