Title : Viou - Henri Troyat - book Summary Sylvie felt as if she would, with a kick of her hock, rise a few meters above the ground. Of the whole class, she was the one who ran the fastest. However, no one in the family seemed to pay attention to this exceptional talent. Inexplicably, the adults, when they took care of the children, only gave importance to their studies." Immediately after the war, Viou was entrusted to her paternal grandparents. Her mother left for Paris where she tried to rebuild her life, a separation even harder for Viou to bear than the death of her father. A coming-of-age novel that accurately and movingly describes the worries, hopes, and sorrows of a child discovering the adult world. EAN : 9782277213185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Television - Jean-Philippe Toussaint - book Summary The book tells the story of an art historian's summer in Berlin as he prepares to write an essay on Titian Vecelli and, at the same time, decides to stop watching television. It is both a description of his daily work (studious breakfasts, Berlin swimming pools, walks in the parks), and a study of his state of mind since he stopped watching television. "Halfway between a pamphlet and a fable, all this is told with constant humor, a writing that is limpid but applied to the smallest detail. Everyone will find in it the echo of their own relationship with television, in all its ambiguity." (Françoise Giroud, Le Figaro) "A few essayists have gravely analyzed the crisis of representation - and therefore of civilization - opened by the continuous bombardment of virtual images that we undergo, in ecstasy and lack. Jean-Philippe Toussaint gives it a novelistic expression of exemplary comic and critical effectiveness. » (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde) Television was published in 1997. EAN : 9782707318022 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Singing Girls - Robert Sabatier - book Summary Olivier, the little boy in Swedish Matches , Three Mint Lollipops , and Wild Hazelnuts , has grown up. At the beginning of Singing Girls , he is sixteen years old and has become a printer's apprentice. He discovers love, Paris, and holidays in Touraine, where rosé wine is drunk in Singing Girls. We see him play the student in the Latin Quarter, the night owl in Montparnasse, the knight in shining armour at the Gare de l'Est, the stroller on the Île Saint-Louis, in the Jewish quarter of Rue des Rosiers, in Montmartre or on the Grands Boulevards. He cultivates himself without knowing it. His friend Samuel, a chemistry student, opens new horizons for him... This novel, which brings to life a difficult world situated at a turning point in history, is also a celebration of adolescence - with its worries, its contradictions, its exaltations, its joy. The Singing Girls : all the charm, gaiety, and tenderness of Robert Sabatier. EAN : 9782253036388 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Births - Danielle Steel - book Summary Three times that day, the "Wedding March" echoed across the hills of Santa Barbara. The brides are beautiful, desired, and variously promised happiness. Diane and Andrew are already one of California's most prominent couples: he, a lawyer to the stars, she, editor-in-chief of a major magazine. The world belongs to them, as it will belong to Charlie, who dreams of a home ruled by Barbara, a budding actress. As for Brad and Pilar, after fifteen years of professional rivalries, their intimate bickering has transformed into a deep tenderness. But what is a couple if a birth doesn't enrich them? Now, Diane can't have children, Barbara doesn't want one, and for Pilar, it's probably too late. In the whirlwind of modern life, infertility remains a major tragedy. Danielle Steel reveals all the nuances in a story bursting with life and emotion. EAN : 9782266066303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The novel of Tristan and Isolde - Joseph Bédier - book Summary A Celtic legend at the origins of the novel, the story of Tristan and Isolde builds the myth of cursed lovers, triumphant beyond death. "Lords, do you like to hear a beautiful tale of love and death? It is of Tristan and Isolde the queen. Listen to how with great joy and great grief they loved each other, then died one day, he by her, she by him." A Celtic legend at the origins of the novel, the story of Tristan and Isolde builds the myth of cursed lovers, triumphant beyond death. EAN : 9782264003799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Colored Ones - Alexandre Jardin - book Summary Is it possible to live without adults? To say no to the reasonable and serious world of grown-ups? Listen instead. Once upon a time, there was an island in the Pacific where a people lived that no map has ever catalogued: the Coloreds. Turbulent, sincere, and gluttons for moments, they lived in a world without adults where childhood and play had become a culture in their own right. In 2003, ethnologist Hippolyte Le Play met Dafna, a young and ravishing representative of the Colored people, in Paris. Unpredictable, governed by her emotions and whimsical desires, this "big little girl" immediately overwhelmed him. But the Coloreds are not birds that can be easily tamed. And so Hippolyte found himself embarking on an unexpected chase that would take him far from home. With these Coloriés and their tender and mischievous fantasy, the author of Zubial and Zebra offers us his most disconcerting and funniest novel. A true invitation to rise to the exotic heights of childhood. EAN : 9782070308057 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When Destiny Changes - Barbara Taylor Bradford - book Summary After The Space of a Lifetime, The Voices of the Heart, and Hold On to Your Dream, Barbara Taylor Bradford offers us, in this novel, the story of Audra, Christina, and Kyle, three women who will assert themselves against adversity, over the course of three generations. Orphaned at fourteen, Audra is forced to work as a nurse's assistant in a hospital in the north of England. Despite poverty, hardship, and heartbreak, she will do everything to snatch her share of love and happiness from the opposing fate. Audra's energy, her courage, and her strength will be found in her daughter, Christina, who dreams of becoming a famous artist, and then in her granddaughter, Kyle, as beautiful as she is indomitable and who intends, like her grandmother and mother before her, to freely choose her life and bend destiny to her will. Whether Barbara Taylor Bradford is analyzing the secret motives of the female heart, describing the Yorkshire moors or the circles of New York high society, her gifts as a painter and psychologist, like her creative power, shine forth on every page. EAN : 9782253049937 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Skin of Sorrow - Honoré de Balzac - book Summary Turn around, said the merchant, suddenly grabbing the lamp... and look at this shagreen... Since you are an orientalist... perhaps you will read this sentence... "If you possess me, you will possess everything. But your life will belong to me. God wanted it that way. Desire, and your desires will be fulfilled. But set your wishes on your life. It is there. With each wish I will decrease like your days. Do you want me?" EAN : 9782070365555 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Boulevard Saint-Germain - Gabriel Matzneff - book Summary On this boulevard that crosses the fifth, sixth and seventh arrondissements of Paris, Gabriel Matzneff meets Saint Germain, Giacomo Casanova, the high school girls of Fénelon, the Emperor Julian, John Paul II, the three musketeers, Giorgio Armani and many others; he takes us to the restaurant, the church, the swimming pool, the hotel, the cinema, gardens, bookstores... This story, where the present mixes its waters with those of the past, where scenes sketched on the spot alternate with memories, where the author's private life blends with the history of the Latin Quarter, constitutes both a memoir and a guide for the tourist: a hybrid literary genre, but ultimately, extremely romantic. EAN : 9782710328957 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Go Player - Sa Shan - book Summary Since 1931, the last emperor of China has reigned powerless over Manchuria, occupied by the Japanese army. While the aristocracy tries to forget the war, a sixteen-year-old princess plays go in the Place des Mille Vents. On the board, she beats all her suitors. But she still doesn't know her future opponent: a young Japanese officer devoted to the imperialist utopia. They confront each other, without a move, until the end, while China reels under the blows of the invader. Disturbing and ardent, The Go Player is one of the major novels of recent decades. EAN : 9782070424191 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : North of the World - Marcel Theroux - book Summary "Here, ten months a year, the climate bites into the skin. Silence reigns now. The city is emptier than paradise." In the north of the world, the land stretches as far as the eye can see, destroyed by a cataclysm. Among the rubble, Sheriff Makepeace wanders. The road carries his steps, in search of a time that no longer exists and a humanity to rebuild. Reviving on the horizon the glimmer of redemption... A visionary and haunting novel about the beauty of the world and its fragility. EAN : 9782264052155 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Island - Tracey Garvis Graves - book Summary “Because that’s where it all begins…” Anna Emerson doesn't hesitate for a moment when the Callahans ask her to go to the Maldives to tutor their son TJ, who is in remission from cancer. But nothing goes as planned: the private jet they're on crashes in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Here they are, shipwrecked on a deserted island where they will have to learn to survive. If the teenager relapses, nothing will be able to save him. Anna nevertheless feels strangely drawn to her companion in misfortune. While each of them has only each other as their only horizon, their only chance of escape is this precious bond that continues to grow between them. EAN : 9782811212674 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Karpathia - Mathias Menegoz - book Summary 1833. Winner of a duel to defend the honor of Baroness Cara von Amprecht, whom he is about to marry, Count Alexander Korvanyi leaves the imperial army. The couple leaves for their estate on the edge of the Austrian Empire, in Transylvania, a powder keg where injustices and legends ferment. There, they will reach the uncertain frontiers of power and crime. EAN : 9782070468133 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red and the Black - Stendhal - book Summary The Red and the Black is a novel about energy, that of an ardent, demanding, and poor young man in Restoration society. Julien is the delegate to provincial energy, the delegate of talent to career, of the poor classes to the conquest of the world. This painting, full, powerful, normal of the energy of a man, of a country, of an era, composes an immense work that his time did not understand but whose living influence is not yet exhausted. EAN : 9782253006206 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Daughters and Fathers - Alain Braconnier - book Summary Do fathers sometimes love their daughters too much? Do they know how to love them as they should? Fathers have a decisive influence on their daughter's future, on the woman she will become, on the life choices she will make. For girls, the relationship that unites them with their father is decisive and will remain so when, from young girls, they become mothers, lovers, wives. For fathers and daughters to meet and understand each other, it often takes a lifetime. Helping them to know each other better, to listen more to one another, such is the wonderful quest to which Alain Braconnier invites us here. "This book is the result of everything that the girls who confided in me told me about their father, to me who am a man, but also a therapist and who plays, for this reason, a special role. I wanted to pass on what I have learned, in the hope that the girls of today and tomorrow will no longer feel alone when faced with the questions they ask themselves about their father," AB Doctor, psychologist, psychoanalyst, Alain Braconnier teaches at the University of Paris-V and directs the Philippe-Paumelle Center, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. He has notably published Mothers and Sons and The Sex of Emotions, which have been great successes. EAN : 9782738120649 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When the Entrepreneur Awakens - Claude Bas - book Summary He titled it "When the Entrepreneur Awakens." In this self-published book, Claude Bas calls for sustainable business development. For him, the current system is heading for ruin, and he knows something about it: he's been immersed in it for forty-six years. Now based in Arcachon, the sixty-year-old began his career in Bordeaux, at the age of 14, in the watchmaking industry. EAN : 9782954022703 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pierre Et Jean - Guy de Maupassant, - book Summary A Parisian merchant couple, the Rolands, retired to Le Havre. Two sons: Pierre and his younger brother Jean, "as blond as his brother was black, as calm as his brother was hot-tempered, as gentle as his brother was resentful." Pierre and Jean do not love each other, but the family lives in peace until the day it is learned that an old friend of the Rolands left his entire fortune to Jean upon dying. Why to Jean alone? From what could have been a banal boulevard drama, Maupassant has turned into a concise and cruel tragedy, in which the theme of the Double emerges, which will soon haunt his madness. And the book contains, on the sea, the boats, the light, the Normandy countryside, some of the most beautiful pages of Impressionist literature. EAN : 9782070374144 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Palomino - Danielle Steel - book Summary Money, seduction, professional success... Everything is going well for Samantha, an advertising designer in New York, until the day her husband, John, a star television presenter, abruptly leaves her for someone else. Dejected and disoriented, she takes refuge at a friend's California ranch. There, rekindling a teenage passion for horses, she meets Tate Jordan, a tough and proud cowboy who rekindles her joy in life... before inexplicably running away. Alone again, the victim of a terrible accident, she will have to fight to give meaning to her life and be able to believe in happiness again. One of the first works that earned Danielle Steel - along with Family Album, Loving, Zoya... - the favor of millions of readers in more than eighty countries. EAN : 9782277220701 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Phèdre - Racine - Alain Couprie, Roger Mathé - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782218047220 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kamouraska - Anne Hébert - book Summary "Anne Hébert is the best-known of Quebec writers. A notoriety that dates in particular from the publication, in 1971, of the very romantic Kamouraska . » The Cross At the bedside of her dying husband, Elisabeth d'Aulnières watches over her own memory. Buried beneath time and dreams, the memories of her tumultuous youth resurface: the story, in 1839, of her sullied innocence, of a tragic passion of flesh and blood, of love and death. A secret hidden beneath the opaque silence of appearances and honor. A desperate love buried alive beneath the snows of Quebec... A great voice of Quebec literature, Anne Hébert (1916-2000) is the author of novels, plays, short story collections and poetry. Winner of the Booksellers' Prize in 1971, Kamouraska was brought to the screen. The Northern Gannets (Femina Prize 1982) and The Child Laden with Dreams are also available at Points. EAN : 9782020061230 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Tour of the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby - book Summary When, in 1956, Eric Newby decided to leave for Nuristan, this particularly rugged and wild region of Afghanistan, he knew nothing about Afghans, mountaineering and, frankly, travel... His legendary humor and an unsuspected practical sense would allow him to escape the worst traps. EAN : 9782228895408 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disincarnation - Jean Rouaud - book Summary "At that precise moment, literature was hanging by a thread. Two friends advised a third, who had just read them a long melody into which he had put the best of himself, to give it up altogether. No big deal, we'll say. Literature will recover. Yes, but not like before. Literature's survival here, in Croisset, near Rouen, requires renunciation. For young Gustave, the good-for-nothing son of Doctor Flaubert, until then had a different idea of ​​it. For many months, in his Temptation of Saint Anthony, he had indulged in "desperate style" that he would never recover. To cure his "cancer of lyricism," Maxime Du Camp and Louis Bouilhet, the two friends, prescribed him a drastic treatment: write a novel "à la Balzac," "down to earth." It would be, by force and duress, Madame Bovary. The times ahead were not easy. for those who favor the phrase and the song. From now on, realism imposes its iron law, the visions are sent back to the desert and the dead are asked not to be resurrected. As if this fission between earth and heaven referred to another secret war, unleashed several centuries ago around this question of the dual nature. The meeting at Croisset, the ultimate avatar of the Council of Nicaea? Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070425457 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cocteau Prince Without a Kingdom - Lange Monique - book Summary Cocteau, as we know, is avant-garde, curiosity. Strange, this gaze that is always "ahead", to the point of always grasping in those around him (Picasso, Diaghilev, Gide, Proust, Radiguet, Chanel...) or in new technical means (cinema, photography...) what will make the sensitivity of tomorrow. It has been said that he followed fashion. No, he preceded it. Restore the multiple, remake the kaleidoscope of Cocteau the man, tightrope walker of ideas and dreams, enchanter crushed by the difficulty of being, eternal child forever in search of love, such is the undertaking of Monique Lange's book. More than the detail of everyday life, it is the spirit of Cocteau that interests us here. Hence a lively reading of a world whose effervescence never ceases to amaze us, hence this cheerful way of giving taste to the work, one of the most singular of this century. EAN : 9782253053323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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