Title : The Song for One Who Desires to Live Volume 1 - Heq - Jørn Riel - book Summary : With this first part of the cycle The Song for One Who Desires to Live , Jørn Riel transports us to the immemorial times of the first humans. Humanity then spread across the five continents, and Heq and his clan migrated to Greenland through the Canadian Far North. During a glacial epic, a fabulous ethnological fresco punctuated by bear hunts and evening gatherings. EAN: 9782264030436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor - book Summary : November 1847. Fleeing a dying Ireland where famine is wreaking more havoc every day, hundreds of Irish people have sold their last possessions to board The Star of the Sea , hoping to start a new life in America. About fifteen privileged people share the first-class cabins, while below, the steerage passengers try to survive a crossing haunted by hunger and disease. Among them, a mysterious man, nicknamed the Ghost, wanders the ship every night, bent under the weight of the terrible mission entrusted to him... Mixing historical documents (letters from Irish immigrants, press articles) and fictional documents (the captain's log, letters and songs from passengers), The Star of the Sea has the breath of great masterpieces. "When we told you that there are adventures from which one does not return with impunity! This magnificent and nightmarish crossing aboard the Star of the Seas attests to it. The crossing of a truly great novel." Frédéric Vitoux, The New Observer EAN: 9782264046741 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Shoulder Defect - Béatrice Bourrier - book Summary : Devastated by the death of his wife, Ruben knows that life must go on at the farmhouse in Midian... So he takes his son to the donkey fair that takes place every year in town. He meets a woman in tears, broken by the loss of her fiancé, who was the victim of a motorcycle accident. She is lost, broken from her family, and penniless. Ruben is incapable of leaving a troubled soul without coming to their aid. So, like his father, who had taken in a mute orphaned girl years earlier, he brings Rita back to the farmhouse. But the stranger's arrival changes the atmosphere in the house and turns the lives of the entire family upside down, starting with that of this solid man, attached to the values ​​of the land. He has no idea that happiness can take unexpected paths and that passion will carry him to hitherto unknown lands. In this gripping thriller, two fascinating female characters confront each other. Béatrice Bourrier once again delivers a powerful and incredibly moving book that sweeps the reader away on a captivating adventure. With refined writing, this is a novel about the power and explosion of emotions. EAN: 9782848864969 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book Summary : Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary. EAN: 9782253128946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bad Blood - Sarah Cohen-Scali - book Summary : I wasn't always a monster. It was my job that transformed me. Let me explain: a doctor must fight pain. He controls it, doses it, plays with it. And one day we realize that we delight in the spectacle of suffering. EAN: 9782081613478 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Revenant - Michael PUNKE - book Summary : United States, 1823. During an expedition across the Great Plains, trapper Hugh Glass is attacked by a grizzly bear. Disfigured and his body torn to pieces, Hugh is entrusted to two volunteers tasked with watching over him until his death and then burying him. But his keepers decide to abandon the wounded man. In the middle of Indian territory, alone, unarmed, and exhausted, Glass survives. His only motivation: revenge. Thus begins the legend of Hugh Glass: the story of an extraordinary man who travels 5,000 kilometers, from South Dakota to Nebraska, to find those who betrayed him. A most judicious adventure novel, a fiction carried by an equally judicious inspiration. Hubert Artus, Lire . It is Jeremiah Johnson And The Count of Monte Cristo together, in the snowy forests of Missouri. François Forestier, Le Nouvel Observateur EAN: 9782253095125 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Left No Longer Has the Right to Make Mistakes - Michel Rocard, Pierre Larrouturou - book Summary : Who can believe that the crisis is over? While unemployment and precariousness are reaching unprecedented levels, François Hollande and the entire Socialist Party are banking on the return of growth to reduce them. However, the country will undoubtedly be marked by a very clear worsening of the crisis... Is the left in power doomed to disappoint? What are the dangers that threaten us and what can be the solutions? Our systems are increasingly interdependent. For the worse, but also for the better: the domino effect could play a role in emerging from the crisis. Michel Rocard and Pierre Larrouturou are holding the French and European left to face up to its responsibilities and putting forward very concrete proposals. EAN: 9782290081778 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Delhi - Khushwant Singh - book Summary : In this novel, I have tried to tell the story of Delhi from its origins to the present day. History provided me with the skeleton. I covered it with flesh and injected it with blood and a generous dose of semen. It took me twenty-five years to achieve this. I poured into it everything I was as a writer: love, desire, sex, hatred, revenge, violence, and, above all, tears. My sole ambition was to share with my readers what I learned about this city from its ruins, its crowded bazaars, its diplomatic corps, and its cocktail parties. I only wanted them to get to know Delhi and love it as much as I do. EAN: 9782809701876 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Hero - Félicité Herzog - book Summary : How far back do we have to go to find the source of a personal tragedy? To the lies of the war, to the grandparents' generation? To those of my "hero" father, who set out to conquer the mythical summit of Annapurna in 1950 and left in the peaks of this glorious ascent a part of himself that would make him perpetually the director of his legend? To the freedom of a seductive and modern mother, too intelligent for her time, too rebellious for her milieu? To the fusional and rival fraternity of two "enfants terribles" raised in a shared solitude and in the cult of exploit? The fact remains that my big brother Laurent, promised a magnificent destiny, will end up as a shaggy and crazy vagabond of the stars, found by the police after months on the run... until his predictable fall. It was him or me: it was him... This novel of our wounded fraternity, I owe it to him. FH EAN: 9782253174806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brides of Cape Ténès - Venus Khoury-Ghata - book Summary : 1802. Far from the Napoleonic epic that shook Europe, five women, survivors of the sinking of a French warship on the Algerian coast, in Ténès, were taken in and given to the highest bidder among the Bani Haoua mountaineers. Almost forgotten by France, they chose to face their destiny and explore this country so different from their own. One, a laundress in Toulon, seduced the dey of Algiers. The aristocrat Hélène de Courtavray became the first French teacher in Algeria. Two others were married, the first to a farmer, the second to the son of an emir. As for Jeanne, the nun, who became a healer and member of the village council of elders, she was venerated after her death—and still is today—throughout Algeria. Inspired by historical facts, Vénus Khoury-Ghata describes in a sumptuous fresco the clash of two civilizations. EAN: 9782253141082 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blasphemer - Isaac Bashevis Singer - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253037163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - book Summary : The Lambert family is a family like any other: behind their apparent good nature lie sometimes unspeakable desires... From heartbreak to reconciliation, Enid, Alfred, and their three children try to make sense of their contradictions. What if we were only born to correct our parents' mistakes? A sweeping novel with fierce humor, whose power sweeps everything away in its path. EAN: 9782020611961 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Deliver us from evil - Romain Sardou - book Summary : Winter 1288. In an isolated parish in Quercy, a troop of men in black seizes a child. Refusing to admit the worst, the village priest, Father Aba, sets out in pursuit of the kidnappers. Meanwhile, in Rome, the eminent investigator Benedict Gui accepts a new mission: to find a young man employed by the Pope's administration. He too has been kidnapped by men in black. With children disappearing on the rise, archives being stolen, cardinals being assassinated... In this Middle Ages where the power of the Church is stronger than ever, a tragedy is brewing. EAN: 9782266191975 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queen of the Night - Marc Behm - book Summary : The Queen of the Night recounts, in a picaresque manner, the deadly trek of a young German woman who unwillingly becomes a Nazi, who finds herself, through adventures and tribulations, a member of the SA and then the SS, before ending up hanged for crimes against humanity. The author's particularly dark humor is completely devastating, especially in the chapters where all the leading figures of the Reich appear. Other passages are revealed to be on the edge of bearable. In any case, a fabulous novel. Jean-Pierre Deloux, Polar A book that could well be ahead of its time and which treats the horror of the Holocaust years as a metaphysical, picaresque, psychological thriller that often turns into pure surrealism. Maxim Jakubowski EAN: 9782869305724 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Childhood with Holy Water - Denise Bombardier - book Summary : Bombardier has no shortage of gift of the gab, cheekiness, and humor. She leaves no one indifferent. Clearly autobiographical, this first novel opens with a sentence worthy of a Mauriac revisited by Antonine Maillet: "I made my first communion in a state of mortal sin." Jérôme Garcin, L'Evènement du jeudi. "There are few testimonies in our literature that give such an attentive account of our relationship with God (and with his representatives here below...). The book is written in a lively manner; sometimes serious, sometimes colorful, it is a quick and easy read. It touches because it comes from the heart of a child always amazed by her surroundings, shy one day, bold the next, never sure of herself, worried and open, in search of her own destiny." François Hébert, Le Devoir. EAN: 9782020116251 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rendezvous in Colorado - Philippe Labro - book Summary : He who does not seek does not live. The path is more important than the goal. Santos-Montané said it: "You will only succeed in your life if it is guided by a personal search." For me, now, as the pickup driven by Larry Luke, the sharecropper, finally takes me to the ranch in Ouray County, at the foot of the forests and mountains, I dare to call myself "seeker of blue." Seeker of blue, what a beautiful expression. Are you then only that, little man, and have you not, all your life, run after this color, that is to say, this serenity and this refuge? You have encountered blue in many latitudes, in every place and every moment of your incessant activity. But are you not also, like every other man, a seeker of God? Isn't blue the color of the supernatural? EAN: 9782070411771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banquet - Phaedrus - book Summary : In The Banquet, the poet Agathon gives a feast to celebrate his victory in a poetry competition. This is an opportunity for each guest to praise Eros by presenting their vision of love. Following them, Socrates, who claims to be reporting the words of the foreigner Diotima, links love to the desire for immortality that animates all living beings. The praise of love then detaches itself from the sensible world to tend towards a new dimension, that of the Intelligible. It is also Eros that is discussed in the Phaedrus, where Plato distinguishes two kinds of love: vulgar love—selfish, jealous, tyrannical—and honest love, which corresponds to celestial Love. Human souls, which have only glimpsed the world of Ideas before incarnating in a body, retain a fleeting memory of Beauty. It is this search for glimpsed Beauty that would provoke the quest for love. EAN: 9782080700049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nefertiti's Dreams - Michelle Moran - book Summary : Nefertiti, the young wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep, beautiful and independent, realizes that power lies in the hands of the priests and the army. Despite the wise advice of her sister Mutnedjemet, nothing has prepared her to reign, and Pharaoh is preparing to turn the country upside down by imposing the sole cult of Aten. Will Nefertiti be able to counter the threats and, above all, ensure the longevity of the dynasty by giving Egypt an heir? Romantic intrigues, bloody plots... The portrait of the most emblematic and mysterious queen of ancient Egypt. EAN: 9782290014677 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo - book Summary : It was first read as a "rural" and "peasant" novel, or even as an example of the best "indigenous" literature. In the sixties and seventies, it became a great "Mexican" novel, and then "Latin American." Today, it is said that Pedro Páramo is, quite simply, one of the greatest works of the 20th century, a contemporary classic that critics often compare to Kafka's The Castle and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. And for good reason: no one comes out of reading Pedro Páramo unscathed. Like Kafka and Faulkner, Rulfo has managed to stage a fascinating, timeless story of rare beauty: the quest for the father that leads Juan Preciado to Cómala and to meet his destiny, a dizzying journey narrated by a chorus of unusual characters who give us a voice deep in Mexico, beyond the boundaries between memory and oblivion, past and present, the dead and the living. Fifty years after its publication, here at last, according to the original manuscript, is Juan Rulfo's great novel as the author dreamed and conceived it. EAN: 9782070379538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Legend of the Centuries. Volume 2 - Victor Hugo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782038700602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The difficulty of living - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : Although I am a psychoanalyst, I would like to tell the reader from the outset that they will not find here a work, strictly speaking, of psychoanalysis. Rather, they will read many reflections that will awaken them, I hope, to the understanding of what anyone can hear, without any particular preparation or knowledge. I have always thought, for my part, that the role of the psychoanalyst is not limited to the treatment itself, nor to the selfish capitalization of knowledge, but extends, taking root in their experience of human suffering, beyond their office and their concepts, to their social and public activities, to their daily interventions. The words and writings of the psychoanalyst must be addressed above all to those who are struggling with real life. Their interventions must awaken adults, push them to seek the right attitude to take towards the difficulties of their children. This lively attitude, always alert, attentive, ready to react according to the truth, can prevent troubles, channel exchanges towards creativity and development and not towards dead ends. And prevention is better than cure. EAN: 9782253047834 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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