Title : The Last Sultan - Michael of Greece - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724266382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Such a Long Night - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : As New York prepares to celebrate Christmas, a woman abandons her child outside a church and disappears into the night. Inside, a petty criminal waits for the last priest to leave to steal a precious religious object, until the police force him to retreat. As for the baby, no one will know it was there... It took the greatest of coincidences for Willy and Alvirah Meehan, two ace detectives, to uncover the trail of this incredible affair years later. A turbulent investigation began and, for the countless readers of The Night of the Fox (Grand Prix de littérature policière 1980), one of those suspense stories that only Mary Higgins Clark knows the secret to. EAN : 9782253171393 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen of the Damned. The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice - book Summary : One day, a vampire had a nightmare... When Lestat, an unholy, libertine, and suicidal vampire, improvises as a rock singer to shout his undead condition in the face of humanity, mortals give him a triumph, without imagining for a second that he is only telling them the truth. But, with his "music to wake the dead," Lestat has not only made enemies among his brothers who consider him a traitor and are determined to destroy him, he has also torn from her thousand-year-old sleep Akasha, the Mother of all vampires, the Queen of the Damned, Akasha who dreams only of reigning over mortals once again. EAN : 9782266044592 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tereza Batista - Jorge Amado - book Summary : Tereza Batista? Of all the characters created by Jorge Amado, she is undoubtedly the most colorful, the most colorful, the one who best embodies the common people of the province of Bahia, where the writer himself comes from, with her generosity, her optimism, and her courage to overcome misery and offenses. An orphan and leader of a gang of village kids, Tereza is sold, at the age of 15, to a rich man, a thief, a murderer, and a great fan of cockfighting. But she is a rebel. She kills her tormentor. Later, she fails, kidnaps him, and loves her passionately. Will she finally know happiness? Her protector dies. Once again, prostitution in a world where famine and epidemics are rife. But Tereza never gives up... Tereza Batista? A woman of flesh and blood, but also a legend. Tereza with many names: "Tereza of the Knife", "Tereza of the Seven Sighs", "Tereza of the Velvet Hands", etc. With her, with this book which is undoubtedly one of the writer's masterpieces, Jorge Amado enchants us with a magic, an enchantment, a sensuality and a spirit of insubordination which are the very life of his much-loved Brazil. EAN : 9782253933014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History, Volume 9 - The French Revolution and the Empire - Georges-Henri Dumont - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782501004602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Universal History No. 8 - English power and the end of the old regime 1700-1789 - Georges-Henri Dumont - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782501004329 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Through the Wall - Patricia Wentworth - book Summary : Come on, it's that exquisite time when you choose an armchair and treat yourself to an hour elsewhere. On the detective side. For those who crave something sweet, there's no hesitation: Patricia Wentworth. Another Englishwoman, as clever as a cat, who knows how to remarkably combine five o'clock tea and blood on the carpet. It's harmless, it's graceful, it's sometimes irreplaceable: because the world then appears deliciously harmless. Charming Englishwomen, from Dorothy Sayers to Ngaio Marsh, are therapeutic. For the space of a read, you're protected. It's as precious as a fairy tale. EAN : 9782264021595 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Quattrocento - Stephen Greenblatt - book Summary : What if the Renaissance was born from a book? A lost book, known in fragments, copied by a few monks and rediscovered by a humanist mad about ancient manuscripts? The idea, bold and dizzying, opens the doors to the story of Poggio Bracciolini, known as Pogge, who discovered a copy of Lucretius's De rerum natura in a German monastery. This was at the dawn of the 15th century. Pogge was not only a passionate bibliophile and an outstanding copyist. He loved the arts and had written bawdy jokes. He loved women and was the father of nineteen children. He did not love the Church, but was secretary to a diabolically intelligent and corrupt pope. His discovery would precipitate modern times and influence minds as powerful as Botticelli, Montaigne, and Machiavelli. EAN : 9782081312814 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Remember Hallows Farm - Angela Huth - book Summary : With the Second World War over, Prue returns to the family hairdressing salon in Manchester where her mother is waiting for her. The memory of Hallows Farm, where she was a farm volunteer on Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence's farm, is as vivid as the friendship she maintains with her friends Ag - Agatha - and Stella. On the way home, Prue and her mother meet Barry, a wealthy middle-aged man. With this encounter, Prue soon becomes the promise of a life where luxury vies with opulence. While at first the young woman seems fulfilled, she constantly thinks back to her past and to Hallows Farm... A novel about friendship and nostalgia, Hallows Farm is also the story of a woman in turmoil, grappling with the prejudices of her time and searching for happiness. EAN : 9782070448302 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little, a Lot... Not at All - Alice Munro - book Summary : Jinny waits for her husband in a car in the blazing sun. A jaunt with a teenager awakens in her the quivering of the grass dancing in the cornfields. Alfrida, an independent and libertarian woman, is the role model for her niece, until the day she is invited into her home, she discovers that this adored aunt owns the same bland and massive furniture as the rest of the family. Nina's husband, suffering from a degenerative disease, has just committed suicide. They had considered this choice together. Yet, he carried it out alone. Distraught, Nina searches for a farewell note. Nine stories about women. Stories of kisses given as one picks a flower by the roadside. Stories of cumbersome furniture one cannot part with. Stories of necessary betrayals. Nine love stories. EAN : 9782743615932 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Without Fingerprints - Eric Faye - book Summary : SCAM François Billetdoux Prize 2008 Who is the mysterious writer B. Osborn? While a former lover, a journalist, and even a Hitchcock haunted by Kim Novak, seek to unravel his identity, the puzzle of a man obsessed with 20th-century history who has constantly hidden himself behind his work gradually comes together. From Central America to the Baltic, this biographical quest brilliantly poses the question of the erasure of the artist, "an immaterial being," "a thought that unfolds." The Man Without Fingerprints received the François-Billetdoux Prize in 2008. EAN : 9782290034378 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brambles - Antoine Piazza - book Summary : In the early 1980s, a twenty-five-year-old teacher, returning from Africa, is assigned to a village in Haut Languedoc. The country is becoming deserted. The land is abandoned. Young people have left to live in the city or dream of a suburban house. The small, withdrawn community protects itself from the modern world, from the incomprehensible chaos reflected on television screens. Here, life follows the rhythm of the seasons and the opening dates of the hunting season. In remarkably precise and elegant writing, the narrator chronicles the seven years spent crisscrossing the country and meeting its inhabitants: notables, hippies, families living in isolated hamlets, a retired policeman, a failed singer, old people posted on the side of the roads... This close-up witness, irremediably foreign, paints with vibrant humanity tiny destinies, immobile lives, confronted with the passing of time and a changing world. "Born in 1957, Antoine Piazza lives and works in Sète. He is the author of four novels published by Editions du Rouergue: Roman fleuve (1999, winner of the Millepages bookstore prize), Mougaburu (2001), Les Ronces (2006, winner of the Emile-Guillaumin prize) and La Route de Tassiga (2008)." EAN : 9782742776863 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beatus ille - Antonio Munoz Molina - book Summary : In 1969, Minaya, a 25-year-old student, discovered the posthumous manuscript of a certain Jacinto Solana, shot dead in 1947 by Franco's police. Eager to investigate the poet's life and disappearance, he went to Magina, a small town where Solana wrote his work and where Manuel, Minaya's uncle, still lives. By questioning the few survivors of the civil war and with the help of Ines, whose lover he quickly becomes, he brings to light Magina's past and enigmas that were thought to be forever buried in the silences of memory. EAN : 9782020133241 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : HERE IS THE TRAVEL SEASON stopovers in the Mediterranean with 19th century writers - Collective - book Summary : See photos EAN : 3010000021681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brave Men of Tennessee - Erskine Caldwell - book Summary : Erskine Caldwell, the American writer, the man of the South, the defender of the disinherited, black and white, has become today, like Faulkner, a classic. The son of a Georgia minister, he had practiced all the trades, cotton picker, professional football player, reporter and screenwriter... His rich experience of men and the United States, he owed it to his travels and his patient observation. Witness to a society, he became its spokesperson and its interpreter. A great deal of indignation combined with an inexhaustible verve against a backdrop of generosity, this is Caldwell the "storyteller", the one who wanted above all to make the world of the South known and who knew how to ferocity describe "the good people of Tennessee", racist, hypocritical, miserable, pathetic and occasionally lynchers. EAN : 9782253041276 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Candido - Leonardo Sciascia - book Summary : To the complicated problems of post-war Italy, Candido provides simple, too simple, answers. Because he naturally trusts people, he clashes with all the followers of the combinazione, unmasks them, and ridicules them: Christian Democrat leaders, communist activists, wealthy landowners, priests, and magistrates... In today's Sicily, Leornado Sciascia's Candido is no less provocative than Voltaire's hero was in our country two centuries earlier. EAN : 9782020058681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Palace of Books - Roger Grenier - book Summary : By taking somewhat unconventional paths, for example by looking at what place writers give to news items, to the delights and pangs of waiting, to the temptation of the unfinished, to the relationship between private life and writing, to the way of writing about love, these essays quite naturally adopt Baudelaire's claim on the right to contradict oneself. And they lead to two questions: What is writing? Is writing a reason for living? Both, as one might expect, can only remain unanswered. EAN : 9782070448470 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kôsaku - Yasushi Inoué - book Summary : This book brings together seven completely new short stories. In these small literary masterpieces, we find at every moment the lyrical sobriety, the light density and the refined writing that characterize the great carver of Japanese literature. EAN : 9782234053397 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When you are at Proust the war will be over - Hubert Nyssen - book Summary : Having made his career in publishing in Paris, Paul Leleu retired to a village between the Gris-Nez and Blanc-Nez capes. There, he gave himself twelve months to write to a former lover, who might never read it, an epistle in which he questions the meaning of his life and the role of the people who have passed through it. This is an opportunity for him to call upon the women, writers, translators, and publishers he has known: he battles with his memories, sometimes gives up, then returns to them with the impulses, illusions, mistrust, and passion inspired by the peerless mystifiers that are memory, dreams, and imagination. Language and reading are at the forefront of this testamentary and jubilant account of a publisher who would like to understand why the fascination with the text was sometimes so close to that which he had for certain women. Born in 1925 in Brussels, naturalized French, Hubert Nyssen settled in Provence in 1968. A writer, he is the author of some thirty works. A publisher, he founded Actes Sud just thirty years ago. A Doctor of Letters, he taught at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Liège. EAN : 9782742772599 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Turning Point - Story of a Life - Klaus Mann - book Summary : THE TURNING POINT Story of a Life Born in 1906, Klaus Mann, the eldest son of Thomas Mann, was a precocious writer who, at eighteen, had already published a play and a collection of short stories. Alone or with his sister Erika, he began from that moment to travel the world - Europe, Asia, the United States... But, very quickly, this carefree and free life of a dandy of the Roaring Twenties - hard drugs, sex, open homosexuality - was interrupted by the rise of Nazism, which he resolutely opposed from the start. A promising writer encouraged by Cocteau and Gide, he founded in exile an anti-fascist magazine to which Einstein, Brecht, Trotsky, Pasternak, Roth and Hemingway notably contributed, and participated, in 1934, in the preparation of the International Congress for the Defense of Culture with René Crevel. After serving as a war correspondent in Spain on the Republican side, he settled in the United States in 1938, and it was in American uniform that he was to return to a ruined Germany. His novels - Flight to the North, The Volcano, Mephisto - already contained numerous autobiographical fragments. But it was not until The Turning Point, which he completed shortly before his suicide in Cannes in 1949, at the age of forty-two, that he masterfully painted the tragic fresco of his time. The beauty of the book lies in this strangeness: it is the unconfessed autobiography of a man more attentive to others and to his time than to himself. EAN : 9782742773589 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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