Title : Patagonia Express - Paul Theroux - book Summary : “I was studying the map when it occurred to me that there was a railroad line that ran from my home in Massachusetts to the great Patagonian plateau.” So Paul Theroux, one fine winter morning, set off. By subway, a few blocks from his Medford home to the Boston train station, then by train to mythical Patagonia, from the blizzard-battered slopes of Fitzwilliams to the dry, hot winds of the Pampas, from the lavish luxury cars to the pitiful squirrels. Sweating and shivering at the mercy of capricious altitudes and temperatures, having to put up with the dreadful Mr. Thorneberry in Costa Rica and spending nights reading to the blind writer Jorge Borges in Buenos Aires, meeting by chance at a stopover the exact copy of a fictional character from one of his previous novels... Paul Theroux, inventor of an original form in literature that combines travel and adventure, story and drama, takes the reader on a dizzying journey, one that leads "to the end of the line." EAN : 9782246710424 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Anatomy Lesson - Vladimir Volkoff - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782260001911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Balls, little balls - Henriette Bernier - book Summary : The ball, a true "French institution", is the common thread of this novel which evokes the sentimental and initiatory journey of two sisters over five decades. Every Sunday, Juliette and Camille, two sisters separated by only a few years, get ready to go dancing. Hair rollers and frilly dresses. Floppy sounds and the accordion punctuate the history of a family like so many others. When the fifties give way to the sixties, electric guitars, bell-bottoms, and the pill take over, but there is always, behind the refreshment bar, that little sunken path where lovers go to get lost... And then, as they get older, charity balls will follow the tea dances. Thus, History unfolds to the rhythm of the little balls that will have swirled half a century of French happiness. But first, fifty years in the lives of Juliette and Camille, young girls who became women, somewhere in Lorraine... A little marvel of writing to evoke the very essence of femininity. EAN : 9782258091962 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sacred Woman - Michael of Greece - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782855652535 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Robbery of a Nest of Jewels - Roger Borniche - book Summary : It's the most spectacular post-war heist. On a road on the Côte d'Azur, the agha-khan's Cadillac is blocked by crooks. In the blink of an eye, the gangsters seize the begum's fabulous jewels. At the heart of the police storm, punctuated by scandals and twists and turns that are shaking France, Inspector Borniche conducts his investigation. EAN : 9782246338512 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : They were not born delinquents - Yves Roumajon - book Summary : — What are your full name, age, and profession? — Roumajon Yves, 62, psychiatrist. — You have been appointed to examine the accused and conduct the psychiatric examination. You swear to report your research and findings on your honor and conscience. Raise your right hand and say: "I swear it"... Dr. Roumajon has spent long hours facing strange characters like Claude Buffet, twice murdered, sentenced to death and guillotined, Patrick Henry, murderer of a child, who saved his life in Troyes after a trial that divided France, Lucien Léger, "the Strangler," Jean-Charles Willoquet, Pierre Goldman, an example of an astonishing reconversion. He has also listened to the confidences of hundreds of children who populate the neighborhood reserved for them in Fresnes and those he welcomed into the center he founded in Vauhallan, near Paris. Through these stories - some of which are heartbreaking - what he shows is the incredible waste that is made because society and public opinion stick to ready-made ideas about juvenile delinquency, the relationship between psychiatry and justice, the sentences that should be applied, the appropriate treatments. EAN : 9782221000229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One day I will leave without having said everything - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : A hike in the beauty of the world. Not a sequel but perhaps a complement to the previous novel, this book is divided into three parts, each of which corresponds to a question or an observation that any somewhat sharp mind asks. A social novel: "Everything passes." We live in a time of transition: books, family, morals, borders, currencies, even religion. Everything is known because, through the Web, everyone is immediately informed of everyone else's fate. To illustrate this point, a contemporary romantic story unfolds where a Buddhist billionaire and communist bursts into a traditional family. A love novel: "Nothing changes." A writer seeks his path and only finds it through the love of a woman, Marie. He gives himself to her, who gives him back to himself. Love is more important than literature and everything else. It does not consist of looking into each other's eyes but of looking at the world together. The spectacle of the world brings about their astonishment and admiration, which are at the root of all knowledge. The social novel has changed into a love novel, which itself will change into a novel of the universe. A novel of the universe: "There is something sacred above us." To the author's now classic grandfather, to Pama the Buddhist, to Mary, God is added as one of the book's main characters. For how can one speak of anything other than God? What follows is a brief history of humanity by those who thought it and made it: philosophers and scientists. A battle has begun between God and science. The position of the author, a Catholic and agnostic, is to give God a chance. This book is easy and profound. It reflects what made previous works so successful: faith in literature, the importance of feelings, the absence of illusions, the taste for happiness, the search for truth. All of this is lifted by the grace of a winged style and writing. EAN : 9782221138335 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Brubaker - William Harrison - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724209311 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Foreign Body - Saul John - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724232682 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From Gaul to France - TIM - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782855656151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Five Weeks in a Balloon. Voyage of Discovery in Africa by Three EnglishmenFive Weeks in a Balloon. Voyage of Discovery in Africa by Three Englishmen - Jules Verne - book Summary : Attempting to cross Africa from east to west by air, claiming to fly over the dangerous black continent in its greatest breadth aboard a fragile gondola exposed to all the whims of the winds, was, in Jules Verne's time, an incredibly audacious undertaking. As one might expect, the five weeks it will take Dr. Fergusson and his two companions to achieve this will be full of unforeseen events and adventures. This novel will fascinate those interested in the early days of aeronautics and, in general, all those who enjoy the humor and verve of "Extraordinary Voyages," including Five Weeks. in a balloon opened the series. Published in December 1862, it was a resounding success first in France, then throughout the world. EAN : 9782859220716 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire - Text studied, "Candide" - Jean Maurice - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782070579273 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Portraits of Women - Pietro Citati - book Summary : An outstanding portraitist, Pietro Citati always tunes his "inner metronome" to the rhythm of the artist or writer whose life and work he recounts. The intrepid acuity of his gaze, the finesse of his analysis, the vivacity of his narrative, the elegance of his line, and the charm of his expression characterize his Portraits of Women. It is in all the fullness of their presence that Pietro Citati brings to life before us Saint Teresa of Avila, Jane Austen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Marina Tsvetaeva, Karen Blixen, Simone Weil, Flannery O'Connor, Cristina Campo, Anna Maria Ortese, Ingeborg Bachmann... In many of these women's lives, in the books written by these women, literature has perhaps reached its extreme tragic possibilities. Spiritual concentration, courage of intelligence, firmness of mind, despair, fire, fury, the dream of the pure soul culminate in these female figures who lead us from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. One has the impression that the fate and anguish they had to bear was of considerable weight. But as one of them declared: "I am firmly convinced that life is beautiful, rich, and great; yes, I would be convinced of it even if I had to die of the plague in a dung pit." EAN : 9782070428212 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Postcards - Annie Proulx - book Summary : In post-war New England America, Loyal Blood, the eldest son of a farming family, is forced to abandon his family after killing his fiancée. Thus begins a long wandering across the country, punctuated by sending postcards from the various places where he finds work. With intelligence and humor, Annie Proulx shares Loyal's solitary odyssey, his desire for success, and his need for love. EAN : 9782743607715 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bella Italia - Frances Mayes - book Summary : "My initial desire to live in Italy was born, among other things, from the idea that I would never exhaust the resources of this endless land—its arts, its landscapes, its language, its gastronomy, its history. Changing the course of one's life by buying and restoring this abandoned house, devoting part of each year to another country, seemed an inconsiderate risk, if not an act of madness. I wanted at that time to accomplish something of which I knew nothing. I thought—now I know—that Italians take longer to live. After long years of marriage and a painful divorce, I thought that Italy would more than adequately replace the loss of that one man. I wanted a real change. I did not yet know to what extent luck would accompany my wishes." EAN : 9782070411696 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : To You Who Are Not Yet Born - Albert Jacquard - book Summary : Geneticist Albert Jacquard never stopped questioning what is passed down from one generation to the next. In the form of a letter to a teenage great-grandchild in 2025, the author of The Water Lily Equation offers us a synthesis of his questions, his convictions, his fears, and his hopes. Will eight billion human beings be able to coexist on the planet tomorrow? What consequences could frenetic consumption and uncontrolled manipulation of the human genome have on the environment and our collective destiny? What safeguards will we be able to invent to preserve both diversity and peace? A taste for knowledge, respect for others, the need for criticism and sometimes for insubordination: these are the values, anchored in his life and his struggles, that Albert Jacquard reaffirms here, and which ultimately make this book a lesson in optimism and hope. EAN : 9782253152132 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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