Title: When China wakes up... the world will tremble - Alain Peyrefitte - 1975 - book EAN: 2245001494 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Angélique - Guillaume Musso - book Summary : Even angels have their demons... Paris, Christmas 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in a hospital room. An unknown young woman is standing at his bedside. It's Louise Collange, a student who has come to play the cello for patients on a voluntary basis. When she learns that Mathias is a cop, she asks him to take on a rather unusual case. Initially reluctant, Mathias finally agrees to help her, plunging them both into a deadly spiral. Thus begins an extraordinary investigation, the secret of which lies in the life we ​​would have liked to lead, the love we could have known, and the place we still hope to find... EAN: 9782702183687 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Few Seconds Away - Harlan Coben - book Summary : Caught in the infernal spiral of blackmail and betrayal, will Mickey still be able to find his father? Handsome, intelligent, sensitive: Jared had everything of a Prince Charming. However, he does not show up for the meeting that Ema - who met him online - arranged for him. Faced with the mystery of this love which, as soon as it is encountered, vanishes, Ema can count on a strong friend: Mickey Bolitar. Initially skeptical, Mickey will let himself be convinced by Ema to lead the investigation. And the facts will prove them right: two new disappearances of young people, stars of the basketball team of which Mickey is a member, come to shake the high school. Shaken by the unresolved death of his father, forced to move in with his uncle Myron Bolitar, Mickey, isolated, lets his instinct speak: these events are linked. If he doesn't quickly find out who is responsible, this case is likely to be the last of his young life. EAN : 9782265092518 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The Tasting - Yann Queffélec - Book Summary : Michel still believes in love and its power of transfiguration when, at fifty, he marries Ioura, twenty years old. He has a secret, but so does she. He is a publisher and owner of a beautiful wine estate above Nice. She's a wine expert, a romantic, and blind tasting loosens her tongue. But the art of wine, the beauty of the words it conjures up, are not enough to push back memory, and anyone hoping to abolish their past through love is condemned to relive it. EAN: 9782213626697 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 : Crime of Passion - Ludwig Lewisohn - Book Summary : Crime of Passion (1930), which was a considerable success in its time (Antonin Artaud and Bernard Steele translated it in 1932) is undoubtedly his most ambitious novel: a text whose modernity, at least after a good half-century, leaves one speechless. For the first time, in fact, Sex with a capital letter appears as the great troublemaker - that is to say, of truth - in a world where false libertines and true puritans are sent back to back to their mediocre desires: desires magnetized not by the flesh but by the secret taste for power. The rage that inhabits this book is the one that we already feel at work in Mr. Crump: hell is on earth, and first of all behind the tidy facades of family respectability, of good conscience, of love itself. Lewisohn retraces here, with a meticulousness that, as usual, spares us nothing, the destiny of a few trendy New York couples - between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties. One is liberal and yet conformist, emancipated in words but prudish deep down, and one spends one's time lying: to others of course, but first and foremost to oneself. And one is barely surprised when one of these beings betrayed by the spirit of the times, tired of all this pretense, takes a revolver from his pocket and kills. Not to punish adultery, but to allow love to finally speak without a mask EAN: 9782859406059 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Silence - Daniel Arsand - book Summary : A chronicle of a family in the provinces at the beginning of this century, In Silence evokes a time that for millions of people was first one of exile: peasants believed they would find a better future in the city, and were then forced to wander as lost souls. Edgar sold the poor farm that his family ran in the hamlet of Doisnons, in the Madeleine mountains, and moved to Roanne with his wife Adélaïde and his two daughters, Marie and Anne. But the city is a strange place, where pleasure is bought - and escaped - where the earth is no longer there to protect you from its authority. Edgar will not resist it for long. He leaves behind three women who will each attempt, with varying success, to invent a new world in which to live... All three remain haunted by the feeling of a loss to be filled: Adélaïde, powerless to grasp life, withdraws into seclusion; Marie, who embodies the norm (selfishness and ambition mixed together), will soon offer the image of what is rather hastily called success; Anne, for her part, guardian of the old savageries, will refuse to abandon the free paths even if they lead to the worst. Three characters condemned to live outside themselves who have nothing left but the desperate desire to find themselves... or the fervor to lose themselves. Everything in them is irretrievable. Carried by the memory of a past from which they know they are excluded, they are at the mercy of the whims and renunciations of their own memory. Doomed by it to be, well before the hour of the end, nothing but emptiness and silence. A deafening silence, echoing with the thousand questions we cannot formulate. EAN: 9782752902085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Djem - Roderick Conway Morris - book Summary : This novel is based on historical facts that have fascinated mankind since the 15th century. Djem, the younger son of Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, really did exist. This prince, gifted in the arts, open to both Christianity and Islam, and curious about everything that came from the West, was at the center of a fierce succession dispute upon his father's death. Defeated by his brother, taken in by the Knights of Rhodes in 1482, then received as a "guest" in France and hidden to escape assassination attempts, he would later be at the heart of particularly devious political and religious intrigues. Some dream of a new crusade, others of a hidden treasure... Between the Borgias, the Pope, the kings, and the dissatisfied master of a vast Ottoman Empire, Djem, in order to survive, could not indefinitely retreat into proud distress. EAN: 9782752906038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Luis Sepúlveda - book Summary : A wild and beautiful book, built like an American thriller Antonio José Bolivar knows the depths of the Amazon rainforest and its inhabitants, the noble people of the Shuars . When the villagers of El Idilio wrongly accuse them of the murder of a white hunter, the The old man leaves his love stories – his only escape from the barbarity of men – to hunt down the real culprit, a majestic panther... " It doesn't take twenty lines for us to fall under its spell. Then we go on without being able to stop until an ending that our pleasure deems too quick. . » The World Born in Chile in 1949, Luis Sepúlveda , is one of the greatest contemporary Spanish-language authors. Translated worldwide, his novels, chronicles, stories, and short stories are available from Points. He died in April 2020. EAN: 9782020239301 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Companions of Silence - Paul Feval - book Summary : At the very beginning of the 19th century, Count Mario de Monteleone, cousin of Ferdinand, King of Naples, secretly leads the fight against the French. Secret: that's all there is to it. The conspirators have no weapons, but they possess a sense of their rights and know they can count on the surest ally: silence. Traps, kidnappings, crimes, real and fake suicides, and plots follow one another at a breathless pace. In this labyrinthine novel, published in volume form in 1858, Paul Féval explores the genesis of the terrible secret societies that Southern Italy soon made a dark specialty of, later giving rise to the Mafia and the Neapolitan Camorra. Both in style and in novelistic energy, the author once again proves himself the equal of the master of the serial novel: Alexandre Dumas. EAN: 9782752903891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Kill a Man - Carlo Gébler - book Summary : Ireland, 1854. The Great Famine is wreaking havoc. A secret society recruits among the starving farmers and practices murder, torture, and assassination under the pretext of driving out the English occupier. Greed is never far away. Political or religious discourse hides more private interests and creates a divide that will bloodily separate two communities that had once lived together. It is in this context that the steward Thomas French arrives with his family on the land of an English woman ruined by the poverty of her Irish tenant farmers. Very quickly, ordinary terror surrounds the newcomer, who is determined not to let himself be pushed around... Inspired by the memoirs of an administrator who was once condemned to death by his neighbors, How to Kill a Man is a dark, very dark novel with strong contemporary resonances. EAN: 9782752905185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memory of the River - Christian Dedet - book Summary : Booksellers' Prize 1985 Fight of an elephant caught by an anaconda while bathing in the river. Around the tenth hour of this titanic struggle, the elephant, which had left its trunk sticking out of the water each time it submerged, finally dragged the 15-meter snake to the bank to trample it in fury... Such is the Africa that Jean Michonet, son of a Norman and a mixed-race woman born to the Myéné people, tells of; a fabulous Africa of forests and rivers, chiaroscuro and vines torn apart by apocalyptic gallops... EAN: 9782859405731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Augustus Carp - Henry Howarth Bashford - book Summary : Anthony Burgess, the book's preface writer, doesn't mince his words: "One of the greatest humorous novels of the century." And one is surprised that this unique booklet, an object of worship for a large fan club of readers spread from one end of the planet to the other, had to wait three-quarters of a century before being translated into French (2003). A book that nearly made three generations of readers around the world die laughing and which is now considered a classic. A tremendous slap in the face of the British bourgeoisie's sagging cheeks - and, beyond that, right in the face of the worst human stupidity: that of "virtuous" people... who, once the book is closed, will hopefully never be forgiven for having done good. EAN : 9782752901149 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Here the path is lost - Peské Marty - book Summary : At the origin of this story, which is first and foremost a love song dedicated to the Russian soul, is the incredible story (perhaps true) of the hidden life of Tsar Alexander I, the conqueror of Napoleon, reputed to have died in 1825 at the age of forty-eight... but who, according to a legend in which Tolstoy firmly believed, secretly abdicated to lead a vagabond life for forty years, far from everything, in the depths of the solitudes of immense Siberia, a land of all excesses... EAN : 9782859407841 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fate of Mr. Crump - Ludwig Lewisohn - book Summary : Herbert Crump, born into a cultured family of German immigrants living in the southern United States, is a young musician destined for a brilliant career. When he leaves his parents to settle in New York, he meets Anne, about twenty years his senior. Although discreet and friendly, she turns out to be a clever manipulator determined to win over this man with a promising future. She succeeds, transforming Herbert's life into a living hell... EAN : 9782859405427 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Long March - Volume 3 The Wind of the Steppes - Bernard Ollivier - book Summary : From the snows of the Pamirs to the alleys of Kashgar, the only metropolis in Central Asia still living in the time of the Arabian Nights, from the endless deserts of the Taklamakan and Gobi to Han China, Bernard Ollivier continues to walk the Silk Road. Along the way, after following in the footsteps of the ancient followers of the Buddha's teachings, he comes to regret the generosity of Islam, so familiar to the traveler. If he draws some personal conclusions and struggles to find his bearings in a so-called modern world, it is always in the modest and reserved tone that gives his story the echo of the universal... EAN : 9782752907967 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Long March Volume 2 Towards Samarkand - Bernard Ollivier - 2013 - book EAN: 9782752907295 Used book at low prices Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Second Chronicle of the Reign of Nicholas I - Patrick Rambaud - 2008 - book EAN: 9782246752318 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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