Title : My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol - book Summary : The most beautiful book about childhood friendship: one morning while hunting in the hills, Marcel meets the little peasant, Lili des Bellons. His vacation and his whole life will be illuminated by it. A year after The Glory of My Father , Marcel Pagnol thought he was concluding his Childhood Memories with this castle of my mother (1958), the second part of what he considered a diptych, ending with the famous scene of the ferocious guard frightening the timid Augustine. Little Marcel, after the tenderness of his family, has discovered friendship with the marvelous Lili, undoubtedly the most endearing of his characters. The book ends with a melancholic epilogue, a poignant elegy to the time that has passed. Pagnol strikes the chords of a gravity to which he rarely accustomed his readers. "Hey! Friend!" I saw a boy my age looking at me sternly. "You mustn't touch other people's traps," he said. "A trap is sacred!" "I wasn't going to take it," I said. "I wanted to see the bird." He approached: he was a little peasant. He was dark, with a fine Provençal face, black eyes and long girlish eyelashes.  EAN: 9782877065085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love Among the Ruins - Walker Percy - book Summary : Walker Percy described Love Among the Ruins as the adventures of a bad Catholic in times approaching the end of the world. It is the end of the automobile age. Grass eats away at cracked pavements, crumbling motels return to their original swampland, wolves haunt downtown Cleveland, ivy invades Manhattan's skyscrapers. Paranoia, rage, and digestive disorders ravage conservative circles, while liberals suffer from anxiety, virile impotence, and personality disorders. What interested me, Percy specified, was to see what would become of a free country where Orwell and Huxley had won. EAN: 9782869306387 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Theory of Clouds - Stéphane Audeguy - book Summary : It's about clouds and Virginie Latour begins to understand. She understands that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a few anonymous and silent men, scattered throughout Europe, raised their eyes to the sky. They looked at the clouds attentively, even with respect; and, with a kind of quiet piety, they loved them." Akira Kumo is a Japanese couturier. He collects books about clouds. To classify his library, he hires Virginie Latour, a young woman, to whom he tells stories of cloud chasers. That of Luke Howard who invented their names, that of Richard Abercrombie who traveled the world to see if they were the same everywhere, and others still, as surprising as the play of clouds. EAN: 9782070344635 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wind in my calves - Raphaële Moussafir - book Summary : Rachel is nine years old, has a humiliating teacher, mean parents, and a bitchy friend. At nine, you're punished for giving your opinion, you discover strange new sensations, you experiment with your language and your body. This big little girl dissects her world with a funny and acerbic look whose maturity surprises, amuses, and shocks. From fits of laughter to conflict, she explores the merciless world of childhood. A world that leads, sometimes too quickly, to that of adults. EAN: 9782290004760 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Divine Obsessive Disorder - Farel - book Summary : How can we explain the resurgence of Islamists in power across the Muslim world? Who are the terrorists? Why are there so many conspiracy rumors circulating about the CIA in connection with the September 11 attacks? What if terrorism were simply a matter of perspective? This book sheds some light on the nature of the issues that govern interpersonal and even international relations. The Church has placed pride on the podium of human sins; one can understand this. Is it not pride, at bottom, which is the source of all Evil? of the war of egos, of the struggle for positions. All peoples dream of being first: of having the largest empire, of being at the forefront of technology, of being a military or economic superpower, and to maintain or gain their rank, nations have engaged in terrible conquests, sometimes even in preemptive wars against a potential aggressor. This is the case of the United States, which, like Doctor Frankenstein, has engendered potential monsters, one of which (Osama Bin Laden) turned against them. Colonialism, dictatorship, racism, imperialism, communism, nationalism, fanaticism, Islamophobia, Judeophobia, atheophobia, homophobia, misogyny, anthropocentrism... pride has many faces but all reflect a detestable and arrogant superiority complex that dictates subjugating, overtaking, correcting the other, the one who is different, barbaric, inferior, to make a supreme truth triumph. Conspiracy theories are the price to pay for proven conspiracies. EAN: 9791091562027 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tarry Flynn - Patrick Kavanagh - book Summary : Tarry Flynn, a novel both harsh and funny, centered on the life of a young farmer, dreamer and poet, is already a classic of 20th-century Irish literature. "Humor vies with burlesque, tragedy with pettiness, the relationships between Tarry Flynn, his mother and his three sisters verge on vaudeville. [...] Kavanagh knows how to bring the reader into the houses, the fields, the stables, to see the interior of this rural condition. We come away moved, assailed by a profound feeling of innocence as if finally this invitation tore from us the perception of a memory forever forgotten." Philippe Savary, Le Matricule des Anges EAN: 9782264028303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn - book Summary : While the Enlightenment was at its height in the 18th century, the first criticisms began to surface during the late reign of the enlightened despot Frederick II of Prussia. To the question "What is the Enlightenment?" at the origin of the controversy, the philosophers Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn each offered an answer in 1784. Five years before the French Revolution, these two manifestos, respectively entitled: "Answer to the question: what is the Enlightenment?" and "On the question: what does aufklären mean ?", take stock of the Enlightenment. EAN: 9782842059675 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dictionary of the New Testament - Xavier-Léon Dufour - book Summary : In this dictionary, the characters, places, customs, institutions, words and ideas of the New Testament , or having a relationship with the New Testament , are the subject of more than a thousand articles, introduced in alphabetical order. Everything we know about the culture, the society of the time, etymology, history, anthropology and of course the exegesis of the New Testament is systematically used to clarify each term. Numerous references - to passages in the New Testament itself, to other terms in the dictionary as well as to the important general introduction - make it possible to complete the information on each word and to situate it within a broader set of meanings. EAN: 9782020048842 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Excluded - Elfriede Jelinek - book Summary : They attack passersby, beat them until they are breathless, and rage like wolves. They unleash their arrogant hatred, shame, and disgust on fallen bodies. For these four teenagers, the crime is gratuitous and liberating; it will lead to carnage. Inspired by a news story, Elfriede Jelinek describes a Vienna haunted by the demons of Nazism, which passes on monstrosity as a legacy. Born in Austria in 1946, Elfriede Jelinek is the author of The Pianist , available in Points and adapted for the cinema with Isabelle Huppert. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004. “An extremely invigorating exercise in mental hygiene, the exact opposite of a sitz bath in lukewarm water.” EAN: 9782020555340 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wounds and Bumps - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702414934 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On the idea of ​​a community of solitary people - Pascal Quignard - book Summary : What makes Port Royal special to me is the exciting invention - even if it is difficult to imagine - of a community of solitary people. The word "solitary," in the sense given to it by the Jansenists, is ultimately as beautiful as it is enigmatic. "Solitaires" designated men of civil society, aristocrats or wealthy bourgeois, who opted for the ways of the convent (its abstinence, its silence, its austerities, its vigils, its tasks, its reading) but who refused to bind themselves to it by vows. [...] They left the court to travel twenty kilometers and find themselves in a wood. They were guided by no external rules, obeyed no one, jealous only of their withdrawal from the world. [.] They studied. They did not address anyone informally. Neither God, nor children, nor the poor, nor animals. They greeted the crows, admired their hard, black beaks, and stroked the cats. In 1678 the last solitary people were forced to leave the Granges farm under penalty of imprisonment or burning at the stake. In 1711 Port Royal was razed on the orders of King Louis XIV so that "not one stone would remain upon another." Then, at the end of autumn, when the cold was very bitter and the ground was covered with snow, the graves were opened. Hungry dogs, crows, rooks, and field mice devoured what remained of flesh on the bones of the saints who had died. They devoured Racine. They devoured Monsieur Hamon, who had been his master. In this intimate and tender text, Pascal Quignard writes—like a score—the mystery and commitment of the life of a solitary scholar. He sings the melodic line of The Last Kingdom, the uncrowned kings, and the ruins of Le Havre where he was born. EAN: 9782363080769 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Flee - Jean-Philippe Toussaint - book Summary : Why was I given a cell phone the very day I arrived in China? To locate me permanently, monitor my movements, and keep an eye on me? I had always known subconsciously that my fear of the phone was linked to death—perhaps to sex and death—but never before that night on the train between Shanghai and Beijing would I have such implacable confirmation. “There is a Toussaint ‘style’: quivering, icy, distinguished, raw, offbeat, with a charm all the more painful because it seeps into pages of subtle beauty. There is a Toussaint shimmer, with views of streets, rooms, corridors, shop windows, tiles, silhouettes, water; lots of water, calm, rippled, salty, sweet, a whole undulation of sensations; the author reveals a floating world of illusion that forms a trap. This world hides, under its luminous layers, pain, love at first sight, panic, expectations, feverishness. A narrow, austere, inhabited book, set in a simplicity that surprises in the face of the heavy hardware of the novels of the new season. We say to ourselves that all great novels have their light, and this one shimmers, intelligent and fraternal, disillusioned and aristocratic. Form, style, rigor, punctuation, psychology: it is perfect. " (Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point) Prix Médicis 2005, Fuir is the second part of the novel collection Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte, which traces four seasons in the life of Marie, haute couture designer and companion of the narrator: Faire l'amour, hiver (2002); Fuir, été (2005); La Vérité sur Marie, printemps-été (2009, prix Décembre); Nue, automne-hiver (2013). EAN: 9782707320957 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man on the Lookout - Julio Cortázar - book Summary : A writer accompanies the slow decline of a genius saxophonist, Johnny Carter, destroyed by alcohol and drugs. From Baltimore recording studios with Miles Davis to Saint-Germain-des-Près in the 1950s, from seedy hotels to nights in jazz clubs, from paranoid delusions to creative flashes, Julio Cortázar offers us a moving text in homage to one of the greatest jazz musicians, Charlie Parker. EAN: 9782070423149 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos - book Summary : They had to change trains at Manhattan Transfer. Ellen had a new kid glove on, the thumb of which had cracked, and she kept rubbing it nervously with her forefinger. John wore a martingale raincoat and a pinkish-gray fedora. When he turned to her, smiling, she couldn't help looking away and staring at the rain glistening on the tracks. "There, dear Elaine. Oh, daughter of a prince, see, we're taking the train from Penn Station... It's funny waiting like this in the New Jersey bush." EAN: 9782070368259 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tuner of Silences - Mia Couto - book Summary : The first time I saw a woman, I was eleven years old, and I suddenly found myself so helpless that I burst into tears. I lived in a desert inhabited only by five men. My father had given this remote corner a name: Jesusalem. This was the land where Jesus would be decrucified. And that was that. My old man, Silvestre Vitalício, had explained to us that the world was over and that we were the last survivors. Beyond the horizon, there were only lifeless territories that he vaguely called "the Other Side." In the isolated game reserve, in the heart of a war-torn Mozambique, the world of Mwanito, the tuner of silences, born to be silent, will shatter with the arrival of an unknown woman who will force Silvestre, the master of this desolate world, face to face with his guilt. Mia Couto, an admirer of the Brazilian Guimarães Rosa, draws from the beautiful, tragic, funny, enigmatic language of Mozambique all its power to create a literary universe full of invention, poetry and irony. EAN: 9782864248996 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heart of the Tiger - Huy-Thiêp Nguyên - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782815900515 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vivement Demain - Ariel Ricaud - book Summary : Juliette, 40, considers herself fulfilled, between her professional success in Paris and her beloved son, Benjamin, 14, whom she has been raising alone since she was abandoned by his father before his birth. An earthquake will upset this beautiful balance: the intrusion into her life of an unknown paternal grandfather, a wealthy, authoritarian, and manipulative wine-growing owner in Burgundy. He wants to assert his rights over Benjamin following the death of his only son. How will Juliette be able to cope with this man whose influence she fears over the teenager? And above all, how can she resist a family friend, an inveterate seducer, with whom, for the first time, she discovers the intensity of passionate love? Where will this treacherous path lead Juliette? Will she choose love at the risk of sacrificing her career? EAN: 9782266185394 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Unusual dictionary of Tahiti and the islands of French Polynesia - Rosanne Aries - book Summary : Tahiti, a paradise? Or a desert of boredom on stilts? Queens of all fantasies, the islands of French Polynesia make us dream and fear the worst: a sun that strikes a pose and time that flows smoothly... If there are a thousand opportunities to take to the water, the fenua is also the best place to reach summits. On its old volcanoes bordered by sand, full of fruits and spirits, dances tell stories, fish is eaten raw, fragrances crown, and old horses hum Gauguin. The risk is not to languish there, it's to end up loving the fafaru, fearing the tupapa'u, and daring the tamure! EAN: 9782846301329 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why I Hate Christmas - Robert Benchley - book Summary : A healthy book to give as a gift and to read yourself before Christmas (to prepare for it), during Christmas (to cope with it) or after Christmas (to recover from it). “To brighten our evenings with a garland of bursts of laughter.” Helena Villovitch, She “A jubilant little book” Anne-Cécile Juillet, The Parisian “To be offered to those who are waiting for the end of the festivities by soaking their bad spirit in champagne.” Christine Ferniot, Télérama A master of offbeat and absurd humor, Robert Benchley (1889-1945) is one of the funniest writers America has ever produced. EAN: 9782757874400 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Don't Drown in a Glass of Water... as a Family! - Richard Carlson - book Summary : There are days when nothing is going right at home: the kitchen is flooded, your dog broke the Ming vase in the living room, the kids are bickering, and your spouse forgot to pay the phone bill. Is that a reason to make things worse by overreacting? Stop being a martyr! After teaching us how to simplify our social and professional lives in his best-selling book, Don't Drown in a Teacup, Richard Carlson now applies his book to families. He offers us one hundred practical "strategies" to ensure harmony in our homes as effectively as our personal balance. A gem of wisdom and humor that will simplify your life and help you weather real storms. EAN: 9782290310052 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lake - Yasunari Kawabata - book Summary : Happiness, for young Gimpei, was following the path along the shore, their two silhouettes reflected in the lake. He walked, looked at the water, and thought that the two reflections would go to the ends of the earth, embraced for eternity. But this happiness was brief. EAN: 9782253036883 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag - book Summary : The Horseman , a British aristocrat, is ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. An inveterate collector, he loves the frivolity of his adopted city, the opera, the lava-paved streets. After the death of his wife, he meets the beautiful Emma and for the first time his heart is set ablaze. To the great scandal of all Naples, he will make the young commoner a woman of the world. But, under the volcano, nothing is ever meant to last... A leader of the feminist movement and close to Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1933-2004) published numerous essays and novels. Translated into 32 languages, she received the Jerusalem Prize for her body of work. “A turbulent and fascinating book where period paintings and colorful scenes are enriched with ferocious considerations on the vanity of power or the bitter condition of women.” EAN: 9782020901338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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