Title : A Taste of Fog and Ashes - Peter Robinson - Book Summary : "The fog tasted of ashes," Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks thought, turning up the collar of his raincoat. He hadn't yet seen the body, but already he felt that familiar pang that always accompanied the discovery of a murder. Banks looked at the body. In all his time at Eastvale, he'd never encountered a crime like this, though he'd seen worse in London, of course. The girl, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, was lying on her back in the tall grass behind an enormous Victorian-style tomb, on which stood a statue of an angel. The teenager's fixed eyes scanned the fog, her long blond hair formed a halo around her head, and her face was purple. She had a small cut near her left eye and a bruise on her neck. A trickle of blood resembling a large tear escaped from her left nostril. She looked so vulnerable, she had been attacked so savagely, that he imagined her embarrassment at the thought of being so openly viewed. But she was well beyond shame now. Peter Robinson, born in 1950 in Yorkshire, set most of the investigations carried out by his hero, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, in his native region. Intuitive and stubborn, rich in wisdom without illusions, Banks possesses to the highest degree that gift of sympathy, that indulgent compassion which are the prerogative of great detectives. EAN: 9782253090243 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Target - David Mason - Book Summary : She will kill, relentlessly. She will bide her time as long as necessary. She cannot hesitate, make mistakes, or fail: when her target is in front of her, the assassination will be immediate. Iris is a machine. A killing machine that, once programmed, can act without human intervention. In her living memory, the face of the designated victim. In this case, a political figure whose death, on the lawns of the White House, would torpedo the peace process and set the Middle East ablaze... After Storm Over Babylon - three million copies sold in twenty countries - David Mason here uses his intimate knowledge of the special services and the most confidential technological research to imagine a completely plausible political fiction scenario. And one that sends shivers down your spine. EAN: 9782253170273 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Grand Slam - Joseph Klempner - Book Summary : The first thought that comes to Goodman upon discovering twenty kilos of pure heroin in the trunk of a rented car is to rush to the nearest police station. Widowed, unemployed, with a little girl in need of expensive medical treatment, doesn't he have enough problems as it is? Unless, indeed... And the idea will germinate, take shape. Even assert itself. But not everyone can become a dealer, in this world where anything goes, where the small guys are quickly crushed by the big guys. Especially when the "legitimate" owners of the merchandise are ready to do anything to find it, and when the police are put on the trail of this curious character by an informant... Action, suspense, humor, tenderness: this is the astonishing cocktail that Joseph Klempner, lawyer and former agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, admirably pulls off here. EAN: 9782253171379 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Late Revenge - Daniel Mounicq - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782954491301 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dream Life of Ernesto G. - Jean-Michel Guenassia - Book Summary : From 1910 to 2010, from Prague to Algiers via Paris. Joseph Kaplan, a Jewish doctor from Prague, travels through the century. From Bohemia and its open-air dance halls where one would meet girls dancing the tango divinely while smoking Bastos, to exile in the Jebel, from the plague of Algiers to the disillusionment of communism, here is the life of a hero in spite of himself, caught up in the turmoil of History. A life of love and great friendships, a life of hopes and encounters, until that, one day in 1966, of a certain Ernesto G., a magnificent and defeated warrior, washed up in the depths of the Czech countryside after his African defeat.  Here we find all the romantic power of Jean-Michel Guenassia who, after The Club of Incorrigible Optimists draws us into the delicate nostalgia of men tossed about by History, men who fall and who make of this very fall and their disenchantment a work of art. The press “Reconnecting with the eminently romantic breath of the Club of incorrigible optimists, JM Guenassia evokes a life of loves and great friendships, hopes and encounters. » Read “Just as exciting as The Club of Incorrigible Optimists. A truly romantic novel, perfectly crafted and balanced, that you won't be able to put down. » Livres Hebdo “A great journey through the 20th century that you devour with passion. A real novel to help us forget the back-to-school blues!” Page “Guenassia proves to be a formidable narrator... A captivating novel. A favorite.” lepoint.fr "We savor the talent of this 2009 Goncourt des lycéens." Télé 7 Jours “A thrilling, generous, humanist page-turner. Enough to make American writers green with envy.” Les Echos “Five hundred captivating, poignant, vibrant pages. We find Guenassia at the top of her game... A dazzling success that spans a turbulent 20th century with panache.” Read “The writer confirms the power of his epic talent. Devilishly captivating.” L’Humanité “How do you recognize a good novel? By its breath, carried by fluid writing, pushing the reader to swallow the paragraphs. By this immediate attachment to the characters, spectators more than actors in the march of the world. 500 pages that carry you away.” Pilgrim “A rich novel that invites us to travel through the turmoil of the 20th century. An author who is definitely very talented.” Version femina “An undeniable talent as a storyteller, an authentic sense of the epic.” Le Nouvel Observateur "A novel whose skill, fortunately, masks neither sincerity nor originality... much better than the best-selling book it will undoubtedly become." Marianne EAN: 9782226242952 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : French but not Gaulish - Foreigners who made France - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Patrick Lemoine - Book Summary : An original and subjective history of France from the 20th century to the present day, seen through the prism of its famous foreigners. "I was born on April 4, 1945, in Montauban to German parents, who waited more than six months to declare my arrival in the world – too late! This made me stateless, who grew up in the 15th arrondissement of Paris with the last Black Hussars of the Republic, was a die-hard supporter of Raymond Kopa's French team in 1958, before arriving in Frankfurt and taking German nationality... to avoid military service. Having returned to France for my studies, I was expelled in May 1968 – a residence ban lifted ten years later. Since then, my life has been a kind of bridge between Germany and France, and in 2015, I obtained the right to also become French. Being able to now play with both jerseys basically corresponds quite well to my state of mind: France owes a lot to its foreigners, without whom its history would have been completely different. Thus, it is also the Great History that is drawn through them: because all of them arrived at the whim of political, economic, scientific, cultural... and even sporting movements. This is the journey that this four-handed book traces, stopping here with an Émile Zola passing away at the dawn of the Belle Époque, there at the coronation in Cannes of Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes; and, always, alongside these men and women who, coming from elsewhere, have for one hundred and fifty years put their hands to the glorious and laborious work of a country that is being written. EAN: 9782221260944 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angels of the Night - John Connolly - Book Summary : When betrayals come at a high price... They're called the Reapers, and they're the elite of killers. Men so terrifying we barely dare speak their names. Louis, Detective Charlie Parker's friend, was trained by this shadowy army before drawing a line under his past. But now he's the target of the Reapers, and more specifically, Bliss, the killer of killers. Will Charlie Parker, whom Louis has often gotten out of trouble, manage to save him? A picture of a twilight world where everything is corruption, where crimes go unpunished but where betrayals are paid for dearly, The Angels of the Night fascinates and chills the blood. EAN: 9782258078697 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Trivial Pursuit - 365 Days to Test Your General Knowledge - Play Bac - Book Summary : What is the name of Don Quixote's horse? What is the diameter of a golf hole? What is the only bird that can fly backward? Test your general knowledge by answering 3 questions of increasing difficulty on a different theme each day. Rediscover the fun of the famous Trivial PursuitT game with family, at the office or with friends. Perpetual calendar offering three new questions for each day of the year in order of difficulty, taken from the famous board game, to test your knowledge. EAN: 9782809600018 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I Sold My Car to a Pole - Pierre Gagnon - Book Summary : "Even today, I still can't explain how he did his calculations, but here it is: after emitting a long onomatopoeia, he wiped his hands on his shirt before getting back behind the wheel. I then heard a slight click and it started... I never managed to turn off the ignition." It's not easy to sell your old car. You can explain that it's German, with 300,000 kilometers on the clock, but you might as well hope for a miracle. Or a Pole... It's true that he has a strange appearance, but this Pole is providential! With Pierre Gagnon, we always end up choosing the best side of what life has in store for us. His heroes have their cracks, their touch of madness, but they achieve this small miracle: to console us for our own human frailties. EAN: 9782746731356 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The End of a World - Xavier de Moulins - Book Summary : "Luigi, you've become so strange since your mother's phone call. She was the one who broke the news to you, holding back her grief by the scruff of her neck. - Édouard has sold the house." An old family of penniless aristocrats, the sale of a castle, a land of lies populated by ghosts, the fear of loving, the art of losing everything, a revolver in a glove compartment. The end of a world. The beginning of something else. After the success of The Night of the Thoroughbreds, Xavier de Moulins has written a captivating and searing novel that questions the weight of our inheritances and the consequences of our choices. EAN: 9782080437242 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disoriental - Négar Djavadi - Book Summary : Through interwoven memories, in a long apostrophe to the reader, she unfolds the entire history of the Sadr family. From her vivacious ancestors from northern Persia to her parents, Darius and Sara, eternal opponents of the regime in place; that of the Shah until 1979, then that of Khomeini. This last episode will force them to leave Iran for good. The France experienced as exiles has nothing to do with the country mythologized by the Iranian bourgeoisie... So, playing with flashbacks or tracking shots, Kimîa summons three generations and a rock and roll goddess to the bedside of her "disorientalization." EAN: 9782867468346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shadow of a Traitor - Nathalie Saint-Cricq - Book Summary : June 18, 1960, Paris. Désiré, a young orphan and a budding journalist at France-Soir, finds himself, despite himself, at the heart of a murky affair that will change his life. Fifteen heroes of the Fighting France chosen at the Liberation make their solemn entrance into the crypt of Mont Valérien, as General de Gaulle had wished. It is a great moment in national history. Yet, in the shadows, all is well: it seems that a traitor, Robert B., is among the coffins. For Désiré, the scoop of his life quickly turns into a much more complex spiral than he had imagined. Underhand blows, threats... they want to silence him. With the help of the enigmatic resistance fighter Henri de Prévôté, his ingenious fiancée Colette, and a whimsical bistro owner, the apprentice reporter will go to any lengths to unravel the mystery of this state secret, even if it means being confronted with the shadowy areas of his own past. In the guise of a humorous detective novel, Nathalie Saint-Cricq tells us the true story, previously unpublished, of the affair that shook France in the 1960s and the mysteries of Gaullist power. EAN: 9791032927274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I am made of their absence - Tim Dup - Book Summary : "I see guilt being born in my dreams . It always takes the same appearance, that of a thrush, whose wings are not made of feathers, but of dried leaves and flowers . The petals fall one after the other, each time the bird tries to fly away. It cannot do so, begs me to help it. No matter how much I tell it that it does not have the right wings, it persists in leaping, and falls back to the ground each time, its flowery wings vanishing around it. In the sky it tries to reach, there is only thick blackness ." Pierre and his partner Victoria have moved into the family home in Roseville-sur-Mer, Normandy. While waiting for a purchase offer, they rearrange the rooms, lighten the walls, and live in the place, searching for a reassuring home. Pierre loves living on this coast, in this maritime province governed by idleness and the hours of the tides. From this refuge, he almost forgets the scar deep in his heart. Yet a storm is approaching. Henri, his father, is back, and memories and names resurface. Sophie, his mother, who died when he was just a child; Suzanne and Théodore, his grandparents, whom they raised him with; and then there is Vincent, his uncle, and his cousin Esther: so many faces that today bring him back to this terrible tragedy. While the sand seems to hold back the sea, Pierre tries once again, in Victoria's arms, to make light triumph over shadows. So that absence may finally be silent. Both lively and delicate, Tim Dup's first novel explores the issue of domestic violence with nuance, while taking the reader back to the universal home of his childhood. EAN: 9782234095717 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And you will find the treasure that sleeps within you - Laurent Gounelle - Book Summary : It all begins the day Alice, a dynamic and daring young woman, meets her childhood friend, Jérémie. Now a country priest, he confides in her that he is overwhelmed by the small number of followers he has. An atheist and communications consultant, Alice decides to help him... in her own way. Forced by circumstances to delve into the world of spirituality, from Christianity to Hinduism, from Taoism to Buddhism, Alice will discover a particularly disturbing universal truth. A truth concerning man and the key to his fulfillment, passed over in silence by the religious, lost over the centuries... In this moving and captivating new novel, Laurent Gounelle takes us into a fascinating world to discover what allows man to rise to another dimension, where his actions are powerful and his joy, a lasting state. EAN: 9782366581713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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