Title : The Left No Longer Has the Right to Make Mistakes - Michel Rocard, Pierre Larrouturou - book Summary : Who can believe that the crisis is over? While unemployment and precariousness are reaching unprecedented levels, François Hollande and the entire Socialist Party are banking on the return of growth to reduce them. However, the country will undoubtedly be marked by a very clear worsening of the crisis... Is the left in power doomed to disappoint? What are the dangers that threaten us and what can be the solutions? Our systems are increasingly interdependent. For the worse, but also for the better: the domino effect could play a role in emerging from the crisis. Michel Rocard and Pierre Larrouturou are holding the French and European left to face up to its responsibilities and putting forward very concrete proposals. EAN: 9782290081778 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Delhi - Khushwant Singh - book Summary : In this novel, I have tried to tell the story of Delhi from its origins to the present day. History provided me with the skeleton. I covered it with flesh and injected it with blood and a generous dose of semen. It took me twenty-five years to achieve this. I poured into it everything I was as a writer: love, desire, sex, hatred, revenge, violence, and, above all, tears. My sole ambition was to share with my readers what I learned about this city from its ruins, its crowded bazaars, its diplomatic corps, and its cocktail parties. I only wanted them to get to know Delhi and love it as much as I do. EAN: 9782809701876 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Hero - Félicité Herzog - book Summary : How far back do we have to go to find the source of a personal tragedy? To the lies of the war, to the grandparents' generation? To those of my "hero" father, who set out to conquer the mythical summit of Annapurna in 1950 and left in the peaks of this glorious ascent a part of himself that would make him perpetually the director of his legend? To the freedom of a seductive and modern mother, too intelligent for her time, too rebellious for her milieu? To the fusional and rival fraternity of two "enfants terribles" raised in a shared solitude and in the cult of exploit? The fact remains that my big brother Laurent, promised a magnificent destiny, will end up as a shaggy and crazy vagabond of the stars, found by the police after months on the run... until his predictable fall. It was him or me: it was him... This novel of our wounded fraternity, I owe it to him. FH EAN: 9782253174806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blasphemer - Isaac Bashevis Singer - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253037163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brides of Cape Ténès - Venus Khoury-Ghata - book Summary : 1802. Far from the Napoleonic epic that shook Europe, five women, survivors of the sinking of a French warship on the Algerian coast, in Ténès, were taken in and given to the highest bidder among the Bani Haoua mountaineers. Almost forgotten by France, they chose to face their destiny and explore this country so different from their own. One, a laundress in Toulon, seduced the dey of Algiers. The aristocrat Hélène de Courtavray became the first French teacher in Algeria. Two others were married, the first to a farmer, the second to the son of an emir. As for Jeanne, the nun, who became a healer and member of the village council of elders, she was venerated after her death—and still is today—throughout Algeria. Inspired by historical facts, Vénus Khoury-Ghata describes in a sumptuous fresco the clash of two civilizations. EAN: 9782253141082 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - book Summary : The Lambert family is a family like any other: behind their apparent good nature lie sometimes unspeakable desires... From heartbreak to reconciliation, Enid, Alfred, and their three children try to make sense of their contradictions. What if we were only born to correct our parents' mistakes? A sweeping novel with fierce humor, whose power sweeps everything away in its path. EAN: 9782020611961 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Deliver us from evil - Romain Sardou - book Summary : Winter 1288. In an isolated parish in Quercy, a troop of men in black seizes a child. Refusing to admit the worst, the village priest, Father Aba, sets out in pursuit of the kidnappers. Meanwhile, in Rome, the eminent investigator Benedict Gui accepts a new mission: to find a young man employed by the Pope's administration. He too has been kidnapped by men in black. With children disappearing on the rise, archives being stolen, cardinals being assassinated... In this Middle Ages where the power of the Church is stronger than ever, a tragedy is brewing. EAN: 9782266191975 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queen of the Night - Marc Behm - book Summary : The Queen of the Night recounts, in a picaresque manner, the deadly trek of a young German woman who unwillingly becomes a Nazi, who finds herself, through adventures and tribulations, a member of the SA and then the SS, before ending up hanged for crimes against humanity. The author's particularly dark humor is completely devastating, especially in the chapters where all the leading figures of the Reich appear. Other passages are revealed to be on the edge of bearable. In any case, a fabulous novel. Jean-Pierre Deloux, Polar A book that could well be ahead of its time and which treats the horror of the Holocaust years as a metaphysical, picaresque, psychological thriller that often turns into pure surrealism. Maxim Jakubowski EAN: 9782869305724 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rendezvous in Colorado - Philippe Labro - book Summary : He who does not seek does not live. The path is more important than the goal. Santos-Montané said it: "You will only succeed in your life if it is guided by a personal search." For me, now, as the pickup driven by Larry Luke, the sharecropper, finally takes me to the ranch in Ouray County, at the foot of the forests and mountains, I dare to call myself "seeker of blue." Seeker of blue, what a beautiful expression. Are you then only that, little man, and have you not, all your life, run after this color, that is to say, this serenity and this refuge? You have encountered blue in many latitudes, in every place and every moment of your incessant activity. But are you not also, like every other man, a seeker of God? Isn't blue the color of the supernatural? EAN: 9782070411771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Childhood with Holy Water - Denise Bombardier - book Summary : Bombardier has no shortage of gift of the gab, cheekiness, and humor. She leaves no one indifferent. Clearly autobiographical, this first novel opens with a sentence worthy of a Mauriac revisited by Antonine Maillet: "I made my first communion in a state of mortal sin." Jérôme Garcin, L'Evènement du jeudi. "There are few testimonies in our literature that give such an attentive account of our relationship with God (and with his representatives here below...). The book is written in a lively manner; sometimes serious, sometimes colorful, it is a quick and easy read. It touches because it comes from the heart of a child always amazed by her surroundings, shy one day, bold the next, never sure of herself, worried and open, in search of her own destiny." François Hébert, Le Devoir. EAN: 9782020116251 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banquet - Phaedrus - book Summary : In The Banquet, the poet Agathon gives a feast to celebrate his victory in a poetry competition. This is an opportunity for each guest to praise Eros by presenting their vision of love. Following them, Socrates, who claims to be reporting the words of the foreigner Diotima, links love to the desire for immortality that animates all living beings. The praise of love then detaches itself from the sensible world to tend towards a new dimension, that of the Intelligible. It is also Eros that is discussed in the Phaedrus, where Plato distinguishes two kinds of love: vulgar love—selfish, jealous, tyrannical—and honest love, which corresponds to celestial Love. Human souls, which have only glimpsed the world of Ideas before incarnating in a body, retain a fleeting memory of Beauty. It is this search for glimpsed Beauty that would provoke the quest for love. EAN: 9782080700049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nefertiti's Dreams - Michelle Moran - book Summary : Nefertiti, the young wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep, beautiful and independent, realizes that power lies in the hands of the priests and the army. Despite the wise advice of her sister Mutnedjemet, nothing has prepared her to reign, and Pharaoh is preparing to turn the country upside down by imposing the sole cult of Aten. Will Nefertiti be able to counter the threats and, above all, ensure the longevity of the dynasty by giving Egypt an heir? Romantic intrigues, bloody plots... The portrait of the most emblematic and mysterious queen of ancient Egypt. EAN: 9782290014677 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo - book Summary : It was first read as a "rural" and "peasant" novel, or even as an example of the best "indigenous" literature. In the sixties and seventies, it became a great "Mexican" novel, and then "Latin American." Today, it is said that Pedro Páramo is, quite simply, one of the greatest works of the 20th century, a contemporary classic that critics often compare to Kafka's The Castle and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. And for good reason: no one comes out of reading Pedro Páramo unscathed. Like Kafka and Faulkner, Rulfo has managed to stage a fascinating, timeless story of rare beauty: the quest for the father that leads Juan Preciado to Cómala and to meet his destiny, a dizzying journey narrated by a chorus of unusual characters who give us a voice deep in Mexico, beyond the boundaries between memory and oblivion, past and present, the dead and the living. Fifty years after its publication, here at last, according to the original manuscript, is Juan Rulfo's great novel as the author dreamed and conceived it. EAN: 9782070379538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Legend of the Centuries. Volume 2 - Victor Hugo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782038700602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The difficulty of living - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : Although I am a psychoanalyst, I would like to tell the reader from the outset that they will not find here a work, strictly speaking, of psychoanalysis. Rather, they will read many reflections that will awaken them, I hope, to the understanding of what anyone can hear, without any particular preparation or knowledge. I have always thought, for my part, that the role of the psychoanalyst is not limited to the treatment itself, nor to the selfish capitalization of knowledge, but extends, taking root in their experience of human suffering, beyond their office and their concepts, to their social and public activities, to their daily interventions. The words and writings of the psychoanalyst must be addressed above all to those who are struggling with real life. Their interventions must awaken adults, push them to seek the right attitude to take towards the difficulties of their children. This lively attitude, always alert, attentive, ready to react according to the truth, can prevent troubles, channel exchanges towards creativity and development and not towards dead ends. And prevention is better than cure. EAN: 9782253047834 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Orange Jam - Safia Haleem - book Summary : Sad? My Mina? [...] One day I asked her mother's permission to take her to the shrine of Chinki Baba. It was a Thursday evening. There were a large number of thugs, but I saw nothing. After saying our prayers at the saint's tomb, I led Mina to a bracelet seller so that she could adorn her forearms. While the seller placed red, green, pink bracelets... on her tender, white forearms, [...] I sat on the ground beside her. [...] I took Mina's hand to lift her up, but she didn't have the strength to stand. She scattered in my arms, like a withered flower. For several days, I was like a madman. [...] I heard the other women exclaim: ° Poor Mina, ... her heart was broken... no, no, she had lost her mind... she had been bewitched... EAN: 9782854463668 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Carthage - Daniel Rondeau - book Summary : After his books on Tangier , Alexandria and Istanbul , Daniel Rondeau takes his readers to the heart of history and mythology. Here we are in the silence of Carthage, the city of human sacrifices, the rival of Rome, wiped off the world map by the will of the Roman Scipio Aemilianus in the 2nd century BC. Today, an outlying district of Tunis, Carthage was an African city where the old Orient lived for a long time before becoming one of the capitals of Christianity (in the 3rd and 4th centuries). Here the East and the West have never ceased to speak to each other, to fight, to meet, to love each other. Daniel Rondeau's story pays tribute to the women who carried the city's flag, notably to Elyssa, the founder, who came from Phoenicia in the 7th century BC, and to the men like Hannibal who made it known throughout the world. Carthage is a meditation on history, on the passing of time, on war, on the great fire of the world that never goes out, but also on historians (Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius) and on literature. The author gives pride of place to Virgil, to Saint Augustine, who lived for a long time in Carthage where he had his first romantic experiences, and to Flaubert who resurrected the vanished city in Salammbô . Carthage is also a topical book on the relations between the East and the West, which will be published at the time of the great debate on the creation of a possible Euro-Mediterranean association. EAN: 9782841113927 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ocean Boulevard - François de Cornière - book Summary : François de Cornière, an inveterate walker and seaside lover, focuses on the life of seaside resorts. With kindness, he describes these timeless summer scenes: hesitant bathers, shellfish gatherers, rainy days or fishing days! - Ocean Boulevard is a succession of chronicles, moments, timeless and universal memories. Through the pages, François de Cornière describes with accuracy and delicacy the passing of time and those “little things” that brighten and brighten our daily lives. - While walking Ocean Boulevard , along the beaches, François de Cornière creates his own album of photographs and memories He focuses on the houses coming back to life in the summer, the bathers hesitating to plunge into the waves, the summer activity of the newsagent's or even the shellfish collectors. - This reissue is enriched by sketches by the artist Valérie Linder. RTL-Poésie 1 prize, Georges Limbour and Guillaume Apollinaire. EAN: 9782859206581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Valley of Sinistra - Ádám Bodor - book Summary : In the Sinistra Valley, in the heart of this Carpathian forest where blueberry pickers and bear herders coexist, one does not know when one arrives or when one leaves; one forgets even one's name, even the reason for one's visit. The days pass, the Dobrin and the denatured alcohol flow: will Andrei Bodor find his adopted son? In the vein of Arto Paasilina, Ádám Bodor humorously explores a wild universe where, on the surface of the absurd, the shadow of Ceauşecu suddenly hovers. EAN: 9782366241112 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twilight of the Steppe Gods - Ismail Kadare - book Summary : The narrator, an Albanian student in the USSR, is pleasantly bored in Riga, in a rest home for writers, and he thinks about Lida, with whom he is in love. When the new academic year begins, he returns to the stifling home for foreigners at the Gorky Institute. Like the dust that veils the dim lamps of the home more and more each day, the atmosphere slowly becomes heavier until the final quadruple drama: a smallpox epidemic is declared in Moscow, the Boris Pasternak affair breaks out, diplomatic relations between Albania and Moscow deteriorate to the point of breaking up, and the separation is inevitable between the narrator and Lida. But he does not dare tell her that he will never see her again, he does not admit to her that he is a writer. Like Constantine, he has betrayed the bessa, the given word of the very beautiful Balkan legend which, narrated here, constantly recalled, gives the entire novel a universal resonance. EAN: 9782070381340 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : By the Wind Cried - Ron Rash - book Summary : Ron Rash knows how to give the power of myths to the stories of the simplest people and the ghosts that haunt them. Bursting with humanity. Pierre Sorgue, Today in France What if the bones discovered near the river belonged to the woman who turned their lives upside down? When Ligeia arrived from Florida, eager for freedom, a true seductive siren, she seduced Bill and Eugene. To please her, the two brothers defied the rules. For one summer, the young nymph drew them into a whirlwind of temptation, before suddenly disappearing. Born in South Carolina in 1953, Ron Rash is the author of short stories and novels, all winners of prestigious literary awards, including The world right side up, I incandescence And The Song of the Tamassee, available at Points. EAN: 9782757871508 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - book Summary : In flamboyant New York at the end of the 19th century, Newland Archer is a young man from the upper middle class. Promised a brilliant future, he is about to announce his engagement to the very chaste May Welland. But the appearance of the scandalous Countess Olanska, May's cousin, who has had the audacity to leave her husband, will turn his life upside down. EAN: 9782277233930 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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