Title : A new day dawns on the great plains - Anne Loreal - Book Summary : A brilliant romantic epic where the winds of history blow. Through the destiny of a young French woman who sets out on an evangelistic mission to Indian territory, this novel takes us to the Great Plains of America, the land of pioneers in search of a better life, at the dawn of the Civil War. Born into a narrow-minded bourgeois family and rejected by her mother, Eugénie de Choisel took the veil at the age of 20 as much out of vocation as out of a thirst for elsewhere, and became Sister Judith. Thanks to her godfather, Father Fournerie, she realized her dream by accompanying him on an evangelistic mission in the American West. As she embarked for the New World, she met, among the stream of migrants fleeing poverty, Julian Eckermann, a German who awakened new and forbidden feelings in her. He himself was attracted to this young woman of radiant beauty. Arriving in New Orleans, the novice brutally encountered the world of slavery and experienced the first tremors of the Civil War. In Saint Louis, she crossed paths with Julian Eckermann again. Her faith and strength of character helped her keep a cool head in the face of this man who troubled her so much. Once again, their paths diverged. In the spring of 1861, the missionaries settled in Osage territory in Kansas, where the nun was in charge of the children's schooling. But raids by secessionist militiamen plunged the missionaries into the heart of the war that had just broken out. Sister Judith did not emerge unscathed from this conflict, which took her godfather away from her. Believing herself abandoned by God, she violently rejected her faith and enlisted as a nurse in Ulysses Grant's Confederate troops. Against all odds, she met Julian Eckermann again during the bloody Battle of Vicksburg, which would end the Civil War. Will the young woman be able to listen to her heart this time? EAN: 9782376101000 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Imposter at Court - Celeste Bradley - Book Summary : For months, the public has been fighting over the London Sun, in which a cartoonist portrays the highest-ranking figures in British society. The drawings are signed "Sir Thorogood." A complete unknown. So the curious rush to the Rochester ball, where his presence has been announced. Clara Simpson is not the least intrigued. The very attractive man who appears is an imposter. Clara is sure of it, and she knows better... EAN: 9782290345498 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Hero - Félicité Herzog - book Summary : How far back do we have to go to find the source of a personal tragedy? To the lies of the war, to the grandparents' generation? To those of my "hero" father, who set out to conquer the mythical summit of Annapurna in 1950 and left in the peaks of this glorious ascent a part of himself that would make him perpetually the director of his legend? To the freedom of a seductive and modern mother, too intelligent for her time, too rebellious for her milieu? To the fusional and rival fraternity of two "enfants terribles" raised in a shared solitude and in the cult of exploit? The fact remains that my big brother Laurent, promised a magnificent destiny, will end up as a shaggy and crazy vagabond of the stars, found by the police after months on the run... until his predictable fall. It was him or me: it was him... This novel of our wounded fraternity, I owe it to him. FH EAN: 9782253174806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Rebel Son - Olivier Todd - book Summary : Before Sartre, living or dead, petrified by his devotees or stoned by bigots, I have no rights to claim, no duties to fulfill. A few scores to settle, perhaps, and, no doubt, more with myself or with the times than with him. Breathing in fresh air or rotten winds, flying in the calm or the storm, how he held the place, the good man! I confess: I was never a Sartrean. I admit: I was influenced by him. I'm not the only one. Illness is not shameful. We recover from it. Sartre obsessed many people, from the palest leftist to Raymond Aron. A vast procession for such modest pride. EAN: 9782253038993 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Passing Hero - Patrick Poivre d'Arvor - book Summary : At nine years old, a small peasant from Auvergne born to an unknown father, intoxicated by images of the Napoleonic epic, Alexandre swore to conquer glory. Having amassed a small nest egg in the region's factories, he arrived in the Paris of Louis-Philippe... Lively, audacious, and seductive, he managed to slip into the world of journalism, ruled by Emile de Girardin, the magnate of the popular, high-circulation press. He rubbed shoulders with celebrities, Hugo, Liszt, Gautier, and Nerval, and seduced the most prominent women of Parisian society and demi-mondaine. With the revolution of 1848, a political career opened up to his ambition. Yet it is a shattered destiny, a story of tragically lost illusions, that these feverish, romantic pages tell us, buzzing with balls, duels, intrigues, riots. Pages where the star journalist, author of Les Enfants de l'aube and Lettres à l'absente, seems to speak to us in a low voice about his own wounds. EAN: 9782253144021 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Man, a Woman, a Child - Segal Erich - book Summary : See photos EAN: 2724209206 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carré - book Summary : Issa, a young, starving Russian Muslim, arrives clandestinely in Hamburg... Along with Annabel, an idealistic lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a bank boss, they form a love triangle that will be swooped down upon by spies from three nations at war with terrorism. With caustic humor, mounting tension, and a poignant final scene, this work reveals a dark vision, impressive in its logic and acuity. EAN: 9782757814680 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One day it will be empty - Hugo Lindenberg - book Summary : It's summer in Normandy. The narrator is still in that childhood state where everything is intensely experienced, where one doesn't really know who one is, where an invasion of ants is equivalent to the declaration of a war that must be fought with all one's might. One day, he meets another boy on the beach, Baptiste. A friendship is formed between them, all the stronger because it is based on an imbalance: Baptiste has perfect parents, lives in a perfect house. His family is the image of a happiness that the narrator seeks everywhere, but which refuses him. Flanked by a grandmother with a pronounced accent, and a "monstrous" aunt, our narrator dreams, imagines, tells himself stories, tries to overcome the social and familial shame that grips him in the face of his new friend. He enters a murky zone where the feeling of belonging is ambiguous: where, ultimately, does his loyalty lie? Written in a chiseled and very sensitive language, Un jour ce sera vide is a novel made of silences and luminous scenes that we leave with the melancholy of the end of vacation. Hugo Lindenberg explores the feelings, good and bad, that run through every family, and the weight of the traumas of History. Born in 1978, Hugo Lindenberg is a journalist. One Day It Will Be Empty is his first novel. He lives and works in Paris.  EAN: 9782267032673 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A big step towards the Good Lord - Jean Vautrin - book Summary : The one who opens this great novel will leave for Louisiana, visit the Cadjins, and share the destiny of three generations. The action begins in 1893 and ends in 1920. We will thus see Edius Raquin, the father, cunning, stubborn, the very example of these pioneer coureurs de bois who, in those times, did not hesitate to trust nature and the Good Lord. Then Edius's future son-in-law will appear, this famous Ferouche Ferraille Crowley, the man with slate eyes, the outlaw who draws quickly. Is that all? No, because Palestine Northwood, the sailor from Nantucket, a former harpooner, is also part of the celebration and the drama. To what extent? And why? This is the secret of this book where everyone, from Poitou, Ireland, Germany or Acadia, Creole or Yankee Indian, often a black cousin of the slaves, speaks French to make their way in the world. It is also important to know that we will meet Jim here, the grandson of Edius Raquin, and that the child discovered at the bottom of a New Orleans trash can will lead us, by magic, to the birth of ragtime and the blues, of which he will become a symbol under the name of Jimmy Trumpet. EAN: 9782246407119 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Happy Marriage - Konsalik - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724207130 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Lord for a Maid - Isabelle Goddard - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280311618 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Big Fish - Martha Grimes - book Summary : Because they are reliable and make their living by killing, Candy and Carl are hired to eliminate L. Bass Hess, a detestable literary agent on Broadway. Because they always make it a point of honor to know their target before acting, the two men begin by finding out, in their own way. They then discover that the literary agent is true to his reputation: Hess is suing Cindy Sella, one of his former authors, in order to extract a commission from her for a book he never dealt with. This immediately convinces the two accomplices – already convinced that "it's better to cross Afghanistan on a skateboard than to work in publishing" – to save the honor (and career) of the young novelist by dealing with the annoying person in their own way. "Martha Grimes has written a fabulously offbeat novel where the crooks discuss philosophy and literature." Le Tarn Libre EAN : 9782266263887 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Mysterious Man - DPJ 6 - volume 2 - Georges Moréas - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782265038141 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A slight lull - Nicolas Rey - book Summary : Confession of a Child of the Century is the most personal, the most intimate of Nicolas Rey's books, which he tells for the first time, with a sincerity that moves, without any embellishment. We find the themes that are dear to him, the atmosphere of his novels, vulnerability and cowardice in love, texts in the bathroom, football, Paris, close friendship... But above all, we find that little music, that concise grace that is his own, a way of making a fleeting sensation, ordinary life, universal. Between laughter and tears, a very beautiful text, his most beautiful text will reflect a lot, a magnificent moment of reading studded with jewels, images and sentences to read and reread like so many vitamins for the soul. EAN : 9782846262200 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Bed of Hawthorn - Jean Anglade - book Summary : At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother's love for her three boys with very different destinies: one becomes a priest, another an officer, the third a pimp. Viverols, a mountain commune surrounded by woods and pastures, on the borders of four provinces: Auvergne, Forez, Velay, Vivarais. In 1902, a Corsican gendarme, Pancrace Cervoni, was appointed brigade chief there. He married a young, almost illiterate peasant woman, Tiennette Farigoule, whose mother claimed to be a descendant of the Dauphin Louis XVII, who had escaped from the Temple and taken refuge in the region. They had three sons together. The first would become a priest, the second an officer, and the third a pimp. But, unconcerned by these dissimilar careers, Tiennette harbored an equal and passionate love for them, ready for any indulgence. With In A Bed of Hawthorn, Jean Anglade tells us the captivating and multi-coloured, burlesque and moving story of this 'Mother Goriot' and her three sons. EAN : 9782258091559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver - book Summary : Set against the wild and grandiose backdrop of the Appalachians, "A Prodigal Summer" weaves together three women's stories. Deanna, a forestry employee whose solitude is shattered by the arrival of a young hunter. Lusa, an intellectual widow who decides to stay in the valley and win the heart of a hostile family. Finally, Nannie, whose opinions on religion and pesticides spark neighborhood feuds. In this rich and generous novel, Barbara Kingsolver addresses the theme most dear to her—respect for nature—with a charm and grace that inspires enthusiasm. EAN : 9782743612610 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A Happy Event - Eliette Abécassis - 2005 - book EAN: 9782286016739 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A Most Wanted Man - John le Carré - 2008 - book EAN: 9782020980517 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A great orator Abbé Bergey - B. Bordachar - 1963 - book EAN: Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Indian Summer - Truman Capote - 2003 - book EAN: 9782869302914 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A Feast in Words - Literary History of Gastronomic Sensitivity from Antiquity to the Present Day - Jean-François Revel - 1998 - book EAN: 9782259181426 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A Son of America - Nelson Algren - 2000 - book EAN: 9782264029201 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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