Title : The Angel Tree - Penny Sumner - book Summary : Saint Petersburg, 1910. If the future can be read in the cards, then it is written that Nina Karsavina will have many houses and more than one husband. At eleven, she couldn't care less about getting married, and she refused to believe that one day she would leave the family estate, with its finely carved woodwork, wisteria, and lilacs. Yet, a few years later, Nina wanted nothing more than to go far away. Since her sister's departure and her mother's death, she felt alone. One night, an angel called to her and urged her to flee Russia. She then married a young English aristocrat who took her to live in Brighton. But the First World War would turn her life upside down... An extraordinary life that her granddaughter Julia, who came from Australia long afterward, would recreate with tenacity and love. Like Margaret Mitchell, Penny Sumner skillfully recounts a family saga filled with passion and drama. EAN: 9782259200271 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Jade Disc Volume 2 - Golden Fish - José Frèches - book Summary : Lubuwei, the celestial horse trader, has won. Appointed minister, he is rich, powerful, and the woman he loves, the little dancer Zhaoji, will soon give him a son! But his taste for power does not simmer, he wants more, and above all he desires to thwart this "legalist" madness that invades minds and oppresses the people under abusive laws. This is why he accepts a strange bet: to impregnate his companion in the bed of the young King Yiren and thus make him the official father of his own unborn child, while planning to later, secretly, exchange the newborn for another baby brought back from a distant land. The plan seems perfect, little Zheng is born at the royal court, the "replacement", Golden Fish, is found. All that remains is to make the exchange... EAN: 9782845631380 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love is an island - Claudie Gallay - book Summary : It's a unique season for Avignon and theater lovers: the intermittent workers' strike is paralyzing the festival. One by one, the shows are canceled. Visitors wander under a blazing sun, looking for the rare venues where a few actors will still perform. Like Mathilde, known as La Jogar: having become famous since leaving Avignon, she is finally back in the city where she grew up, and for a magnificent role. The man she loved so much, and who loved her so much, Odon Schnadel, learned of her presence through rumor. He himself lives here permanently, between his barge on the river and the small theater he runs. That year, with his company, Odon took all the risks. He staged a play by an unknown author, who died in dubious circumstances: a certain Paul Selliès, whose young sister Marie—a raw nerve—had also just arrived in Avignon, a little lost, full of confused hopes... or insidious questions. Because there is a mystery surrounding the work of Paul Selliès that these characters either hide or, on the contrary, touch upon, sometimes unintentionally, often in pain. Delving into the heart of passions, dreams and lies, short-lived reunions, happiness in the form of memories, loves we leave behind, islands we leave behind, Claudie Gallay's new novel ties and unties the silences of a summer heavy with secrets. EAN: 9782742792856 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Heart of Stone - Pierre Péju - book Summary : Leïla, a fiery and daring high school student, troubled by a philosophy class on souls and spells, decides to leave everything behind—family, studies, and the suburbs—to hit the road. Schulz, a wandering man at the end of his rope, leads the young girl on a fatal trek. There's also Ellen, a beautiful Irish woman; Juliette, an actress looking for a role; Mahler, a deranged psychoanalyst; and Larsen, the novelist struggling with one of his creatures... Who is manipulating these characters? Only Mémé la Noire, the "oracle woman," knows the secret of intertwined destinies. A captivating novel, Coeur de pierre is also an ironic and metaphysical tale, which speaks of fate, the uncertainty of human relationships, and the power of writing. EAN: 9782070781027 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midnight Bath Under the Stars - Barbara Delinsky - book Summary : Casey Ellis is going through a difficult time in her life: her mother has been in a deep coma for several years following a terrible accident, and her father, an eminent psychologist, has just died. Casey has always been fascinated by this father she never knew. So, when she learns that he left her his house, Casey is in shock, both surprised and upset that he has shown up so late... But perhaps this is the long-awaited opportunity to discover who this mysterious character was... Casey then sets out to uncover the secrets contained in this house and, when she comes across a manuscript, she quickly understands that the heroine's destiny is intimately linked to her own, and that this text left by her father will allow her to shed light on her past... EAN: 9782709625425 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Power of the Dog - Thomas SAVAGE - book Summary : A pioneer of the Montana school, strangely little known to the general public, today considered a classic. A probe of the human soul, Thomas Savage traces the slow deterioration of the relationship between two brothers from a wealthy ranching family whose harsh and hard-working daily life is disrupted by the arrival of a woman. "Thomas Savage is a first-rate author, he possesses all the qualities of great novelists, the ability to dazzle and move... few contemporary American writers have produced such a remarkable body of work." The New Yorker In the mid-1920s, on the wild plains of Montana, two forty-something brothers hold the reins of the vast family ranch alone. While the younger brother, George, struggles to assert himself among the workers, the older brother, Phil, a brilliant mind and notorious misogynist, reigns tyrannically over the property. Despite their differences, the two men live in perfect harmony. But when George marries the widow of a doctor driven to suicide by Phil's repeated humiliations, the harmony is irreparably broken. Through this union, he exposes Rose's son, a delicate and sensitive young boy, to the secret lust of a vengeful brother, and unwittingly lays the foundations for a terrible tragedy... EAN: 9782714438638 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Absolute Friendship - John le Carré - book Summary : In the aftermath of the Iraq War, Englishman Edward "Ted" Mundy, son of a major in the Indian Army, a failed writer and tour guide in Bavaria, sees his past resurface in the person of Sasha, the East German activist he met in the late 1960s in a Berlin in the grip of revolutionary unrest and saw again in the grim mirror of Cold War spies for the assembly of a long double agent operation. But today times have changed, and their friendship, renewed in the name of an idealism that has become obsolete, will collide with the cynical maneuvers of an America more imperialist than ever. With this committed novel of burning relevance, le Carré sounds the death knell for old-fashioned espionage and the outdated values ​​that structured the world of secret agents: since September 11, the world has ignored any code of honor and "just causes" no longer apply when Bush's America subjects everyone to the forced march of its triumphalist and hegemonic self-celebration. Casting a cruelly disillusioned look at the Machiavellian actions of an America draped in its good conscience, le Carré also denounces the blind cowardice of his contemporaries, and his desperate message will haunt the reader long after the last line. John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. EAN: 9782020633437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tuvia in the Promised Land - Tzvi Fishman - book Summary : Revolution shakes Tsarist Russia. Anti-Semitism and pogroms rage. The Jews of Anatevka have three days to leave their village... Aboard his wagon, Tuvia the milkman takes his daughters, whose beauty and grace are his pride and joy, not forgetting Golda, his deceased wife, in the coffin he has carefully exhumed! An eventful journey takes them to the Holy Land. But Tuvia and his family are not at the end of their troubles. The country remains to be built and Tuvia, a "hero in spite of himself," takes us on adventures, each more delicious than the last, to the heart of the first kibbutzim sponsored by Baron Rothschild. Naturally kind and cheerful, Tuvia faces adversity with a pragmatism matched only by his faith: he overcomes a mosquito-infested swamp, fights off a locust invasion using pioneer cooking utensils, escapes Turkish prisons and a cholera epidemic... all while keeping a tender eye on his daughters, whose happiness matters more than anything else in the world. A brilliant heir to Sholem Aleichem and his famous Fiddler on the Roof, Tzvi Fishman, steeped in Yiddish literature, has recreated its atmosphere and incomparable humor. With its colorful dialogue and a gallery of characters, the author's pen plunges delightfully into Alexandre Dumas's inkwell. Tuvia's epic in the Promised Land is an unforgettable journey to the time of the beginnings of Israel. EAN: 9782869700550 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Grey Souls - Philippe Claudel - book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 2004 - Renaudot Prize 2003 A young child is found dead, murdered on the frozen banks of a small stream. It's the winter of 1917. It's the Great War. The methodical slaughter. We never see it, but it's there, like a hidden monster. Whether little girls are killed or men die by the thousands, there is nothing more tragically human. Who killed Belle de Jour? The lonely, cold prosecutor, the little Breton deserter, or a passing marauder? Years later, the police officer who led the investigation recounts all these interrupted lives: Belle de Jour, Lysia the teacher, the poor man's doctor who died of hunger, the ordeal of the little Breton... He writes with clumsiness, fear, and respect. He too has his secret. The gray souls are the characters of this novel, both great and despicable. Characters of painful intensity in a society that is falling apart, with its class connivances, its cowardice, and its shame. The line between Good and Evil is at the heart of this book, a dramatic tension that grips the reader from the first pages and never weakens. Until the last line. EAN: 9782234056039 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lame Man of Warsaw, volume 4 - The Ruby of Joan the Mad - Juliette Benzoni - book Summary : When Prince Aldo Morosini, an expert in ancient stones, met Simon Aronov, nicknamed the Lame Man of Warsaw, he did not expect the mission that this mysterious character would entrust to him: to find the four missing stones from the pectoral of the High Priest of the Temple of Jerusalem, a gold plaque in which twelve precious stones were set. According to tradition, Israel would regain its ancestral homeland when the reconstructed pectoral could return there... After discovering the first three of these stones, "The Blue Star", "The Rose of York" and "The Opal of Sissi", Morosini left for Spain, invited by King Alfonso XIII. It was during a party in Seville that the antiquarian prince noticed, on a portrait of Queen Joanna, who was called the Mad One, a jewel that could be the one he was looking for. From Seville to Prague, then to Zurich, Aldo Morosini, aided by his archaeologist friend Adalbert Vidal Pellicorne, will hunt down the stone that is the most evil and bloodiest of all. But, on his way, he will have to face the danger posed by Anielka, the woman imposed on him and her shady family. In this fourth and final volume of the saga of the Lame Man of Warsaw, Juliette Benzoni takes us on adventures full of twists and turns and suspense where love and money kill. EAN: 9782259184106 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Gentlemen Children - Daniel Pennac - book Summary : You wake up one morning and find that you've been transformed into an adult overnight. Completely distraught, you rush into your parents' room. They've been transformed into children. Tell us what happens next. EAN: 9782070750252 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In These Arms - Camille Laurens - book Summary : I am the man. Isn't that wonderful? A man who comes forward and says: I am the man. You should be able to stand in front of him, eye to eye, and say: I am the woman. Nothing else - simply this, as I tell you now, as you hear it: I am the woman. EAN: 9782867447761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bad weather in Arcachon - Patrice Vergès - book Summary : At the end of the summer of 1963, Christophe Richard overcomes the boredom of long days and sleepless nights during which the last words of a deceased mother constantly come back to him: "I never loved you." Time seems both still and painful. Until the day when a routine delivery of books to the small bookstore he runs near the Thiers jetty makes him the horrified witness to a double murder. Suspected by investigators whose behavior is, to say the least, curious, hunted by even more unusual assassins, harassed by a journalist in search of very specific information, the bookseller becomes the designated culprit as well as a target to be killed. He barely has time to understand that, in an attempt to save his skin, he will have to choose between being game or hunter. Nothing is so simple, however, because the net is closing in, and clearly, Christophe Richard doesn't have the makings of the crime novel heroes who haunt the shelves of his shop. Fortunately, in life as in novels, fate sometimes has strange surprises in store for us... Patrice Vergès, who knows the Bay like the back of his hand, takes us on a fascinating journey, full of twists and turns, salty with the tides and punctuated by the refrains of the sixties. Carried away by his story, we follow him without hesitation for a single second. Be careful, however: some truly bad weather is forecast for Arcachon. EAN: 9782848861135 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Circle of Megiddo - Nathalie Rheims - book Summary : With The Circle of Megiddo, Nathalie Rheims takes us to the sources of our beliefs. The novel's plot plunges us into the mysteries of astrology and the secrets of Kabbalah. Maya is a young archaeologist. She leaves London one Monday morning to join Professor Friedmann, who has just made an important discovery at the site of Megiddo, in northern Israel. The discovery of a Chaldean sanctuary calls into question the origins of the Bible. Messages appear on cell phones, some of them threatening. "You have twelve days left." A curse seems to have begun; each day a new victim succumbs, in an inexorable countdown... Nathalie Rheims is a writer. The Circle of Megiddo is her seventh book. Éditions Léo Scheer, 2005 EAN: 9782915280951 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : England, England - Julian Barnes - book Summary : So England comes to me, and what do I say? I say, "Listen, babe, face the facts. We're in the third millennium, and your boobs are on the decline. The solution isn't a push-up bra." To some, Jerry Batson was a cynic; to others, simply a scoundrel. But he wasn't a hypocrite. He considered himself a patriot.... However, he didn't believe in the merits of a blind cult of the past. He believed that patriotism should be oriented toward the future. There were still old nostalgics for the British Empire, just as there were those who were pissed at the idea that the United Kingdom could dismantle itself... Jerry Batson, who describes himself as a "midwife of ideas", is going to sell a rather sensational one to Sir Jack Pitman, an eccentric billionaire: to create on the Isle of Wright a sort of gigantic amusement park bringing together everything that is most typical and best known in England. This goes from the white cliffs of Dover to Manchester United, from Buckingham Palace to Stonehenge, from Princess Diana's mausoleum to Shakespeare's theater. The project is monstrous, highly risky, and now it turns out to be a huge success. Will the copy threaten to surpass the original? And what will happen if it is the one that tourists prefer to visit? Fiercely funny, ruthlessly funny, mercilessly vitriolic, this is a portrait of England like nothing we've ever seen before. EAN: 9782715221307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On the Shoulders of Darwin - Volume 1 - The Beats of Time - Jean-Claude Ameisen - book Summary : Every Saturday at 11 a.m., 1.5 million loyal and passionate listeners tune into Jean-Claude Ameisen's "On the Shoulders of Darwin" program on France Inter. Launched in September 2010, this program has become a cult favorite. For an hour, Ameisen speaks in his warm voice about the universe, nature, evolution, ethics, and the great scientific revolutions that urge us to hear and think about the world differently. It's such a dazzling performance that the public is asking for a book on the radio station's website that transcribes these programs. Here is the first volume of the "The Beats of Time" series, which began in September 2011. EAN: 9791020900111 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jayne Mansfield 1967 - Simon Liberati - book Summary : Femina Prize 2011 "In the early hours of June 29, 1967, on a stretch of U.S. Highway 90 that connects the city of Biloxi to New Orleans, a metallic blue '66 Buick Electra 225 was involved in a fatal collision." Inside that crushed Buick was a woman, a "Hollywood movie star" thirty-four year old, nude dancer in Las Vegas, very famous sex symbol from the 50s. Simon Liberait resurrects Jayne Mansfield, the world's most photographed underdog actress, lovingly delves into the darkest corners of her life, and retraces her final hours in the middle of the hippie summer, which also mark the twilight of Hollywood's golden age. On the agenda: pouf wigs, LSD 26, Satanism, chihuahuas, hard-hitting lovers, a deranged life, a James Dean-style death, five orphaned children, and a leap into the underground. A funeral oration and morbid chic in the direct line of Truman Capote and Kenneth Anger. EAN: 9782246771814 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queen of Idaho - Thomas Savage - book Summary : An autobiographical literary novel. After discovering a dramatic secret, a writer explores the past of a family in the American West spanning five generations, from the late 19th century to the present day. Through the masterful evocation of a great family of the American West, Thomas Savage retraces the history of his family, made up of extraordinary destinies and broken lives, also carrying a terrible secret that would profoundly mark his work. Thomas Burton is a writer. He's fifty years old. And his success is relatively limited, as his readers sometimes find him too difficult. However, one fine morning, a few very simple words will turn his life upside down. The contents of a letter written by a stranger claiming to be his sister... To shed light on this strange revelation, the writer will have to explore his family's past, a clan of wealthy ranchers ruled with an iron fist by his grandmother, the "Queen of Idaho Sheep," an exceptional woman, but incapable of preventing the terrible tragedies that would strike her descendants, including Thomas Burton, alias Thomas Savage... EAN: 9782714438713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lovers of the Lagoon - Bernard Duporge - book Summary : In the shadow of his father, a wealthy landowner and authoritarian village mayor, André Lambert is raised with the obsessive idea of ​​giving him an heir. To no avail, he will only have two daughters. And the grandfather struggles to accept this, to the point that the youngest, Lucie, becomes the unloved one in the village. Upset by the fate reserved for his daughter, André, whose heart opens after his meeting with Antoinette, now harbors great ambitions and has not said his last word... EAN: 9782812909023 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moonlight House - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Newport, Rhode Island: a paradise for retired billionaires, a goldmine for crooks of all kinds. It is there, in her Victorian house, that Nuala Moore is to receive Maggie Holloway, her ex-daughter-in-law. After many years without news, the two women have decided to meet regularly. But Nuala is murdered by a burglar. At least, that's the theory accepted by the police. Maggie, incredulous, decides to discover the truth. An alcoholic doctor, a university professor specializing in funeral rites, an overly curious nurse - no one seems above suspicion. And when Greta, Nuala's old friend, and then other residents of Latham Manor, a luxurious retirement home, also die, her confusion only increases: the murderer can only be someone close to her. But who? How can the pieces of this deadly puzzle be put together? And will Maggie, who unknowingly photographed clues, soon be the killer's target? More than ever, Mary Higgins Clark, the virtuoso of suspense, plays with fatal perfection on the strings of your nerves. When death has a rendezvous with the moon, a deadly score, a tune to freeze your blood. EAN: 9782226086488 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown - book Summary : Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology, is urgently summoned by his friend Peter Solomon, a philanthropist and high-ranking Mason, for a lecture to be given that evening. Upon reaching the Capitol Rotunda, he makes a gruesome discovery. This will be the first clue in a breathless quest, from the basements of the Library of Congress to Masonic temples, in search of Freemasonry's best-kept secret. An adventure where esoteric traditions clash with the formidable intelligence of Robert Langdon. EAN: 9782709626996 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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