Title : A Snow Supper - Jean Anglade - Book Summary : The chronicle of a small village in the heart of Auvergne, Saint-Coutain, under the tender and amused gaze of Jean Anglade. The village of Saint-Coutain, established on the departmental border, is shared between Cantal and Aveyron. It therefore has two town halls, two schools, two post offices, two churches, two patron saints: Saint Christopher and Saint Nicol. Minds are as divided as the territories. People vote left on one side, right on the other. Red cows graze the grass of Auvergne, blondes graze the grass of Rouergate. At an Aveyron stall, little Léonce Bros steals an orange that he intends for Flora, his "sister" in sentiment. Tirabi, the "Nicolaud" rural policeman, pursues him and arrests him on Cantal soil. He is accused of child abduction. To clarify the exact boundary of their communes, the two mayors decide to have a border line painted on the ground. This white line becomes a tourist attraction. But it further separates Léonce and Flora, poor ten-year-old Romeo and Juliet. Their thwarted love will force Léonce to leave Saint-Coutain. He will make a career in Paris as a waiter in brasseries in Auvergne and Aveyron. One day, he will return... EAN: 9782856165843 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music Room - Dennis McFarland - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856165843 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Duel at the Summit - Sylvie Maligorne - Book Summary : It's the story of an interminable cohabitation. On June 2, 1997, two men who were complete opposites—their ideas, their history, their character—resolved to live together because the French wanted it that way. Between Jacques Chirac, the Pompidolian Gaullist, and Lionel Jospin, the socialist who came from Trotskyism, the current will never pass, despite the smiles of convenience. From the very beginning, the two men had in mind the upcoming meeting: beneath the appearance of a pleasant cohabitation, a merciless fight has been waged behind the scenes for five years, which foreshadows the electoral confrontation. Duel at the Summit tells the secret story of this guerrilla war between the Élysée Palace and Matignon, whose effects are only fully appreciated by the general public during major events. Sylvie Maligorne followed all the twists and turns of this power struggle: the battle for the five-year term, the reversal of the electoral calendar, the reform of the justice system, the negotiations over Corsica... She interviewed the main players and their entourages. Her story, filled with anecdotes and secrets, provides an essential key to understanding how the two main contenders for the Élysée Palace operate. EAN: 9782020392761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Your skin against mine - Flore Valier - Book Summary : He has everything he wants... except her! Roxane has just been hired by a major Parisian publishing house. Her first mission? To take charge of the biography of Clay Messager, star football player. From secrets to childhood memories, from trendy parties to training sessions, the relationship between the editor and her author will slowly slide into dangerous territory; because Clay and she belong to two completely different worlds, and the young woman is convinced that an affair between the two of them has no future. But Clay hasn't said his last word. EAN: 9782371262591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Book Summary : In Europe, while the 18th century expires in multiple convulsions and Paris tires of the guillotine, the Scottish explorer Mungo Park discovers the kingdom of Ségou in Africa, where human madness is expressed with biblical simplicity. Although he will return to the country where a world awaits him on which progress is already cutting its teeth, Mungo will not rest, to avoid becoming a puppet in his turn, to respond to the demon of travel... TC Boyle, compared to García Márquez for this novel intertwining destinies, has succeeded in the perfectly crazy bet of bringing together in a single melting pot all the forms of fiction in which the Anglo-Saxon genius has excelled for three hundred years. And this from the libertine tale to the American noir novel, raising Water Music to the rank of cult book... EAN: 9782859405311 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crime of Passion - Ludwig Lewisohn - Book Summary : Crime of Passion (1930), which was a considerable success in its time (Antonin Artaud and Bernard Steele translated it in 1932) is undoubtedly his most ambitious novel: a text whose modernity, at least after a good half-century, leaves one speechless. For the first time, in fact, Sex with a capital letter appears as the great troublemaker - that is to say, of truth - in a world where false libertines and true puritans are sent back to back to their mediocre desires: desires magnetized not by the flesh but by the secret taste for power. The rage that inhabits this book is the one that we already feel at work in Mr. Crump: hell is on earth, and first of all behind the tidy facades of family respectability, of good conscience, of love itself. Lewisohn retraces here, with a meticulousness that, as usual, spares us nothing, the destiny of a few trendy New York couples - between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties. One is liberal and yet conformist, emancipated in words but prudish deep down, and one spends one's time lying: to others of course, but first and foremost to oneself. And one is barely surprised when one of these beings betrayed by the spirit of the times, tired of all this pretense, takes a revolver from his pocket and kills. Not to punish adultery, but to allow love to finally speak without a mask EAN: 9782859406059 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Child of Dawn - Fanny Leblond - Book Summary : In 1921, Hélène has a destiny all mapped out for her as a young woman from a good family. Everything changes when she falls in love with a young pilot from the Cazaux airbase in Gironde. Ignoring conventions and family opposition, she moves in with him. There she meets Anna, a young woman who seems to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. During the war, Anna had a child with a Senegalese soldier, and the child was taken from her to avoid dishonor and shame. How could her family accept a bastard, and a mixed-race one at that? The Roaring Twenties are now bringing a wind of modernity, and Hélène is determined to help her friend by finding the child. Between emancipation and family secrets, this search is a difficult battle. In this era that belongs to men, the two women must be prepared to pay the price... EAN: 9782824616933 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A new day dawns on the great plains - Anne Loreal - Book Summary : A brilliant romantic epic where the winds of history blow. Through the destiny of a young French woman who sets out on an evangelistic mission to Indian territory, this novel takes us to the Great Plains of America, the land of pioneers in search of a better life, at the dawn of the Civil War. Born into a narrow-minded bourgeois family and rejected by her mother, Eugénie de Choisel took the veil at the age of 20 as much out of vocation as out of a thirst for elsewhere, and became Sister Judith. Thanks to her godfather, Father Fournerie, she realized her dream by accompanying him on an evangelistic mission in the American West. As she embarked for the New World, she met, among the stream of migrants fleeing poverty, Julian Eckermann, a German who awakened new and forbidden feelings in her. He himself was attracted to this young woman of radiant beauty. Arriving in New Orleans, the novice brutally encountered the world of slavery and experienced the first tremors of the Civil War. In Saint Louis, she crossed paths with Julian Eckermann again. Her faith and strength of character helped her keep a cool head in the face of this man who troubled her so much. Once again, their paths diverged. In the spring of 1861, the missionaries settled in Osage territory in Kansas, where the nun was in charge of the children's schooling. But raids by secessionist militiamen plunged the missionaries into the heart of the war that had just broken out. Sister Judith did not emerge unscathed from this conflict, which took her godfather away from her. Believing herself abandoned by God, she violently rejected her faith and enlisted as a nurse in Ulysses Grant's Confederate troops. Against all odds, she met Julian Eckermann again during the bloody Battle of Vicksburg, which would end the Civil War. Will the young woman be able to listen to her heart this time? EAN: 9782376101000 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Promise of a Summer - Susan Wiggs - Book Summary : Like every year, Kate Livingston arrives in Port Angeles to spend the entire summer in the beautiful family home built on the edge of a mountain lake. Far from Seattle, in this idyllic setting, she will finally have time to devote herself to Aaron, her son, a lonely child with surprising maturity, a little boy different from the others and who needs all her love. It will also give her time to reflect on a new career path, after a career as a journalist was abruptly interrupted. Fate decides otherwise when, upon her arrival, she meets her new neighbor, JD Harris. A seductive man about whom she knows nothing. Because this stranger is hiding a heavy secret. Famous in spite of himself, JD is a man hounded by the media. His biography was a bestseller in the United States and a film is in preparation about his life. But JD has returned to the place of his childhood to escape the noisy publicity surrounding him and finally realize his dream. Until reality catches up with him... and threatens the passion that has grown between him and Kate. EAN: 9782280842747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ferret's Game - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are four of them, all of whom worked for the notorious MI16, the British intelligence service. Murder was part of their profession: now it's the main ingredient in their favorite game, The Four Horsemen. The most secret role-playing game on the Internet, but whose victims, chosen from the red-light districts of Bangkok as well as those of Washington, are anything but virtual. Faced with an unprecedented series of crimes, Alex Cross fights on all fronts. Against his superiors, who downplay the seriousness of the situation, against a psychopathic assassin protected by diplomatic immunity, against those who shattered his new life by daring to attack Christine just before their wedding. That's a lot for one man, even if he has a degree in psychology and is supported by a powerful grandmother! EAN: 9782709621731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Artemis Fowl - Volume 1 - Eoin Colfer - Book Summary : The outlaw genius is finally in his pocket! Name: Fowl First name: Artemis Age: 12 years old Distinguishing features: extraordinary intelligence Occupation: thief Wanted for: kidnapping fairies and demanding ransom Calling all FARfadets, members of the Fairy People's Armed Regulatory Forces: this human is dangerous and must be neutralized by all possible means. EAN: 9782070552504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shipwreck of Passion - Shari Anton - Book Summary : Refusing to listen to her father's warnings, Leah de Pecham fled to France with the man she had fallen in love with. When she caught him in the company of a courtesan, she realized her mistake. All she had to do was return to England, her heart broken and her reputation tarnished forever. On the boat returning to Dover, Leah exchanged a few words with Geoffrey Hamelin, a young lord continuing his studies in Paris. Suddenly, a storm arose and tossed the ship onto the rocks. In the chaos preceding the shipwreck, Geoffrey managed to get Leah into a lifeboat that reached the coast, while he himself was swallowed up by the waves. Having found her seriously injured savior, Leah devotedly nursed him back to health. When Geoffrey finally regained consciousness, after hovering between life and death for several days, he had lost his memory. EAN: 9782290343418 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Imposter at Court - Celeste Bradley - Book Summary : For months, the public has been fighting over the London Sun, in which a cartoonist portrays the highest-ranking figures in British society. The drawings are signed "Sir Thorogood." A complete unknown. So the curious rush to the Rochester ball, where his presence has been announced. Clara Simpson is not the least intrigued. The very attractive man who appears is an imposter. Clara is sure of it, and she knows better... EAN: 9782290345498 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Friday or The Limbo of the Pacific - Michel Tournier - Book Summary : Grand Prix novel of the French Academy 1967 "All those who knew me, all without exception, believe me dead. My own conviction that I exist is unanimously opposed. Whatever I do, I will not prevent the image of Robinson Crusoe's corpse from remaining in the minds of all men. This is enough - certainly not to kill me - but to push me back to the confines of life, to a place suspended between heaven and hell, to limbo, in short... Closer to death than any other man, I am at the same time closer to the very sources of sexuality." EAN: 9782070369591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Washington Black - Esi Edugyan - Book Summary : Barbados, 1830. Eleven-year-old Washington Black is enslaved on a plantation owned by a cruel man. His vivacity and drawing skills quickly impress his master's brother, the eccentric Christopher Wild. This abolitionist explorer takes him under his wing to assist him in a crazy project: building an airship. When one day Wash is wrongly accused of a crime, the two men are forced to flee. Flying from the West Indies to the North Pole, from London to Morocco, an extraordinary journey awaits young Wash in this century of discovery. But the hardest road ahead will be the one that leads him to freedom... EAN: 9782072875861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Final Judgment - Daniel Easterman - Book Summary : Sardinia, today. The kidnappers are adamant. If Arié and Chaya Lévin don't tell them what they want, they will execute their child. They have 24 hours. The Lévins search as hard as they can, but they can't think of any secrets they might be keeping. Deciding it would be better not to alert the police, Arié asks his brother-in-law, Yosef, an Israeli army veteran, to help them. Although he succeeds in freeing the child, Yosef is unable to protect Chaya and Arié, whom he finds dead, their corpses arranged in a macabre setting: dressed in the sinister striped pajamas of the Nazi camps, they have been gassed... Yosef quickly realizes he must take up arms against neo-Nazis plotting a terrible plot against memory. The countdown has begun: he must solve the enigma of this mysterious secret. EAN: 9782266086882 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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