Title : My Country Reinvented - Isabel Allende - book Summary : In this story published on the thirtieth anniversary of Allende's fall, Isabel Allende tells us about Chile—her Chile, an invented country, imagined in exile. The author interweaves her country's geography, history, culture, and mentalities with memories and personal thoughts, retracing her entire life. Her extravagant family, childhood, encounters, and travels are all windows that open onto the reality of a country and a people, as well as the origins of a novel. Some dates in the author's life: 1942: Born in Lima. Her father, Salvador Allende's first cousin, a cultured, dandy, and bohemian man, was an embassy secretary there. 1945: Her mother annulled her marriage and returned to Chile with her three children. 1953: Her mother remarried a diplomat. They were posted to Bolivia and then Lebanon. 1962: Isabel marries Miguel Frias; they have a daughter, Paula, and travel to Europe. 1966: Returns to Chile and the birth of her son, Nicolas. 1970: Salvador Allende is elected president of the republic. Isabel works for television in Santiago. 1973: September 11, coup d'état; officially, the President has committed suicide. 1975: Threats weigh on the family. They leave for Venezuela, where they will live for thirteen years. 1982: Publication of The House of the Spirits. 1987: Divorce, then meet her current husband, they settle in California. 1990: Democracy is restored in Chile; Isabel receives the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the President. EAN : 9782246654414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Man and Myths - Jean-Pierre Hammel - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218064289 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Historical Dictionary - Vallaud Dominique - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286108090 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The King's Daughters - Colette Piat - book Summary : A historic event that forever changed Quebec and France In 1759, a major battle raged on the Plains of Abraham, near Quebec City. It pitted the French colonists, who were defending the besieged city, against the attacking British army. The reader thus discovers the end of New France and the beginning of the British conquest through the correspondence of a surgeon from Quebec and his sister Marie, a reader at the Court of Versailles. These two passionate hearts recount the adventures into which History takes them. Throughout their lives, they encounter key figures of the era. EAN : 9782744128103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Russian Tsars - the Rioriks the Romanovs - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9785938936997 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Angèle's Clogs - Coulonges Georges - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724267559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Riders of the Veld - Michel de Saint Pierre - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2226027815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beauty of Louisiana - Jacqueline Monsigny - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782246364429 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pétain my prisoner - Joseph Simon - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782259003865 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great South - ADG - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782709606486 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Italian Art - André Chastel - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782080107565 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Sultan - Michael of Greece - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724266382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Such a Long Night - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : As New York prepares to celebrate Christmas, a woman abandons her child outside a church and disappears into the night. Inside, a petty criminal waits for the last priest to leave to steal a precious religious object, until the police force him to retreat. As for the baby, no one will know it was there... It took the greatest of coincidences for Willy and Alvirah Meehan, two ace detectives, to uncover the trail of this incredible affair years later. A turbulent investigation began and, for the countless readers of The Night of the Fox (Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980), one of those suspense stories that only Mary Higgins Clark knows the secret to. EAN : 9782253171393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen of the Damned. The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice - book Summary : One day, a vampire had a nightmare... When Lestat, an unholy, libertine, and suicidal vampire, improvises as a rock singer to shout his undead condition in the face of humanity, mortals give him a triumph, without imagining for a second that he is only telling them the truth. But, with his "music to wake the dead," Lestat has not only made enemies among his brothers who consider him a traitor and are determined to destroy him, he has also torn from her thousand-year-old sleep Akasha, the Mother of all vampires, the Queen of the Damned, Akasha who dreams only of reigning over mortals once again. EAN : 9782266044592 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tereza Batista - Jorge Amado - book Summary : Tereza Batista? Of all the characters created by Jorge Amado, she is undoubtedly the most colorful, the most colorful, the one who best embodies the common people of the province of Bahia, where the writer himself comes from, with her generosity, her optimism, and her courage to overcome misery and offenses. An orphan and leader of a gang of village kids, Tereza is sold, at the age of 15, to a rich man, a thief, a murderer, and a great fan of cockfighting. But she is a rebel. She kills her tormentor. Later, she fails, kidnaps him, and loves her passionately. Will she finally know happiness? Her protector dies. Once again, prostitution in a world where famine and epidemics are rife. But Tereza never gives up... Tereza Batista? A woman of flesh and blood, but also a legend. Tereza with many names: "Tereza of the Knife", "Tereza of the Seven Sighs", "Tereza of the Velvet Hands", etc. With her, with this book which is undoubtedly one of the writer's masterpieces, Jorge Amado enchants us with a magic, an enchantment, a sensuality and a spirit of insubordination which are the very life of his much-loved Brazil. EAN : 9782253933014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History, Volume 9 - The French Revolution and the Empire - Georges-Henri Dumont - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782501004602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History No. 8 - English power and the end of the old regime 1700-1789 - Georges-Henri Dumont - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782501004329 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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