Title : The Solitude of the Winner - Paulo Coelho - book Summary : In the middle of the Cannes Film Festival, the Croisette is teeming with fame-hungry starlets, powerful directors, renowned actors, and overexcited tourists. Among them also lurks Igor, shattered by a painful breakup. And who has decided to take revenge. Their destinies intersect: Gabriela, a naive but ambitious young actress; Jasmine, a Rwandan model exiled in the Netherlands; Javits, an influential and crooked producer; Hamid Hussein, a stylist who started from nothing and is now at the height of his fame... All are trying to get noticed in the vicious and superficial world of show business. But Igor's arrival will change their lives forever. The Solitude of the Winner paints a portrait of a world whose moral values ​​are in decline. Paulo Coelho depicts a Croisette where the powerful crush the weak, where men cling to illusory hopes of success and women to tyrannical standards of beauty to achieve a superficial and vain goal. EAN: 9782081222779 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Double Life of Laura Swan - Benjamin Black - book Summary : Deirdre Hunt threw herself off a cliff into Dublin Bay. Suicide, according to her husband; morphine overdose, according to coroner Quirke. Delving into her past, he discovers that the young woman was leading a double life... On the trail of a strange "doctor," Quirke will have to reveal her true colors and protect her daughter Phoebe, who is also implicated in the case. In this captivating sequel to The Lost in Dublin , John Banville, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, establishes himself as a master of atmospheric thrillers. EAN: 9782264056382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Bérégovoy - Investigation into the death of a Prime Minister - Charles Villeneuve - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266062107 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crisis 1974-1982 - The Facts Their Marxist Interpretation - Ernest Mandel - book Summary : This book places the widespread recessions of 1974-1975 and 1980-1982 both in their precise historical context—the break with the long period of post-war expansion—and in the more general context of the history of the capitalist mode of production as a whole. It is a matter of explaining how these recessions and the phases of depression—of hesitant, uneven, and non-cumulative recovery—that followed them were neither the result of chance nor the product of exogenous factors (the rise in the price of oil; the liberation struggle of the peoples of the Third World; the irrational behavior of trade unions; the wage demands of workers anticipating inflation). On the contrary, they correspond to the immanent logic of the system, although exogenous, or accidental, factors obviously play a role in the particularities of each cycle. Along the way, we can refine both the exposition and the application of the Marxist theory of periodic crises and the industrial cycle, which remains one of the most controversial but, at the same time, one of the most impressive chapters in Karl Marx's theoretical work. EAN: 9782081218895 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One Summer - Vincent Almendros - book Summary : My brother, Jean, had just bought a sailboat and invited me to spend a few days at sea. I wasn't sure it was a good idea for us to go on vacation together. When I say "we," I wasn't thinking of Jean. I was thinking of Jeanne. Jeanne and me. "You shouldn't miss Vincent Almendros's second novel. This 36-year-old author manages the feat, in troubled waters and in 96 pages, of simultaneously containing a love story, a maritime thriller, a tale of brotherhood, and an open-air closed-door novel. All three are ambiguous, and the mystery only emerges, cruel and sneering, on the very last page. Pierre, the narrator, embarks in Naples on his brother Jean's sailboat. The former came with the blonde Lone, his Swedish girlfriend who is finishing a thesis on gender equality. The latter has lived for seven years with Jeanne, the brunette, with whom Pierre was once a lover. The boat glides slowly toward Capri. It is scorching hot. The air is unbreathable. Bodies are oozing. By day, the sea is oily, and by night, tarry. Jellyfish proliferate, traveling back in time and the current with their opaline umbels. Pierre and Jeanne observe each other, brush past each other, get closer, and find themselves in the cabin. Nothing is emphasized. Everything is suggested. An astonishing painter of atmosphere, Vincent Almendros writes in watercolor. It is literature. And the best. (Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur) Un été was published in 2015. EAN: 9782707344250 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fall seven times, get up eight - Philippe Labro - book Summary : It happened surreptitiously, slyly, without warning, a real mess, a slow and insidious penetration. I am the slave of an indefinable thing that is destroying me and I obey it without any resistance. " "Something has changed." This "something" is none other than the beginning of the descent into a nervous breakdown of which the famous novelist was a victim. In a true story, without embellishment or concession, the author of La traversée recounts what it means to lose desire, energy, passion, self-esteem. With an intimate style, driven by the authentic concern to restore "this sadness without tears," and "tell how it was," in the words of his writing masters, Hemingway and Hugo, Philippe Labro evokes the effects of "the crusher" that gnaws at your stomach. But this unique testimony, carried by the breath of writing, also constitutes a brilliant affirmation of the strength of life and love. EAN: 9782070305124 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confession Day - Allan Folsom - book Summary : "Harry, it's your brother, Danny... It's been so long... But... I have... no one to talk to... I'm very scared, Harry..." When Harry Addison, a young corporate lawyer representing Hollywood's biggest stars, receives this anguished call, he doesn't know that it's the last time he'll hear the voice of his brother Daniel, a priest stationed at the Vatican. When he hurriedly calls back to Italy, he learns that Daniel has just been killed in a terrorist attack. Rushing to Rome, Harry, isolated in this unfamiliar country, quickly finds himself plunged into a nightmare. The body isn't his brother's. But then... whose? A suspenseful novel with a frenetic pace. EAN: 9782266086905 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Asia - Collectives - book Summary : Discover Asia as you've never imagined it: the Asia of all passions, the Asia of all dangers. Follow the trail of adventurers and missionaries, explorers and reporters, barbarians and thurifers, philosophers and storytellers. Enter the mysteries of Buddhism, calligraphy, martial arts, enigmatic customs, strategy games, forbidden pleasures, and the amorous and culinary practices of Asia. Selected writers share their encounters, their dazzlements, their doubts. Without them, what would we know of Asia? They tell their stories, they bear witness, they are afraid of nothing, not even of displeasing. Alexandra David-Néel, Yukio Mishima, Anna Moï, Tash Aw, Claude Farrère, Stefan Zweig, Clara Malraux, Shan Sa, Rudyard Kipling, Dai Sijie, Roland Barthes, Fabienne Verdier, Henri Michaux, Mayuzumi Madoka, and many others..., each presents, in their own way, a scintillating facet of the Asian enigma. EAN: 9782715242791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fables - Jean de La Fontaine - book Summary : The Fables occupy a singular place in our memory: through the memory we keep of these poems before which we remained children, but also through the grace of so many verses that have become proverbial and that our daily speech brings back to life. And everything happens as if a secret correspondence is maintained from century to century between these Fables and the identity of our country as well as our language. The first collection appeared in 1668, and the second ten years later. The success was immense, and the poems then fully belonged to their time: the France of the reign of Louis XIV. But the mystery of their power is to quickly free themselves from this immediate environment, to illuminate our successive realities, to always brilliantly combine the particular and the universal. In this "comedy with a hundred different acts, / And whose stage is the Universe," the text eludes any definitive meaning. But La Fontaine, on every page, convinces us that poetry, in his eyes, remains an instrument of knowledge: there is a beauty in knowledge - and we never cease to find it in it. EAN: 9782253010043 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A New France - Reflections, Volume 1 - Jacques Chirac - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782841110117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louisa Elliott - Ann Roberts - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253055358 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Father's Book - Urs Widmer - book Summary : The grandson of peasants from a high valley in German-speaking Switzerland, Karl, born at the beginning of the century, developed a passion for the French language and literature. In the intellectual and political effervescence of the interwar period, he enjoyed the bohemian life, but above all, without boasting or any socializing, he began the life of a true man of letters. A hard worker, he translated more than a hundred French works into German, from classics to contemporary works. Until his death, he organized readings and conferences, contributed to journals, took charge of publications, and rubbed shoulders with authors who would soon be famous. But, for all that, this passionate man did not forget to live, with the same uncalculating generosity. The man of letters was also a man and a citizen, so that this portrait, both funny and moving, is also a mirror of an era EAN: 9782070347957 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Short Treatise on Nonchalance - Denis Grozdanovitch - book Summary : Are cats wiser than us? Do you have to train your whole life to become a tennis champion? What lies behind the famous British fair play? What do Proust and Robinson Crusoe have in common? Through brief chronicles, Denis Grozdanovitch sketches a hymn to nonchalance and the simple joys of everyday life. Born in 1946, Denis Grozdanovitch was a professional athlete: tennis, squash, and real tennis. A Little Treatise on Nonchalance, published in 2002, is his first book. He is also the author of Dreamers and Swimmers, Brief Glimpses of the Eternal Feminine and of The art of taking the ball on the bounce. "A short treatise on nonchalance is winning – and rightly so – the prize for best word of mouth. The Express Society of People and Letters Prize 2002 EAN: 9782020659215 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Words for Teenagers The Lobster Complex - Françoise Dolto, Catherine Dolto-Tolitch - book Summary : A teenager, said Françoise Dolto, is like a lobster during moulting: without a shell, forced to make another one, and in the meantime confronted with all the dangers. Self-discovery, first social experiences, sexuality, rebellion, temptations of violence or drugs: this book aims to help you address all these challenges. It is primarily aimed at teenagers, but parents and educators will also find food for thought. Speaking directly to adolescents, sincerely, instead of talking about them: such was the last audacity of the great psychoanalyst, author of Quand l'enfant semble and La Cause des enfants. A legal guide covering all aspects of adolescent life, written by a specialist, completes this work destined to become a classic. EAN: 9782253060116 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Country Outing - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : Maupassant's works have tempted many filmmakers. They have found in them the opportunity to illustrate slices of life or to tell picturesque or pathetic stories, capable, by their human value, of interesting a wide audience. A Country Party is a particularly interesting work in this regard: this short story, of classical sobriety, is among the writer's best. And it so happens that it was adapted by one of our greatest filmmakers, Jean Renoir. This happy encounter gave birth to a remarkable film. This edition offers a parallel between the two works that allows for a better understanding of the specificity of these major arts: literature and cinema. In addition, it enlightens the reader on the complex problems of adapting written works to film. EAN: 9782253138051 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In childhood - Mathieu Lindon - book Summary : He's willing to admit that this Santa Claus was created for his own good, that he was the one who was wrong. The fact remains that a character is created from scratch, made up entirely of benevolence and rewards, and that we therefore have a thousand good reasons to adore him, and then we come and tell him that this Santa Claus is no more Santa Claus than he is and that he's just his mother and father. We want to steal his affection, divert it from him, that we wouldn't act any differently. He's ashamed of his parents. "It wasn't worth it," he says to his mother. "I'll never get out of this if I have to love people who don't exist." Being a child is like being a dinosaur, it goes back so far. Under Mathieu Lindon's pen, memories take shape again. What's the point of childhood? We fall into it to do what? EAN: 9782070450350 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : O Solitude - Catherine Millot - book Summary : "The happy impatience of beginnings. The horizon is a perfect circle, the sea is deserted, empty like the blank page that awaits me, like the days to come, with just the sun and the sea, and the islands. And the sun will rise over the sea, will set over the sea. I will be able to go out on deck in the morning to watch it rise until the gray dawn becomes the pink dawn, and then go back to sleep, completely enclosed in the beauty of the dawning day. Happiness merges with the sea and the sun and the writing to come, the long mornings of writing, time restored to its freedom." By taking the paths of solitude, from the Mediterranean to the Lofoten Islands, Catherine Millot offers us an initiatory journey: how artists and writers, naturalists and madmen perceive the world on the crest of the abyss. EAN: 9782070450411 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Let's go further, shall we? - Anny Duperey - book Summary : Christine, who runs a travel agency, feels exhausted for no reason. At fifty, without ever having dared to admit it to herself, fear to age the mine. Paul, the peasant, a man sensitive and gentle, was never able to tear himself away from the brutal family he was born into. Solange, a ticket clerk at the SNCF, is angry with the the whole world and first of all to herself. Luc, to strength to fight to save one's relationship, is at the end of one's rope. All four of them will experience these moments where one is suddenly confronted with oneself and where we become aware of dead ends we have entered. Everyone has their own way finally agrees to escape the fate to which he thought he was doomed. When we change, everything around us changes. self. Christine, Paul, Solange and Luc will cross paths and their stories will no longer be than one. After the storms and the heartbreaks, a new harmony is born, like a something due to those who know how to crack when it is necessary and to face it when it is necessary, with courage and humility. EAN: 9782020620543 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My House Has Two Doors - Suyin Han - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253027577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bartleby and Company - Enrique Vila-Matas - book Summary : Twenty-five years after writing a romance novel, a clerk returns to this ancient trauma and starts a sort of journal, in search of these countless negative writers who fill the history of writing with their deafening silence. Unfinished or unfinishable books, editorial failures, posthumous successes, authors of a single book, late confessions of an unfulfilled vocation, pseudonym maniacs, incapable adults, desperate a priori, partisans of human brevity to the point of choosing life over letters or even taking it away from themselves out of spite, militants of the ineffable, or consenting negroes, all these second cousins ​​of Bartleby form a constellation from which, without a doubt, the best have emerged, when they have not simply remained there. EAN: 9782264036131 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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