Title : The Summer of Our Twenties - Christian Signol - Book Summary : Every summer, Charles invites Antoine to his grandparents' house in the Dordogne. Despite everything separating them, the two teenagers share an uncompromising friendship, one that helps them surpass themselves. It's the long-awaited moment of vacation, those warm days when the boys help in the fields when they're not cycling to the cool waters of the river. On its banks, they meet Séverine, a student like them. Between these three, a bond of love and friendship is formed. But this happiness is shattered at the end of the summer of 1939: like thousands of young people who only wanted to live happily, Charles, Antoine, and Séverine will have to fight to regain the lost harmony and peace of the seasons. It is these ardent hours, those of a youth overwhelmed by the madness of an era, confident in friendship, courage and the beauty of the world, that Christian Signol brings to life in this poignant novel which celebrates the authenticity of souls and the strength of memories. A moving novel. LeFigaro.fr. Christian Signol takes us into the whirlwind of mad love in times of war. The Parisian. EAN: 9782253101680 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Village - Dan Smith - Book Summary : On the trail of a serial killer in Stalin's Russia. Winter 1930. Vyriv, a small, isolated village in western Ukraine. In the snowy steppe, Luka, a Crimean War veteran, rescues an unconscious man. In his sled, two horribly mutilated children's bodies. When Luka returns to the village, the inhabitants panic. With Stalin's rise to power, paranoia reigns. In this small, hitherto unspoiled community, everyone fears the arrival of the Red Army and the militants. Doesn't the arrival of this stranger herald an even greater peril? Has Luka brought a monster into the village, a child murderer, the embodiment of evil? When a young girl from the village disappears, Luka solemnly promises to find her. Across the frozen expanses of this hostile region torn apart by war and brutality, where survival is a constant concern, he sets out in pursuit of a particularly devious predator. EAN: 9782264064509 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wardrobe of Forgotten Dresses - Riikka Pulkkinen - Book Summary : Anna's grandmother, Elsa, is struck down by devastating cancer. Surrounded by her loved ones, she intends to enjoy every moment, every pleasure, to the very end: the rays of the sun, the sea bathing, or the body of Martti, her husband of over fifty years, against her own. But Anna discovers that behind this happy marriage lies a tragedy that has forever marked all the members of her family. It is an old dress forgotten in a wardrobe, found by chance, that will awaken the past... Praised by Finnish critics, this moving novel gracefully combines freshness and power, lightness and depth. Corinne Renou-Nativel, La Croix. In a simple but unfussy style, Riika Pulkkinen knows how to describe with precision the different ages of happiness and suffering. Certain scenes, certain pages of this novel, border on perfection. Nils C. Ahl, Le Monde des livres. EAN: 9782253175568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Funny Girl - Nick Hornby - Book Summary : England, 1964. With the Miss Blackpool title in her pocket, Sophie Straw leaves her province for London where she dreams of becoming an actress. She then lands a role in the new BBC comedy series: Barbara and Jim. Success is there and she becomes a television star. Soon, reality meets fiction: Sophie and Clive, a couple on screen, become a couple in the city. Meanwhile, the two writers are hiding a secret and the producer suffers from marital problems. A funny and touching illustration of 1960s pop culture. EAN: 9782264066503 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Icarus Complex - Erica Jong - Book Summary : Sadora Wing, a seductive and insolent young New Yorker, finds herself in an embarrassing situation: while she is afraid of flying, she is taken to an altitude of 10,000 meters with 117 psychoanalysts, seven of whom have had her as an analysand. Sitting next to her, the seventh has become her second husband. Although he bores her terribly, she accompanies him to Vienna where she is preparing to spend a week of tedious seminars. But her encounter with Adrian Goodlove, an Englishman with irresistible charm, will turn her trip, her marriage, and her life upside down. Erotic and literary, sensual and intelligent, this captivating novel sparked a heated debate when it was published in the United States in 1973, at the height of the women's liberation movement, and brought Erica Jong international success at just twenty-nine years old. The Icarus Complex is a comic masterpiece that remains monumentally insolent. EAN: 9782221198964 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Tricycle - Vincent Hauuy - Book Summary : Noah Wallace is a worn-out man, a shadow of the brilliant profiler he once was until an accident robbed him of both his wife and his career. But a phone call will force him back into action. His friend and former teammate Steve Raymond needs him. A postcard found at the scene of a gruesome crime in Canada directly implicates him and leads him back to a string of murders five years earlier. It seems a presumed-dead serial killer, the Vermont Demon, is at work again. Meanwhile, in New York, journalist-blogger Sophie Lavallée investigates a reporter who disappeared in the 1970s. What if the two cases were linked by the same dark secret? EAN: 9782253014454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Along Comes a Vagabond - Robert Goolrick - Book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 2013 It was during the summer of 1948 that Charlie Beale arrived in Brownsburg. He was carrying two suitcases—one containing a few belongings and butcher knives, the other a large sum of money. Charlie fell in love twice. First, he fell in love with this peaceful Virginia town whose inhabitants seemed to live with dignity, in tolerable fear of a God they had every reason to find rather benevolent towards them. One proof among others: there had never been a crime in Brownsburg before. The second time Charlie fell in love was the day he met Sylvan Glass. After Fierce And A simple and honest woman , Robert Goolrick offers us, with A vagabond arrives , a sensual and intoxicating dive into the heart of passion. EAN: 9782264068262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler - Book Summary : In a house on the outskirts of Stockholm, a family is brutally murdered. Only one boy escapes the massacre, but he hovers between life and death, unconscious. Inspector Joona Linna then decides to use a hypnotist to penetrate the boy's subconscious and attempt to see the carnage through his eyes... A formidably intelligent detective novel and terrifying thriller. EAN: 9782330014407 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Frozen - Joan-D Vinge - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277217077 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Unforgivable - Philippe Djian - Book Summary : Yet I thought I had gotten out of all these stories, with age coming. I thought I had understood that these stories were no longer worth the trouble we were still taking yesterday to live them, I thought I had understood that we had reached a higher level, that we could no longer play these stupid games, that we could do without them and there I was, shivering in the twilight like a schoolboy, totally helpless, overcome." Francis is a successful writer, bruised by existence. His wife and one of his two daughters died before his eyes. At sixty, he is now living in the Basque Country where he has put aside his last remorse by remarrying. But then his daughter Alice, whom he cherishes more than anything, suddenly disappears and shatters this fragile balance. From the mental fortress he builds to avoid collapsing, he will discover a world without possible forgiveness. EAN: 9782070420049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What the night tells the day - Hector Bianciotti - Book Summary : For this book to exist, two continents were needed first, and for some Piedmontese, driven by poverty, to emigrate and clear a corner of this boundless plain called the pampas, where the center of the world moves with the man who walks. It was also necessary for a child, naturally destined for field work, to thwart his parents' plan and seize the only opportunity then offered to people of his condition: the seminary, where a jumble of special friendships, music, books, and the discovery of the French language awaited him. He was twelve years old. Over there, in Europe, the war was in full swing, while here, the dictatorship was established and prospered, soon to be that of Perón and Eva Duarte, under which no one escaped surveillance and denunciation. And it is the best friend who, suddenly revealing himself to be a high-ranking informer, and wanting to be forgiven, offers the former seminarian the saving boat ticket. Then begins the narrator's exile, his pockets empty, but in his heart, the certainty that, in the newfound freedom, life could, as for everyone, resemble a destiny. EAN: 9782070409914 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie - Book Summary : The disappearance of great-grandfather Francisco, swallowed by the churning waters of a lagoon somewhere on the southern coast of India, is the first of a long series of dramas set within the improbable Gama-Zogoiby family, from which the narrator Moraes, known as "The Moor," comes. He is the only, deformed son of the vivacious Aurora who, on bags of pepper, cardamom, and cumin, seduced the humble Abraham. Very quickly, the escapades of this stunning and perverse beauty will lead the Moor and his family into situations as comical as they are uncomfortable and perilous, from the murky waters of Bombay's slums to the corrupt circles of high finance. Blending comedy and farce, the epic and the marvelous, this allegory on the world's disorders is the author's first novel since The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie here returns to the vain picaresque of Midnight's Children, and his delicious and sensual writing, as much as his prodigious power of evocation, places him at the forefront of the writers of our time. Salman Rushdie, born in 1947 in Bombay, has lived in Great Britain since 1961. His books have all been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes and have been translated into twenty-five languages. EAN: 9782259182713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of Travel - Bernard Werber - Book Summary : Imagine a book who would be like a paper friend. Imagine a book that helps you explore your own mind. Imagine a book which leads you towards the most beautiful, the simplest and the most amazing of journeys. A journey in your life. A journey into your dreams. A journey through time. You hold this book in your hands. EAN: 9782226094452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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