Title : The Hercule Poirot Investigations - Agatha Christie - book Summary : He can't say it enough: Hercule Poirot is the greatest detective of all time. What mystery could baffle him? Disappearance of priceless jewels, suspicious suicide, devious spies, heinous murder, high-level fraud, or a murky inheritance affair—nothing can resist him. But above all, no acrobatics on all fours in the grass, magnifying glass in hand. No essay on a lipstick-stained cigarette butt. No, Hercule Poirot leaves these diversions to the hard workers at Scotland Yard. He's content to settle into an armchair and let his illustrious little gray cells do the work. EAN: 9782702400425 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zadig - Followed by Micromégas - Voltaire - book Summary : Adorned with all human perfections, the young, rich, and virtuous Zadig is preparing to marry the most beautiful girl in Babylon. But "how difficult it is to be happy in this life!" His fiancée betrays him, scoundrels drag him to court, religious fanatics threaten him, an angel disguised as a hermit comes to his rescue... Destiny and Voltaire's admirable malice will not give him any favors. This sulphurous Zadig contains all the genius and all the philosophy of Voltaire, his cruelty, his wit, his gaiety and his hatred of human stupidity. EAN: 9782266289986 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Incidences - Philippe Djian - book Summary : A Fiat 500. Marc is at the wheel. Next to him, his prettiest student. It's nighttime, and they're heading to his place to end the evening in style. In the early morning, his pronounced liking for the young students in his writing class will suddenly disappear. Is it because of the mountain roads? The prevailing neo-conservatism? His sister's tantrums? Or rather, the charm of married women? Marc can't say. At least, for the moment... EAN: 9782070443222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Chaloupe - Volume 1 - The Talisman - Janine Boissard - book Summary : Julie, Zabelle, Bobine, and Brune: four single women in their thirties who are all waiting, more or less admitting it to themselves, for their soulmate. Does she exist? Yes, says Julie, who believes she has finally met her. These four inseparable friends needed a place to share everything: they bought the house of their most beautiful teenage days on the banks of the Loire, which miraculously happened to be for sale. They called it "the Rowboat." But their happiness was suddenly tinged with anxiety. Who was breaking into the house while they were away? Who had placed a rock crystal sun engraved with mysterious inscriptions on the mantelpiece? Who was trying to chase them away? So witchcraft still exists? United, like the musketeers, they will face the ghosts of the Chaloupe. To continue living, loving, hoping. EAN: 9782221099353 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cars 3 - Enchanted World - The Story of the Movie - Disney Pixar - Walt Disney Productions - Book Summary : Racing season is about to begin for Lightning McQueen! The champion will have to face a formidable new opponent: a young black racer named Jackson Storm. Luckily, Sterling, his new sponsor, has a coach for him: Cruz Ramirez, the yellow car, will be there to train him! A small album with rounded corners, nicely illustrated with images from the film Cars 3 . EAN: 9782012906372 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Claude Gueux - Victor Hugo - book Summary : A man named Claude Gueux, a poor worker, lived in Paris in 1831. He had with him a girl who was his mistress and a child by this girl... He was capable, skillful, intelligent, very badly treated by education, very well treated by nature, not knowing how to read but knowing how to think. One winter, work was lacking. The man, the girl, and the child were cold and hungry. The man stole. The result was three days of bread and fire for the woman and the child and five years in prison for the man. He was sent to do his time at the Clairvaux Prison. We will see what the Society did with him. An allegorical account of an individual tragedy, this ardent plea against the death penalty and against prison lays bare the mechanism of social brutality which can only respond to distress through repression. With Claude Gueux , Victor Hugo is no longer simply a novelist or poet. He has achieved a prominent place among the greatest orators of Liberty. EAN : 9782253136538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo pencil annotations

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Title : Lialia's House and Other Stories - Ludmila Ulitskaya - book Summary : In post-war Soviet Moscow, daily life can seem gray and miserable. But that's without taking into account the unshakeable optimism of Russians, for whom neither madness nor death are subjects of tragedy... With an accuracy and acuity that make her a worthy heir to Chekhov, Ludmila Ulitskaya describes Muscovite life in small touches. EAN : 9782070314577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A ray of sunshine on the Causse - Ange Emmanuel Barberie - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This Unpredictable Love - Raphaël Saint Potin - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our Dream Lives - Eva Centaurée - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jeanne and the King - Amandine Frunard - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Husband or Nothing - Barbara Boswell - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280143431 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sperm Whale. Memoirs of a Homeless Man - Danie Lederman, Yves Le Roux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782841143559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Niourk - Stefan Wul - book Summary : Humans have regressed to a primitive state after a nuclear catastrophe that shook the planet. Survival has been organized within tribes. In one of them lives a black child, rejected by his own people because of his difference. When the child is condemned to death by their leader, he sets out for Niourk, the city of the gods, in search of food. But in this abandoned metropolis, only ruins, radiation, and strange machines remain... EAN : 9782070334391 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Oath of the Catacombs - Odile Weulersse - book Summary : At fifteen, Touitilla risks her life every day for her friends because, like her, they are Christians. The Romans abhor these "impious" people, accusing them of every crime. Condemned, tortured, and thrown to the lions, are they going to die for their faith? Touitilla has a strange lover: a bad speaker, a star gladiator, and a champion chariot racer... What will he do for her? Traitors are everywhere... EAN : 9782010196713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Damn, They're Gonna Eat Laura! - Jerry Piasecki - book Summary : Laura has been kidnapped by Master Vic's ex-fiancée. The latter has decided to serve her as dessert at the annual vampire banquet. But there's no way Master Vic, a guest at the feast, is going to eat one of his students! EAN : 9782266072694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to you every day - Madame de Sévigné - book Summary : I embrace you, my dear good one. If you can, love me always, since it is the only thing I wish in this world for the peace of my soul. I wish many other things for you. Finally, everything revolves either on you, or from you, or for you, or by you." (March 23, 1671) For nearly half a century, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), wrote hundreds of letters to her friends and those around her, but especially to her daughter after her marriage to M. de Grignan in 1669. Published in the 18th century, this private correspondence will be unanimously celebrated and will serve as a model for generations. EAN : 9782070379576 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Claude Gueux - Brighelli - book Summary : Five years in prison to avoid seeing his wife shiver with cold, his child die of hunger. To suffer the humiliations imposed by an unscrupulous prison guard. Then, to rebel against the harassment and contempt. Is it a crime to want to defend one's dignity, to want to remain a man, despite everything? A short, powerful story, Claude Gueux is based on a true story that Victor Hugo transforms into a universal plea. Students will find in this book food for thought on the death penalty, of course, but also on the themes of responsibility, dignity, and punishment. Thanks to the questionnaire, they will be able to vary their point of view and develop their capacity for analysis and reasoning. This study teaches how to question and prepares for work on argumentation. Claude Gueux appears in the supporting documents of the official National Education programs. EAN : 9782210754034 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : THE FANTASTIC DIMENSION - THIRTEEN SHORT STORIES FROM ETA HOFFMANN TO CLAUDE SEIGNOLLE - BARBARA SADOUL - book Summary : Ghosts, ghosts, monsters, creaking automatons, threatening objects, characters with supernatural powers... They're all here! They're approaching! It's our fears that are awakening and taking shape, swarming and crawling at our feet... Do you hear the wolves? Emerging from the imagination of the greatest classic and modern writers, these characters are eternal. They revive, for the duration of a reading, the magic but also the terrors of childhood. Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse Daudet, George Sand, Edgar Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Howard P. Lovecraft, Jean Ray, Richard Matheson, among others, remember them and invite us to savor these forbidden fruits of dreams, to explore the other side... At our own risk! The opportunity to discover the founders and metamorphoses of a literary genre in perpetual rebirth... EAN : 9782290314180 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Gulliver No. 3 - World Fiction - Collectives - book Summary : World fiction... as we say world music, to describe this mixing, this crossbreeding, this ferment that is shaking up literature today after having crossed over into world music. At the heart of this movement: Salman Rushdie, of course, but also VS Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and so many others who are today freeing the novel from the habits and prejudices in which it was stifling. Nomads, defectors, immigrants, they were born in one culture and adopted another, by constraint or by choice. In tune with the world that is emerging before our eyes, are they not the messengers of tomorrow's literature? Through a dozen texts—fiction, reflections, poetry—this exceptional issue of Gulliver invites us to discover the new, colorful horizons of the novel... EAN : 9782277302858 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A History of Science Fiction - The Golden Age 1938-1957 - Jacques Sadoul - book Summary : The city... He has decided to destroy it. But the Leviathan of concrete and steel engages in a titanic struggle to defend itself... A solar system disappears, a world dies... What superior entity can with impunity grant itself the right to destroy one civilization for the benefit of another? As the century experiences its greatest upheavals, science fiction enters its golden age. Post-apocalyptic worlds, exploratory voyages in space, temporal paradoxes... The genre turns more openly towards scientific foresight, and the writings reflect contemporary concerns. Jacques Sadoul has collected here eleven classic short stories by A.E. van Vogt, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein, perfectly representative of a literary movement that is becoming essential. EAN : 9782290305317 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of the Sirens - Collectives - book Summary : It is sometimes said that bird sirens became fish by falling into the sea. Hybrid creatures born from the intersection of several legends, they have inspired poets since the dawn of time: Homer, Ovid, Andersen, Wells, and Giraudoux have each responded in their own way to the intoxicating seduction of their song. From the torture of Odysseus to the tragic fate of the Little Mermaid, the narrative and poetic variations of the legend highlight a multitude of incarnations. Nereids with long golden hair entwined with pearls, fearsome mermins, sea nymphs, or capricious undines, the sirens form a chorus of sublime and disparate voices. Here are nine strange and wonderful tales that pay homage to the most mysterious of creatures. EAN : 9782290342664 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fantastic Dimension 2 From Balzac to Sturgeon, 6 short stories - Barbara Sadoul - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782290338018 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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