Title : My Wish List - Grégoire Delacourt - book Summary : Women always have a premonition of these things. When Jocelyne Guerbette, a haberdasher in Arras, discovers that she can now afford anything she wants, she wonders: isn't there much more to lose? Grégoire Delacourt unfolds a powerful story of love and chance. A luminous story too, one that invites us to revisit our wish list. Coming soon to theaters, The List of My Wishes has been an international success. In the game of the seven families of writers, Grégoire Delacourt would belong to the tribe of David Foenkinos and Anna Gavalda, these graceful pens who know how to give wings to troubled souls and tell of battered destinies with tenderness and kindness. Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle. Grégoire Delacourt's writing quickly takes hold of us, invading us like the passionate conversation of a friend we rediscover after years. The Voice of the North. EAN: 9782253168539 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wedding of Claudine - Yves Viollier - book Summary : I wrote this book as one bleeds. Claudine was taken from us a few days before her eighteenth birthday. I thought it was my duty to write to remain in her wake. We were still in her light. We must not let her fade away. Her death would have been too absurd. A year after her tragic disappearance on the road, I began to write, in pain. Day after day, for a year, I kept Claudine's diary. I tried to understand the incomprehensible. I was revolted. I tried to find meaning, with my simple, coal-burner faith. I penetrated nothing of the mystery. It did not seem possible to me that Claudine was not promised to another marriage. Twenty-five years later, I still think so. EAN: 9782266108720 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Maids - Jean Genet - book Summary : "The two maids are here - the devoted servants! Become more beautiful to despise them. We no longer fear you. We are enveloped, confused in our exhalations, in our pomp, in our hatred for you. We are taking shape, madam. Don't laugh. Ah! Above all, don't laugh at my grandiloquence EAN: 9782070370603 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mademoiselle Chat - Dan Franck, Jean Vautrin - book Summary : A survivor of Franco's jails and the alcoves of London, Berlin, and Paris, Boro has made his way since that day in 1931 in Munich, where he stole the image of a small, booted figure offering flowers to a certain Eva Braun. 1939. Hitler is preparing to set Europe ablaze. In India, our incorrigible photojournalist has met a fake Romanian princess who grants him all her favors but forbids him from using her unknown brand "Enigma" typewriter. "Touching it," she warns him, "would condemn you to death." By stealing "Enigma," Boro is unaware that he has seized the most sophisticated code-breaking instrument of the Third Reich. From now on, wherever he goes, the Nazis will never let him go. EAN: 9782266074414 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Next Stop Paradise - Melissa Bank - book Summary : Nothing is self-evident for Sophie Applebaum, Melissa Bank's terribly endearing new heroine. A mischievous child, she strives to please; a young graduate fascinated by New York, she struggles to find a job; a loyal friend, she discovers that loyalty is not necessarily the best thing in the world; an impetuous lover, she breaks up almost as often as she falls in love. With a doctor, a father and divorced; with a waiter, a poet in his spare time and a breakaway; or even with a musician barely out of childhood. Sophie is like that: she always takes up the challenge. With all the more ardor because her family, a true tribe where people laugh, love, bicker and cry, is never far away. Funny, moving, agitated, Next Stop, Paradise tells with enthusiasm EAN: 9782743616861 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Deadly Dreams - James Peter - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277230205 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mother and Daughter - Françoise Dolto - book Summary : It seems to me that there will surely come a day when you will forget your disappointments as an educator in front of your daughter who wrongly seems to you to be in opposition to you and who is only different, with the gifts that you have given her, who loves you and esteems you at the same time as a daughter can towards her mother and towards a woman whom she judges at her worth." This letter of September 28, 1935 from Françoise Dolto to her mother Suzanne Marette is edifying. The relationship between the two women has always been complex and their correspondence over nearly fifty years bears witness to this. But thanks to her work and psychoanalysis, Françoise Dolto was able to cross the "halo of hostile opacity" which kept her prisoner with her mother. And she did so, as she never ceases to repeat and write to her, feeling great compassion for her mother whose suffering as a daughter she understood. EAN: 9782715228931 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Aria - Nazanine Hozar - book Summary : Once upon a time, when I was little, I sang arias. Little tales, cries in the night. When you sing an aria, the world knows all about your dreams and your secrets. About your pain and your loves. Tehran, 1953. On a snowy night, Behrouz, a humble army driver, hears crying coming from an alleyway. At the foot of a mulberry tree, he discovers a little girl with blue eyes, barely a few days old. He decides to take her home, turning his life and that of the child, whom he names Aria, upside down. From her first steps in the southern districts of Tehran to the gates of the very chic Razi high school, three maternal figures will shape the existence of the indomitable Aria: the cruel Zahra – wife of Behrouz –, the rich widow Ferdowsi and the mysterious Mehri. An unforgettable saga, carried by a heroine whose destiny is intertwined with that of Iran caught in the turmoil of the Revolution. This text clearly lays the foundations for a powerful and evocative work. Eglal Errera, The World of Books . A poetic fresco with hints of truth. Patricia Resnikov, Read . EAN: 9782253080039 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tanguy - Michel del Castillo - book Summary : "Was Tanguy my first published novel, also the first that I conceived as a literary text? [...] This reprint comes shortly after the publication of Rue des Archives, which sheds light on its hidden aspects, something that many readers have not failed to note. The two books indeed respond to each other. [...] Between Tanguy and Xavier, there is more than the depth of a life, there is all the bitterness of a disenchantment, which owes less to age than to the progressive discovery of horror. If I kept, at twenty, some illusions, the sixty-year-old who wrote Rue des Archives no longer retains any. In this sense, the circle is well closed. Tanguy's stifled confession makes the disenchanted music of Rue des archives. [...] From one to the other, a single link, literature. It constitutes, as we have understood, my only biography and my only truth." Michel del Castillo. EAN: 9782070400911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - book Summary : Patty, Richard, and Walter. They were free. Free to love each other, to lose each other, to choose the life they dreamed of. Today, hope has given way to bitterness. Patty married Walter and became a stay-at-home mom. With the children gone, Walter gets involved in ecology, and Patty lets herself be overwhelmed by everyday life. One day, Richard reappears, and with him the question: did we make the right choices? Born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1959, Jonathan Franzen has established himself as one of the major writers of our time. He is notably the author of Corrections , of The Twenty-Seventh City and of The Discomfort Zone , available in Points. " Freedom is a true 21st-century novel, one of the very first. Release EAN: 9782757829950 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Children of Salonika - The Secret Woman - Bernard Lenteric - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253052791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New York Odyssey - Kristopher JANSMA - book Summary : Irene, Jacob, William, George, and Sara, inseparable since college, have just moved to New York. They are twenty-five years old, crisscrossing the city, navigating between parties and their first jobs. But Irene's illness turns everything upside down and gives their lives a new direction. With New York Odyssey , Kristopher Jansma creates a masterful group portrait before pivoting to the personal drama of each individual. An ironic, accurate, and sensitive novel about grief and friendship.  A novel with Fitzgeraldian overtones. Eric Neuhoff, Le Figaro . A total immersion among a band of merry pranksters. A brilliant storyteller, Jansma depicts their escapades, their loves, their disillusionments. After the intoxication, one must sometimes disillusion and face an implacable reality. Which the reader, dazzled by such grace, does in turn. Alexandre Fillon, Read . EAN: 9782253073130 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Red Cloud - Christian Gailly - book Summary : France Culture Prize (1979-2005) 2000 A man is driving along a country road. He's going home. He's almost there. It would have been too simple: a car is coming towards him, it's his friend Lucien's, but when he passes it, Lucien isn't inside; it's a woman driving, a stranger with a blurred face dominated by red. Who is she? And Lucien, where is he? And this red, what is it? Lipstick? Jam? Blood? It looks like war paint. "Tears and blood, that's what the beautiful title of Christian Gailly's new novel promises. Nuage rouge is the announcement of painted skies, laden with a storm that the prose will constantly repeat, evasive and dilatory, slyly playful. It is also the invention, perhaps, of an original form of fiction: the stuttering thriller. The narrator was a stutterer before his story began, before his tongue loosened as a witness - he will not be a hero of anything, not even of the rather sordid news item that serves as the plot of this gripping book. (Fabrice Gabriel, Les Inrockuptibles) "Christian Gailly's characters are, more than ever, by his own admission, lost souls. Like Rebecca Lodge, the Danish heroine of Nuage rouge, who, "without losing sight of the sun and love", ends up getting lost one summer afternoon on a small road in the Vendée countryside. Multiple variations on the same gesture, infinite oscillations, the marvelously refined art of suspension. Christian Gailly definitely wins the heart." (Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Le Monde) Nuage rouge was published in 2000. EAN: 9782707319838 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Absolute Emergency - Christian Jacq - book Summary : The Machine rules the world. Created by humans themselves, it controls them in every area. Who's running it? No one. It feeds on itself, reducing all spaces of freedom in the name of progress. A vicious spiral of artificial intelligence. Only a handful of alchemists, heirs to the wisdom of the Ancients of Egypt, dared to confront it. The Machine eliminated them one after the other, except for one: John Patmos, the guardian of a temple lost in an Egyptian oasis who, under threat, fled. Patmos is now the only one, with his shamanic powers, who can defeat the Machine. For Scottish journalist Bruce Reuchlin, there is an absolute urgency: finding the man who represents humanity's last hope. EAN: 9782266290586 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Muse - Véronique de Haas - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2022 Paris 1920. Upon his return from the trenches, Victor Dessange, formerly of La Mondaine, joins the Criminal Brigade. The atmosphere in the capital is electric—between repeated strikes and clashes between communists and anarchists on one side and the royalists of the Action Française on the other. Clandestine members of the Internationale are flocking from everywhere, while the colonial empires are cracking. In such a context, the successive murders of several prostitutes struggle to appear as priority cases. Until it is no longer a night-time beauty, but a client, an official representative of the Republic of China, who finds death in a brothel. In charge of the investigation, Victor tries to unravel a skein that will lead him from a penal colony for children in Brittany to the attack on a gold convoy in Morocco, of which neither the culprits nor the loot were ever found. A mother of four and a literature teacher for forty years, Véronique de Haas has always been passionate about 20th-century history, particularly the interwar period. She believes that the police investigation and The world of the police are effective filters for observing and understanding the multiple facets of society. The Red Muse was born from this approach. EAN: 9782213721323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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