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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Title : The Source - Anne-marie Garat - Book Summary : In an unexpected, extravagant baroque mansion nestled below a village in Franche-Comté, Lottie, a sturdy nonagenarian, lives alone. Lottie will unravel the story of this house, the estate, and its ghosts for the narrator, a sociology professor passing through under the guise of a university investigation. But should we take her word for it? Anne-Marie Garat brings memory and lies into the most fascinating of dialogues—giving birth to the uninterrupted tale whose powerful spells literature nourishes to the point of recomposing the very material of time. EAN: 9782330053185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crime of Innocence - Brad Meltzer - Book Summary : Insider trading doesn't look good on a judicial resume. When Ben Addison, an ambitious young lawyer newly appointed to clerk for one of the nine Supreme Court justices, realizes he's walked right into an imposter's trap, he's already in serious trouble. Cornered, desperate at the thought of seeing his brilliant professional future jeopardized, Ben turns to Lisa, his colleague, and his three best friends, young, intelligent but inexperienced golden boys like him. Their objective: to find the con man who vanished with millions of dollars. The problem is, they've vastly underestimated their adversary, and by the time they realize the extent of the danger, it's too late. Their friendship, their career, and perhaps their lives are also on the edge. But there's no turning back. Combining its formidable suspense with an uncompromising and humorous portrayal of the yuppies' appetite for social advancement, this thriller, as original as it is eventful, was a bestseller in the United States upon its publication. EAN: 9782714435910 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In every way like love - Simona Vinci - Book Summary : First collection of short stories after the novel Where Are the Children? for which Simona Vinci won the Elsa Morante Prize for a First Work. What is first striking when reading the thirteen short stories that make up Dans tous les sens comme l'amour is the sobriety and acuity of the gaze, the short, dense sentences, of a serious and resolute silence. Like razor blades, the words cut into the translucent bubbles with thick walls in which the various characters are imprisoned, curled up on their physical envelope, in an isolation without return. Dans tous les sens comme l'amour is a collection of disturbing intensity, of rare stylistic quality. The themes are treated with astonishing mastery by a young writer whose writing is deeply, intimately feminine, and whose exploration of the mysteries of the body joins the questions and research of contemporary art in recent years. It has been a long time since Italy, often too quick to promote "promising young writers", has presented us with genuine literary talent. EAN: 9782070760619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 99 Francs - Frédéric Beigbeder - Book Summary : Octave is the master of the world. Octave practices the lucrative profession of advertising copywriter: he decides today what you'll want tomorrow. Octave is a living dead, covered in money, girls, and cocaine. One day, he rebels. The gifted Octave goes crazy. The ideal client? "A Mongolian woman under fifty." "The advertising moguls?" "They're waging World War III." From the Île de la Jatte where agency bosses negotiate to Miami where a spot is shot on amphetamines, from a seminar in Africa to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, from the hell of sex to lost purity, Frédéric Beigbeder, somewhere between fiction and pamphlet, writes the confession of a child of the millennium. Laughing, he denounces universal commercialism. In a way, a moral book. For only 99 francs. EAN: 9782246567615 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Emperor and his automatons - Jean Lévi - Book Summary : Here is the novel of absolute order, as desired by Ts'in Che-houang ti, First August Emperor, over the entire Chinese Empire, in the 3rd century BC. After stopping History by establishing the reign of pure necessity and enclosing space within a great wall, the August Emperor wants to abolish time. He ends his reign surrounded by hydraulic automatons and believes he thus has control over beings. Already, he dreams of directing men as one directs machines. But he himself is perhaps only a puppet in the hands of his prime minister. He dies while traveling and, preserved in ice, people continue to serve him meals and take his orders as if he were alive... Playing with the multiple mirrors of Chinese civilization, cruel and refined, voluptuous and conquering, this novel reveals the astonishing figure of this First Emperor and thus paints the portrait of a China that is both ancestral and modern. EAN: 9782226021038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ramuntcho - Pierre Loti - Book Summary : Pierre Loti, in his novel Ramuntcho, published in 1892, describes a traditional and almost caricatured Basque Country, much to the chagrin of some defenders of Basque identity. Yet, Pierre Loti skillfully depicts the Basque soul and country, and this book has become an emblematic work. Ramuntcho, a smuggler, loves Gracieuse. Gracieuse loves Ramuntcho and promises to marry him when he returns from military service. However, the separation lasts three years, during which Gracieuse's mother goes on a rampage: rather than give her to Franchita's son, she prefers to lock her up in a convent. Can't one escape from a convent? A sacrilegious but very tempting project for a lover, a kidnapping that will be botched... Here we find Pierre Loti's literary vein. It's a slightly sad love story, but also one of adventure, in a unique setting: the Basque Country, the adopted home of the author who lived in Sare and died in Hendaye. A special region where young people dance, play pelota, and occasionally do some smuggling. The description of the Basque Country is largely responsible for the immense success of Ramuntcho. Today's reader will take great pleasure in reading this powerful story of the conquest and loss of a lost paradise. The author: Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud by his real name, was a naval officer, a great traveler, and above all a novelist. He was born on January 14, 1850, to Nadine Texier and Jean-Théodore Viaud, a Protestant family dominated by women - the mother and aunts - and of which Julien was the youngest son. Accepted into the Naval Academy in Paris, he went to sea in 1870 as a first-class midshipman, following the example of his beloved Gustave. He never stopped traveling the world by boat. His work, often autobiographical, takes us to Turkey (Aziyadé), Senegal (The Novel of a Spahi) or Japan (Madame Chrysanthemum, which was a huge success and inspired Puccini's Madame Butterfly). But the setting of his novels was not always so distant: with Pêcheurs d'Islande, he describes the life of Breton fishermen. Ramuntcho is set in this Basque land that Loti loved so much and where he ended his life. He was elected to the Académie française against Émile Zola. EAN: 9782365750257 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Bicycle - Volume 4 - Black Tango - 1945-1947 - Régine Deforges - Book Summary : November 1945: In Nuremberg, in defeated Germany, the Allies try former Nazi criminals. Léa Delmas, sent by the Red Cross, meets François Tavernier there, whom she saw again a few months earlier in a Montillac undergoing reconstruction. Léa, shaken by the atrocities of war, collapses when Sarah Mulstein recounts the horror of her ordeal in the Ravensbrück camp. Suffering and humiliation have transformed this sensitive woman into a being driven by hatred and a desire for revenge. Sarah convinces François Tavernier to embrace her cause and join the network of Avengers she has formed. Their mission is simple: to hunt down and execute Nazis wherever they are found. This "hunt" leads them to Argentina, where Peronist circles facilitate the integration of war criminals into society. In Noir Tango , Régine Deforges brings back to life, to our great delight, the characters who won us over in her trilogy La Bicyclette Bleue . EAN: 9782213031170 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Happiness on the Heads Side - Seré Prince Halverson - Book Summary : For the love of her loved ones, she decides to believe in happiness. For three years, Ella has lived a happy life in California with her husband, Joe, the father of two children from a previous relationship, whom she raises as if they were her own. Ella wouldn't change her life for the world. But this perfect happiness comes to an abrupt end when Joe dies in an accident. As misfortunes never come alone, the children's biological mother, who abandoned them for years, reappears on the day of the funeral to claim custody. As she struggles to grieve for the man she loved, Ella must embark on a merciless legal battle to keep them all. She must also try to save the bankrupt Italian grocery store that Joe left her, the pride of the family for generations, from the brink of bankruptcy. EAN: 9782258091481 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Codex - Douglas Preston - Book Summary : Hello from the land of the dead! This is how a wealthy collector begins the video left by his three sons. They soon learn that their father has buried himself alive with his treasures in a lost city somewhere in Central America. Whoever discovers his retreat will inherit his fortune. But the three brothers aren't the only ones coveting these priceless pieces... In particular, a 9th-century Mayan manuscript, the Codex, which could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry. The sums at stake are colossal. The treasure hunt is on. But not everyone can become an adventurer... Especially since the Honduran jungle has never seemed so hostile. And some are willing to kill to get their hands on the secrets of the Codex. EAN: 9782841878826 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Storm over the Basin - Patrice Vergès - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782848861791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dwarves, Volume 2 - Blade of Fire - Markus Heitz - Book Summary : The Orc army advances, and the Humans join forces to stem its progress, still led by the ruthless Albes. Only the Dwarves can save them. The latter, divided by internal conflicts, attempt to choose their new king, and, despite himself, Tungdil is among the contenders for the throne. To decide between them, the young Dwarf and his rival—who wants only one thing: war against the Elves—are assigned a mission. They must travel to the Dragonbreath forge in the heart of the Grey Mountains to forge the Fireblade. This mythical weapon is the only one that can defeat the mage Nôd'onn and prevent him from handing over the Safe Country to the creatures of Tion. Will Tungdil and his companions complete their quest? The fate of the world depends on their success. EAN: 9782811200305 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Subito presto - Gérard Mordillat - Book Summary : In Subito presto , monsters who resemble us call out to each other and respond to each other. Whether it's the tragedy of a ridiculous man who joins the far right, the delusions of a president ready to reinstate slavery to combat unemployment, a truck driver selling his soul to the devil to become a boss, the ghost of a jester, or the man with a child's brain who travels the world without seeing it... they all say what we are, here and now. So many texts, so many stories snatched by the handful from current events, so many stones thrown into the mirror of everyday life to shatter it; to discover the reality of the world we live in - violent, grotesque, and sometimes terribly funny. After Ces femmes-là , visionary and disturbing, Gérard Mordillat , winner of the Resistance Humor Prize for La Brigade du rire , remains faithful to his convictions in this surprising, provocative and playful collection. EAN: 9782226448262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History of Sexual Rites - Jacques Marcireau - Book Summary : Sexual rites of prehistoric origin had never been the subject of a comprehensive study or any attempt at interpretation. People did not dare to look them in the face. This book finally dares to do so and provides the most extraordinary documentation ever gathered on this subject. Sacred prostitution, the right of the first night, the cult of the lingam and the yoni, and circumcision are the best-known vestiges of these mysterious practices, the spread of which was universal and whose role in the formation of religions and societies was crucial. A careful examination of the oldest of these rites, bestial coupling (Eve and the serpent), reveals a surprising hypothesis on the origins of humanity. Ritual coupling, no longer between an animal and a woman, but between a priest and a priestess (as well as between the faithful) was such a widespread practice that, in the time of Herodotus, “except the Greeks and the Egyptians, all peoples made love in the temples.” In 1877, the Orthodox clergy still tolerated – once a year – couplings of the faithful in a Christian church… Sexual rites are inseparable from the rites of Death and the rites of Emasculation. By explaining them, we finally understand a host of beliefs, superstitions, social or religious customs, the nature of religious and other ceremonies, the origin of festivals, etc. EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sulfuric Acid - Amélie Nothomb - Book Summary : "The time came when the suffering of others was no longer enough for them: they needed the spectacle of it." EAN: 9782226167224 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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