Title : Little Infamies - Carmen Posadas - book Summary : Things are going badly. Néstor Chaffino, a famous caterer, has frozen to death in a cold room. Accident or murder? The six people present at the time of the tragedy are relieved to see the disappearance of the man who, through secrets and indiscretions, had become the guardian of their petty infamies. A Czech bodybuilder, a homosexual widower, or a former smuggler—they all had excellent motives for taking action... Born in 1953 in Uruguay, Carmen Posadas lives in Madrid. She received the Planeta Prize in 1998. Her novels Five Blue Flies And The Queen of Hearts , international bestsellers, are available in Points. "Carmen Posadas is situated exactly between Agatha Christie and the Pedro Almodóvar of the early films. She was able to integrate several influences and offer a work whose master The word remains black humor. The Literary Figaro Translated from Spanish by François Maspero Planeta Prize 1998 EAN: 9782020499927 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tibet my story - Jetsun Pema - book Summary : In 1996, millions of Europeans were able to discover, on the occasion of her visit to Paris and Brussels, the radiant personality of Jetsun Pema, the one all Tibetans call Amala: the Mother. Younger sister of the Dalai Lama, founder more than thirty years ago of the Tibetan Children's Village, which takes in ten thousand orphaned Tibetan children, Jetsun Pema has been linked to the history of this country since the day when religious leaders recognized in her three-year-old brother Tenzin Gyatso the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. From her native village to the palaces of Lhasa, then on the roads of exile in India and Switzerland, the entire Tibetan tragedy is brought to life here, from the invasion by the Chinese army in 1951, to this official trip in 1980 during which Jetsun Pema was able to discover with her own eyes the suffering endured by a people stubbornly faithful to their traditions and their faith. It is also the tireless struggle of a woman driven by an ideal of tolerance and peace, deeply confident, despite all setbacks, in the future of her country. EAN: 9782253143390 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Last ball at Crotoy: a disturbing police officer - Philippe Sturbelle - book Summary : My name is Walter Binet. I'm a police officer. I led an investigation. which bothers and I was sent to get some fresh air for a while Crotoy, to make me forget. I was well received, but here too My presence is disturbing. I feel like I'm being watched and spied on. I am the center of everyone's concerns. The local people are convinced that I suspect them. Fortunately they have a another topic of conversation: the big ball that is going to take place in the old casino and which will reveal some unspeakable secrets... EAN: 9782492738074 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mystery of the Bewitched Crypt - Anabel Herbout - book Summary : Two boarders from a religious school in Barcelona have disappeared. A delusional nun and a crooked police officer promise freedom to a deranged criminal on the condition that he solves the mystery. The investigation reveals the existence of an underground passage behind the school chapel, where the two girls allegedly engaged in bloody rituals. A detective novel of parodic ferocity, which takes a look at post-Franco Spain in a way that is as comical as it is merciless. EAN: 9782020102902 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : May our joy remain - Kev Lambert - book Summary : An explosive social and moral fresco. Prix ​​Médicis 2023 & December 2023 Prize Millionaire architect who started from nothing, Céline Wachowski has her own Netflix series, a Hollywood address book, and contracts all over the world. A muse of modernity, she believes she's bringing beauty to the world. But her most ambitious project is brought to a sudden halt by controversy: accused of promoting gentrification through her projects, she sees her entire strategy, as well as her working methods, called into question. She is fired from her own company within days. When the elite loses its footing, how does it reinvent itself to justify its privileges and establish its place in a world whose rules it itself has established? Kev Lambert grew up in Chicoutimi, Canada. Holder of a doctorate in creative writing, very involved in the Quebec artistic scene, he was a bookseller and contributes to magazines Freedom And Spirale, as well as several Radio-Canada programs. Querelle, who revealed him to the public in 2019, received the Sade Prize. May our joy remain was awarded the December Prize and the prestigious Médicis Prize. EAN: 9791041415656 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Barbarian Princess - Nicole Fabre - book Summary : The year is 878. In the clumsy hands of his descendants, Charlemagne's immense empire is slowly disintegrating. Taking advantage of this unrest, the Scandinavians attempt to invade Western Europe. On the foggy shores of the North Sea, one of their expeditions is wiped out by Saxon raiders. Only Inga, a barbarian princess, and her servant Vigtis escape the massacre. Enslaved, they end their odyssey in the market square of Arles, where Audifré, manager of the Fabrègue estate, moved by Inga's strange beauty, buys them. He is far from suspecting the upheavals their arrival in Fabrègue will cause: while the Burgundian threat looms over Provence in the person of Boson, Duke of Provence-Viennois, determined to usurp part of the Carolingian heritage. Without ever betraying history, this powerful novel traces a surprisingly civilized daily life in 9th-century Provence and the merciless struggles waged by the heirs of Charlemagne, under the interested arbitration of the princes of the Church. Creating a plot in which real and fictional characters evolve is the challenge taken and won by Nicole Fabre. EAN: 9782253059905 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the teenager is doing badly... Listen to him, understand him, love him - Xavier Pommereau - book Summary : Running away, eating disorders, drugs, violent behavior, silence when the teenager is feeling bad, he says it with words, silences, actions that are all cries for help. He sometimes goes so far as to put his life in danger in an attempt to exist... How can we relearn to listen, to understand? Dr. Pommereau explores the origins of these disorders, analyzes the reactions of adults and proposes new models of relationship based on trust, communication and questioning, to help the teenager get out of the impasse. EAN: 9782290071472 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zombies - Bret Easton Ellis - book Summary : In a Los Angeles saturated with dollars and excess, Bret Easton Ellis paints a scalpel-like portrait of a society riddled with vice and superficiality. Neglected wives, stupid blondes "stinking of suntan oil and sex," rock stars: his zombie-like characters wander the vast void of a flavorless life... "Ellis does precisely to literature what Basquiat did to painting: wake it up." Frédéric Beigbeder, Elle EAN: 9782264026545 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Other Falstaff - Jack-Alain Léger - book Summary : A noble tramp, a magnificent wreck, overflowing with humanity and generosity, with a delightful immorality, the enormous, truculent Falstaff is languishing in a Windsor inn: he is nostalgic for the time when he was the friend of the lords who today vie for the Queen's favor. Who will save him from his melancholy, who will save him from himself? The corrupt great lords whom his bad jokes once so amused? The beautiful Alice who devotes such a candid, pure love to him? Or Shakespeare himself, since "all in this world is buffoonery"? Who will make him discover, in himself, the other Falstaff - the comic character who, for us, embodies the love of life? The writer at the height of his powers - an irresistible blend of verve, gaiety, virtuosity, fantasy, smiling gravity and amused erudition - tells us again, with brilliance, with joy, that the novel is, first and foremost, a celebration. EAN: 9782070402328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die - Christine Arnothy - book Summary : World War II ravaged the European continent. In 1944-1945, the Germans occupied Budapest and sought to win their final battle against the Russians in the martyred city, which was bombarded day and night. Survival was essential under the rubble. Christine Arnothy takes refuge with her parents in the basement of a building on the banks of the Danube. Writing by candlelight, she recounts daily events and evokes hunger and thirst. To fetch water with her father, she has to step over corpses in the streets. After a two-month siege, the city, like all of Hungary, was occupied by the Soviets. Choosing freedom, Christine and her parents crossed the Austro-Hungarian border on foot and ended up in a refugee camp in Austria. This teenager's vocation as a writer was revealed in the face of death. This war diary and its sequel, It's Not So Easy to Live , are read around the world. EAN: 9782253003229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Place Your Bets! - Loren-D Estleman - book Summary : Things are heating up in Detroit, Motorville, with the announcement that casino gambling will be allowed. There are pros and cons, of course, and one hell of a Reverend is thunderously preaching against it. Killers are targeting him, of course, but not the ones you'd think. Because the gang really doesn't want to see the Reverend disappear. EAN: 9782070490967 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Scent of the Desert The Storm Lover The Weapons of the Heart - Susan Mallery, Marie Ferrarella, Barbara Mac Mahon - book Summary : The scent of the desert: Arriving in the kingdom of El Deharia, Maggie Collins, a young, independent and dynamic American, has only one thing in mind: to do the best job she can to complete the task for which Sheikh Qadir has sent her and return immediately to her country. Little does she know that an extraordinary destiny awaits her in this land of the Arabian Nights, whose captivating scents intoxicate her at every moment and whose prince is the most seductive man she has ever met... The storm lover: Tired of city life, Kayla left San Francisco to return to the small town of her childhood. But one evening, when a terrible storm has just broken out, she helps a man whose car has broken down near her home. Driven by his generosity—and unwillingly troubled by the seductive stranger—Kayla offers him hospitality for the night. What she doesn't know is that her guest is none other than Alain Dulac, a famous lawyer, as rich and worldly as she is simple and solitary. EAN: 9782280845168 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City - Shi Dan - book Summary : Yu Chunhe, a eunuch in the palace of Empress Xiaoding, gives us this exceptional account of the daily lives of castrati and their masters. Entering the Forbidden City in 1898 at the age of seventeen, he spent eighteen terrible years there, marked by the war against foreigners, the exile of the court to Xian, the revolution, and the fall of the empire. His memoirs, rich in intrigue and acerbic portraits of court insiders, teach us much more than an official history book. An edifying description of the morals of an era, its decadence and corruption, Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City constitutes a unique historical document, but is above all the moving account of the tragic fate of a teenager sold to the child traffickers of Beijing who supplied the imperial palace with eunuchs. Yu Chunhe reveals what has often been hidden about the private lives of these innocents, forcibly castrated and then imprisoned within the walls of the Forbidden City where they were treated as slaves according to the whim of their masters. EAN: 9782877302388 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Apothecary and the Manor of Shadows - Deryn Lake - book Summary : While quietly working on his preparations, apothecary John Rawlings is surprised by the unexpected entry into his shop of a panicked stranger. But it is a safe haven, not a cure, that the man needs. No sooner has the apothecary hidden him in the back room than a spectacularly beautiful woman enters. She is looking for a man who matches the fugitive's every detail. Keeping his word, Rawlings turns her away but, intrigued, decides to question the man. His name is Aidan Fenchurch, and he has been pursued for years by a former mistress, Ariadne Bussell, who follows him like a shadow. Glad to have spared him such fury, Rawlings is shocked to learn a few days later that the man has been found dead. Everything points to Mrs. Bussell, but she will soon succumb to what looks alarmingly like poisoning. As the victims pile up, John Rawlings, determined to convict the culprit(s), opens the investigation that leads him to the heart of Surrey. EAN: 9782702433713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zoli - Colum McCann - book Summary : A Roma poet with a fiery voice, Zoli fascinates those who approach her but remains elusive. Raised on the roads by her grandfather, who defied the Gypsy ban by teaching her to read and write, Zoli discovered the power of words at a very young age. But putting the history of her community on paper means handing it over to the gadz and a part of the gypsy soul. Adored by the communist regime before becoming an outcast, banished by her own people for having transgressed the rules, Zoli will pay a high price for her freedom... A parable about exile, a praise of difference, Zoli is the journey of no return through Europe from the 1930s to the present day, of a woman with a ruthless will, and, through her, a hymn to the "wanderers of the world" who are desperately wanted to be tied to the earth. EAN: 9782264047502 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Heart Lost - Elizabeth Adler - book Summary : Barely off his private jet in New York, Ed Vincent is shot four times at close range: at the hospital, the days of the billionaire, a universally respected patron, seem numbered. Before falling into a coma, Ed left only one clue, a single word shrouded in mystery: Zelda. An enigma that quickly takes on the face of a pretty, tearful young woman who never leaves her lover's bedside. A prime suspect, Zelda nevertheless leaves the seductive Inspector Marco Camelia indifferent... Together, they will lead the investigation and delve into the life of this man whose fortune hides tragic events. Together, they will plunge wholeheartedly into a surprising face-off with the truth... EAN: 9782266139410 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Forgotten Child - Brigitte Peskine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266082457 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm not here - Olivier Barrot - book Summary : From the most exotic to the most familiar, from the South Seas to the right bank of the Seine, here is a celebration of departure, of distance, of elsewhere and elsewheres, which begin at the doorstep. A bad weather, a look, a memory, the spirit of the place, the ambient atmosphere, the wandering mood: having grasped the world in alphabetical order, Olivier Barrot combines these emotions over the long term. For, more than eternity, he aspires without much hope to ubiquity. Never tired of airports and connections, always happy to return, he has traveled since adolescence, has been everywhere or almost, accompanied by books and notebooks. He has read, a lot, watched, a lot too, and written, a little. From his wanderings, he has brought us some thirty musical moments which constitute both a story of the world and a philosophy of travel. And which form, in a literary exercise of rare happiness, the book of small and large absences. EAN: 9782710330035 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lives and Philosophical Opinions of a Cat - Hippolyte Taine - book Summary : I have studied philosophers and cats extensively. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." (Hippolyte Taine) Life and Philosophical Opinions of a Cat is a short, cynical and humorous text that the historian, philosopher and literary critic, Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), wrote, as if in parentheses, to rest and amuse the reader, in the second edition of Voyage aux Pyrénées, a work published in 1858 by Librairie Hachette. Considered a rare text, often cited, but impossible to find, it is a small classic of literature on cats. EAN: 9782743617776 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everything is language - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : This book is based on a lecture given to psychologists, doctors, and social workers. I wanted to make those involved in the education, teaching, and care of children and young people with physical, psychological, emotional, family, or social difficulties aware of the importance of words spoken or unspoken about events that mark a child's life, often without their knowledge. My aim is to awaken this audience of adults, living in contact with children, to the fact that human beings are above all beings of language. This language expresses their desire to meet another, similar or different to them, and to establish communication with them. That this desire is unconscious rather than conscious is what I want to make clear. That spoken language is a special case of this desire and that, very often, it distorts the truth of the message, intentionally or not. That the effects of this game of truth masks are always vitalizing for the developing child. The child needs the truth, and has the right to it. EAN: 9782253049395 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Loving Without Allowing Everything - Dodson Fitzhugh - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501001823 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everything Happens Before the Age of 6 - Dr Dodson Fitzhugh and Geffray Yvon - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501002189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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