Title : The Wild Swans - Jung Chang - Book Summary : The granddaughter of a concubine and a "warlord," and the daughter of high-ranking communist officials, Jung Chang lived in a "cocoon of privilege" until 1965. The Cultural Revolution, with its trail of denunciations and persecutions, placed China under a reign of terror. Jung saw her parents interned in a reeducation camp while she was deported to the countryside where she would become a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a factory worker, and more. Today, Jung Chang, living in Great Britain, offers us these memoirs of a Chinese family, from the Celestial Empire to Tiananmen. A relentless indictment of the Cultural Revolution, a magnificent book of memories woven around three generations of women, an irreplaceable historical testimony to the China of yesterday and today. EAN: 9782266055437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Damned of the Pacific - Daufelt - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 2 - The Snake Laboratory - Lemony Snicket - book Summary : Dear Reader, If you're looking for a gentle read, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong book. This story starts off as a bit of a laugh: a whimsical uncle, fascinating reptiles... Alas! This beginning is misleading, and the Baudelaire orphans will experience many misfortunes: a foul odor, a poisonous snake, a car accident, a stubborn lock, and the return of a person they hoped never to see again. I vowed to recount these tragic events, but you, dear reader, are free to close this volume and choose something funnier. With respect, Lemony Snicket. EAN: 9782092506837 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ladies of Boston - Eileen Lottman - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253036203 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ladies of Pontignac - Pierre Rétier - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782848864570 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Sacraments - Heinrich Böll - book Summary : "You know I'm an architect and that I should have built houses, but I never built any, I only blew them up." On the orders of a mad German army general, Robert Fähmel destroyed the splendid St. Anthony's Abbey during the Second World War. It was his own father, the old Fähmel, who had built it. Now Joseph, the son, is planning to rebuild it... Could it be to ward off the fate that has weighed on this German family of architects for three generations? Beneath the exterior of a vast family saga, a tale of ruins and successive constructions, one of Heinrich Böll's richest works tells us fifty years of German history. Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) grew up in a Catholic family that instilled in him a hatred of Nazism. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, he is one of the greatest German authors of the 20th century. His books Children of the Dead , Group portrait with lady , Lost Honor by Katharina Blum are available in Points. EAN : 9782020091343 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Dianes Volume 2 - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Dianes Volume 3 - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Dianes Volume 1 - Alexandre Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Green Gods - Pierre Devaux - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Democracies. Regimes, History, Demands - Olivier Duhamel - book Summary : Both an essay and a manual, this work pursues several ambitions. The Democracies aims to offer citizen-readers accurate information and critical reflection on the history, principles and forms of democracy. The Democracies offers students of constitutional law and political science a textbook that covers in a lively manner the major foreign regimes, the constitutional and political history of France, and the requirements of the democratic state. The Democracies presents a theory, accessible to all readers, of political systems applied to different countries. The United States, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and France are no longer studied solely in their specificities but are part of an overall vision. The Democracies invites a rereading of institutions in light of current questions about politics. Scientific analysis thus joins civic demands by seeking an articulation between governing democracy and deliberative democracy. EAN : 9782020207799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Schools - Yves Viollier - book Summary : Against the backdrop of the debate between public and private schools, the great novel of friendship. 984. Demonstrations are breaking out all over France in defense of free schools. For Chrysostome Lhermite, these events echo unbearably a distant and painful past, from his youth, when clans were already clashing. With his neighbor, his friend, Louis Malidin, they were then as close as fingers on a hand. That was before the war between the schools reached them in the flesh, before it led them to build a wall between their two houses. Has nothing changed, fifty years later? Or will 1984 finally be the occasion to sign the armistice and for their friendship to be reborn? With In The Two Schools, Yves Viollier delivers a wonderful lesson in hope in the power of forgiveness. EAN : 9782221140307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Destinies - Jacques Chardonne - book Summary : Of all Jacques Chardonne's novels, Les destins sentimentales is undoubtedly the most ambitious. This historical and intimate fresco traces the destiny of Jean and Pauline, a couple facing the upheavals of the first decades of the 20th century. Romantic adventure and social adventure intertwine, making this love story a subtle portrayal of the bourgeois and provincial society of the great cognac and porcelain manufacturers. A flamboyant, strangely contemporary work that reveals the art and style of one of the greatest French novelists. EAN : 9782226115898 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Ears and the Tail - San-Antonio - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782265026339 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The de Gaulles - A French Family - Christine Clerc - 2002 - book 9782290319222 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Ladies of the Faubourg - Volume 1 - Jean Diwo - 1997 - book EAN: 9782070378340 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Jaws - Peter Benchley - 1975 - book EAN: 9782245003275 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Breakers - Claudie Gallay - 2009 - book EAN: 9782841569342 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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