Title : Orange Jam - Safia Haleem - book Summary : Sad? My Mina? [...] One day I asked her mother's permission to take her to the shrine of Chinki Baba. It was a Thursday evening. There were a large number of thugs, but I saw nothing. After saying our prayers at the saint's tomb, I led Mina to a bracelet seller so that she could adorn her forearms. While the seller placed red, green, pink bracelets... on her tender, white forearms, [...] I sat on the ground beside her. [...] I took Mina's hand to lift her up, but she didn't have the strength to stand. She scattered in my arms, like a withered flower. For several days, I was like a madman. [...] I heard the other women exclaim: ° Poor Mina, ... her heart was broken... no, no, she had lost her mind... she had been bewitched... EAN: 9782854463668 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Snow of the Geese - Françoise Debris-Poumarat - book Summary : In the hamlet of La Peyrouse, life could flow simply and peacefully. All it would take for Madeleine, a heartthrob, to marry Martin, Eugène Chabrol's son, and for him to sell his land to Hortense and Baptiste at a bargain price. But nothing, on these heights of the verdant Livradois-Forez, ever goes as planned. First, there is the arrival of this English couple suspected of having diverted the Fontgoutte spring, not to mention their son who has taken it into his head to raise sheep and who, for that, also needs land. Then there is the return, after thirty years of absence from La Peyrouse, of Alain, the Fontgoutte brother, and especially the arrival of his young associate, Williams, who, alongside him, has made a fortune in the diamond trade. Enough to make Madeleine's heart skip a beat? And sow discord, from twist to surprise, in La Peyrouse? Unless it all ends in a sham marriage and the snow of the geese returns, as it should... Of old Auvergne stock, Françoise Debris-Poumarat knows rural mentalities very well, having patiently observed them. Her novel is a vivid picture of life today in many rural areas of France. EAN: 9782848864020 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Carthage - Daniel Rondeau - book Summary : After his books on Tangier , Alexandria and Istanbul , Daniel Rondeau takes his readers to the heart of history and mythology. Here we are in the silence of Carthage, the city of human sacrifices, the rival of Rome, wiped off the world map by the will of the Roman Scipio Aemilianus in the 2nd century BC. Today, an outlying district of Tunis, Carthage was an African city where the old Orient lived for a long time before becoming one of the capitals of Christianity (in the 3rd and 4th centuries). Here the East and the West have never ceased to speak to each other, to fight, to meet, to love each other. Daniel Rondeau's story pays tribute to the women who carried the city's flag, notably to Elyssa, the founder, who came from Phoenicia in the 7th century BC, and to the men like Hannibal who made it known throughout the world. Carthage is a meditation on history, on the passing of time, on war, on the great fire of the world that never goes out, but also on historians (Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius) and on literature. The author gives pride of place to Virgil, to Saint Augustine, who lived for a long time in Carthage where he had his first romantic experiences, and to Flaubert who resurrected the vanished city in Salammbô . Carthage is also a topical book on the relations between the East and the West, which will be published at the time of the great debate on the creation of a possible Euro-Mediterranean association. EAN: 9782841113927 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ocean Boulevard - François de Cornière - book Summary : François de Cornière, an inveterate walker and seaside lover, focuses on the life of seaside resorts. With kindness, he describes these timeless summer scenes: hesitant bathers, shellfish gatherers, rainy days or fishing days! - Ocean Boulevard is a succession of chronicles, moments, timeless and universal memories. Through the pages, François de Cornière describes with accuracy and delicacy the passing of time and those “little things” that brighten and brighten our daily lives. - While walking Ocean Boulevard , along the beaches, François de Cornière creates his own album of photographs and memories He focuses on the houses coming back to life in the summer, the bathers hesitating to plunge into the waves, the summer activity of the newsagent's or even the shellfish collectors. - This reissue is enriched by sketches by the artist Valérie Linder. RTL-Poésie 1 prize, Georges Limbour and Guillaume Apollinaire. EAN: 9782859206581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Valley of Sinistra - Ádám Bodor - book Summary : In the Sinistra Valley, in the heart of this Carpathian forest where blueberry pickers and bear herders coexist, one does not know when one arrives or when one leaves; one forgets even one's name, even the reason for one's visit. The days pass, the Dobrin and the denatured alcohol flow: will Andrei Bodor find his adopted son? In the vein of Arto Paasilina, Ádám Bodor humorously explores a wild universe where, on the surface of the absurd, the shadow of Ceauşecu suddenly hovers. EAN: 9782366241112 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twilight of the Steppe Gods - Ismail Kadare - book Summary : The narrator, an Albanian student in the USSR, is pleasantly bored in Riga, in a rest home for writers, and he thinks about Lida, with whom he is in love. When the new academic year begins, he returns to the stifling home for foreigners at the Gorky Institute. Like the dust that veils the dim lamps of the home more and more each day, the atmosphere slowly becomes heavier until the final quadruple drama: a smallpox epidemic is declared in Moscow, the Boris Pasternak affair breaks out, diplomatic relations between Albania and Moscow deteriorate to the point of breaking up, and the separation is inevitable between the narrator and Lida. But he does not dare tell her that he will never see her again, he does not admit to her that he is a writer. Like Constantine, he has betrayed the bessa, the given word of the very beautiful Balkan legend which, narrated here, constantly recalled, gives the entire novel a universal resonance. EAN: 9782070381340 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : By the Wind Cried - Ron Rash - book Summary : Ron Rash knows how to give the power of myths to the stories of the simplest people and the ghosts that haunt them. Bursting with humanity. Pierre Sorgue, Today in France What if the bones discovered near the river belonged to the woman who turned their lives upside down? When Ligeia arrived from Florida, eager for freedom, a true seductive siren, she seduced Bill and Eugene. To please her, the two brothers defied the rules. For one summer, the young nymph drew them into a whirlwind of temptation, before suddenly disappearing. Born in South Carolina in 1953, Ron Rash is the author of short stories and novels, all winners of prestigious literary awards, including The world right side up, I incandescence And The Song of the Tamassee, available at Points. EAN: 9782757871508 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - book Summary : In flamboyant New York at the end of the 19th century, Newland Archer is a young man from the upper middle class. Promised a brilliant future, he is about to announce his engagement to the very chaste May Welland. But the appearance of the scandalous Countess Olanska, May's cousin, who has had the audacity to leave her husband, will turn his life upside down. EAN: 9782277233930 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Word That Hits the Mark - A Fun and Instructive Dictionary of History's Most Famous Phrases - Gilles Henry - Book Summary : "Paris is well worth a mass.", Henry IV "Reform, yes, chaos, no!", General de Gaulle "The State is me." Louis XIV "Whoever loves me, follow me!", Philippe de Valois Wasn't the meaning of the phrase Napoleon's strength: "Impossible is not French."? Would we remember the Battle of Fontenoy without the famous: "Gentlemen of England, shoot first!"? From the history of France to the history of language, there is only one word! This small dictionary deciphers hundreds of episodes that a well-chosen word has immortalized. Three times winner of the French Academy, Gilles Henry is the author of around fifty works, including L'habit ne fait pas le moine , available in Points. EAN: 9782757809013 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Datacenter - Léonel Houssam - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782368511848 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary : A triple unity - both Trinity and triptych - Flaubert's "Three Tales" evoke a world where the divine presence is as if absent. Foreboding, but mysterious in "Hérodias"; scandalous and incomprehensible in "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller"; confused with superstition and reduced to simulacra in "A Simple Heart." An ironic epic of faith and holiness through the ages, the "Three Tales" question the divine Word and speak of its power, but also its degradation. They affirm, at the end of Flaubert's life, the strength of writing and literature - of the Word. EAN: 9782035881151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dangerous Pass - Somerset Maugham - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782264006752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Diary of a Jester - Jean Amadou - book Summary : With this new anthology of his humorous pieces on Europe 1, Jean Amadou treats us to a particularly delicious selection. A ticklish and incisive pen, sometimes amused indulgence, always elegant: no comical element of our national political folklore, no extravagance of our technocrats, no absurdity of current events escapes his biting irony. Jester, Jean Amadou? "Well yes, I claim that title. The jester addressed the king informally, interrupted him, told him his home truths, and made him laugh. EAN: 9782290328255 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fields of Honor - Jean Rouaud - book Summary : They died within a few weeks of each other: first the father, then his old aunt, and finally the maternal grandfather. But this series of deaths seems to have resulted in only one missing person: the narrator, whose emptiness occupies the center of the story. It is on the periphery and from tiny clues (a set of dentures, a few photos, a holy picture) that a story gradually takes shape, which will eventually reach, through successive layers, the horizon of capital History with its Great War, the cradle of all mysteries. Goncourt Prize in 1990, Fields of Honor is the first part of a novel series which continues with Illustrious men, The World Roughly And For your gifts, and closes with On stage as in heaven. EAN: 9782707315656 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wyvern - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : Behind the viper appeared a young girl, with a robust body and a proud gait. Dressed in a white linen dress that stopped below the knee, she walked barefoot and bare-armed, her waist arched, with long strides. Her bronzed profile had a relief and a beauty that was a little masculine. On her very black hair, tied back in a crown, was placed a double silver twist, representing a thin serpent whose head, raised, held in its jaw a large oval stone, a limpid red. From the portraits that had been drawn for him and which he had until then believed to be fanciful, Arsène recognized the Vouivre. EAN: 9782070361670 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : English Time - Julie Wolkenstein - book Summary : July 1911, a summer morning in the English countryside. Edward Sanders is walking along the river. He's going home, but no one is waiting for him. Not Susan, not the children. Everyone thinks he's in town, sitting quietly at his desk. Susan Sanders walks the streets of London. No one knows she's there. Not Edward, anyway. She's going to surprise him, pick him up from his study, enter the unknown building where he spends his days. Today, she has a secret to tell him. For both of them, it's a special day. As they walk, as they reminisce, the ghosts of a bygone era return in droves: debutantes doomed to drowning or madness, suffragette duchesses, hushed-up scandals, sacrificed eccentrics. It's English time, the time when the splendor of the Riviera and solitary childhoods, Victorian trinkets and their cracks, awaken. EAN: 9782070308811 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Glass House - Jayne Ann Krentz - book Summary : As chief curator of the Leabrook Museum, the young and brilliant Eugenia Swift must travel to the small island of Frog Cove to inventory the precious collection bequeathed by Adam Daventry, a billionaire who recently died under mysterious circumstances. So mysterious that, for security reasons, she is required to hire a private detective... A guardian angel the young woman could do without since she wants to discreetly conduct her own investigation into the disappearance of her friend Nellie, one of Daventry's last mistresses. Between Eugenia and Cyrus, it is the clash of two strong personalities. After a stormy start to their relationship and despite persistent mistrust, they are finally forced to collaborate. EAN: 9782266120296 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima - book Summary : Without changing her perfectly formal pose, the woman suddenly opened the collar of her kimono. My ears could almost hear the rustling of the silk rubbed against the stiff underside of the belt. Two snow-white breasts appeared. I held my breath. She took one of the white and opulent breasts in her hands and I thought I saw her begin to knead it. The officer, still kneeling before his companion, held out the deep black cup. Without claiming to have literally seen it, I at least had the clear sensation, as if it had taken place before my eyes, of the warm white milk spurting into the tea whose greenish foam filled the dark cup - soon settling there, leaving only small spots on the surface -, of the tranquil face of the beverage troubled by the milky foam EAN: 9782070366491 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Gaspard of the Night - Elisabeth de Fontenay - book Summary : He doesn't look at himself in the mirror. He rarely smiles, doesn't laugh, doesn't cry. He never says: this is mine, but only sometimes asks: is it for me? He rarely says "I" and ignores the "you." He doesn't say my first name. Yet, the surprise, when I see myself by chance in a mirror, of discovering his eyes in my eyes forces me to presume a kinship in our secret lives, to conjecture in him a story that will have continued elsewhere and whose too rare messages I seek to decipher, like an incompetent, impatient and inconsolable investigator." Through this moving story, fragments of memories and philosophical reflections, Élisabeth de Fontenay pays homage to her brother, whose presence continues to influence her own existence. EAN: 9782072845574 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Joy - Joy Laurey - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277214670 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Guests - Jacques Robert - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702413166 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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