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Title : Gamines - Sylvie Testud - book
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- What were you doing in Mom's room? - I stole a photo. A very small photo. “You look so much like him,” my sister said. I put the photo in my jeans pocket. I sat on it for thirty years. - The photo came out of my pocket! I told my sisters. I saw the man in the photo! - Who ? - The one with the same name as us, the same name as me. It's not a photo, it's a man! So I have a father. What should I do? For thirty years I've been saying, "I don't have a father. I only have a photo." Faced with sympathetic expressions, I've been saying for thirty years, "I don't have a father, but I don't care, that's just the way it is."
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Title : The Secret Years of a Man's Life - Robert Sabatier - book
Summary : After the Swedish Matches series , Robert Sabatier invites us to experience the extraordinary adventure of a man of our time, Emmanuel Gaspard Oth, known as "Ego." This journey of a lifetime is also that of our planet, from Europe to the Far East and other places. Where is the promised land? In this fishing village in the south of Japan where Ego mixes with local life and discovers the love of Hayano the diver? The Pacific Ocean of typhoons during a magnificent odyssey? A lost islet where unexpected witnesses of an already old battle appear? A sumptuous residence in the company of the one who will transform his thoughts and his person, the mysterious Alexandre J. Bisao, of the ephebe Tokujiro, of a lady of the court? On the borders of madness and opium? In Hong Kong, in India, in Africa, in France where strange reunions take place? Endless encounters, adventures, passions, and wounds are the narrator's lot. And, at the heart of this teeming tale, the flash of a contemporary tragedy, a realistic vision whose Passion will be constantly lived, a page of history traced in letters of fire as it has never been described thus. Finally, the intrusion of the most terrifying mystery: the splitting of the being and its own rejection. Crossed by signs, uniting the magnificence of terrestrial or marine landscapes with the marvelous interior, it is a great work in which human questions are identified: search for a saving path, mirror of the century, cry of indignation before the miseries of the world, praise of its beauties, call for union - because the novel reads at the same time as the story of a concrete adventure and that of a design where a dynamic thought finds its nest. The Secret Years of a Man 's Life, a long-matured novel of wandering, history, love and destiny, these are the years of each and every one at the heart of the 20th century through a writing conducted at the height of the subject, from watercolor to fresco, from solitary song to symphonic instrumentation. It is the emergence of a language of frank flow, crossed by overwhelming vibrations, a line-by-line exploration, an extraction of the minerals and precious stones that each person contains within themselves and in which the reader, a new Ulysses, will recognize himself, because this book, between winds and tides, is that of the man of our time.
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Title : Sukkwan Island - David Vann - book
Summary : A wild island in southern Alaska, accessible only by boat or seaplane, surrounded by rainforests and rugged mountains. It is in this setting that Jim decides to take his thirteen-year-old son to live in an isolated cabin for a year. After a series of personal failures, he sees this as an opportunity to make a fresh start and reconnect with this boy he knows so little about. The harshness of this life and his father's failings soon turn this stay into a nightmare, and the situation quickly spirals out of control. Until the violent and unpredictable tragedy that will seal their fate.
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Title : The Woman in the Flesh Mask - An Investigation by Inspector Brunetti - Donna Leon - book
Summary : One evening, as snow falls on the Serenissima, a blonde woman perched on high heels and wrapped in a fur coat crosses paths with our dear Commissioner Guido Brunetti. Her name is Franca Marinello, she has a disfigured face, quotes Cicero and Virgil by heart, and she is the wife of a dubious Venetian businessman. Fascinated, Brunetti arranges to investigate the husband while pursuing another case he thinks is over. But the murder of a truck driver draws him into the heart of a Mafia-organized waste trafficking ring. Behind this trafficking and the dishonest money it generates, the health of thousands of people is put at risk. Soon, feuds between rival Italian police forces arose, assassinations multiplied, and familiar faces resurfaced. All of Venice seemed to be involved in these criminal enterprises. And so did Brunetti's family. “Beyond the detective story… the reunion with beloved characters… what makes Donna Leon's books special and what makes Venice so lively is Brunetti's unique perspective.”
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Title : When a Son Is Given to Us - Donna Leon - book
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Inspector Brunetti doesn't like to mix work and family, so when his father-in-law, Count Falier, asks him for a favor, he's very worried. One of his best friends, Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda, intends to adopt his young lover, in order to leave him his immense fortune when the time comes. Suspicious, the count urges his unmotivated son-in-law to investigate the young man. That's when Gonzalo collapses dead in the street. Shortly after, one of his friends, who had just arrived in Venice to pay his respects, is found strangled in her hotel room. Now forced to take matters into his own hands, Brunetti slowly but surely unravels the threads of Gonzalo's mysterious life, uncovering family secrets that threaten to cause more harm than good. A fantastic new investigation by Inspector Brunetti that plunges us into the ruthless world of the wealthiest Venetians. “Brunetti meditates on the importance of family ties and the danger of family secrets, inviting the reader to do the same.” Library Journal
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Title : The Great Enigmas of French History - Nora Schott - book
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Title : Into the Woods - Harlan Coben - book
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What happened that night? Secrets, blackmail, score settling, pretenses... A true nightmare, driven at a frenetic pace. Harlan Coben at the height of his powers. Summer 1985? New Jersey Paul Copeland is a counselor at a summer camp on the edge of the woods. One night, lured by his girlfriend, he abandons the camp. Four young people take the opportunity to slip away, including his sister, Camille. They were never seen again. Only two bodies were found. The teenagers' deaths were attributed to a serial killer who was operating in the region. Twenty years later Paul has become a prosecutor. While arguing a rape case, he is called upon to identify a body. Stunned, he formally recognizes Gil Perez, one of the missing. Why do Gil's parents persist in denying his identity? And if Gil has been alive all this time, could Camille be alive today? Determined to shed light on the tragedy that has never ceased to eat away at him, Paul will delve back into the memories of that terrible night...
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Title : The Guest Room - James Lasdun - book
Summary : Another one of those books that "you can't stop turning the pages, until you reach an incredible conclusion"? Well, for once, it's true! Joyce Carol Oates
Between Françoise Sagan and Patricia Highsmith, a deliciously perverse closed-door encounter! Imagine a dream setting : a luxurious summer residence in the middle of the mountains. Place one there trio of troubled characters : Charlie, a wealthy New York banker, his wife Chloe and Matthew, Charlie's cousin, a cook whose life is going a bit adrift. The scene is set, the pieces are on the chessboard. To say more would be criminal. Passion, drama, betrayal, adultery, murder: nothing will be missing from your pleasure. With this painting of a bourgeois couple who, beneath perfect appearances, conceal many secrets and lies, James Lasdun evokes both the worlds of Françoise Sagan , of Claude Chabrol and of Patricia Highsmith . Suffice to say that the suspense , L' intelligence and the pleasure are at the rendezvous of this novel with multiple twists and turns, where each person is both guilty and a victim of their deepest nature. A delight.
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Title : This Changing Heart - Agnès Desarthe - book
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Facing life, she had the same impression as when she watched the landscape pass by through the train window: if she was facing the direction of travel, the panorama seemed to fall on her, and her frantic eyes did not know which detail to focus on or which line to follow. She felt crushed by the image that did not stay still, constantly changing. Sitting facing the opposite direction, she regained her calm and contemplated the horizon until she fell asleep. So... so, she thought, perhaps one could say that it is the same thing whether one looks towards the future or towards the past. Perhaps that is why I need my memories so much. Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Rose arrives in Paris at the age of 20 and finds herself thrust into a completely unknown universe. The Dreyfus Affair, then the First World War, breaks out. The Roaring Twenties follow one another. The slums, the bohemian lifestyle, solitude... Rose risks falling at any moment.
Using all the resources of the novel, Agnès Desarthe mixes the whisper of the intimate and the breath of History in this great baroque book which marks her return to fiction.
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Title : An Act of Love - James Meek - book
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1919. Siberia. At the end of an incredible landscape, along the Trans-Siberian Railway, a small town occupied by Czech soldiers awaits attack by the Bolsheviks. The entire town, strangely childless, belongs to a religious sect led by Balashov, the barber. Samarin arrives. He emerges from the forest and tells of escaping from a penal colony near the Arctic Circle and being pursued by a cannibal. Anna Petrovna, a seductive young widow, takes an interest in this newcomer. A local shaman is found dead, and suspicion, fear, and madness descend upon the town. The Czech captain, who wants to build a kingdom for himself in this frozen corner of the world, appoints a tribunal to judge Samarin and confronts Mutz, the lieutenant full of humanity and common sense. The Reds arrive. The underlying theme of the entire novel is found in the title. The four main characters agree that love exists; what they disagree on is what it can be. Balashov and Samarin believe that beyond individual love there is love of God and love of others, of the homeland, the origin of religious and political fanaticism. The act of loving others is literally an act of cannibalism. For Samarin, it is an act of love from one dying generation to the next, which should be happier. This way of seeing a cruel act as an act of love is the expression of all idealistic extremism. With characters of exceptional intensity and grandeur, all the charm of the great Russian novels is combined with the storytelling talent and liveliness of a modern thriller. A bestseller in Great Britain and the United States, this novel has been translated into 27 languages. The film adaptation rights were purchased by Johnny Depp (Infinitum films). “Spellbinding. [.] Truly a great book.” Irvine Welsh, The Guardian “The best and most original book I have read in years.” Louis de Bernières James Meek was born in London in 1962 and grew up in Dundee. A journalist and senior reporter since 1985, he lived in Russia from 1991 to 1999. He currently lives in London and contributes to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Granta. In 2004, his reporting on Iraq and Guantanamo received major international awards. He is the author of two other novels and short story collections.
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Title : The Investigations of Inspector Brunetti - Volume 22 - The Boy Who Didn't Talk - Donna Leon - book
Summary : As autumn leaves begin to fall on the streets of Venice, Vice-Quaestor Patta tasks Commissioner Brunetti with investigating an offense committed by the mask shop on Campo San Barnaba owned by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. But now his wife, Paola, also presents him with a request. The man, probably mentally handicapped, who worked in their dry cleaners, has just died of an overdose of sleeping pills. Paola cannot bear the thought that no one ever noticed or helped him, in life or in death. Also intrigued by the death of this character he had crossed paths with for many years, Brunetti begins researching behind his superior's back. To his great surprise, he finds nothing about this man: no birth certificate, no passport, no credit card. According to the Italian authorities, he never existed. Even stranger, his mother refuses to speak to the police and insists that her son's identity papers were stolen during a burglary. As the revelations unfold, we discover that an aristocratic family, the Lembos, seems to be involved in this mysterious death. But why would these powerful and influential people have eliminated this unfortunate simpleton?
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Title : The Antiques Merchant of Venice - Philippa Gregory - book
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From London to New England, via Venice, the troubled waters carry everything away, revealing secrets and enemies...
Summer Solstice Eve, 1670. On the foggy London docks, Alinor has a meeting with James Summer, the man who abandoned her twenty years earlier. He wants to recover the one thing his fortune can't buy: their son, Rob, born of their love. But the arrival of Livia, a young and all-too-charming widow, stirs up trouble. She claims to be Alinor's stepdaughter and that Rob drowned in Venice. Alinor doesn't believe a word this so-called antiques dealer is saying. For her, there is no doubt: her son is alive and Livia is hiding many secrets. But how can she prove it?
England, 1670. A perilous time for any independent woman...
“Mysteriously powerful and full of twists and turns.” - Booklist "The talent of Philippa Gregory is at its peak. » - Publishers Weekly " Philippa Gregory invites us to immerse ourselves in the fascinating history of London, Venice and New England at the end of the 17th century. » - Woman & Home “Breathtaking... The queen of historical fiction brilliantly manages to transport us far from the Tudor court.” - Parade "The style of Philippa Gregory and her commitment to revealing the ignored history of women make The Antiques Merchant of Venice an entertaining novel and an inspiring feminist work." - Bookreporter.com “A real roller coaster of twists, intrigues and terrible secrets.” - Woman's World Magazine
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Title : My wife of your life - Carla Guelfenbein - book
Summary : They are two friends, young, handsome, idealistic, and desperate as one can be at twenty, brought together in London in the 1980s. To the rhythm of the captivating melodies of Joan Baez or Bob Marley, they remake the world in the pubs of Soho, and a handful of convictions seem enough to decide their lives. Between Théo, an English sociology student, and Antonio, basking in the glory of his Chilean exile, the attraction is immediate. The political commitment of one in the resistance forces against the dictatorship exacerbates the thirst for freedom of the other - a freedom bridled by the austere Thatcher years. They are brothers in arms, who have sworn loyalty to each other for life and death. The irruption of the beautiful Clara will overcome their promise. To win her love, they betray each other. Fifteen years of silence ensue; Théo chases after his illusions. A war correspondent, he travels through refugee camps and devastated cities when, one day, Antonio, now Clara's husband, invites him to Chile to bring him face to face with the woman of his life again.
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Title : The Sky Above the Roof - Nathacha Appanah - book
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His mother and sister know that Loup sleeps in prison, even if the right word is remand center, but what do the right words matter when there are bars on the windows, a metal door with a peephole, and all those things that are only found between the walls. They imagine what it's like to sleep in jail at seventeen, but no one, really, can imagine the evenings in those places." As in the poem by Verlaine to which the title refers, this novel, marked by so many flashes of darkness, nevertheless transports us, through the grace of Nathacha Appanah's writing, towards a light falling from a sky so blue, so calm, towards this eternal sweetness that binds a family beyond the dramas.
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Title : The Sentence - John Grisham - book
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October 1946. Pete Banning, the darling of Clanton, Mississippi, returned from World War II a hero, decorated with the highest military honors. Now a farmer and Methodist churchgoer, he is remembered as an exemplary father and neighbor. One autumn morning, he gets up early, goes into town, and calmly shoots his friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. Adding to the shock of this cold-blooded murder is the complete incomprehension, as Pete simply tells the sheriff, his lawyers, and his family: "I have nothing to say." What happened to turn Pete, a respected member of the community, into a murderer? And why does he keep silent? No one knows. The only certainty his family has is that what he's keeping quiet about is devastating, the repercussions of which will haunt them and the town for decades... With this unique and major work, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the old segregated South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II, from a mental asylum to the dark secrets of the Clanton courthouse where Pete's lawyer desperately tries to save his client's life.
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Title : Fanny Stevenson - Between passion and freedom - Alexandra Lapierre - book
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She lived a thousand lives. She was a gold prospector in the deserts of Nevada, she cleared jungles in the South Sea Islands, she was one of the first female painters in Impressionist Paris. One spring day in 1876, in an inn on the banks of the Loing, she meets a young Scottish intellectual. He is eleven years younger than her. He suffers from lung disease and people fear for his life. Between these two people, whom everything separates - she is American, married, mother of three children; he is the only son of austere bourgeois Victorians - love explodes. A love stronger than all prohibitions. Stronger than illness and death. A love that will make the young rebel one of the most famous literary geniuses of his time. Robert Louis Stevenson, the immortal author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Fanny Stevenson is the passionate tale of an extraordinary life, a life teeming with adventures, dreams, and conquests. The life of a woman who was the only love of one of the greatest writers. A woman who, all by herself, embodies an era, a myth, and a world.
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Title : I love rat juice! - Christian Lamblin - book
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Will Milo win the three magic tests that would make him a very evil wizard? A novel to read together for the first steps in reading! The story: Milo is a young wizard who, with a potion of rat juice and magic spells, has sworn to become extra strong and very wicked! But to become the great wizard he dreams of, Milo must pass three magic tests that he is sure to win! But his fine resolutions collapse when he meets the princess's gaze... The First Readings collection supports children learning to read. Each novel can be read in two voices: an experienced reader reads the story and the child reads the speech bubbles, which are easy to decipher, thanks to the 3 levels adapted to their progress. Level 1 - "I decipher": the bubbles can be read by children who are beginning to read. (single syllables) When the child can read alone, he can read the whole novels like a grown-up! A book tested by CP and CE1 teachers for children from 6 years old.
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Title : Lili goes to the shrink - Volume 55 - Dominique de Saint Mars, Serge Bloch - book
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Max and Lili are devastated. Their dog has disappeared... But when he returns, Lili is no better... She remains worried, aggressive, and never leaves her mother's side... Will a shrink be able to unravel the Lili mystery? This story of Max and Lili teaches us that a child can be unhappy in their own skin, but in their own head, or in their own heart, without knowing why. They have a thousand ways of showing it: bad mood, sadness, difficulty sleeping, bad grades, or bedwetting... A shrink (psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, or psychotherapist) can help them find the words to talk about it, to love themselves a little more. And the whole family can regain confidence...
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Title : Max Goes to the Hospital - Volume 10 - Dominique de Saint Mars, Serge Bloch - book
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Max was hit by a car on his way home from school. His leg is broken. At the hospital, he discovers fear and suffering, but also patience... and other people. This little book by "Max and Lili" is an opportunity to take the drama out of the hospital and talk about it with humor and truth.
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Title : The Little Prince, volume 6 - The Astronomer's Planet - Fabrice Colin - book
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Among the Chlorophyllians, plants are no longer growing. Is this strange disease linked to the disappearance of stars that is affecting this planet? What is certain is that the key to the mystery lies with Antoine the Astronomer, and the Little Prince and Fox will have to play close to their chests to save D455 and their beloved Rose!
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Title : Winx Club Volume 21 - Tecna's Sacrifice - Pink Library - Sophie Marvaud - book
Summary : To save the planet Andros, the Winx must absolutely close the interdimensional portal to Omega, the frozen planet. But it can only be closed from the inside! And it's Tecna who sacrifices herself... Her friends are desperate. Are the Winx separated forever?
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Title : My Favorite Princess Volume 11 - Aurora's Ball - Bibliothèque rose - Walt Disney - book
Summary : I am Princess Aurora. Ever since I married Prince Philip, I've been living a waking dream! Tonight, we're having a grand ball, and I have to make sure nothing is missing. But my prince and I will try to escape the guards and servants and find each other as lovers.
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Title : Princess Academy - Princess Olivia Believes in Prince Charming - Pink Library - Vivian French - book
Summary : A Princely Demonstration is taking place at the Ruby Palace! For this occasion, the students of the Prince Academy are visiting the princesses. And Perla is ready to do anything to get noticed by the guests! She doesn't hesitate to ridicule Olivia in front of everyone... Luckily, Prince Ferdinand is there...
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Title : Madame Brilliant - Roger Hargreaves - book
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They are small, they are numerous: the Mr Men and Little Misses have strong personalities! Each one has their own story, full of humor and mischief. Ms. Genius always has brilliant ideas! At least, that's what she thinks... From 4 years old.
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