Title : The Girls of the New World - Susan Richards Schreve - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856166437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Circle of Women - Sophie Brocas - Book Summary : During a great-grandmother's funeral, four generations of women are confronted with the discovery of a painful family secret. "I join Mom in the cool house. She continues her patient work of sorting: the pile of things to throw away, the pile of things to keep, the pile of things we'll figure out later. What possessed me to get down on all fours to look under the large wardrobe? My hand pulled out yet another shoebox. I blew off the film of dust covering its lid before lifting it." Gathered for a few days in the countryside for the funeral of their grandmother and friend, four generations of women share their intimacy and their grief. Young Lia inadvertently discovers a family secret jealously guarded for sixty years. Do these revelations threaten to trigger a cataclysm within this very endearing tribe? A coming-of-age novel, The Women's Circle delicately explores the unconscious mechanisms of transmission from mothers to daughters and offers us a gallery of characters as touching as they are whimsical. EAN: 9782260022008 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Monsieur Malaussène - Daniel Pennac - Book Summary : "- The sequel! demanded the children. The sequel! The sequel! My sequel is the other little me who is preparing my succession in Julie's bosom. How beautiful a woman is in these first months when she does you the honor of being two! But, Julie, do you think that's reasonable? Julie, do you think so? Honestly... eh? And you, little shit, do you think that this is the world, the family, the time to settle down? Not there yet and already with bad company!- The sequel! The sequel! They were so keen on their sequel that I, Benjamin Malaussène, highly responsible family brother, resurrected goat, potential father, ended up in prison accused of twenty-one murders. All that for a dark trafficking of images in this century of Enlightenment. So, do you really want me to tell you the sequel?" EAN: 9782070731404 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On the Street Where the One I Love Lives - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : In 1891, young girls mysteriously disappear. But when a century later, their skeletons are discovered, along with the bodies of more recent victims, the small town of Spring Lake, a chic old seaside resort on the Atlantic coast, is paralyzed. Everyone seems to have something to hide. The doctor, the real estate agent, the restaurateur... they all seem suspect. But are they guilty? In this atmosphere of growing anxiety, Emily Graham, a young New York lawyer, moves into the family home where her murdered ancestor Madeline once lived. A man observes her every move. Is he a killer? Mysterious links seem to connect him to all these victims of the past. Will Emily be his next target? EAN: 9782226125538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accused - John Grisham - Book Summary : On December 7, 1982, in a small Oklahoma town, a twenty-one-year-old woman, Debbie Carter, was brutally raped and murdered. The investigation stalled despite clues leading to a high school friend with whom she was seen the night of the crime. Five years later, another man, Ron Williamson, was arrested by the police in charge of the case. He would be sentenced to death. Just days before his execution, DNA tests cleared him... and pointed to the real culprit: the high school friend—who was never charged. Twelve years passed between Ron Williamson's arrest and his release. Twelve years during which the police and the justice system have accumulated false testimonies, lies, pseudo-expertise... With his inimitable art of suspense and thanks to his experience as a lawyer, John Grisham dismantles the infernal mechanism of judicial error and asks: how many innocent people are there on death row in American prisons? EAN: 9782221108215 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : Love is Crazy - Yann Queffélec - Book Summary : What if Alba came back? This is the question that Aline asks Marc, seemingly confused. She is forty-two, Marc is twenty-five, they love each other, want a child. He himself is still a child for whom the future is only a virtual game, a pastime. Marc is a bit like my double, my damned soul, in another life. He lost his mother at eighteen, his first wife. Every day he loses her a little more by losing himself. He no longer sees Cathy, his blind little sister, he runs away from Tim, his eternal friend, he doesn't work. He would like to try to establish a dialogue with his father, but he is so unnatural in front of him. Alba is Marc's childhood friend, an ex-girlfriend, and also Aline's daughter. She disappeared five years ago for no apparent reason. What would happen if she came back to Marc's heart? She calls one morning. I missed you, she says. Love is crazy. EAN: 9782213625010 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I Married a Stranger - Patricia MacDonald - Book Summary : Young married. Soon a child. Perfect bliss. For their honeymoon, Emma and David have chosen a simple cabin in the forest. But the romantic getaway turns into tragedy: attacked by a masked man armed with an axe, Emma is rescued by a hunter. It is he who will be killed by the criminal. For the police, there is no doubt: David is suspect number 1. And the evidence piles up: his strange refusal to cooperate, his unexplained absence at the time of the events, the testimony of a neighbor, the fortune of the young woman he would inherit... Doubt then creeps into Emma's mind, devastating. Does she really know the man she married? Patricia MacDonald has a knack for writing novels that command no price. In this new, unnerving psychological thriller, she draws her reader into a nightmarish web of deadly possibilities without revealing anything until the very last page. EAN: 9782226173447 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corpse in the Rolls-Royce - Michael Connelly - Book Summary : Do you know what means "to blackmail" the trunk-»-?  For the Las Vegas Mafia, "blackmailing the trunk" means killing someone and leaving them in the trunk of a car. So, when Harry Bosch learns that a producer of erotic turnips is found dead in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce, the culprits seem obvious. Except for a few minor details: the widow doesn't seem the least bit upset by the news of the death, and organized crime specialists don't share Bosch's point of view on the matter. The solution? Head to Las Vegas and try to figure it out. Revenge for the cheated wife? A dark, high-level cop showdown? EAN: 9782702160985 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of Love - Tales of Longing for Her and Desire for Him - Henri Gougaud - Book Summary : When we read the tales and myths of primitive peoples, it appears that the thousand games of sex were everywhere celebrated as the most sacred manifestations of the happiness of being. Our West, today, no longer considers them inspired by the devil, but it still does not dare to think that they can, or could one day, please God. For our simple ancestors, it goes without saying that the strength to love has its source in the Master of Creation, and that there is no more joyful duty than to celebrate these tools that were given to us to serve it. The tales that populate this book are all, of course, from oral tradition. Whatever their country of birth, they speak of the same astonishment at seeing themselves in the sun after the unfathomable shadow, the same wonder at love. I enjoyed serving these works which have so much to teach us about a happiness to be reinvented. HG EAN: 9782020254656 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Night of Error - Tahar Ben Jelloun - Book Summary : A grim fate decreed that Zina, the heroine of this novel, was conceived during a cursed night, "a night of error" during which nothing was to be conceived. She was born on the day of her grandfather's death. Thus, what was supposed to be a celebration was a mourning. Struck by fate, cursed forever, she would become a child, then a marginalized woman, the one through whom misfortune befalls. Zina would make cruelty her way of being in the world and take revenge on the men captivated by her beauty. "Women are cruel," she would say, "because men are cowards." Zina would endeavor to seduce and then destroy her lovers. Three magical places, three Moroccan cities serve as the setting for this story: Fez in the 1940s, Tangier ten years later, and Chaouen today. Tahar Ben Jelloun brings together several storytellers to combine the themes that have always inhabited his work: the violence of relationships between men and women, freedom... "As if by chance," he writes, "it is in the disaster of the world that I find myself, in the suffering of the innocent that I recognize myself." EAN: 9782020215954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mysteries of Osiris, Volume 1 - The Tree of Life - Christian Jacq - Book Summary : At the heart of the temple of Abydos, an acacia tree is dying... And through it, all of Egypt is threatened. For it is not a tree like the others: it sprang from the tomb of the god Osiris, to announce his rebirth. The great pharaoh Sesostris III immediately engages in battle against the invisible enemy who wants to lead Egypt to its ruin. But he is unaware that in his closest circle hides a traitor, a man who dreams of power and honors, a man who will sell himself to the occult forces... A young apprentice scribe, Iker, becomes a very involuntary actor in this mystery. Kidnapped by sailors invoking a "state secret," the adolescent does not know who is trying to kill him, nor who is protecting him. Haunted by the vision of a sublime young priestess, Iker has the feeling of being guided or manipulated, in any case of advancing on a path whose end he does not know. Together, Iker and Sesostris, the weak and the powerful, the innocent and the wise, will they succeed in preventing Osiris from dying for the last time? The Mysteries of Osiris, beyond the fiery quest of young Iker in search of his truth, and the fight of Sesostris III against the forces of Evil, is the absolutely magical and fascinating story of an Egypt that is no more and yet resists in our memories - thanks to Christian Jacq, who gives us here the keys and the secrets of its unalterable dimension... EAN: 9782845631113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Abduction - Patricia J. MacDonald - Book Summary : Tess was nine years old when her older sister Phoebe was kidnapped, raped, and strangled. Based on her testimony, the culprit was immediately arrested, tried, and then executed. Twenty years later, a test revealed that his DNA was not the same as that found on Phoebe. Traumatized by the thought of having convicted an innocent man, Tess decided to get to the bottom of this case. Even if it meant reliving the nightmare that turned her life upside down and becoming the prime suspect in her sister's murder... Patricia MacDonald deploys all her talent to distill doubt and ambiguity, through an oppressive psychological suspense, haunted by dramas and family secrets. EAN: 9782226181084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Delicate Truth - John le Carré - Book Summary : 2008. The Rock of Gibraltar, the jewel of the British colonies, is the scene of a counterterrorism operation led by a British commando and American mercenaries. Codename: Wildlife. Objective: to kidnap a jihadist arms buyer. Sponsors: an ambitious foreign minister and his personal friend, the head of a private military company. Kit Probyn, a candid diplomat, is summoned to be the politician's hotline. The operation is so delicate that even the minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is kept out of it. 2011. Kit Probyn, now retired, summons Toby Bell to his Cornish manor. Toby must choose between his conscience and his loyalty as a servant of the state. But if the passivity of honest men is enough to make evil triumph, how can he remain silent? Of burning topicality – the clash between Christianity and Islam –, Such a delicate truth, The author's twenty-third novel is hard-hitting, tight as a fist. Masterful. Translated from English (Great Britain) by Isabelle Perrin John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. Isabelle Perrin , who was destined for a wise academic career, caught the literary translation bug from his mother Mimi. The incurable duettists would co-author more than thirty translations, including all of John le Carré's novels since The Russia House . Press excerpts: "John le Carré transcends mere genre literature and will go down in history as perhaps the most important writer of the second half of the 20th century." Ian McEwan "Le Carré returns to his roots here. Jubilant and subtle, this novel is the most striking of his recent works." The Times “John le Carré’s best novel! It hits the mark: a gripping story about state cover-ups, individual conscience, and duty to one’s country.” New York Times " In Such a delicate truth , the tension mounts as the revelations unfold. Le Carré, a fine analyst of the contemporary world, knows how to provoke while giving food for thought. The Independent “Le Carré’s voice is as recognizable as Dickens’ or Jane Austen’s: often imitated, never equaled, he created his own world of pathetic spies, treacherous lovers, guilt-ridden private school alumni, and ruthless establishment figures as seductive as they are immoral.” Financial Times EAN: 9782021113921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Not all men inhabit the world in the same way - Jean-Paul Dubois - Book Summary : Paul Hansen has been serving his sentence in Montreal's provincial jail for two years, sharing a cell with Horton, a Hells Angel incarcerated for murder. Flashback: Hansen is superintendent at The Excelsior , a residence where he deploys his talents as concierge, guard, factotum, and – even more – repairer of souls and consoler of the afflicted. When he is not busy helping the inhabitants of The Excelsior or maintaining the buildings, he joins Winona, his companion. At the controls of her airplane, she takes him into the sky, above the clouds. But soon everything changes. A new manager arrives. The Excelsior , conflicts arise. And the inevitable happens. A church buried in the dunes of a beach, an open-cast asbestos mine, the meanders of a silver-colored river, the sound waves of an organ make up the varied landscapes in which this novel takes place. Story of a life, Not all men inhabit the world in the same way. is one of Jean-Paul Dubois's finest books. It reveals a writer driven by a keen sense of brotherhood and a feeling of revolt against all forms of injustice. EAN: 9782823615166 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Blood on the Green - Harlan Coben - Book Summary : The destiny of a professional golfer depends on little. One victory in a major tournament and he becomes a legend. A second-place finish, and he falls into oblivion. Jack Coldren knows this only too well: for 23 years, he has thought only of this US Open, which he let slip away while comfortably leading entering the final three holes. One bad shot and his life was turned upside down. Doubt, depression. A career shattered. But this week, as the competition takes place on the course that saw him fall, he finally seems on the verge of overcoming his demons. Only, things go wrong again. His son is kidnapped under mysterious circumstances. His lead begins to melt away. And Myron Bolivar, for his part, begins to smell the suspicious scenario. Tasked with investigating this strange kidnapping, the sports agent uncovers an inextricable knot of overlapping interests, old grudges, and obscure conflicts on the fringes of the fairways. Behind every new element, the same question keeps coming back: what really happened 23 years earlier on hole number 16? EAN: 9782265076754 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Heart of Elizabeth - Marie GRAY - Book Summary : Sparkling eyes, a racing heart, a thousand plans for the two of them... Elisabeth seemed to be living the perfect love story with Nico. Yet, overnight, the teenager's world collapses. At 15, love can be wonderful, but also terribly painful... Bad encounters at the wrong time, and Elisabeth's descent into hell begins... EAN: 9782266223232 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Eye of the Leopard - Henning Mankell - Book Summary : 1950s. In a small town in Norrland, Hans Olofson, a teenager raised by a boorish, alcoholic father, loses his only two true friends. Devastated, Hans decides to fulfill one of their dreams: to travel to Zambia, following in the footsteps of a Swedish missionary. 1969. Africa fascinates and frightens him. In the young, independent republic of Zambia, gripped by violence, Hans encounters colonizers trapped in their racism and obedient Black people who cultivate hatred of whites. Hans agrees to help an English woman run her egg farm, then takes over the business for himself. Hoping to escape the spiral of racial violence, he attempts to put his ideals of social and human justice into practice. The Eye of the Leopard , published in 1990 in Sweden, adds to the list of novels about Africa (such as Children's comedy , The Son of the Wind And Kennedy's Brain ) by the committed writer Henning Mankell, who divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique. Henning Mankell was born in 1948. His work has been awarded numerous literary prizes. In addition to the famous "Wallander series," he is the author of novels about Africa and social issues, plays, and children's books. Born in Sweden, Agneta Ségol For many years, he divided his professional life between journalism, translation and teaching. In 2000, his daughter Marianne Ségol-Samoy joined her in translation after having been an actress. They often work in pairs (among others for texts by Astrid Lindgren, PO Enquist, Håkan Nesser, Henning Mankell) while each keeping to their own field. Marianne that of theater (Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sara Stridsberg), Agneta that of children's literature (Stefan Casta, Annika Thor, Per Nilsson). EAN: 9782020945110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Henderson's Boys - Volume 1 - The Escape - Robert Muchamore - Book Summary : June 1940. The German armies are sweeping across France. In the Beauvais region, young Marc Kilgour, a twelve-year-old orphan, is forced to flee, taking to the roads. Heading toward Paris, he undergoes a painful lesson in survival. Meanwhile, in the capital, an Englishman and his two children, Paul and Suzie, are also trying to escape south. But to no avail: in Tours, they are machine-gunned and their father dies. Paul and Suzie are now also left to their own devices. Their lives are in danger. Nothing, at first glance, connects the three children. Except for one thing: the name of a certain Charles Henderson, a British intelligence officer they will try to find... EAN: 9782203024298 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : They Live by Night - Dennis Lehane - Book Summary : Boston, 1926. In the midst of Prohibition, alcohol flows freely in the speakeasies and Joe, the youngest son of Deputy Commissioner Thomas Coughlin, is determined to make a place for himself in the underworld. He begins by robbing a speakeasy belonging to a local boss and, more importantly, makes the mistake of seducing his mistress. Revenge is swift and Joe finds himself behind bars. It is there that an old godfather, Maso Pescatore, takes charge of his education and Joe's career takes off. From Florida to Cuba, Joe makes his way, paved with pitfalls, struggles, and betrayals, among those who live by night. But around the bend in the road, a great love story also awaits him... They live by night, it's The Godfather for those who know how to think. (Stephen King) EAN: 9782743624613 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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