Title : Tales and Legends from Around the World - Volume 1 - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782921171304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our Secret Glories - Tonino Benacquista - Book Summary : Myron Bolitar doesn't like golf. But for a sports agent, it's hard to give up such a popular sport, where millions are raked in by the bucketload. So it's on the greens of the US Open that he'll try to find his new client... And as always, he'll end up in trouble: the son of the event's leader has been kidnapped, and the family asks him to discreetly resolve the matter. Behind the cozy exterior of the clubhouses, the reality is far more sordid, even downright villainous. Not sure this story will change Myron's opinion of the little white ball... EAN: 9782070459650 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Conversations with Myself - Nelson Mandela - Book Summary : Nelson Mandela is a symbol of freedom around the world. Here are previously unpublished documents—handwritten manuscripts, prison letters, interviews—tracing Mandela's extraordinary journey from his awakening to political consciousness to his leading role on the international stage. Beyond the legend, they reveal the hopes, fears, and weaknesses of a man. Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa. Imprisoned for twenty-seven years for his fight against apartheid, he was released in 1990, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, and became President of South Africa in 1994. He died in December 2013. “Conversations with Myself does the world an extraordinary service by revealing to us the face of Mandela the man.” Barack Obama Foreword by Barack Obama EAN: 9782757820339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mask of Oblivion - Dean Koontz - Book Summary : Remembering your past lives is already a terrifying experience, but there's worse, much worse... She had appeared out of nowhere. In the middle of traffic, throwing herself in front of the wheels of their car. A teenager with no past, no family, no memories. Carol and Paul had quickly felt irresistibly drawn to her. To them, she was the child they had never had. By using hypnosis to help her recover her memory, they believed they were helping her. They could never have imagined the horror lurking behind "the mask of forgetting"... EAN: 9782265077157 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hell - Lolita Pille - Book Summary : "I'm a bitch. I'm a pure product of the Think Pink generation, my credo: be beautiful and consume." Hell is eighteen, lives in West Paris, gets high on coke, is covered in scratches from head to toe, only hangs out with daughters and sons of, spends the equivalent of your monthly income every week, makes love like you do your shopping. Until the evening when she falls in love with Andrea, her male double, seductive like her, and like her disillusioned. Together, cut off from the world, in a passionate body-to-body encounter, they free themselves from the discomfort they share. But the demons are still there, watching over the sleepless nights of these pleasure hunters... EAN: 9782253066934 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Amagansett - Mark Mills - Book Summary : That morning, when Conrad Labarde, a fisherman on Long Island, hauled in his nets, he discovered a corpse. It was Lillian Wallace, the daughter of a powerful businessman. She had apparently drowned. Tom Hollis, the sheriff's deputy, doesn't believe the accident theory. And Conrad is convinced that Lillian was murdered. Connected to the young woman by a bond no one suspected, he decides to conduct his own investigation. In Amagansett, a small village where sailors and wealthy New York vacationers coexist, tongues aren't loosened easily. But Tom and Conrad are determined to wrest the truth from the ocean's silence, and from the silence of a family that has no desire to reveal its secrets... EAN: 9782266157568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen Margot - Alexandre Dumas - Book Summary : From the "red wedding" of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, a prelude to the massacre of the Protestants, to the death of Charles IX bathed in a dew of blood, the two years that pass are among the cruelest in the history of France. Civil wars of religion, struggles for influence within the royal family, plots and political assassinations form the dark framework against which the figure of Margot stands out. Incomparable beauty, gallant lady, this daughter of France is also a woman of letters coupled with a formidable politician; Marguerite is above all a Valois, daughter of a king, sister of a king, wife of a king. And the brave La Mole, this young Protestant gentleman who took refuge in the royal alcove to escape his assassins on the night of Saint Bartholomew's Day, knows that the love he devotes to this pearl will plunge him into the heart of intrigues of power where the life of a man has little weight. EAN: 9782070359271 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jeanne - Jacqueline de Romilly - Book Summary : In 1977, in the year following her mother's death, Jacqueline de Romilly wrote this text and had a few copies printed for her friends. But, out of modesty, because there is something vulgar about revealing one's most intimate secrets, she did not want this book to be published during her lifetime and asked her publisher and friend Bernard de Fallois to do it after her death. Jeanne is the portrait of a woman with multiple gifts, a tireless worker, who for thirty years demonstrated her recognized talent as a writer. Widowed at the start of the 1914 war, she chose to live in her daughter's shadow, thus forging an indissoluble bond between them. This story tells us a lot about Jacqueline de Romilly, and we understand all the more the admiration and affection that her readers, even if they had never met her, felt upon learning of her death. EAN: 9782253166740 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History and Pretenses - Didier Daeninckx - Book Summary : In these four short stories, appearances are always deceptive. History refuses to let us quickly piece together the fragments that constitute it. Dreaming of the mother, we meet the daughter, unaware of the dangers of such confusion. Doubles and twins, false Negro and true Kanak, each dissembles, falls victim to the power of illusion and ready-made thinking. What role does the writer play then? That of sower of clues to allow the reader a new interpretation of the facts... Didier Daeninckx constructs fictions in the form of traps to better question, as if it were nothing, the great History. EAN: 9782070348718 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Vikings - Peter Brent - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782501000697 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Salt River - James Sallis - Book Summary : A stint in Vietnam, a few years in prison, a psychiatrist's office, such is the journey of John Turner, now deputy sheriff of the small Tennessee town where he took refuge to try to make peace with himself. But violence and misfortune are not easily forgotten and Turner finds himself grappling with three different investigations: a stolen car smashes through the facade of the town hall, his old friend Eldon comes to ask for his help, a woman's corpse is found in an abandoned house... "The pages fly by like the minutes, without us noticing, our attention totally captivated by this captivating text. Turner has reached the point where his lucidity flays us." Bruno Corty, Le Figaro littéraire EAN: 9782070453405 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Samurai's Promise - Dale Furutani - Book Summary : In the heart of feudal Japan, a samurai plays detective. Matsuyama Kaze, the "kind-hearted samurai," lost everything with the advent of the new shogun, the fearsome Tokugawa. Hunted, this ronin now roams the roads of feudal Japan ravaged by violence and poverty, to the great misfortune of the criminals he meets along the way. Arriving near the village of Suzaka, Matsuyama Kaze discovers the body of a man pierced by an arrow. Intrigued by this mystery that no one seems to want to solve, the samurai decides to uncover the truth. Faced with political shenanigans and rivalries, the proud warrior will need all his insight to unmask the culprit, without forgetting the promise he made to his master's wife on her deathbed: to find her child alive. EAN: 9782264040756 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Season in Hell - Illuminations and other texts, 1873-1875 - Arthur Rimbaud - Book Summary : " This considerable passer-by ." Stéphane Mallarmé " Rimbaud is a prophet of incurable negation . The desert of fire is his place." André Suarès " The intermittent conductor of lightning ." Julien Gracq "Rimbaud's genius, this energy, this haste, was above all to try to accomplish the reinvention of love before, terribly quickly, it was always too late." Yves Bonnefoy EAN: 9782253096368 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Elise or Real Life - Claire Etcherelli - Book Summary : Femina Prize 1967 "A thunderous concert filled the street. "The fire department," I thought. Arezki hadn't moved. The cars must have been following one another, the screaming grew louder, lingered ominously, and stopped under the window. Arezki let go of me. I had just understood. The police. I began to tremble. I wasn't afraid, but I was still trembling. I couldn't stop trembling: the sirens, the brakes, the sharp noise of the doors, and the cold—I felt it now—the cold of the room." EAN: 9782070369393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bibliolycée - The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : “My body is in chains in a dungeon, my mind is imprisoned in an idea. A horrible, a bloody, an implacable idea! I have only one thought, one conviction, one certainty: condemned to death!” Victor Hugo gives us to judge, without any other file than a personal diary, the cause of a criminal hand but also of a young being, powerless and horrified in the face of the challenge of violence and the guillotine. Library high school propose : • the full annotated text, preceded by the 1832 preface, • a first reading assessment questionnaire, • work analysis questionnaires, • six corpora accompanied by observation questions, writing tasks and image readings, • a presentation of Victor Hugo and his era, • an overview of the genre of the work and its place in literary history. EAN: 9782011691163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ax - Donald Westlake - Book Summary : A senior executive at a paper mill for twenty-five years, Burke Devore has just been laid off, a victim of cutbacks, downsizing, and other economic restructuring. With the loss of his job, his entire existence is falling apart. To regain the "happiness" he believes he has earned through his hard work, he is prepared to do anything. Even to cross moral barriers. But what morality, exactly? EAN: 9782743607111 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rider of the Plains - Louise Dangreville - Book Summary : "Action!" Camille loves nothing more than this word. So no matter the fee or the number of takes, she'd launch her mount ten, twenty times, with the same passion. Equestrian stuntwoman for the cinema is not, however, a job without risks. And Fred, her husband, trembles every time she puts a foot in the stirrup. This touch of madness fueled her first desires, but this time, it's too much. And Camille soon agrees to work with Yann Caillosse, the worst reputation in the business... EAN: 9782266214780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Private Lessons - Hélène Grimaud - Book Summary : How to overcome doubts? How to elevate your soul? How to define passion, even love? These are the questions that Hélène Grimaud asks herself during a triple journey: a journey to Italy, whose beauties she shares with us; an initiatory journey punctuated by encounters with curious characters; and finally an inner journey where, at the end of her quest, she shows how to find the path to happiness. Or how to unite, in the same fervor, music, the wild world and an absolute passion for existence. "A true story, and a beautiful book, with flashes of writing and images in places." André Tubeuf – The Point "An intimate and unexpected portrait: between the penetrating gentleness of the gaze and the acuity of the vision of the world." Bertrand Dermoncourt – The Express EAN: 9782266165761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Old Women - Pascale Gautier - Book Summary : There's one praying, another in prison, another talking to her cat, and some looking down on the neighbors while drinking their foul tea. Their husbands have all disappeared. They're old, certainly, but they know they might well stay alive for another decade or two, in this country where it's no longer rare to become a centenarian. So they spend their time at the hairdresser's, drinking and playing Scrabble, trying to understand how a telephone works, commenting on current events, criticizing their offspring who don't come around enough, being offended by the evolution of morals... They know the world is changing, and that they should change their habits, but how can they do that, at their age? Also, the arrival of Nicole, a "young woman" who is just starting her retirement, and the announcement of an imminent catastrophe, will disrupt their daily lives. This new novel by Pascale Gautier is irresistible for its freshness and its desire to humorously challenge certain preconceived ideas about old age. It resonates with delight with the causticity and freedom of tone that characterize her previous works. EAN: 9782070443338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rahan Volume 3 - The Great Herds - Christophe Lambert - Book Summary : The end of winter herds herds. Cave dwellers and wolves fight over game. War between the two clans seems inevitable. Rahan tries to negotiate a truce during the hunting season, but Drak and Sanga of the Wolf clan set a trap for their adversaries. How will Rahan prevent a fatal clash? EAN: 9782747035088 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Life of King Henry V - William Shakespeare - Book Summary : "This story the good man will tell his son, And Crispin Crispinian will never return From this day until the end of the world Without us being remembered, We, this handful, this happy handful of men, this band of brothers. For whoever today sheds his blood with me Will be my brother; however humble he may be, This day will ennoble his condition. And the English gentlemen today in their beds Will hold themselves accursed for not having been here, And will count their courage for nothing when speaks Whoever fought with us on St. Crispin's Day." (Act IV, Scene III). EAN: 9782070407590 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau - Book Summary : In Folioplus classiques, the full text, enriched with an image reading, a pictorial echo of the work, is followed by its perspective organized in six points: - Literary movement: The Oulipo - Genre and register: Towards an absurd other - The writer at his work table: The rule of the game - Grouping of texts: In search of a new language - Chronology: Raymond Queneau and his time - File: Ideas for reporting on his reading Recommended for high school classes. EAN: 9782070346851 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : French Suite - Irène Némirovsky - Book Summary : Written in the heat of history, Suite française depicts almost directly the exodus of June 1940, which tragically mixed up French families of all kinds, from the most affluent to the most modest. Irène Némirovsky skillfully tracks the countless small acts of cowardice and the fragile bursts of solidarity of a population in disarray. Chicks abandoned by their lovers, upper-class people disgusted by the populace, wounded abandoned on farms clog the roads of France, bombarded at random... Little by little, the enemy takes possession of an inert and frightened country. Like so many others, the village of Bussy is then forced to welcome German troops. Exacerbated by the presence of the occupier, social tensions and frustrations of the inhabitants are reawakened... A moving, intimate, implacable novel, revealing with extraordinary lucidity the soul of each French person during the Occupation, enriched with notes and correspondence from Irène Némirovsky, Suite française resuscitates with a brilliant and intuitive pen a raw part of our memory. EAN: 9782070336760 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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