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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Title : The Magic Moment - Hannah Kristin - Book Summary : Not much was happening in the peaceful little town of Rain Valley. Until a six-year-old girl, walled in by an unfathomable silence, emerged from the immense nearby forest, a wolf cub under her arm... Not much was happening in Rain Valley until a six-year-old girl with a wild look appeared from the vast nearby forest, a wolf cub under her arm. As the local police chief, Ellie is helpless when faced with this child who, paralyzed by fear, refuses to communicate. She decides to call on her sister Julia, a child psychiatrist in Los Angeles. Perhaps she can help the little girl escape her terrible isolation? Julia Cates, whose career was shattered by a scandal, has nothing left to keep her in California. So she accepts the challenge, abandoning everything to devote herself to the one nicknamed the "wild child." Fortunately, she will be assisted in this difficult task by Dr. Max Cerrasin, a seductive man who has also been dealt a blow by life... EAN: 9782258073685 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Artemis Fowl - Volume 1 - Eoin Colfer - Book Summary : The outlaw genius is finally in his pocket! Name: Fowl First name: Artemis Age: 12 years old Distinguishing features: extraordinary intelligence Occupation: thief Wanted for: kidnapping fairies and demanding ransom Calling all FARfadets, members of the Fairy People's Armed Regulatory Forces: this human is dangerous and must be neutralized by all possible means. EAN: 9782070552504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shipwreck of Passion - Shari Anton - Book Summary : Refusing to listen to her father's warnings, Leah de Pecham fled to France with the man she had fallen in love with. When she caught him in the company of a courtesan, she realized her mistake. All she had to do was return to England, her heart broken and her reputation tarnished forever. On the boat returning to Dover, Leah exchanged a few words with Geoffrey Hamelin, a young lord continuing his studies in Paris. Suddenly, a storm arose and tossed the ship onto the rocks. In the chaos preceding the shipwreck, Geoffrey managed to get Leah into a lifeboat that reached the coast, while he himself was swallowed up by the waves. Having found her seriously injured savior, Leah devotedly nursed him back to health. When Geoffrey finally regained consciousness, after hovering between life and death for several days, he had lost his memory. EAN: 9782290343418 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Imposter at Court - Celeste Bradley - Book Summary : For months, the public has been fighting over the London Sun, in which a cartoonist portrays the highest-ranking figures in British society. The drawings are signed "Sir Thorogood." A complete unknown. So the curious rush to the Rochester ball, where his presence has been announced. Clara Simpson is not the least intrigued. The very attractive man who appears is an imposter. Clara is sure of it, and she knows better... EAN: 9782290345498 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Friday or The Limbo of the Pacific - Michel Tournier - Book Summary : Grand Prix novel of the French Academy 1967 "All those who knew me, all without exception, believe me dead. My own conviction that I exist is unanimously opposed. Whatever I do, I will not prevent the image of Robinson Crusoe's corpse from remaining in the minds of all men. This is enough - certainly not to kill me - but to push me back to the confines of life, to a place suspended between heaven and hell, to limbo, in short... Closer to death than any other man, I am at the same time closer to the very sources of sexuality." EAN: 9782070369591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Washington Black - Esi Edugyan - Book Summary : Barbados, 1830. Eleven-year-old Washington Black is enslaved on a plantation owned by a cruel man. His vivacity and drawing skills quickly impress his master's brother, the eccentric Christopher Wild. This abolitionist explorer takes him under his wing to assist him in a crazy project: building an airship. When one day Wash is wrongly accused of a crime, the two men are forced to flee. Flying from the West Indies to the North Pole, from London to Morocco, an extraordinary journey awaits young Wash in this century of discovery. But the hardest road ahead will be the one that leads him to freedom... EAN: 9782072875861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Final Judgment - Daniel Easterman - Book Summary : Sardinia, today. The kidnappers are adamant. If Arié and Chaya Lévin don't tell them what they want, they will execute their child. They have 24 hours. The Lévins search as hard as they can, but they can't think of any secrets they might be keeping. Deciding it would be better not to alert the police, Arié asks his brother-in-law, Yosef, an Israeli army veteran, to help them. Although he succeeds in freeing the child, Yosef is unable to protect Chaya and Arié, whom he finds dead, their corpses arranged in a macabre setting: dressed in the sinister striped pajamas of the Nazi camps, they have been gassed... Yosef quickly realizes he must take up arms against neo-Nazis plotting a terrible plot against memory. The countdown has begun: he must solve the enigma of this mysterious secret. EAN: 9782266086882 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The White Gardenia - Belinda Alexandra - Book Summary : Anya grew up in the cocoon of a small community of Russian refugees in China. On the eve of her 13th birthday, the accidental death of her father shatters her life. While her mother is deported to the USSR, Anya narrowly escapes the Russian army and flees to Shanghai. There, she is taken in by a friend of her parents. A sultry nightclub owner, this wealthy protector offers her a life of luxury and artifice. The young girl discovers the joy of dressing up, of pleasing others, and experiences, with the seductive Dimitri, her first romantic feelings. Intoxicated by her new life, Anya cannot ignore the deep void left within her by her mother's departure. Will the upheavals of history give her a chance to find her again? EAN: 9782266166300 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud - Book Summary : During the winters of 1915-16 and 1916-17, Freud gave a series of lectures at the Vienna Medical Faculty. As an indication of the growing popularity of psychoanalysis at the time, these lectures, published in volume form and soon translated into some fifteen languages, were to have a great impact throughout the world. A century later, the success of this sourcebook on psychoanalysis and Freudianism continues unabated. " The Introduction to Psychoanalysis " comprises three groups of lectures: the first four—which partly repeat the material from " Psychopathology of Everyday Life "—concern slips of the tongue. In the introductory chapter, Freud brilliantly alternates seriousness and humor, rigor and derision, in order to present his new science to an audience he considered ill-informed, even partly hostile. He focuses in particular on the distinction between medicine and psychoanalysis: "Psychoanalytic treatment involves only an exchange of words between the analysand and the doctor," he asserts. He then addresses the two major difficulties that await analysands: the majority of psychic processes are unconscious and sexuality plays a major role in them with its various phenomena of drives, resistances, repressions and sublimations. The following eleven lessons — a summary of the pioneering work " The Interpretation of Dreams " — are devoted to dreams and the necessary knowledge of their impressive corpus of symbols when the technique of free association does not work. Finally, the last thirteen are grouped under the title "General Theory of Neuroses" and mark an important stage in Freudian theoretical development that would later be pursued through studies on libido, inhibition, anxiety and narcissism. The last chapter is devoted to analytical therapy, highlighting both the prejudices it faces and the abuses to which it can give rise, particularly due to the manipulation of transference. EAN: 9782228300643 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Courtyard Volume 1 - Marie-Paul Armand - Book Summary : Constance is barely out of childhood when her life is abruptly turned upside down. Just yesterday, she was playing in the courtyard of her apartment building. At 14, she finds herself orphaned and forced to enter a factory. From then on, every morning, she will be awakened at 5:00 a.m. by the factory bells. To escape her condition, she marries Bart, a Belgian worker. The rest of the story is told by Charlotte, his eldest daughter. Thus continues the journey to the North of the late 19th century, illuminated by friendship, courage, and hope. EAN: 9782266110235 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Hill of Goodbyes - Manette Ansay - Book Summary : Since marrying James, Ellen has not been to Holly's Field, a small Wisconsin port town on the shores of Lake Michigan, where her husband's parents live. When James loses his job, the couple, strapped for cash, has no choice but to leave California with their two children to return to live there... Ellen's in-laws are still as ill-disposed towards her as ever, making her life unbearable. But what can the young woman do in the face of these family ties, which make her a submissive prey to those who welcomed her into their home? Awarded the prestigious Friends of American Writers Prize, voted best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune, this novel, a portrait of a puritanical America, is also Ellen's struggle, determined to be a wife, a mother, and a free woman all at once. EAN: 9782352870616 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lais - Marie de France - Book Summary : The poet known as Marie de France was, towards the end of the 12th century, the first great female author of French literature. Her Lais are tales of adventure and love whose material is drawn from Breton folklore and myths. They are fairy tales: a knight transforms into a werewolf, another into a bird to fly to the one he loves, another meets a talking doe, yet another becomes the lover of a fairy. They are also poetic tales, with a mysterious and captivating simplicity, which express the strength and melancholy of love. EAN: 9782253098454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The One Who Fears the Wolf - Karin Fossum - Book Summary : Who could have wanted old Haldis Horn so badly that he split her skull with a pickaxe? A madman, thinks Commissioner Sejer. Errki Johrma's escape from the nearby psychiatric asylum seems to confirm this hypothesis. Moreover, Errki was apparently seen by Kannick near Haldis's house at the time of the murder. But should we take seriously the testimony of a child himself interned in a center for the maladjusted? The investigation stalls when another event occurs: the burglary of a nearby bank, with hostage-taking. Apparently, no connection. Except that the hostage is none other than Errki Johrma and Kannick has disappeared. EAN: 9782290348871 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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