Title: The Rider of Baikal - Bernard Clavel - book Summary : Emerging from the steppe in a whirlwind of snow and wind, Sadko, escorted by a few horsemen, rides toward the setting sun. Banished for having wanted to supplant the overly old chief of his clan, he flees Lake Baikal and his people, in pursuit of another dream. Over there, say the elders, moons and moons away, lies another lake, with limitless waters. Sadko and his people are approaching unknown lands called Gaul. A chief named Caesar is waging a merciless war against tribes of blond men. How will these warlike peoples welcome the "barbaric" and peaceful horde from Asia? EAN : 9782266113953 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Life of Elves - Muriel Barbery - book Summary : One snowy evening, two newborns are left on the porch of a Burgundian farm and the steps of a church in Abruzzo. Named Maria and Clara, the orphans grow up in their respective adopted lands, among the peasants and simple folk of the mountains. Soon, it is suspected that they are endowed with singular powers. EAN : 9782072714238 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shotgun - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : Exhausted, too tired to move a finger, I mechanically let my gaze focus on your reflection in the window. You had finished scrubbing the barrel and were reassembling the slide, which you had also cleaned. Then you raised and lowered the rifle several times, shouldering each time. But soon after, the rifle stopped moving. You pressed it firmly against your shoulder and took aim, closing one eye. I realized that the barrel was clearly pointed at my back. Yasushi Inoue The Shotgun , or the many facets of an impossible passion. Three letters, addressed to the same man by three different women, form the tragic texture of this singular tale. At the beginning, a banal story of adultery. At the end, one of the most beautiful love stories in contemporary literature. With a formidable economy of means, in a subtly stripped-down language, Yasushi Inoue gives the eternal version of the doomed couple. EAN : 9782253059011 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Fatale - Jean-Patrick Manchette - book Summary : "Whichever way you turn," Manchette writes, "there is a long hill to climb to get out of Bléville." Thus, in Fatale as in his other books, there are sentences that carry strange metaphorical ambiguities. There is also one where we are not sure whether it ironically evokes the bloody clean-up undertaken by Aimée or the moral order necessary for harmony in Bléville. This sentence, a leitmotif inscribed on an automatic scale, a telephone terminal, or a municipal wastebasket, consists of a simple injunction: KEEP YOUR CITY CLEAN!" Jean Échenoz. EAN : 9782070407644 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Electra in Havana - Leonardo Padura - book Summary : Cuban diplomat's son found missing strangled to death in Havana. Alexis Arayán was made up as a woman. The investigation led Mario Conde in the footsteps of Alberto Marqués, a homosexual playwright, exiled in his own country. A cultured and cynical man, Marqués will introduce him to a Havana unknown where the quest for identity forces individuals to follow strange paths. “The mask for the pleasure of the mask, disguise as supreme truth." EAN : 9782757800249 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Way of the Sword - Thomas Day - book Summary : To complete his son Mikédi's education, the warlord Nakamura Ito entrusts him to a ronin named Miyamoto Musashi. A legendary samurai, the greatest sword master known to the Empire of the Four Catfish. Together, for six long years, the master and apprentice will travel the road leading to the capital Edo, where the Dragon Empress awaits Mikédi to make him her husband. But the Way of the Sword is far from cutting across the archipelago in a straight line: from the Nakamura fortress to the floating cities of Kido, from the Palace of Flavors to the Pagoda of Pleasure, Mikédi will learn the delights of pleasure, the suffering of combat, and the perverse sweetness of betrayal. With The Way of the Saber, Thomas Day immerses his readers in a fantasy Japan, a 17th-century Japan that never was, where magic and dragons exist, where the meteoritic metal of sabers is dipped in blood. EAN : 9782070420483 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Dialogues of Beasts - Colette - book Summary : TOBY-DOG: She grabbed me by the scruff of the back, like a small, square suitcase, and cold insults fell on my innocent head: "Ill-bred. Hysterical dog. Weepy sausage. Calf-hearted toad. Obtuse seal..." You know the rest. You heard the door, the poker she threw in the wastepaper basket, and the coal scuttle that rolled open, and all... KIKI-THE-SWEET: I heard. I even heard, O Dog, what didn't reach your simple-bull understanding. Don't bother. She and I, we usually disdain to explain ourselves. EAN : 9782070367016 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Flight of Angels - Michael Connelly - book Summary : Called in the middle of the night by his boss, Detective Harry Bosch is asked to go to the Angels Flight cable car, where two bodies have been found, including that of Howard Elias, a civil rights lawyer who specialized in bringing the Los Angeles police to justice. These trials have earned him considerable popularity among Black people. This shows that the investigation Harry is immediately entrusted with is explosive: his colleagues are ideal suspects, and if he makes the slightest mistake, the entire South Central neighborhood could ignite again, just as it did after the Rodney King case. And to make matters worse, his wife, the beautiful Eleanor Wish, a former FBI agent who went bad, is leaving him. But orders are orders. So Harry Bosch obeys, and immediately encounters the first signs of sabotage to his work. EAN : 9782020542968 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Fog - James Herbert - book Summary : It began with an earthquake. In the confusion, amidst the screams of the victims, no one paid much attention to the yellowish fog rising from the ripped-open earth, which the wind soon carried toward the English countryside. Then, inexplicable, insane massacres were reported as the fog drifted past. It began to grow, advancing inexorably toward the most populated areas of England. EAN : 9782266034821 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Triptych - Karin Slaughter - book Summary : 1986. John Shelley wakes up after a wild student night next to his girlfriend—dead, with her tongue cut out. He will live through hell behind bars for a crime he has no memory of. 2006. Detective Michael Ormewood, on patrol in the Atlanta underworld, discovers the body of a young prostitute brutally murdered, her tongue bitten off. Upon his release from prison, Shelley is pursued by a mysterious blackmailer and finds solace with a young detective who has infiltrated the prostitute world. For her sixth novel, Karin Slaughter, at the height of her powers, has created a world that combines the darkness of Seven with the deliciously chilling discoveries of The Silence of the Lambs. A masterpiece of the genre. EAN : 9782253126959 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Night of the Apocalypse - Daniel Easterman - book Summary : Religious leaders from numerous Muslim countries are meeting near Dublin in a top-secret conference that will determine the future of peace in the Middle East. For months, the secret services and security agencies have been on edge. It is whispered in high places that certain extremist Islamic groups are prepared to do anything to derail the negotiations. But, against all expectations, it is an armed group belonging to a Christian sect which takes twenty-eight of the participants hostage and takes them to an unknown destination... Declan Carberry, the head of the Dublin Federal Police and counterterrorism officer in charge of the case, must act quickly. The kidnappers have crazy demands, impossible to meet, and are executing a new hostage every day... EAN : 9782266143240 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Akhenaton The Heretic - Alain Darne - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253150091 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Cantos of Hyperion - Volume 1 - Hyperion I - Dan Simmons - book Summary : When the seven pilgrims land on Hyperion, the spaceport offers an end-of-the-world spectacle. Millions of people crowd behind the gates: the planet's inhabitants are sure that the Shrike will come for them and they want to flee. But the Hegemony wants nothing to do with it: a war is coming and the skyways must be cleared. And all the government has found is to send the seven pilgrims. The president told them straight away: "It is essential that the secrets of the Time Tombs be uncovered. This is our last chance." But the pilgrims don't understand anything: it's quite simple, they don't even know each other! Fortunately, the journey will allow them to get closer. Each tells their story, and it quickly becomes clear that no one was chosen at random. The person who made the selection, as the confidences unfold, seems to have demonstrated... diabolical lucidity. And of refined cruelty! EAN : 9782266064767 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Family Writer - Grégoire Delacourt - book Summary : At the age of seven, Édouard wrote his first poem, four simple rhymes that would take him to the skies and make him the writer of the family. But the destiny others choose for you is never quite the right one... With grace and delicacy, Grégoire Delacourt tells us a simple, family story that is funny and moving. A delicate text, written with a wry smile. [...] the author speaks of the difficulty of freeing oneself from the dreams that others have formulated for you, of escaping the identity they have assigned you. This will not prevent him from becoming a writer. But by ceasing to let life and others decide for him. Raphaëlle Leyris, The World of Books. EAN : 9782253168546 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Pilgrims of Darkness - Serge Brussolo - book Summary : Locked in an iron cage in the dungeons of an abbey, a demented monk recounts that the pilgrimage he was leading ended in hell. The devil, he claims, took all those who accompanied him. What is really happening in the mountains where the endless road winds to the relics of Saint Gaudaemon, a martyr once tortured by Caligula, the mad emperor? One thing is certain: many people disappear, and the peaks seem inhabited by legendary creatures who have made pilgrims their daily prey. What secret, what heretical plot are they trying to hide under the mask of superstition? Will Marion, the young ex-voto carver, be luckier than those who preceded her on the paths of mystery... or will she, in turn, succumb to the spells of the cursed pilgrimage? EAN : 9782253172796 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Tempest - William Shakespeare - bilingual book English Summary : Rumbles of thunder, lightning, raging seas: The Tempest opens with chaos. A ship pitches and capsizes. On board: Alonso, King of Naples, his son, and Antonio, King of Milan. On the island where they are stranded, Prospero reigns, a great connoisseur of occult sciences, who has mastered the taming of fantastical beings, such as Caliban, the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax, or Ariel, the spirit of air and water, who makes storms arise. A dramatic twist: Antonio, one of the shipwrecked, is none other than Prospero's brother, whom he exiled from Milan to seize the throne from him. For Prospero, the hour of revenge has come... With The Tempest (1611), his last play, Shakespeare signs his most serious tragicomedy: against the backdrop of rivalry between two brothers fighting for power, the eternal struggle between good and evil, between truth and illusion, plays out. EAN : 9782081331808 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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