Title : Agar-Eclipso, The Magician of the Dead Planet - Claude Moliterni, Robert Gigi - comic book Summary : See photos EAN : 2205024175 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crimes of the Accordion - Annie Proulx - book Summary : At the end of the 19th century, a Sicilian arrives in New Orleans, accompanied by his son and a magnificent accordion of his own making. Passing from hand to hand, the instrument becomes the hero of the book. It accompanies the adventures and tribulations of the emigrants of the melting pot: Germans from the Midwest, Poles from Chicago, Norwegians from Minnesota… All these humble, destitute people of Europe won over by the dream of the New World, and whose descendants, gradually forgetting their roots, form the America of today, are the characters of a grandiose epic novel. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, translated in some thirty countries, Annie Proulx tells us about the real America with a vigor and power worthy of Steinbeck or Dos Passos. EAN : 9782253117377 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cairo Hair - Paul Fournel - book Summary : What an adventure the life of a French cultural attaché in Cairo is! With impressionistic touches, Paul Fournel describes his daily life in the emails he sends to his friends: traffic jams, muezzins, shoe shiners, stray cats, struggles and squabbles, sweetness and fury... Witty, precise, nonchalant notes that capture a megalopolis bursting with life, disconcerting, and fascinating. Paul Fournel, writer, poet, playwright, editor, now chairs Oulipo. He is the author of numerous collections of short stories and novels, including Athletes in their heads , Need a bike, The Big Dreamers Or Fairground , available in Points. “We laugh, a lot. We are also moved. The anecdotes are served by writing that is dazzlingly accurate, subtle, and truthful.” Télérama EAN : 9782757803615 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cities of the Plain - Diane Meur - book Summary : In an imaginary ancient civilization, one that awakens in us a curious sense of familiarity, the scribe Asral is tasked with producing a new copy of the laws. Thanks to the naive questions of his guard Ordjéneb, he soon realizes that the sacred language he is transcribing is outdated and that true fidelity to the spirit of the text would consist in reformulating it, so that it is once again understood as it was conceived four or five centuries earlier. Little by little, however, doubt sets in. Who was Anouher, the mythical legislator who has almost been made a god? Are these laws that subject public life, private relationships, and even women's bodies to constant control all by him? And does Asral have a better chance of finding out one day than of winning the love of Djinnet, a young singer from the basket-weavers' suburb? EAN : 9782253179214 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue Road - Kenneth White - book Summary : In The Blue Road, Kenneth White sets out in search of Labrador, a long-fantasized Canadian territory. We follow him on his journey from Montreal. Along the way, he meets Native Americans, miners, hunters, descendants of Scots, young Pocahontas, and old shamans. He visits mines and reservations, scours bars, scans landscapes, and listens to the world. Full of humor and poetry, this travelogue is also a text of initiation. The backpacker who speaks to us is a nomadic intellectual and vice versa: the traveler's small daily worries, colorful dialogues with Eskimo Joe and other colorful characters, alternate philosophical reverie and references to a constellation of writers and free thinkers. Kenneth White, born in Scotland, has lived in France since 1967. He was awarded the Prix Médicis étranger in 1983 and the Grand Prix du rayonnement français from the Académie française in 1985. He is at the origin of the concept of intellectual nomadism and founded the International Institute of Geopoetics in 1989. He is already the author of Dérives, Les Cygnes sauvages, Les Vents de Vancouver, La Mer des lumières, Au large de l'histoire and La Figure du dehors (The Figure Outside) published by Le mot et le reste (The Word and the Rest). EAN : 9782253035527 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra - Bernard Simiot - book Summary : Like Marguerite Yourcenar for her Memoirs of Hadrian , Bernard Simiot imagined that Queen Zenobia of Palmyra wrote her Memoirs. Thus, in this novel, which received the Goncourt Scholarship for Historical Narrative in 1978, he traces the extraordinary destiny of the queen who lived in the 3rd century AD and took a very active part in the transformations of the Eastern Roman world. After the death of Odenath, her husband, who had received the title of Augustus and represented the emperor and Roman power, Zenobia seized power. Refusing Roman tutelage, she exercised the regency in the name of her son Waballaht. Intelligent and authoritarian, she led Palmyra to its peak. But in 272, Aurelian's armies conquered the kingdom she had carved out for herself in the eastern marches. As a prisoner, she was sent near Rome where she lived a gilded exile in a villa on Tibur. Combining the best historical sources and novelistic invention, Bernard Simiot, winner of the Prix d'Académie française in 1984 for Ces messieurs de Saint-Malo , succeeds marvelously in this evocation of a rich and little-known period, during which the Eastern Roman world became Arabized. We see the development in this oasis through which the caravans passed a commercial and cultural civilization of extreme refinement, profoundly marked by the personality of this queen, an astonishing woman of action whose name remains forever linked to Palmyra, this Venice of the desert. EAN : 9782253041504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Gift of Asher Lev - Chaim Potok - book Summary : For the past twenty years living in France, Asher Lev has divided his life between his faith and painting. But upon returning to Brooklyn for an uncle's funeral, he finds that the Hasidic Jewish community still hasn't forgiven him for leaving. A new battle begins: Asher will have to choose between the sacred and the profane. A choice that this time threatens the very integrity of his family... EAN : 9782264043962 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Four travelers - Alain Fleischer - book Summary : Four scientists from four European countries—one French, one Irish, one Portuguese, and one Hungarian—meet to prepare an international conference on the theme: "The World and Its Doubles." But their dive into the world of virtual realities, clones, talking primates, and distant galaxies doesn't go as planned... During their research mission in Californian scientific laboratories, the four travelers unwittingly swap identities, each waking up in the body of one of the other three, and the ensuing adventures quickly become dizzying. How do you adapt to another body, and who do you become then? Are we just a spirit whose shell could be interchangeable, or do we also possess a "physical," carnal memory that sticks to our skin? In this novel of metamorphosis, Alain Fleischer forcefully poses the question of the body which inhabits us as much as we inhabit it. EAN : 9782020514019 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Culotte Donkey - Henri Bosco - book Summary : "He passed by, his little, light donkey steps clacking on the flagstones of the bridge. The baskets, which rattled on his back, were full to the brim with flowering argelas branches. This plant, which flowers in February, is a kind of thorny broom. The donkey's load astonished me. I followed him from a distance. He headed straight for the presbytery. No doubt he was expected there, because Abbot Chichambre came out immediately and carried the argelas into the church. After which he said a few kind words to Culotte the donkey and gave him a pat on the rump. The donkey veered off and set off again towards the mountain." EAN : 9782070363377 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : West - François Vallejo - book Summary : Deep in the Westlands, gamekeeper Lambert discovers his new master: young Hawthorn. He talks only of revolution. Lambert grumbles and frets: debts are piling up, farmers and lands are going rogue. And then there are all those women the baron brings back... and who leave terrified. In the region, they say he's deranged... EAN : 9782757809402 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sculptor of Souls - Raphaël Cardetti - book Summary : Some sculpt wood, others stone. Takeshi Ono, however, uses a completely different material: human bodies. His anatomical exhibition Ars Mortis has just arrived in Paris when Valentine Savi, a young art restorer employed by the mysterious Stern Foundation, receives a disturbing call. Her best friend, whose husband disappeared nine years earlier in Chechnya, thinks she has recognized his body. Among the corpses exhibited by Takeshi Ono... A case that comes at the wrong time for Valentine, who is already on the hunt for a genius forger whose works are scattered throughout the world's greatest collections. Having made this hunt a personal matter, Elias Stern has decided to do everything in his power to arrest this man. And the means of his Foundation are limitless... EAN : 9782298037159 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Counter-espionage, memoirs of a DST boss - Yves Bonnet - book Summary : In November 1982, Yves Bonnet was chosen by François Mitterrand to succeed Marcel Chalet as head of the DST, the legendary Directorate of Territorial Surveillance. For nearly three years, he would run the "big house" on Rue des Saussaies. Upon his arrival, he discovered that some departments had been monitored by Roger Wibot, the famous founder of the Service, and immediately put an end to it. In 1983, he became certain that France had a huge technological espionage network, plundering nearly 70 percent of the country's civil and military patents. Yves Bonnet did not waver and, in close collaboration with François Mitterrand, decided to expel forty-seven Soviet diplomats. A few months later, four days after the bloody anti-Turkish attack at Orly, he dismantled the ASALA network in France. Yves Bonnet launched an all-out international cooperation, multiplying contacts with the British, American, Israeli, Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian intelligence services, not hesitating to collaborate with Abu Liad and Georges Habache. Thanks to his "special relationships," it was he who, in the spring of 1985, obtained the release of Gilles Sydney Pérolles, the son of Gilles Perrault, kidnapped in Lebanon. But Yves Bonnet was a nuisance: he was too successful, reluctant to transform the DST into a "personal" intelligence agency. And, in July 1985, he was ousted... Written with vitriol, rich in revelations, "Counter-espionage" is a landmark book on the world of intelligence. EAN : 9782702130919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Expert Solutions Volume 1 - Arthur Engel - book Summary : Translated by Jean-Christophe Novelli, this book is the product of the German team's preparation for the Mathematical Olympiad over the course of some twenty years. Bringing together 1,100 problems from all over the world, it is organized around the major ideas that lead to their resolution: invariance principles, combinatorial strategies, particularly the drawer principle or Poincaré's inclusion-exclusion relation, number theory and the recurrence principle, graphs and coloring problems, game theory, and more. EAN : 9782842250515 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Not so easy to love - Anne Vaisman - book Summary : That's all you can think about. Love, of course... The desire to please him, to attract his attention, to go out with him, to kiss him, to love him for life... it's wonderful, exciting, but sometimes nerve-wracking. You don't know how to tell him, you're afraid he won't share your feelings, you're afraid of being ridiculous... What if your parents found out? A book to answer all your questions and help you live your fledgling love life to the fullest... EAN : 9782732422107 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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