Title: A slice of heaven - Claudie Gallay - book Summary : As Christmas approaches, Carole returns to the village of her adolescence where Philippe, her brother, a forest ranger, and Gaby, her sister, live. They are reunited, waiting for Curtil, the father who is always absent but who sometimes summons them by sending them a glass snow globe. It's not easy for someone who has long since become a city dweller to reconnect with her family, to move beyond the tragedy that marked their childhood. But tenderness surfaces in this place cut off from the world. EAN: 9782290099797 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Under the Sky of Eagle Bay - Sophie Jomain - book Summary : Through the seaplane window, Abigail Lompré admires her native Alaska. It's been seventeen years since she last laid eyes on these windswept green expanses, these silvery lakes, these snow-capped peaks... Isolated from the world, Prince of Wales Island is enchanting, raw, and wild. But she can also be hostile and ruthless. If Abby returns today, it's for her mother, Emma. Now a widow, she can no longer live there alone. After all these years of absence, the two women will have to learn to live together again. Will mother and daughter be able to forgive each other for lost time? “Touching and moving.” 20 Minutes A key figure in the French-speaking literary scene, Sophie Jomain has written more than twenty novels ranging from fantasy to comedy to contemporary novels. After The Stars Shine Brighter in Winter and Turtles Don't Celebrate Christmas in the Snow , she offers us a new magical and heartwarming Christmas comedy. EAN: 9782385290771 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Professor - Charlotte Brontë - book Summary : Orphaned since childhood, William Crimsworth studied at the prestigious Eton school, thanks to financial support from his family. Upon completing his studies, he joined his older brother Edward, who was pursuing a career in industry. But the two brothers did not get along: a victim of Edward's irascible temper, William chose to go into exile in Belgium. A new life opened up to him at a boys' boarding school in Brussels, where he became an English teacher. Honest and pragmatic, William quickly attracted attention. He was also offered a teaching position at the "boarding school for young ladies." Under the spell of its headmistress, Miss Reuter, he opened his heart to her... and learned that she was about to get married. But when he later fell in love with Frances Henri, the dressmaking teacher, it was Miss Reuter who took offense. And one morning, without warning, William learned that Mrs. Henri had changed schools... EAN: 9782352877165 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: After the Fire - Robert Goolrick - book Summary : If you liked Gone with the Wind ... Diana Cooke was born with the century, but her name goes back much further, to America's founding fathers. Descended from a distinguished lineage, she lives in Saratoga, a magnificent Virginia estate that is the pride of the family. But this house, like its name, is weighed down by two abysmal debts. The first is financial, and the only way to pay it off is through marriage. The second is deeper: the House of Cooke and the prestige of their name are built on the South's darkest sin: slavery. And that debt can only be repaid by a curse. Perhaps it is now approaching in the form of Captain Copperton. In this splendid novel, Robert Goolrick offers us a fable about love, debt, and the weight of our fathers' sin. After the fire is followed by an unpublished autobiographical novel, Three Lamentations . EAN: 9782264071859 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Candy Thief - Gilbert Bordes - book Summary : Matthew is twelve years old and doesn't do anything at school. Occasionally, he steals. "We'll never do anything with him," his grandmother laments. The whole village agrees. Manon arrives. They're the same age. He's radiantly healthy; she's gravely ill. To bring a smile to her pale lips, he needed gifts: candy, a necklace, a lighter—all stolen, of course. And because Marion tells him she feels better after taking communion, one day he goes too far. The ciborium and the hosts disappear. Scandal in the Corrèze hamlet! Five years in a reformatory, and Matthieu is free. He hasn't stopped thinking about Marion... EAN: 9782266126854 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway - book Summary : Upon learning of the success of his second novel, David Bourne, a young American writer spending his honeymoon on the Mediterranean coast, is eager to get back to writing. Jealous of his work, his wife, Catherine, introduces him to a stranger, Marita, and sets about creating a strange erotic relationship that traps them in the triangle of an unbearable closed door. How far can love for another go, the desire to know and assimilate to them? Does art have everything to lose or everything to gain from this excessive passion? EAN: 9782072730009 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Kites - Romain Gary - book Summary : For Ludo the narrator, the only love of his life began at the age of ten, in 1930, when he saw little Lila Bronicka, a Polish aristocrat spending her holidays with her parents, in the forest of his native Normandy. Since the death of his family, the young boy has been tutored by his uncle Ambroise Fleury, known as "the crazy postman" because he makes wonderful kites known throughout the world. Gifted with the exceptional "historical" memory of all his family, faithful to the values ​​of "compulsory public education," the little Norman will never forget Lila. He tries to make himself worthy of her, studies, suffers from jealousy because of the handsome German Hans von Schwede, becomes the secretary of Count Bronicki before the family leaves for Poland, where he joins them in June 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War which forces him to return to France. So the separation begins for the very young lovers... To get through the trials, to defend his country and human values, to find his love again, Ludo will always be supported by the image of the great kites, their symbol of audacity, poetry and freedom inscribed in the sky. EAN: 9782070374670 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Children of Winter - Gilbert Bordes - book Summary : Their names are Matthieu, Joachim, Marie-Hélène, Christophe, Jeanne, and Séverine. They are Jewish or Christian, middle-class, sons of workers... Nothing unites them, neither origin nor age - except the war. Children of resistance fighters, they are fleeing the SS charged with their capture. Beyond the Pyrenees, they will surely find refuge... Only their smugglers have been shot. The only passage connecting them to the valley is destroyed. They will have to face the mountains and the winter alone. And despite the cold, the hunger, the differences, win their freedom... "Beautiful! Gilbert Bordes' latest novel is simply beautiful. It is touching, convincing. (...) Very well written." EAN: 9782266204514 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: A Shower of Sparks - Tamara McKinley - book Summary : Morgan's Reach, Australia, is tense: a firestorm threatens the small town. The atmosphere among the residents is electric... and some secrets could well resurface. By Tamara McKinley, author of Matilda's Last Waltz (300,000 copies sold). The Rainy Season... and Jealousy Australia, 1946. Becky Jackson has returned to her home village with her son Danny after her husband was declared dead in action. For two generations, her family has run the hospital in Morgan's Reach, a town founded by her grandfather. Becky knows everyone there and reunites with her best friend, also a war widow. Becky also meets Ben Freeman, the chief firefighter who is secretly in love with her. A love she refuses because Danny still hasn't mourned his father... Morgan's Reach is tense. It hasn't rained for three years. When suddenly, a storm threatens to set the region ablaze. The atmosphere is electric, which could awaken resentment and jealousy within the small community. Especially since a man is lurking... The sumptuous landscapes of wild Australia, a strong and determined female character... So many ingredients that have made the success of Tamara McKinley's great sagas. EAN: 9782377352739 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: A Simple and Honest Woman - Robert Goolrick - book Summary : In the early 20th century, a woman responds to a marriage announcement. A captivating story begins in the heart of a harsh and less-than-ideal Wisconsin. Wisconsin, autumn 1907. Ralph Truitt, a feared and respected local tycoon, waits feverishly on a snowy train platform. This late train holds his last hope. After 20 years of widowhood, the man has finally decided to remarry and placed a classified ad in a Chicago newspaper several months earlier. And Catherine Land answered. Describing herself as "a simple, honest woman," she is the one he has been dreaming of. But appearances can be very deceptive. And the perfect wife hides many secrets... Robert Goolrick's stunning debut novel, A simple and honest woman has been compared in the United States to Jane Eyre or to the Wuthering Heights , of the Brontë sisters. EAN: 9782264068279 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell - book Summary : Fredrik Welin lives as a recluse on a Baltic island. At sixty-six, without a wife or friends, his only activity is a daily swim in an ice hole. The intrusion of Harriet, the love of his youth abandoned forty years earlier, disrupts his routine. Dying, she demands that he keep a promise: to show her a forest lake. Fredrik doesn't know it, but his life has just begun again. EAN: 9782757837337 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Temptation of the High Seas - The Centuries of Discoveries - François Bellec - book Summary : The high seas are those where all coasts have disappeared from a uniform and circular horizon, where the adventurous sailor has no other landmarks than the sun, the stars and the winds. The high seas are also the eye of all legends, of all myths, where the vanished Atlantis, the lost paradise, but also the bubbling maelstroms of hell, are hidden. When sail propulsion won out over the simple oar, pilots learned to use the winds and currents: the Maoris had long known the routes of the Pacific islands when Arabs and Chinese undertook the crossing of the Indian Ocean while the Vikings made short work of the icy seas of the North. It took the courage and the will of a small people from the far West, the Portuguese, to dare to deliberately set out to conquer the unknown seas. It took the determination of a visionary, Christopher Columbus, to bring America to Europe. Thus, over the centuries, sailors opened the oceans, leaving the lands they had discovered by chance beyond the horizon to soldiers, priests, and merchants. Complete with stunning maps and diagrams and original illustrations, this work by Rear Admiral Bellec, director of the Musée de la Marine, is a history of the science of high-seas navigation that led to the discovery of new lands. EAN: 9782232104145 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Sphinx - Christian Jacq - book Summary : There are nine of them. Nine representatives of a mysterious brotherhood called the Sphinx . Nine holders of the secrets of life, scattered throughout the world. Nine people sentenced to death by the new masters of technology, followers of the king of money, whose chilling objective is the definitive takeover of the human brain by machines. From New York, they have launched a relentless hunt to eliminate the members of Sphinx one by one. This is without taking into account the determination of a Scottish journalist, Bruce Reuchlin, a formidable investigator, ready to take all risks to thwart their diabolical plan. For Bruce, every step now poses a deadly threat. The further he advances in his investigation, the more the question frightens him: who really rules our world? EAN: 9782845639171 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: L'Auberge des Charmilles - Olivier Deck - book Summary : Peyregave somewhere in Béarn. "Six thousand five hundred inhabitants and as many bistros," as they say in the spring of 1939. At the Auberge des Charmilles, Marthe reigns over a circle of regulars. EAN: 9782226182333 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Reiki - Heal Yourself - Brigitte Muller, Horst-H Günther - book Summary : Reiki (pronunciation (Re-ki), is the ancient healing art of the laying on of hands, rediscovered in Japan at the end of the 19th century by a Christian monk, Dr. Mikao Usui. In Japanese, Reiki means "universal life energy": the space around us, the universe, is filled with infinite and inexhaustible energy. It is this universal, original and creative force that keeps everything alive. With Reiki, this natural healing energy flows in a powerful and concentrated form into the hands of the Reiki giver. He can direct it onto his own body or any other organism. "Reiki, Heal Yourself" gives a vivid and concrete description of Reiki and is aimed at both the seeker and the practitioner. It is based on the authors' moving experiences as well as their long seminar practice developed over many years in Germany and abroad. The reader will learn the history of Reiki from its creation and rediscovery to its contemporary use and daily. The numerous testimonials from trainees and practitioners put Reiki "within our reach." A universal life force that accompanies us always and everywhere, Reiki is a help for ourselves, for our neighbor, for plants, for animals and for planet Earth. Reiki is the gift of healing hands. EAN: 9782844458759 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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