Title : Private Affairs - For One Evening - Molly O'Keefe - book Summary : The son and grandson of politicians, Harrison Montgomery was born to lead. The time has come to succeed his corrupt father by giving the state of Georgia a governor worthy of the name. Except that Harrison lost his dignity during a torrid night with Ryan Kaminski, a beautiful barmaid. A one-night stand? Not quite, because the young woman became pregnant. If the truth came to light during the election campaign, the Montgomery clan would face a real scandal. A solution then becomes necessary: ​​marriage... EAN : 9782290117200 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Moonlight - Alice Sebold - book Summary : "All things considered, I had no trouble killing my mother." How to survive matricide? For the next twenty-four hours, Helen Knightly takes refuge in her memories... Then emerge images of a childhood spent with a splendid and demented woman, ruthless and fragile, who willingly sinks into illness. Even after the murder, Helen's love-hate for her mother is still strong. And the anguish rises, inevitably... EAN : 9782290018484 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Barthelemy and his anger - Charles Exbrayat - book Summary : In a fishing district, the most deprived of them, Barthélemy, has managed, through deprivation and savings, to acquire the tiny fortune that allows him to fix up his house, buy his boat, and ask for Marie's hand in marriage. Barthélemy is happy, and everyone is happy with him. But on his wedding night, a drunken thug from the neighboring town kills Marie on purpose. It is not an accident, but murder. Barthélemy now lives only for revenge. He and his companions have faith in justice and they do not understand how, using false witnesses, Maître Craponne manages to have the murderer acquitted to please the old mob boss, Charles Berry. This scandalous acquittal brings the fishermen's entire moral universe to a crash. But soon, they pull themselves together, and since the men of the town flout justice, they will take it upon themselves. EAN : 9782702408544 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque - book Summary : “When we leave, we are just ordinary soldiers, sullen or cheerful, and when we arrive in the area where the front begins, we have become beastmen…” The testimony of a simple German soldier from the 1914-1918 war, All Quiet on the Western Front , a pacifist, realistic and moving novel, enjoyed resounding worldwide success upon its publication in 1928. It remains one of the most powerful works in denouncing the monstrosity of war. EAN : 9782253006701 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Swann's Way - Marcel Proust - book Summary : The Narrator remembers the child he once was. The wait for his mother's goodnight kiss, Sunday lunches at Aunt Léonie's, his grandmother's gifts. He is fascinated by Mr. Swann, a friend of his parents, madly in love with a woman who loves everyone except him. He falls in love with her daughter, Gilberte, who will not make him any happier. Through these scenes of life—intimate or mundane, tragic or comic—pass impressions, scents, visions. Water lilies on the surface of a river, a madeleine forgotten in a cup of tea, catleyas in the hair of a beloved woman, an agate marble offered as a token of friendship... But, once an adult, how can one remain that child filled with wonder in a world one no longer recognizes, where love is suffering, where desire is jealousy, where "the memory of a certain image is only the regret of a certain moment"? Reminiscences of lost childhood, a novel of impossible love, a satire of high society imprisoned in the ephemeral nature of fashion, but also a philosophical study on involuntary memory: Swann's Way is all of these things at once. What is a masterpiece? A palace of memory, with a thousand entrances, where each reader experiences a singular emotion, always renewed. EAN : 9782070379248 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Body and Soul - Frank Conroy - book Summary : In New York in the 1940s, a child watches, through the bars of the basement window where he is locked, the shoes of passersby walking on the sidewalk. Poor, with no protection other than that of an eccentric mother, Claude Rawlings seems destined to remain a spectator of an inaccessible world. But in the back room, buried under a mountain of old papers, lies a small, out-of-tune piano. By deciphering the secrets of its keyboard, Claude, as if by magic, will discover himself: he is a musician. This book is the story of a man whose life is transfigured by a gift. His journey, at the end of a road marked by a thousand encounters, friendships, and romantic loves, will take him to the salons of the rich and powerful, and all the way to Carnegie Hall... Music, of course, is at the center of the book - classical music, serious and moral, but also jazz whose very contemporary rhythm makes its irresistible pulse heard from one end of the novel to the other. Around it, in a vast Dickensian fresco, teeming with characters, Frank Conroy paints a fascinating, funny, picturesque and sometimes cruel picture of a New York in full mutation. EAN : 9782070314393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brazier - Vincent Hauuy - book Summary : When General Lavallée hires Noah Wallace to find his daughter Sophie's killers, the profiler refuses to believe she's dead. Convinced that the young journalist is in danger, but still alive, he accepts the mission and brings along his unsettling partner, Clémence Leduc, to lead the investigation. But they both quickly realize that this case is bigger than it seems and could be linked to the recent wave of unexplained murders and suicides affecting the entire United States. Haunted by visions of a faceless little boy and a blaze from which screams of terror escape, Noah will find himself at the heart of an investigation that will lead him to the brink of madness. After In The Red Tricycle , investigator Noah Wallace and his teammate Clémence Leduc are back in a scorching thriller. A perfectly mastered plot. To devour! Brice Vauthier, Booksellers' Page EAN : 9782253258094 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Silk Screen - Paul Couturiau - book Summary : 1793. England seeks to open the doors to China, the most closed empire in the world. King George III sends a solemn embassy to the Son of Heaven in order to obtain significant economic benefits from him. The young musician Thomas Charles Perkins, promised a brilliant career but wounded in his love for the beautiful Grace, decides to participate in the adventure in order to discover the music of this Chinese people who fascinate him. Manipulated by his friends, plunged against his will into the heart of a struggle whose scale he ignores, the young man is taken in by the troupe of the Red Silk Screen. There, he will meet the beautiful and fierce Zhang… EAN : 9782266130578 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ten Good Reasons to Be Single - Lindsey Kelk - book Summary : One lost, ten found! Ever since Simon dumped me, nothing's been going right. I, Rachel Summers, am single again—something I haven't been in for a long time. Depression, basically. Luckily, after a good binge, my two best friends, Emelie and Matthew, put together a bespoke list for me: one that will introduce me to the joys of being single. On the walls of my apartment, I wrote: "Simon is an asshole." It's a good start. I have two weeks left to change my look, go abroad, get a tattoo, break the law, and find the man of my dreams. So, bet kept? EAN : 9782811211547 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Game of Checkers - Nata Minor - book Summary : Afanassi, a Russian valet, recounts his life in the service of the woman he calls "Mademoiselle" at the beginning of the 20th century, at the time of the Revolution. Tumultuous adventures that will take them from Crimea to Paris via Odessa, in the very improbable search for the one on whom Mademoiselle has set her romantic sights: Pierre Loti. But very quickly, Afanassi's stories join the narrator's imagination. In a text entitled Foreign Language, Nata Minor wrote: "What about those who, trying to write in a language of use - for them, an adopted language -, strive without knowing it to find the right word which will take in a single sound all the sap of the words of the mother tongue. As if it were a matter of restoring, on the terrain of their daily scene, the landscape of a distant land, of a language now forgotten or fallen." EAN : 9782253154082 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hotel Pastis - Peter Mayle - book Summary : Newly divorced, Simon Shaw leaves London for the quiet, sunny Provence. He buys an old building with a breathtaking view and surrounding lavender fields, to turn it into a sumptuous hotel. But when an Englishman arrives in France, nothing ever goes as planned... Between the song of the cicadas and small glasses of pastis, a novel that smells of the South. Peter Mayle fell in love with Provence, where he and his wife have lived for many years. He is the author of the best-selling novel A year in Provence and A Good Vintage, adapted for the cinema by Ridley Scott in 2007. His books are available in Points. “Exquisite, funny and touching, here is a joyful tribute to the pleasures of life.” The New York Times Book Review EAN : 9782020307437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Other Tales of San Francisco, Episode 3 - Armistead Maupin - book Summary : In this third part of the Chronicles, we find the very special "family" of 28 Barbary Lane, this time at the dawn of the 80s and more than ever prey to incredible adventures: between a car chase in Alaska, a gay rodeo in Nevada, a star weekend in Hollywood and the kidnapping of a TV presenter in Mrs. Madrigal's cellar - while Michael continues his search for Prince Charming -, the reader will hardly have time to breathe... EAN : 9782264029911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I Want to Live - Jenny Downham - book Summary : Diagnosed with leukemia, Tessa knows she only has a short time left. But at 16, she wants to live life to the fullest. With the help of her best friend Zoey, her parents, and her little brother, she embarks on a formidable race against death to fulfill her last wish list: sex, drugs, fame... Life will also have a nice surprise in store for her when she puts Adam in her path, with whom she will have the chance to discover love... "Without ever falling into pathos, she deals with an eminently difficult subject, while distilling, with masterful touches, tenderness and humor throughout the pages." actualité-litteraire.com EAN : 9782266200042 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Day Does Not Rise for Us - Robert Merle - book Summary : There are two kinds of submarines: large and small. The latter are attack submarines. The largest are SSBNs: nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Thus, the novelist of Fortune de France begins his story of an ordinary patrol aboard one of these vessels, following in the footsteps of a young military doctor, among these sailors for whom, for weeks on end, the day does not dawn. Their missions, their skills, their language, the unique human problems that confront them in their strange profession: nothing escapes his passionate, warm gaze, eager to see and understand everything. Rigorous and precise as a report, this chronicle is captivating from start to finish. Because these men are like us, they have their own character, their worries, their moments of joy or their backache... And at the same time, they live with their finger on the trigger, ready at any moment to unleash nuclear fire. EAN : 9782266020572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Earth-Shrew - Martine-Marie Muller - book Summary : Tragedy heroes aren't always princes, warriors, or demigods. They can be peasants, like the Therrys, and live at the beginning of the century in Terre-Mègère, a rich Béarn estate, under the thumb of Eugénie, the mistress of the house, a "bastard woman," "shrew woman," and "wolf woman" who fears nothing and no one. In her fist, her husband and four children are nothing but grains of sand. She doesn't hesitate to trample on their lives, to kill their dreams and desires. But "wolf woman," Eugénie has given birth to wolves. Their revolt, their conflicts, the choice of their destiny will cause many tragedies... EAN : 9782266064811 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Man's Dust - David Lelait-Helo - book Summary : "This Sunday evening, April 3rd, your days as a man slipped through my fingers. Almost at the beginning of my life, I lost you, you with whom I wanted to end it. We had forgotten to be mortal, time caught up with us..." David LELAIT "I just finished this book, it's a REAL SHOCK!!!!! Not only is the story moving, but the style is dazzling!! The words are striking, luminous and full of poetry! A modest emotion adorns this book with a unique color." Gérard Collard "Lyrical and sensitive, accurate and touching, overwhelming even when there are only a handful of hours left before the final separation." Ph.-JC – The World "A moving and exquisitely sensitive text." Delphine Apiou – Biba EAN : 9782266230285 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Coco Dias or The Golden Door - Brina Svit - book Summary : "It's a true novel. I'm not Valérie Nolo, but I really met Coco Dias, a tango dancer, over a year ago now. And he made me exactly the same proposition as in the novel: if you write about me, I'll teach you to dance. Although I was writing something else, I accepted; I knew that no one would ever make me such an proposition again. So here is a story that takes place in Paris, at the Porte Dorée, and in Buenos Aires. I could also say: this is the story of a tango dancer who merges with the history of tango. Or: this is the story of a woman who finally understands what it is like to hold a man in her arms." Brina Svit. EAN : 9782070361151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The William Smith Affair - Patricia Wentworth - book Summary : Unfortunately for them, criminals aren't suspicious enough of old ladies. And the discreet Miss Silver always unmasks them, between two pricks of the needle and two quotes. Tireless, she has unmasked about thirty of them. The success of Patricia Wentworth (1878-1961) is undoubtedly due to the passion we feel for staged crime, the amiable clash between horror and propriety. EAN : 9782264023780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Carpenter's Pain - Marie Le Gall - book Summary : The narrator grows up in an atmosphere heavy with unspoken words, in a house crushed by silence, whose stone walls ooze mystery... Her father is nothing but a solitary shadow. Why is the one she calls the Carpenter so distant? Why does her family seem perpetually in mourning? She would like to ask questions, but people are silent in Finistère. It will take her years to unravel the secret of her ancestry, to measure the invisible burden she has inherited. With a pen that is both vibrant and modest, Marie Le Gall deciphers the failure of a father-daughter relationship. This delicate story never lapses into pathos or navel-gazing, and lets its drama slowly surface. Chloé Brendlé, Le Magazine littéraire Writing reveals these lives, to elevate them above themselves, in what asserts itself as a literary work of great beauty. Jean-Claude Lebrun, L'Humanité. EAN : 9782253133186 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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