Title: The Return to the Trade Winds - Martine Delomme - book Summary : The story of Juliette, owner of a wine estate, and her struggles within the small Blayais vineyard society whose centuries-old traditions attempt to stand up to the onslaught of the contemporary world. Anchored in the landscapes of the Gironde estuary, The Return to the Trade Winds is the novel of a generation of women who believed they had won their freedom but must, at the age of maturity, come to terms with the torments of the heart and the imperatives of duty. Juliette Leroux, an expatriate in Canada for three years, returns to Les Alizés, the family winery, to attend her ex-husband's funeral. Her daughter, Isabelle, expertly manages the vineyard she entrusted to her before her departure. But Isabelle welcomes her with mixed feelings, while Juliette finds more comfort with her childhood friend, Nicolas Frémont, mayor of the town of Saint-Louis and an entrepreneur and partner of her ex-husband. He confides in her that the company is in catastrophic financial straits, as the deceased had committed significant funds to acquire land. But to what end? While sorting through her papers, Juliette makes an extraordinary discovery that forces her to delay her return to Montreal, where the man she loves awaits. The land actually contains a treasure: thermal springs from the Roman era. Nicolas and Juliette decide to take on the project of creating a thermal spa, a project that could well revive the economy of a region hit by the crisis. Very quickly, the enterprise arouses fierce opposition from some locals who defend the promotion of their vineyard. From then on, the lives of Juliette and her loved ones risk being turned upside down... Anchored in the sumptuous landscapes of the Gironde estuary, in the heart of Blayais, The Return to the Trade Winds is the novel of a generation of women who believed they had won their freedom but must, at the age of maturity, come to terms with the torments of the heart and the imperatives of duty. EAN : 9782714450753 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cavalcade - Bruno de Stabenrath - book Summary : A romantic revelation as much as a human adventure, "Cavalcade" is a text on a knife edge, bringing together laughter and tragedy, accurately evoking a universe where the only measure is nevertheless excess. "Cavalcade" is the story of Poisson Chat, a young man blessed by fate until the day when an unfortunate turn of the wheel sends him more dead than alive to the hospital in Garches. He spends fourteen months there being resurrected and learning to accept the idea that, barring a miracle, he is a quadriplegic for life. Bruno de Stabenrath does not offer here the edifying tale of a quadriplegic who manages to live with his disability, but the moving journey of a young man who becomes himself again and gradually rediscovers the soul and spirit of the man he was before his accident. "Cavalcade" is also a season in hell within the walls of a hospital for the severely disabled, powerfully rendered, rich in hallucinatory scenes: nightmares under morphine; gang of "scissors", these thugs in wheelchairs who slash the numb ankles of the sick; but also an impromptu visit, in the middle of a medically assisted ejaculation session, from a bourgeois girlfriend to her fingertips, friendly enough to end up in Poisson Chat's bed. Bruno de Stabenrath rightly refuses to be confined to what he calls "Tetra-Literature". Certainly there are common points between the hero of "Cavalcade" and its author, but by taking liberties with a story that sticks to his skin, Bruno de Stabenrath does not act differently from most novelists. Author of songs, screenplays and even two (unpublished) novels, he is not a novice in writing and likes to say that his accident simply provided him with an obvious subject. EAN : 9782221095010 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: La Garenne - Jeanne Bourin - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782260012054 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Australian Lady - Wood Barbara - book Summary : Throughout her life, Lady Emily suffered from nightmares and inexplicable fears. When she died in 1871, her daughter Joanna left England for Australia. It was in this land, where ancestral traditions and British modernism violently collide, that her mother was born, in a mysterious place called Karra-Karra. Here, Joanna believes, lies the source of the strange curse that threatens to destroy her in turn... EAN : 9782286003869 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Pearl of the South - Linda Holeman - book Summary : The initiatory journey of a young woman in pursuit of love in the heart of the Orient, by the author of The Kashmir Bird, a worldwide bestseller. Sidonie O'Shea is not afraid of anything. This young American woman from the 1930s has just announced to her lover that she is pregnant. Since then, there has been no news of Etienne. Launched in search of her, she crosses the Atlantic to the enigmatic "pearl of the South": Marrakech. The encounter with this fascinating and exotic unknown city is a shock. There, the trails become blurred: Etienne's disappearance seems to hide a family secret... On the road to Sidonie, Aszulay, a Tuareg with a captivating gaze, also appears. Having set out in search of her lover, she will embark on a completely different journey as she discovers herself. EAN : 9782259212014 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Firm - John Grisham - book Summary : Briefcase in hand, a young man runs breathlessly through the streets of Memphis. His name is Mitch McDeere: third in his Harvard law class, he surprised everyone by choosing the firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke. This highly confidential Memphis firm was able to secure his collaboration with irresistible arguments. So what fantastic contract is our brilliant lawyer rushing towards, to the point of forgetting the seriousness necessary to the profession? Mitch has a very good reason for running like this: to save his life. EAN: 9782298036374 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: ADA Or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov - book Summary : Lucette's tragic destiny is one of the highlights of this delightful book. The rest of Van's story is about—delivered frankly and colorfully—his long love affair with Ada. Their romance is interrupted by his marriage in Arizona to a cattle rancher whose fabulous ancestor discovered North America. The husband dies, the lovers are reunited. They spend their old age traveling together and staying in the many villas, each more beautiful than the last, that Van has erected all over the Western Hemisphere. The delicacy of picturesque detail is not the least of the ornaments of this chronicle: a trellised gallery; a painted ceiling; a pretty toy stranded among the forget-me-nots of a stream; butterflies and papilionaceous orchids on the margins of the novel; a distant veil seen from a marble staircase; a heraldic doe turning her head towards us in the ancestral park; and many other things. " Ada is probably the work I would like to be remembered for." Vladimir Nabokov "With five hundred pages, a pen and a narrative genius that has never faltered and today reaches the grandiose in this whimsical novel, Nabokov organizes a formidable poetic hubbub, relaying Rimbaud and his "started peninsulas" " Pierre Ajame, The New Observer "One of the most complete and risky artistic adventures since Proust and Joyce, one of the major challenges of writing in the crumbling world of memories and syllables that it draws from the night." Bertrand Poirot-Delpech, Le Monde " Ada, this sumptuous celebration of language dedicated to Time." Sophie Lannes, L'Express " Ada or Ardor, a sumptuous book where the subtle scents of the Russian cherry orchard blend with the fragrances of the vast American prairies." Edgar Reichmann, Le Monde "Nabokov is one of those rare writers who have always been mad about language, one of those whose only homeland is words." Frédéric Vitoux "One of the great writers of the century, alongside Proust, Joyce, and Borges." Michel Braudeau, L'Express "Nabokov did not choose to take literature seriously; he goes much further; he catches it red-handed in the act of magic, spells, and invention." André Brincourt, Le Figaro "This is yet another masterpiece. Further proof that Vladimir Nabokov is one of the two or three most important writers of this century and of other centuries." Jean-Marc Roberts, The Morning of Paris Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St. Petersburg into an aristocratic and liberal family. Exiled in 1919, he lived first in Cambridge, where he completed his studies, then in Germany and France, which he left in 1940 to settle in the United States. He taught there for nearly twenty years, at Wellesley College (1941-1948) and Cornell University (1948-1958). After the immense success of Lolita, he retired to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. EAN: 9782298036374 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Summer of Shadow and Light - Delomme Martine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782298036374 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Time of Forgiveness - Donna Milner - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782298025378 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Red Maple Hélène de Champlain Volume 2 - Nicole Fyfe-Martel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782744191657 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Sleeve and Lace Hélène de Champlain Volume 1 - Nicole Fyfe-Martel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782744191688 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The Cliff Path - Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - book Summary : In the 20th century. The Moulin du Loup is home to the joys and dramas of Claire, who is raising Faustine alone, the little girl entrusted to her by Jean Dumont, her first love. Reunions, separations, and then war will mark the lives of these three vulnerable people. Claire, the daughter of master papermaker Colin Roy, hopes for the return of Jean Dumont, her first love, who has gone to work far away. Even though life has separated them, the young man has entrusted her with the education of his motherless daughter, Faustine. At the Moulin du Loup, life continues peacefully in 1905. Supported by her entourage and her passion for herbalism, Claire has found a balance. But Jean is back, accompanied by Teresa, a boisterous and talkative widow. The couple decides to keep Faustine, much to everyone's despair. But Claire doesn't give up. She wants to win back the man she loves and find Faustine at all costs. Her moral strength and sincerity will overcome all obstacles... EAN : 9782258094895 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mill of Springs - Françoise Bourdon - book Summary : Around a passionate and loyal woman, between shadow and light, secrets and traditions, the family saga of a line of Provençal papermakers. Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in 1840. From their first meeting, Timothée Viguier decreed that Noëlie would be his wife, and she herself knew that there would be no other man but him. Her father granted her hand without hesitation because the Viguiers had owned a prosperous paper mill on the banks of the Sorgue for several generations. Thus begins for Noëlie a life woven with dramas and happiness, joys and sorrows, which will take her until the 1920s when, as an old lady almost a hundred years old, she will be able, by the sheer force of her loyalty, to save the ancestral mill by revealing what should have been kept silent. In the footsteps of Petrarch, Françoise Bourdon takes us to Fontaine de Vaucluse for a journey filled with emotions and mysteries in an authentic Provence, radiant but bruised by the earthquake of 1909. EAN : 9782702141335 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Madder Paths - Françoise Bourdon - book Summary : After the immense success of the Dawn wind, which magnificently evoked lavender, Françoise Bourdon revives a new part of Provençal heritage: madder. 1829, in the Comtat Venaissin. The Vidal family cultivates madder, a plant that brings wealth to the region. A disturbing secret weighs on Camille, the heiress of the estate. At the Beaucaire fair, she meets Félix, whose parents, Indian traders, own a fabric printing factory in Avignon. Bonapartists, they condemn their son's relationship with Camille, raised according to republican principles. Pursued by her family's hatred, haunted by the mystery of her origins, the young woman devotes herself passionately to growing madder, during a troubled historical period... EAN : 9782258145047 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Promises of Heaven and Earth - Claude Michelet - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724227260 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marie Adeline Antonin - Christian Signol - book Summary : Marie of the sheep - Adeline in Périgord - Antonin, peasant of the Causse Marie. Abandoned on the day of her birth among the sheep, and taken in by a shepherd, she spent her life tending animals on the harsh plateau of Quercy. Adeline. The daughter of thirteen children, forced from a very early age to work in the fields, then as a servant and cook, she will see her destiny tossed between children, seasons, wars... Antonin. A child of the Martel plateau, he was also one of those peasants who worked with their hands from dawn until nightfall, one of those who carried within them, to the very end, the essential values ​​on which our countryside has lived for thousands of years. "At the time I wrote these three books, rural civilization had not yet been wiped out by urban civilization, which ended up covering it with a leaden blanket. Perhaps it is because Marie, Adeline, and Antonin knew "that bread has a flavor, the wind a scent, and life a meaning," that they have become precious to the men and women of today. These three works are close to my heart and their heroes will, I hope, remain alive in you as they remain in me, in the light of an imperishable memory. EAN : 9782221114544 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Notary of Pradeloup - Jean Paul Malaval - book Summary : In Corrèze, at the beginning of the 1960s, the colorful story of Lazare Bazin, a cunning notary, at the heart of the secrets and family legacies of the villagers of Galiane... In Corrèze, in the early 1960s, the double life of Lazare Bazin, a cunning notary at the heart of family secrets, is revealed... Galiane-sur-Sévère notary Lazare Bazin awaits the last rites. He is said to be a shrewd businessman who respects ancestral traditions. The imminence of his succession opens a veritable Pandora's box. So, in the vast living room of his house in Pradeloup, his children run in and visitors flock... This novel, masterfully written by an author who loves beautiful stories, words, and strong characters, is astonishing, colorful, and full of twists and turns. A pure pleasure! EAN : 9782258079328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Grain of Hemp - Bare Hands Volume 2 - Lucette Desvignes - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782863741870 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 101 avenue Henri Martin - The Blue Bicycle - Régine Deforges - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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