Title: The Eden Bellwether Complex - Benjamin Wood - book Summary : Cambridge, present day. One evening, while passing through the campus after work, Oscar, a nursing assistant, is drawn to the sounds of the organ coming from King's College Chapel. Captivated despite himself, he cannot control a feeling of ecstasy. In the crowd, a young woman captures his attention. Iris is none other than the sister of the prodigious organist, Eden Bellwether. Introduced by Iris into their circle of friends, Oscar will discover Eden's exclusive passion for baroque music and her strange ideas about the hypnotic use of her art. A masterful first novel on the boundaries between genius and madness, manipulation and its perverse games.  A devilish book, impossible to put down. Marine Landrot, Télérama . A clever blend of novelistic virtuosity and scientific erudition. Stephanie Dupays, The World of Books . A masterstroke full of ambiguities. Baptiste Liger, L'Express . EAN: 9782253087229 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Light the Cat - Barbara Constantine - book Summary : Bastos, the philosophical and pedantic cat, manages to escape Raymond's rifle. Still, he taunts the cat! And there's the kid to deal with, a bit rubbish at football, who's found nothing better to do than get eczema on his face... Not to mention his idiot father who gets run over by a 200-kilo deer. There's definitely enough to get you crazy in this family! EAN: 9782757805725 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Peony Pavilion - Lisa See - book Summary : China, 17th century. Secluded in the women's luxurious apartments, Peony kills time before her wedding. But rather than engage in proper exercises—embroidery or singing—she prefers to immerse herself in dangerous readings that exalt mad love. When, on the occasion of her birthday, her father allows her to attend, hidden behind a screen, the performance of his favorite opera, Peony falls in love with an elegant poet. Passion will burn the young girl and take her on a journey that will last well beyond her own death. EAN: 9782290418567 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Manor in Cornwall - Eve Chase - book Summary : One family. One secret. One tragic summer. Four lives changed forever. Here's The Book of the Summer Cornwall, 1968. Pencraw, a grandiose ruined manor house where the Altons take up residence for the summer. Time seems to have stopped there and passes by without a hitch. Until the tragedy that turns their lives upside down and stops time forever. Fifty years later, with her fiancé Jon, Lorna drives in search of the Black Rabbits manor, the house where she stayed as a child. She dreams of celebrating her wedding there. Everything about this old house calls to her and attracts her. But is it really necessary to unearth the dark mysteries of this Cornish manor? EAN: 9782264074010 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: My divine comforter - Katarina Mazetti - book Summary : A freelance writer for the women's press, Wera comes across a classified ad offering an internship in spirituality. A golden opportunity! It's off for three weeks of immersion at La Béatitude, in the company of colorful characters... Will they emerge followers of a new religion or freed from their prejudices? In any case, everyone needs the sacred, like a divine comfort blanket to pamper. EAN: 9782330018795 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Vagabond Arrives - Collector - Robert Goolrick - book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 2013 "When Charlie Beale arrived in Brownsburg, he fell in love twice..." UNPUBLISHED PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR This novel received the Grand Prix des Lectrices from SHE 2013 Special Edition Limited edition This book received the ELLE Readers' Grand Prize 2013 in the "Novels" category and the Virgin Megastore Prize 2012. EAN: 9782266252522 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Strange Suicide in a Low-Mileage Red Fiat - LC Tyler - book Summary : You can never do better than do it yourself. When his ex-wife, Geraldine, disappears, Ethelred decides to use his detective skills to find her. There's a small problem: Ethelred, a professional writer, has his knowledge of crime from detective novels that sprang from his imagination, which has also vanished a while ago. What better way to find inspiration than a real-life investigation? From false leads to stunning revelations, reality far surpasses fiction... "We wonder in this investigation who is leading us on the most: Ethelred, Geraldine, or the author. The detective novel, for its part, has just found its Monty Python." Le Point "A Machiavellian plot with endless twists and turns, [which] is bathed in typically British deadpan humor, full of impertinence, irony and subtlety." Le Figaro Magazine EAN: 9782266216753 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: One December Evening - Delphine DE VIGAN - book Summary : "Can a book bear the mark of a woman to this extent? Can one write only for that, to get closer to someone or – more accurately – to attach them to oneself?" When he wrote his first novel, Matthieu Brin, forty-five years old, was married, the father of two children, and living a comfortable life. And then came success, praise, and letters from fans. Among these letters were those from a woman he loved and thought he had forgotten... Under the intimate and striking pen of Delphine de Vigan, Un soir de décembre tells the story of a sudden crack in a man's existence, of a moment of fragility where certainties fade, where the past resurfaces and where memory is recomposed. A captivating book about what drives novelists to delve deep into themselves to write. Sometimes at their own expense... Psychologies. Two wounded women, and a man in disarray, whom Delphine de Vigan does not judge, whose melancholy she accompanies with clear words: A December evening delicately questions the faults of love . The world of books. EAN: 9782253070993 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Foreign Body - Didier van Cauwelaert - book Summary : Can one change one's life for love, become someone new under another identity, without sacrificing one's usual existence? This is what Frédéric will dare. At eighteen, he had published a novel under the name Richard Glen that went unnoticed, then he had given up writing; he had conquered Paris in another way... But one day, a young student from Bruges sent a letter to this forgotten pseudonym, to this part of himself that had been dormant for more than twenty years. From unknown temptations to the joys of imposture, he will invent another past, another present in Karine's eyes, making Richard Glen more and more real, more and more alive... But how long can two personalities share a body? With his humor and relentless tenderness, the novelist of Un aller simple , winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt, draws us into a poignant story that explores the secret dream of many of us. EAN: 9782253147930 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Farewell Waltz - Milan Kundera - book Summary : In a spa town with an old-fashioned charm, eight characters embrace to the rhythm of an accelerating waltz: a pretty nurse; a fanciful gynecologist; a rich American (both saint and Don Juan); a famous trumpeter; a former prisoner, victim of the purges and about to leave his country... A "midsummer night's dream". A "black vaudeville". The most serious questions are posed with a blasphemous lightness that makes us understand that the modern world has deprived us even of the right to tragedy. EAN: 9782070370436 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Christine - Stephen King - book Summary : Libertyville (Pennsylvania), a quiet town that ceases to be so - quiet... ...the day Arnie, a high school student in his awkward prime, falls in love with Christine. Not a pretty brunette, not a fatal redhead, no: an old 58 Plymouth Fury that is nothing more than a ruin rusted to death. Thanks to Arnie - a born handyman -, it comes back to life and soon it runs! But as it pleases: it stalls for no reason, then leaps like a wild animal, all this with squeals that sound like screams. In short, apart from its driver, no one feels comfortable in this nasty car. And especially not Leigh, Arnie's sweet girlfriend. Arnie, by the way, is no longer the same. There is drama in the air, worse than drama... What happened on the Detroit network where Christine was born? EAN: 9782277218661 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Memory of Walls - Tatiana de Rosnay - book Summary : For her new life as a divorced woman without children, Pascaline has found the apartment she wanted. But against all odds, she feels uncomfortable in this two-room apartment, despite its calm and bright surroundings. She learns that a tragedy has taken place there, but she nevertheless decides to remain within these walls marked by tragedy, which slowly push her to unearth an old pain, which at 40 she will have to confront. EAN: 9782253127710 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Save Me - Guillaume Musso - book Summary : The hardest part isn't finding love, it's knowing how to keep it. One winter evening in the heart of Broadway, Juliette, a pretty twenty-eight-year-old French woman, crosses paths with Sam, a young New York pediatrician. Afraid of disappointing him, she hides from him the fact that she's working a series of odd jobs while nurturing dreams of becoming an actress. Afraid of becoming attached, he pretends he's married even though his wife has just died. Despite this double lie, they will fall in love for an intense, magical, unforgettable weekend. But Juliette must return to Paris, and Sam can't find the words to keep her by his side. The young woman's plane had barely taken off when it exploded in mid-air. Yet their story is far from over... "A high-flying act between passion and suspense." Le Parisien "Guillaume Musso is a bit like the James Cameron or Steven Spielberg of contemporary French literature." Brice Depasse, Reading is a pleasure EAN: 9782266245777 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Those We Love - Steve Mosby - book Summary : You leave a message for a loved one. They only respond by email or text message. You're not worried. Would you imagine for a second that it's not them writing to you, but their tormentor, who's keeping them sequestered, deprived of food and water? Yet this is the modus operandi of a serial killer who preys on young, single women, assuming their identities to better condemn them... Born in 1976 in Leeds, Steve Mosby is a young British writer. This second novel features all the Machiavellian art of intrigue and the unparalleled perversity that made his success. One in two , also available in Points. “Do you have any commitments for the evening? Cancel them!” The Guardian Translated from English by Clément Baude EAN: 9791041412969 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The River of Hope - Volume 3 - The Soul of the Valley - Christian Signol - book Summary : With Benjamin's return, the Donadieus have resumed their lives, punctuated by the rising and falling of their "River of Hope," the Dordogne. But progress, the magic word of the 19th century, leaves them little respite. The expansion of the railway network and the competition waged by the railways through low prices gradually reduce the river trade to ruin. Benjamin and Marie no longer have a choice: they must leave Souillac, their beloved valley, to go up into the high country to work in the timber trade. An uprooting, a new heartbreak, and a world to discover, that of lumberjacks and the dark forests of the hills... "Christian Signol breathes into the anonymous destinies of his characters a breadth and a sincerity, a humility too, which are rare things... It is this art of the simple and the true which makes the charm and the success of his books..." Laurence Vidal – Le Figaro EAN: 9782266128346 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Hello Sadness - Françoise Sagan - book Summary : Sagan's first novel (summer 1954). Seventeen-year-old Cécile and her widowed father are having fun. Solitary, they need no one. But the visit of an intelligent and calm woman disrupts their world. THE GREAT TEXTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY The villa is magnificent, the summer is scorching hot, the Mediterranean nearby. Cécile is seventeen. She knows nothing of love but kisses, dates, and weariness. Not for long. Her father, a widower, is a joyful devotee of fleeting and unimportant affairs. They have fun, they don't need anyone, they are happy. The visit of a kind-hearted, intelligent, and calm woman disrupts this delicious chaos. How can the threat be averted? In the blazing pine forest, a cruel game is being prepared. It was the summer of 1954. For the first time, the dry, rapid voice of a "charming little monster" was heard who would cause a scandal. The second half of the 20th century was beginning. She would be like this adolescent torn between remorse and the cult of pleasure. EAN: 9782266344258 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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