Title : Castle in Blur - Donald E. Westlake - book Summary : He's attractive, rich, and a dictator. Too bad for him! His country no longer wants his handsome, enriched face, nor his wife with twelve thousand pairs of shoes. Long live the free Yerbadoro! Suffice to say, it's time to leave, saving what can be saved. The Swiss accounts? Impossible. The suitcases of cash? Too dangerous... There remains one subterfuge: do something enormous to go unnoticed: hide the gold and jewels in the hollow bricks of a castle to be rebuilt in Paris for yet another World's Fair, then find a moment on site to quietly take back his property. Brilliant! Except that the plan is exposed. Eustace Dench, a genius French criminal, arrives ready to help himself. His only problem, in Europe's time, is working with Italians, Germans, and English who, like him, want all the loot and only speak two languages: their own and that of money... Jubilant! EAN: 9782070410736 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Life Between Two Oceans - Margot Stedman - book Summary : After experiencing the horrors of the Great War, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia. Yearning for peace and quiet, he accepts a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Island, a wild and remote stretch of land. There, he lives happily with his wife, Isabel. A happiness gradually thwarted by their repeated failures to conceive. Until the day a dinghy washes up on the shore. On board, the body of a man, as well as a baby, safe and sound. To finally experience the joy of parenthood, Isabel asks Tom to ignore the rules, not to report the "incident." A decision with devastating consequences... Translated worldwide, this extraordinary novel, driven by intense dramatic tension, exposes a shocking case of conscience. Claire Julliard, The New Observer. EAN: 9782253167327 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lambeaux - Charles Juliet - book Summary : In this book, the author wanted to celebrate his two mothers: the lonely and the valiant, the stifled and the valorous, the one thrown into the pit and the one who gave himself entirely. The first, the one who gave birth to him, a peasant woman, following an unhappy love affair, a marriage that disappointed her, and then four successive pregnancies, sank into a deep depression. Hospitalized a month after the birth of her last child, she died eight years later in atrocious conditions. The second, the mother of a large family, also a peasant, took in this child and raised him as if he had been her son. After evoking these two moving figures, the author succinctly recounts his journey. In doing so, he tells us about the birth of a man who managed to triumph over the "unthinkable distress" in which he was trapped. This is why Lambeaux is above all a book of hope. EAN: 9782070400867 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ice Wind - A Kay Scarpetta Investigation - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : A prominent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur bone dig deep in Canada. A gruesome message reaches Kay Scarpetta, leaving her with the uneasy feeling that it might be the culprit. When she is called shortly afterward to retrieve a female corpse from Boston Harbor, events unfold. Kay Scarpetta finds herself facing a highly intelligent serial killer with no fear of arrest. As the evidence seems to link to other unsolved cases, the most advanced forensic science is called into play. The hunt for the culprit begins in the city of Boston, caught in an icy wind. EAN: 9782253175971 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Double punishment - Virginie Brac - book Summary : Grand Prix for Detective Literature French Novel 2004 Emergency psychiatrist Véra Cabral knows her job, synonymous with danger, threat, violence, and madness. The mad, the crazy, the desperate—these are her everyday occurrence. When she's called, it's often too late. Tonight, Fleury-Mérogis is afraid. An inmate slit a guard's throat before taking a baby hostage. This woman was finishing a ten-year sentence for killing her best friend. She was due to be released the next day. Why this action? What past secret resurfaced years later? Vera discovers an extraordinary character with shocking revelations. But first, she must prevent a riot and save the child: the social gathering she was supposed to attend will have to wait... EAN: 9782266154345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Terrible Tsarits - Henri Troyat - book Summary : Between the brilliant reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine II, Russia experienced thirty-seven years of instability. The autocrat, founder of Saint Petersburg, had his own son killed and neglected to appoint a successor. It was women—three empresses and one regent—who would hold the empire during this long period. And what women! Catherine I, Anna Ivanovna, Anna Leopoldovna, and Elizabeth I would, each in turn, impose on the nation violent and dissolute characters, outbursts and cruelties, the echoes of a life of debauchery and extravagance. It seems as if the same creature, sensual, disorderly, often courageous, passes from one reign to another, from one face to another... A powerful novelist and an erudite and inspired biographer, Henri Troyat brings these fascinating figures back to life. And, around them, a Russia where the Enlightenment of the 18th century mingles with the superstitions and barbarities of another age. EAN: 9782253149835 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Goodbye, Badger - Susan Varley - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782070391455 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Magic Wardrobe - CS Lewis - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782081619944 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nothing to Say - Bernard Friot - book Summary : I have nothing to say, okay, usually I talk non-stop, it even annoys my mother. "Brahim, turn off your tap," she says to me, ten times, twenty times a day. But in reality, I'm not the chatterbox. When I speak, it's to avoid hearing the words in my head. I drown them out by saying nonsense. French baccalaureate preparation course. Soon, it will be his turn. He will have to speak, alone on a chair, while a candle burns. His head is racing. Nothing to say or too much to say? EAN: 9782742766956 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sexual Life of Catherine M., preceded by "Why and How" - Catherine Millet - book Summary : Well-known in art circles, author of essays on contemporary art and monographs devoted to today's artists, Catherine Millet undertakes to recount her sexual life. With a crudeness and clarity that leaves one stunned. The narrative does not follow any chronology, the account of events (undated) and the description of sexual scenes being distributed according to four chapters: "the number", "the space", "the folded space" and "details". The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is, without a doubt, one of the most daring and astonishing books that the erotic tradition has given to French literature. EAN: 9782020551304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fables - Alain-Marie Bassy - book Summary : La Fontaine says it again and again: Fables are not what they seem. A curious teacher, no doubt, this poet who dedicates his work to the Dauphin, and who claims to use, to educate this young man, the weapon of "lies." For Fables hide, disguise, simulate, and dissimulate at the same time. We must learn to read them. To do this, we must dismantle their mechanisms and their subtle codes, rediscover the secret architecture that orders them. Fables are a trap, a lure, the reverse of appearances; to appreciate them, it is necessary to turn the evidence inside out. Jean-Jacques Rousseau understood this well, writing in Émile: "We make all the children learn La Fontaine's fables, and there is not a single one who understands them. Even if they did, it would be even worse; because morality is so mixed up and so disproportionate to their age, that it would lead them more to vice than to virtue." EAN: 9782081207172 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Death of the Woods - Brigitte Aubert - book Summary : Tetraplegic, mute and blind following a terrorist attack, Elise lives in a wheelchair. She doesn't despair, but one day, while waiting for her companion in a parking lot, she is approached by seven-year-old Virginie, who gives her disturbing information about child murders, including that of her own brother. It was the Death of the Woods that struck, the little girl specifies, and she's not finished. Unmasking the assassin before he kills again is the terrifying task that Elise must tackle immediately. Under penalty of death, of course: the Death of the Woods knows that Elise is aware. EAN: 9782020319881 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Letters - Madame de Sévigné - book Summary : In 1671, the departure for Provence of her daughter - the Countess of Grignan - drove Madame de Sévigné to despair. So, to fill the absence, she entered into correspondence with her as one enters into religion. She told her everything, the most significant events as well as the most trivial, the most serious as well as the most trivial: the war in Holland, the trial of Foucquet, the suicide of Vatel, the fire at a neighbor's house, and even the latest hairstyle in vogue in Paris. Chronicles of an era of which the Marquise was a privileged witness, the letters are also, and above all, a writing of the intimate, the journal of a conscience that is told day by day. Posterity has not been mistaken, which has established this correspondence as a model of its genre. EAN: 9782080721662 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It annoys me - Jean-Louis Fournier - book Summary : There will always be a moth in my dresser, a mosquito in my room, a truck in front of me, a voice server to answer me, a comedian who doesn't make me laugh. And a desperate person in a hurry, to throw himself under my TGV. I will never be happy. EAN: 9782843375040 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Towards Happy Sobriety - Pierre Rabhi - book Summary : "I was twenty years old at the time, and modernity seemed to me to be a huge imposture." In this work, Pierre Rabhi gives his testimony on what he calls "happy sobriety," taken as a real value of well-being, a force of physical and moral liberation. EAN: 9782330026592 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One day it will be empty - Hugo Lindenberg - book Summary : It's summer in Normandy. The narrator is still in that childhood state where everything is intensely experienced, where one doesn't really know who one is, where an invasion of ants is equivalent to the declaration of a war that must be fought with all one's might. One day, he meets another boy on the beach, Baptiste. A friendship is formed between them, all the stronger because it is based on an imbalance: Baptiste has perfect parents, lives in a perfect house. His family is the image of a happiness that the narrator seeks everywhere, but which refuses him. Flanked by a grandmother with a pronounced accent, and a "monstrous" aunt, our narrator dreams, imagines, tells himself stories, tries to overcome the social and familial shame that grips him in the face of his new friend. He enters a murky zone where the feeling of belonging is ambiguous: where, ultimately, does his loyalty lie? Written in a chiseled and very sensitive language, Un jour ce sera vide is a novel made of silences and luminous scenes that we leave with the melancholy of the end of vacation. Hugo Lindenberg explores the feelings, good and bad, that run through every family, and the weight of the traumas of History. Born in 1978, Hugo Lindenberg is a journalist. One Day It Will Be Empty is his first novel. He lives and works in Paris.  EAN: 9782267032673 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tragedy of Flower Street - Eça de Queiros - book Summary : At the Trindade Theatre, "Bluebeard" was being performed. The second act had just begun and the chorus of courtiers was retreating backwards in a semicircle, their backs bent, when, in a box above the balcony, to the left, the harsh creaking of a rusty lock, the sound of a chair being dragged, caused a few distracted glances to be raised here and there. Standing, a tall woman was slowly undoing the silver fasteners of a long black silk cloak lined with dark furs. [...] She immediately caused a sensation among the dozing audience. The theatre girls "had a field day," as the poet Roma, esteemed author of "Idylls and Reveries," said. And even a fat man who was below his box, turning around in a sudden movement of curiosity, slipped on a step of the balcony and fell: there was laughter. In just a few lines, Eça de Queiros weaves the fragile yet resilient spider's web into which he will inevitably ensnare his heroes. An unspeakable tragedy. The man whom Valery Larbaud considered "One of the greatest European novelists of the 19th century," focuses as much on the psychology of environments as on individual psychology, and is a master of twists and turns and suspense. EAN: 9782864243373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sainte-Bob - Philippe Djian - book Summary : Certain autumn days are conducive to the fertilization of future annoyances." The tone of the third part of this trilogy is set. The house of the narrator, Luc Paradis, is planted at the top of a wooded hill. From its position, it overlooks the entire Sainte-Bob valley, where the characters of Assassins evolve on one side and those of Criminals on the other. As you will have understood, Luc is a writer, and we are witnessing the parallel writing of Assassins and Criminals. For three years since he divorced Eileen, he has taken refuge in alcohol and writing, which for him serves as therapy. He has set up an office in the attic. A visit from time to time to Juliette Montblah, his shrink, allows him to stem the mixture of violence and depression that is undermining him. So on this autumn day, Josiane arrives, a flamboyant redhead of sixty-three years old. She is Eileen's mother. Luc and Josiane will cohabit as best they can, improvising from day to day, in an ambiguous climate - particularly heavy with sexual ambiguity... -, the beginning of a gloomy and dark marivaudage, as only Philippe Djian knows the secret. EAN: 9782070745630 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Morrisons' Choice - Mary Lawson - book Summary : In a farming hamlet in northern Ontario, four children struggle to stay together after the accidental death of their parents. Illuminated by subtle notes of humor and tenderness, this beautiful literary novel tells the dramatic story of a close-knit family slowly consumed by misunderstanding and resentment. A dramatic tale illuminated by subtle notes of humor and tenderness, The Morrisons' Choice questions the impact of the weight of origins on individual destiny. A formidable hymn to love and courage. Crow Lake, in northern Ontario, a beautiful and harsh land where a small farming community lives, governed by a Presbyterian austerity matched only by the solidarity exercised in times of hardship. After the accidental death of their parents, seven-year-old Kate Morrison, her older brothers, Luke and Matt, and her little sister Bo see their destinies turned upside down. While Luke, the rebellious eldest, gives up his studies to care for his younger siblings as best he can, it is Matt that the little girl idolizes as a hero. Matt, the bearer of all the hopes of a family destined to rise through education, but above all, a teenager weakened by tragedy. As an adult, Kate, a biology professor at the University of Toronto, dreads her return to Crow Lake and her reunion with Matt. A stranger among her own people, she must confront the consequences of the painful choices she made twenty years earlier... EAN: 9782714438836 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Eternal Burns of Passion - Elizabeth Walker - book Summary : In the heart of an Africa in chaos, a woman fights to protect those she loves, risking her life. A twisting and exotic novel. Sarah Hamilton left everything for Joe Langeveldt, the love of her life. They now live on a huge farm in Mandato with their children. As connoisseurs of Africa, they know that it only takes a spark to inflame tempers. So, when the first tribal clashes erupt, they initially think of them as isolated incidents. Alas! The country is soon ablaze, and the family is forced to seek refuge in Zimbabwe. For everyone, it's a heartbreak. For Sarah, it's a tragedy: desperate at the loss of her home, aware of the fragility of family ties, she will have to gather all her strength to save her loved ones. Time is running out because every day brings its share of tragedies... EAN: 9782714439482 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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