Title : The Slow Waltz of the Turtles - Katherine Pancol - Book Summary : This book is a gust of life... A burning kiss from the only one you must not kiss... Two arms that embrace or kill... A disturbing man, but so charming... A woman who trembles and hopes ardently... A man who lies so skillfully... A woman who thinks she's leading the dance, but passes her turn... Teenagers more aware than the adults... A man who plays the ghost... A father, up there in the stars... who whispers in his daughter's ear... A dog so ugly that we move out of his way... Characters who move forward stubbornly... like stubborn little turtles... who would learn to dance slowly, slowly... in a world too fast, too violent... After the extraordinary success of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (more than 500,000 copies sold), a highly anticipated sequel. EAN: 9782226182319 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Eleanor, daughter of Merlin - Séverine Gauthier - Book Summary : If you come across a mandrake, do not dig it up without taking precautions! It was by ignoring this instruction that Eleanor unwittingly caused the death of her father, Merlin the magician. But can the great Merlin really die? Reduced to the state of a ghost, the magician is convinced that his daughter is capable of bringing him back to life. Hasn't Eleanor shown the first signs of her druidic powers? She still needs to enter Morgane the fairy's library and extract an effective resurrection rite from her. She must act quickly. For the Ankou is lurking, ready to take Merlin's soul to the kingdom of the dead. EAN: 9782221107584 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Son - Jo Nesbø - Book Summary : Sonny Lofthus is a heroin addict, but he's a model prisoner. Taking on crimes he didn't commit to atone for the memory of his corrupt police officer father's suicide, he also acts as a mystical healer and collects confessions from his fellow inmates. One day, one of them will pull Sonny from his opiate-addled tranquility. He'd been lied to all his life, his father's death was anything but a suicide... He then manages to escape from prison and, while seeking a form of redemption, will commit implacable revenge. Wandering the slums of Oslo, prey to the demons of resentment and loss, he intends to make those who betrayed his father and destroyed his life pay. Whatever the cost. EAN: 9782070147403 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Woman - Tim Winton - Book Summary : Fred Scully and his wife Jennifer have decided to leave Australia for a new life in Europe. They fall in love with an old house in southern Ireland. The days are long in this uncomfortable house at the foot of Leap Castle, haunted by ghost riders. Scully is renovating it while waiting for his wife and daughter to go back to Australia to settle some business. Their return is announced, but at the airport, Scully sees only his daughter Billie. His wife has disappeared and his daughter is mute. So begins a desperate flight for Scully and Billie across Europe, to the places where they had lived as a family. The more the hunt progresses, the more mysterious Jennifer's disappearance becomes, the more Scully feels tortured and alone. Billie will save him. EAN: 9782743604301 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vienna at Night - Naguib Mahfouz - Book Summary : Cairo in the 1930s, on the eve of World War II: as an ancient nation enters modernity, a family finds itself faced with the difficulties of daily life. Left destitute after the death of their father, the mother, an omnipresent figure—a living incarnation of eternal Egypt—and her four children manage to overcome a series of trials, allowing them to hope for better days. But this was to ignore the curse that haunts this family. Through the individual destinies of his characters, Naguib Mahfouz leads us into a profound meditation on the secrets of life and human beings, free will and fate, Good and Evil. EAN: 9782070405701 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wild Swans - Jung Chang - Book Summary : The granddaughter of a concubine and a "warlord," and the daughter of high-ranking communist officials, Jung Chang lived in a "cocoon of privilege" until 1965. The Cultural Revolution, with its trail of denunciations and persecutions, placed China under a reign of terror. Jung saw her parents interned in a reeducation camp while she was deported to the countryside where she would become a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a factory worker, and more. Today, Jung Chang, living in Great Britain, offers us these memoirs of a Chinese family, from the Celestial Empire to Tiananmen. A relentless indictment of the Cultural Revolution, a magnificent book of memories woven around three generations of women, an irreplaceable historical testimony to the China of yesterday and today. EAN: 9782266055437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When Politicians Let Go! Bon mots, slips of the tongue and meanness - Olivier Clodong - Book Summary : Making people laugh is second nature to politicians. When politicians let loose, it's a festival of ferocity. Everyone would die for a witty remark, an ironic witticism, a cruel retort that shuts up their opponent, wins over public opinion by sparking general hilarity. None of the big names are absent: from Clemenceau to Santini, including de Gaulle, Chirac, Chevènement, but also all the players in the 2012 presidential election. Olivier Clodong has selected 200 short political phrases and describes the context in which they were launched. Olivier CLODONG teaches political communication. He is notably the author of Policies and wooden language and of Storytelling in action at Éditions Eyrolles. EAN: 9782755506099 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of Marcel Proust - Robert Dreyfus - Book Summary : Published in 1926, these Memories of Marcel Proust bring together letters from Marcel Proust to Robert Dreyfus. The correspondence begins when the former was 17, in 1888, and ends in 1920, two years before his death. We follow the writer at each stage of his life: from the Lycée Condorcet to the years of writing In Search of Lost Time , including his first social events. Proust talks about friendship, salons, but also literature. He mentions Gobineau and Ruskin. Robert Dreyfus frames these letters with autobiographical notes, portraits, and critical comparisons between the life and work of his friend. The new presentation of the book also reveals some mysteries. Dreyfus censored some of Proust's expressions, replacing them with words he deemed more appropriate. Marcel Proust's "affectionately" becomes "yours truly," for example. Propriety, when you hold us... A stroll through the private life of one of the greatest French novelists of the 20th century. EAN: 9782246810346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mushrooms / how to recognize them - Lamaison/Chaumeton - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782263001611 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Profession - Treasure Inventor - Michel Bagnaud - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782850182754 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sleep of the Bear - Christian Gernigon - Book Summary : In Moscow, at the height of winter, homeless people are having their throats slit on the banks of the Moskva River. Fear sets in. In this climate of insecurity, a French boss disappears during a business trip. His distraught daughter Claire calls in the militia. Kidnapping? Runaway? Murder? Inspector Alexei Prigov discovers a link between this disappearance and the murders of the homeless. What political stakes lie behind this sordid affair? Why is Prigov being intimidated? In the clandestine and disturbing world of today's Moscow, populated by strange characters and teeming with outcasts, Claire and Alexei cannot imagine the threat hanging over them and the entire country. We must not wake the sleeping bear... EAN: 9782226057297 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Suzanne's Destiny - The True Canson Affair - Mark Hunter - Book Summary : In 1985, the Louvre Museum acquired, under incredible circumstances, The Sevillian Gentleman, a magnificent full-length portrait by Murillo, the 17th- century Spanish master . Three years later, a scandal broke: the painting's heiress, Suzanne de Canson, died some time after the transaction, stripped of everything, in appalling and highly suspicious circumstances. The young Toulon judge Jean-Pierre Bernard, in charge of the investigation, quickly implicated several prominent figures in what became known as the Canson affair, including Louvre curator Pierre Rosenberg and the famous Marseille lawyer Paul Lombard, while other players in the drama, such as Jack Lang, Jacques Vergès, and Georges Kiejman, clashed in front of the media. Mark Hunter, an American journalist living in Paris, was immediately struck by the Balzacian depth of the case, this unique collision of art, power, and crime, this universe of dark passions where a former bar owner deals as an equal with the Louvre. In January 1989, he set to work. Five years of investigation and hundreds of interviews allowed him to slip into the shoes of each of the main actors in the drama, to unearth facts that had "escaped" justice, and to show through this implacable account that the verdict handed down by the Var Assize Court in October 1991 did not answer all the questions. Far from it. Mark Hunter published The Longest Days with Odile Jacob in 1990. EAN: 9782213592633 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I'm coming - Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam - Book Summary : I Come verifies Baudelaire's great lesson, namely that the world only runs on misunderstanding. I Come churns out the subjects that upset, racism that dies hard, old age that is a shipwreck, the family that is anything but a haven of peace. I Come illustrates the inept laws of existence and their multiple variants: love is not loved, common sense is the least shared thing in the world, adults are children, the rich reproduce among themselves and prosper on the backs of the poor, etc. But however overwhelming it may be, reality should be able to be written without acrimony, in a language that would be that of farce or vaudeville: I Come is also Charonne's proclamation of her desire to right wrongs, to speak out against inept laws and to spread over the world a breath of benevolence that would dissipate its lethargy and bitterness. EAN: 9782818035412 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Valet - Michel Host - Book Summary : Goncourt Prize 1986 Paris. The river. Privileged places and routes, from the Quai de Bercy to the Quai du Point-du-Jour, from the southern suburbs to the Pont-au-Change... An apartment, Quai des Grands-Augustins... In the confinement he shares with his mother, the narrator, Philippe Archer, leads a quest that throws him on the trail of a distant, unknown, or worse, unrecognized mother, and on those of Charles-Evariste, his father, the one his childish imagination made a "hero," a sort of warrior demigod, who disappeared during the turmoil of the war and the Resistance. Paula Rotzen, a young Jewish girl, like Ariane, will guide Philippe until he finds what he is looking for and makes the two decisions that will henceforth guide his existence. If the hymn to the city and its river is at the center of the book, it is because vast and terrible water is needed to launch the vessels: "I love the city like a mother long underestimated. I love it with a cannibalistic love. To feed myself, I tear its flesh which always reforms in its inexhaustible generosity. You are the infinite region. The only region habitable for weak beings, destitute as I am. They find there diversion and food, enough true life, enough illusion to believe themselves alive." EAN: 9782246373919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Fall of the Hawk - Lucio-Maria Attinelli - Book Summary : The modern mafia novel. A suspense thriller with a disturbing taste of truth. On the threshold of the third millennium, the mafia has changed its face. It is a major investor who, from the Atlantic to the Urals, infiltrates all the economic circuits of the planet. At the head of this reconversion is a refined and beyond all suspicion, a Palermo native with a degree from American universities, the Godfather of Godfathers: Joe Licata. Around him, the terror followers have not all disappeared. Licata must outpace the most bestial of them, his longtime adversary, the Sicilian Toto LaRosa, known as the Sparrowhawk. LaRosa brought down former Italian Prime Minister Giulo Andreotti. Now, he threatens police officers and magistrates with death. And His Holiness Pope John Paul II himself. His ferocious ambition compromises the future of the Honorable Society. A woman will push Licata to wage his final battle against him. From Palermo to New York, from Chicago to Moscow, via Ashkabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, intelligence will have to measure up to strength, and the art of strategy will have to respond to the sinister vendetta. The man who emerges victorious from this confrontation will be the Godfather of the year 2000. EAN: 9782221078815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Power of the Angel - Bryce Courtenay - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856164914 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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