Title : A Sun Too Late - Anne Ray-Wendling - book Summary : Have you ever had the impression of a very strong invisible presence at your side? That of a deceased person, father, mother, child, spouse, friend, who wanted to communicate, protect you, warn you of a threat, or on the contrary of great imminent happiness? Have you ever felt deep within your being this resulting desire for dialogue? This overwhelming experience can happen to all of us, but, like each of us, Florence, the heroine of this story, was not prepared for it, nor for the twists and turns that followed the contact. Yet, she lives it every day. Throughout the pages of her extraordinary adventure, without artifice or complacency, she takes us with her on these mysterious paths, strewn with pitfalls, doubts and revelations about this unknown world, this parallel universe, from where our loved ones, apparently gone forever, sometimes send us these strange messages. EAN : 9782753800441 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One Night at the Club - Christian Gailly - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782707317735 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thoughts, Maxims and Anecdotes - Sacha Guitry - book Summary : RESETTING July 24, 1957 - 2007 - 50th anniversary of the disappearance of Sacha Guitry Son of Lucien Guitry, Sacha Guitry knew how to make a name for himself. Actor, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, he places himself in the lineage of our best moralists, from La Rochefoucauld to Chamfort. His humor is acid and tender, insightful and destructive. His favorite target was women. Let us listen to him speak brilliantly: "She gave herself to me, and she got me!" "When you lie to a woman, you feel like you're getting paid back!" He sometimes borders on cynicism ("You have women in your arms, then one day on your arms, and soon on your back"), but he redeems himself with an absolute passion for women. "Sacha's" sarcasm weighed heavily ("The little I know, I owe it to my ignorance") but his jokes were light ("When a woman I like asks me on the phone, I quickly comb my hair before going there"), a subtle mixture always accompanied by a slightly disillusioned, but not without tenderness, smile. EAN : 9782749110110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rachel-Rose and the Arab Officer - Paula Jacques - book Summary : The moment the Suez War ended, it was no longer the war but the peace that became terrible. Immediately after the expulsion of French and English nationals, the Jews found themselves, in turn, suspected of imperialism, Zionism, communism, or all three at once. The result, in all cases: arrest, imprisonment, theft of property, and, as a last resort, banishment. For his part, Salomon Cohen still cherished the hope of escape. He had Egyptian nationality. He had never subscribed to any political ideology, that good joke (...). He even considered it a sin to believe that an earthly power was capable of thwarting the designs of divine Providence. Cairo, 1957. Salomon, a prosperous bourgeois, refused to respond to a summons from the Mukhabarat, the Egyptian intelligence service. One night, a police officer shows up at the Cohens' house with a warrant; in reality, he has a personal score to settle with this family where, once, her mother served as a domestic. Rachel-Rose, the eldest daughter, opens the door. She is in her nightie, as if naked under the gaze of the Arab officer. Aware of the trouble he has caused the young girl, the officer Fouad Barkouk will play on her ardent naiveté to punish her mother's former employers. By seducing the teenager, by making her fall under his sexual and emotional dependence, Fouad believes he has satisfied his revenge... With this story of a first love in the arms of the enemy - a metaphor for the eternal war of possession -, Paula Jacques catches us where we least expect it: it is a true psychological thriller that she offers us, with the Egypt of the cosmopolitan years as a backdrop, this original land that marks all her work. EAN : 9782715224025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Out of the Shelter - David Lodge - book Summary : Out of the Shelter is the most autobiographical of David Lodge's novels. The London Blitz in 1940, the evacuation to the countryside, then the years of austerity in a London suburb and the Catholic school. But David Lodge is not working as a historian; he recounts with his usual verve and humor the adventures of sixteen-year-old Timothy - his double - during the summer holidays of 1951, at his sister's house who is working for the American army in Heidelberg. In this environment, he discovers life, partying, the first games of seduction. His encounters will be for him the rite of passage between childhood and adult life. Out of the Shelter is both a coming-of-age novel and an international novel. James Joyce's Dedalus and Henry James's The Ambassadors are the obvious literary models. EAN : 9782869308183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When Will You Come Back? - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Desperate after her little boy was kidnapped in Central Park two years earlier, Alexandra "Zan" Moreland, a beautiful and talented interior designer, is horrified to find herself suspected of having kidnapped the child. Hunted by the police and the media, Zan cannot understand who has an interest in accusing her. Despite her fears, despite her doubts, the young woman, convinced that her son is still alive, launches into an investigation that could well endanger her life and that of her loved ones... A desperate woman, a missing child... Mary Higgins Clark rediscovers in this thriller the breathless rhythm and ambiguity of her greatest thriller, The Night of the Fox . EAN : 9782226221346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Physics of Catastrophes - Marisha Pessl - book Summary : Bleue Van Meer would be a perfectly ordinary American teenager. Except that, at the age of five, she lost her mother in a car accident, and her father, an exuberant and eccentric intellectual, now shuttles her from one university town to another, toward new adventures, always on the road. They share a close relationship, engage in verbal jousting, engage in scholarly quotes, and rewrite the history of literature and quantum physics. But one day, she discovers the hanging corpse of Hannah Schneider, her favorite professor. What can she do? Follow her father's advice and reconstruct the story, with rigor, a touch of comedy, if possible, and plenty of anecdotes. Will that be enough to unravel the drama and uncover the secrets of an entourage more mysterious than it seems? Casually, under the guise of play and humor, Marisha Pessl offers a unique critical vision of American consumer society. At once dark, funny and poignant, this novel, dizzying with verve and brilliance, offers us an unforgettable heroine and marks the spectacular entrance of Marisha Pessl, born storyteller and child prodigy of young literature EAN : 9782070776207 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The American - Franz-Olivier Giesbert - book Summary : "We called him "the American." After the D-Day landings, he met my mother at a ball in Rouen, in honor of the liberators. And he settled in Normandy. He beat me a lot. He especially beat Mom a lot. That's why I spent my childhood wanting to kill him. My hatred for him ravaged everything in me, my lucidity and my humanity. Until his death. But I will never forget the suffering smile he carried everywhere and which, even today, breaks my heart." Franz-Olivier Giesbert. EAN : 9782070771011 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco - book Summary : It's the time of the Thirty Years' War. The young Piedmontese Roberto de La Grive finds himself enlisted in a dark affair that leads him to be shipwrecked in the Pacific, alone aboard a frigate abandoned by its crew, facing an unknown island. What is our castaway doing on his motionless boat? He writes love letters and confides his story to them, a true initiatory journey into the heart of the 17th century, that of new science and reason of State, waiting to finally reach this island so close and yet so far away. Because in this Sea of ​​Innocence, nothing is actually innocent and Roberto has known this from the beginning, he who had arrived at these antipodes (where men should have walked upside down) to try to solve a mystery that fascinated the time: the secret of the Fixed Point. Now it was this island that was this point, the island through which the 180th meridian passed, the date line, the one where from one meter to the next we go to the day before... EAN : 9782246499015 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Traitor to Our Taste - John Le Carre - book Summary : They simply wanted to play a game of tennis. Gail and Perry, a young English couple on vacation in the Caribbean, exchange a few balls with other vacationers, the Dimas, an ordinary Russian family. Invited to their party, they unwittingly become emissaries of the mafia. The British secret service is on their trail. To escape, Perry has only one solution: become a spy. EAN : 9782757827994 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Casimir Lives the High Life - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : "My grandfather loved the past. I was like everyone else: I preferred girls, and fucking them. I thought of nothing else. I had just turned sixteen. I was in my final year of high school. I was preparing for my baccalaureate. School bored me to death. And life even more. I hated high school, Mondays, the Russian roulette of exams and, later, competitive exams, the dark noria of days. I hated the world around me and the life ahead of me even more. The world bored me, life scared me. The future looked like an eternal Monday, like a baccalaureate that was constantly starting over. From time to time, at home, some idiot volunteer would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was already quite tall: I was six foot nine. I looked at him furiously. What I wanted to do? Nothing at all, you fathead. I felt like dying." EAN : 9782070407231 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Landless Lady - Volume 3 - Andrea H. Japp - book Summary : 1304. In this third and final volume of The Landless Lady , Andrea H. Japp finally gives us the keys to the multiple intrigues woven into the two previous volumes, The Paths of the Beast and The Breath of the Rose ... The reader discovers who young Clément really is and who ordered the murders at the Abbey of Clairets. The investigation takes us to Rome, right into the entourage of the sovereign pontiff. As for the love story between Agnès and Artus, Count of Authon, it will also have an unexpected end... EAN : 9782253116783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Our Green Years - Robert Merle - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782266025393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tiger's Ford - Philippe Dessertine - book Summary : February 6, 2012, Consulate of the United States of America in the People's Republic of China, in the city of Chengdu. It is 6 p.m. One of China's most famous police officers, Wang Lijun, is preparing to request political asylum in the United States. He holds secrets that will rock the Middle Kingdom. Inundated by the scandal, politicians, businessmen, and senior executives will see their careers shattered. Wang Lijun will remain under interrogation for thirty hours. Thirty hours that will dramatically alter the international geopolitical landscape. It could be pure fiction. Yet, in this book, everything is true. Or almost. EAN : 9782290078747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the North Wind Blows - Daniel Glattauer - book Summary : A man and a woman. They don't know each other but exchange emails. Until they become addicted. Until they can no longer do without each other, without ever meeting... Delicious and captivating, this comedy of manners explores with finesse and humor the birth of love. One of the most enchanting and intelligent love dialogues in contemporary literature. Der Spiegel. When the North Wind Blows will enchant readers like the epistolary bestseller, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, of which it shares the wit and zest. Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle. EAN : 9782253157304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : News from Paradise - David Lodge - book Summary : Bernard Walsh, the former priest, has long since lost faith in paradise. When he leaves Rummidge to go to Hawaii, he skeptically leafs through tourist brochures extolling the exquisite charms of a world that has never known evil. The gags multiply on the plane between London and Honolulu as well as during the stay in Hawaii during which the members of the group cross paths, avoiding each other as if it were a new kind of conference. The experience is certainly a little disappointing for many, but not for Bernard who discovers that paradise exists, even in Hawaii. David Lodge is kindly but Britishly categorical: Eden, the tour operator brochure Sea, sex and sun in Hawaii, is hell. Everything you wanted to know about vacations without ever EAN : 9782869307780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek - book Summary : Twelve-year-old Josy, the daughter of the famous Berlin psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, suffers from an illness that no doctor can diagnose. One day, after her father accompanies her to one of his colleagues, she disappears. Four years have passed. Larenz still has no news of his daughter when a stranger knocks at his door. Novelist Anna Spiegel claims to suffer from a rare form of schizophrenia: the characters in her stories come to life before her eyes. However, Anna's latest novel features a little girl who suffers from a strange illness and vanishes without leaving a trace... The psychiatrist then has only one obsessive goal: to know the rest of her story. EAN : 9782253127369 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For the Love of Philae - Christian Jacq - book Summary : Sixth century AD... what remains of Egypt's age-old wisdom? The rise of Christianity is so powerful that there is only one island of resistance left: the Egyptian island of Philae, home to the country's last religious community. There, fifty followers of the cult of Isis fight alone against the all-powerful Bishop Theodore and the fearsome soldiers of Christ... Isis, guardian of ancient mysteries, instills courage and willpower in her men. With Sabni, a priest to whom she is bound by an eternal love, she transmits an ideal that must not die. But, from the south as well as the north, dangers are rising that threaten the existence of the temple of Philae. How much longer will the sacred building be able to carry the great Egyptian tradition? EAN : 9782266044653 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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