Title: See how we dance - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : One spring morning, Romain's funeral takes place. Driven by an immoderate taste for happiness, he believed in nothing but cultivated a difficult art: the love of life. As he passed by, an inner sun began to shine. At the cemetery, among tearful men and women, his closest friend sees—as in the first scene of "The Barefoot Countess"—the countless lives and intertwined destinies of those who throw a rose on the coffin of the one they loved so much unfold. Two female figures reign throughout these pages: a mother and her daughter. Around them and Romain, from New York in the 1930s to the latest scientific discoveries, via the plains of Ukraine, a Greek island, an Italian hotel and the southern coast of Turkey, we see Hitler's valet, the pilots of the Normandy-Nièmen squadron, an art historian, a professor of theoretical physics, Arthur Rubinstein and Marshal Zhukov, Lucky Luciano and Churchill... Each of them is the hero of a small novel that is linked by history and feelings to the great novel that brings them all together. Life appears as a great saraband; it is also a tearful celebration. EAN: 9782221095355 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Well - Matthew McIntosh - book Summary : "Maybe not always, but often. Oh, it can happen to me anywhere. In front of my mailbox, or in the morning in my car when I leave for work: all of a sudden I get the thing - it's a impression rather than an image, a kind of sensation, like when you walk in the dark, avoiding bumping into furniture, There you go - the feeling of being at the bottom of a well." Imagine the Northwest United States ten years after the Kurt Cobain's suicide... Federal Way, a working-class suburb of Seattle. Coming from nowhere, bartender, boxer, computer scientist, fisherman, mother, imaginary rock star, bandit - lives in prey to the darkest impulses struggle desperately against the distress that afflicts them. Well, there are so many variations subtle on the major themes of everyday life: the unemployment, dependency, separation. Humanity will never had been embodied in a novel with "as much noise and fury. The torments and defeats of middle America are examined as signs and symptoms of disillusionment but also the hopes of a disillusioned society. “More than characters in a novel, the author describes beings with all their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their hatreds, their passions, their illusions and their power of reason which are part of the dilemma of the human species. This book is a reading pleasure, a wonderful human experience... It still resonates within me." EAN : 9782020613354 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : Whistler No. 69 - Masterpieces of Art - Great Painters - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Book Summary : Bardamu, he then said to me gravely and a little sadly, our fathers were as good as us, don't speak ill of them!... - You're right, Arthur, about that you're right! Hateful and docile, raped, robbed, gutted and always idiots, they were as good as us! You can say it! We don't change! Neither socks, nor masters, nor opinions, or so late, that it's no longer worth it. We were born faithful, we die from it! Free soldiers, heroes for everyone and talking monkeys, words that suffer, we are the minions of King Misery. It's he who owns us! When we're naughty, he squeezes... We have his fingers around our necks, always, it makes it difficult to speak, you have to be very careful if you want to be able to eat... For nothing, he strangles you... It's no life... - There is love, Bardamu! - Arthur, love is infinity within the reach of poodles and I have my dignity! I reply. EAN: 9782070360284 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water Music - T. Coraghessan Boyle - Book Summary : In Europe, while the 18th century expires in multiple convulsions and Paris tires of the guillotine, the Scottish explorer Mungo Park discovers the kingdom of Ségou in Africa, where human madness is expressed with biblical simplicity. Although he will return to the country where a world awaits him on which progress is already cutting its teeth, Mungo will not rest, to avoid becoming a puppet in his turn, to respond to the demon of travel... TC Boyle, compared to García Márquez for this novel intertwining destinies, has succeeded in the perfectly crazy bet of bringing together in a single melting pot all the forms of fiction in which the Anglo-Saxon genius has excelled for three hundred years. And this from the libertine tale to the American noir novel, raising Water Music to the rank of cult book... EAN: 9782859405311 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Washington Black - Esi Edugyan - Book Summary : Barbados, 1830. Eleven-year-old Washington Black is enslaved on a plantation owned by a cruel man. His vivacity and drawing skills quickly impress his master's brother, the eccentric Christopher Wild. This abolitionist explorer takes him under his wing to assist him in a crazy project: building an airship. When one day Wash is wrongly accused of a crime, the two men are forced to flee. Flying from the West Indies to the North Pole, from London to Morocco, an extraordinary journey awaits young Wash in this century of discovery. But the hardest road ahead will be the one that leads him to freedom... EAN: 9782072875861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Watteau No. 2 - Masterpieces of Art - Great Painters - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Have you ever seen Jeanne? - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702415375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Seen, read, heard - Driss Chraïbi - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782070418138 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 : Do you want to share my house? - Janine Boissard - book Summary : Line, in her fifties, has just lost her husband. To keep her beautiful house with a garden near Angers, she decided to share it with three tenants. But living with strangers isn't without its challenges. While she was aiming for a joyful and enriching shared apartment, hell is about to set in with young Priscille, who is hiding a terrible family secret. Will Line emerge unscathed? The "house", a magic word in everyone's mind, a place of meeting, of dialogue, is the central character of this novel, where fits of laughter alternate with tears.  Exquisite, like the previous ones. Modern woman. EAN: 9782253069850 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Walther, this German, my friend - Henri Vincenot - book Summary : During the 1939-1945 war, in Autun, a young professor, a researcher in archaeology and ethnology, fortuitously befriends a young German academic enlisted in the Wehrmacht. Engrossed in his ideals of brotherhood between peoples and love of science, he is unaware of the dangers of such close contact in wartime. Soon denounced, he is arrested by the Gestapo as a spy. To save his skin and that of his family, and to obey the family and social pressures that warn him of the fatal consequences of his beautiful idealism, he enters the service of the Resistance. This twist, unavoidable if he wants to protect his loved ones, will allow him to achieve honors and make a small fortune by betraying his research friend... Published in 1954 by Denoël, this novel depicts and challenges all the false pretenses of a humanity indoctrinated by contradictory and criminal ideologies. The "anarchist" Vincenot and his passionately humanist conception of life and relationships between people are then revealed. EAN : 9782843372445 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Robbery of a Nest of Jewels - Roger Borniche - book Summary : It's the most spectacular post-war heist. On a road on the Côte d'Azur, the agha-khan's Cadillac is blocked by crooks. In the blink of an eye, the gangsters seize the begum's fabulous jewels. At the heart of the police storm, punctuated by scandals and twists and turns that are shaking France, Inspector Borniche conducts his investigation. EAN : 9782246338512 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire - Text studied, "Candide" - Jean Maurice - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782070579273 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire leads the investigation - Volume 3 - The devil wears Voltaire - Frédéric Lenormand - book Summary : Voltaire has finally found a worthy opponent: the devil himself! Beelzebub sows corpses throughout Paris, to the point that the Church, anxious to avoid any scandal, calls on the famous philosopher to conduct a discreet investigation behind the police's back. In a Paris of the Enlightenment still very much imbued with irrational beliefs, where vampires, demons and the living dead seem to wander at will, who else to send on their trail but a philosopher known for believing in nothing? In exchange, Cardinal Fleury, who governs France, will authorize the publication of the Philosophical Letters , this sulphurous firebrand. All that remains for Voltaire is to show what philosophy can do against superstition. And also to discover who is sowing pieces of human bodies into the writer's bath, to uncover the secret of a mysterious petticoat coveted by an assassin, without forgetting to have his new tragedy performed at the Comédie-Française, in order to revolutionize a dusty theatrical art! Both a historical detective novel and a Voltairean tale, The Devil Wears Voltaire is written in a jubilant style as finely crafted as the language of the Enlightenment. EAN : 9782709642903 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Volfred Abenstor Opus 1 Anna - Fred Mangard Annick Mangard Lemeunier - comic book Summary : Mystery ! In 2006, Anna Calducci painted an imaginary statuette on canvas. In 2010, a "completely similar" statuette dating back to 1000 BC was stolen from the Cagliari Museum! While mysterious crimes are being committed, Anna, implicated in this story despite herself, must investigate, aided in particular by Fred and Voltaire... JC is stolen! While mysterious crimes are being committed, Anna, implicated in this story despite herself, will have to investigate with the help of Fred and Voltaire in particular... EAN : 9782953900606 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Walk to the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - book Summary : Will it be nice weather tomorrow for the walk to the lighthouse? This question hangs over the family gathered one mid-September evening in their large holiday home in the Hebrides. The pulse of the sea insinuates itself throughout the book. Water hinders thoughts. Life pours forth and death surprises. The years pass. The house is abandoned. What remains are the small daily miracles, those "matches unexpectedly struck in the dark." They are what give meaning to things, movement to life. EAN : 9782253031536 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : You will not have my hatred - Antoine Leiris - book Summary : Antoine Leiris lost his wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, on November 13, 2015, when she was murdered at the Bataclan. Overwhelmed by his loss, he has only one weapon: his pen. Like the glimmer of hope and gentleness that was his letter "You will not have my hatred", published the day after the attacks, he tells us here how, despite everything, life must go on. It is this daily life, bruised but tender, between a father and his son, that he offers us. A moving testimony. A former cultural columnist for France Info and France Bleu, Antoine Leiris is a journalist. " You Won't Have My Hate " is his first book. EAN : 9782213701295 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voyage A Pitchipoi - Jean-Claude Moscovici - book Summary : Journey to Pitchipoï tells the story of the tragedy of a Jewish family in France during the war, a tragedy that millions of other families shared. In 1942, the author of this book was six years old. His family was arrested by German and French gendarmes and dispersed. The narrator and his little sister were initially entrusted to neighbors until the village mayor enforced the decision of the SS captain, Commander of the region and responsible for anti-Semitic repression: "The reception of Jewish children in French families is undesirable and will not be authorized under any circumstances." The two children were then locked up in a prison, then transferred to the Drancy camp, where the little girl fell ill from malnutrition. Throughout this period, they had no news of their mother, who had miraculously managed to escape and had not been recaptured, despite the doors often closing when she asked for help. After months of living in hiding, they returned home after the Liberation. They were never to see their father again. EAN : 9782211035965 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journey to the Land of Cotton - Erik Orsenna - book Summary : “This story begins in the mists of time. A passing man notices a shrub whose branches end in white flakes. We can imagine him approaching it with his hand. The human race has just become acquainted with the softness of cotton. For years, something told me that by following the paths of cotton, from agriculture to the textile industry via biochemistry, from Koutiala (Mali) to Datang (China) via Lubbock (Texas), Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), Alexandria, Tashkent and the Vologne Valley (France, Vosges department), I would better understand my planet. The results of the long investigation exceeded my expectations. To understand globalization, both past and present, nothing beats examining a piece of fabric. Probably because it is made only of threads and ties, and shuttle journeys. EAN : 9782213625270 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vote Bérurier - Painting the giraffe - San Antonio - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Louis de Bernières - book Summary : See photos ATTENTION BOOK IN ENGLISH EAN : 9780749391300 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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