Title: The Land of the Free - Ken Follett - book Summary : Between young Mack, condemned to near slavery in the Jamisson coal mines, and the non-conformist Lizzie, the disappointed wife of one of the master's sons, it only took a few glances and furtive encounters to spark the attraction of hearts. But in 18th-century English society, still feudal despite the new ideas of its philosophers, both have no choice but submission and revolt. Rebel, fugitive, recaptured and condemned, Mack will not see Lizzie again until he is on the Virginia plantation where he was deported for forced labor. Only then will they understand that happiness is earned by forcing destiny... From the slag heaps of Scotland to the docks of the Thames, from slave-owning America to the first forays into the still-virgin West, the author of The Pillars of the Earth takes us on a superb epic where passionate love merges with the aspiration of an entire era for freedom and justice. EAN : 9782253143307 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - book Summary : 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction In a small Alabama town during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch raises his two children, Jem and Scout, alone. A thorough and honest lawyer, he is assigned to defend a Black man accused of raping a White woman. This brief summary may explain why this book, published in 1960—at the height of the struggle for Black civil rights in the United States—was so successful. But how did this novel become a worldwide cult classic? Harper Lee set her story in Alabama in the 1930s, but she wrote a universal novel about childhood. Told by Scout with great humor, this story is part fairy tale, part short story American and the coming-of-age novel. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. EAN : 9782253115847 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The First Time Someone Kissed Me I Died - Colleen Oakley - book Summary : Thousands of readers have made their choice! Collen Oakley wins the 2019 Readers' Choice Award with The first time someone kissed me, I died . If I've learned one thing, it's that love is messy. It doesn't come to us in a pretty gift package. It looks more like a child's present, all crumpled and scribbled with crayon. Imperfect. But still a gift. Only, not all gifts are meant to last forever. Jubilee Jenkins suffers from an extremely rare condition: she's allergic to human contact. After being kissed by a boy in high school, she ends up in the emergency room following an anaphylactic shock. From then on, she decides not to leave the house for years. But when her mother dies, Jubilee must face the world and its people. One day, at the library, she meets Eric Keegan and his adopted son, a troubled little genius. Although Eric doesn't understand why Jubilee keeps him at a distance, he's smitten... Unexpectedly, their meeting will allow this irresistible trio to open up to life and love. “This novel is a little gem… Fans of Jojo Moyes and library romances will be delighted.” Booklist "Funny and terribly moving, Colleen Oakley offers us an unusual love story, between wit and endearing characters. Jubilee's journey, from seclusion to recovery, is fascinating." Publishers Weekly EAN : 9782811231224 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: After Volume 5 - Anna Todd - book Summary : Life has never been easy for Tessa and Hardin, and each new challenge has strengthened their love. But the revelation of Hardin's family past seems to undo all of Tessa's efforts to help him rebuild. And when two tragedies hit Tessa in her heart and body, Hardin seems unable to support her in return. Yet it's clear that the two passionate lovers are no longer so different. Tessa is no longer the sweet, naive girl, nor is Hardin as cruel and selfish as when they first met. But will it be enough to save their love? Will Tessa have to give up to avoid sacrificing herself on the altar of their love? Will Hardin have to accept himself to let Tessa live, alone or with him? Sulphurous and addictive. Direct Morning. The new publishing phenomenon. Le Figaro littéraire. EAN : 9782253087687 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Memories of Vietnam - Danielle Steel - book Summary : The moving story of a young journalist plunged into the horror of the Vietnam War. Paxton Andrews has only one dream: to become a journalist. Against her family's wishes, she decides to leave everything behind and go to Vietnam, where the war is raging. For seven years, she will live in the heart of the conflict, with the soldiers, scarred and traumatized, most of whom will never return. It is in this hell that she will learn to do her job, to become herself, and to love too, even if there more than anywhere else, happiness never lasts long. Once the war is over, she will have to learn to live again, despite certain memories that will not fade... With over a hundred works published in France and 800 million copies sold worldwide, Danielle Steel is an author whose success has been undiminished for over thirty years now. EAN : 9782266250702 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Mamie Luger - Benoît Philippon - book Summary : Six o'clock in the morning: Berthe, 102 years old, shoots at the squad of cops who have stormed her Auvergne cottage. Eight o'clock: Inspector Ventura begins the most astonishing police custody of his career. The grandmother with the Luger spills the beans, and her life story is a firework display. There's talk of murderers on the run, a black widow, and a Nazi buried in his basement. So... Confession, confession, or settling of scores? Ventura doesn't know what game the toothless old woman is playing, but he senses he's going to have to dig. And not just a little. Poetic, realistic, cynical, moving and captivating. A text of high droll and emotional intensity. Read. A hilarious crime novel about war, hatred, love and therefore trouble . Le Nouveau Magazine littéraire. More than a literary character, Mamie Luger is a symbol. Cold blood. Absolutely formidable efficiency. “Black Circle,” France Culture. EAN : 9782352871491 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Summer Lightning - Tamara McKinley - book Summary : Miriam Strong has always known how to face adversity. When she discovered, in 1969, on the eve of her seventy-fifth birthday, that she had been robbed of her inheritance, she did not hesitate for a moment and decided to take on a new fight, undoubtedly the most important of her life: to restore her father's honor and recover what was owed to him to pass it on to her daughter and granddaughters. This quest for truth and justice will be for Miriam an opportunity to take the path of memory. A journey that will take her from the devastated Ireland of the 1890s to Australia in the first half of the 20th century, a harsh, wild new world, but filled with hope for many pioneers who came there to seek their fortune - including her father who mysteriously disappeared in an opal mine, leaving her orphaned at the age of twelve. EAN : 9782352871491 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: A Scent of Cut Grass - Nicolas Delesalle - book Summary : The day my father arrived with his winning smile and the GTS, I sulked. But I swallowed my grimace like you hide the smell of your first cigarette from your parents. I said "yeah," I said "great," with a heavy heart, even though I understood that the GTS for the GTX was already the sixth big renunciation, after the tooth fairy, the Easter bells, Santa Claus, Mathilde, the prettiest girl in kindergarten, and my career as a professional footballer. ND Through snapshots of life, Kolia summons the figures, words, and landscapes that have mattered. Little things that will become everything. Remarkable and universal. A clear and musical writing style for this bittersweet first novel, which questions with great tenderness what remains in each of us of the child we once were. The World.  Touching, funny, beautifully written, The scent of cut grass will make you nostalgic and smile at the same time. The Huffington Post. EAN : 9782253045458 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Hair Curlers & Little Investigations - Panic at the Funeral Home - Naëlle Charles - book Summary : After a brilliantly conducted initial investigation, Léopoldine Courtecuisse returns to work to solve a double investigation: the death of the village undertaker and the disappearance of his daughter. A hairdresser in Wahlbourg, Alsace, Léopoldine Courtecuisse is the mother of two unruly teenagers. She is separated from their father. Between her passion for detective novels and crime stories, her children, and the clients of her salon who spread gossip and other rumors, her life is very full. Yet, after solving the murder of Véronique Busch, our hairdresser is bored. The day Oscar and Claudia Gauner ask for her help, she sees a new opportunity to play detective. Their daughter has disappeared, and the police have turned them away. Not to mention that these people aren't just anyone: Oscar is the town undertaker. As for Manon, she's the girlfriend of Tom... Léopoldine's son! Everything points to a runaway. But when Oscar dies in strange circumstances, Léo and his accomplice, Lieutenant Quentin Delval, find themselves having to work on both cases at once... EAN : 9782266255486 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The House of the Cape - Françoise Bourdon - book Summary : Arcachon, 1849. Léonie struggles step by step to offer her children a better life than her own. In 1862, Margot, her youngest daughter, is brimming with desire for happiness and rejects a predetermined existence of misery and toil. Charlotte, Margot's illegitimate child, becomes a photographer and gives birth to Dorothée, one of the first female aviators. Finally, there is Violette, the youngest, who will join the Resistance. From mother to daughter, in this house in Cape Town, which will be a refuge for each of them, fierce women forge their destinies with a particular ardor, full of tumult and turmoil. And in the folds of a History that they successively traverse and permeate, they gain one by one what their era would like to deny them. "Beautiful portraits of women united by their love of their region." Our Time EAN : 9782266274098 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Beekeeper's Investigations - Volume 1 Checkmate to the Queen - Valérie Valeix - book Summary : A prominent consultant beekeeper in Quercy, young Audrey Astier travels the world in search of different working methods with the aim of ensuring the protection of bees. While she has an appointment with her old training supervisor, Janissou Laborde, known as the Pope, he mysteriously disappears... Alongside the disturbing Lieutenant Steinberger, recently assigned to the Rocamadour gendarmerie after his return from Afghanistan, Audrey will run the causse to try to outwit the traps of a terrifying secret society ready to do anything to achieve its ends... This new genre series skillfully mixes intrigue (all the ingredients of an excellent detective novel are present: investigation, suspense, action...), ecology (recalling the importance of protecting bees and apitherapy), History (many significant local or national events are discussed) and heritage (we discover with pleasure the riches and traditions of the regions). A real success, to be discovered urgently! EAN : 9782372600750 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Wild Mints - Christian Signol - book Summary : After "Les cailloux bleus" and "Les menthes sauvages"... Here continues the story of the Fabre family, the story of Philomène, Adrien, and their children, the story of this village in the Causse Quercynois, near Rocamadour, which burns under the summer fires, creaks under the winter's feet, quivers in spring and autumn. But History intervenes, which, after one war, brings another, with its misfortunes: defeat, exodus, and this civil war that tears families apart. Soon peace returned, passions died down, new seasons passed. And children had children. Even as the village died, even as she entered old age, Philomène grew: the heart and soul of her family, the heart and soul of this peasant community where her life was played out. With Philomène, a great woman's character entered our literature. She has the fragility and strength, the loyalty and power of love of those unknown heroines who made our families and our history. EAN : 9782266026185 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Ransom - Danielle Steel - book Summary : Since her husband's disappearance, Fernanda Barnes has been living a nightmare: now alone to raise her three children, she can no longer afford the piling up bills. Indeed, even though in everyone's eyes Allan Barnes was at the head of an immense fortune, no one knows that he died ruined, leaving nothing but debt as his inheritance. Fernanda is far from imagining that the well-kept secret of this bankruptcy will have terrible consequences for her family, that she will have to face seasoned and unscrupulous gangsters. And despite the help of the FBI, tragedy will occur: the odious kidnapping of her little boy... Only the presence of Ted Lee of the San Francisco police will bring him comfort and friendship in this critical situation. EAN : 9782266163033 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Green Oaks - Sylvie Caster - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253028697 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Spring Girls - Anna Todd - book Summary : An American bestseller adapted and modernized by Anna Todd. Officer Spring's four daughters live with their mother, Meredith, at Fort Cyprus Army Base near New Orleans while their father is deployed to Iraq. During the Christmas holidays, Meg, the eldest Spring daughter, hoping for a marriage proposal from her military boyfriend, is disturbed by the return of an old "friend." Her younger sister, Jo, 17, ambitious and rebellious, discovers she has many similarities with the new neighbor, Laurie. Amy, the youngest sister, grumbles about their money problems and the lack of presents under the tree, while Beth, quiet and discreet, does her best to help their mother at home. Between first loves, betrayals between friends, and financial difficulties, the daily life of this American family is punctuated by problems that the four sisters each face in their own way. In this period full of change, will the Spring Girls manage to find their place in the world? Anna Todd revisits Little Women and manages the feat of paying homage to Louisa May Alcott's work while adapting it to the questions and customs of the 21st century. A timeless story for free and modern readers. EAN : 9782755636079 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Ants - Bernard Werber - book Summary : By the time you read these lines, 700 million ants will have been born on the planet. 700 million individuals in a community estimated at a billion billion, with its cities, its hierarchy, its colonies, its language, its industrial production, its slaves, its mercenaries... Its weapons too. Terribly destructive. When he enters the cellar of the house left by an old entomologist uncle, Jonathan Wells has no idea that he is going to meet them. Following him, we will discover the fabulously rich, monstrous and fascinating world of these "infraterrestrials", through a unique thriller, where suspense and horror are based on the most rigorous scientific data on every page. Here for the first time is a novel whose heroes are... ants! EAN : 9782286049928 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Three Friends in Search of Wisdom - Christophe André, Alexandre Jollien, Matthieu Ricard - book Summary : For a long time, they dreamed of writing a book together, to be useful, to provide answers to the questions that every human being asks about the conduct of their existence. What are our deepest aspirations? How can we reduce unhappiness? How can we live with others? How can we develop our capacity for happiness and altruism? How can we become freer?... On each theme, they recount their experiences, their efforts, the lessons learned along the way, and offer us advice. Their points of view are different, but they always agree on the essentials. A clear and luminous book to learn the craft of living. EAN : 9791095438014 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Nostalgia is not what it used to be - Simone Signoret - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782020045209 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shadow Woman - Arnaldur Indridason - book Summary : A young woman is waiting for her fiancé in Petsamo, a town in the far north of Finland. They are both due to return to Iceland on the cruise ship. Esja to escape the war that had just broken out in the Nordic countries, but the young man did not arrive. In the spring of 1943, in Iceland occupied by Allied troops, the discovery of a body washed up at sea causes a stir in Reykjavík. At the same time, a young man is the victim of an incredibly brutal attack not far from a soldiers' bar, and a woman who regularly frequents the military suddenly disappears. Young investigators Flovent and Thorson follow contradictory and dangerous leads: corrupt officers, the Gestapo, common thugs... With subtle skill, Indridason presents endearing characters, tender or cruel, lives turned upside down, surprising stories in an occupied country. A beautiful and captivating book. EAN : 9791022607216 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Sorry, I'm expected - Agnès Martin-Lugand - book Summary : A moving novel about life choices Yaël lives only for her work. A brilliant interpreter for a renowned agency, she goes from meeting to meeting and business dinner without ever giving herself time to breathe. Vacations are not for her; adrenaline is her driving force. Perched on her eternal high heels, she is feared by her colleagues and hardly ever sees her family and friends, who worry about her attitude. She doesn't care about the criticisms she receives; she simply feels like she made a different choice, driven by a fierce desire to succeed. But the world she has created could falter in the face of ghosts from the past. EAN : 9782749923871 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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