Title : When the North Wind Blows - Daniel Glattauer - book Summary : A man and a woman. They don't know each other but exchange emails. Until they become addicted. Until they can no longer do without each other, without ever meeting... Delicious and captivating, this comedy of manners explores with finesse and humor the birth of love. One of the most enchanting and intelligent love dialogues in contemporary literature. Der Spiegel. When the North Wind Blows will enchant readers like the epistolary bestseller, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, of which it shares the wit and zest. Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle. EAN : 9782253157304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : News from Paradise - David Lodge - book Summary : Bernard Walsh, the former priest, has long since lost faith in paradise. When he leaves Rummidge to go to Hawaii, he skeptically leafs through tourist brochures extolling the exquisite charms of a world that has never known evil. The gags multiply on the plane between London and Honolulu as well as during the stay in Hawaii during which the members of the group cross paths, avoiding each other as if it were a new kind of conference. The experience is certainly a little disappointing for many, but not for Bernard who discovers that paradise exists, even in Hawaii. David Lodge is kindly but Britishly categorical: Eden, the tour operator brochure Sea, sex and sun in Hawaii, is hell. Everything you wanted to know about vacations without ever EAN : 9782869307780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek - book Summary : Twelve-year-old Josy, the daughter of the famous Berlin psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, suffers from an illness that no doctor can diagnose. One day, after her father accompanies her to one of his colleagues, she disappears. Four years have passed. Larenz still has no news of his daughter when a stranger knocks at his door. Novelist Anna Spiegel claims to suffer from a rare form of schizophrenia: the characters in her stories come to life before her eyes. However, Anna's latest novel features a little girl who suffers from a strange illness and vanishes without leaving a trace... The psychiatrist then has only one obsessive goal: to know the rest of her story. EAN : 9782253127369 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blue of Your Eyes - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Five years ago, Timmy witnessed his father's murder. Before fleeing, the killer, with very blue eyes—something the boy remembers precisely—told him: "Tell your mother she's next." Since then, the child and his mother, Laurie, have lived under this threat. The young woman, a famous TV producer, is launching a shocking series on unsolved cases. The first episode focuses on the "Graduate Gala" case: twenty years ago, Betsy Powell and her husband organized a grand party in honor of their daughter's graduation. That same night, Betsy suffocated to death. As preparations are underway to reconstruct the crime scene in the Powells' splendid home, someone is spying on Laurie from the shadows, someone with dazzling blue eyes... Thus begins a breathtaking closed-door drama.  A delightful opus. The mistress of suspense proves that she has retained her expertise. Catherine Balle, Le Parisien . EAN : 9782253000518 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : For the Love of Philae - Christian Jacq - book Summary : Sixth century AD... what remains of Egypt's age-old wisdom? The rise of Christianity is so powerful that there is only one island of resistance left: the Egyptian island of Philae, home to the country's last religious community. There, fifty followers of the cult of Isis fight alone against the all-powerful Bishop Theodore and the fearsome soldiers of Christ... Isis, guardian of ancient mysteries, instills courage and willpower in her men. With Sabni, a priest to whom she is bound by an eternal love, she transmits an ideal that must not die. But, from the south as well as the north, dangers are rising that threaten the existence of the temple of Philae. How much longer will the sacred building be able to carry the great Egyptian tradition? EAN : 9782266044653 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Star Paths - Christian Signol - book Summary : Summer 1942. Far from the Nazi persecution his parents fled, a Jewish child hides on the banks of the Dordogne River. Protected by the Lachaume family, simple farmers, 10-year-old Daniel enters a world unimaginable to him. As the rumor of war fades, the young city boy discovers farm work, the secrets of nature, and the warmth of a farming family. He also discovers Lisa, the princess of this threatened kingdom. She's his age, she doesn't speak, and they say she's "not like the others." Lisa was simply waiting for Daniel to experience the most unique and moving love story with him... EAN : 9782266156028 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly - book Summary : Following a serious altercation with his superior, Detective Inspector Harry Bosch is placed on compulsory leave and ordered to consult a psychologist to control his aggression: his reinstatement within the Los Angeles police force depends on it. Harry Bosch initially refuses treatment, then reveals to Dr. Hinojos the secret that haunts him: his mother, Marjorie Lowe, a prostitute, was killed as she was about to finally extract him from the center where, as a small child, he was placed after being separated from her. And, the crux of the problem, the police investigation that could have helped him accept the reality of this murder never came to fruition. Freed by this confession, Harry Bosch then understands that, despite the ban on investigating that affects him, he must find the one who stole his mother's love from him, and he reopens the case. EAN : 9782020438131 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blood of Betrayal - Hervé Jourdain - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2014 "Serial killers from generation to generation, it's still a strange vocation! But always in the service of the State. I shouldn't have touched the honor of my ancestors... I like seeing the cops get agitated because of me, seeing their flashing lights turn blue on the facades of the Palais de Justice. Who will eliminate the traitors to its memory?" These threats dramatically haunt the "36", at the moment when a young policewoman joins the "lords" of the Crime, at the risk of assuming a singular lineage and finding herself confronted with a massacre in the ranks of the judicial world. EAN : 9782213677286 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Monk and the Venerable - Christian Jacq - book Summary : In early 1944, two men were arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in a German fortress. One was a doctor and a member of a very old Masonic lodge. The other was an eminent Benedictine monk. Under Himmler's orders, a secret service was tracking down religious orders and secret societies in an attempt to strip them of their powers. How would the Freemason and the Christian listen to each other and reach an agreement when faced with Nazi torturers determined to enslave them? EAN : 9782266072427 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bird of Darkness - Michael Connelly - book Summary : All the stars in Hollywood are vibrating at the trial of David Storey, a producer that Inspector Harry Bosch has sworn to confound in the dock, when Terry McCaleb, the hero of Blood Debt receives a visit from Detective Inspector Jaye Winston, who still cannot solve the murder of a small-time crook, Edward Gunn. McCaleb glances at the file and is petrified by what he discovers: with his hands behind his back and his head in a bucket, Gunn has strangled himself by tightening the noose attached to his feet. Even stranger, the killer wrote on his gag, "Beware, beware, God sees." Where did the murderer want to lead the police with these words? EAN : 9782020562362 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Storm in the Air - Carl Hiaasen - book Summary : Hurricane in Florida! Gone are the beautiful creatures and the fine sand. Houses are flying away, destinies are imploding, and lunatics of all stripes are celebrating. Some even get ideas. Ideas for scams, ideas for kidnappings, ideas for murder... A hermit worthy of Don Quixote, a skull collector, a killer with a sinister face, a young bride who lost her dear and tender husband in the turmoil. One by one, they emerge from the shadows, from their lives, from their hinges. Let the party begin! EAN : 9782266090131 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Petersburg News - Nikolai Gogol - book Summary : Attached, like a visionary devil, to the faltering steps of his characters, puppets as grotesque as they are pathetic, Gogol travels through Petersburg, transfigured under his pen into a disturbing shadow theater. From The Overcoat to The Portrait, by way of The Diary of a Madman, The Nose and Nevsky Prospect, these fantastic and comical stories, beyond the satire of Russian society, reveal an unpredictable universe, governed by nonsense. As Nabokov wrote, "the essence of humanity is derived in an irrational manner from the chaos of pretenses that composes Gogol's world." EAN : 9782080710185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Mortal Enemy - Willa Cather - book Summary : I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but as far back as I can remember, I had always heard of her. Thus Nellie tells the story of the dazzling Myra Henshawe. Naturally elegant, astonishingly gifted, comfortably raised in a small Missouri town, Myra had been charmed by Oswald Henshawe and followed him to New York. She reigned there. Her refinement, her beauty, her taste for the arts attracted, her strangeness seduced. Years later, Nellie found her sick, poor, battling invisible demons, in a mediocre West Coast hotel. What mortal enemy was she struggling with? "My Mortal Enemy," written in 1926, testifies to Willa Cather's interest in European literature EAN : 9782869305533 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Perfume of the Lady in Black - Gaston Leroux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782277508960 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Less well - Arnaud Le Guilcher - book Summary : He never thought his honeymoon could get any worse... "This eccentric author is full of very colorful expressions in the service of lively writing." Sébastien Chabal "We turn the pages with the simple desire to snigger and gloat, to follow this splendid loser." Frédéric Beigbeder “It’s funny, tenderly fierce and courageous.” Mathias Malzieu "If Ionesco and Desproges had had a son together, he would have called him Arnaud Le Guilcher!" Gerard Collard EAN : 9782266207010 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heart-Ripper - Boris Vian - book Summary : Here's a corner of the countryside where people have strange ways... The old people's fair, for example. A curious institution! We also know that all children can fly like birds as soon as they stretch out their arms - but is that a sufficient reason to lock them up behind ever higher, ever more closed walls? The psychiatrist Jacquemort wonders - then no longer wonders, because he has too much to do with the shame of others, which flows into a very dirty stream. But we, who remain on the shore, see that Boris Vian is simply describing our world. By taking each of our usual words literally, he reveals to us the monstrous country that surrounds us, that of our most implacable desires, where every love hides a hatred, where men dream of ships, and women of walls. EAN : 9782253006626 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louis XIV Volume 2 - The Winter of the Great King - Max Gallo - book Summary : This winter of 1683 seems to mark the twilight of a unique reign. The ailing king wages a courageous struggle. For Louis the Great never capitulates. All of Europe resounds with the sound of his victories. As death takes his advisors and family members, the king must dictate the pace of life at court... A comedy that this anxious, aging man struggles to play. Until the end, Louis governs, deciding the fate of France as well as his own salvation. "The storyteller's talent is expressed in the lively rhythm with its bursts and emotions. A successful historical narrative, somewhere between the controlled lyricism of a Michelet and the bubbling verve of a Dumas. EAN : 9782266185653 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two of Us - Mhairi McFarlane - book Summary : Get out your tissues, this romantic comedy will make you cry... with laughter Some men have principles. Personally, I've never met one, but I saw one once, in a movie. Delia isn't sure she understands how far she's gone wrong: she's been with Paul for ten years when she proposes... and discovers he's cheating on her. She hadn't seen it coming. If it's all her fault, as her ex suggests, why is he moving heaven and earth to get her back? What if she put the old adage: one lost, ten found to good use? Delia leaves behind her uneventful little life, and from Newcastle to London, suitors abound: between messages from an anonymous admirer, eccentric bosses, and journalists so seductive it's indecent, a new version of Delia is born. Love is dead, long live love! “Witty, lively, guaranteed laughs… A modern romance novel in its most accomplished form.” Heat “Highly recommended for those who like it funny.” Glamour “Wonderfully hilarious.” Fabulous Editor's note: Don't some relationships prevent us from being our true selves? How long does it take to realize this? Delia couldn't imagine her future without Paul, and yet this breakup pushes her toward a better tomorrow. Mhairi McFarlane is unparalleled in exploring the inner workings of romantic relationships, and she does so with delightful lightness. Her twirling pen and sharp dialogue will make you die laughing. EAN : 9782811218638 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Love Lasts Three Years - Frede Beigbeder - book Summary : "In the third year, there's good news and bad news. The good news: your disgusted wife leaves you. The bad news: you start a new book." EAN : 9782070414574 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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