Title : The Dividing Line - Evans Nicholas - Book Summary : Between passions and desires, hopes and lost illusions: there is always a dividing line... A body embedded in the ice of a Montana stream. It's all that remains of Abbie Cooper, wanted across the United States for murder and acts of "eco-terrorism." How did the young girl meet her death? What could have led the pampered child of a loving family to such a tragic end? From the streets of New York City to the majestic Rocky Mountains, The Divide draws us into the story of a family shattered by betrayal, desperately trying to regain the happiness they lost. Ten years after The Horse Whisperer , Nicholas Evans returns with a powerful, epic novel, a true thriller of the human heart. EAN: 9782226173171 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Gran Balan - Christiane Taubira - Book Summary : Christiane Taubira's first novel. "The man in the toga and cape has already turned on his heels. He seems short on content, so he compensates with tone. He asks questions with a machine gun. He wants a yes or a no, not a novel. He, Kerma, wants to explain: No, you can't live a whole month on 1,136 euros. From the 18th of the month, yes, you need those 15 euros, almost every day. Gas, insurance, food, staying properly dressed and shod, after paying the rent, water, electricity, housing tax, TV license, sports subscriptions, mobile streaming, OK, it's not essential, but at 21... Lies are there to save you. Lies told in good faith are the worst. They sink you every time." Courageous mothers, "people of little" and of many, committed educators, young people in search of a better life - to the point of risking years in prison for fifteen euros -, but also carnivals, somewhat offbeat seconded civil servants, people far from Surinam, night rodeos, palaverists and great storytellers... Christiane Taubira's first novel reveals, with dazzling human verve, the customs, joys, wanderings, anger, and miracles of this land she knows well and loves so much: French Guiana. A book that makes you dream, smile, cry, and reflect. EAN: 9782259305013 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Objectif Paris - Robert Ludlum - Book Summary : Paris. In the dead of night, the Pasteur Institute is ravaged by an attack of unprecedented violence. Rescuers pull numerous corpses and a few survivors from the rubble, but are unable to locate the body of Emile Chambord, an eminent researcher present at the time of the explosion. He was working on a futuristic project: the creation of a supercomputer driven by DNA, that is, combining computer technology and human genius. He said he was close to the goal... Jon Smith, a medical doctor in the U.S. Army and agent of the highly secretive Shield Network, the close guard of the President of the United States, is working on similar research. He finds it hard to believe that Chambord could have achieved the feat of developing this computer so quickly, but the circumstances are troubling. Indeed, the day after the attack, communications at an American military base were cut off for 5 long minutes, in a completely unexplained manner. The White House is on a war footing: if the Chambord experiments really did succeed and fell into the wrong hands, the worst is to be feared... Jon Smith must quickly rule out this disastrous hypothesis. He goes to Paris, under the pretext of taking care of his old friend Marty Zellerbach, a genius computer scientist who worked alongside Emile Chambord, and who was seriously injured by the bomb. Smith arrives just in time to prevent an assassination attempt on Marty. Now there is no longer any doubt: the worst is indeed to be feared... From Paris to Algiers, via London and Brussels, Jon Smith embarks on a breathless chase to find Emile Chambord and his captors. If he wants to save thousands of human lives, time is running out... EAN: 9782246600510 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas - Book Summary : In the suburbs of Melbourne, during a barbecue, a man slaps a child who isn't his. A literary revelation, an extraordinary novel that mixes the most diverse subjects with formidable acuity to paint an uncompromising portrait of contemporary Australia, in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo, and Tom Wolfe. Provocative, urgent, merciless, a hard-hitting novel, a revelation in the vein of Don DeLillo or Jonathan Franzen. During a barbecue with friends, an adult slaps a child who is not his. An incident that will send shockwaves through the guests and trigger a series of explosive events. But it will also reveal, behind the beautiful exterior, everyday racism, drugs, alcohol, shame, and extreme loneliness. By turns violent and overwhelmingly tender, a truly great novel which paints, with tremendous lucidity, a picture of a West in complete confusion. "This novel keeps its reader on edge, forces them to push their limits, to question lazy theories, provokes them and makes them squirm with unease under the reassuring appearance of a fascinating read." EAN: 9782714446459 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : German Pig - Knud Romer - Book Summary : What does it mean to be a German woman in a small Danish town a few years after the end of World War II? What does it mean to be the son of such a mother and a Danish father? How does it feel to be called a "German pig" at every recess? To witness the constant ostracism of one's mother? Knud Romer knows this - having been that "German pig" in Nykøbing Falster, where he was born in 1960 and grew up. He has kept terrible memories of it, which he carried with him for years before describing the hell he experienced - disguised as an ordinary childhood - in his novel German Pig, published in 2006 in Denmark. An autobiographical work, then, a roman à clef certainly, a settling of scores without doubt. But above all, a literary work of the first order, the evocation of a world that is in no way reduced to the small provincial town: for the author, his own story is above all the story of his family, his parents, his grandparents. By speaking of them, he takes us back in time, and the horizon broadens: a series of brief sequences takes the characters through Germany in the 1930s and during the war; then to Denmark at the same time. The novel is detailed and colorful, written with a vigorous and scintillating style. While describing the growing isolation of a family, it depicts its increasingly twisted psychological predispositions: from self-destructive neurosis to malicious cruelty, persecution, and death. German Pig, full of hyperbole and ambiguity, almost resembles a tall tale. The humor, which is found throughout the novel, unites its diverse threads and helps make its brutalities more bearable. It is a personal, raw, and sincere account that deeply touches the reader. In short, a small book of great beauty, without a false note, dense and compact. EAN: 9782922868623 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Torn Screen - Paul Couturiau - Book Summary : The continuation of the Red silk screen set against a backdrop of conspiracies and the Opium Wars in the 19th-century Chinese Empire. A magical escape into the heart of a country and its mystery. After The Red Silk Screen, a magnificent epic in the heart of 18th century China, The Torn Screen reveals a little more of the mysteries of this fascinating empire. Risking his life, musician Thomas Charles Perkins forces his way into the Middle Kingdom to find the woman he loves, the beautiful Zhang. With the help of his friends from the Red Silk Screen theater troupe and the occult support of the future Emperor Jiaqing, Thomas and Zhang strive to thwart the schemes of their enemy, Andy McCarthy, who, for his part, will stop at nothing to reach the man he has sworn to destroy. The two lovers work in the shadows for the good of the Empire. Will they succeed in fulfilling their mission while preserving their love? Because the economic stakes are too high for the British, and China has become more assertive, the Opium War seems inevitable... EAN: 9782258060975 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Yellow Breath - Armand Herscovici - Book Summary : China, July 1405. The largest armada in history, a colossal squadron of giant junks, leaves the shores of the Middle Kingdom, under the command of the titanic eunuch Zheng He. His master, Yong Lo, third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has decided that the entire universe will recognize him as the Son of Heaven and pledge allegiance to him. This gigantic treasure fleet must contribute to this. It also has another, less avowable purpose, which the reader will discover. On board is the colorful Li Ying, a loudmouth, gluttonous reveler, unrepentant drunkard, martial arts enthusiast, familiar with the world of Flowers and Willows, that of courtesans. Now, this colossus with his flowery language, more subtle than he appears, is loyal in friendship. This leads him into a whirlwind of picaresque adventures where, from a small shopkeeper, he finds himself a mandarin, crossing paths with hundreds and thousands of characters, crooked swindlers, crooked go-betweens, swindlers, formidable hetaerae or eminent notables. In this stunning novel, medieval China is revealed: privileges, corruption, violence, cruelty, but also exquisite refinement in love and the arts, delicacy in human relationships. EAN: 9782756401133 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why do you dance when you walk? - Abdourahman A. Waberi - Book Summary : One morning, on the way to nursery school in Paris, a little girl asks her father: "Tell me, Dad, why do you dance when you walk?" The question is innocent and serious. Why does her father limp, why doesn't he ride a bike, a scooter...? The father can't avoid it. He must tell what happened to his leg, reawaken the memories, return to Djibouti, to the Château d'eau district, to the land of his childhood. In this country of light and dust, where illness, first fevers and then this leg that wouldn't hold up any longer, made him different, unique. He was the "skinny one" and the "runt" but also the best student in school, the favorite of Madame Annick, his teacher from France, an insatiable reader, the king of essays. Abdourahman Waberi remembers the shifting desert of Djibouti, the Red Sea, Siesta beach, the aluminum sheet houses of his neighborhood, his immense solitude and the figures who marked him forever: Papa-la-Tige who sold trinkets to tourists, his mother Zahra, trembling, hard, silent, his grandmother nicknamed Cochise in homage to the Indian chief because she ruled the family, the good Ladane, with whom he was secretly in love. He recounts the drama, the moment that turned everything upside down, the fight he engaged in afterwards and which made him a man who knows the price of poetry, of silence, of freedom, a man who always dances. " Why Do You Dance When You Walk? " offers a lesson: how not to be subjected to the walk of others and how to choose to dance on the thread of one's own life. Young Africa – Anne Bocandé  "Waberi exorcises at once many years of "ancient fear" linked to the gaze of others." Humanity – Muriel Steinmetz “The moving confession of a father who explains his disability to his daughter” Le Figaro - Mohammed Aïssaoui “This beautiful dance lesson between a father and his daughter shows that literature is also an art of transmission.” Le Figaro - Mohammed Aïssaoui EAN: 9782709665568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chance - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Book Summary : "At daybreak, as he took his watch, Juan Moguer's gaze was drawn to what he first thought was a pile of rags lying on the deck, to port, against the edge of the deckhouse. The sea was calm, a faint glow lit up a cloud to the east. The coast was already far away, only the high snow-capped mountains glittered in the sun. Moguer opened the cockpit door and shone his torch on the unusual object. In the gloom, the pile of rags unraveled a little in the wind and two large black eyes shone in a small, dark face that looked like a child's." How Nassima, disguised as a boy, boarded the Azzar and what followed. The two short novels (or long stories) that we are about to read, Hasard and Angoli Mala, are separated by fifteen years. It seemed to me that they were talking about the same apprenticeship, about the love of nature, about evil too. But when it comes to bringing them together, I'm no longer sure which one is the mirror of the other. JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782070755370 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Allah Superstar - YB - Book Summary : "Let me introduce myself: Kamel Hassani. I was born in Algeria nineteen years ago. My father's name is Mohamed like everyone else. Back home, he worked in tourism, so he met my mother on the beach in Tipaza in '82, Martine Gros, a shorthand typist on vacation with her funny works council. My father screwed her so well that she stayed with him in Algiers, and I was born right after. A year later, my poor mother, a bearded man in a white robe spat on her and called her a "satanic Frenchwoman," even though she's just a good woman from Charente. Luckily, my father reacted like a man: he rushed to the travel agency to buy three tickets." Kamel wants to be a movie star or a trendy comedian, because "Jamel Debbouze can eat his fill," "but for Arabs, it's easier to get into Al Qaeda than TF1." » Here is the resistible rise of "a young man from a difficult background", from Evry where he was a teammate at Quick, to the Olympia, where he would end up in glory, his head in the stars... Through the eyes, as piercing as they are naive, of this son of an Algerian immigrant, YB recounts the difficulty of existing outside of economic, social, and cultural ghettos. This novel, where laughter serves virulence, sends back to back the soft democrats and the Islamists, the society of the spectacle and traditionalisms, mocks communitarianism of all kinds, and blasts the stupidity of some, the lies of others. With this book, comic from one end to the other, twisting the language of the projects and French rap, YB, armed with words, drops a bomb of a new kind. EAN: 9782246624516 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Chess Player - Bertina Henrichs - Book Summary : Can a game turn a woman's life upside down? It's hard to believe. On the island of Naxos, backgammon players are legion, but no woman has ever approached the black and white pawns. As for those on a chessboard, don't even think about it! However, for Eleni, caught up in a life without rough edges or madness, the oldest game in the world will be the beginning of the adventure... EAN: 9782867464010 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Women's Choir - Martin Winckler - Book Summary : "My name is Jean Atwood. I'm a hospital intern and top of my class. I'm planning on going into gynecological surgery. I'm aiming for a position as a senior resident in the best department in France. But first, I'm being forced to spend six months in a tiny "Women's Medicine" unit, run by a rough-hewn, bearded man who isn't even a gynecologist, but a general practitioner! If he thinks I'm going to spend six months in his service, he's seriously mistaken. What does he think? That he's going to teach me my job? I've received unparalleled training; I know everything a gynecological surgeon needs to know to operate on, repair, and reconstruct the female body. So, I can't—and I don't want to—waste my time listening to women pour out their hearts and tell their stories. I really don't see what they could teach me." EAN: 9782846822671 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. Dick or the Tenth Book - Jean-Pierre Ohl - Book Summary : The narrator, François Daumal, harbors an exclusive passion for Dickens. He is haunted by the desire to know the ending the great writer planned for his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, whose incompleteness has given rise to a deluge of sometimes delirious hypotheses to this day. But Daumal has a rival, in the person of Michel Mangematin, who pursues the same chimera... Under the gaze of a mysterious old bookseller, Mr. Krook, the two young people engage in a fierce duel, which extends into the realm of love. The enigmas multiply, the twists and turns carry the story from one era to another at a frenetic pace, in the company of extravagant characters worthy of Miss Havisham or Mr. Pickwick. Which of the two young men will discover Edwin Drood's secret? A brilliant entertainment, Mr. Dick is also a hymn to literature and its powers. EAN: 9782070770991 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chems Palace - Ali Bécheur - Book Summary : The oasis, nestled between rock, desert, and salt marshes, rises up in the heart of the steppe, blazing under a fierce sun. An island of lushness where the narrator, a retired schoolteacher, intends to live out the time he has left. With the "sons" of the oasis, he shares date honey, acrid, syrupy tea, rites, and pilgrimages... A tiny world steeped in its timeless traditions. Why is he led to tell the story of Nadir, a hotel magnate who left empty-handed and returned laden with riches? And who is this Sandra, who transforms a barefoot man into a pasha? A lush and sensual novel in which we learn that whoever escapes from the oasis is condemned to return, at the end of an initiatory journey through the peril of existence. EAN: 9789973580658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Promenade - Régis Jauffret - Book Summary : "Life is a walk, we come, we go, we move on. People follow one another without us recognizing them. We make out their presence with the tips of our antennae like bodies placed on the conveyor belt of the species. Anguish beats, palpitates in place of the heart. The brain is a torture chamber where we dare not scream for fear of exasperating the pain. The decades of existence pile up one on top of the other like cubes. We pass through them haggard, without experiencing each moment towards which we were unknowingly heading from the beginning. Everything becomes clear, illuminates, happiness sets the horizon ablaze like a shower of suns. We don't have time to tell ourselves that the walk was worth it despite everything. The lights have already gone out, we will have existed only for this immense and brief joy." Régis Jauffret. EAN: 9782843351006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Teacher Man - A Young Teacher in New York - Frank MCCOURT - Book Summary : The sequel and finale of Frank McCourt's memoir trilogy. After his Irish childhood and his American youth, he recounts his chaotic and comical journey through the twists and turns of teaching, facing a formidable audience: his students. After the phenomenal success of the Angela's Ashes and of What's America Like?, Frank McCourt closes his trilogy of memoirs and offers us a portrait of the artist as a young teacher in New York in the sixties, full of verve, passion and emotion. After using his talents in a number of highly unlikely odd jobs, Frank McCourt decides to put his teaching degree to good use. His first job: a technical high school on Staten Island. First students: wild animals. Faced with these young monsters, what attitude should we adopt? Punish them or let them stew in their own ignorance? At the risk of upsetting his superiors, Frank opts for cunning. The students have sandwich fights? He catches them in mid-air and eats them. They never bring apologies for being late? He sees this as an opportunity to teach them writing by having them write the apologies of Eve or Judas. They don't listen in class? He intrigues them, astonishes them, captivates them with anecdotes about his Irish childhood, fascinating stories that will captivate even the most reluctant students and move generations of readers around the world. EAN: 9782714442420 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mother Goddess - François Cavanna - Book Summary : "... a woman, a woman more than a woman, gloriously, outrageously a woman, buttocks, belly, breasts, hips, curves and folds, a woman with a high, wide and deep cleft, a woman without a look and without a mouth because she has no face, a woman without hands, without feet, without anything other than woman, the exuberance of woman in the glory of her overflowing femininity, the delectable and maternal woman, mountain of flesh, abyss of delights, who would have digested a hundred males and nourished a thousand children." It takes place more than ten thousand years ago. In wild times, in a hostile world, among primitive and barbaric beings. One might think that this has nothing to do with today's evolved humanity. And yet... Through this bawdy, philosophical and partisan novel, it is indeed man - or rather the male! - and especially woman - or perhaps the goddess? - that Cavanna depicts in his own way, with humor, joy and truculence, reconnecting with the exuberance of the word that we know him for. EAN: 9782226089038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hunger Refrain - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Book Summary : "My mother, when she told me about the premiere of Boléro, spoke of her emotion, the shouts, the bravos and the whistles, the tumult. In the same room, somewhere, was a young man she never met, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Like him, long afterward, my mother confided in me that this music had changed her life. Now I understand why. I know what this repeated, drummed phrase, imposed by the rhythm and the crescendo, meant to her generation. Boléro is not a musical piece like the others. It is a prophecy. It tells the story of anger, of hunger. When it ends in violence, the silence that follows is terrible for the stunned survivors. I wrote this story in memory of a young girl who was, in spite of herself, a heroine at twenty." JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782070122837 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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