Titre : Une affaire intime - Max Gallo - Livre Résumé : Dans une vie tout se tient. Lorsque Daniel quitte sa jeune femme, Laure, il n'imagine pas que son existence entière va basculer. Il est seul. Il s'installe dans une ville du sud de la France, au bord de la Méditerranée. Scénariste, il veut y travailler. Mais la ville est comme un échiquier. Chacun y est à sa place, le député, le maire, le directeur du casino, les gardes du corps, les épouses, les femmes du demi-monde, les journalistes, les opposants. Il y a eu crime mais rien ne trouble l'apparence tranquille de cette ville de plaisir. Arrive Salmon. Il a cette acuité du regard que donne le désespoir, cette disponibilité qu'offre la solitude, cette curiosité d'étranger. Il vit sa double passion celle de l'homme qui perd une femme, celle du témoin qui veut connaître et dire la vérité. Il trouble la partie d'échecs qui se joue entre les puissants. Il menace sans le savoir l'équilibre de la ville. Il a le courage de ceux que le chagrin et l'angoisse rendent imprudents. On l'observe. Il parle de Laure, de son amour malheureux, de ses rêves parfois. Il donne à tous des armes contre lui. Dans cette ville dont il perce le secret, il joue sa vie.J'ai vécu ce livre comme une aventure personnelle et obsédante. J'ai voulu que ce roman plonge dans notre présent. Que la ville où Salmon s'enferme, que les personnages qu'il y côtoie soient aussi vrais dans la France d'aujourd'hui que le sont dans L'honneur perdu de Katharina Blum, de Henrich Bôll, ceux d'Alle-magne. J'ai tenté de faire avec ce qui se passait en moi et autour de moi, une oeuvre d'imagination, c'est-à-dire un roman du présent.Pour moi, Daniel Salmon, Laure, la ville et ceux qui la dominent, existent. Entre eux et moi, c'est une affaire intime.  EAN : 9782253030317 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Une enfance outremer - Leïla Sebbar - Livre Résumé : Ils sont nés outre-mer, dans ce qui s'appelait autrefois « les colonies ».Venus des cinq continents, ils partagent une même langue : le français. Seize écrivains nous livrent une nouvelle inédite et racontent un souvenir, une enfance, un paysage aux couleurs outre-mer...Une anthologie rassemblant quelques-uns des plus importants représentants de la francophonie d'aujourd'hui . EAN : 9782020426251 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Une correspondance (1914-1938) : Père et fille - Françoise Dolto - Livre Résumé : "Je te trouve très bien en capitaine sur la photographie", écrit Françoise à son père en novembre 1914. Elle a six ans. Ce lien épistolaire entre père et fille se maintient au fil des années difficiles - décès de Jacqueline, la soeur aînée, dépression de la mère, rupture des premières fiançailles... En juin 1938, après une crise particulièrement violente, Françoise éprouve le besoin d'une mise au point : "Cette lettre [...] brisera peut-être tout entre nous et alors mieux vaut maintenant car nous ne pourrions que nous faire plus de mal en continuant à nous voir avec des malentendus entre nous ; mais elle risque aussi de me réhabiliter à tes yeux et de sauver notre affection. Si je suis "ton" enfant, je ne suis plus "une" enfant. Au lieu d'être "très triste" de m'aimer "malgré tout" tu comprendras peut-être que je suis une femme qui te fait honneur..." EAN : 9782715222809 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Une année à la campagne - Sue Hubbell - Livre Résumé : Un jour, Sue Hubbell, biologiste de formation, ayant travaillé comme bibliothécaire, lasse de vivre en marge de la société de consommation de l'Est américain, décide de changer de vie. Avec son mari, elle part à la recherche d'un endroit où ils pourraient vivre loin des villes, suivant l'exemple du poète Thoreau. Après avoir cherché, ils trouvent cette ferme dans les monts Ozark, au sud-est du Missouri, et, ne connaissant rien à l'agriculture ni à l'élevage, ils décident de créer une "ferme d'abeilles ". Alors commence pour Sue Hubbell une aventure dont elle n'imagine pas les conséquences. Les saisons, les années passent, maintenant dans la solitude car son mari l'a quittée, et cette femme qui n'avait de la nature qu'une connaissance théorique découvre lentement l'immensité de l'univers qu'elle s'est choisi : sur ces quelques hectares de collines où, depuis la disparition des Indiens Osages, aucun être humain ne s'est vraiment arrêté, la vie a établi ses lois et ses règles, tissant un réseau de dépendances entre tous les habitants : les plantes, les insectes, les araignées, les serpents, les oiseaux, les mammifères, et même les parasites et les bactéries. L'entrée dans ce monde n'est pas simple. Pour Sue Hubbell, c'est un véritable bouleversement.Elle qui croyait- par son éducation, par ses études- tout savoir de la vie animale découvre sur ces arpents de terre que la vie naturelle est un bien meilleur professeur, parce qu'elle laisse le savoir germer et mûrir comme tout ce qui est vivant et vrai. J.M.G. Le Clezio EAN : 9782070388691 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la photo

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Titre : Une Américaine instruite - John Cheever - Livre Résumé : Jill et Georgie Madison forment un couple heureux. Jill est une femme intelligente et cultivée que son mari soutient, aide et admire. Si elle rechigne aux tâches ménagères, arguant qu'elle a mieux à faire, Georgie le comprend parfaitement et prend volontiers en charge la maison. Jusqu'au jour où…Avec sa plume acide et son humour tendre, John Cheever pénètre dans les maisons de la middle class américaine pour y dérober les secrets inavouables et nous les dévoile pour notre plus grand bonheur de lecture. EAN : 9782070362110 Livre d'occasion petit prix pas cher Le livre correspond à la 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 Magic Treehouse Volume 4 - Pirate Treasure - Mary Pope Osborne - book Summary : Tom and his sister Léa, thanks to their magic cabin, are propelled into the era of pirates and will have to be cunning to escape the cruel plunderers of the seas. EAN: 9782747018371 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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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: 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: 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 : Temptation - Stephenie Meyer - book Summary : Bella turns 18. The birthday party the Cullens throw for her goes awry: the young girl injures herself, and the sight of her blood provokes various reactions among the vampires. Three days later, Edward announces that he no longer loves her and that his family is moving. Bella doesn't understand this sudden turn of events and sinks into depression. She gradually regains control and realizes that even when she's in serious danger, she can hear Edward's voice. She then decides to expose herself regularly. To this end, she restores old motorcycles with Jacob, Billy's son. A loving friendship develops between them. But the sudden return of Victoria and Laurent causes trouble in Forks. Bella finds herself hunted. She is saved in extremis by the Indian clan of the Protectors, who are none other than werewolves, hereditary enemies of vampires... EAN : 9782012012950 Used book 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 : An Adventure of Stéphane Volume 4 - The Embrace of Howrah - Daniel Ceppi - Comic Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2203335181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Certain Justice - Phyllis Dorothy James - Book Summary : There's no shortage of suspects, and Commander Dalgliesh, seconded by the loyal Kate, who is now teamed up with the handsome and cynical Piers, considers them one by one. There's Garry Ashe, the murderer whom Venetia had acquitted, but whom she absolutely didn't want as a son-in-law. There's her colleague Laud, whom she threatened to supplant as director of Chambers. And then there's the ambitious Simon Costello, her colleague, whose shady dealings she wanted to expose, likely to ruin his career... EAN: 9782253148623 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Year in the Country - Sue Hubbell - Book Summary : I have often dreamed of a complete book, where there would be birds, insects flying in the morning light, drops caught in spiders' webs, the sky changing with the seasons, the smell of rain and the sound of the wind, the cries of animals, a book where one would feel the warmth of the sun, the light touch of plants, a book where there would be the visible and invisible secrets of the world, and even extraordinary and reassuring things like the recipe for persimmon tart. A book that would give me the same happiness as when I once read Virgil, sitting by the sea in the shade of olive trees (now replaced by buildings). A book where poetry would be like breathing, where language would make its familiar music. It seems to me that Sue Hubbell's book is that book." JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782072851032 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Crazy Look - Isabelle Spaak - Book Summary : Simone Veil Prize 2016 Mathilde raised her daughter, Annie, born out of wedlock, alone, facing the wealthy society of interwar Brussels with her characteristic courage. Annie murdered her wayward husband one day in 1981 and then committed suicide. Mathilde is Isabelle Spaak's grandmother, Annie her mother. The author sets out on the trail of these two eccentric women with controversial reputations. She begins by exhuming numerous letters and photos from the family home to write their story. During her investigation, she receives a letter from the Israeli memorial Yad Vashem, concerning her mother. Suddenly, everything changes: the murderer transforms into the Righteous One. The intelligence and finesse of Isabelle Spaak's approach are matched only by the subtlety and gentle edge of her words. Nathalie Crom, Télérama . This book has the crazy allure of a police report written by a poet. Astrid de Larminat, Le Figaro . EAN: 9782253069980 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Sweet Song - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : Kate lies unconscious and badly burned in a hospital bed. The young woman managed to escape the flames that ravaged, in the middle of the night, the family antique furniture factory and the adjoining building where precious antiques were stored. Simple accident? For the police investigating the explosion that caused the fire, Kate is a suspect: what was she doing there at such a late hour, she who today works for one of the largest auditing firms? To exonerate her sister, Hannah is determined to search the ashes for the key to this disturbing enigma. At the risk of discovering a dangerous secret... The sweet melody of the past quickly becomes heady as the queen of suspense draws us into the heart of a fascinating family mystery, haunted by a ruthless killer. EAN: 9782253166337 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Childhood with Holy Water - Denise Bombardier - book Summary : Bombardier has no shortage of gift of the gab, cheekiness, and humor. She leaves no one indifferent. Clearly autobiographical, this first novel opens with a sentence worthy of a Mauriac revisited by Antonine Maillet: "I made my first communion in a state of mortal sin." Jérôme Garcin, L'Evènement du jeudi. "There are few testimonies in our literature that give such an attentive account of our relationship with God (and with his representatives here below...). The book is written in a lively manner; sometimes serious, sometimes colorful, it is a quick and easy read. It touches because it comes from the heart of a child always amazed by her surroundings, shy one day, bold the next, never sure of herself, worried and open, in search of her own destiny." François Hébert, Le Devoir. EAN: 9782020116251 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Absolute Friendship - John le Carré - book Summary : In the aftermath of the Iraq War, Englishman Edward "Ted" Mundy, son of a major in the Indian Army, a failed writer and tour guide in Bavaria, sees his past resurface in the person of Sasha, the East German activist he met in the late 1960s in a Berlin in the grip of revolutionary unrest and saw again in the grim mirror of Cold War spies for the assembly of a long double agent operation. But today times have changed, and their friendship, renewed in the name of an idealism that has become obsolete, will collide with the cynical maneuvers of an America more imperialist than ever. With this committed novel of burning relevance, le Carré sounds the death knell for old-fashioned espionage and the outdated values ​​that structured the world of secret agents: since September 11, the world has ignored any code of honor and "just causes" no longer apply when Bush's America subjects everyone to the forced march of its triumphalist and hegemonic self-celebration. Casting a cruelly disillusioned look at the Machiavellian actions of an America draped in its good conscience, le Carré also denounces the blind cowardice of his contemporaries, and his desperate message will haunt the reader long after the last line. John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. EAN: 9782020633437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sweet Revenge - Elizabeth George - book Summary : A new mail train affair wouldn't stir up Scotland Yard any more. Thomas Linley, eighth Earl of Asherton, the most elegant of the house inspectors, announces his marriage to the fashionable photographer Deborah Cotter. A weekend engagement is being planned in Cornwall, at the aristocratic police officer's family estate. But the presence of a hostile future father-in-law, a dangerous friend and rival, and a drug-addicted brother poisons the party. And the garden party turns into a nightmare when the corpse of a local journalist is discovered, conscientiously mutilated and castrated. For Linley, the high-society comedy risks ending in dark tragedy. Especially if the ghosts of the past get involved. EAN : 9782266066068 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle - book Summary : "The year began with lunch. By half past twelve, the small restaurant was full. There were a few serious diners to admire: entire families with that plumpness one acquires from spending two or three hours a day at the table, their eyes fixed on the plate and conversations postponed. The restaurant's owner, a man who, despite his girth, had perfected the art of twirling in his establishment, had donned the appropriate attire: a velvet smoking jacket and bow tie. His pomaded mustache quivered with enthusiasm as he recited the menu like one intoning a rhapsody: it was a gastronomic aria that he attacked at each table, kissing his fingertips with such enthusiasm that his lips must have been chapped. During lunch, my wife and I thought of previous New Year's Days, passed under the impenetrable clouds of the English sky. It was difficult to associate it with January 1st. the bright sun and the indigo blue sky. Yet everyone kept telling us: it was absolutely normal. After all, we were in Provence..." EAN : 9782841110094 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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