Title: Paranoia - Joseph Finder - book Summary : Adam Cassidy is 26 years old. A junior employee at a high-tech company, he hates his job. The day he very recklessly plays with the computer system to help a friend, he finds himself accused of theft. His bosses give him no choice: prison or becoming their spy at their main competitor, Trion Systems. He's trained, coached. He's given secret information. Arriving at Trion, he's greeted like a star with a spectacular future, and therefore eyed with suspicion by jealous colleagues. Adam discovers talents he'd always thought he was incapable of. His new boss praises him to the skies and calls him "up to the top floor" to work alongside him. This is when the nightmare begins... EAN : 9782253119142 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Misadventure in Paradise - Cuban Melody - Bernard Matussière, Erik Orsenna - book Summary : Accompanied by photographer Bernard Matussière, Erik Orsenna travels to Cuba in search of his ancestors... "Her name was Villademoros, a papermaker. His name was Augustino, a merchant. My great-grandparents. They lived in Havana, where they were born. One hundred and twenty years later, Cuba is breathtaking because the people and places are so beautiful, and heartbreaking because the failure is so glaring. A great Fidel passed through here. He wanted to build paradise on earth... You can build schools, hospitals. You can't force happiness on a people. Especially when they possess it within themselves. You guessed it: along with the family tree, we visited the ruins of the dream. Erik Orsenna Photographs by Bernard Matussière EAN : 9782020799065 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Prey - Irène Némirovsky - book Summary : Nothing is more bitter than seeing superhuman efforts yield so little happiness. There remains only one possible consolation: to tell oneself that there is no happiness. First published in 1938, this novel, with its Stendhalian undertones, tells the story of the social rise and fall of an ambitious young man, Jean-Luc Daguerne, whose love for his beloved will lead him to his downfall. Against this tried-and-true backdrop, Irène Némirovsky makes the words dance with humor and brilliantly plays with human passions and the cruelties of fate. But this Prey owes much to the 1930s, to their tragic energy, to all their shattered hopes. It is this mad dash toward the abyss that makes it so modern. We have been rediscovering the work of Irène Némirovsky with pleasure since the posthumous publication of Suite française in 2004. A very prominent novelist in Paris in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev in 1903, died in Auschwitz, was arrested on July 13, 1942 by the French police. EAN : 9782253117544 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Florentine Gentleman - Magdalen Nabb - book Summary : In Florence, on Christmas Eve, Langley Smythe, a retired diplomat of English origin, is discovered dead in his apartment. At the end of his investigation, Warrant Officer Guarnaccia, despite a raging flu and a troublesome intern, will uncover a dark affair of art trafficking. This Florentine Maigret (he officiates at the Pitti Palace where he commands the carabinieri) is of Sicilian origin. A notorious gourmet, endowed with a reserved temperament, he compensates for his unexpected phlegm with tenacious stubbornness. By staging this character, the hero of a dozen investigations since 1981, his spiritual mother, in the enchanting setting of Florence - its cluttered alleys, its small neighborhood merchants - has attracted praise, all the more flattering for being rare, from Georges Simenon himself! EAN : 9782264031419 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Turbulence - Michael Crichton - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782266085151 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: She walked on a wire - Philippe Delerm - book Summary : At fifty, Marie finds herself alone. Like the rising tide, life has erased the traces of her steps. Another path remains to be invented. Meeting a group of young actors opens new horizons for her: she will put on the show she had imagined for her son. But the line between dream and tragedy is thinner than it seems. Philippe Delerm, born in 1950, devotes his writing to the restitution of fleeting moments. We owe him in particular The First Sip of Beer And I'm going to look like an old fool . “The challenge of this ode to art is to suspend time, to retain happiness.” She EAN : 9782757851944 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Religion - Tim Willocks - book Summary : The siege of Malta has begun. "Religion" is the name given to the Order of the Hospitallers, but it is also the banner under which the madness of men sometimes rallies. In 1565, cloistered on their small archipelago south of Sicily, the Knights of Malta prepare to receive the furious assaults of the Ottoman army. Outnumbered five to one, the Christians hold the siege at the cost of terrible fighting. An unleashing of violence that draws Mattias Tannhauser, a former janissary who has known both sides, into his wake. For the beautiful eyes of Countess Carla La Penautier, the arms and opium trafficker embarks for hell... "Hypnotic power of the plot, poetry of evocation, cruel and smiling imagination." Daniel Rondeau – The World EAN : 9782266189576 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cassock Murders - Phyllis Dorothy James - book Summary : St. Anselm, a theological college founded in the 19th century and located on a remote and windswept promontory on the southeast coast of England, is home to around twenty students destined for the Anglican priesthood. When one of them, Ronald Treeves, is discovered dead at the foot of a cliff, buried beneath a sandbank, his wealthy adoptive father, Sir Alred Treeves, asks New Scotland Yard to review the inquest's verdict of "accidental death." Major Dalgliesh, who himself attended the college as a child, agrees to spend a weekend there for what he believes is just a routine check. In reality, he is about to find himself confronted with one of the most sordid cases of his career. Other visitors are expected at the college that same weekend, and not all of them will emerge alive. PD James has found in this small theological college an ideal setting for a detective novel, an almost closed world where passions ferment. In addition to the four clergymen who run the establishment and teach the main courses, in addition to the twenty or so students and the nurse Margaret Munroe, there is Gregory, the eccentric Greek professor, Emma, ​​the very beautiful poetry professor, Eric, the factotum who raises pigs and who receives his incestuous half-sister in his cottage every two weeks... Everything is in place to weave a complex plot whose intertwinings readers will follow with delicious anxiety. EAN : 9782253182382 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Sepulchre - Kate Mosse - book Summary : October 1891: Young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole leave Paris for the Domaine de la Cade, a few kilometers from Carcassonne. In the woods surrounding the isolated house, Léonie stumbles upon the remains of a Visigothic tomb. During her research, she discovers the existence of a tarot deck that is said to hold the powers of life and death. October 2007: Meredith Martin treks through the foothills of the Pyrenees to write a biography of Claude Debussy. But she also investigates her own origins. Armed with a piano score and an old photograph, she finds herself plunged, despite herself, into the heart of a tragedy dating back more than a century, where the fate of a young girl, who disappeared one fateful night, is inextricably intertwined with a dramatic love story. EAN : 9782253126973 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Predation - Jérôme Camut, Nathalie Hug - book Summary : A naked corpse is discovered in an industrial wasteland, its right hand shredded. A man shoots himself in the head in a crowded shopping mall. A young father, trained like a dog, is relentlessly tormented in a doorless, windowless dungeon. No leads, no connections, no motive... Who are these men? Why were they chosen? For what absurd execution? Predation opens the door to an unpredictable and distressing universe, strangely connected to the most shocking news stories of our time. EAN : 9782253120667 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Blood of Angels - Michael Marshall - book Summary : Ward Hopkins, a former CIA agent, like Nina Baynam, on leave from the FBI, had no illusions: any victory against the Straw Men, a criminal organization with global ramifications, could only be temporary. The facts soon prove them right: mutilated corpses are found in Virginia, and disturbing threats are circulating on the Internet. It's impossible not to connect them to the sinister organization. Especially since Ward's brother, who is its mastermind, has escaped from prison where he was serving a life sentence. Nina's sudden disappearance sweeps away any remaining doubts: the Straw Men have taken up arms again... EAN : 9782290352809 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Upside-Down Man - Fred Vargas - book Summary : Letting wolves roam free in the Mercantour was a great idea, in keeping with the times. But it wasn't the idea of ​​the shepherds, and a few months later, revolt rages. But is it really a wolf that's killing the sheep around the village of Saint-Victor? Superstitions resurface, a rumor spreads: it's not a beast, it's a werewolf... When a breeder is found with her throat cut in her sheepfold, the rumor turns to psychosis. In Paris, Commissioner Adamsberg is on the lookout for news of the Beast of Mercantour: Like embers, my boy, like embers, the wolf's eyes make at night. EAN : 9782290349236 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Cantos of Hyperion - The Fall of Hyperion II - Dan Simmons - book Summary : Johnny Keats is an Artificial Intelligence modeled after an old poet from Old Earth. He wants to escape the TechnoCenter, invest his entire consciousness in his body, become a full-fledged human, and leave for Hyperion. It's enough to get him assassinated. But someone must want him well at the TechnoCenter: he receives a spare body. This time, he asks Lamia to ensure his protection; and for added security, he wires her before being killed. When he revives, Schrön's disk, implanted in the young woman, puts him in contact with her: all he has to do is sleep and dream. Unfortunately, his protector finds herself in great danger on Hyperion; all they can hope for is to meet in the infosphere. However, someone seems ready to help them—as if Johnny were some essential cog in a grand design conceived on the scale of eternity. EAN : 9782266064798 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Mediator - Volume 1 - Shadowland - Meg Cabot - book Summary : Susannah Simon is a medium. She connects the dead and the living. There's no rest for her: the ghosts demand that she complete what they didn't have time to accomplish on Earth. But when you've just moved to sunny California, you're a girl, and you're sixteen, you'd rather wander around malls than cemeteries. Alas, as soon as she arrives at her new high school, Susannah realizes that her life isn't going to be that simple. The ghost of a young high school girl has decided to take revenge. Susannah is standing in her way. EAN : 9782013223515 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Strawberry Picker - Monika Feth - book Summary : When her best friend, Caro, is found murdered, Jette publicly vows to avenge her, drawing the murderer's attention to herself. Every day, Jette tries to rebuild her life and forget. She soon meets a boy who seems to be able to give her back her will to live and falls madly in love. An encounter that could help her overcome her friend's death. Maybe... EAN : 9782013229524 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Shirobamba - Yasushi Inoué - book Summary : It was during the fourth or fifth year of the Taishô era, about forty years ago. The children used to run here and there on the village road in the evening, shouting "The shirobamba! The shirobamba!" They were chasing these little white creatures that floated like flakes of cotton wool in the sky, beginning to take on the colors of twilight." All Japanese know this novel by heart. In the abundant work of Yasushi Inoué, it is undoubtedly the freshest, the most charming. Very largely autobiographical, it tells the story of the childhood at the beginning of the century of a little boy named Kôsaku. Like Inoué himself, he grew up not with his parents, but with his great-grandfather's mistress, a former geisha. Between the little boy and the old woman a tender relationship is woven, a somewhat magical complicity, presented in the form of a series of exquisite little naive paintings in bright colors... EAN : 9782070388011 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Contagion - Robin Cook - book Summary : After the tragic deaths of his wife and daughters, John Stapleton, a coroner in New York, no longer expects anything from life. However, he is about to be torn from indifference and cynicism by a series of inexplicable deaths: patients are victims of viruses long since eradicated, such as the plague. All were being treated in hospitals run by the powerful insurance company Americare, to whom he owes the bankruptcy of his own ophthalmology practice. An encounter with Terese, an advertising executive working on a campaign for Americare's main competitor, will prompt him to seek out the source of the evil. They will both discover a plan of inhuman horror. The author of Risque mortel, himself a former surgeon and ophthalmologist, takes us through a merciless war where the hospital environment, obsessed with profitability, does not hesitate in the face of organized crime... An irresistible thriller, at the same time as a cry of alarm in the face of the excesses of a medicine subject to the law of profit. EAN : 9782253170822 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Lone Warrior - Henning Mankell - book Summary : Summer 1994, the small town of Ystad is slumbering in the heat. Glued to their television sets, all the Swedes are watching the football World Cup. But as Inspector Wallander prepares to go on vacation, a young girl sets herself on fire in a rapeseed field. The next day, a former minister is hacked to death. A series of terrifyingly brutal murders begins. The Ystad police, led by Kurt Wallander, begin a breathless race against time to stop the killer before he strikes again. But what is the connection between a retired former minister, a wealthy art dealer, and a low-life crook? Why are the victims being scalped? And who is the young girl who committed suicide? Does she have anything to do with the murders? EAN : 9782020419529 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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