Title : It's the Bouquet! - James Hadley Chase - book Summary : Whatever the obstacle, we overcome it." This is the proud motto of the "Universal Services" agency. But for the two cases finally assigned to it, the obstacle to overcome is considerable. The daughter of Justin Wingrove, one of Orchid City's most prominent citizens, has run away. As for Dedrick, he's been kidnapped. All he had to do was pay up... apparently. Well, they were finally found, but in what a state! EAN: 9782070430109 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : That Moment - Douglas Kennedy - book Summary : New York writer Thomas Neesbitt receives two letters within a few days of each other that take him back to his past: his divorce papers after twenty years of marriage, then the diary of his first love. 1984. Having left for Berlin to write, Thomas supplements his income by working for Radio Liberty. There, he meets Petra, his translator. A burning passion blossoms between them. Little by little, Petra confides her story to him and the tale of her passage to the West. Thomas is overwhelmed. Nothing now seems able to separate the two lovers... "What a devil of a writer! Douglas Kennedy has long known how to keep his readers in suspense. With That Moment , he takes another step towards the Olympus of novelists." François Busnel – The Express EAN: 9782266227384 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ripley and the Shadows - Patricia Highsmith - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266016599 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ostend Beach - Jacqueline Harpman - book Summary : As soon as I saw him, I knew that Leopold Wiesbek would belong to me. I was eleven, he was twenty-five… Thus overcome by a passion that nothing will extinguish, Émilienne will have to bide her time. Talented, handsome, and beloved by women, Léopold makes a marriage of fortune so he can devote himself to painting. The young woman will slowly weave her canvas, stopping at nothing, sacrificing a few lives along the way. Years later, after the death of her lover, Émilienne, desperate but without remorse, will remain certain that this was the price to pay to live her passion. EAN: 9782253062691 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Part of the Whole - Steve Toltz - book Summary : All his life, Jasper Dean has hesitated between hating, pitying, adoring, and killing Martin, his father. Now that Martin is dead, Jasper can return to the case of this self-taught philosopher, unrecognized genius and fierce misanthrope, who raised him as a recluse, under high intellectual surveillance... From temporary depressions to lightning illuminations, from strip clubs to clandestine liners, father and son will find themselves embarked on an adventure beyond their control. But faced with the blows of fate, it is in Jasper that Martin will find the best companion in misfortune for his vain efforts to leave his mark on this world he despises... EAN: 9782264050465 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Narmada Sutra - Gita Mehta - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253136903 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Time in Short Pants - Zoran Savic - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782919739103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Meetings of the Days - 1992-1993 - Claude Roy - book Summary : Every two or three years I pour the contents of the accumulated files onto the large table: journal pages, travel journals, portraits, nascent poems, unpublished texts, edited articles, notes and jot-downs, clippings, etc. I sort, I sniff, I smell, I cut, I eliminate, throw into the fire. This time, I pinned down a few ideas caught on the fly, eight or ten memories worth remembering, and a few sketches I want to finish. I still kept a few hypotheses about the world as it is not, a few observations about my cat who goes where he wants, a few reading notes on books I love and would like others to love, the smells of the forest in autumn, dives into my inner space, and a few passages on the agitated surface of this planet. I sprinkled the whole thing with a few white pebbles taken from my notebooks, those minimals that I would find pretentious to call maxims. And here is the "logbook" 1992-1993: an old Persian from the 1300s gave me the title." Claude Roy. EAN: 9782070400737 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Insurrection - Liam O'Flaherty - book Summary : Having come to Dublin to marry a young girl, Bartly Madden, a simple peasant from Connemara, would become the hero of the night of the Easter Rising of 1916. Fortuitously involved in the insurgents' fight, he joined Kinsella, the commander of a troop of rebels, and met Stapleton, a poet and anarchist, who would inspire him with the idea of ​​the just fight. Insurrection is the last work in a series of novels that cover the history of Ireland from 1845 to 1922. From his childhood, Liam O'Flaherty professed two passions: hatred of England and respect for the Catholic Church. A love of English literature tempered the first of these passions; socialism, the second. In 1914, these two loyalties clashed. (Jorge Luis Borges) Liam o'Flaherty (1897-1984) is the author of around twenty novels, including The Informer, adapted for the screen by John Ford. EAN: 9782743612283 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Specter of the New Moon - Marc Paillet - book Summary : Serious and strange events are shaking up Brenne, fueling an enigmatic rebellion in the heart of Berry. Were these women, found drowned in the waters of its marshes, murdered? Who are these "avengers" who are staging bloody coups? Who are these "companions of the new moon" who indulge in idolatrous and orgiastic festivals, with sorcerers and bacchantes, at the call of an elusive white specter? Erwin is sent on a mission by Charlemagne to try, despite the law of silence that reigns in Brenne, to solve these enigmas. But in this land of marshes, fearsome with their aquatic depths and their deadly embrace, with their putrid waters that engender infernal beasts, but also bewitching by the beauty of their banks where fairies walk, in this land of magicians and enchanters, who can be trusted? EAN: 9782264024336 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins - book Summary : 30 million readers. 30 international editions. Sunday, December 13: A letter is delivered to the White House. The most fantastic blackmail of all time begins. Thirty-six hours of diabolical suspense in which the fate of the greatest city in the world will be at stake. EAN: 9782266117975 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Colomba and Other Stories - Merimée, Prosper - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782743400224 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Creation of the World - Jean D'Ormesson - book Summary : Four friends are vacationing on a Mediterranean island. One of them has brought a manuscript signed by Simon Laquedem. Reading it provokes conflicting reactions... An angel announces to Simon that he is the new Abraham, the new Moses, the new Mohammed, and that God insists on speaking to him. God appears to him and tells him, with simplicity and clarity, the origins of the universe, the Big Bang, space and time, water, air, light, the lives of humans, their thoughts, and their history. Between Bible and comic strip, between sacred text and hoax, this joyful odyssey of the universal spirit. EAN: 9782266174084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mother - Luc Lang - book Summary : Yes, his mother now stands within him more than in his arms, she inhabits him like an alien whose presence is sometimes acknowledged, so dazzling, so eruptive that he then surprises himself, overcome with panic fear, to have become his mother. His mother who recomposes herself like the horizon of his finitude and his destiny, have you seen? She looks like your mother... escape seems impossible to him, his mother draws like the accomplishment of her own death. His mother is waiting for him, his death is waiting for him, he slides down the slope, he unscrews, struggles, he would like to redraw his face, inject it with botox, silence it in the mineral stillness of a sand that the sea smooths, no, that the ocean cancels, but the eyes remain, the eyes and the gaze, identical." Luc Lang composes with Mother a song of love-hate around the maternal figure which reveals itself above all as a declaration of love to the chosen father. With writing of rare acuity and biting humor, he delivers us a chiseled novel which magnifies its subject. EAN: 9782070454594 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : You, my sweet, unfindable - Sandra Scoppettone - book Summary : I don't like mysteries, I hate coincidences and, above all, I hate stories about triplets! " So says Lauren Laurano, the private detective, lesbian, New Yorker and cocoa addict... She will however be treated to a mind-boggling cocktail of all these ingredients and will have to find a dead person who is not, navigate the world of cinema without forgetting her lines... and fight more than ever the sexist prejudices of her contemporaries. Listening only to her capricious instinct, her now tamed computer and her lifelong companions, Lauren Laurano once again disturbs the annoying disorder of human affairs. EAN: 9782265056336 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wild Ponies - Michel Déon - book Summary : A year before the start of the Second World War, chance brought together four students in Cambridge, three British and one French. A fifth, also French, would become their historiographer, the witness and confidant of their chaotic lives during the worst episodes of the Cold War. The novel takes its title from a poetic vision, a brief respite from London pounded by the Germans. Death strikes blindly, and Georges Saval escapes for a weekend to an inn in the New Forest with a young woman whose fate is already sealed. Opening the window one morning, they see ponies wandering along the edge of the forest, a last glimpse of a world that will never know peace. The Wild Ponies is a multifaceted book where romance meets merciless history. For its revelations about the Katyn massacre and the Algerian War, it was violently attacked upon its publication. Crowned with the Prix Interallié, it remains one of Michel Déon's masterpieces. EAN: 9782070360710 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Seven Madmen - Roberto Arlt - book Summary : The hero of this novel plans with six other "madmen" to found a secret society financed by the profits of a network of brothels. Their goal: To bring about social revolution and free mankind from degradation and humiliation. But these demiurges of the underworld, these deviant messiahs, prove incapable of plotting anything other than improbable chimeras, dreams of a miserable humanity wanting to practice massacre on a large scale in order to finally "exist." In The Flamethrowers (which continues the epic of The Seven Madmen), they will plunge into the abyss of crime and madness. A legendary novel from Buenos Aires, The Seven Madmen, with its Dostoevskian overtones, its Célinean transgression, and its prophetic tone, remains the masterpiece of a literary genius. Preface by Julio Cortázar Translated from Spanish (Argentinian) by Isabelle and Antoine Berman. EAN: 9782020159463 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Club Dumas - Arturo Pérez-Reverte - book Summary : Has a handwritten chapter of The Three Musketeers really been discovered? And what connection does Dumas' masterpiece have with The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a diabolical book whose author was burned at the stake the very year of D'Artagnan's death? These are the questions that Corso, a researcher of rare books for wealthy collectors, tries to answer by stumbling upon corpses, from Toledo to Cintra, then among the second-hand booksellers of Paris and on the banks of the Loire, followed by strange doubles of Milady or Rochefort... As he did with The Painting of the Flemish Master, winner of the Grand Prix for Crime Literature in 1993, Arturo Pérez-Reverte takes us here, with an erudition and brilliance that leave us speechless, into an adventure where reality seems to be only one of the possible versions of fiction. EAN: 9782253076568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 110 Legal Ways to Scam the State - Bertrand Deveaud - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253062370 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Orchards of Osiris - Guy Rachet - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277214236 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bloody Waters, an investigation by Lupe Solano - Carolina Garcia-Aguilera - book Summary : Lupe Solano, a member of the Cuban bourgeoisie exiled in Miami, is an elegant young woman who has chosen to pursue a career as a private investigator. Among her latest cases: the case of a little girl, illegally adopted. To save the girl from a fatal illness, Lupe must find her biological mother, hiding in a Cuban convent. Unraveling the complicated intrigues of her fellow Cubans, she uncovers a child trafficking ring orchestrated by an unscrupulous lawyer. With Lupe Solano, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera has created a character worthy of the charismatic detectives of a crime novel. EAN: 9782020330244 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Slave of God - Roger Frison-Roche - book Summary : On June 17, 1816, René Caillié embarked for Africa. He was sixteen years old, and had only one ambition: to be the first to discover Timbuktu, the mysterious city at the heart of this Terra Incognita from which no white man had ever returned. He would succeed, for he understood that "the beggar's rag is less conspicuous than the king's tunic." To cross Islamized Africa, the Koranic rosary was the best passport. From then on, René Caillié was called Abdallahi, the slave of God, and it was as a pilgrim that he entered Timbuktu. Then, undermined by fevers, disfigured by scurvy, he would have to cross the desert to reach Tangier... A mind-blowing and authentic journey, but also a mystical quest, a powerful and rich book. EAN: 9782277222361 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Winter Suns - Notebooks 1998 - 2000 - Jean Daniel - book Summary : The winter sun has always been a promise for me, for some time now my preference has been for convalescences, for escapes from hell, for promises of light in the rain, for children laughing through their tears, for the looks of the seriously injured person who is suddenly miraculously cured, for the irreplaceable doctor who dies while signaling to you that nothing is wrong and to whom you close your eyes, feeling indeed reassured. Gide discovering late in life that his youth was covered with wrinkles assiduously traced by his parents and that at the very moment of his old age, it is his true youth that is about to begin. Winter suns, these beatitudes in fresh water caressed wave after wave, as if it were to be the last. The unbeliever capable of giving thanks and, in the midst of this ocean of distress and tears, the euphoria of the researcher who discovers in the reality of the universe the planet that his calculations had only deduced. As a young man, I sang of summer's splendor, from the bays of Carthage to the magic of the Tuscan archipelago. Today, only the winter suns restore to me the intensity of fleeting dawns. EAN: 9782253152606 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ancient Orient and Us - J. Bottero - book Summary : This book focuses on the Mesopotamian heritage, more precisely on the major inventions of the society born, in the 4th millennium BC, from the encounter between Sumerians and Akkadians on the soil of present-day Iraq. The myth of the two ultimate origins of the West, the Bible and Greece, has long since been definitively shaken by Assyriology. The investigation carried out in this book by Jean Bottéro, a great specialist in Mesopotamia, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, whose work focuses on the history of writing, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian of ancient Greece, reveals the multiple currents stemming from the civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates. From Sumer and Akkad comes the writing that gives birth to deductive reason, opens new economic horizons and makes possible a universal religion. Elamites, Achaemenids, Jews, and Greeks forged unprecedented links between the here and the invisible world through the alphabet and language. The Greeks, inspired in part by Babylon, invented the world of politics and civic religion. Thus, Aramaic, Jewish, Persian, and Greek cultures have continually intersected over the centuries, up to and including Islam. From these numerous exchanges and encounters emerges a legacy from before the rupture between East and West. Without casually ignoring this separation, the fruit of a more recent history, the increasingly keen awareness of this common space of civilization should be the promise of another future. EAN: 9782012788558 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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