Title : A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 2 - The Snake Laboratory - Lemony Snicket - book Summary : Dear Reader, If you're looking for a gentle read, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong book. This story starts off as a bit of a laugh: a whimsical uncle, fascinating reptiles... Alas! This beginning is misleading, and the Baudelaire orphans will experience many misfortunes: a foul odor, a poisonous snake, a car accident, a stubborn lock, and the return of a person they hoped never to see again. I vowed to recount these tragic events, but you, dear reader, are free to close this volume and choose something funnier. With respect, Lemony Snicket. EAN: 9782092506837 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Goosebumps - Volume 6 - The House of the Dead - RL Stine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782227729025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Goosebumps Volume 70 - Attack of the Mars Eggs - RL Stine - book Summary : A large greenish egg, streaked with blue veins, in the grass in my garden? " This strange discovery fascinates Cliff. But his curiosity turns to anxiety when the egg cracks open, revealing the large eyes of a creature from elsewhere. EAN: 9782747001564 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Imperial Tragedies - Juliette Benzoni - book Summary : The assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Victoria of England by the Reds of the Russian Revolution brought to a close the long agony of the imperial dynasties. With the last of the Romanovs, an entire European history disappeared from the memory of the people. Of these great princely families? The Habsburgs of Austria, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the Bourbons of France? All that remains are the titles of nobility pinned to history books. Who truly knows the private lives of these glorious couples: Emperor Franz Joseph and Duchess Elisabeth, known as "Sissi," Archduke Rudolf and Princess Stephanie of Belgium, or Emperor Maximilian and Princess Charlotte? Juliette Benzoni brings these illustrious characters back to life. Through their tumultuous love lives, the author traces the tragic destinies of these beings blessed by the gods and cursed by men. EAN: 9782266131339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The precise moment when destinies intertwine - Angélique Barbérat - book Summary : Kyle was five years old when he discovered his mother had been beaten to death by his father. Taken in by his stepsister, the little boy took refuge in music. Twenty years later, he had become a rock star adored by the world. But nothing could erase the anger within him. Coryn married Jack Brannigan when she was seventeen. Despite his appearance as the perfect man, Jack quickly revealed himself to be a possessive, jealous, and violent husband. One day, while Coryn was walking with her two children, one of them escaped her vigilance and was hit by a car. At that precise moment, Kyle and Coryn's destinies intertwined. But how could these two people, whom everything seemed to separate, have the slightest chance of loving each other? EAN: 9782290093306 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Maybe the moon - Armistead Maupin - delivered Summary : In Hollywood, anything goes! But when you're a dwarf named Cady, the heights of fame don't exceed eighty centimeters. Especially after having played the unforgettable role of the elf in a legendary film twenty years earlier... Deciphered through the diary of a star in the scrap heap, Los Angeles abandons its glitter for the duration of a funny and piercing chronicle. "After his Chronicles of San Francisco , Armistead Maupin continues his humorous critique of American society. And only Cady comes out of it feeling better." Marie Gobin, Read EAN: 9782264032201 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Book of Big Hugs - Kathleen Keating - book Summary : Some days, we feel like a teddy bear in a gray world. Nothing beats a good hug. A hug brings happiness, dries tears, helps us appreciate ourselves, slows the effects of aging, makes dieting easier, eliminates insomnia, exercises arm and shoulder muscles, and is a healthy alternative to alcohol or drugs. A cuddle book to relearn how to talk with your hands... EAN: 9782020500302 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Time of Regrets - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Delaney Wright is at the height of her career: covering the most sensational trial of the moment earns this young journalist a promotion to the 6 p.m. news! The case of Betsy Grant, accused of killing her husband, a wealthy doctor, fascinates the public. Especially since, while numerous clues point to the widow, she is prepared to do anything to prove her innocence. Including refusing the plea bargain offered by her lawyer. Delaney, convinced that Betsy is not guilty, wants to help her at all costs. But, as the trial begins, her friends Alvirah and Willy Meehan reveal a secret that shocks her: the identity of her biological mother, a secret she had never known. EAN: 9782253014539 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A god, an animal - Jérôme Ferrari - book Summary : A strange man joins a team tasked with building a dam high in the mountains. Lost in the mist, deep in a little-known valley, the outline of a hamlet is revealed, but the work is not jeopardized by this discovery: the village will be submerged under water. During this terrible change, the fate of this man resonates with that of the small community condemned to exile. On the eve of the departure imposed on them, he observes the first silhouettes lined up on the steep path. They are countless and carry on their backs a singular burden. Beautiful, unforgettable images. "Akira Yoshimura (1927-2006) left a considerable body of work which left its mark on the post-war period in Japan. EAN: 9782742771509 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Swimming Naked - Carla Guelfenbein - book Summary : Overjoyed at introducing her friend Morgana to a father she worships, Sophie is far from imagining that the two will fall madly in love and conceive a child. Devastated by grief, the betrayed daughter joins her mother in France just as the world is falling apart in Chile in the summer of 1973. Morgana and Diego are killed in the midst of a siege, while their baby, taken to Spain, is saved at the last minute from hell. Images of the September 11, 2001 attacks reawaken Sophie's memories of the burning government palace in Santiago, 28 years earlier, and drive her to search for the hated child - her half-sister. In a stormy and sensual prose where the spasms of the body respond to the convulsions of History, Carla Guelfenbein confronts the Chile of her youth and of the great shattered dreams. EAN: 9782330072780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Carpenter's Pencil - Manuel Rivas - book Summary : 1936. In the courtyard of a Galician prison, shortly after Franco's coup d'état, a young anarchist painter uses a carpenter's pencil to draw the famous Porch of Glory in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. He imbues the various biblical characters with the gestures and faces of his fellow prisoners, all condemned, like him, to be murdered during one of those famous night walks - the sordid summary executions organized by the fascists. The Civil Guard Herbal, responsible for monitoring political prisoners, secretly follows the progress of the drawing and, the evening when, on the orders of his superiors, he shoots the artist in the head, he cannot help but pick up the pencil. He is far from suspecting that each time he places it on his ear, it will speak to him, as if in his innermost being, with the voice of the victim. From then on, the fascists' henchman will have to learn to live with this other person who lives within him. Herbal obeys in spite of himself and lets the pencil write the chronicle of an unforgettable passion that will lead the two protagonists to pass through prisons, death trains, and internment camps. Thus is born a small masterpiece of finesse and sensitivity that rises like a song of hope amidst the horrors of war. EAN: 9782070422272 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Grand Master - Jim Harrison - book Summary : A few days before retirement, after a long career in the Michigan police force, Simon Sunderson clings to one last investigation into a hedonistic cult whose guru calls himself Grand Master. During their research, the detective and his unlikely sidekick Mona, sixteen, discover a character far more disturbing than he seems. Pursued by his own demons, soaked in alcohol and obsessed with women, Sunderson stalks his prey across a drifting America. A tragicomic masterpiece, sparkling with humor and despair. EAN: 9782290068991 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Murder in an Indian Garden - Vikas Swarup - book Summary : A Bollywood Cluedo with six suspects, six motives, six alibis... After the fabulous success of Slumdog Millionaire , rediscover all the genius and humor of Vikas Swarup. The wealthy playboy, the despicable Vivek "Vicky" Rai, is killed at his own garden party, leaving behind six suspects, six motives, and six alibis. From the palaces of Delhi to the slums of Mehrauli, no one will emerge unscathed from this garden of crime. "A bomb disguised as a firework." Philippe Chevilley, The Echoes EAN: 9782264053336 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Life of Another - Frédérique Deghelt - book Summary : Marie is twenty-five years old. One evening of celebration, love at first sight, night of love, and the next day... She finds herself twelve years later, married, with children, and not a single memory of those lost years. Nightmare, anguish... She must assume responsibility for her large family and accept that the man she met the day before has been living with her for twelve years and has no idea of ​​the memory loss she has been plunged into. To escape the medical world and its questions, she chooses to say nothing and secretly becomes the investigator of another's life. Or rather, of her own life. It is with a whirling energy and a refreshing optimism that Frédérique Deghelt has composed this suspenseful novel about love and the passing of time, about the dreams of young girls confronted with daily life and the force of choices that determine existence. EAN: 9782742775804 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Immensities - Sylvie Germain - book Summary : Around Prokop Poupa, a literature professor reduced to a street sweeper in Prague, move a few men and women marginalized by dissidence. Each, in derision, imagines that a god Lare watches over him. One places him in his kitchen, another on the balcony, in the attic, or in the cellar; Prokop, for his part, places his god Lare in the toilets, which become a mecca for reading, meditation, and doubt. Then comes the revolution. Some of his friends find a place, even importance, in the new society; for others, it is too late. Prokop, for his part, drifts beyond this divide between the old and the new, wandering alone in the immensity of dreams, human madness, and the silence of God, to the point of sometimes running aground in hallucinatory reveries about the pain of those who have been deprived of the happiness of loving, and even more so about the misfortune of those who have been traitors to love. Still wandering the streets of his city, between emptiness and hope, Prokop no longer knows anything except that he is nothing, and this observation is consent; he "offers this nothing into the darkness", at the bottom of which perhaps lies the unexpected. EAN: 9782070393602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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