Title : This world to come - Alain Minc - book Summary : Since history began to move again after the fall of communism, everything, everywhere, has been constantly changing. What, then, will the world of the future look like? EAN: 9782253082828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Contemplations. Books IV-V - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "What are Les Contemplations? It is what one could call, if the word had no pretension, the Memoirs of a Soul" (Preface). Few poetic works refer more openly to their historical and biographical context than this one. Published in 1856, Les Contemplations bears the mark of a double mourning: the loss of the poet's daughter, Léopoldine, and the symbolic death represented by exile. But what is at stake touches on the power of poetic speech: through contemplation, plunged into the depths of oneself from which poetry must emerge, Hugo makes heartbreak a creative act and the lyrical word the instrument of a search for the absolute. Dossier 1. Les Contemplations and their reception 2. Mourning, poetry and the strength to live 3. Writing to resist 4. Post-apocalyptic literature EAN: 9782081510845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Around the World - Laurent Mauvignier - book Summary : Meeting a tattooed girl in Japan, saving a man's life on a cruise ship in the North Sea, swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas, making love in Moscow, working in Dubai, hunting lions in Tanzania, enjoying a romantic getaway in Rome, meeting pirates in the Gulf of Aden, trying your luck at a casino in Slovenia, getting lost in the jungle of Thailand, hitchhiking to Florida. The only connection between the characters is the event on which all eyes converge in March 2011: the tsunami in Japan, a media drama giving everyone the feeling and illusion of sharing the same world. But if everything melts into the speed of this globalization where we are chained to each other, if everyone can go very far, he remains first and foremost riveted to himself and to his own stories, in anonymity.   "Laurent Mauvignier doesn't just tell what happened on the day of Fukushima, he goes back in time, there's no rush, he settles into the story, provides a thousand details, compares points of view, describes places and characters, takes the reader into a novel that will stop 15 or 30 pages later to slip subtly into another, located 10,000 kilometers away." Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du dimanche "His novel speaks of the crazy contradiction of globalization, this lightning-fast circulation of information and people in a universe that multiplies solitudes. It highlights the paradox of accessibility that distances, of communication that isolates, of the swarming that ends up creating a traffic jam. And above all, it shows how everyone has lost their center of gravity, in a world where we are constantly moving, where travel makes every place a possible home. The real feat is to have written such a solid book on tottering. The secret of its haughty and powerful rotation? Laurent Mauvignier's fixed point remains literature. Never fabricated, both instinctive and highly mastered, language is his homeland. And his need to write, so palpable, so absolute, makes each of his novels an infallible survival kit." Marine Landrot, Télérama EAN: 9782707329929 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cure and the Poison - Dirk Wittenborn - book Summary : Depression, schizophrenia, anxiety... The ambitious Will Friedrich, a psychology professor at Yale, seems to have found the miracle cure for neuroses of all kinds, based on an elixir concocted by the shamans of New Guinea. And to test this happy pill, Casper Padrag, a tortured teenager, seems the ideal guinea pig. But has Friedrich fully measured all the side effects of his discovery? Dirk Wittenborn, writer, screenwriter and producer, lives in New York. The Cure and the Poison is his fifth novel. “A fun family saga, a thrilling psychological thriller and a fascinating scientific story EAN: 9782757817582 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Annabel - Kathleen Winter - book Summary : 1968, a coastal town in Labrador, Canada. A child is born, neither boy nor girl. Intersex. Three people share this secret: the parents and a trusted neighbor. It is decided to have the child operated on; it will be Wayne—the father's choice. But in the murky waters of adolescence, his hidden self, this Annabel who accompanies him like a shadow, reappears. And with her, the truth. A magnificent novel about difference and identity, carried by a poetic language where Nature and human beings vibrate intimately. "We all have a novel that's a little rare, a little strange, totally different, that we give to those who seem to deserve it. A dear book that we share with trustworthy people, who will be forbidden to express the slightest disappointment for fear of unreasonably hurting you. Annabel is one of them. EAN: 9782264062314 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Paris-Briançon - Philippe Besson - book Summary : Nothing connects the passengers who board night train 5789. Under the imposed lockdown, as they crisscross sleepy lands, a dozen or so bond, allowing intimacy and trust to blossom, words to be exchanged, and secrets to be revealed. Behind the surface, vulnerable people are revealed, victims of ordinary ills or the violence of the time, travelers trying to escape their solitude, their routine, or their lies. They don't yet know it, but by dawn, some will have met their deaths. This thrilling novel reminds us that no one controls their own destiny. Through the delicacy and accuracy of his observations, Paris-Briançon celebrates the miracle of chance encounters and the grace of suspended moments, where all truths can finally be told. EAN: 9782260054641 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Path of Souls - Joseph Boyden - book Summary : Northern Ontario. Niska, an elderly Cree woman, waits on a train platform for the return of a soldier who survived the war. However, the man getting off the train is not Elijah, but her nephew Xavier, whom she believed to be missing, or rather his sick and unrecognizable shadow. For three days, aboard the canoe taking them home, Xavier, between life and death, plunges back into the dark waters of his past. In 1914, Xavier and Elijah, his best friend, enlisted in the Canadian army, both certain of experiencing the adventure of a lifetime. But on the French battlefields, hell awaited them... Through the shattered destinies of these two characters, Joseph Boyden evokes, in this remarkable first novel, the horror of war with rare power. Heartbreaking and gripping, The Way of Souls is also a reflection on our own humanity and what threatens it. EAN: 9782226173201 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Caravel Liberty - Marie-Reine de Jaham - book Summary : During the Revolution, the question of freedom arose in the islands. A new, profound question that would touch everyone, black or white, to the depths of their souls and unleash violence. Ruth de Fronsac, the rebel, finds herself brutally confronted with these terrifying issues. Already thirty-eight years old, without illusions and without beauty, Ruth's only reason is to live on the plantation she will inherit upon the death of her grandfather, an old, impotent despot with whom she shares a strange and evil complicity. While secretly condemning the slavery system, she strives to muzzle her conscience. Two encounters will tear her apathy apart. First, Raphaël: he is black, he is old enough to be her son, nothing is possible between them, and yet love springs forth, ardent and sensual. An intense, dizzying passion that will change her outlook on things. Then comes Lou, the unknown cousin, who arrives one fine morning from America, pulling her little boy by the hand and begging for asylum. The child wins Ruth's heart, who sees in him the son to whom she will later bequeath the plantation. As for Lou, her beauty causes a sensation everywhere. Little by little, the newcomer asserts herself. The grandfather falls under her spell. But who is she really? What does she want? When Ruth discovers her cousin's plan, there is only one thing left for her to do. EAN: 9782843374401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Spring of Monsters - Philippe Jaenada - book Summary : This story is no picnic to summarize. You have to proceed calmly. It's a true story, as they say. An eleven-year-old boy is abducted in Paris one evening in the spring of 1964. Luc Taron. (If you'd rather discover the story in the book, don't read on: stop!) His body is found the next day in a suburban forest. He was murdered for no apparent reason. For more than a month, a madman floods the media and the police with insane letters of demand, signed "The Strangler"; he even addresses vile, diabolical, cruel words to the child's horrified parents. He is finally arrested. He is an ordinary young man, a nurse. He confesses to the murder, is incarcerated, and ostracized from society for the rest of his life. End of story. But of course, if it were that simple, I wouldn't have spent four years writing this big thing (I'm not crazy). In this nascent society that will become ours, everything is murky, everything is artificial. Everyone fakes, lies, cheats. Except for one woman, a point of light. And what we knew is confirmed: the perverts, the madmen, the odious, the monsters are not often those we point to. EAN: 9782080238184 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Frede - Denis Cosnard - book Summary : She is a woman of the night, who appears in Patrick Modiano's Remise de peine. She has blue-green eyes, long eyelashes, brown hair, and a cat-like, tomboyish air. Her name is Frede. This stage name, as enigmatic as a sphinx, deserved investigation, because it masks an extravagant conqueror of women's hearts. In the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, where cabarets for women grew like poisonous flowers, Frede bewitched the most beautiful: Anaïs Nin, Marlene Dietrich, the Mexican actress María Félix, and the young Lana Marconi, Sacha Guitry's last wife. In her establishments in Montparnasse, Biarritz, Cap d'Antibes, and the Champs-Élysées, the new queen of the party attracts, to a diabolical rhythm, the happy and the damned: Juliette Gréco, Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, Françoise Sagan, Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel, Michel Déon... She sends morals flying, breaks hearts and conformisms. In this ballet of shadows, Frede is the first to let women dance together, cheek to cheek. Here is the story of a freed woman and a clandestine France, as captivating and precise as a report from the Brigade Mondaine. In Frede's company, the night is tender: no reader can resist her... EAN: 9782849904992 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : General Catastrophe Laboratory - Metaphysical and Polemic Journal 2000-2001 - Maurice G. Dantec - book Summary : The post-human of this early 21st century is therefore a simple animal endowed with reason. He is the super-ape capable very soon of interconnecting the cells of his brain with high-performance logic machines. In short, a chimpanzee playing with a typewriter. Suffice to say that his probabilities of producing even a line of Shakespeare, or Baudelaire, resist all orders of magnitude. Because before producing the post-human, we would still have to know how to form a man. Certainly, humanity is doomed, it has the choice between cultures without societies - therefore without (bio)politics - and nations without cultures (therefore without metaphysics); between individuals with useless, massified solitudes, and communities with absurd rights and rituals; between the intensification of the powers of cyberphotonic surveillance and genetic control of the Machine and the return to the proto-industrial "golden ages"; between the totalitarian videodrome and the hyper-spectacular riot; between simulacrum and nothingness. But what the metalocal and hyper-corporate Command Center is now undertaking is the extension of control into the internal cellular and biotopic theater of individuals, now coextensive nodes of the network of nanomachines, fissile vectors of totalized, micronized, cybernetic and iconic advertising communication. Metacritical guerrilla. Please note that some pages may have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this will not interfere with reading. EAN: 9782070428229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Humboldt's Gift Volume 1 - Saul Bellow - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253028840 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Virginian - Barbara Chase-Riboud - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253029274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Did you say Serrault? - Michel Serrault - book Summary : Michel Serrault tells his story. For the first time, he undertakes this long-awaited journey through his memories, and shares with us his emotions, his joys, his rants and his bursts of laughter. Let's go behind the scenes of an exceptional career, with his partners Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Aznavour and Sophie Marceau... Let's discover those who have left a lasting impression on him: Les Fratellini, Les Branquignols, Sacha Guitry, Michel Simon... Let's follow him on the sets of "Le Viager", "Garde à vue", "Docteur Petiot", on the sets of Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Michel Audiard and Mathieu Kassovitz... A fireworks display of some 200 films and plays that have established Michel Serrault in a prominent place in the hearts of the French. Let's listen to the intimate song of a rare and magnificent friendship with Jean Poiret, from the delirious duo of the beginnings to the fabulous adventure of "La cage aux folles", and finally let's set off on unforgettable trips in the company of Jean Carmet, Francis Blanche, Louis de Funès, Darry Cowl, meeting colorful characters... Between laughter and tears, Michel Serrault gives us this great film never written before: the book of his life. EAN: 9782266116152 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Mint Lollipops - Robert Sabatier - book Summary : Olivier, the little boy in Swedish Matches , has left his beloved rue Labat to live with his uncle. For the child, this means a change of planet. The bourgeois world, the opulent apartment, and the Desrousseaux family's high society life surprise and disconcert him. Olivier has difficulty fitting in. But such is life, and soon he will realize that his curiosity is constantly aroused. Who is Uncle Henri really? And Aunt Victoria? There are also the cousins, the two maids, and, since we entertain a lot, a whole host of comical, grandiose or ridiculous characters. And then, and above all, the streets of Paris, the Canal Saint-Martin, the astonishing Grands Boulevards, their mysterious passages, their theaters, their cinemas, their music halls... Three Mint Lollipops , a marvelous sequel to Swedish Matches , revives a way of life, a thousand forgotten facts, a whole celebration of life which appears, from page to page, in a universe of truth and poetry. EAN: 9782253034919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of Low Tide - Chantal Thomas - book Summary : Swimming. Swimming to escape constraints, to escape imposed lives, reduced destinies. Swimming to invent her sensuality, to preserve her fantasy. This is what Jackie undoubtedly felt all her life, which began in 1919 and was led according to a secret, stubborn freedom, which made her, at a very advanced age, travel miles to go swimming on her favorite beach, in Villefranche-sur-Mer. In the meantime, she had married, left Lyon for Arcachon, and then, as a young widow, had exchanged Cap Ferret for Cap Ferrat, with its warmer sea, its great summer. What did she leave to her daughter Chantal? Something untamed, or discreetly rebellious, and this intuition that swimming, this practice that leaves no trace, is the opportunity for an elusive freedom, like when, as a young girl in the early 1930s, Jackie casually swam a few lengths in the Grand Canal at the Palace of Versailles under the astonished gaze of the gardeners. EAN: 9782757871553 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fifth Secret - Joanna Hines - book Summary : Jane finds it hard to admit, but her life is slowly falling apart. Her marriage to the handsome Owen is floundering: they are desperately short of money and, despite two adorable children, have almost stopped communicating. Perhaps the young woman has never truly recovered from the tragic death, ten years ago, of Lucien, her beloved brother? A painful past now rekindled by this terrible news: Esme, a childhood friend, has just fallen into a coma following a brutal attack. One ghost calls another: Jane receives a disturbing nighttime phone call from Rob, a childhood companion who mysteriously reappears! Eager to shake up her monotonous existence, Jane delves into her childhood memories. The truth will be particularly painful... EAN: 9782266118774 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lover - Guy Des Cars - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277231929 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Masterfully - Morris West - book Summary : From Florence to New York, behind the scenes of the art market gripped by the fever of profit... Upon dying, the heiress of a prominent Florentine family allows her lover, a young art historian named Maxwell Mather, to choose what he wants from the precious family archives. However, he discovers unknown paintings by a great Renaissance master. How can he appropriate these works without provoking violent protests from the legal heirs? Compromised at the same time in a dark story of murder, Mather will deploy a Machiavellian plan. The author of The Devil's Advocate and The Second Victory, himself a collector and owner of art galleries in Australia, gives us here a thriller with surprising current accents. EAN: 9782253058199 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dying in Frankfurt - Hubert Monteilhet - book Summary : A respectable university professor publishes penny-pinching novels under a pseudonym. To get out of a contract, he brings his publisher a forgotten, barely retouched story by Abbé Prévost. But this plagiarism meets with enormous, unexpected success. Meanwhile, one of his former students, a rigorous and naive young woman who works at the National Library, discovers the deception. The story ends in the overheated atmosphere of the Frankfurt Fair, where foreign publishers are passionate about this bestseller with secrets. Winner of the Grand Prix for detective literature for The Praying Mantes, Hubert Monteilhet takes us here from comedy to drama, with the humor, brilliant erudition, and skill of intrigue that have earned him the favor of a huge audience since Néropolis. EAN: 9782253058014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventurers - Pierre Bellemare, Jacques Antoine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253023852 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Four Englishmen on the Continent - The Beauty of Siena - Bronwyn Scott - book Summary : In Siena, Paris or Venice, the English lords cause scandal. Italy, 1835 By moving to Siena, where his mother is from, Archer fully intended to devote himself entirely to his passion: horse breeding. But his mind is captivated by the beautiful Italian woman with whom he exchanged passionate kisses the day he arrived, during the famous Palio horse race. He soon finds her in Siena's high society, only to learn that she is engaged to a rival of his family. Against his will, moreover, something Archer cannot accept... About the author: Bronwyn Scott first gained attention with a medieval short story. Since then, between her university classes and her beloved family outings, she's been creating captivating and humorous love stories. EAN: 9782280347747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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