Title : Resolving to Say Goodbyes - Philippe Besson - book Summary : Besson revisits the epistolary novel with a rare elegance of mastery. On a universal theme (separation), he offers an invitation to travel, a testimony on the invisible violence of romantic breakups, and an ode to the writing that saves. When the man she loves leaves her for another woman, Louise decides to flee Paris. But neither the trip nor the exoticism of Cuba are enough to dispel her grief, to divert her thoughts from her lover. In order to maintain contact with him, however trivial and masochistic it may be, Louise decides to write him a series of letters, like throwing bottles into the sea. From Havana, New York, Venice, the Orient Express, and even Paris, where her exile ends, a single-voice correspondence is born, implacably honest and poignant. It combines memories of happy times, the beginnings of a breakup, the heartbreak of abandonment, and the despair of solitude. Soon, it becomes clear to Louise: the true recipient of these letters is none other than herself. Throughout this process, the possibility of healing emerges... Philippe Besson likes to impose formal constraints on himself to provide a framework for his fiction. By reappropriating the genre of the epistolary novel, he makes each letter a meditation on love, the couple, the loss of the absent one, the solitude necessary for self-reconstruction... And demonstrates that all work of mourning necessarily involves words. Besson's unique style, both dense and lyrical, is complemented by an admirable ability to embrace a feminine sensibility. With this optimistic novel, the author of A Moment of Abandonment deliberately breaks with the darkness of his last writings. EAN: 9782260017264 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queen of Idaho - Thomas Savage - book Summary : An autobiographical literary novel. After discovering a dramatic secret, a writer explores the past of a family in the American West spanning five generations, from the late 19th century to the present day. Through the masterful evocation of a great family of the American West, Thomas Savage retraces the history of his family, made up of extraordinary destinies and broken lives, also carrying a terrible secret that would profoundly mark his work. Thomas Burton is a writer. He's fifty years old. And his success is relatively limited, as his readers sometimes find him too difficult. However, one fine morning, a few very simple words will turn his life upside down. The contents of a letter written by a stranger claiming to be his sister... To shed light on this strange revelation, the writer will have to explore his family's past, a clan of wealthy ranchers ruled with an iron fist by his grandmother, the "Queen of Idaho Sheep," an exceptional woman, but incapable of preventing the terrible tragedies that would strike her descendants, including Thomas Burton, alias Thomas Savage... EAN: 9782714438713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lovers of the Lagoon - Bernard Duporge - book Summary : In the shadow of his father, a wealthy landowner and authoritarian village mayor, André Lambert is raised with the obsessive idea of ​​giving him an heir. To no avail, he will only have two daughters. And the grandfather struggles to accept this, to the point that the youngest, Lucie, becomes the unloved one in the village. Upset by the fate reserved for his daughter, André, whose heart opens after his meeting with Antoinette, now harbors great ambitions and has not said his last word... EAN: 9782812909023 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moonlight House - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Newport, Rhode Island: a paradise for retired billionaires, a goldmine for crooks of all kinds. It is there, in her Victorian house, that Nuala Moore is to receive Maggie Holloway, her ex-daughter-in-law. After many years without news, the two women have decided to meet regularly. But Nuala is murdered by a burglar. At least, that's the theory accepted by the police. Maggie, incredulous, decides to discover the truth. An alcoholic doctor, a university professor specializing in funeral rites, an overly curious nurse - no one seems above suspicion. And when Greta, Nuala's old friend, and then other residents of Latham Manor, a luxurious retirement home, also die, her confusion only increases: the murderer can only be someone close to her. But who? How can the pieces of this deadly puzzle be put together? And will Maggie, who unknowingly photographed clues, soon be the killer's target? More than ever, Mary Higgins Clark, the virtuoso of suspense, plays with fatal perfection on the strings of your nerves. When death has a rendezvous with the moon, a deadly score, a tune to freeze your blood. EAN: 9782226086488 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown - book Summary : Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology, is urgently summoned by his friend Peter Solomon, a philanthropist and high-ranking Mason, for a lecture to be given that evening. Upon reaching the Capitol Rotunda, he makes a gruesome discovery. This will be the first clue in a breathless quest, from the basements of the Library of Congress to Masonic temples, in search of Freemasonry's best-kept secret. An adventure where esoteric traditions clash with the formidable intelligence of Robert Langdon. EAN: 9782709626996 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Seven Boys - Anne Wiazemsky - book Summary : Their mothers had left, arm in arm, under the pretext of visiting the house and meeting the other adults on the terrace. "Have fun, get to know each other!" Claudie had trumpeted, while Pauline had whispered furtively to Dimitri, "Everything will be fine." When they had moved away, the seven boys immediately surrounded the newcomers. Aware that they were being examined, they had only one desire: to escape. But escape where? "We're surrounded by the Japs," thought Dimitri, imagining himself as Buck Danny, one of his favorite comic book heroes. As for Roséliane, the only girl among eight boys, she felt like a girl for the first time in her life. It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant; it was new. EAN: 9782070765874 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hominescence - Michel Serres - book Summary : What can we learn from the 20th century? Since 1945, the atomic bomb has threatened humanity with extinction; we no longer risk smallpox, eradicated in 1970; will we eat GMOs? Equipped with computers, is our thinking changing? Here is a new death, a new body, a new agriculture, and new networks. To summarize these evolutionary innovations, I coined the word hominescence. Words like adolescence: still a child, the adult is formed; or luminescence: from a faint glow, light is born... illuminate this strange and exact neologism that marks a hominid emergence. When, through his body and death, he changes his relationship to himself through agriculture and the climate, his relationships with the world, and through communications, his interaction with others, is he still the same human? We are living a decisive moment in the process that shapes us. Disturbing for some, this birth excites others. We arouse it without knowing what kind of man it creates, assassinates or magnifies. EAN: 9782746500556 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crossing Mozambique in Calm Weather - Patrice Pluyette - book Summary : Captain Belalcazar, a retired archaeologist and distant descendant of a Spanish conquistador, sets sail once again for the Peruvian jungle to find the gold of the mysterious Inca city of Paititi. A beautiful boat, a great team, a rigorously planned itinerary: this attempt will be the right one. Except that nothing goes as planned. The obstacles multiply. We haven't finished being surprised. And the author seems to take a malicious pleasure in it. EAN: 9782020945769 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : ROSE - Gutman Colas - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782211202305 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Woman Without a Past - Margot Dalton - book Summary : Who is she really? Lisa has been asking herself this haunting question ever since the attack that caused her to lose her memory. Is she the cruel, selfish, and cold woman she discovers as she tries, in vain, to tear back the opaque veil of her memories? Or the woman she is today: a generous, sensitive woman... and in love with this stranger who is none other than Paul Temple, her husband? Everyone around her seems to hold a piece of the puzzle: her psychiatrist, whom she has been seeing for years; Paul, who, despite the strength of his desire for her, had just filed for divorce just before the accident; the couple who run the house, who cannot hide their astonishment at her metamorphosis; Bonnie, the teenager who seems to fear her as much as admire her. And she herself... But she alone, she senses, holds the terrible secret that she would perhaps have preferred never to know when the moment finally arrives when the doors of her memory open... EAN: 9782280093972 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chien-Loup - Serge Joncour - book Summary : The idea of ​​spending the entire summer cut off from the world worried Franck but delighted Lise, so Franck had agreed, somewhat reluctantly and largely out of love, to rent this house in the Lot region, which was nowhere to be seen and had no network. The ad spoke of a cottage lost in the hills, of calm and peace. But nothing of the bloody past of this place, which no one lived in anymore and which had sheltered a German tamer and his wild beasts during the First World War. And nothing of the collarless dog, whether a dog or a wolf, which had imposed itself on the couple from the very first evening and which seemed to be looking for a master. Arriving that summer, Franck still believed that nature, which had been tamed as well as a pet, no longer had anything wild about it; he thought that the wars of the past, where men killed each other, had given way to more insidious, less deadly wars. That was when I arrived. Serge Joncour tells the story, a century later, of a village in the Lot region, and he unearths a whole past populated by beasts and destroyed by war, as if to better illuminate our contemporary world. By depicting a modern couple struggling with nature and confronted with violence, he shows us that savagery is always ready to arise in the heart of our civilized lives, like a wolf-dog. EAN: 9782081421110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Seeing You Again - What If It Were True... 2 - Marc Levy - book Summary : What if it were true... 2 "One morning, he promised to tell me an incredible story, and he disappeared." Lauren. "We experienced the beginning of a story, it was like a promise that life did not keep; I always keep my promises." Arthur. If life offered Arthur and Lauren a second chance to see each other again, would they be willing to take all the risks to seize it? EAN: 9782221102787 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Paper Widow - John Irving - book Summary : Two hours from New York, there is an old house on the edge of the gray sea. In the summer of 1958, Eddie, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy, discovers love there in the arms of the most beautiful woman in the world, who is also the saddest, while around them hover countless photos, graceful ghosts of his lost sons. Ruth, his little girl, wakes up in the middle of the night, and Ted, her husband, a cunning squash player and seaside Don Juan, writes children's stories, stories that scare... But the summer ends with the first flight of wild geese, and the blonde Marion takes her red Mercedes to abandon the husband she no longer loves, the young lover she dares not love, and the little girl to whom she is too afraid to become attached. After this nostalgic dawn, we find Ruth in 1990, a famous novelist and formidable squash player, but an anxious single woman, dreading marriage and motherhood. During a promotional tour in Amsterdam, a trip to the red-light district and an encounter with a pretty redheaded prostitute confront her with an adventure straight out of her childhood terrors. A Paper Widow has the burlesque and sometimes naughty verve of John Irving's best novels; it is also a nocturnal book, about the dark side of being, mourning and melancholy; but above all it is a marvelous tale, where, if sorrow has a long life, love is found and rediscovered. EAN: 9782020334938 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Three Doctors - Martin Winckler - book Summary : A doctor hasn't always been a doctor. He had to become one. Bruno Sachs, the character already encountered in The Vacation (989) and Sachs's Disease (1998), is no exception to the rule. If he became the doctor he became, it was thanks to, despite or because of the long years of training he spent at the Tourmens medical school in the 1970s. Recounting those seven years at the school was to show that becoming a doctor is like living several novels at once: a novel about... medical training, of course; but also a love story; a novel about power and politics; a novel about friendship; a novel where one lives, fights, and dies—in short, an adventure novel. EAN: 9782846820257 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Between Friends - Amos Oz - book Summary : When the kibbutz was first founded, we were a big family. Of course, not everything was rosy, but we were close. In the evenings, we sang catchy melodies and nostalgic songs until late into the night. We slept in tents and could hear those who spoke in their sleep." Has the ideal of communal life withstood the erosion of time for the inhabitants of Kibbutz Yikha? Ben-Gurion is Prime Minister, and Israeli society is already not the same as it was in the time of the founders. So questions of principle and regulation arise for the kibbutzniks: can, for example, Henia Kalisch be allowed to send her son Yotam to study abroad - with his uncle who, as it happens, has left the kibbutz - and should little Yuval be left at the children's home, despite his tears? But even in a small community very attached to ideological principles, matters of the heart sometimes take over. Will Yoev Carni resist the charm of young Nina, especially when he runs into her during his nightly surveillance rounds? Can Nahum Asherov accept that his old friend David Dagan, an excellent teacher and great seducer, moves in with his daughter Edna, barely seventeen years old? And what will Ariella, who is overflowing with affection for the ex-wife of her lover Boaz, do? In Yikha as elsewhere, people struggle with their heartaches and unrealizable desires, but in a kibbutz, one is never alone... In eight tragicomic short stories that read like a novel, Amos Oz scrutinizes the passions and weaknesses of human beings, brings to light a submerged world and, above all, offers us a great melancholic book on solitude. EAN: 9782070139323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A big step towards the Good Lord - Jean Vautrin - book Summary : The one who opens this great novel will leave for Louisiana, visit the Cadjins, and share the destiny of three generations. The action begins in 1893 and ends in 1920. We will thus see Edius Raquin, the father, cunning, stubborn, the very example of these pioneer coureurs de bois who, in those times, did not hesitate to trust nature and the Good Lord. Then Edius's future son-in-law will appear, this famous Ferouche Ferraille Crowley, the man with slate eyes, the outlaw who draws quickly. Is that all? No, because Palestine Northwood, the sailor from Nantucket, a former harpooner, is also part of the celebration and the drama. To what extent? And why? This is the secret of this book where everyone, from Poitou, Ireland, Germany or Acadia, Creole or Yankee Indian, often a black cousin of the slaves, speaks French to make their way in the world. It is also important to know that we will meet Jim here, the grandson of Edius Raquin, and that the child discovered at the bottom of a New Orleans trash can will lead us, by magic, to the birth of ragtime and the blues, of which he will become a symbol under the name of Jimmy Trumpet. EAN: 9782246407119 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : With the body she has... - Christine Orban - book Summary : She is twenty years old, and her first novel has just been accepted by a publisher. That summer day by the sea should have been the happiest of her life, if Father-in-Law hadn't reduced her to a body whose only asset was beauty. Standing over her, he said to her in front of all the guests: "With the body she has, it's going to be easy for her..." These words would shatter her existence for years and bring her to the brink of the abyss. In this novel, Christine Orban explores, with great sensitivity and Fitzgeraldian overtones, the "invisible wounds" of a young woman, and her difficulty in being herself in a world where appearances and male domination triumph. EAN: 9782226402004 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dawn, Evening or Night - Yasmina Reza - book Summary : A bold literary project. Yasmina Reza followed Nicolas Sarkozy for months in truly unprecedented circumstances of freedom and independence. This will be, as seen by a great writer, the portrait of a man who set out to conquer power. EAN: 9782081209169 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Iblis, or the Serpent's Disguise - Armande Gobry-valle - book Summary : This book won the 1991 Prix Goncourt for the first novel. "I called them. I said, 'I ate Sarah. I know, her name isn't Sarah. But I don't care. For me, she HAD to be called Sarah. It had to be, because it was Sarah I was hoping for. And no one else. Nothing could have happened if Sarah hadn't been called Sarah.' There was a strange silence, a kind of very dense threat, and as I had nothing else to add, suddenly an explosion: 'Who are you? Where are you calling from?' Are you kidding me?" It was pointless trying to explain anything. It's better if they come. So I gave my name, even if it's no use, Sarah's address, and hung up. "This book won the Prix Goncourt for a first novel in 1991. "I called them. I said, 'I ate Sarah. I know, her name isn't Sarah. But I don't care. For me, she HAD to be called Sarah. It had to be, because it was Sarah I was hoping for. And no one else. Nothing could have happened if Sarah hadn't been called Sarah.' There was a strange silence, a kind of very dense threat, and as I had nothing else to add, suddenly an explosion: 'Who are you? Where are you calling from?' Are you kidding me?" It was pointless trying to explain anything. They'd better come. So I gave my name, even though it was pointless, Sarah's address, and hung up. EAN: 9782878580129 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cars 3 - Enchanted World - The Story of the Movie - Disney Pixar - Walt Disney Productions - Book Summary : Racing season is about to begin for Lightning McQueen! The champion will have to face a formidable new opponent: a young black racer named Jackson Storm. Luckily, Sterling, his new sponsor, has a coach for him: Cruz Ramirez, the yellow car, will be there to train him! A small album with rounded corners, nicely illustrated with images from the film Cars 3 . EAN: 9782012906372 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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