Title : The Prisoner of the Alcazar - Michèle Barrière - book Summary : August 1525: Francis I is held prisoner by Charles V in Madrid after the disastrous defeat at Pavia. His sister Margaret travels to Spain to secure his release. Quentin du Mesnil is to accompany her. For the moment, he has other worries: his engagement to the beautiful Alicia ended in the murder of an Italian banker who was picking a fight with one of his friends, the explorer Verrazzano. Quentin cannot shirk his duty, but the journey will have some surprises in store for him. The promiscuity with Marguerite, his first love, frightens him, and they will discover, upon their arrival in Madrid, that the king is dying. Everything will have to be done to restore him to health. With the help of a Jewish doctor and a Muslim apothecary, he will recreate, day after day, a gastronomic universe worthy of the Arabian Nights . But the negotiations stall, the fiancée arrives point-blank, bandits are looking for Verrazzano's maps, the Inquisition gets involved... The king's escape must be organized without delay. EAN : 9782709643900 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It was five past midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre, Javier Moro - book Summary : Dominique Lapierre takes us to the India of the maharajas and the America of high technology to tell us about one of the greatest industrial tragedies in history. On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the greatest industrial disaster in history occurred in the ancient Indian city of Bhopal: a toxic gas leak in a pesticide factory, which caused between sixteen and thirty thousand deaths and five hundred thousand injuries... This book tells the extraordinary human and technological adventure that led to this catastrophe. It is a fresco of love, heroism, madness, and hope in which hundreds of characters, situations, and adventures collide. An Indian peasant driven from his land by a swarm of murderous aphids – Three New York entomologists who invent a miracle pesticide – A chemical giant who finds the gas needed to manufacture it – Young Western engineers wanting to eliminate famines in the Third World – A factory handling the most toxic products of the chemical industry and believing itself to be "as innocent as a chocolate factory" – The dreams, joys and celebrations of the damned of a shantytown – A mysterious oriental city at the heart of "Arabian Nights" – Descendants of maharajas and eunuchs who bewitch expatriates from Virginia – A visionary journalist who preaches in the desert – A worker mad with poetry who triggers the apocalypse – Heroic doctors who poison themselves by reviving victims by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation – A young Indian woman who escapes the flames of a pyre thanks to the small cross she wears around her neck... And a multitude of other episodes full of suspense and twists. "It was five past midnight in Bhopal," a true tragedy at the heart of our times that is a warning to all the sorcerer's apprentices who threaten the future of our planet. EAN : 9782221091319 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Stone of Light Volume 1 - Nefer the Silent - Christian Jacq - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782702852279 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Swedish Rider - Leo Perutz - book Summary : It only took a moment. Admired by Borges, who saw him as a kind of adventurous Kafka, Perutz considered The Swedish Rider to be his most perfect novel. The most distressing, in any case, insofar as it deals with the "cinematic" theme of identity substitution. A story governed from start to finish by the Angel of the Bizarre. EAN : 9782859405977 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Leonardo's Judas - Leo Perutz - book Summary : It only took a moment. Who could the great Leonardo da Vinci possibly draw inspiration from to portray Judas in his life's greatest work, The Last Supper? On reflection, a scoundrel from Milan's underworld should do the trick! After wandering the city's taverns, one thing became clear to him: Jesus had absolved these poor wretches, but he forgave Judas nothing. What if, rather than a lost sheep, Leonardo looked to the "honest people"? A colorful novel and one of the most devious imagined by Leo Perutz. EAN : 9782859408855 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mississippi - Barbara Ferry Johnson - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724209044 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Gardens of Fraxinet - Fabre Nicole - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286104528 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Steps of the Palace - Christian Liger - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286116378 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wind Horse - Patrick Segal - book Summary : The Himalayas are the expedition to Ama Dablam, in 1979, by the Briançon guides, in which P. Segal participated in order to test a rescue boat. In fact, it is above all, for him, a mystical experience, a way to reach an inner summit, symbolized by the wind horse. The wind horse is a prayer flag that flies at the entrance to Himalayan villages. But it is also, for the author, the horse of escape, the one that allows one to go further, to cross the Mountain. It will take us to Thailand, in 1981, where Patrick Segal strives to free from prison a young disabled man accused of heroin trafficking. There, we find the author's incessant fight against all the prisons where man is locked up. This search for somewhere else, for a world where one can breathe better, where one gets drunk on beauty (as on Ama Dablam) is the foundation of the story. But let's not be mistaken: this Wind Horse is not a spiritual essay, it is a book of action, a book of adventures. EAN : 9782080645081 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The France I Love - Pierre Bonte - book Summary : During my years of reporting across rural France, I have often suddenly fallen in love with a corner of the countryside or mountains and, for a moment, felt the urge to settle there permanently... These tempting havens have remained engraved in my memory. I think of them with tenderness. They are my France, the France I love. » Pierre Bonte From the Alabaster Coast to Haute-Corse, passing by the island of Aix and the village of Novel, Pierre Bonte passionately shares his personal memories, his enthusiasms and his good addresses, in this picturesque tour of France, an authentic stroll of a lover of the land. EAN : 9782226206244 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Paper Lives - Rabih Alameddine - book Summary : Femina Prize - Foreign Novel 2016 A dazzling novel of playful erudition, celebrating the beauty and distress of Beirut, Paper Lives is a true declaration of love to literature. Winner of the 2016 Prix Femina étranger Aaliya Saleh, 72, with blue hair, has always rejected the constraints imposed by Lebanese society. In the shadow of the ancient walls of her apartment, she prepares for her favorite ritual. Every year on January 1st, after lighting two candles for Walter Benjamin, this irreverent and slightly obsessive woman begins translating into Arabic one of the works of her favorite novelists: Kafka, Pessoa, or Nabokov. Both a refuge and a "blind pleasure," literature is the air she breathes, the air that makes her vibrate like this Chopin opus that she never stops listening to. It is surrounded by books, boxes filled with papers, and loose sheets of her translations that Aaliya feels alive. Walking the streets, Aaliya remembers the smell of her bookstore, conversations with her friend Hannah, reading by candlelight while the war raged, the city on fire, the unpredictability of Beirut. A dazzling novel of playful erudition, celebrating the beauty and distress of Beirut, Paper Lives is a true declaration of love to literature. "Playful, intelligent and full of enthusiasm, Paper Lives is the cure for tasteless literature." Newsday "Sublime writing... sharp, intelligent, often sardonic... a tribute to literature." The National "One of the most beautiful and original female characters of recent years." Mathias Enard, Goncourt Prize 2015 Finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the 2015 California Book Award EAN : 9782365692069 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queens of Hearts - Guy Des Cars - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782262001285 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Neropolis - Hubert Monteilhet - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724224733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The River God - Smith Wilbur - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724279573 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crime of the Marots - Xavier-Laurent Petit - book Summary : The man with the blown-out head was a very young guy, a kid between fourteen and sixteen, European in appearance, dark-skinned. He must have been six feet four inches tall when he had his head. The shot that killed him came from a large-caliber weapon. Pending the ballistics examination, the report was limited to speculation. Probably a Smith & Wesson or a Remington. Common weapons for hunting wild boar and deer, caliber 280 or 300. Death was immediate. The incident must have occurred on Friday, October 22, between 10:30 p.m. and midnight. A young teenager has been killed, another disappears, in the same place, at the same time. Identifying the victim is impossible. Parents, police officers, and gendarmes will mistake his name, much to the reader's delight. As for the murderer, who could not have foreseen the simultaneity of these two events, he can only rejoice: the crime has become almost perfect. After working as a teacher and school principal, Xavier-Laurent Petit has devoted himself for several years to his children's education and to writing. Le Crime des Marots is his first novel. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories. EAN : 9782741301035 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Endless Journey to the White Sea - Malcolm Lowry - book Summary : Every time he was tempted to succumb to despair, he said to himself: "Oh world, you haven't brought me to my knees yet!" A student at Cambridge, secretly a writer and a sailor at heart, Sigbjørn thinks only of returning to sea. His brother committed suicide and his father, a Norwegian shipowner, saw two of his ships sink. To avoid his life also being shattered on the reefs, Sigbjørn considers another crossing on the waves of the White Sea, to Oslo where his role model, the novelist Erikson, lives. Who knows, perhaps this journey of no return will reconcile him with his destiny. English novelist (1909-1957), Malcolm Lowry is the author of the masterpiece Under the Volcano, partly autobiographical, and novels and poems. “Everything is burning hot in this exciting new release.” The Point “A powerful work in which the British writer was already battling with his demons: guilt, the call of travel and writing.” Les Inrocks EAN : 9782757864524 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Baltic Countries - Marie-Anne Sorba - book Summary : Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the trio of small republics bordered by the golden sand dunes of the Baltic Sea displays the peaceful smile of lands of hospitality. On the road to precious amber, the magical substance of sorcerers and goldsmiths, lakes and forests tell the ancestral legend of the gods and spirits of nature, while the capitals, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, offer inexhaustible treasures in the setting of their medieval cities, haunted by sailors and merchants from the north. Touched today by the grace of contemporary fashion and design, the enfants terribles of old Europe offer a thousand journeys in one. Have a great trip! EAN : 9782847542233 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Middle Ages in questions - Sylvain Gouguenheim - book Summary : Was Clovis's baptism the baptism of France? Were serfs slaves? Did Europe almost die of the plague? And, finally, what reality does the expression Middle Ages refer to? Through forty themes, Sylvain Gouguenheim invites us to delve into ten centuries of Western history. He takes us along the paths of the pioneers of Brocéliande, in the footsteps of pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem; he sweeps us away into the whirlwind of the Champagne fairs and the cavalcades of knights... EAN : 9782847348934 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Misty - Virginia C. Andrews TM - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782744165849 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lovers of the Wild Land - Katherine Scholes - book Summary : Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the African savannah, a moving love story unfolds. The portrait of a woman in search of independence, a hymn to nature and wildlife, in the same vein as Out of Africa. And On the road to Nairobi. A wildly attractive husband, a lodge nestled in the heart of the bush, a life close to nature: Mara thought she had found eternal happiness. Three years later, the reality is quite different: John is absent from work several times and Mara finds herself alone at the head of a domain on the verge of bankruptcy. Then a film crew arrives. Determined to take advantage of the opportunity to save the lodge, Mara spares no effort. Usually so shy and discreet, she asserts herself day after day, earning the respect of her employees and the admiration of the film crew, who don't hesitate to use her as a stunt double for the lead actress. Where does life end and cinema begin? Mara cannot resist the charms of Peter Heath, the film's hero. Torn between her attraction to an unattainable man and her sense of duty, will she make the right choice? EAN : 9782298024319 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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