Title : Last Night at Twisted River - John Irving - Book Summary : North of the North, in the land of lumberjacks and timber floaters - the log drivers -, once upon a time there was a little lame cook and his twelve-year-old son, an impressionable kid with an imagination populated by indiscreet bears. Their bodyguard was Ketchum, the anarchist ogre, drunkard, cunning, noisy, fake illiterate with incisive intelligence. Like the torrential Twisted River, this tale of merciless revenge takes its reader from ethnic groups to states over three generations, an explosive encounter between East and West, a comedy of culinary manners, a tragedy of badly closed doors between the splendor of a murderous nature and the reckless tranquility of home. A heroic dog, a phantom blue Mustang, an angel landed in the mud: Chef Irving has all the surprises of his consummate art in store for us in a novel that is devoured and savored until the last page. Ice cream bomb for everyone for dessert! EAN: 9782021012835 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Two Widows for a Will - Donna Leon - Book Summary : After leaving her boyfriend during a failed vacation, Anna Maria Giusti returns home. When she picks up her mail from her neighbor Constanza Altavilla, she finds her lying on the floor, her head in a pool of blood. For the coroner, there's no doubt about it: the old woman suffered a heart attack and, in her fall, hit her head on the radiator in her room. Dispatched to the scene, Commissioner Brunetti finds no clear evidence to contradict this hypothesis. Yet he can't accept it. Something else has happened, he has a feeling, but what? To get to the bottom of it, Brunetti delves into Signora Altavilla's life. First, her family, the retirement home where she spent her days, the battered women she took into her home... A complex personality emerges as his unofficial investigation unfolds, rich in secrets. Moreover, each witness seems multiple to him, becoming in turn hero or bandit, victim or executioner. There is no evidence, no straight lines here, everything is tortuous like the alleys of Venice that Brunetti walks to - perhaps - find the truth. EAN: 9782702143742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Woman Fleeing the Ad - David Grossman - Book Summary : Medici Prize - Foreign Novel 2011 Ora, a woman recently separated from her husband Ilan, leaves her home in Jerusalem and flees the dreaded news: the death of her second son, Ofer, who, about to complete his military service, has volunteered for a twenty-eight-day "major operation" in a Palestinian city. As if to ward off fate, she decides to be absent during this period: as long as the messengers of death do not find her, her son will be safe. The hike in Galilee that she had planned with Ofer, she undertakes with Avram, her childhood sweetheart, to tell him about her son. She hopes to protect her child through the thread of words that have shaped her life since his first breath, and thus spare him his last. Through the moving story of a family trying at all costs to preserve its values ​​and emotional ties, the author tells us the story of his country from 1967 to the present day and describes with incomparable force the repercussions of this permanent state of war on the psyche of Israelis, their anxieties, their doubts, but also vitality, commitment, and love in all its forms. David Grossman , born in Jerusalem in 1954, is the renowned author of numerous award-winning novels and committed essays that have shaken Israeli and international opinion, including The Yellow Wind , which preceded the first Intifada. In 2010, he received the German Publishers and Booksellers Peace Prize. He is an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. Translated from Hebrew by Sylvie Cohen International reception: “A Woman Running Away from the Announcement is a book of extraordinary power and intensity; it is David Grossman’s masterpiece. Flaubert created his Emma, ​​Tolstoy his Anna, and now Grossman has his Ora—a fully alive, perfectly embodied being. I devoured this long novel in a kind of feverish trance. Stunning, magnificent, unforgettable.” Paul Auster “Among all the writers I have read, David Grossman is undoubtedly the most gifted. Gifted, not only because of his imagination, his energy, his originality, but because he accesses what is truly inexpressible, because he knows how to read inside a being and discover the singular essence of their humanity.” Nicole Krauss “A book of abundant richness, full of anguish and dire omens, but also full of an ancestral life force. Grossman penetrates the depths of his characters' souls and breathes life into them.” The Republic "David Grossman perfectly evokes passionate love and sensuality, male friendship, and the delicate nuances of everyday life in a country weakened by violence and fear." The World EAN: 9782021004625 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Thrillers. Popov. Duel in Dallas - Paul-Loup Sulitzer - Book Summary : Popov. Who is Popov? Behind this ordinary Russian name hides the most powerful man in the Soviet Union, and perhaps in the world... What does Popov want? What infernal machination is he the undisputed master of, while the Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko governments succeed one another, without restricting his terrible power? Will the young and brilliant French banker Paul Quant, aided by his prodigious intelligence alone, be able to thwart this international plot whose inevitability Paris, Bonn, and even Washington seem to accept? Yet he knows that his life and that of the woman he loves are threatened... Duel in Dallas. Their names are Cimballi, Franz Cimballi. In life, he has two passions: women and money. When it comes to money, he is gifted and already a billionaire. When it comes to women, he believed so... until he meets, in Dallas, the very beautiful and very cruel Patti Hall and her six billion dollars. Only then did his troubles begin... And what troubles! EAN: 9782846120760 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cat and Mouse - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are nightmares that never end. That of Alex Cross, a cop, psychologist, and occasional jazz musician, is named Gary Soneji. Fearsomely intelligent, Soneji loves evil for evil's sake, and all of America still remembers his Machiavellian crimes. Today, this monster, whom Cross thought he had permanently incapacitated, has managed to escape. Suffering from AIDS, he wants to exact one final and grandiose revenge against his old enemy. In Washington, D.C., as in New York, innocent people will perish in blood. Meanwhile, the FBI and police forces around the world are hunting the enigmatic Mr. Smith, a virtuoso with the scalpel. Mr. Smith, who sows his murdered victims throughout Europe with incredible cruelty, takes a malicious pleasure in playing cat and mouse with his pursuers. But if Cross enters the game, the game risks becoming much more dangerous... EAN: 9782709619783 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Snow Supper - Jean Anglade - Book Summary : The chronicle of a small village in the heart of Auvergne, Saint-Coutain, under the tender and amused gaze of Jean Anglade. The village of Saint-Coutain, established on the departmental border, is shared between Cantal and Aveyron. It therefore has two town halls, two schools, two post offices, two churches, two patron saints: Saint Christopher and Saint Nicol. Minds are as divided as the territories. People vote left on one side, right on the other. Red cows graze the grass of Auvergne, blondes graze the grass of Rouergate. At an Aveyron stall, little Léonce Bros steals an orange that he intends for Flora, his "sister" in sentiment. Tirabi, the "Nicolaud" rural policeman, pursues him and arrests him on Cantal soil. He is accused of child abduction. To clarify the exact boundary of their communes, the two mayors decide to have a border line painted on the ground. This white line becomes a tourist attraction. But it further separates Léonce and Flora, poor ten-year-old Romeo and Juliet. Their thwarted love will force Léonce to leave Saint-Coutain. He will make a career in Paris as a waiter in brasseries in Auvergne and Aveyron. One day, he will return... EAN: 9782856165843 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Presumed Innocent - Turow Scott - Book Summary : A thriller adapted into a series by Apple TV starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Who killed Carolyn, a talented lawyer as beautiful as she was unscrupulous, found tied up in her luxurious apartment? Rape followed by murder or premeditated crime? The investigation led in the middle of the election campaign by Deputy District Attorney Rusty Sabich is making no progress. And when it is discovered that this secretive and complex man was Carolyn's lover, he immediately appears as the ideal culprit... A multi-million-selling suspense classic in the world, which immediately established Scott Turow as a master of the genre. EAN: 9782226032454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Music Room - Dennis McFarland - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856165843 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Duel at the Summit - Sylvie Maligorne - Book Summary : It's the story of an interminable cohabitation. On June 2, 1997, two men who were complete opposites—their ideas, their history, their character—resolved to live together because the French wanted it that way. Between Jacques Chirac, the Pompidolian Gaullist, and Lionel Jospin, the socialist who came from Trotskyism, the current will never pass, despite the smiles of convenience. From the very beginning, the two men had in mind the upcoming meeting: beneath the appearance of a pleasant cohabitation, a merciless fight has been waged behind the scenes for five years, which foreshadows the electoral confrontation. Duel at the Summit tells the secret story of this guerrilla war between the Élysée Palace and Matignon, whose effects are only fully appreciated by the general public during major events. Sylvie Maligorne followed all the twists and turns of this power struggle: the battle for the five-year term, the reversal of the electoral calendar, the reform of the justice system, the negotiations over Corsica... She interviewed the main players and their entourages. Her story, filled with anecdotes and secrets, provides an essential key to understanding how the two main contenders for the Élysée Palace operate. EAN: 9782020392761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Your skin against mine - Flore Valier - Book Summary : He has everything he wants... except her! Roxane has just been hired by a major Parisian publishing house. Her first mission? To take charge of the biography of Clay Messager, star football player. From secrets to childhood memories, from trendy parties to training sessions, the relationship between the editor and her author will slowly slide into dangerous territory; because Clay and she belong to two completely different worlds, and the young woman is convinced that an affair between the two of them has no future. But Clay hasn't said his last word. EAN: 9782371262591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Book Summary : In Europe, while the 18th century expires in multiple convulsions and Paris tires of the guillotine, the Scottish explorer Mungo Park discovers the kingdom of Ségou in Africa, where human madness is expressed with biblical simplicity. Although he will return to the country where a world awaits him on which progress is already cutting its teeth, Mungo will not rest, to avoid becoming a puppet in his turn, to respond to the demon of travel... TC Boyle, compared to García Márquez for this novel intertwining destinies, has succeeded in the perfectly crazy bet of bringing together in a single melting pot all the forms of fiction in which the Anglo-Saxon genius has excelled for three hundred years. And this from the libertine tale to the American noir novel, raising Water Music to the rank of cult book... EAN: 9782859405311 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Child of Dawn - Fanny Leblond - Book Summary : In 1921, Hélène has a destiny all mapped out for her as a young woman from a good family. Everything changes when she falls in love with a young pilot from the Cazaux airbase in Gironde. Ignoring conventions and family opposition, she moves in with him. There she meets Anna, a young woman who seems to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. During the war, Anna had a child with a Senegalese soldier, and the child was taken from her to avoid dishonor and shame. How could her family accept a bastard, and a mixed-race one at that? The Roaring Twenties are now bringing a wind of modernity, and Hélène is determined to help her friend by finding the child. Between emancipation and family secrets, this search is a difficult battle. In this era that belongs to men, the two women must be prepared to pay the price... EAN: 9782824616933 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crime of Passion - Ludwig Lewisohn - Book Summary : Crime of Passion (1930), which was a considerable success in its time (Antonin Artaud and Bernard Steele translated it in 1932) is undoubtedly his most ambitious novel: a text whose modernity, at least after a good half-century, leaves one speechless. For the first time, in fact, Sex with a capital letter appears as the great troublemaker - that is to say, of truth - in a world where false libertines and true puritans are sent back to back to their mediocre desires: desires magnetized not by the flesh but by the secret taste for power. The rage that inhabits this book is the one that we already feel at work in Mr. Crump: hell is on earth, and first of all behind the tidy facades of family respectability, of good conscience, of love itself. Lewisohn retraces here, with a meticulousness that, as usual, spares us nothing, the destiny of a few trendy New York couples - between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties. One is liberal and yet conformist, emancipated in words but prudish deep down, and one spends one's time lying: to others of course, but first and foremost to oneself. And one is barely surprised when one of these beings betrayed by the spirit of the times, tired of all this pretense, takes a revolver from his pocket and kills. Not to punish adultery, but to allow love to finally speak without a mask EAN: 9782859406059 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A new day dawns on the great plains - Anne Loreal - Book Summary : A brilliant romantic epic where the winds of history blow. Through the destiny of a young French woman who sets out on an evangelistic mission to Indian territory, this novel takes us to the Great Plains of America, the land of pioneers in search of a better life, at the dawn of the Civil War. Born into a narrow-minded bourgeois family and rejected by her mother, Eugénie de Choisel took the veil at the age of 20 as much out of vocation as out of a thirst for elsewhere, and became Sister Judith. Thanks to her godfather, Father Fournerie, she realized her dream by accompanying him on an evangelistic mission in the American West. As she embarked for the New World, she met, among the stream of migrants fleeing poverty, Julian Eckermann, a German who awakened new and forbidden feelings in her. He himself was attracted to this young woman of radiant beauty. Arriving in New Orleans, the novice brutally encountered the world of slavery and experienced the first tremors of the Civil War. In Saint Louis, she crossed paths with Julian Eckermann again. Her faith and strength of character helped her keep a cool head in the face of this man who troubled her so much. Once again, their paths diverged. In the spring of 1861, the missionaries settled in Osage territory in Kansas, where the nun was in charge of the children's schooling. But raids by secessionist militiamen plunged the missionaries into the heart of the war that had just broken out. Sister Judith did not emerge unscathed from this conflict, which took her godfather away from her. Believing herself abandoned by God, she violently rejected her faith and enlisted as a nurse in Ulysses Grant's Confederate troops. Against all odds, she met Julian Eckermann again during the bloody Battle of Vicksburg, which would end the Civil War. Will the young woman be able to listen to her heart this time? EAN: 9782376101000 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Promise of a Summer - Susan Wiggs - Book Summary : Like every year, Kate Livingston arrives in Port Angeles to spend the entire summer in the beautiful family home built on the edge of a mountain lake. Far from Seattle, in this idyllic setting, she will finally have time to devote herself to Aaron, her son, a lonely child with surprising maturity, a little boy different from the others and who needs all her love. It will also give her time to reflect on a new career path, after a career as a journalist was abruptly interrupted. Fate decides otherwise when, upon her arrival, she meets her new neighbor, JD Harris. A seductive man about whom she knows nothing. Because this stranger is hiding a heavy secret. Famous in spite of himself, JD is a man hounded by the media. His biography was a bestseller in the United States and a film is in preparation about his life. But JD has returned to the place of his childhood to escape the noisy publicity surrounding him and finally realize his dream. Until reality catches up with him... and threatens the passion that has grown between him and Kate. EAN: 9782280842747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ferret's Game - James Patterson - Book Summary : There are four of them, all of whom worked for the notorious MI16, the British intelligence service. Murder was part of their profession: now it's the main ingredient in their favorite game, The Four Horsemen. The most secret role-playing game on the Internet, but whose victims, chosen from the red-light districts of Bangkok as well as those of Washington, are anything but virtual. Faced with an unprecedented series of crimes, Alex Cross fights on all fronts. Against his superiors, who downplay the seriousness of the situation, against a psychopathic assassin protected by diplomatic immunity, against those who shattered his new life by daring to attack Christine just before their wedding. That's a lot for one man, even if he has a degree in psychology and is supported by a powerful grandmother! EAN: 9782709621731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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