Title: A Manor in Cornwall - Eve Chase - book Summary : One family. One secret. One tragic summer. Four lives changed forever. Here's The Book of the Summer Cornwall, 1968. Pencraw, a grandiose ruined manor house where the Altons take up residence for the summer. Time seems to have stopped there and passes by without a hitch. Until the tragedy that turns their lives upside down and stops time forever. Fifty years later, with her fiancé Jon, Lorna drives in search of the Black Rabbits manor, the house where she stayed as a child. She dreams of celebrating her wedding there. Everything about this old house calls to her and attracts her. But is it really necessary to unearth the dark mysteries of this Cornish manor? EAN: 9782264074010 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : A Million Dollars for Viet - Jean Lartéguy - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Scent of Ink and Freedom - Sarah McCoy - book Summary : ~~A BRIGHT HISTORICAL NOVEL. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK A TASTE OF CINNAMON AND HOPE. ~~1859. Two years before the start of the Civil War. Sarah Brown, daughter of a famous abolitionist, resigns herself to not having children. "Who would want to marry her?" her mother laments... Sarah, however, finds a new lease on life by joining a resistance group with her family, which helps slaves escape their terrible fate to the North of America. Thanks to her artistic talents, she traces and conceals in her drawings the secret maps that lead to freedom. 2014. Eden and her husband, a couple desperate for a child, move into an old mansion in the small town of Charleston, Virginia. As Eden wanders through her house with her neighbor, an enigmatic little girl, she discovers a doll's head carefully hidden in the pantry. Despite the ravages of time, she glimpses curious lines on the porcelain face, within which lies a mysterious key... More than a century separates Eden and Sarah, but their paths will intertwine. For on the vast map of the world and of history, past and present converge in the destiny of these two women who overcome the pain of not being mothers and reveal themselves to themselves. A BRIGHT HISTORICAL NOVEL. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK A TASTE OF CINNAMON AND HOPE. EAN : 9782749925981 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: An object in pain - Didier van Cauwelaert - 1993 - book EAN: 9782253064671 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Is Murder Easy? - Agatha Christie - 1995 - book EAN: 9782702424841 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: One Month to Seduce Her, His Forever, An Intern's Passion - Fiona McArthur, Sue MacKay, Joanna Neil - 2017 - Harlequin Book EAN: 9782280367455 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A World Without Law - Pierre-Xavier Grezaud - book EAN: 9782234048270 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A perfume of rose - Jean Siccardi - book EAN: 2744176257 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: An Enchanting Christmas - Cathy Williams - book EAN: 9782280497428 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Titre : Un jour des choses terribles - Laurent Botti - Livre Résumé : Une atmosphère épaisse de brume enveloppe Laville-Saint-Jour, où les gargouilles gothiques gardent des secrets sinistres. Lorsqu'une première mort survient, apparemment naturelle, les enfants du village révèlent des jeux aux intentions bien sombres. Laurent Botti, auteur de trois thrillers à succès (plus de 400 000 exemplaires vendus), tisse ici un récit d'une tension croissante où chaque révélation change irrémédiablement le cours des événements. Un roman noir et captivant qui maintient le lecteur en suspense jusqu'à son dénouement troublant. EAN : 9782845632370 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Un long retour - Louise Penny - Livre Résumé : Armand Gamache, ancien chef de la section des homicides, a trouvé refuge à Three Pines où il espérait enfin goûter à la tranquillité. Mais lorsque Clara Morrow le supplie de localiser son mari Peter, disparu depuis leur séparation d'un an, le retraité ne peut ignorer cet appel. Entre quête personnelle et énigme troublante, Gamache doit affronter les zones d'ombre d'une absence qui cache bien des secrets. EAN : 9782330125882 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Un été sans les hommes - Siri Hustvedt - Livre Résumé : Incapable de supporter plus longtemps la liaison que son mari, Boris, neuroscientifique de renom, entretient avec une femme plus jeune qu'elle, Mia, poétesse de son état, décide de quitter New York pour se réfugier auprès de sa mère qui a, depuis la mort de son mari, pris ses quartiers dans une maison de retraite du Minnesota. En même temps que la jubilatoire résilience dont fait preuve le petit groupe de pétillantes veuves octogénaires qui entoure sa mère, Mia va découvrir la confusion des sentiments et les rivalités à l'oeuvre chez les sept adolescentes qu'elle a accepté d'initier à la poésie le temps d'un été, tout en nouant une amitié sincère avec Lola, jeune mère délaissée par un mari colérique et instable...Parcours en forme de "lecture de soi" d'une femme à un tournant de son existence et confrontée aux âges successifs de la vie à travers quelques personnages féminins inoubliables, ce roman aussi solaire que plaisamment subversif dresse le portrait attachant d'une humanité fragile mais se réinventant sans cesse. EAN : 9782742797226 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Un lit d'aubépine - Jean Anglade - Livre Résumé : Viverols, une commune de montagne entourée de bois, de pâturages, aux confins de quatre provinces : Auvergne, Forez, Velay, Vivarais.En 1902, un gendarme corse, Pancrace Cervoni, y est nommé chef de brigade. Il épouse une jeune paysanne à peu près illettrée, Tiennette Farigoule, dont la mère se prétend descendante du dauphin Louis XVII, échappé du Temple et réfugié dans la région. Ils ont ensemble trois garçons. Le premier deviendra prêtre, le second officier, le troisième proxénète.Mais, peu soucieuse de ces carrières dissemblables, Tiennette nourrit pour eux un amour égal et passionné, prêt à toutes les indulgences.« Un lit d’aubépine » est l’histoire captivante, multicolore, tantôt burlesque et tantôt bouleversante, de cette « mère Goriot » et de ses trois fils.(Quatrième de couverture de l’édition Presses de la Cité, 1995)Verbaliser les braconniers, les voituriers sans lanternes et les vendeurs d'allumettes de contrebande, tel était l'essentiel des activités des gendarmes de Viverols, une petite bourgade perdue de l'Auvergne forézienne.Aussi Pancarce Cervoni, le nouveau chef de brigade, commençait-il à s'ennuyer lorsqu'il remarqua la jolie Tiennette Farigoule. Elle avait dix-huit ans, lui trente-deux. Elle prétendait descendre du dauphin Louis XVIII. Il portait l'illustre patronyme d'un général napoléonien, mort au combat, la tête fracassée par un boulet de canon. Tout aurait dû les séparer.Ils se marièrent pourtant un beau jour de 1903 et eurent ensemble trois garçons : Annet, que sa mère dirigea vers la prêtrise, Jean, dont son père fit un militaire, et André, qui choisit lui-même son destin et devint poète-proxénète. EAN : 2724294556 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Title : The Resistance - No. 132 - The newspaper of France in the 1940s - Magazine review book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Douai Notebooks - Arthur Rimbaud - 2023 - book EAN: 9791035826468 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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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 : A Garden for Summer - Sherryl Woods - book Summary : Her heart beats faster when she checks her email, her imagination races when she thinks back to the manly face of the man she fell in love with. Moira has to face the facts: she can't forget Luke O'Brien. It must be said that with his messy brown hair, his sometimes serious but sparkling gaze, his irresistible smile, this American who came to spend his vacation in Ireland had little trouble seducing her. Except that after the idyllic month they spent together, Luke has returned to the United States to resume his life, and perhaps even find another woman. While Moira tries to convince herself that everything is for the best, her grandfather asks her to accompany him to Chasepeake Shores, the small town on the East Coast of the United States where Luke lives. Moira hesitates only a few seconds before accepting. Even if, from then on, one question obsesses her: will she be able to convince Luke that there is a place for her in his life? EAN: 9782280284493 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Long Road - Herbjorg Wassmo - book Summary : Norway, winter 1944-1945. Hunted by the Nazi occupiers for acts of resistance, a man attempts to flee through the mountains with his wife and five-year-old son. Several days of forced marching in harsh temperatures before reaching Sweden in terrifying silence and an immense price to pay: that of worn-out bodies, overcome by fatigue and pain. The tragic fate of an ordinary family, A Long Way tells the slow return to existence of these discreet heroes, forgotten by history, who were forever marked by a night of icy hell. EAN: 9782264040619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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