Title : A Fucking Story - Bernard Minier - Book Summary : Cognac Prize - Polar for the best French-language novel 2015 "I might as well tell you right away: what I'm about to tell you is going to seem incredible. It's not a trivial story," I tell him. "No, it's not. It's a fucking story. Yeah, a fucking story ... " "In the beginning was fear..." Out of the raging waves, a hand reaches toward the sky. A rocking boat deck, the rain falling, and night... The beginning of a "fucking story." A story of love and fear, of sound and fury. The story of 17-year-old Henry, plunged into a hell of suspicion by the murder of his girlfriend. On his windswept island, Glass Island, surrounded by fog 360 days a year and accessible only by ferry, everyone knows everyone else, down to their darkest secrets. Or so they think. When fear wins, truth is lost... "A captivating book until the very end." The Point "Great art." Modern woman This book received the Cognac Prize for the best French-language novel. Best French-language novel award at the Cognac Festival - 2015 EAN: 9782266267779 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : The Baltimore Book - Joel Dicker - Book Summary : Until the day of the tragedy, there were two Goldman families: the Baltimore Goldmans and the Montclair Goldmans. The Montclair Goldmans, from whom Marcus Goldman, the author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, comes, are a middle-class family living in a small house in Montclair, New Jersey. The Baltimore Goldmans are a prosperous family with everything going for them, living in a luxurious house in a wealthy suburb of Baltimore, for whom Marcus had boundless admiration. Eight years after the tragedy, Marcus Goldman decided to tell his family's story this time when, in February 2012, he left the New York winter for the tropical heat of Boca Raton, Florida, where he began working on his next novel. Through memories of his youth, Marcus revisits the life and destiny of the Goldmans of Baltimore and the fascination he once felt for this wealthy American family, between vacations in Miami, the vacation home in the Hamptons and the escapades at private schools. But as the years go by, the Baltimore family's veneer crumbles as tragedy looms. Until the day everything changes. And this question has haunted Marcus ever since: what really happened to the Baltimore Goldmans? EAN: 9782877069731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Colors of Fire - Pierre Lemaitre - Book Summary : February 1927. After the death of Marcel Péricourt, his daughter, Madeleine, is set to take over the financial empire to which she is heir. But she has a son, Paul, who, with an unexpected and tragic gesture, will set her on the path to ruin and decline. Faced with the adversity of men, the corruption of her environment, and the ambition of those around her, Madeleine must do everything in her power to survive and rebuild her life. This task is all the more difficult in a France that is helplessly watching the first hues of the fire that will ravage Europe. Pierre Lemaitre signs here the second part of the trilogy inaugurated with See you up there , Goncourt Prize 2013. A deeper, more moving, and more rebellious book than the one it is an extension of. A huge reading pleasure! Hubert Artus, Read . A literature of conviction, a furious talent . François Forestier, The Obs. The reader is taken on board, glued to the seat, stunned. François Busnel, The Great Bookstore EAN: 9782253100416 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Any Resistance Would Be Futile - Jenny Colgan - Book Summary : “She had thought she was in love before. She had been mistreated by men she desperately wanted and treated well by men she didn't. She had had a few comfortable and pleasant relationships, but they were nothing. Nothing compared to this blinding, all-consuming sensation, this extraordinary excitement.” Connie, a mathematician, arrives at Cambridge, thinking she's been given a professorship. Some of her colleagues are there, who've been given the same promise. The Secret Service has actually gathered them to crack a mysterious code, and now they're under house arrest. Among them is a stranger who's behaving strangely... and that's saying something, for their small circle. Luke seems to know much more than they do about this code and even about life, the universe, and everything else. “I loved this book. It’s original, funny, and romantic. You don’t even need to be an expert in fractals!” Sophie Kinsella “It's very rare that I fall so deeply in love with a book... Charming, intelligent, funny and moving.” Rowan Coleman EAN: 9791093835709 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Exile of Angels - Gilles Legardinier - Book Summary : They don't know each other, but the same dream has brought them together in a mysterious chapel in the Scottish Highlands. Valeria, Peter, and Stefan are unaware that they are living proof of a revolutionary discovery about the mysteries of memory made twenty years earlier by two missing scientists. A discovery that many would like to claim for themselves—at any cost. To escape those who are hunting them, they have no choice but to go back to the origin of the secret of which they are the ultimate guardians. Their memories are sanctuaries. It's up to them to find the keys... "A gripping thriller that, after reading it, haunts you: it's impossible not to think back to the brilliantly constructed plot." Le Magazine des Livres EAN: 9782266196338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For a moment of eternity - Gilles Legardinier - Book Summary : Vincent knows better than anyone what a secret is. A specialist in hidden passages, he's the one the rich and powerful discreetly call upon to hide their treasures or create undetectable exits. As Paris celebrates the World's Fair and its phenomenal Eiffel Tower, Vincent and his team suddenly become the target of assassination attempts. Is one of their clients trying to erase what they know about him? Are they being hunted by occult powers? In a turbulent era, confronted with mysteries from another time, Vincent will do everything he can to thwart the threat and save his loved ones. His discoveries will shatter everything he thought he knew about the world... EAN: 9782290227183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Souvenir Shop - Charlotte & Anna - Katharina Fuchs - Book Summary : Berlin, 1919: The KaDeWe department store is hiring saleswomen. For nineteen-year-old seamstress Anna, this is a unique opportunity to escape the poverty and deprivation of her life in the Spreewald. Meanwhile, Charlotte, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, is introduced to Leipzig's high society by her aunt and her Jewish husband. It is during this time that both will find true love and make choices that will change their entire lives. EAN: 9782290384237 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Verity - Colleen Hoover - Book Summary : Life has always been kind to Verity Crawford. Her books have made her a star author, her Vermont home is splendid, and she and her husband Jeremy are the perfect couple. But one day, on the road, her dream turns into a nightmare. The accident prevents her from writing, turns her overly large house into a prison, and threatens to separate her from Jeremy. Life has never been kind to Ashleigh Lowen. Her books receive only a polite reception, her finances are in dire straits, and her romances are flashes of hope. Until Jeremy recruits her to become Verity's ghostwriter and finish his successful series for her. For Lowen, as incongruous as the offer is, the opportunity is far too good to pass up. And Jeremy far too attractive for her to say no. But when Lowen discovers, in Verity's papers, what appears to be her autobiography, page after page, the portrait of a terrible woman emerges, ready to commit the most atrocious crimes to avoid losing what she has, and ready to resort to all kinds of perversity when she feels threatened. And in Verity's eyes, Lowen is now a threat. EAN: 9782755692761 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Alex - Pierre Lemaitre - Book Summary : Who really knows Alex? She's beautiful. Exciting. Is that why she was kidnapped, held captive, and left to the unimaginable? But when Commissioner Verhoeven finally discovers her prison, Alex has disappeared. Alex, smarter than her tormentor. Alex who forgives nothing, who forgets nothing, and no one. A chilling thriller that juggles the codes of murderous madness, a diabolical and unpredictable mechanism where we find the talent of the author of Wedding dress. [Pierre Lemaitre] raises the noir genre to a height that is extremely rare among French writers: that where literature stands. Jean-Christophe Buisson, Le Figaro magazine. Jubilant, literary, Hitchcockian. Yann Plougastel, The Literary World. EAN: 9782253166443 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The City of Jars - Arnaldur Indridason - Book Summary : A new body is found in Reykjavik. Inspector Erlendur is in a bad mood: another one of those typically Icelandic murders, a "stupid and nasty thing" that's wasting the police's time... Pornographic photos found at the victim's home reveal a forty-year-old case. And lead him straight to the "City of Jars," an abominable collection of jars containing organs... Born in Iceland in 1961, Arnaldur Indridason achieved a masterstroke with his first detective novel, which has already been translated into more than twenty languages. "Swede Hennig Mankell had better watch out, Arnaldur is hot on his heels." Read Translated from Icelandic by Éric Boury EAN: 9782757800232 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : BM blues - Françoise Bourdin - Book Summary : Devastated by the death of his sister, burned alive before his eyes in the car their father was driving, Hugo, 22, breaks with his past and his family to join the service of Thève, a gruff industrialist with no driving license. Driving Thève's gleaming BMW M5 is the only way for Hugo to exorcise his sister's accident... and a way to find himself. An initiation into real life... For Thève, his legendary BMW M5 is a rich man's whim, an expensive toy he's no longer allowed to drive. For Hugo, it's a way to exorcise the tragedy of his sister's death, burned alive before his eyes in a car accident. The meeting between the two men is improbable; it shouldn't have happened. Everything opposes them, and yet they need each other. Young Hugo therefore becomes the personal chauffeur of Thève, the successful entrepreneur. But this uneasy collaboration will reveal their flaws... Launched at high speed on icy roads, always on the edge, the breathtaking novel of a return to life. EAN: 9782714452764 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crosses of the Full Moon - Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - Book Summary : The novel of a man who inherited the beauty of the world. Lorenzo Delmonte devotes all his time to the large animal park he founded in the Jura region. When a former student friend invites him to spend a month in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya, Lorenzo sees it as an unexpected opportunity to observe wildlife in its natural habitat. For the first time, he agrees to take time off and entrust the park to his team, under the direction of Julia, his best veterinarian. While this great journey reveals a new facet of his profession and confirms his commitment to the protection of endangered species, his feelings for the beautiful Julia become evident. Out of sight, out of mind? Quite the opposite: separated by thousands of kilometers, these two people have never been closer... EAN: 9782286153793 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mysteries of Winterthurn - Joyce Carol Oates - Book Summary : How far will a woman in love go to call her runaway fiancé back to her? How far does love lead? To what heights of cruelty, perversity, and seduction? This is the central theme of The Mysteries of Winterthurn . At the end of the 19th century, at the Glen Mawr manor, located in the town of Winterthurn in the eastern United States, lives the strange Kilgarvan family, composed of three daughters: Georgina, the eldest, known as "The Blue Nun," and her two half-sisters whom she raises alone, the wise and studious Thérèse and the pretty, whimsical and perverse Perdita. At dawn one May day, the Blue Nun mysteriously goes to town to buy fifty pounds of quicklime. Shortly after, the baby of her cousin Abigail, who came to visit for a few days, is found with her throat cut near her mother's bed. The truth about this atrocious murder would undoubtedly have been better left undiscovered. Twelve years later, five young girls are found dead, horribly mutilated, near Winterthurn. And, twelve years after that, it is the pastor, his mother, and one of his parishioners who are brutally murdered with axes. Each time, the key to these horrific mysteries will be the same, as we can well guess: how far does a woman in love dare to go? Joyce Carol Oates knows how to describe the darkest depths of human beings like no one else. She also knows how to touch our imagination in its most secret shadowy areas. She relentlessly denounces the taboos and prohibitions of this rigid turn-of-the-century society. The Mysteries of Winterthurn is a rich, vibrant, strange and sumptuous book, where the diabolical sometimes borders on the comic in the purest tradition of the crime novel. We find all the talent, all the accents of the author of Bellefleur and The Legend of Bloodsmoor . Joyce Carol Oates is arguably the most gifted and prolific young American novelist of today. Translated worldwide, she has published thirteen novels or collections of short stories in France, all with Editions Stock. The most recent include Bellefleur (1981), Profane Love (1982), A Sentimental Education (1983), The Legend of Bloodsmoor (1985), and The Man Women Adored (1986). EAN: 9782234019966 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Serial Killers - Investigation into Serial Killers - Stéphane Bourgoin - Book Summary : A reference work, translated worldwide, this revised and expanded edition for the second time is the result of twenty years of research on these criminals who kill in series without any obvious motive, but most often under the influence of sexual urges; and who commit their crimes with complete impunity for months, even years. Stéphane Bourgoin was able to talk with more than forty of these serial killers in high-security prisons around the world. Cannibals, like Ottis Toole or the South African pedophile Stewart Wilken; psychotics, like Gary Heidnik, whose case inspired the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs; or Richard Chase and James Riva, authentic modern vampires; female criminals, like Martha Beck or Christine Falling; child killers like John Joubert and Albert Fish; necrophiliacs and headhunters, like Gerard Schaefer and Ed Kemper, who serves as a model for Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter; stranglers of prostitutes in the style of Arthur Shawcross, all express the same bloody fantasies - and a total lack of remorse. Thanks to numerous stays abroad (United States, South Africa, Eastern Europe, etc.), the author was able to meet the FBI special agents responsible for studying these extraordinary assassins, as well as profilers from around the world who use a psychological approach and computer databases to solve investigations. Their conclusions are compared with the opinions of the greatest psychiatrists in the field. The work is completed by a bibliographic dictionary of serial killers which is the first of its kind. EAN: 9782246462248 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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