Title : Tomorrow I quit! - Gilles Legardinier - book Summary : And you, what is the stupidest thing you have ever done in your life? At first, it was his funny name that made Julie interested in her new neighbor. But soon, everything else became apparent: his charm, his gaze, and everything he seems to be hiding... Because she wants to know everything about Ric, Julie will take increasingly crazy risks... A surprise success driven by more than 1,500,000 enthusiastic readers “400 pages of pure happiness!” Gérard Collard – " The Health Magazine, France 5 Winner of the Golden Pen from Plume Libre EAN : 9782266233040 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Delicacy - David Foenkinos - book Summary : François thought: If she orders a decaf, I'll get up and leave. It's the least convivial drink there is. Tea isn't much better. You feel like you're going to spend Sunday afternoons watching television. Or worse: at the in-laws'. Finally, he decides that a juice would be good. Yes, a juice is nice. It's convivial and not too aggressive. You smell like a sweet and balanced girl. But which juice? It's better to avoid the classics: let's avoid apple or orange, too common. You have to be a little bit original, but not eccentric. Papaya or guava are scary. Apricot juice is perfect. If she chooses that, I'll marry her... "I'll have a juice... Apricot juice, I think," Nathalie replied. He looked at her as if she were an invasion of reality. EAN : 9782070440252 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The ideal man exists. He is from Quebec - Diane Ducret - book Summary : A young woman leaves Paris to join her new partner who lives in Canada. Overcoming her fear of commitment and her phobia of flying, she makes the trip but quickly finds herself confronted with a series of trials: the arrival of her 5-year-old son, a walk with sled dogs that turns into a nightmare, an old partner who is too present... EAN : 9782290130667 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Purge - Sofi Oksanen - book Summary : “A true masterpiece. A marvel.” I hope all readers in the world, the real ones, will read Purge." Nancy Huston In 1992, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Estonian population celebrated the Russians' departure. But old Aliide, fearing looting, lived hidden in her house deep in the countryside. So, when she finds Zara in her garden, a young woman who seems in great distress, she hesitates to open her door to her. These two women will get to know each other, and a heavy family secret will be revealed, linked to the past of the Soviet occupation and the love Aliide felt for Hans, a resistance fighter. The old lady will then decide to protect Zara until the end, whatever the cost. EAN : 9782234062405 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Deep Winter - Samuel W. Gailey - book Summary : Danny doesn't know what to do with the corpse he just discovered on the evening of his fortieth birthday. This body is that of Mindy, his only friend in the small town of Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Despite the childhood tragedy that left him orphaned and simple-minded, everyone in town despises the giant Danny and worries about the havoc his superhuman strength could wreak. So when the sheriff's deputy, a thick, corrupt brute, names him as Mindy's murderer, everyone is convinced that good Danny has finally hurt someone weaker than himself. But this first murder upsets the precarious balance that had reigned until then in the town, while the sheriff, his deputy, and reinforcements launch, deep into the surrounding woods, into a manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. With breathtaking evocative power and a thrilling plot, this debut novel takes us to the heart of America's underdogs and exposes the violence that lies beneath the still waters. EAN : 9782351780787 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Baton Rouge - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Baton Rouge, Louisiana, population 230,000, former French trading post on the Mississippi... A hub of all kinds of trafficking, it's the city in the United States with the highest number of crimes per capita. It's also where Kay Scarpetta has a date with her destiny, because the Chandonne brothers haven't forgotten her. Death lurks deep in the bayou and strikes in series. Will Scarpetta's friends arrive in time to foil the trap? EAN : 9782702134153 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What strange effect do you have on my heart - Christine Orban - book Summary : "After he repudiated me, I wanted to write to Bonaparte. The idea came to me one night, alone at Malmaison while he was away on the island of Elba. I, Josephine, repudiated, he exiled, how did we get here?" With disturbing empathy, the author of the Silence of men, of Don't Forget to Be Happy takes on the character of Josephine and shares her passionate love life with us. This story offers the analysis of feelings and depth that have made the novelist so successful. EAN : 9782226258250 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Garden of Badalpour - Kenizé Mourad - book Summary : In India, within the walls of the decrepit palace of the late Rajah of Badalpur, there is a small garden where a young Western woman regularly comes to recharge her batteries, because Zahr, daughter of a sultana and descendant of one of the last sovereigns of Constantinople, is also the daughter of a Rajah, and therefore of this Indian land. Her story is that of a woman who, upon coming into the world, lost everything: her name, her first name, her age, her country, her parents - her mother, having fled India, entrusted her to an adoptive family before dying. As an adult, Zahr embarks on a desperate search for her true identity, without which she feels she cannot begin to live. At twenty-one, after many years of searching, she will find her father and her country. She will discover a family that has been torn apart since India's independence, a minority and persecuted Muslim community. Her Western habits shock her and earn her many rebuffs. Furthermore, she is only a woman and, as such, has few rights. But she has finally found the happiness of having a family and a father she adores. Until her world collapses again and she is forced to leave everything behind. Twenty years later she returns and, after many struggles, ends up understanding that these "belongings" to which everyone clings are in fact only crutches that help one to stand, barriers that limit, often even blinders that blind. Now, freed from her ghosts, will Zahr be able to move on to other horizons, light, finally ready to dance her life? Kénizé Mourad was a journalist and worked for twelve years as a senior reporter specializing in Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinent affairs. Ten years ago, she dedicated a famous novel to her family's history: From the Dead Princess (Laffont), which sold several million copies. The Garden of Badalpour is the second installment of this family saga. EAN : 9782213601267 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Schools - Yves Viollier - book Summary : Against the backdrop of the debate between public and private schools, the great novel of friendship. 984. Demonstrations are breaking out all over France in defense of free schools. For Chrysostome Lhermite, these events echo unbearably a distant and painful past, from his youth, when clans were already clashing. With his neighbor, his friend, Louis Malidin, they were then as close as fingers on a hand. That was before the war between the schools reached them in the flesh, before it led them to build a wall between their two houses. Has nothing changed, fifty years later? Or will 1984 finally be the occasion to sign the armistice and for their friendship to be reborn? With In The Two Schools, Yves Viollier delivers a wonderful lesson in hope in the power of forgiveness. EAN : 9782221140307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Secret of the Reeds - Jean Anglade - book Summary : In present-day Auvergne, the tranquility of a small village of a dozen inhabitants is about to be put to the test by the massive arrival of people of all kinds. Humor and relevance are at the heart of this novel, marked by the inimitable pen of Jean Anglade. Chaumont-sur-Dorette, in Auvergne, surrounded by woods and pastures, at an altitude of a thousand meters, leads a life in winter with its dozen inhabitants hardly more agitated than that of its cemetery. Summer changes everything. Many Southerners occupy its Rapans inn, fill the Auvergne hamlet with their volubility, their laughter, their games of pétanque, and for two months make it "Marseille-sur-Dorette". At the same time, the Vie et Foi colony brings eighty young thugs, both male and female, supervised by educators who strive to put these misguided children back on the path of virtue. Everything becomes complicated... Luce Rodary, twelve years old, daughter of the innkeepers, falls in love with Mr. Jo, director of the colony. When she is told that, despite his American cap and his guitar, Mr. Jo is a Catholic priest, she refuses to believe it... EAN : 9782258057678 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voyage A Pitchipoi - Jean-Claude Moscovici - book Summary : Journey to Pitchipoï tells the story of the tragedy of a Jewish family in France during the war, a tragedy that millions of other families shared. In 1942, the author of this book was six years old. His family was arrested by German and French gendarmes and dispersed. The narrator and his little sister were initially entrusted to neighbors until the village mayor enforced the decision of the SS captain, Commander of the region and responsible for anti-Semitic repression: "The reception of Jewish children in French families is undesirable and will not be authorized under any circumstances." The two children were then locked up in a prison, then transferred to the Drancy camp, where the little girl fell ill from malnutrition. Throughout this period, they had no news of their mother, who had miraculously managed to escape and had not been recaptured, despite the doors often closing when she asked for help. After months of living in hiding, they returned home after the Liberation. They were never to see their father again. EAN : 9782211035965 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Transatlantic - Colum McCann - book Summary : After the immense success of And as the wide world continues its mad dash, McCann returns with his most ambitious, most masterful, most accomplished novel. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, this is a dazzling work about uprooting, loss, and self-improvement. After And let the wide world continue its mad dash, the great return of Colum McCann. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, a dizzying fresco of haunting beauty. In Dublin in 1845, seventeen-year-old servant Lily Duggan meets the gaze of Frederick Douglass, the Dark Dandy, the runaway slave, the first to bear witness to the absolute horror in his memoirs. That day, Lily understands that she must change her life and embarks for the New World, thus changing her destiny and that of her descendants, over four generations. In Dublin, 150 years later, Hannah, his great-granddaughter, tries to draw from the story of her ancestors the strength to survive loss and loneliness. "This is what interests Colum McCann: at the heart of violence, lives lived in spite of everything; these invisible skeins that intertwine places, times and characters; this way the past has of resurfacing in the strangest way possible." Publishers Weekly EAN : 9782714450074 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The English Passengers - Matthew Kneale - book Summary : In London, in 1857, one of the greatest adventures of the century is being prepared: Reverend Wilson intends to prove to the world that the Garden of Eden exists and is located in Tasmania. Faithful to the great tradition of 19th-century adventure stories, but also resolutely modern in its questioning of racism, religions and colonization, this is a formidable novel with a philosophical dimension, exceptional humor, erudition and quality of writing. In London in 1857, one of the greatest adventures of the century is brewing: driven as much by a divine revelation as by his dreams of glory, Reverend Wilson intends to prove to the world that the Garden of Eden is in Tasmania. Accompanied by a disillusioned young botanist and a doctor who has secretly written sinister treatises on the superiority of the white race, the reverend embarks aboard the ship of Captain Kewley, who is more interested in selling his contraband cargo than in the mystical quest of his passengers. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Peevay the Aboriginal recounts his people's struggles against the settlers, those "ghosts with dead skin and toeless feet." At the end of a perilous journey, as the English passengers approach the island of Peevay, the clash between two civilizations that are complete opposites seems inevitable... Whitbread Prize for Best Novel and Best Book of the Year 2000 Relay Prize for Escape Novel 2002. EAN : 9782714438683 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chimeras - Nuala O'Faolain - book Summary : With Chimeras, Nuala O'Faolain confirms her formidable talent as a storyteller. When she takes on the fate of Kathleen de Burca, who returns to Ireland to investigate a case of adultery that occurred in the 19th century, she brings to light from her oppressed Irish conscience intimate and historical tragedies, while at the same time evoking the nagging questions of exile, solitude, sexuality, and the illusions of love. Because passion is the great issue of her life, Kathleen wants to write about the scandal that arose, shortly after the Great Famine, from the affair between an English aristocrat and her Irish groom. But her research insidiously confronts her with her own past: in a back-and-forth between the Ireland of 1850 and that of her childhood, she highlights the inevitabilities of history, far from discovering the recipes for this romantic love. This novel invites us on a real-life journey to an Ireland that the narrator left to escape family unhappiness and that she learns by listening to simple joys, soothing beings, and an enchanting nature. It is also a journey to the heart of the identity of a woman of today, the moving Kathleen de Burca. The lucidity and tenderness that characterize Nuala O'Faolain's writing give strength and richness to a book whose outcome is as unexpected as it is magnificent. EAN : 9782848050164 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : De Gaulle my father - Interviews with Michel Tauriac, volume 1 - Philippe de Gaulle - book Summary : If there is one statesman who has inspired biographers, it is Charles de Gaulle. But who can know him better than his own son, this privileged witness who experienced every stage of his epic journey up close? Who can better describe him with his family, with all the doors of the house closed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and lovingly watched over by his wife, listening to him when he speaks and does not want to be heard, translating the slightest inflection of his voice and his silences? Who can reach his heart even in the most secret moments, share his confidences on everything, as much on his private life as on History, on his arm wrestling with Churchill and Roosevelt, on his quarrels with Pétain or Giraud? On poetry and on the forest, as on the failure of Dakar, his relations with the resistance and his face to face with Stalin? If Philippe de Gaulle agreed for the first time to engage so deeply with Michel Tauriac's incisive questions, it was not only to answer the questions that continue to be asked about the author of his days, but also to destroy fabrications and abusive interpretations, set the record straight, and shed light on the mysteries that still hover over various affairs - such as the assassination of Darlan and the General's coup against the Allies to liberate Paris, retain Strasbourg, and cross the Rhine. More than a collection of interviews, this book is an unprecedented testimony that reads like a novel. EAN : 9782259197540 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Model Assassin - Christopher Carter - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782221089064 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Calder Enigma - Blue Balliett - book Summary : Leaving his friends Petra and Tommy in Chicago, Calder accompanies his father, Walter Pillay, to Oxford, Great Britain, for the first time. He discovers England, its old buildings, its winding streets... But in a village square, he finds a very familiar setting: The Minotaur, the work of the famous sculptor Calder. The boy greatly admires the artist whose name he is proud to bear. However, the locals, for their part, do not appreciate modern sculpture. So one morning, The Minotaur has disappeared... and Calder too!!! Petra and Tommy are called to the rescue to solve the mystery of its disappearance. EAN : 9782092520567 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Inheritance - Penny Jordan - book Summary : At thirty-seven, Davina James finds herself at a turning point in her life. The unloved child, then the shy teenager raised in a boarding school from which she only left, after her mother's death, to serve as a governess to her own father, married at twenty a man who never loved her. A greedy and selfish man who saw in her only the heiress of Carey Chemicals, her father's pharmaceutical laboratory. Now a widow, Davina, devastated, discovers that not only was her husband cheating on her, but also that he ruined Carey Chemicals by playing the stock market. So, her only inheritance is this poisoned chalice that would be easy to sell while there is still time. But Davina refuses to accept fate and takes over the reins of her father's business in order to give hope to all those her husband has betrayed, flouted, abandoned... And to give meaning to her own life. It is then that fate places a businessman on her path whose mission is to buy Carey Chemicals. A man who unsettles her. His piercing blue eyes trouble her, worry her, awaken her fantasies. There is in him a kind of hunger, an energy, a pent-up fury that makes her shiver with curiosity, with desire. With fear too. Because, even if she doesn't know it yet, this man who fascinates her is also her worst enemy... EAN : 9782280093767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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