Title : The Girl from the Moon Harbor - Simone Gelin - Book Summary : A first novel...inspired by a few years of teaching experience in a city school. EAN: 9782819500292 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shield of Saint Odile - Yves-olivier Muhlheim - Book Summary : WINNER of the Femme Actuelle prize in the CLASSIC genre: "NOVEL OF SUMMER 2010" President of the Jury: Paulo COELHO 3rd edition of the Summer Novel Prize with FEMME ACTUELLE. 2010 EDITION: 600 manuscripts received (500 classic genre), only 1 winner in the Classic Genre. 1000 reading sheets received to reveal THE winner (best average satisfaction rating of all manuscripts evaluated - excluding thrillers) EAN: 9782917144619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : High Voltage - Ingrid Astier - Book Summary : "How many apocalypses can one carry within oneself?" On the outskirts of Paris, a wealthy Saudi's convoy speeds through the night. An unprecedented attack occurs, worthy of the finest teams. "A great albatross" for Commander Suarez and his men from the anti-banditry brigade, stunned by the scope of the affair. Enough to distract them for a while from their obsession with the Gecko - a living legend who strolls the rooftops of Paris, gold on his fingers, as if it were his home, from the dome of the Institut de France to the Saint-Eustache church... Who is the mastermind behind this bloody attack? The convoy's most precious loot, however, is neither money nor diamonds. But a woman, Ylana, as beautiful as she is lost. Ranko is a hardened loner with incredible willpower. But also a man on edge, affected by the history of the former Yugoslavia. The attack on the convoy brings them together. Ranko's destiny has irrevocably changed. Her uncle, Astrakhan, seals this fate by giving her a chess set. The set of Svetozar Gligoric, the grandmaster who carved his pieces from wine corks. And he asks her to fight—at boxing and chess—to infiltrate the art world and steal its finest works from Enki Bilal, the famous artist. War and love hover like vultures. The police, a woman, or fate—who is capable of bringing Ranko down? EAN: 9782070147939 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nativities - Michèle Gazier - Book Summary : Two women converse, a mother and her daughter. They exchange, as they say, news, a way of letting the banality of everyday life speak for them and of preserving the complicity and tenderness of silence. But in the interplay of these two voices, stories are born, stories of birth, precisely. "We are born," wrote Rousseau, "so to speak, twice; one to exist and the other to live." Jean-Jacques forgot the women who are also born into life by giving existence and the price they pay for this privilege. Far from the unctuous and glorious natalities of imagery, the stories that intersect here, funny or cruel, pathetic or tender, draw most of their strength from the ability to grasp the ordinary nature of the event, the lived nakedness of this upheaval. We find there, a little, of what is sung elsewhere, the expectation, the wonder, the sharing; but also and always what we are accustomed to keeping quiet, the anguish, the humiliation and this terrible solitude in the face of what is sometimes called being born and sometimes also dying. EAN: 9782020231978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Rapture of the Innocents - Taiye Selasi - Book Summary : This is the story of a family, the breakups and heartbreaks that occur within it, and the efforts made by each to work towards reconciliation. In the space of one evening, the peaceful life of the Sai family collapses: Kweku, the father, a Ghanaian surgeon highly respected in the United States, suffers a blatant professional injustice. Unable to bear this humiliation, he abandons Folá, his beautiful Nigerian wife, and their four children. From now on, Olu, their eldest son, will have no other goal than to live the life his father should have had. The twins, the beautiful Taiwo and her brother Kehinde, the renowned artist, will see their adolescence turned upside down by a tragedy that will haunt them long after the fact. Sadie, the youngest, is jealous of all her siblings. But the outbreak of a new tragedy forces them all to question themselves. The experiences and memories of each character intertwine in this irresistibly original and dazzlingly powerful novel, spanning generations and cultures, traveling back and forth between West Africa and the suburbs of Boston, between London and New York. EAN: 9782070142675 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Commercial Court Mafia - A Tour of France's Corruption - Antoine Gaudino - Book Summary : In ten years, the shenanigans within the commercial courts and the proven dishonesty of too many consular magistrates and legal representatives have cost the country a million jobs and businesses billions of francs! This is the distressing assessment drawn up by Antoine Gaudino at the end of a mind-blowing tour of France of this form of institutionalized corruption. From Brittany to the Mediterranean coast, from Bordeaux to Boulogne-sur-Mer, via Bobigny and Nanterre, the former inspector of the Marseille financial brigade, who revealed the scandal of hidden political financing, opens his files, denounces a perverted system, paints an uncompromising portrait of many actors and calls for respect for the law. How can we accept this concerted sharing of spoils among insiders, in defiance of the law? How can we understand that cases can drag on for years, while the fee counter continues to tick? For daring to denounce these practices, a Breton lawyer found himself in prison. Because, it seems, no one should disturb the vultures' meal... All governments, although aware of the extent of the disruption, have so far backed down in the face of pressure from the magistrates and delayed essential reform. EAN: 9782226100221 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Silver Forests - Maurice Rheims - Book Summary : It could be the story of a chance encounter between a man and a woman ten years his senior: he, an obscure lawyer; she, the ultimate heir to a line of foresters. It is the story of an attachment, cemented by the long course of two lives sealed by power, might, and money. And it is much more. What binds these two beings with a bond stronger than the passing years belongs to the universe of the great legend, to the immemorial essence of the world. Between them have never ceased to grow the intertwined roots, the profuse foliage, the dark mosses, and the dense humus of a multitude of trees, woods, and forests. It is this story that makes two lives a mystery. EAN: 9782070742219 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Become a Rock Star (or Not) - Anne Percin - Book Summary : Maxime, who was abandoned in the hands of police officers at the Gare du Nord because of a contraband phone, while his dear Natacha had just boarded a flight to London, is trying to get back on track as best he can after his (failed) Christmas vacation. To avoid going straight back to his parents' house, he finds refuge in Creil, with Uncle Christian, whom he met in Season 1. This loser seems to have never left adolescence, his records, his joints... EAN: 9782812603921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to (well) manage your love story - Anne Percin - Book Summary : He'll have to learn to manage love and friendship, especially the inevitably stormy relationship between Natacha and Alex, Maxime's old girlfriend... Dealing with going out with a Sorbonne student, him, the little high school senior: "Sometimes, I feel like Shrek who married Princess Fiona," he thinks. Dealing with the fact that love can be a bit overwhelming some days, when you'd rather spend your time without your girlfriend strumming your Fender... EAN: 9782812603006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bordeaux and the Commune 1870-1871 - Jacques Girault - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782865772643 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Aviatrix - Paula McLain - Book Summary : Wings of Desire Beryl Markham was two years old when her family moved to Kenya in 1904. Quickly abandoned by her mother, she was raised by her father—a racehorse trainer—and by the natives of the Kipsigi tribe, who lived on her father's land. This unconventional upbringing for someone of her rank transformed her into a bold and fierce young woman, who had a boundless love for the wilderness and disregarded decency. From failed marriages to thwarted affairs—she fell madly in love with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of author Karen Blixen—Beryl gradually established herself as one of the most remarkable women of her time. She would become the first female aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight from east to west... Set against the majestic landscapes of early 20th-century Africa, Paula McLain tells the story of an extraordinary woman who yearns only to be free. EAN: 9782258118492 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louise des Ombrages - Yves Viollier - Book Summary : From certain elements of the life of a painter who existed, Yves Viollier has woven a moving story around lineage, creation, and secrecy, along the fresh waters of the green Venice. The father and daughter were holding hands, their eyes closed. It looked as if they were asleep. "They were found, as I tell it, in their house in Les Ombrages. It was after the Great War, at Gué-des-Marais. At that time, suicide was unforgivable. So, father and daughter! Louise, a young painter with precocious talent, was already exhibiting in salons alongside the greatest artists. She had a bright future. The code of silence weighed on the village. Rumors spread, but the mystery was never solved. I went to film in this land of water and sky with changing colors that we call Green Venice. I read the newspapers of the time and looked for paintings by the woman who inspired this story, and whom I named Louise. I visited her house, which I named Les Ombrages. And I tried to retrace through the novel the paths of a destiny that made them decide to take each other by the hand. So that they might live again. And so that we might get to know them. So, perhaps, that we might love them. EAN: 9782258192904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Edna, Irma and Gloria - Denise Bombardier - Book Summary : Passionate, committed, and exhilarating, Denise Bombardier's new novel has the vitality and earthiness of its heroines: Edna, Irma, and Gloria, three sisters as inseparable as they are feisty. Under the thumb of an uncompromising mother, this infernal trio will challenge, in their own way, institutions and morality in a country held prisoner by tradition. Tyrannizing men and drowning the emptiness of their existence in alcohol, these rebellious and endearing women are nevertheless powerless to invent a life that lives up to their desires and aspirations... A family saga, a novel of origins, a picturesque and moving fresco, Edna, Irma and Gloria takes a lucid and offbeat look at the struggle of women of yesterday and today . EAN: 9782226176899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Long Impatience - Gaëlle Josse - Book Summary : This is the story of a son who leaves and a mother who waits. It is a couple who hurt each other and who love each other. It is in Brittany, around the sixties, and could it be elsewhere, everywhere where women wait for those who leave, everywhere where mothers worry?: A woman loses her husband, a fisherman at sea, and remarries the rich pharmacist of the village. Her son, from his first union, has difficulty integrating into this new family and also ends up going to sea. Then begins for the narrator a long wait that she will try, as best she can, to fill by imagining the great banquet that she will prepare for her son, upon his return. Having come to writing through poetry, Gaëlle Josse has published three novels with Autrement. Une longue impatience is her third novel with Notabilia, after The Last Guardian of Ellis Island , which was a resounding success in September 2014 and won numerous awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Prix de l'Académie littéraire de Breton, and the Prix de la Académie littéraire de Breton. EAN: 9782848688121 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Best of Days - Yassaman Montazami - Book Summary : Karl Marx and my father had one thing in common: they never worked for a living. True revolutionaries don't work, my father used to say. This state of affairs seemed logical to him: you couldn't work for the abolition of wage labor and be an employee - it was incompatible." YM After his father's death, Yassaman Montazami took refuge in writing to try to keep the memory of this extraordinary character alive. The humor and the comical nature of the memories gradually eased the immense sorrow caused by his loss. Born prematurely, condemned and then miraculously saved, the child adored by his mother, who never refused him anything, was named Behrouz - in Persian: "the best of days" - a name predestined for a future idealist in love with justice and a clown incapable of taking life seriously. Sent to France to pursue studies he would never complete, he participated in his own way in the revolutionary events of 1979, during which Iran shifted from monarchy to the Islamic Republic, by making his Parisian apartment a refuge for Iranians in exile. Their crisscrossing between Paris and Tehran gives the author the opportunity to portray a multitude of improbable characters from the most diverse backgrounds: a colonel's wife on the run, a fanatic of Gone with the Wind, a libertine poet, mystic and banned from publication, a Maoist revolutionary imprisoned in Evin prison, and even a former business leader turned opium addict. Evoking a world that has now disappeared, this first novel is striking for its mastery and the acuity of its writing. EAN: 9782848051161 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of Memory - Lucia Graves - Book Summary : September 1939. The Cazalet family, gathered at Home Place, learns of England's entry into the war following the invasion of Poland. One after another, London homes are closed to seek shelter in Sussex, where the concerns of everyone—parent, child, or servant—are regularly interrupted by German raids. Polly, whose parents are sinking into an unbearable silence, turns to Christopher's pacifist speeches and Miss Milliment's attentive ear. Clary, her best friend, records every inch of her life in notebooks and develops a thousand scenarios to explain the silence of her father Rupert, who has disappeared off the French coast. Could he have become a spy alongside General de Gaulle? Zoë, his wife, has just given birth to Juliet, who may never know her father. Fascinated, the two teenagers also observe their cousin Louise: at eighteen, when she makes her debut in a sinister provincial theater, she smokes and wears trousers, to the great displeasure of her family. Second volume of the Cazalet saga, A Rude Test picks up the thread of the lives of characters whose most buried secrets Elizabeth Jane Howard continues to explore, while England suffers the full force of the much-feared world conflict. EAN: 9782710388531 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Romance of Marriage - Jeffrey Eugenides - Book Summary : The Marriage Novel is the story of three American students, one girl and two boys, who meet at Brown University in the early 1980s. Together, they discover with excitement literature, sex, Roland Barthes and the Talking Heads. Madeleine falls under Leonard's spell, Mitchell falls under Madeleine's spell. Like a character from Jane Austen, the young woman finds herself in the middle of a dilemma, between the manic-depressive lover and the ideal son-in-law attracted by spirituality. But Reagan's America is not Victorian England, and love no longer has the same meaning. Perhaps the real subject of this book is coming-of-age. Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell are the heroes of a nation of hypersexualized, idealistic teenagers. Like the Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides or the hermaphrodite in Middlesex, Madeleine learns about femininity by losing her innocence, without giving up all her illusions. Acclaimed worldwide, this new book by Jeffrey Eugenides, released ten years after Middlesex, reinvents the very idea of ​​marital intrigue. From a classic love triangle, Eugenides creates a masterful novel, a sparkling dramedy that is also the portrait of a generation. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit in 1960. His first novel, Virgin Suicides , enjoyed international success before being adapted for the cinema by Sofia Coppola. Middlesex (Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003) has been translated into around thirty countries and won the Pulitzer Prize. EAN: 9782879299860 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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