Title: The Great Sailor - Catherine Poulain - book Summary : A woman dreamed of leaving. To set sail. After a long journey, she arrives in Kodiak, Alaska. She knows right away: there's a place for her on board one of those boats that go fishing for black cod, crab, and halibut. Sleeping on the ground, enduring the constant humidity and salt that eats away at the skin, the fatigue, the fear, the injuries... It's the discovery of a harsh and tough existence, a frightening apprenticeship that must be passed through blood. And then there are the men. On land, she shares their life, as a comrade. Hang out in bars. Waiting to re-embark. It is then that she meets the Great Sailor. EAN : 9782823608632 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Liquidation - George P. Pelecanos - book Summary : Nick Stefanos, advertising manager for Nutty Nathan's stores, knows all the ins and outs of the electronics business. Bargain prices and shady deals have also been part of his life. The day one of the kids working in stock disappears, it doesn't surprise Nick: he's another one of those hotheads who left for the money and the easy life. Only this Jimmy Broda reminds Nick of his vanished youth: twelve years earlier, he too was an angry punk marching full-throttle to speed metal. So when the kid's grandfather calls on Nick to find him, the advertising manager becomes an amateur detective and sets out to search for his own past. EAN : 9782913636422 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Little Absurd & Impertinent Dictionary of Bordeaux and the Gironde - Jean-Pierre Gauffre - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782351561287 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Little absurd and impertinent dictionary of cooking and gastronomy - Jean-Pierre Gauffre - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782351561492 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Little absurd & impertinent dictionary of life at school - Raymond Ané - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782351561478 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The First Day - Marc Levy - book Summary : A great adventure novel by Marc Levy. A great adventure novel by Marc Levy. A strange object found in an extinct volcano will revolutionize everything we think we know about the birth of the world. He's an astrophysicist, she's an archaeologist. Together, they'll experience an adventure that will change the course of their lives and ours. EAN : 9782221110010 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Scarlet Moon - Rolo Díez - book Summary : In her two-room apartment in the heart of Mexico City, Scarlett is ready to become a princess. From the cradle, her mother burned her eyes reading her society columns and making her dresses to match her ambitions. But Prince Charming is slow to declare himself. While waiting for him, Scarlett is forced to work and use her charms to make ends meet. For his part, dogged by misfortune, Julio César burns his friends under bridges, wanders from prison to prison, listens to the drunken ravings of a Bukowski emulator, shares his life with a tramp, when he's not working for the police or pushing children under the wheels of trucks in his role as defender of the law. Whether we pursue an absurd dream or drift from chance to crime, we are doomed if we cannot decipher the messages of the moon, a moon stained with blood by the exactions of a gang of cops as sadistic as they are perverse. Rolo Díez, the former activist, has a formidable talent for pointing out the brutality of the god Liberalism. His condition as an exile has taught him to shift his gaze to see better. In the purest tradition of Greek tragedy, Scarlet Moon offers a particularly lucid picture of Mexico in the 90s. In this seventh novel, Rolo Díez confirms his art of reconciling darkness and humanism. EAN : 9782070743513 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Castaways of the Holy Land - Sheri Holman - book Summary : At the end of the 15th century, Brother Felix Fabri, a Dominican monk from Ulm, embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the company of German lords. His dearest desire was to go to Mount Sinai, where Catherine of Alexandria, the saint he had "married" by taking his vows, was buried. However, in Crete or Rhodes, where he delighted in venerating Catherine's hand or ear, they disappeared at the very moment of his arrival. Who is stealing these precious relics? This is what Brother Felix will strive to discover. An investigation that will profoundly shake the convictions and faith of this man of common sense and strong prejudices. Thanks to the journal he kept for his brothers in Ulm, we follow his long journey. He treats us to delicious reflections on the creatures that inhabit the Ocean (sirens or dryads, and Troyp, the sea monster that circles ships to pierce their sides with its long, sharp beak), on our origins (the fires of Saint John are lit to ward off flying dragons, too inclined to spread their sperm in wells and waterways...), or on the morals of his pilgrim brothers, true "tourists" of the time. However, around our brother Felix, fascinated by a mysterious couple, death prowls, until the denouement, in the arid and burning desert of Sinai. This is an unusual, gripping, witty, remarkably documented historical thriller, in the tradition of Umberto Eco and the great medieval epics. "In this debut novel, Holman keeps his readers on the edge of their seats with strange puzzles and studied suspense. His perception of eternal ironies is as unerring as his depiction of the pre-modern world is captivating. This is a very strong literary introduction." EAN : 9782841142668 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Op-Center Volume 2 - Virtual Image - Tom Clancy - book Summary : Commandos well-versed in secret warfare techniques, top specialists in strategy, IT, and psychology: Op-Center is the only agency in the world capable of intervening where the international balance risks tipping. But today, the supremacy of the American crisis unit is seriously threatened. The enemy? An elite team serving putschist officers in post-communist Russia. Their goal? To restore the former Soviet Union to its former glory. Coup d'état, sabotage, manipulation of mafia networks, drug trafficking—no means are repugnant to these highly trained specialists. Facing the most formidable enemy they have ever faced, the agents of Op-Center will have to perform unimaginable feats. World peace depends on it. EAN : 9782226088833 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Mister Boxe - Eddie Muller - book Summary : 1948, San Francisco. Billy Nichols, aka "Mister Boxing," a journalist for the San Francisco Inquirer, king of the boxing ring and nightlife, is finally "at the center of it all." He couldn't be more right. By agreeing to cover up the death of Gig Liardi, badly beaten up by his protégé, heavyweight Hack Escalante, Mister Boxing stirs up a nauseating mess. And unwittingly identifies himself as the number one suspect. The meticulous Francis O'Connor, a homicide detective, has him in his sights. Boxing, according to the films of John Huston and Clint Eastwood, is the poor man's royal road to fame and fortune. Whether you fight with your fists or with words, it always takes sweat and courage to avoid the dirty tricks of a world of swindles and betrayal. When they aren't those of love. EAN : 9782213629636 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The King of Afghanistan Did Not Marry Us - Ingrid Thobois - book Summary : 2007 French First Novel Prize First Novel Award They say that true love is a journey... This enchanting debut novel recounts the end of one and the true beginning of the other. Carefully following the narrator's words, we visit Afghanistan, from Kabul to Jalalabad. An intimate Afghanistan, certainly scarred by war, but foreign to the representations provided to us by television news. The young woman arrived there shortly after the American intervention to give French lessons. She fell in love with another expatriate, older and married. If this affair has for her the taste of the new, its torments are the lot of all passions: erotic escapades, missing the other, thirst for the absolute, hope of one day living together, senseless promises, disillusionment and suffering. When the narrator finally succumbs to the charm of a violent but captivating land of exile, she frees herself from the charm of the man who has made her suffer a thousand deaths. It is with a disoriented soul that she sets out to meet inhabitants whose smile, word, or gesture engraves in her memory, and whose ethereal language engraves in ours. EAN : 9782752902573 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Place of the Other - Sandra Brown - book Summary : Spending an evening with the seductive Chief Hart, an astronaut who has become a media idol, is the offer Melina, a professional escort for "VIPs," makes to her twin sister Gillian, who has just undergone artificial insemination. But the game turns tragic. Gillian is found in her home that morning, brutally murdered. From then on, Melina and Hart, who soon transfers to her the feelings he felt for her sister, will never rest until they find out who killed the young woman. And it's a non-stop suspense that takes us from a specialized clinic where a child abduction took place to the sumptuous estate where the enigmatic and dangerous Brother Gabriel, founder of a new kind of Church, reigns over dozens of children accompanied by their mothers. The author of False Pretense gives us a first-rate thriller. EAN : 9782253108788 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Peril House - Agatha Christie - book Summary : A heavy painting falls off the headboard of a bed. A rock tumbles down a cliff and crashes onto the path. A car's brakes fail on a descent... And finally, a stray bullet lodges in a hat! For Hercule Poirot, vacationing on the south coast of England, there's little doubt: someone wants the life of the lovely Miss Buckley, heiress to a dilapidated villa nearby. Even if the woman in question opens her eyes wide, wondering who could possibly want to kill her. The murder of her cousin, who has obviously been mistaken for her, will force Miss Buckley to take the detective's fears seriously. He will relentlessly try to unmask the culprit. But only a very clever staging will allow him to succeed. And the surprise will be a big one. EAN : 9782253026822 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Formal Denial - David Morrell - book Summary : "Formal denial" is the diplomatic formula used when a state has killed, caused someone to kill, or allowed someone to kill. And so much the worse for those who are disavowed in the name of a good cause, naturally, and with a view to higher interests. Steve Docker has seen dozens of stories like this in the American counterterrorism services. But the day he is held responsible for an operation that ended in carnage in Rome, because the real culprit is protected in high places, he prefers to resign. Retired to Santa Fe, Steve soon meets Beth, with whom he hopes to find what he has never known: peace, simple family happiness. But then mysterious attackers appear - among whom he seems to recognize a protagonist in the Roman affair - and Beth disappears... This time, Decker reacts like a wounded lion. He sets out to find, at all costs, the truth and his love. A breathless hunt, led without fail by the novelist of The Conspirators of the Flame and In Extremis. EAN : 9782253170297 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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