Title : The Angel Recital - Tracy Chevalier - book Summary : London, January 1901: Queen Victoria has just died. As custom dictates, the families go to the cemetery. Their graves were adjoining, the Waterhouses and the Colemans get to know each other, and their granddaughters immediately become friends. Yet the families have little in common. One embodies the traditional values ​​of the Victorian era, while the other yearns for more freedom. In the cemetery, the true heart of the novel, Lavinia and Maude often meet and share their games and secrets with Simon, the gravedigger's son, much to their parents' dismay. Lavinia is raised to respect principles, while Maude is left to her own devices: her mother, Kitty Coleman, lives in her own fantasies. Neither reading, nor gardening, nor even an affair are enough to give her a taste for life. Until the day she discovers the suffragette cause. The lives of both families will be changed forever. EAN: 9782070425808 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Sweater - Gilles Perrault - book Summary : Twenty-two-year-old Christian Ranucci was guillotined on July 28, 1976, at 4:13 a.m. in the courtyard of Baumettes Prison. Was he guilty or innocent? In The Red Sweater , which provides an important piece to the case for the death penalty, we find the remarkable qualities of Gilles Perrault's famous works: The Gardens of the Observatory, The Boy with Grey Eyes, and Oberleutnant von La Rochelle's Holiday. EAN: 9782253025436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prisoner of Beaubourg - No. 28 - Brigade Mondaine - Gérard De Villiers - Michel Brice - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782744311529 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Professor and the Mermaid - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - book Summary : Nostalgic for a Sicily bathed in light, the narrator recounts the lost kingdom of his childhood, the vast aristocratic mansions with a thousand hidden corners. The same happy melancholy runs through the story of this famous professor, who has never recovered from his love affair with a mermaid... Through stories where beauty and death intertwine, the author prepares The Cheetah , his masterpiece. Born in Palermo, the Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) was an aristocrat of high European culture. He died just after writing The Cheetah , his masterpiece, translated worldwide and adapted for the cinema by Visconti. “A magnificent picture of provincial customs.” Release EAN : 9782253050421 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prince of Central Park - Evan H. Rhodes - book Summary : Beyond this zone stretched a dangerous territory. Jay-jay knew that gangs of teenagers were prowling (...), ready to pounce on the first passerby unwary enough to venture into their hunting ground. When game was scarce, the young wolves devoured each other (...)" When, at eleven years old and in the middle of New York, Jay-jay escapes from his adoptive mother's apartment to flee her tyranny, one could fear for him. But this modern-day Gavroche has more than one trick up his sleeve and quickly becomes the Robinson Crusoe of Central Park. Finding refuge in an oak tree, he takes advantage of the night to discover his new magical territory... He survives there from day to day, takes in a dog, meets an old woman with whom a curious friendship is born. But he must also escape Elmo, a young drug addict who has sworn to kill him... EAN : 9782277128199 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Stein Report - José Carlos Llop - book Summary : A past fraught with threats that darkens the present and blocks the future gives Llop's novels an inimitable tone. The outside world is as opaque as consciences, and the shadow of civil war disqualifies innocence, even childish ones, from the outset. We are in Spain, at the end of the 1960s, in a provincial port city. The hero, an overly sensitive teenager, feels trapped in a world where adults seem condemned to guilt, extravagance, and decline. At his grandparents' house, where he lives, the atmosphere is as stifling as that of the Jesuit school he attends. Until the day Stein appears, a new student whose free-spirited manner and casualness bring a wonderful breath of modernity and a spirit of adventure to the class. Spanish critics have compared The Stein Report to The Great Meaulnes and The Disarray of Student Törless. José Carlos Llop was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1956. He received the Best Short Stories Published in Spain award in 1999 and has published six collections of poetry, a Journal, and several novels, two of which were published by our publishers: Parle-moi du troisième homme (Tell Me About the Third Man) in 2005 and Le Messager d'Alger (The Messenger of Algiers) in 2006. Both were enthusiastically received by French critics. EAN : 9782742772780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Buenos Aires Quintet - Manuel Vasquez Montalban - book Summary : Pepe Carvalho leaves Barcelona to delve into a completely different world, that of today's Buenos Aires. He goes there to investigate the disappearance, linked to obscure political reasons, of his cousin Raul. Throughout his research, his discovery of the city and the country's gastronomy will be punctuated by numerous encounters, among others with Alma, a beautiful green-eyed activist, a man who pretends to be Borges's natural son, a former torturer, a few corpses too... and many other characters who are all faces of contemporary Argentina. More than ever true to his reputation as a gourmet and disillusioned philosopher, detective Pepe Carvalho draws us, not without humor, into a plot full of twists and turns. EAN : 9782020386661 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Quay of Ouistreham - Florence Aubenas - book Summary : “The crisis. We talked about nothing else, but without really knowing what to say or how to take stock of it. Everything gave the impression that the world was collapsing. And yet, around us, things still seemed to be in their right place. I decided to go to a French city where I had no ties, to look for work anonymously… I rented a furnished room. I only came back home twice, in a hurry: I had too much to do there. I kept my identity, my name, my papers, and I registered as unemployed with only a baccalaureate as luggage. I went blonde. I never took off my glasses. I didn't receive any benefits. It was agreed that I would stop the day my search came to fruition, that is, the day I landed a permanent contract. This book tells the story of my quest, which lasted almost six months, from February to July 2009. I kept my room furnished. I returned there this winter to write this book. Florence Aubenas EAN : 9782879296777 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Trial - Franz Kafka, Orson Welles - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218747687 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prisoner of the Alcazar - Michèle Barrière - book Summary : August 1525: Francis I is held prisoner by Charles V in Madrid after the disastrous defeat at Pavia. His sister Margaret travels to Spain to secure his release. Quentin du Mesnil is to accompany her. For the moment, he has other worries: his engagement to the beautiful Alicia ended in the murder of an Italian banker who was picking a fight with one of his friends, the explorer Verrazzano. Quentin cannot shirk his duty, but the journey will have some surprises in store for him. The promiscuity with Marguerite, his first love, frightens him, and they will discover, upon their arrival in Madrid, that the king is dying. Everything will have to be done to restore him to health. With the help of a Jewish doctor and a Muslim apothecary, he will recreate, day after day, a gastronomic universe worthy of the Arabian Nights . But the negotiations stall, the fiancée arrives point-blank, bandits are looking for Verrazzano's maps, the Inquisition gets involved... The king's escape must be organized without delay. EAN : 9782709643900 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prince Who Searched for Love - Christian Oster - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782211058896 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Wolf Trial - Zarko Petan - book EAN: 9782210754911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Protector - David Morrell - 2008 - book EAN: 9782253116479 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Spring will come from the sky - Michel Jeury - 1999 - book EAN: 9782266076586 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Raft of the Medusa - François Weyergans - 1986 - book EAN: 9782070377725 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Fourth Wall - Sorj Chalandon - 2013 - book EAN: 9782246808718 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Bathing Rat - Boris Vian - 1983 - book EAN: 9782264004932 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Brodeck Report - Philippe Claudel - 2009 - book EAN: 9782253125723 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Rapture of Lol V. Stein - Marguerite Duras - 2004 - book EAN: 9782070368105 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The political program of a guy named Coluche - Bhat Eric and Gerard Jean-Quentin - 1981 - book EAN: Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Magnetic Gaze - Hypnosis, pain and relaxation, suggestion, magnetism, sophrology, sleepwalking - Parapsychology - 1977 - book EAN: Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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