Title: Mission to the Ionian Sea - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : Bold, seafaring hearts. Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy commander, and Stephen Maturin, Her Majesty's doctor and spy, have returned to their beloved vessel, the drum of alarm, and the smell of gunpowder. While the French fleet puts up increasingly fierce resistance to the blockades imposed by the English, their frigate sails towards Greece and its islands, where a new mission awaits them: to conclude an alliance that would allow the Navy to drive the French from the Mediterranean and deal a fatal blow to Napoleon. Will Aubrey succeed in changing the course of history? EAN: 9782266111256 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Expedition to Mauritius - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : Jack Aubrey yearns for the sea. Trapped in the family routine, he dreams only of commanding a ship. A visit from his friend Stephen Maturin, a doctor and secret agent, brings him deliverance. Promoted to commander, Lucky Jack Aubrey returns to service and embarks aboard the "Boadicea." His mission: to neutralize Bonaparte's French frigates based in the Indian Ocean and reclaim Mauritius and Réunion as colonies for the English Crown. A great adventure thus begins for the "Boadicea" and the other Royal Navy vessels that have come to lend a hand. EAN: 9782266100199 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : They were believed to be dead, buried forever at the bottom of the southern seas. But, thank God, Jack Aubrey and his accomplice Stephen Maturin are alive and have managed to reach the East Indies. Shortly after this event, Aubrey receives orders to return to England. He embarks with Maturin aboard the "Arrow" for a crossing that promises to be calm. Too calm. Soon, fate intervenes and disasters follow one after another. Fire, shipwreck, drifting... Exhausted, half-dead from hunger and thirst, they are picked up by a Royal Navy frigate. They are not out of the woods yet, however, because, in the meantime, the American colonies have just launched a war of independence against England and are waging a merciless struggle. The first ship that appears on the horizon flies the banner of the insurgents... Also available at Pocket, the first five parts of Patrick O'Brian's great maritime saga: "Master on Board", "Captain of the Ship", "The Surprise", "Expedition to Mauritius" and "The Island of Desolation". EAN: 9782266104272 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Baltic Citadel - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : If anyone had told Jack Aubrey - a Royal Navy captain - and his sidekick Stephen Maturin - a doctor, naturalist, and secret agent - that one day they would face perils on land greater than those of the ocean, they would never have believed it... Yet that's what's happening to them today. They're forced to leave Halifax as quickly as possible, where they planned to celebrate the Navy's victory over an American schooner. Jack, to escape a schemer who has set her sights on him. Stephen, to elude the French and American intelligence agents pursuing him. In England, Stephen is entrusted with a most delicate mission: to land on a fortified island in the Baltic held by a Catalan brigade in the service of the French and convince their leaders to submit. Naturally, he drags Jack into this adventure. EAN: 9782266107952 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Harbor of Betrayal - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : Jack Aubrey is a resounding success in the Ionian Sea in the Royal Navy's relentless—and sometimes fraught—war against the ogre Napoleon. But the ships and men have suffered. Here is the captain on enforced rest in Malta, and his favorite frigate, "La Surprise," in dry dock. He discovers an island rife with intrigue, poorly governed, infested with rebels and French spies. Female spies too. For whom exactly is the exquisite Laura Fielding, promoted to Her Majesty's secret agent, working, whose audacity and Neapolitan origins raise fears of betrayal? As for this supposed treasure, held by the French retreating to the African coast, it's a trap, of course. EAN: 9782266112932 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian - book Summary : The Leopard's voyage is halted in the Sargasso Sea. The trade winds have died down. A calm sea immobilizes Captain Jack Aubrey's ship, while on board an unknown infection decimates the crew. Of the 343 sailors on board, only 200 are able-bodied. The ship's doctor, Stephen Maturin, fears the worst. They must dock urgently. So, when the flag of the Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship with no fewer than 74 cannons, appears on the port side, Jack Aubrey understands that the situation is serious. His ship, a fourth-rate vessel, has only 50 artillery pieces and will not be able to repel a boarding. Would flight be the best course of action? But without a strong northeast wind, how can they escape the impending danger? The "Leopard" may well never reach Botany Bay and thus fail in the mission entrusted to it by the Admiralty: to deliver a cargo as precious as it is dangerous. EAN: 9782266103022 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: N is for Nausea - Sue Grafton - book Summary : When she accepts this new case, Kinsey Millhone tells herself she'll take a few days off in Nota Lake, California. The widow of sheriff's deputy Tom Newquist has asked her to investigate her husband's death. At $400 a day, Kinsey is ready to hear anything. She inspects the dead man's office, grills the sheriff and his relatives. It's routine. But in Nota Lake, people aren't talkative. It's even as if they've all lost the power of speech. Around Tiny's Tavern, where Tom was seen the night of his death, one name is mentioned, Alfie Toth. Two days to track him down, two months since he died. But while leads are multiplying, witnesses are becoming scarce. Clearly, in Nota Lake, silence is golden... and speech is deadly. For Kinsey, vacation will come later. EAN: 9782266094986 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Enigma of the Park - Martha Grimes - book Summary : One Saturday night in London, Chief Superintendent Jury sees a woman coming out of a pub and turning up the collar of her fur coat. She attracts him like a magnet; he can't help but follow her... Twelve hours later, the body of a young woman matching the description of the unknown woman is found in a park. Richard Jury is then forced to explain the chain of circumstances that led him to witness the victim's last actions. But once at the morgue, he discovers that the fur coat in question is being worn by a woman who bears no resemblance to the one he had followed the day before. With the help of his old friend Melrose Plant, Jury sets out on the hunt, determined to uncover the key to the mystery. EAN: 9782266112918 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Salisbury Affair - Martha Grimes - book Summary : An old woman collapses in Exeter Cathedral while examining one of the famous petit point medallions that are the pride of the locals. A woman's corpse is found in Salisbury. And in London, another woman dies of presumed natural causes. But there are no natural causes in the world where Chief Superintendent Jury of Scotland Yard operates. Is there a connection between these three deaths? Of course. Jury is convinced that the city of Santa Fe, on the other side of the Atlantic, is the link between the three women. And he entrusts his friend Melrose Plant, an aristocrat and amateur detective, with continuing the investigation in London while he leaves for the United States. There, he will discover an astonishing imbroglio involving greed, murder, and gratuitous violence. EAN: 9782266145589 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain - book Summary : In August 2000, a Russian nuclear submarine sank into the accessible depths of the Barents Sea. Vania Altman is believed to be one of the last survivors. In a port in the Arctic Circle, the Altman family holds its breath: they risk once again colliding with history. Half a century after Stalin's death, a former KGB officer now rules Russia. After taking us behind the scenes at the FBI with The Curse of Edgar, Marc Dugain offers here a true fresco of contemporary Russia. Inspired by true events, it reveals the profound contempt for life displayed by the paranoid guardians of the Russian empire. EAN: 9782072742088 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot - book Summary : No one has taken the brilliant mastery of dialogue further than Diderot, and it is the virtuosity of this speech that we find in each of the pages gathered here: Le Neveu de Rameau , Satire seconde , attacks all the powerful of the moment, financiers as well as adversaries of the Encyclopédie ; Satire première multiplies anecdotes and free reflections in the manner of ancient satirists. As for the Entretien d'un père avec ses enfants and the Entretien d'un philosophe avec la maréchale de ***, they revolve around a fairly well-defined theme: the first evokes the danger of putting oneself above the law, and the second makes heard, in counterpoint to the conversation with the devout marshal de Broglie, something of Diderot's conversations with Tsarina Catherine II. Despite their diversity, all these texts respond to each other. But at the same time they are turned towards the reader, a reader too seduced by the philosopher not to understand the father's indulgence towards his rebellious son: "I would not be too angry if there were one or two citizens like you in the city; but I would not live there if they all thought the same." Edition established by Pierre Chartier EAN: 9782253160748 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Cantos of Hyperion, Volume 2 - Hyperion 2 - Dan Simmons - book Summary : On Hyperion, Father Hoyt found his cruciform. He carries it imprinted in his flesh forever. On Hyperion, Colonel Kassad met the beautiful Moneta, bristling with spikes. He saw the impaled Extros, the universal war, the death of all worlds. He has a score to settle with the Shrike. On Hyperion, the poet Silenus was one of King Billy the Sad's companions. He sang for him the bitter triumph of a usurping god. Put some wood in the hearth, Mother, the Shrike is coming to see us tonight. The subject of the poem is the end of humanity, it must be written to the end. However, the elders of Hyperion are back, they are arriving at the Sea of ​​Tall Grass, they will soon reach the Tombs of Time which, it is said, drift from the future to the past. How can we believe it? But the tombs will open and the mystery will dissipate. Hear ye, good people, death has something to tell you! EAN: 9782266064774 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : "Mr. Rikyu has witnessed the death of many samurai... How many of them have tasted the tea prepared by Mr. Rikyu before going to meet their death on the battlefield? When you have witnessed the death of so many warriors, you cannot afford to die in your bed!" No, Mr. Rikyu (1522-1591), a great tea master from Zen Buddhism, did not die in his bed! He committed hara-kiri at the age of 69. Why did he kill himself? An old monk, his disciple, tries to elucidate the mystery of this suicide. This investigative book takes us to Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At that time, the tea ceremony was a serious act, a ritual that demonstrated a formidable commitment, imbued with ethical and political demands, and sometimes a pretext for secret negotiations. The Tea Master is therefore quite naturally a novel of initiation, of meditation, lyrical and sensual at the same time. Through the historical figure of Rikyu, Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991) paints the portrait of a generation haunted by death. Strange to think that he wrote his last story and undoubtedly his masterpiece, published in 1991, the very year of his death! EAN: 9782253933243 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Miracle in Miami - Zoé Valdés - book Summary : While the beautiful Iris Arcane has taken refuge in the ice sanctuary, a wonderful rumor spreads about the imminence of a great miracle in Miami... She is still only a child of Havana when Abomino Dégeu, a poor photographer, notices Iris Arcane outside school and brutally takes her away from her family. Having become a famous model in just a few years, she finally frees herself from this evil genius and the artifices of fashion to pursue the perfect love with the American billionaire Saul Dressler. But evil waves, witchcraft, omens, visions, threaten her new happiness. Revenge of her former Pygmalion, murderous jealousy of False Universe, silicone mystifier who dreams of ousting her rival, or is it these dark forces that the visionary detective Tendron Mesurat has always fought? And where does this mysterious incandescence come from that consumes Iris Arcane and threatens to bury Miami in ashes? From suspense to melodrama, from tragicomedy to... baseball, Zoé Valdés plays with genres and conventions to achieve this carnivalesque apotheosis of the Cuban soul, in the nostalgia of exile and the radiant exuberance of her imagination. EAN: 9782070313570 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Secret Wife Star 10 - Mary Lynn Baxter - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782280177368 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Strange Creature - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253040910 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Wild Grass - Jane Hamilton - book Summary : Honey Creek, in the far north of Illinois, is a small rural town where life flows by uneventfully. Except for Lucy... She was only ten years old in 1940 when her father left the family home and abandoned her in the hands of a mother who only had eyes for her son, Matt, and made Lucy her punching bag, constantly reminding her of her "difference." Lucy was indeed a lonely and misunderstood child, for whom nature was a constant source of wonder. As a young woman, Lucy retains this innocence. She will be seduced by Ruby, a good-for-nothing who will end up behind bars... Alone with her son, Lucy seems at the end of her rope. But, supported by her aunt Sid, she will experience a destiny that nothing could have predicted. EAN: 9782352871378 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Castle of Lake Tchou-An - Frédéric Lenormand - book Summary : In the year 668, surprised by a spectacular flood, Judge Ti takes refuge in a provincial inn. The next day, one of the guests is murdered. Other corpses soon float on the waters of an ever-more threatening flood. Accompanied by his faithful Hong, Ti follows the trail of a splendid castle with strange and disturbing occupants. What secret are they protecting so fiercely? EAN: 9782757800485 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Gold - Blaise Cendrars - book Summary : "The West. Mysterious word. What is the West? [...] There are Indian tales that speak of an enchanted land, of cities of gold, of women with only one breast. Even the trappers who come down from the north with their load of furs have heard in their high latitude of these marvelous western countries where, they say, the fruits are of gold and silver." EAN: 9782070363315 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: 37°2 Le Matin - Philippe Djian - book Summary : “Betty was lying on the bed. She was fully dressed, her back to me. [...] Holy shit, I said to myself deep down as I watched her breathe. The silence was like glitter falling on a layer of glue. We still hadn't exchanged a word.” Betty entered his life, suitcase in hand, one morning, and she was the most beautiful. For her, he was the greatest writer of his generation. Betty has life demands that the writer without a publisher tries to meet. Without respite, they embark on a story that refuses all mediocrity. Yet the struggles keep coming, as if there are people who don't have happiness easily. So, you have to tear it from life, this happiness, to the point of damaging your nails, by being on edge. EAN: 9782290308035 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: People of the Sky - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - book Summary : Two children have a life-changing experience: Petite Croix, a young blind woman in search of the color blue, discovers the beauty of the world during an astonishing inner journey, while Gaspar, raised in a city, is revealed the freedom of nomadism... Unusual stories where children are magicians who take us to the other side of the mirror. EAN: 9782070426768 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Bank Closes at Noon - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702411742 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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