Title : The Wine of Freedom - David Haziot - book
Summary : Bordeaux, March 1789. At the Grand-Théâtre, The Marriage of Figaro is finally being performed. There are Jean-François Cornu de Boisancourt, a gentleman who loves art and women; Hortense Laprade, the young and beautiful niece of a wealthy merchant; the actresses Henriette Piccinni and Louise Clairville; and the young Louis d'Estournel, who is searching for meaning in his life and dreams of growing a great wine on his family lands in Médoc, the equal of Latour and other Lafites. On the eve of the Estates-General, happiness seems within reach... and love is in people's hearts. But the Revolution disrupts all too predictable situations, throws some down side roads, others into madness and death, provokes encounters that should never have happened and the most unexpected twists and turns. Louis, while learning about life, beauty, love, and sensuality, will end up creating a great wine, born of the thirst for freedom that gripped France in the late 18th century. A historical novel, but also a reflection on the aspiration for happiness that sometimes pushes men to the worst, The Wine of Freedom evokes a world where the vine is at the heart of all passions...
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Title : Extraordinary Journeys Volume One - The Mysterious Island Part One - Jules Verne - book
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Title : Historical Dictionary - Vallaud Dominique - book
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Title : The King's Daughters - Colette Piat - book
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A historic event that forever changed Quebec and France In 1759, a major battle raged on the Plains of Abraham, near Quebec City. It pitted the French colonists, who were defending the besieged city, against the attacking British army. The reader thus discovers the end of New France and the beginning of the British conquest through the correspondence of a surgeon from Quebec and his sister Marie, a reader at the Court of Versailles. These two passionate hearts recount the adventures into which History takes them. Throughout their lives, they encounter key figures of the era.
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Title : The Russian Tsars - the Rioriks the Romanovs - book
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Title : The Riders of the Veld - Michel de Saint Pierre - book
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Title : The Beauty of Louisiana - Jacqueline Monsigny - book
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Title : The Last Sultan - Michael of Greece - book
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Title : Such a Long Night - Mary Higgins Clark - book
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As New York prepares to celebrate Christmas, a woman abandons her child outside a church and disappears into the night. Inside, a petty criminal waits for the last priest to leave to steal a precious religious object, until the police force him to retreat. As for the baby, no one will know it was there... It took the greatest of coincidences for Willy and Alvirah Meehan, two ace detectives, to uncover the trail of this incredible affair years later. A turbulent investigation began and, for the countless readers of The Night of the Fox (Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980), one of those suspense stories that only Mary Higgins Clark knows the secret to.
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Title : Tereza Batista - Jorge Amado - book
Summary : Tereza Batista? Of all the characters created by Jorge Amado, she is undoubtedly the most colorful, the most colorful, the one who best embodies the common people of the province of Bahia, where the writer himself comes from, with her generosity, her optimism, and her courage to overcome misery and offenses. An orphan and leader of a gang of village kids, Tereza is sold, at the age of 15, to a rich man, a thief, a murderer, and a great fan of cockfighting. But she is a rebel. She kills her tormentor. Later, she fails, kidnaps him, and loves her passionately. Will she finally know happiness? Her protector dies. Once again, prostitution in a world where famine and epidemics are rife. But Tereza never gives up... Tereza Batista? A woman of flesh and blood, but also a legend. Tereza with many names: "Tereza of the Knife", "Tereza of the Seven Sighs", "Tereza of the Velvet Hands", etc. With her, with this book which is undoubtedly one of the writer's masterpieces, Jorge Amado enchants us with a magic, an enchantment, a sensuality and a spirit of insubordination which are the very life of his much-loved Brazil.
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Title : Universal History, Volume 9 - The French Revolution and the Empire - Georges-Henri Dumont - book
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Title : Universal History No. 8 - English power and the end of the old regime 1700-1789 - Georges-Henri Dumont - book
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Title : Through the Wall - Patricia Wentworth - book
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Come on, it's that exquisite time when you choose an armchair and treat yourself to an hour elsewhere. On the detective side. For those who crave something sweet, there's no hesitation: Patricia Wentworth. Another Englishwoman, as clever as a cat, who knows how to remarkably combine five o'clock tea and blood on the carpet. It's harmless, it's graceful, it's sometimes irreplaceable: because the world then appears deliciously harmless. Charming Englishwomen, from Dorothy Sayers to Ngaio Marsh, are therapeutic. For the space of a read, you're protected. It's as precious as a fairy tale.
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Title : Quattrocento - Stephen Greenblatt - book
Summary : What if the Renaissance was born from a book? A lost book, known in fragments, copied by a few monks and rediscovered by a humanist mad about ancient manuscripts? The idea, bold and dizzying, opens the doors to the story of Poggio Bracciolini, known as Pogge, who discovered a copy of Lucretius's De rerum natura in a German monastery. This was at the dawn of the 15th century. Pogge was not only a passionate bibliophile and an outstanding copyist. He loved the arts and had written bawdy jokes. He loved women and was the father of nineteen children. He did not love the Church, but was secretary to a diabolically intelligent and corrupt pope. His discovery would precipitate modern times and influence minds as powerful as Botticelli, Montaigne, and Machiavelli.
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Title : Remember Hallows Farm - Angela Huth - book
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With the Second World War over, Prue returns to the family hairdressing salon in Manchester where her mother is waiting for her. The memory of Hallows Farm, where she was a farm volunteer on Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence's farm, is as vivid as the friendship she maintains with her friends Ag - Agatha - and Stella. On the way home, Prue and her mother meet Barry, a wealthy middle-aged man. With this encounter, Prue soon becomes the promise of a life where luxury vies with opulence. While at first the young woman seems fulfilled, she constantly thinks back to her past and to Hallows Farm... A novel about friendship and nostalgia, Hallows Farm is also the story of a woman in turmoil, grappling with the prejudices of her time and searching for happiness.
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Title : A Little, a Lot... Not at All - Alice Munro - book
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Jinny waits for her husband in a car in the blazing sun. A jaunt with a teenager awakens in her the quivering of the grass dancing in the cornfields. Alfrida, an independent and libertarian woman, is the role model for her niece, until the day she is invited into her home, she discovers that this adored aunt owns the same bland and massive furniture as the rest of the family. Nina's husband, suffering from a degenerative disease, has just committed suicide. They had considered this choice together. Yet, he carried it out alone. Distraught, Nina searches for a farewell note. Nine stories about women. Stories of kisses given as one picks a flower by the roadside. Stories of cumbersome furniture one cannot part with. Stories of necessary betrayals. Nine love stories.
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Title : The Man Without Fingerprints - Eric Faye - book
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Who is the mysterious writer B. Osborn? While a former lover, a journalist, and even a Hitchcock haunted by Kim Novak, seek to unravel his identity, the puzzle of a man obsessed with 20th-century history who has constantly hidden himself behind his work gradually comes together. From Central America to the Baltic, this biographical quest brilliantly poses the question of the erasure of the artist, "an immaterial being," "a thought that unfolds." The Man Without Fingerprints received the François-Billetdoux Prize in 2008.
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Title : The Brambles - Antoine Piazza - book
Summary : In the early 1980s, a twenty-five-year-old teacher, returning from Africa, is assigned to a village in Haut Languedoc. The country is becoming deserted. The land is abandoned. Young people have left to live in the city or dream of a suburban house. The small, withdrawn community protects itself from the modern world, from the incomprehensible chaos reflected on television screens. Here, life follows the rhythm of the seasons and the opening dates of the hunting season. In remarkably precise and elegant writing, the narrator chronicles the seven years spent crisscrossing the country and meeting its inhabitants: notables, hippies, families living in isolated hamlets, a retired policeman, a failed singer, old people posted on the side of the roads... This close-up witness, irremediably foreign, paints with vibrant humanity tiny destinies, immobile lives, confronted with the passing of time and a changing world. "Born in 1957, Antoine Piazza lives and works in Sète. He is the author of four novels published by Editions du Rouergue: Roman fleuve (1999, winner of the Millepages bookstore prize), Mougaburu (2001), Les Ronces (2006, winner of the Emile-Guillaumin prize) and La Route de Tassiga (2008)."
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Title : Beatus ille - Antonio Munoz Molina - book Summary :
In 1969, Minaya, a 25-year-old student, discovered the posthumous manuscript of a certain Jacinto Solana, shot dead in 1947 by Franco's police. Eager to investigate the poet's life and disappearance, he went to Magina, a small town where Solana wrote his work and where Manuel, Minaya's uncle, still lives. By questioning the few survivors of the civil war and with the help of Ines, whose lover he quickly becomes, he brings to light Magina's past and enigmas that were thought to be forever buried in the silences of memory.
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Title : HERE IS THE TRAVEL SEASON stopovers in the Mediterranean with 19th century writers - Collective - book
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