Title : The Kuragin House - Contance Heaven - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nights of Time - Norman Mailer - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724220919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lost Childhood. Followed by Olivier's Diary - Marie-Paul Armand - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2744134554 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Operation Outbreak - FG Slaughter - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Medici Saga - Volume 1 Contessina - Sarah Frydman - Book Summary : Corruption, assassination, power, passion. These are the key words that have shaped the legendary story of one man, Cosimo de' Medici, and that of his descendants. It is also the story of the Republic of Florence, of its artistic, political, industrial and commercial evolution. A Republic that dominated all of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. But beyond the intrigues, alliances with the declining aristocracy, political manipulations, Contessina is also and above all a love story, that of Cosimo de Medici and Contessina de Bardi, the first of these extraordinary women who played an essential role in the destiny of the Medici. Passionate about history and music, Sarah Frydman, after studying music, gave up a career as a singer to write. She has already published The Symphony of Destiny and The Lions' Den . EAN: 9782226031303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Wagon - Chaigneau Jean-François - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724212959 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Conversations and Interviews - Primo Levi - Book Summary : "It is up to the reader to gather, behind the words of these transcriptions, the truth that vibrates in Levi's words and which manifests itself in the double aspect of an unexpected optimism and a lucid pessimism." Marco Belpoliti. When If it is a man it seems , in 1947, he went unnoticed. It would take more than ten years before a new edition revealed Primo Levi not only as a major witness to the Nazi concentration camp universe, but also as a great writer. Primo Levi, who said he owed his literary vocation to Auschwitz, constantly returned to what he had written in his masterpiece. He became a guardian of memory, an interlocutor always ready to illuminate our vision of the camps, of Nazism and anti-Semitism, and to warn against the return of this evil in the same form or in others. In this collection of interviews broadcast on the radio or published in the written press, he delves further into – with his genius for precision, his irony and his lofty perspective – these questions that are at the heart of his work. An opportunity to hear again, one hundred years after his birth, the voice of an author for whom speech was an extension of writing. EAN: 9782221086339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane - Book Summary : Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are no longer private investigators. Patrick works for a large surveillance company that refuses to hire him permanently because he's not smooth enough for his boss. He's still consumed by anger at injustices, and perhaps it's this—along with guilt—that drives him to grant the request of Amanda McCready's aunt, Beatrice. Twelve years earlier, he and Angie had investigated the disappearance of little Amanda, but finding the child had ended in a human fiasco... Like Gone, Baby, Gone, Moonlight Mile is a thoroughly contemporary novel that depicts an America in the throes of a serious moral and social crisis. The author of Mystic River and Shutter Island has lost none of his art of metaphor, EAN: 9782743622275 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midnight on the San Boldo Canal - Donna Leon - Book Summary : In the dead of night in Venice, a teenage girl falls from the San Boldo Bridge into a canal. Unable to swim, Manuela is about to drown when a passerby saves her. But she doesn't escape unscathed, suffering irreversible brain damage that condemns her to forever retain the mind of a child. Fifteen years later, at a charity gala, Brunetti meets Countess Lando-Continui, a wealthy patron of the arts, who turns out to be Manuela's grandmother and asks him to investigate the tragedy. She is convinced that it was not a simple accident. The commissioner hesitates because if it were a crime, the statute of limitations has expired. Guided by curiosity, compassion, and the desire to help an elderly woman wracked with guilt, and incidentally, his mother-in-law's best friend, Brunetti ends up accepting the case. A case that quickly proves to be most disturbing... EAN: 9782702160572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dutch Wife - Eric McCormack - Book Summary : Life: A User's Guide “I’ve been wrestling with my bare hands most of my life. […] I’m an ambitious writer. I’ve been trying to escape the idea that women always write about “experience”—within the bounds of what they know—unlike men, who write about the big and bold. Why should a woman be restricted to anything by anyone?” In Why be happy when you can be normal? released in England a few months ago, the character is no longer one. It's the author, Jeanette Winterson. She writes without embellishment the "true novel" of a life: the mystical rigor of a narrow-minded adoptive mother, England in the 1960s, the demons of depression. How does one become a writer when one was destined to enter the clergy? Winterson tells us about her extraordinary journey. In a house forbidden to books, she nevertheless knew how to nourish and preserve the omnipotence of the imagination. This exceptional text is above all the story of a quest for identity, that of Jeanette and, through her, of all the women engaged in the battle for their freedom. Mothers, lovers, friends, writers, role models, adored or hated, Winterson pays homage to them in this memoir of a young girl from the Manchester working class. EAN: 9782757838761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why be happy when you can be normal? - Jeanette Winterson - Book Summary : Life: A User's Guide “I’ve been wrestling with my bare hands most of my life. […] I’m an ambitious writer. I’ve been trying to escape the idea that women always write about “experience”—within the bounds of what they know—unlike men, who write about the big and bold. Why should a woman be restricted to anything by anyone?” In Why be happy when you can be normal? released in England a few months ago, the character is no longer one. It's the author, Jeanette Winterson. She writes without embellishment the "true novel" of a life: the mystical rigor of a narrow-minded adoptive mother, England in the 1960s, the demons of depression. How does one become a writer when one was destined to enter the clergy? Winterson tells us about her extraordinary journey. In a house forbidden to books, she nevertheless knew how to nourish and preserve the omnipotence of the imagination. This exceptional text is above all the story of a quest for identity, that of Jeanette and, through her, of all the women engaged in the battle for their freedom. Mothers, lovers, friends, writers, role models, adored or hated, Winterson pays homage to them in this memoir of a young girl from the Manchester working class. EAN: 9782879298702 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Furies - Lauren Groff - Book Summary : Translated from English (United States) by Carine Chichereau. “Marriage is a web of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Of omissions. If you were to express what you think about your spouse on a daily basis, you would tear everything to pieces. She never lied. She just didn't talk about it.” They met at university. They married very quickly. It was 1991. At twenty-two years old, Lotto and Mathilde are beautiful, attractive, madly in love, and seem destined for a bright future. Ten years later, Lotto has become a globally successful playwright, and Mathilde, from the shadows, has always supported him. The couple they form is the epitome of a successful partnership. But perfect love stories often hide secrets that are better left untold. At the end of this novel, the true reason for this seamless couple's existence holds many surprises. EAN: 9782823609455 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Falling Man - Don Delillo - Book Summary : On the morning of September 11, 2001, in Keith's hand, masked in ashes, riddled with shards of glass and back from the dead in his ex-wife Lianne's apartment, lies a briefcase that doesn't belong to him and that his survivor's hand grips, mechanically, with all his strength. While Keith moves closer and further away from another woman he met in the hell of the towers, before deciding to end his life sitting at a gaming table in the Las Vegas desert, Lianne drifts between the worry caused by her own son's fierce and reticent attitude, the writing workshop for Alzheimer's patients she is responsible for, the Falling Man, the performer the police are hunting, the health of her mother who has been living for years an incomprehensible affair with a mysterious European, an art dealer always between two planes, between two worlds... Confronting, with only the weapons of his art, a world in pieces whose representation was lost with the attacks of September 11, Don DeLillo reveals the broken springs of the beautiful human machine - psyche, language and powerless body combined. A journey to the heart of the DNA of our common history, a masterful exploration of the effects and causes of a catastrophe, this novel paves the way to a catharsis that allows us to face Evil in all its inevitable and dazzling advents. EAN: 9782742774296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Last Night at Twisted River - John Irving - Book Summary : North of the North, in the land of lumberjacks and timber floaters - the log drivers -, once upon a time there was a little lame cook and his twelve-year-old son, an impressionable kid with an imagination populated by indiscreet bears. Their bodyguard was Ketchum, the anarchist ogre, drunkard, cunning, noisy, fake illiterate with incisive intelligence. Like the torrential Twisted River, this tale of merciless revenge takes its reader from ethnic groups to states over three generations, an explosive encounter between East and West, a comedy of culinary manners, a tragedy of badly closed doors between the splendor of a murderous nature and the reckless tranquility of home. A heroic dog, a phantom blue Mustang, an angel landed in the mud: Chef Irving has all the surprises of his consummate art in store for us in a novel that is devoured and savored until the last page. Ice cream bomb for everyone for dessert! EAN: 9782021012835 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Two Widows for a Will - Donna Leon - Book Summary : After leaving her boyfriend during a failed vacation, Anna Maria Giusti returns home. When she picks up her mail from her neighbor Constanza Altavilla, she finds her lying on the floor, her head in a pool of blood. For the coroner, there's no doubt about it: the old woman suffered a heart attack and, in her fall, hit her head on the radiator in her room. Dispatched to the scene, Commissioner Brunetti finds no clear evidence to contradict this hypothesis. Yet he can't accept it. Something else has happened, he has a feeling, but what? To get to the bottom of it, Brunetti delves into Signora Altavilla's life. First, her family, the retirement home where she spent her days, the battered women she took into her home... A complex personality emerges as his unofficial investigation unfolds, rich in secrets. Moreover, each witness seems multiple to him, becoming in turn hero or bandit, victim or executioner. There is no evidence, no straight lines here, everything is tortuous like the alleys of Venice that Brunetti walks to - perhaps - find the truth. EAN: 9782702143742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Woman Fleeing the Ad - David Grossman - Book Summary : Medici Prize - Foreign Novel 2011 Ora, a woman recently separated from her husband Ilan, leaves her home in Jerusalem and flees the dreaded news: the death of her second son, Ofer, who, about to complete his military service, has volunteered for a twenty-eight-day "major operation" in a Palestinian city. As if to ward off fate, she decides to be absent during this period: as long as the messengers of death do not find her, her son will be safe. The hike in Galilee that she had planned with Ofer, she undertakes with Avram, her childhood sweetheart, to tell him about her son. She hopes to protect her child through the thread of words that have shaped her life since his first breath, and thus spare him his last. Through the moving story of a family trying at all costs to preserve its values ​​and emotional ties, the author tells us the story of his country from 1967 to the present day and describes with incomparable force the repercussions of this permanent state of war on the psyche of Israelis, their anxieties, their doubts, but also vitality, commitment, and love in all its forms. David Grossman , born in Jerusalem in 1954, is the renowned author of numerous award-winning novels and committed essays that have shaken Israeli and international opinion, including The Yellow Wind , which preceded the first Intifada. In 2010, he received the German Publishers and Booksellers Peace Prize. He is an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Translated from Hebrew by Sylvie Cohen International reception: “A Woman Running Away from the Announcement is a book of extraordinary power and intensity; it is David Grossman’s masterpiece. Flaubert created his Emma, ​​Tolstoy his Anna, and now Grossman has his Ora—a fully alive, perfectly embodied being. I devoured this long novel in a kind of feverish trance. Stunning, magnificent, unforgettable.” Paul Auster “Among all the writers I have read, David Grossman is undoubtedly the most gifted. Gifted, not only because of his imagination, his energy, his originality, but because he accesses what is truly inexpressible, because he knows how to read inside a being and discover the singular essence of their humanity.” Nicole Krauss “A book of abundant richness, full of anguish and dire omens, but also full of an ancestral life force. Grossman penetrates the depths of his characters' souls and breathes life into them.” The Republic "David Grossman perfectly evokes passionate love and sensuality, male friendship, and the delicate nuances of everyday life in a country weakened by violence and fear." The World EAN: 9782021004625 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Thrillers. Popov. Duel in Dallas - Paul-Loup Sulitzer - Book Summary : Popov. Who is Popov? Behind this ordinary Russian name hides the most powerful man in the Soviet Union, and perhaps in the world... What does Popov want? What infernal machination is he the undisputed master of, while the Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko governments succeed one another, without restricting his terrible power? Will the young and brilliant French banker Paul Quant, aided by his prodigious intelligence alone, be able to thwart this international plot whose inevitability Paris, Bonn, and even Washington seem to accept? Yet he knows that his life and that of the woman he loves are threatened... Duel in Dallas. Their names are Cimballi, Franz Cimballi. In life, he has two passions: women and money. When it comes to money, he is gifted and already a billionaire. When it comes to women, he believed so... until he meets, in Dallas, the very beautiful and very cruel Patti Hall and her six billion dollars. Only then did his troubles begin... And what troubles! EAN: 9782846120760 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cat and Mouse - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are nightmares that never end. That of Alex Cross, a cop, psychologist, and occasional jazz musician, is named Gary Soneji. Fearsomely intelligent, Soneji loves evil for evil's sake, and all of America still remembers his Machiavellian crimes. Today, this monster, whom Cross thought he had permanently incapacitated, has managed to escape. Suffering from AIDS, he wants to exact one final and grandiose revenge against his old enemy. In Washington, D.C., as in New York, innocent people will perish in blood. Meanwhile, the FBI and police forces around the world are hunting the enigmatic Mr. Smith, a virtuoso with the scalpel. Mr. Smith, who sows his murdered victims throughout Europe with incredible cruelty, takes a malicious pleasure in playing cat and mouse with his pursuers. But if Cross enters the game, the game risks becoming much more dangerous... EAN: 9782709619783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Presumed Innocent - Turow Scott - Book Summary : A thriller adapted into a series by Apple TV starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Who killed Carolyn, a talented lawyer as beautiful as she was unscrupulous, found tied up in her luxurious apartment? Rape followed by murder or premeditated crime? The investigation led in the middle of the election campaign by Deputy District Attorney Rusty Sabich is making no progress. And when it is discovered that this secretive and complex man was Carolyn's lover, he immediately appears as the ideal culprit... A multi-million-selling suspense classic in the world, which immediately established Scott Turow as a master of the genre. EAN: 9782226032454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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