Title : Pretty Ballerina - John Wessel - Book Summary : What are you afraid of, Harding? » The questioner is Cassie Rayn, a sublime creature of about thirty-five, who gave up a career as a porn star twenty years earlier because she was underage. She asks Detective Harding to take her to a dilapidated farmhouse, long uninhabited, and there, the memory of a terrible news story imposes itself on him. He is certain: it is indeed the smell of blood that still permeates the walls. In an atmosphere of the end of the world, Harding will try to answer the many questions that arise. Is a serial kidnapper preying on young Asians? What happened to Kim, Cassie's half-brother? Is the young actress from Pretty Ballerina, a porn film that is selling for a fortune, really Ca EAN: 9782743614522 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Unassailable Joy - Lytta Basset - Book Summary : Is joy possible on this earth? A joy that would not allow itself to be destroyed by life's circumstances - an impregnable joy, other than pleasure, happiness and beatitude? A renewed reading of the so-called parable of the prodigal son reveals how experiences as "negative" as failure, solitude or frustration are, paradoxically, linked to the blossoming of joy. Lytta Basset, pastor and professor of theology in Switzerland, knows how to bring the Gospel message to an ever wider audience. In this essay published by Labor et Fides in 1996, she explores this "perfect joy" promised by Jesus, which is adherence to the whole of existence, without excluding anything or anyone. After her works I Judge No One, Healing from Misfortune and The Power to Forgive , all three included in this collection, she shows how the relationship with others becomes the bearer of this prodigality spoken of in the Gospels. EAN: 9782226151773 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Senora - Catherine Clément - Book Summary : Hunted by the Inquisition, driven from Lisbon, Antwerp, Venice, and Ferrara, Dona Gracia Nasi, known as La Senora, confronted the Habsburgs, the Pope, and the Republic of Venice in 16th-century Europe, torn apart by religious quarrels, before finding asylum in the Ottoman Empire. Born among the "Marranos," the Jews of Spain and Portugal forced to convert, she used her fortune to help victims of intolerance; she commissioned the "Ferrara Bible," in Judeo-Spanish, which was dedicated to her. She died in Palestine. Around this historical figure who has become legendary, Catherine Clément resurrects an entire era, where romantic adventures and theological quarrels mingle with the secrets of finance and diplomacy. EAN: 9782253064794 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jimmy the kid - Donald Westlake - Book Summary : Because he is an open-minded person, always willing to have his job explained to him and to improve, Dortmunder accepts Andy Kelp's proposal to kidnap a child using a method described in a novel by... Richard Stark. Dortmunder and his friends therefore abduct Jimmy Harrington, the twelve-year-old son of a Wall Street lawyer, while he was on his way to see his psychiatrist. But little Jimmy is intelligent, much smarter in fact than his kidnappers, and it is he who will quickly take matters into his own hands and manage his own kidnapping! Among Dortmunder's many adventures, Jimmy the Kid is particularly enjoyable because Westlake engages in a subtle ping-pong with his double Richard Stark and does not hesitate to bring together his two champions of improbable tricks: the formidable Parker and the calamitous Dortmunder. To be reread in a completed and revised translation. EAN: 9782743613839 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Etiquette - Sabine Denuelle - Book Summary : The complete guide to the rules and customs you need to know for life in society today and major family events, from birth to death. EAN: 9782035074034 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I live downstairs from you - Brigitte - Book Summary : "I know from experience that you can have your papers in order, a job, friends, a family and still sleep outside." At 42, Brigitte finds herself on the streets. To avoid dying at the hands of a man, she, who had a life like any other, runs away. She is homeless. The street becomes her home. Alone, she endures hunger, contempt, loneliness, cold, fear, and violence. She clings on. Survives. "Lively, sharply, the testimony carries weight." L'Express "(...) a book that twists the heart." ELLE EAN: 9782266174732 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tartar Desert - Buzzati Dino - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253003755 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lucy - William Trevor - Book Summary : A little girl refuses to follow her parents when the family decides to leave Ireland. She disappears, they search for her in vain, everyone thinks she's dead... until the day she returns to the empty house, deserted by its former inhabitants. Lucie soon understands that she wanted, in a way, this orphaned life: that a secret force within her refuses what others call happiness... In the melancholic tradition of Reading Turgenev, a very great Trevor. EAN: 9782859409906 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Pianist - The Extraordinary Destiny of a Jewish Musician in the Warsaw Ghetto 1939-1945 - Wladylaw Szpilman - Book Summary : September 1939: Warsaw is crushed under German bombs. Before being silenced, the national radio station makes its last broadcast. The strains of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor rise up. The performer's name is Wladyslaw Szpilman. He is Jewish. For him, a long night is beginning... Six years later, when Radio Poland resumes its broadcasts, it will be broadcasting the same piece, by the same performer. In the meantime, Szpilman will have experienced it all—and survived it all: the ghetto, the extermination of his people, the Warsaw Uprising, and then the city's destruction by the Germans. When, frozen and starving, wandering from hiding place to hiding place, he is an inch from death, the most unlikely of rescuers appears: a German officer, a righteous man named Wilm Hosenfeld. Haunted by the atrocity of his people's crimes, they will protect him. In 1946, Szpilman published his story. It was called "The Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw." The book was almost immediately banned by the communist regime. It would take more than fifty years for this strangely detached text, both sober and moving, to be finally rediscovered. After serving as director of Polish national radio, Wladyslaw Szpilman had an international career as a composer and pianist. He died in Warsaw in July 2000. EAN: 9782221092569 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sun King's Rebel - Jean-Michel Riou - Book Summary : When Hélène de Montbellay, a young provincial noblewoman, goes to Versailles to repair the injustice done to her father, her innocence does not allow her to imagine the dangers she will face. Armed with her courage and intelligence, driven by an unshakeable thirst for justice, the young girl will attempt to unravel the intertwining of a religious plot to convince the king of the honor of her lineage, of the merit of her father. In Paris as in Versailles, poisoners, plotters, and spies abound against whom Hélène will have to fight if she wishes to attract the light of the Sun King. Unless her personal glory desires another radiance, that of justice and love. EAN: 9782738223135 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dolly Bibble - CD included - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782954602400 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Promise of Beach Lane - Sherryl Woods - Book Summary : For several years, Susie O'Brien has been engaged in a disturbing and ambiguous love game with Mack Franklin. But despite the obvious desire that crackles between them, she persists in saying that their relationship is not really serious. And, in a sad twist of fate, just when Susie finally feels a desire for commitment and a life together, she learns that she has a serious illness. To prove his unconditional love and support, Mack proposes to her. But Susie is overcome with worry when an old girlfriend of Mack's arrives in Chesapeake. How can she live up to this woman who has everything going for her and who clearly still has feelings for Mack, when she herself is facing the most difficult test of her life? A Touching and Optimistic Story About the Author: A graduate of the Ohio State University School of Journalism, Sherryl Woods spent ten years working on the culture pages of various Ohio and Florida newspapers before devoting herself to her career as a novelist. Sherryl Woods is a regular on the New York Times Best Seller lists. This novel is the sixth volume in the Chesapeake Shores series. EAN: 9782280248792 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Metamorphoses - Ovid - Book Summary : A monumental poem composed of fifteen books and twelve thousand verses, The Metamorphoses (1st century) recounts the mythical history of the world, from the original chaos to the reign of Augustus. Drawing on the treasures of Greek fables, Ovid sings of the miracle of the transformation of bodies and reveals the porosity of the boundaries between gods and men, land and sea, fauna and flora. The incestuous Myrrha transforms into a tree; the imprudent Actaeon transforms into a stag; the beautiful Narcissus becomes a flower... What does metamorphosis tell us? A true sublimation of divine and human beings, of animals and plants, it manifests the permanence of life in a world in perpetual movement. EAN: 9782080700971 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dawn of Fortune - Elizabeth Walker - Book Summary : Their story didn't begin under the best auspices... Jake and Harriet meet aboard an ocean liner heading for New York. He borrows her money and belongings and loses everything at a gambling table. Despite this, Harriet falls madly in love with Jake the adventurer. She's ready to follow him everywhere. However, when, shortly after, he drags her onto a raft and they are caught in a storm, Harriet begins to lose heart. And that's just the beginning! How could she have imagined Jake abandoning her on an island in the Bahamas? Prisoner of the lord and master of the place, a wealthy and tyrannical old man, she awaits the return of her lover, the only one capable of giving meaning to her life. EAN: 9782266085083 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twenty Years in the Forest - Michel Damien - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266034319 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Theory of Travel - Michel Onfray - Book Summary : To leave, to follow in the footsteps of the shepherds, is to experience a kind of extremely pagan pantheism and to find traces of the ancient gods […]. The election of the entire planet for his journey is worth condemning that which closes and enslaves: Work, Family and Fatherland, at least for the most visible obstacles […]. Asocial, unsociable, irredeemable, the nomad ignores the clock and functions by the sun or the stars, he learns about the constellations and the course of the star in the sky, he has no watch, but an animal eye trained to distinguish dawns, auroras, storms, clearings, twilights, eclipses, comets, stellar scintillations, he knows how to read the matter of the clouds and decipher their promises, he interprets the winds and knows their habits. Caprice governs his projects. EAN: 9782253084419 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy - Book Summary : In a train car, passengers begin a conversation about relationships and the growing number of divorces in Russia. A man, who had been silent until then, begins to speak. For him, love doesn't exist... As the train ticks by, this mysterious stranger shares his unique thoughts with the narrator. He also confides in him the slow death of his own relationship and his descent into the throes of jealousy. Above all, he reveals his identity, as well as the terrible crime he has committed. Through this short novel, this "ferocious work launched against society" according to Romain Rolland, Tolstoy paints a complex portrait of his main character. EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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