Title: When China wakes up... the world will tremble - Alain Peyrefitte - 1975 - book EAN: 2245001494 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Someone Good - Françoise Bourdin - book Summary : Caroline Serval is the only general practitioner in the region. She practices her profession with passion and dedication, even if it means putting her private life aside. Her only prospect is to recruit a colleague, a difficult task when you live in a remote Provençal village. Her personal life is suffering as a result. After a divorce and joint custody of her only daughter, Caroline struggles to maintain a stable relationship. Between her deeply held vocation, the desires of the heart, and heavy family secrets, she will have to reconsider her life to move forward... EAN: 9782266315609 The book matches the photo

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Title: Someone Good - Françoise Bourdin - book Summary : Caroline Serval is the only general practitioner in the region. She practices her profession with passion and dedication, even if it means putting her private life aside. Her only prospect is to recruit a colleague, a difficult task when you live in a remote Provençal village. Her personal life is suffering as a result. After a divorce and joint custody of her only daughter, Caroline struggles to maintain a stable relationship. Between her deeply held vocation, the desires of the heart, and heavy family secrets, she will have to reconsider her life to move forward... EAN: 9782266315609 The book matches the photo

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Title: The Curse of Edgar - Marc Dugain - book Summary : "Edgar loved power, but he hated its uncertainties. He would have found it humiliating to have to put it into play at regular intervals in front of voters who didn't have a thousandth of his capacity for reason. Nor did he accept that the men elected by this uneducated and classless herd could threaten his position, which had to be stable in the very interest of the country. He had become, in his own way, a consul for life. He had managed to create the direct link with the President that made him indispensable. No Minister of Justice could henceforth act as his direct hierarchical superior. He became the sole measure of moral and political relevance." John Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for nearly half a century, cast his shadow over all American leaders. From 1924 to 1972, the greatest figures in the history of the United States would be hounded even in their private lives by the man who set himself up as the guarantor of morality. This novel brings them back to life through dialogues, wiretap reports, and intelligence sheets that are unreservedly revealed in the memoirs attributed to Clyde Tolson, Edgar's assistant but above all lover. It's as if all of them are dead today, but none of them truly belonged to themselves when they were alive. EAN: 9782070773794 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Peril House - Agatha Christie - book Summary : A heavy painting falls off the headboard of a bed. A rock tumbles down a cliff and crashes onto the path. A car's brakes fail on a descent... And finally, a stray bullet lodges in a hat! For Hercule Poirot, vacationing on the south coast of England, there's little doubt: someone wants the life of the lovely Miss Buckley, heiress to a dilapidated villa nearby. Even if the woman in question opens her eyes wide, wondering who could possibly want to kill her. The murder of her cousin, who has obviously been mistaken for her, will force Miss Buckley to take the detective's fears seriously. He will relentlessly try to unmask the culprit. But only a very clever staging will allow him to succeed. And the surprise will be a big one. EAN : 9782253026822 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The House of Memory - Lucia Graves - Book Summary : The House of Memory depicts a fascinating and crucial moment in our history: in 1492, by royal decree, the Jews of Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism were forced into exile. Lucia Graves recounts the separation thus imposed on two lovers: Vidal Ruben, who belonged to a Jewish family that decided to stay and convert, and Alba de Porta, whose close relatives opted for exile. It is the latter, the main character of the story, who, in the twilight of her life, tells her granddaughter her whole story. "Here you are at last, Alba Simha. Come near me, and listen carefully to what I have to say. I have little time left, but please don't cry. I can't bear it when people cry. And don't try to contradict me, as your mother does: I am over eighty years old, I have had a full life, more blessed than most. Listen to me carefully, Alba Simha. I need to tell my story, and who better to hear it than you? It is not only because you are my granddaughter that you bear my name. Other mysterious affinities bind us, and you are the only one I can trust to repeat my words—if you ever wish to do so—without distorting the truth to suit the opinion of others. [...]. It was the third day of Iyyar in the year 5252, in other words the last day April of the year 1492 of the Christian era. A groundswell was rising, which was about to burst the calm waters of our daily life, and in all the kingdoms of Spain things were being plotted with terrible consequences for all the Jews who lived there. I see all this clearly now, but at the time I did not fully understand it - perhaps I did not want to understand it? At sixteen, it is very difficult to believe in the forces of evil, all the more difficult when one experiences the first dazzling flash of love, and when this love is shared, as was the case for me. EAN: 9782268051888 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Kuragin House - Contance Heaven - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 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 House of Return - Jean-Paul Kauffmann - book Summary : Upon returning from three years of captivity in Lebanon, in a trance-like state, the narrator discovers Les Tilleuls, a house lost in the heart of the Landes forest. He decides to buy this property to dispel the memory of his imprisonment. A strange bond of dependence will be created with this residence, which symbolizes the return to the world of the living. In a total, almost pagan fusion with the nature of which he has been so deprived, the narrator camps out amidst the work. He delights in this transitional atmosphere specific to convalescence, this in-between that confusingly separates the end of the ordeal from the return to humankind. A series of unequally picturesque characters parades past: two taciturn and enigmatic workers, the indefinable real estate agent, an architect always in a hurry... Will this house be the place of resurrection? Twenty years later, Jean-Paul Kauffmann evokes his captivity. Allusively. With elegance, he has chosen to avoid being serious for the most part. Never complacent or victim-like, it is on the contrary a jubilant testimony to the joy of being alive, to the refusal of fatality which resists all trials. EAN: 9782070349111 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moonlight House - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Newport, Rhode Island: a paradise for retired billionaires, a goldmine for crooks of all kinds. It is there, in her Victorian house, that Nuala Moore is to receive Maggie Holloway, her ex-daughter-in-law. After many years without news, the two women have decided to meet regularly. But Nuala is murdered by a burglar. At least, that's the theory accepted by the police. Maggie, incredulous, decides to discover the truth. An alcoholic doctor, a university professor specializing in funeral rites, an overly curious nurse - no one seems above suspicion. And when Greta, Nuala's old friend, and then other residents of Latham Manor, a luxurious retirement home, also die, her confusion only increases: the murderer can only be someone close to her. But who? How can the pieces of this deadly puzzle be put together? And will Maggie, who unknowingly photographed clues, soon be the killer's target? More than ever, Mary Higgins Clark, the virtuoso of suspense, plays with fatal perfection on the strings of your nerves. When death has a rendezvous with the moon, a deadly score, a tune to freeze your blood. EAN: 9782226086488 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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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 : The Empty House - Claude Gutman - book Summary : David saw them, his father and mother, suitcase in hand, between two policemen. He waited for them for a long, long time... He had been sleeping at the neighbors' house for months. That's why he wasn't taken away. 1944. David is 15 years old, he's alive. He's filled with pain, and rage, and above all, inhabited by all these contradictory voices: you're Jewish, you're like everyone else, you're French, they abandoned you, you have to trust, you must never trust. You're alone. You're never alone. He writes to understand. EAN : 9782070513864 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tellier House - Guy De Maupassant - book Summary : A brothel where the regulars live a regulated life, a place of debauchery full of bourgeois decorum, the Tellier house is like a second home. One day, it closes "because of a first communion"... In the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec, Maupassant paints a joyful picture of prostitutes. But his story caused controversy: the scene of prostitutes taking communion in the Church shocked. Yet it sums up Maupassant's opinion, who, against moralizing hypocrisy, prefers to celebrate impulses and passions. EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of the Nightingales - Delly - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Viking's Mistress - Julia Byrne - book Summary : England, 904. Kidnapped by a Viking during a violent invasion, Lady Yvaine doesn't know whether to complain or rejoice in her fate. True, the Vikings are the enemies of her people, barbarians she's always been told to be wary of. Yet this man, with his burning gaze and sensual voice, seems different from the others. After all, didn't he defend her against her cruel husband who threatened to kill her? So Yvaine isn't worried: if the Viking has taken her prisoner, it's only to obtain a ransom. At least, that's what she believes until she discovers the truth: by taking a life to save hers, the Viking has made her his property... EAN : 9782280176118 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of Silk - The New Sherlock Holmes - Anthony Horowitz - book Summary : The adventures of the Man in the Flat Cap and the House of Silk were, from one point of view, the most sensational of Holmes's career. Only, at the time, it was impossible for me to relate them for reasons which will become clear to the reader. However, I have always had the desire to write them, in order to complete the Holmesian canon. This was impossible earlier: the events I am about to describe were too monstrous, too shocking to be printed. They still are today. I am not exaggerating when I say that they could tear at the whole fabric of our society, which, particularly in wartime, is something I cannot risk. When my task is accomplished, assuming I have the strength to carry it out, I will pack up the manuscript and send it to the vaults of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, where certain other of my private papers are kept. I will give instructions that, for a hundred years, the package must not be opened. It is impossible to imagine what the world will be like then, but perhaps my future readers will be better immune to scandal and corruption than my contemporaries. I pass on to them here a final portrait of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. EAN : 9782702142707 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mistress on the Stake - Jean Anglade - book Summary Dreamy, sensitive, and cultured, Frédérique teaches in a priority education zone. Destabilized by a passionate love affair, plagued by anxiety, and undermined by urban stress, she requests a transfer to the heart of Auvergne, near Issoire. There, she finds meaning in her life by helping the most deprived, from isolated elderly people to battered children. She then meets Vincent, a young worker thanks to whom she will be able to overcome the many challenges that await her. EAN : 9782266077989 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Orphans' House - Helen Dunmore - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782298016024 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: La Malvoisine - Yves Viollier - 2000 - book EAN: 9782266107372 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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