Title : Three couples in search of storms - Lionel Duroy - book Summary : Characters on the threshold of maturity who suddenly dream of improbable storms... A major novel in the work of Lionel Duroy. They are three ordinary couples: Olivier is a doctor in Senlis and Claire, his wife, a part-time librarian, they have a son. Rémi is a teacher and his partner, Estelle, a sculptor. They suffer from not having children. Pascale, for her part, makes documentaries for television and Jean-Xavier, her husband, has been working for many years on a monumental book while working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They have two children. Everything is going well for these three couples. They want for nothing. They are in good health and time passes with the serenity of a Normandy river. Olivier, Rémi and Pascale have been friends since adolescence and nothing seems able to alter the strength of the affection that unites them. And yet, it only takes a harmless comment from Rémi, asking his friends if they don't find their lives deadly boring, for this harmony to crack and burst the bubble of well-being in which they were unwittingly sleeping. "Happy people don't have stories," says popular wisdom. "But they miss it," adds Lionel Duroy. Today, if mutual desire is lacking, the couple loses all foundation and ends the relationship, suddenly deemed too dull. Better (or worse), the one who breaks up is no longer the bad guy. He or she is the hero who takes the risk of sowing disaster to reconquer the only thing worth having: desire. And the one who stays is the culprit, accused of having transformed an adventure that was meant to be unique into all-risk insurance. As always in his work, Lionel Duroy delves into the heart of the contradictions of people's intimate lives. With cheerful lucidity, he reveals the harshness of those ordinary moments when our seemingly tranquil lives collide head-on with the inescapable difficulty of being. EAN: 9782290035535 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star Destinies - Frédéric Mitterrand - book Summary : Some time ago, on television, these stars who light up our daily lives and occupy a place of honor in our hearts amazed and overwhelmed us. Here is a unique opportunity to meet them again. A bit like meeting an old friend you haven't seen for years but feel like you haven't left. They are the heroes of our time! Luchino Visconti, Grace Kelly, Liz Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Aristotle Onassis... These extraordinary beings who keep their share of mystery but allow us to glimpse their flaws, their fragility, their pain, their wounds... EAN: 9782266082570 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memoirs of Giorgione - Claude Chevreuil - book Summary : In September 1510, struck down at the height of his glory by the plague that was ravaging Venice, Giorgio da Castelfranco, known as Gorgione, returned to die in his native village. To his favorite student, he wrote a long letter in which he told everything about his life and his art. A solitary childhood on his parents' farm; entry into Bellini's Venetian studio; years of initiation into pictorial techniques, but also into music, books, love... And then he took flight, creating his own studio, and entering high society. We meet Dürer, Leonardo, Titian, his future rival. Venice, its splendors, its great families, its people, its courtesans form the backdrop for these abundant Memoirs, which shed light on artistic creation from the inside, and take us through new avenues into one of the most mysterious works of the Italian Renaissance. EAN: 9782253147848 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What a Family! - Tom Sharpe - book Summary : He is incredibly wicked and hates the whole world, starting with his own family! What hateful motive could possibly drive Lord Putrefact, one of the richest and most original industrialists in England, to invite the young and virulent Professor Walden Yapp, known for his extremist opinions, into his home? "Tom Sharpe? A sort of concentrated form of eternal England, heir to all the disturbed subjects that Great Britain has ever had and, therefore, congenitally predisposed to those more or less delirious intellectual productions that we continentals are so jealous of in our island neighbors." Bernard Quiriny - Chronic'art EAN: 9782264032409 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Miracle in Balance - Lucía Etxebarria - book Summary : Far from clichés, Lucía Etxebarria delivers, through this long letter from a young mother to her daughter, a jubilant reflection on contemporary femininity. By turns funny, piquant, and poetic, she speaks to her about the multiple and sometimes conflicting desires that tug at the heartstrings of the modern woman: to be independent, attractive, active, loving, one after the other or all at once. She also speaks to her about her doubts as a writer and capricious inspiration. This novel, full of humor and emotion, received the prestigious Planeta Prize, the Spanish equivalent of the Prix Goncourt. EAN: 9782264042699 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of the Sea - Eric Tabarly - book Summary : On June 12, 1998, Éric Tabarly disappeared in the Irish Sea. In his Mémoires du large , he, the silent one, comes out of his reserve and speaks. He recounts his childhood, his years of apprenticeship, the Naval Academy, Morocco, Indochina… But above all that day in the spring of 1938 when, for the first time, he climbed aboard the Pen Duick , which his father had just bought. This old, half-rotten cutter would transform his life. Éric Tabarly would fight for years to restore it to its former glory. But the Pen Duick saga also included Pen Duick II , aboard which he won his first race in 1964; Pen Duick III , which introduced aluminum hulls... A succession of victories and setbacks, technical innovations, crossings whose crew members were called Lamazou, Kersauson, Poupon, Coste, Colas... Carried by the breath of the open sea, these Memoirs are the sincere portrait of a man who, against all odds, lived in the service of a passion and an ideal. EAN: 9782253144489 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner - book Summary : Foreword by Michel Le Bris French-speaking readers (despite Fritz Lang, who made one of his finest films from it) ignored this unusual novel for almost a century, published in 1898 and enthusiastically acclaimed by Thomas Hardy. This tale of mist and mystery - of which we provide the first complete translation - is today considered, alongside Treasure Island, to be the quintessential classic of the English-language adventure novel. EAN: 9782859405175 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Woman in White - BOISSARD Janine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782286107697 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Future of Work - Jacques Attali - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782286032982 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crisis, and after? - Jacques Attali - book Summary : How did we get to this point? The world seemed to be doing very well, economic growth was the fastest in history; everything indicated that it would continue, across the entire planet, thanks to abundant savings and extraordinary technical progress. And now we are on the cusp of a global depression, the most serious in eighty years. In between, on the surface, there is not much, except for American families unable to repay a mortgage. The purpose of this book is to explain this mystery as simply as possible, to solve it, to prevent the crisis from spiraling into a global political catastrophe. And so that we don't get caught out again! EAN: 9782213643076 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Widow - Stuart Anne - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782280166461 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wings of the Morning Volume 2 - The Wedding of Lyon - Mireille Lesage - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253054856 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Land of the Emigrants, Volume 1 - Vilhelm Moberg - book Summary : This is the story of the first Swedish pioneers to conquer America and how they came up with the idea of ​​emigrating. The peasants of Småland, a province in southeastern Sweden, lived peacefully off their land. Around the middle of the 19th century, this immutable order began to shake. The land, constantly divided by inheritance, began to run out. And the echoes from across the ocean gave rise to a desire for freedom. In the Country is the first volume in the epic tale of these ordinary people, driven by the breath of adventure and the formidable hope of starting their lives anew. EAN: 9782253933670 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Paulette and Roger - Daniel Picouly - book Summary : In November 1943, the narrator was parachuted into occupied France, near Vauzelles, in the Morvan region. These circumstances are unusual: he looks twelve or thirteen years old, but in reality, he will not be born for another five years! Who hasn't dreamed of knowing what happened before him, and what love story he came from? The magic of the novel allows the author of L'Enfant papillon (Prix Renaudot 1999) to realize this dream. He will attend the wedding of Paulette, a widow with nine children, and Roger, a Martinican from Tarbes, seven years his junior. He will tremble for this "P'pa" thrown into the adventure of the Resistance. And this boy in short pants will show us the Occupation and the war as we have never seen them before... EAN: 9782253154167 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Doctors - Erich Segal - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253057550 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mygale - Thierry Jonquet - book Summary : Alex had spent the night in the village. That evening, there was a dance; it was a Saturday. Annie was there, still redheaded, a little overweight; she worked at the bean cannery in the neighboring village... Alex had slow-danced with her before taking her to the nearby woods. They had made love in his car, lying uncomfortably on the reclining seats. The next day, Alex had left, after kissing the old man. Eight days later, he attacked the Crédit Agricole branch and killed the cop. In the village, everyone must have kept the page of the newspaper, with Alex's photo on the front page and the one of the cop with his family. EAN: 9782070392742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sunken River - Louis-Olivier Vitté - book Summary : On this winter day in 1850, on the banks of the Dordogne, between Auvergne and Limousin, the parish of Combe-Noire seems very quiet. This is where Emilien Marillac is sent for his first assignment, where only solitude and destitution await him. But Emilien hopes for nothing other than his love of God and that of his neighbor. The human misery that prevails at the time, however, exceeds his capacity for sacrifice and devotion. Yet he stands up, with some women from the village, against illness, hunger, old age, epidemics, and will do everything to restore a little humanity to this place which is only asking to be reborn. EAN: 9782266165273 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wild Oats - Guy Georgy - book Summary : If there is a love story, it is between Guy-Noël and his grandmother. With a mocking spirit, she gives everyone nicknames, the least of her acquaintances being "Jupiter", the Devil and his minions, as cowled and horned as the werewolves who haunt his sleepless nights. In the midst of all this fauna, not to mention the geese with their pitiful fate, the orphaned child flourishes like wild oats in the Sarladais region... Marvelous Périgord, rich in sayings, stories and magical places. The forest is a mysterious cathedral, priests and sorcerers participate in the same cults; school is a celebration and life is a continuous effervescence... In this kaleidoscope, the universe unfolds before Guy's bewildered eyes, forever giving him the taste for the exotic that will lead him to Africa EAN: 9782277233916 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Redemption Falls - Joseph O'Connor - book Summary : In 1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, the United States was a country both to be built and rebuilt. An open land where everyone hoped for a second chance. Seventeen-year-old orphan Eliza Duane Mooney was ready to do anything to seize hers. A former convict, former general, and now governor of the small town of Redemption Falls, James O'Keefe believed he had exhausted his chances. But the West was a whirlwind, and when two paths crossed, no one knew what might happen... In this powerful and virtuoso epic, Joseph O'Connor confirmed his incomparable talent for blending romance with history and making the destiny of nations and of men resonate. "As a good Irishman, Joseph O'Connor loves narrative intoxication, especially with this delirious and prodigious novel which begins after the Civil War." Frédéric Vitoux, Le Figaro littéraire EAN: 9782264046789 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Light - Eva Figes - book Summary : Lumière is an invitation to experience a day in the life of Claude Monet at the beginning of the century. From dawn to dusk, we see the painter's world come into being, followed by the awakening of the familiar and intimate characters who inhabit Monet's house: Alice, his second wife; Germaine, who would like to marry Pierre Sisley; Marthe, the daughter who agrees to an unexpected marriage with her American brother-in-law to raise Monet's motherless grandchildren, Jimmy and Lily; and Michel Monet, one of the painter's sons, strangely melancholic. Their appearance, in a novel where moments of consciousness alternate with superb descriptive passages, is reminiscent of the art of Virginia Woolf. For it is indeed art—executed in nature in this unique garden—and the ephemeral aspect of things that constitute the themes of Eva Figes's novel, hailed in England as a masterpiece. EAN: 9782869302686 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Chained - Philippa Gregory - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266075954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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