Title: Oedipus the King - Lamaison Sophocles - book Summary : He had silently crossed a city that oozed death. Pyrolos, the citadel's gatekeeper, had led him to the palace vestibule where the maids had welcomed him, according to ritual. Often questioned about the circumstances of this arrival, Pyrolos had been able to report only three things about the strange traveler: the infrequency of his words, the absence of any luggage, the unusual swelling of his sandals. Where did he come from? - From the sanctuary of Delphi. Where was he going? - Towards my destiny. What was his name? - Look at my feet. They call me Oedipus. Many years later, no one would know more. EAN: 9782070300440 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Short Memory - Louis-Ferdinand Despreez - book Summary : In the midst of an election campaign, a series of murders destabilizes South Africa. Every Saturday morning, a man is found in a trash can, on a train seat, in a park, or in front of the presidential palace. The bodies are violently mutilated and the skin has been torn off their faces. How can the victims be identified? Inspector Zondi will try to stop the vicious cycle of these crimes... Louis-Ferdinand Despreez is an English-speaking South African citizen who writes in French, the language of his Huguenot ancestors. He has traveled extensively. Short Memory is his first novel. “A masterstroke.” Le Figaro EAN: 9782757804667 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Dead of the Karst - Veit Heinichen - book Summary : Things are going badly for Commissioner Laurenti: his wife is leaving him, and his son is spending his time in a bar frequented by ultra-nationalists. His only escape is work, of which there is no shortage... A house is blown up, killing a couple and their child. A sordid settling of scores or a fascist crime? Under the snow and icy wind, the investigation promises to be tricky... Veit Heinichen, born in 1957, was a bookseller, journalist, and publisher in Germany. He now lives in Trieste. The Dead of the Karst is the second investigation of Commissioner Laurenti after The Sharks of Trieste , already available in Points. “A thriller that renews the genre and opens up to other cultures.” Read EAN: 9782757807026 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Key to Sixteen - Patrick Raynal - book Summary : "Louis Seize... Already, that's a name for a cop! You lose your mind easily... Or, at least, when you lose your illusions, you systematically do the opposite of what we want you to do. For example, an armed robbery. Then you get five years. Firm. And in prison, you learn to be smart, failing to return to the straight and narrow, which, outside, is rather tortuous, crosses Nice, a city where everything is recovered, everything is digested, everything changes, where yesterday's honest people become tomorrow's rotten ones, where those who give lessons never remember the lessons they have given. So you, Louis Seize, head first, you get yourself a scaffold." EAN: 9782070409587 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Green Lantern - Jerome Charyn - book Summary : "They were given a mousetrap in Strangler Alley, the old Paradiz, where Chaliapin had sung before going into exile. The place was crawling with rats and all its exits were sealed off before the Traveling Comedians from Tiflis arrived for six weeks of performances. Their stage manager, Boris Nikolayevich Tushkov, had connived with the Georgian Party leaders. His only triumph had been King Lear. And now he was bringing Lear to Moscow." It's a rather risky production... To perform a play about a doddering old king, a widower and father of Cordelia, when Stalin is approaching sixty, his wife is dead, he has a young daughter and is as secretive as Lear, is that not very dangerous? All the more so since, hidden in his Kremlin office where a green lantern is permanently lit, Stalin controls everything, monitors the slightest actions of his "subjects", and in particular the artists, all peddlers of ideas quickly deemed subversive... EAN: 9782070308729 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Microcosms - Claudio Magris - book Summary : This time, Claudio Magris takes us from the Café San Marco to the Church of the Sacred Heart in Trieste, passing through a few borderlands, marginal places, secrets of a Europe with a vivid memory and a burning past. The witnesses of time are those forgotten by History, whose poor, contradictory and fascinating lives make and judge History. Nine place names constitute the titles of the chapters of this book, which is neither a travel journal, nor a fragment of autobiography, nor a historical essay, nor a roman à clef, but perhaps the story of an initiatory journey, shrouded in the presence of a vanished Beloved, through places, cultures, and myths dear to the author and rich in humanity. Microcosms eludes all classification: erudition presents itself as description, analysis sometimes assumes the role of narrative, real characters acquire the epic stature of heroes, and myths map out the uncertainties of reality. Magris, a man of the confines, here erases the boundaries of genres, languages, and time, in this quest for self that is every journey, a "lost guerrilla war against oblivion." EAN: 9782070412440 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Les Bulles - Claire Castillon - book Summary : When I was little, I thought I was abnormal; I'm delighted that you're seeing my brother; My husband hasn't touched me for ages, I don't see why he would cheat on me; I always knew I was my nephew's mother; Love is not a spectacle; If I die, think of Hugues Aufray. Never far from a fantasy, everyone here lives in their own bubble, through which the images of the world arrive distorted, cracked, desperate. Unless, acting as a magnifying glass, it allows us to better scrutinize certain disturbing details of truth. Thirty-eight short stories, thirty-eight scathing portraits. Cruel, incisive, and fair, this sparkling collection also offers a certain amount of nastiness. Frankly, it's exhilarating! Valérie Gans, Madame Figaro. EAN: 9782253159797 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Japanese - Raphaël Majan - book Summary : The commissioner is not an idiot who kills to build a track record. Nevertheless, among the many nationalities who have been victims of his investigations and assassinations, there are no Japanese. Little by little, this lack obsesses him. And all the more so since it is not as easy as he might have thought to remedy it. For the Japanese have their own ways of escaping his crimes, and assassins do not escape the law that weighs on every human being and transforms any desire for magnitude into unsatisfyable torture. EAN: 9782846820332 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Melchior's Promise - Alain Demouzon - book Summary : The gloom and dreariness of the Fontenay-Central police station are behind us. Forgotten are the heinous murders and other suburban news stories. Recently relieved of his duties, the singular Commissioner Melchior has gone to nurse his wounds at his cousin's house by the sea. A little paradise on earth where he will, despite himself, have to return to duty. The motive? The murder, seven years earlier, of Mariette Pontel, a young woman found strangled in an abandoned blockhouse. A mystery that Melchior, like a good Samaritan, promises to solve. At the risk of putting himself in personal danger. For the murderer is far from having expressed his last wishes. EAN: 9782266138970 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland - book Summary : Forget everything you think you know about family romance: Douglas Coupland, cult author of Generation X , is stripping the genre clean. The Drummonds, a friendly tribe of weirdos, arrive in Florida and devastate its picture-postcard setting. Part wacky soap opera, part visionary comic, this is a hilarious reflection on family ties in a society sick of progress. "Adultery, heart attack, Disney World, robbery, cloning, lunch at NASA and black market: at the Drummonds', family reunions go haywire. It's wacky, cheerful, clear. And above all, representative of a sitcom-ized America." She EAN: 9782264037725 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Julie - Daniel Crozes - book Summary : At the beginning of the century, Julie Tournié, daughter of small farmers from Aveyron, married at the age of seventeen a wealthy landowner ten years her senior. This marriage was arranged by her father, but she hoped in this way to escape her condition. On the day of the ceremony, a letter from the family doctor informed her that her husband had syphilis. Terrified and revolted, she decided to flee the estate and go alone to Paris. Thus began a daily struggle. EAN: 9782812606625 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Shopaholic Says Yes - Sophie Kinsella - book Summary : Her motto? I spend, therefore I am. Her vision of marital duty? Choosing the timeless ring. It's insane, and yet Becky Bloomwood is getting married! And needless to say, the preparations are shaping up to be... catastrophic: very quickly, the delicate question of where to celebrate the union arises. In Dad's ridiculously British little garden, with its colorful tent and wedding dress that makes you look like "a sausage in a puff pastry turnover"? Or at the legendary Plaza Hotel, under the aegis of her mother-in-law, a real Cruella in a total fashion look? Torn between a taste for luxury and respect for tradition, Becky the flamboyant woman will have to choose this time. For better or for laughs... EAN: 9782266144711 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Routard Polar - The Angels of the Mekong - Patrick Mercado - book Summary : The Angels of the Mekong "Nothing is simple in Asia." Luis, whom he met in Laos, keeps repeating this to Edmond Benakem. This barrel-built guy, whose gait oscillates between the waddle of a duck and the nonchalance of a grizzly bear, distracts Eddie from his work to go down the Mekong in search of a young Hmong girl taken from her parents. This initiatory hunt will lead them, after many adventures and endearing encounters, to Phnom Penh. Confronted with violence he never suspected, fascinated by the Khmers, bewitched by Jeanne, Edmond learns the hard way that it is a land "that eats away at your soul" and succumbs to the Mekong blues. Young Edmond Benakem, nicknamed Eddie, a Frenchman of Tunisian-Breton descent, a reporter for the Guide du Routard, would like to peacefully do his job as a globetrotting explorer. But he doesn't take into account the formidable force of circumstances, which, for each new destination, leads him into incredible tribulations. Faced with extraordinary situations, Eddie reacts with his heart, his humor, and his sensitivity. Each time, for each thriller, a colorful journey to the land of fierce confusion... EAN: 9782012430754 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Day of the Killer Child - Pierre Pelot - book Summary : 35,000 years ago, the Anâanni clan led a peaceful life on the shores of a lake in the mountains. When Okgha the Dream assigns Ahorn to restore life and strength to the neighboring clan, the Ohihani, Ahorn willingly accepts because he knows he will find Ene'a, whom he has been thinking about ever since he saw her on the shore one day when the Ohihani women came to visit—or so he believes. For among the Ohihani, strange men with sewn lips, the nokh, seem to hold a dangerous secret, and several women have disappeared, among them Ene'a. So Ahorn is drawn, despite himself, into a completely different story: to find Ene'a and, at the risk of his life, to confront the evil forces that transform men into nokh. EAN: 9782020349086 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shock of Love - Francesco Alberoni - book Summary : We hope for it, we endure it, we mourn it... We don't explain it. How does love begin? Why do we fall in love? Is love a revolution? Can you be in love with two people at the same time? To these questions, Francesco Alberoni answers with two words: nascent love, innamoramento Italian. The spark in the daily dreariness, the joyful openness to the world. Happiness mixed with worry because we don't know if this feeling is shared. The exquisite moment when everything is still possible. A transitory state that sometimes leads to love. A phenomenon comparable to collective revolutionary movements... EAN: 9782266050494 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : Distant Pavilions - 3 DVD Box Set - DVD Summary 1870. Officer Ashton Pelham-Martyn returns to India to join his regiment. An orphan of English blood, he was raised as an Indian in the kingdom of Gulkote alongside the young princess Anjuli. Torn between his two cultures, the man the Indians call "Ashok" will face his destiny in a country in turmoil... EAN : 5051889422594 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : The Conquest of a Heart - Vol. 1 & 2 - 4 DVD Box Set - DVD Summary During the conquest of the American West, Marty, a young woman who has lost her husband, meets a widowed farmer, Clark. He offers her to live with him and his daughter Missy for the winter. EAN : 3545020028612 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : The Gerfaut Laurent Le Doyen, Marianne Anska - 4 DVD box set - DVD Summary Brittany, 1779. Gilles Goëlo is a handsome young man in conflict with his mother; she calls him "the bastard," hides his father's identity from him, and destines him to become a country priest. But Gilles wants to discover the world and... women. He has just saved the charming Judith de Saint-Mélène from drowning and falls in love with her. Still eager to embark for the Americas, Gilles goes to see the Abbé de Thalhouet, his godfather, who tells him the secret of his birth... EAN : 3322069943898 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : Commissioner Moulin - Judicial Police - Season 1 - Volume 1 - 5 DVD box set - DVD Summary Jean-Paul Moulin is a young commissioner whose laid-back look and solitary methods stand out in the French police force. Assisted by his deputy Guyomard, he plunges with panache into the most perilous investigations that will bring him face to face with murderers, drug dealers, and thieves of all kinds. His first mission takes him on the trail of the killer of the owner of a wealthy fashion house. The beginning of a long career EAN : 3348467205536 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : The River of Hope - 5 DVD Box Set - DVD Summary 1832, Périgord. Benjamin dreams of becoming a boatman, like his father. A dangerous job like the Dordogne he must navigate. The river is also the scene of the rivalry between the seductive Emeline and the timid Marie for Benjamin's beautiful eyes... EAN : 5051889395324 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : Georges Simenon - The Innocents + To Hell + The Iron Staircase - 3 DVD Box Set - DVD Summary Find three TV films based on the work of Georges Simenon, three relentless thrillers by Denis Malleval: Les innocents, Jusqu'à l'enfer and L'escalier de fer. EAN : 3700477820732 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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Title : Roads to Heaven - Season 1 - Vol. 1 Michael Landon, Victor French - 5 DVD Box Set - DVD Summary The angel descended from heaven, Jonathan Smith, and his repentant partner Marc Gordon, an alcoholic ex-cop, travel the United States to meet others, in stories each more poignant than the last, trying to ensure that each small, innocuous gesture of life allows for a better and more just world. Discover on DVD the series by Michael Landon that has moved millions of viewers around the world. EAN : 3348467205642 used DVD DVD in zone 2 unless otherwise stated DVD sent in bubble wrap Delivery time from 48 to 72 hours on working days State: For more information on the states

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