Title : Aria - Nazanine Hozar - book Summary : Once upon a time, when I was little, I sang arias. Little tales, cries in the night. When you sing an aria, the world knows all about your dreams and your secrets. About your pain and your loves. Tehran, 1953. On a snowy night, Behrouz, a humble army driver, hears crying coming from an alleyway. At the foot of a mulberry tree, he discovers a little girl with blue eyes, barely a few days old. He decides to take her home, turning his life and that of the child, whom he names Aria, upside down. From her first steps in the southern districts of Tehran to the gates of the very chic Razi high school, three maternal figures will shape the existence of the indomitable Aria: the cruel Zahra – wife of Behrouz –, the rich widow Ferdowsi and the mysterious Mehri. An unforgettable saga, carried by a heroine whose destiny is intertwined with that of Iran caught in the turmoil of the Revolution. This text clearly lays the foundations for a powerful and evocative work. Eglal Errera, The World of Books . A poetic fresco with hints of truth. Patricia Resnikov, Read . EAN: 9782253080039 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tanguy - Michel del Castillo - book Summary : "Was Tanguy my first published novel, also the first that I conceived as a literary text? [...] This reprint comes shortly after the publication of Rue des Archives, which sheds light on its hidden aspects, something that many readers have not failed to note. The two books indeed respond to each other. [...] Between Tanguy and Xavier, there is more than the depth of a life, there is all the bitterness of a disenchantment, which owes less to age than to the progressive discovery of horror. If I kept, at twenty, some illusions, the sixty-year-old who wrote Rue des Archives no longer retains any. In this sense, the circle is well closed. Tanguy's stifled confession makes the disenchanted music of Rue des archives. [...] From one to the other, a single link, literature. It constitutes, as we have understood, my only biography and my only truth." Michel del Castillo. EAN: 9782070400911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - book Summary : Patty, Richard, and Walter. They were free. Free to love each other, to lose each other, to choose the life they dreamed of. Today, hope has given way to bitterness. Patty married Walter and became a stay-at-home mom. With the children gone, Walter gets involved in ecology, and Patty lets herself be overwhelmed by everyday life. One day, Richard reappears, and with him the question: did we make the right choices? Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1959, Jonathan Franzen has established himself as one of the major writers of our time. He is notably the author of Corrections , of The Twenty-Seventh City and of The Discomfort Zone , available in Points. " Freedom is a true 21st-century novel, one of the very first. Release EAN: 9782757829950 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Children of Salonika - The Secret Woman - Bernard Lenteric - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253052791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New York Odyssey - Kristopher JANSMA - book Summary : Irene, Jacob, William, George, and Sara, inseparable since college, have just moved to New York. They are twenty-five years old, crisscrossing the city, navigating between parties and their first jobs. But Irene's illness turns everything upside down and gives their lives a new direction. With New York Odyssey , Kristopher Jansma creates a masterful group portrait before pivoting to the personal drama of each individual. An ironic, accurate, and sensitive novel about grief and friendship.  A novel with Fitzgeraldian overtones. Eric Neuhoff, Le Figaro . A total immersion among a band of merry pranksters. A brilliant storyteller, Jansma depicts their escapades, their loves, their disillusionments. After the intoxication, one must sometimes disillusion and face an implacable reality. Which the reader, dazzled by such grace, does in turn. Alexandre Fillon, Read . EAN: 9782253073130 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Red Cloud - Christian Gailly - book Summary : France Culture Prize (1979-2005) 2000 A man is driving along a country road. He's going home. He's almost there. It would have been too simple: a car is coming towards him, it's his friend Lucien's, but when he passes it, Lucien isn't inside; it's a woman driving, a stranger with a blurred face dominated by red. Who is she? And Lucien, where is he? And this red, what is it? Lipstick? Jam? Blood? It looks like war paint. "Tears and blood, that's what the beautiful title of Christian Gailly's new novel promises. Nuage rouge is the announcement of painted skies, laden with a storm that the prose will constantly repeat, evasive and dilatory, slyly playful. It is also the invention, perhaps, of an original form of fiction: the stuttering thriller. The narrator was a stutterer before his story began, before his tongue loosened as a witness - he will not be a hero of anything, not even of the rather sordid news item that serves as the plot of this gripping book. (Fabrice Gabriel, Les Inrockuptibles) "Christian Gailly's characters are, more than ever, by his own admission, lost souls. Like Rebecca Lodge, the Danish heroine of Nuage rouge, who, "without losing sight of the sun and love", ends up getting lost one summer afternoon on a small road in the Vendée countryside. Multiple variations on the same gesture, infinite oscillations, the marvelously refined art of suspension. Christian Gailly definitely wins the heart." (Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Le Monde) Nuage rouge was published in 2000. EAN: 9782707319838 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Absolute Emergency - Christian Jacq - book Summary : The Machine rules the world. Created by humans themselves, it controls them in every area. Who's running it? No one. It feeds on itself, reducing all spaces of freedom in the name of progress. A vicious spiral of artificial intelligence. Only a handful of alchemists, heirs to the wisdom of the Ancients of Egypt, dared to confront it. The Machine eliminated them one after the other, except for one: John Patmos, the guardian of a temple lost in an Egyptian oasis who, under threat, fled. Patmos is now the only one, with his shamanic powers, who can defeat the Machine. For Scottish journalist Bruce Reuchlin, there is an absolute urgency: finding the man who represents humanity's last hope. EAN: 9782266290586 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Muse - Véronique de Haas - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2022 Paris 1920. Upon his return from the trenches, Victor Dessange, formerly of La Mondaine, joins the Criminal Brigade. The atmosphere in the capital is electric—between repeated strikes and clashes between communists and anarchists on one side and the royalists of the Action Française on the other. Clandestine members of the Internationale are flocking from everywhere, while the colonial empires are cracking. In such a context, the successive murders of several prostitutes struggle to appear as priority cases. Until it is no longer a night-time beauty, but a client, an official representative of the Republic of China, who finds death in a brothel. In charge of the investigation, Victor tries to unravel a skein that will lead him from a penal colony for children in Brittany to the attack on a gold convoy in Morocco, of which neither the culprits nor the loot were ever found. A mother of four and a literature teacher for forty years, Véronique de Haas has always been passionate about 20th-century history, particularly the interwar period. She believes that the police investigation and The world of the police are effective filters for observing and understanding the multiple facets of society. The Red Muse was born from this approach. EAN: 9782213721323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The King Said I Was the Devil - Clara Dupont-Monod - book Summary : Since the 12th century, Eleanor of Aquitaine has had her legend. She has been described as free, a witch, a conqueror: "the king said I was the devil," according to the Bishop of Tournai. Clara Dupont-Monod takes up this mythical figure and invents her first years as Queen of France alongside Louis VII. From the royal wedding to the Second Crusade, from the song of the troubadours to the clash of arms, a luminous Middle Ages emerges, preparing for its transformation, and the reconstitution of an impossible love.  An Eleanor who is by turns ambitious and sensitive, fragile and determined, cruel and delicate. An exceptional destiny, a flamboyant novel. Marie Rogatien, Le Figaro magazine . A unique portrait of a woman, both a mythological goddess and an avant-garde creature. Claire Julliard, Le Nouvel Observateur . Through this disturbing polyphonic novel, the writer presents Aliénor as an impregnable fortress, arousing both love and fear. Benoît Legemble, Marianne . EAN: 9782253194484 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Road Less Traveled - Learning to Live with Life - Scott Peck - book Summary : Life is hard." With this statement, world-renowned and respected psychiatrist Scott Peck begins his book. If we suffer so much, the problem is not that life is difficult, but that we believe it should be easy. This attitude, partly due to our upbringing and the misconceptions that society transmits, leads to depression, illness, failure, and neurosis. Scott Peck invites us to stop running away from what hurts by using subterfuge or excuses. Through the stories of his patients and examples from his own life, he teaches us what no one has ever taught us: fundamental lessons for growing, loving, committing, and being stronger. The Road Less Traveled will allow you to make giant leaps in your life by offering you keys to psychological and spiritual growth. EAN: 9782277228394 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Cry So Far Away - Ake Edwardson - book Summary : The heatwave is having a strange effect on Gothenburg at the end of summer. Heightened tensions, violence, daily clashes in the streets—the city is in turmoil. As for Commissioner Erik Winter, he lets his hair grow, rides his bike, and swims in the sea every day, wondering how much longer he can resist Angela's pressure, which severely threatens his vocation as a bachelor dandy. Then, one night, the body of a stranger is discovered near a nearby lake. The only lead Winter has is revealed during the autopsy: this woman gave birth to a child. "The opportunity to discover a Sweden far removed from the "Swedish model" and to enter the world of Åke Edwardson. Take the trip and you will return." Alexis Liebaert, Marianne EAN: 9782264039699 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wood for coffins - Claude Ragon - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2011 Commissioner Gradenne catches a cold in the Jura winter. Like Maigret, the investigation is "flu-ridden," the police officers are in too much of a hurry, like this body crushed by the machine... What a great idea to entrust retired naval officers with the refloating of a factory, in this "seaport" under the snow, in the middle of the forests! Would you like some more of this Morteau, simmered in yesterday's stew, accompanied by a Poulsard...? With a Comté cheese that's over eighteen months old, we recommend this young lieutenant, 30 years old, without much aging à la PJ, but with a... nose, discerning and tasty! EAN: 9782213654706 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr - book Summary : New York, June 1897. The grieving wife of a Spanish diplomat hires detective Miss Sara Howard to help her: her little girl has disappeared... Immediately, Lazio Kreizler's team regroups around Sara, and from deductions to analyses, the kidnapper's psychological profile gradually appears on their large blackboard. A portrait gradually emerges of a person whose motives are not political, of a personality prey to a strange perversion, of a child killer with all the appearances of normality. EAN: 9782266092753 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : To the Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola - book Summary : Octave Mouret drives women mad with desire. His Parisian department store, Au Bonheur des Dames , is a paradise for the senses. Fabrics pile up, dazzling, delicate. Everything a woman could buy in 1883, Octave Mouret sells, using revolutionary techniques. It is a huge success. But this bazaar is a disaster for the neighborhood; small businesses are dying out, and real estate speculation is on the rise. And the staff live a hellish life. Denise from Valognes ends up in this furnace, destitute but tenacious. Zola makes the young girl and her powerful boss, who is in love with her, the symbol of modernism and the crises it provokes. No one will be able to enter a department store without feeling what Zola brilliantly describes: the tingling of life. EAN: 9782253002864 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Angel Recital - Tracy Chevalier - book Summary : London, January 1901: Queen Victoria has just died. As custom dictates, the families go to the cemetery. Their graves were adjoining, the Waterhouses and the Colemans get to know each other, and their granddaughters immediately become friends. Yet the families have little in common. One embodies the traditional values ​​of the Victorian era, while the other yearns for more freedom. In the cemetery, the true heart of the novel, Lavinia and Maude often meet and share their games and secrets with Simon, the gravedigger's son, much to their parents' dismay. Lavinia is raised to respect principles, while Maude is left to her own devices: her mother, Kitty Coleman, lives in her own fantasies. Neither reading, nor gardening, nor even an affair are enough to give her a taste for life. Until the day she discovers the suffragette cause. The lives of both families will be changed forever. EAN: 9782070425808 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dead Waters - Donna Leon - book Summary : Pellestrina, a small island in the Venetian Lagoon. Two clam fishermen are found drowned in the wreckage of their boat, their bodies riddled with stab wounds. Inspector Brunetti must investigate within a community united by a code of loyalty and an instinctive distrust of outsiders. Far from the refined world of the Serenissima, in an atmosphere worthy of a Sicilian village, the law of silence is in force. To deceive the islanders' suspicions, Brunetti has the idea of ​​sending his secretary, Signora Elettra, to the island. She agrees to play spy and stay on the island, where she has relatives. But Brunetti soon regrets his decision when he learns that a third murder has just been committed in Pellestrina... EAN: 9782020593458 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nina Berberova 5-volume box set: The Companion - Astashev in Paris - The Rebellious Reed - The Footman and the Whore - Berberova Nina - book Summary : The Companion - Astashev in Paris - The Rebellious Reed - The Footman and the Whore - Berberova Nina - book EAN: 9782868692962 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Talking to Children Correctly - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : In these previously unpublished interviews, conducted between 1977 and 1988, Françoise Dolto explains, using everyday situations, the importance of speaking accurately to children about their perceptions, because "putting words to what we feel, whether in tenderness or in hatred, that is what is human." On all the themes she addresses in these texts - sex education, relationships between children and grandparents, gifts, the sense of the sacred, or communicating with a deaf child - Françoise Dolto emphasizes the need to "speak accurately to children because they feel accurately." And when the truth is painful for the parents themselves, "you must always say something that is on the path to the truth." EAN: 9782715223707 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prey - Michael Crichton - book Summary : A leading figure in Silicon Valley's high-tech circles , Julia runs Xymos, a startup that manufactures nanoparticles, the infinitely small robots used in military research. For some time now, Julia's behavior has been strange. She's been absent more and more often, hiding to make phone calls, losing interest in her sick baby, and speaking incoherently... Jack, her husband, wants to understand. A computer researcher, he manages to get hired by Xymos for a consulting assignment. It's there, in a curious technological complex in the heart of the Nevada desert, that he will discover the extent to which the genius and madness of scientists can go. Alone, he will have to face a predator that no one had previously imagined. An infinitely small predator, but one that threatens the planet. EAN: 9782266141178 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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