Title : The Wind Takes Its Turns Again - Sylvie Germain - book Summary : It's a wanted poster stuck under a bus shelter that will turn Nathan's life upside down. Gavril, the missing old man, saved his childhood from boredom and loneliness with a taciturn mother by taking him to the streets of Paris and enchanting him with poetry and fantasy. Thirty years later, Nathan leads a dull and gloomy life that this sudden reminder of childhood and maternal silences shatters. He, who has never traveled, goes to Romania, where he was unaware that Gavril had experienced the dramas of the war and then the great purges of the post-war period. This journey to the acrobat friend who survived terrible ordeals but who had managed to maintain a magnificent ardor for life, will open him to complete freedom. EAN : 9782226442345 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen Liberty Volume 1 - The Empire of Darkness - Christian Jacq - book Summary : Egypt is now a shadow of its former self. An army of barbarians from Asia, riding chariots drawn by horses (the Egyptians had never seen them before!), has swept across the Empire. They are called the Hyksos, the "rulers of foreign lands." They have enslaved the land of the pharaohs. Only one city has not yielded, Thebes, over which the widow of the last pharaoh, Teti the Little, still reigns. And Teti knows that men have given up in the face of the cruelty of the Hyksos, in the face of the incessant torture, the summary executions, and the penal colonies from which no one has ever returned. But Teti has an eighteen-year-old daughter, Ahotep. And Ahotep, she, never accepted defeat: "When you have no choice," she often says, "you are free!" She is proud, beautiful, courageous, she is afraid of nothing. And that is how she decides to rekindle the flame of Egyptian resistance! All by herself! With freedom as a rallying sign... EAN : 9782845630246 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Inconsolable - Anne Godard - book Summary : You never thought you would survive, but you live, you continue, from date to date, and for so long. You live against his absence, against the life that made it possible, against others, because they forget, and against yourself, who can erase nothing. Despite yourself, you remain waiting for something else, but what? EAN : 9782707319401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : God, no one has ever seen him - Maurice Bellet - book Summary : “Whether God exists or not is not our question. What is certain, however, is that there is "God" in human history and in our current society. It is impossible to remove it from there; it occupies too much space... Our little high-speed theology will have only one function: to clear the clutter, to undo prejudices of all kinds, and at the same time to open up the space for speech where "what God is about" can be freely addressed. I mean: that freedom of thought which is not the right to think anything, but the unconditional search for the truth." EAN : 9782226183026 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It tells Sarah - Pauline Delabroy-Allard - book Summary : 2020 Quebec-France Marie-Claire-Blais Prize - France Culture-Télérama Prize - The student novel (from 2014) 2018 It tells of Sarah, her mysterious beauty, her brittle nose of a gentle bird of prey, her eyes like pebbles, green, but no, not green, her eyes of an unusual color, her snake eyes with drooping eyelids. It tells of Sarah the ardor, Sarah the passion, Sarah the sulfur, it tells of the precise moment when the match strikes, the precise moment when the piece of wood becomes fire, when the spark illuminates the night, when from nothingness springs the burn. This precise and tiny moment, a shift of barely a second. It tells of Sarah, of symbol: S. EAN : 9782707344755 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq - book Summary : The pitch? What pitch? It is impossible to reveal one. Michel Houellebecq's fourth novel, by its scope, its ambitions, its very own way of defying all predictions, escapes this lazy practice of modern criticism. So what can we say about it? To think that the most important foreign publishers (US, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Japan?) read it in manuscript and immediately bought it. It should also be said that they were not stingy with compliments. One praising his offbeat humor, another celebrating his lyricism, the third admitting how much he had first laughed, then shuddered, before this admirably constructed fresco, where everything is in its place, without apparent effort, as if raised by an intelligence that challenges reason, a salutary warning. In a word, whispered by the author himself: "I think this is my best book." EAN : 9782213625478 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Those Who Remain - Jean Michelin - book Summary : Like every morning, the gray dawn breaks over the unchanging routine of the garrison. But this time, Lulu is missing. Lulu, the always reliable, always solid master corporal, Lulu and her crooked smile that nothing ever seemed to erase, has disappeared. Aurélie, his wife, is used to absences, to empty beds, to the daily grin of a military wife. She copes, but knows that this departure is not like her. Four men, four soldiers, then set out to find him. They are from the same world and carry the same ghosts around on the edge of sleepless nights. If they can't find him, no one else will. This intensely topical story, written by Jean Michelin, follows the investigation of these brothers in arms. A poignant story of camaraderie, the kind that binds people together beneath their fatigues, this uncompromising novel examines what war does to those who leave, to those who return. To those who stay. EAN : 9782350877891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crime at the Hôtel de Saint-Florentin - An Investigation by Nicolas Le Floch - Jean-François Parot - book Summary : Nicolas Le Floch is going through a difficult time: Louis XV is dead, Sartine is appointed Secretary of State for the Navy. Le Noir, his successor as Lieutenant General of Police, is suspicious of him. M. de Saint-Florentin, minister of the new king, charges Commissioner Le Floch with investigating the crime committed in his mansion. A chambermaid's throat has been slit in strange circumstances. His quest will take him to Paris, beyond the walls, to cattle breeders, and to Versailles, where he will secure his position with Louis XVI. He will also be confronted with the mysteries of the Trianon and the horrors of Bicêtre. A phantom carriage, serial murders, an astonishing murder weapon... punctuate this adventure, which mixes money, debauchery, espionage, and all the madness of a young court where old rivalries and clashes persist. Jean-François Parot is a diplomat. His extensive knowledge of 18th-century Paris, its criminality, and court intrigues allows him to recreate the mysteries and customs of the world's capital at the time. EAN : 9782709625142 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : NINA - Frédéric Lenoir - book Summary : Adrien is a Parisian man in his forties, single and childless. He has lost his will to live and decides one evening to commit suicide. He writes his will and a final letter to Nina, the woman of his life, the only one he has ever loved with a passionate and unconditional love. Nina and Adrien were children when they met. Memories of their summer vacation in Ravello, the jewel of the Amalfi Coast, flood back to Adrien. Postponing his suicide for one night, then another, and another, he writes them down in this long letter to Nina, which becomes, as the nights go by, the heartbreaking declaration of love he had never dared to make to the young Italian woman. Adrien had always dreamed of becoming a writer. He had to wait for this final moment to dare to write. Exhausted but at peace, he swallows a mixture of medications and falls into a deep coma. He has no idea that his words will turn several lives upside down: Nina's first, but also those of all those who, near or far, will be touched by his writing. Simonetta Greggio and Frédéric Lenoir have written this novel together, delving into the absolute and simplicity of love that we seek all our lives and that we sometimes only find at the very beginning. EAN : 9782234070219 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Song of the Silent City - Olivier Adam - book Summary : I am the singer's daughter. The girl alone in the back of cafes, filling notebooks, writing down what she feels to know what she feels. The girl who gets lost in the streets of Paris in the early morning. The girl who lowers her eyes. I am the girl whose father left in the night. The girl whose father parked his car along the river. The girl whose father was declared dead. The one who takes a plane on the faith of a blurry snapshot. The one in the streets of Lisbon, on the slopes of Alfama. Who watches for a wandering musician, a star stripped of itself, a hermit who would have left everything behind. The girl who walks through gardens, who is overwhelmed by the living, who is filled by the words of others, the girl who does not want to disappear. Who little by little frees herself. EAN : 9782081422032 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Melody of Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris - book Summary : A rich work, a distillation of humanity, in which we see the ravages of material and moral poverty, unrequited love and unhappy marriages. Summer 1960, Atkinson, an ordinary small town in Vermont. Divorced from a pathetic drunk who still occasionally knocks on her door at night, Marie Fermoyle is exhausted trying to make ends meet, driven by a fierce ambition for her three children and driven by a pride that prevents her from accepting help from anyone. Her loneliness will make her a prime target for Omar Duvall, a pathetic, smooth-talking crook, who shows up at her house one evening... Oscillating between anger and resignation, mired in their adolescent malaise, neither Alice nor Norm, the two eldest, will be able to oppose Omar, whose disturbing personality will gradually reveal itself. Eager to see his mother finally happy, young Benjy will stubbornly keep his terrible secret: the very day Duvall arrived, he saw him stab a man in the forest... Through the story of the Fermoyles, to which that of their relatives and neighbors is inextricably linked, Mary McGarry Morris has written the chronicle of a small community where hope and fear, lies and shame, obsession with sin and piety clash, where an incessant struggle is played out between the thirst for success and the bitterness of failure. The strength of the plot and characters, the beauty of the style, the heavy and captivating atmosphere that emerges from the novel make it a work apart, among the most remarkable in contemporary American literature. EAN : 9782714435897 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man of My Life - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán - book Summary : Pepe Carvalho is ending his millennium and entering the new one with his fine team: Charo, back from Andorra where she ran a hotel for seven long years, and Biscuter, who is beginning an unexpected plunge into the world of sects. As for Pepe, a little broke but still keen to age with dignity, having overcome all illusions, he has to face the facts: life is a succession of surprises, and the return to his life of the beautiful Yes, the dream girl, twenty years after The Birds of Bangkok, is a big one. The plot unfolds against a political backdrop of extreme urgency: the new challenges facing small nations, so-called stateless nations, on the European chessboard. Quimet, a very influential Catalan, and nevertheless a client of Charo "for his whole life," is considering setting up top-secret intelligence services within a European network. Who better than Barcelona's most famous private investigator to advise such an undertaking, hatched in the minds of placid but devious nationalist politicians and activists ready for anything? EAN : 9782267016208 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For God's sake! - Philippe Grimbert - book Summary : For God's sake! is a scathing novel in which the cruelty of our society ultimately overcomes the noblest impulses of its hero, Baptiste. The faith of this fervent believer is put to the test by an avalanche of catastrophes that transform him into a hallucinating prophet, publicly settling his accounts with the Creator. Emotion and humor are the driving forces behind this novel, which is a joy to read while offering the reader, under the guise of a dark comedy, a more serious questioning of the condition of modern man. EAN : 9782246853671 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cursed Angels of Tourlaville - Yves Jacob - book Summary : A centuries-old tragedy that has forever marked the history of Normandy: the shocking destiny of the lovers of Tourlaville. Tourlaville, in the 17th century. Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet are brother and sister. Inseparable. Exceptionally beautiful. Little by little, their tender childhood games give way to a singular desire. Despite warnings, prohibitions, religion, and their rank, they give in to a devastating passion. Marguerite is then forcibly married, at thirteen, to the much older Lord of Hautpitois, and lives a true ordeal. This separation will not prevent the adolescents from finding themselves like two magnets drawn to each other, fleeing together across the Normandy countryside, drawn against their will into a diabolical spiral, condemned for posterity... EAN : 9782258064607 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Pharaoh - Christian Jacq - book Summary : The temples of Northern Egypt are deserted, the gods forgotten. Everyone now thinks only of making the most profit for themselves. Injustice and corruption reign. Five centuries after Ramses, far from its past splendor, the empire seems headed for irremediable ruin. One man, a Nubian, refuses this inevitability. Piankhy, the "living," the black pharaoh, governs his southern kingdom with wisdom and kindness. In his heart, a single desire: that the gods once again reside in a united Egypt, nourished by justice and love. But the price to pay is heavy for this man of peace: he would have to confront the Libyan Tefnakt, an authoritarian and ambitious northern prince, who wants to restore order and reign in glory—by subduing the country by force. Between the black pharaoh and the Libyan prince, war is inevitable. And the victory of one or the other of these inflexible wills depends on the survival of a thousand-year-old world... Despite his courage and the magic of his wife, is the black pharaoh truly capable of achieving the impossible? EAN : 9782221086254 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Curtain on the Night - Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod - book Summary : French First Novel Prize 1984 After brilliant studies at King's College, Cambridge, Paul Finney returns to the austere, magical, and sensual family home of Greenore with the intention of starting a book there during the summer. But the presence of his family (his father, his mother Theodora, and his sisters Ann, Lisa, and Tuesday) and the thousand temptations of a lazily traditional luxury will thwart his project while sharpening his lucidity and humor. If he misses his own accomplishment from the start, he will succeed, on the contrary—in a sumptuously ferocious manner—in analyzing the destruction of a family unit previously united by fortune and the hushed sweetness of old aristocratic rites. Nourished by the ambiguous and caressing memories of a golden childhood, what will ultimately become of this young man full of love, hope, and mistrust, on the threshold of a dubious future? How can one resist the painful, even desperate, desire to draw the "curtain on the night" in front of him in order to conceal his history, past, present and future included? EAN : 9782070702046 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Masters of Light - Jacques Anquetil - book Summary : Rouen, 1850. Young Jacques Angot, initiated by his father into the art of stained glass and its symbolic language, became a master glassmaker. An avant-garde spirit, he began creating stained-glass windows whose only colored vibrations were an opening onto divine light. His father, the beautiful Béatrice, his friend Flaubert and then Claude Monet supported Jacques in this quest for the impossible: capturing fleeting light. When his designs for the stained-glass windows of Mont-Saint-Michel are rejected as too modern, everything falls apart. And the successive deaths of his loved ones plunge him into great distress, which distances him from God. But when a Benedictine priest entrusts him with the creation of the stained-glass windows of a Romanesque abbey located near Rouen, the master can finally realize his dream and rediscover his faith... With sensitivity and passion, Jacques Anquetil takes us into the fascinating and little-known world of glass artisans who, for centuries, have combined art, poetry, and homage to the divine. EAN : 9782856169056 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Pure Spy - John Le Carré - book Summary : Magnus Pym has disappeared: a wave of panic is sweeping through Her Majesty's secret service. Could the honorable British spy be a traitor, as the Americans keep repeating? EAN : 9782221049037 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Sun Too Late - Anne Ray-Wendling - book Summary : Have you ever had the impression of a very strong invisible presence at your side? That of a deceased person, father, mother, child, spouse, friend, who wanted to communicate, protect you, warn you of a threat, or on the contrary of great imminent happiness? Have you ever felt deep within your being this resulting desire for dialogue? This overwhelming experience can happen to all of us, but, like each of us, Florence, the heroine of this story, was not prepared for it, nor for the twists and turns that followed the contact. Yet, she lives it every day. Throughout the pages of her extraordinary adventure, without artifice or complacency, she takes us with her on these mysterious paths, strewn with pitfalls, doubts and revelations about this unknown world, this parallel universe, from where our loved ones, apparently gone forever, sometimes send us these strange messages. EAN : 9782753800441 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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