Title : The Little World of Krochmalna Street - Isaac Bashevis Singer - book Summary : That evening it rained, and the coachman had to pull up the droshky's hood. Max took Tsirele in his arms and kissed her. He felt her trembling against him like a little bird. Breathless, she pushed him away, her face flushed. It had been a long time since he had felt such desire for a woman, a clear and violent desire, like in his youth..." It is precisely to rediscover his youth that Max Barabander, a former crook who made his fortune in Argentina, returns to Krochmalna Street. Between Tsirele, the rabbi's daughter, Reyzl Kork, the matchmaker, Basha, the little servant, Theresa the witch, he hesitates... The housewives, the students, the tailors, the bakers, the thieves, the children, the rabbi, the whole little world of Jewish Warsaw of the past comes back to life here again, "these men, these women with a banal existence, almost mediocre at times, but suddenly illuminated from within by all the magic of the spirit." (Jean d'Ormesson) EAN : 9782070387335 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Derivative Baths - A Simple, Effective and Free Health Method - France Guillain - book Summary : Lose weight without diet or medication, by firming your muscles without exercising, for free, with a little fresh water for external use, impossible, you say? Try it! Let's try not to plug our ears, not to close our eyes, just long enough to feel, to understand. It's just as miraculous as breastfeeding. It dates back to the same era, the origins of humanity. It produces effects as varied and beneficial as breastfeeding. The derivative bath acts on your entire body, your sleep, the various functions necessary for life. A very simple means made available to us by nature to be in good shape and maintain or regain beautiful forms. Used in at least thirty-two countries, but which no one really dares to talk about, perhaps out of modesty... and which would be in our interest, for our physical and mental health, not to disappear. Medicine is interested in it. So follow the guide! "Like the animals around us, we must have known long ago how to relieve our bodies by wetting our genitals with cold water... intelligently. The best proof is that this is still practiced, even in Europe, but modesty often prevents us from talking about it." France Guillain EAN : 9782883532854 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Essential Oils - Collective - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782900739006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Surfer's Journal No. 123 - 2017 2018 - book Summary : See photos EAN : 3781455819900 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Almost Being Shot - Céline Minard - book Summary : Inter Book Prize 2014 A breath of wind crosses the prairies of the Far West, on the outskirts of a nascent town where all trails converge. It is that of Water-running-on-the-plain, an Indian woman whose entire clan has been wiped out. She will meet brothers Brad and Jeff, crossing the wide open spaces with their dying mother. A wild fresco where the myth of the American West is revisited, a western of origins, "Faillir être flingué" is a vibrant celebration of the shifting frontiers of the imagination. Céline Minard is the author of several novels, including "Le Dernier Monde" (2007), "Bastard Battle" (2008), and "So Long, Luise" (2011). She is one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. "Faillir être flingué" received the 2014 Prix du Livre Inter. EAN : 9782743631741 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Art of Fugue - Stephen McCauley - book Summary : Patrick is in his thirties, has a job that bores him to tears, exhausting parents, and a terribly balanced lover, Arthur, with whom he has a routine relationship. When his brother Tony, about to get married, confides in him that he's in love with another woman and asks for his advice, it's an opportunity for him to question his own life. The time has come to make choices, but Patrick knows exactly how to escape the weight of responsibilities with elegance and humor... It's the art of running away! "A caustic look at the disillusioned antiheroes, a few sparks of tenderness and a corrosive humor that constantly keeps their heads above water: Stephen McCauley's second novel is a caustic and entertaining cocktail to be consumed without moderation." EAN : 9782264021755 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Antigone - Jean Anouilh - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782040160029 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Émile or On Education, Books I-II - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book Summary : Today we see Émile as a revolutionary anticipation of new methods in education. But in 1762, its publication and success lit the fuse: the way in which Rousseau denied original sin earned him condemnation from the Church. Convinced of a form of natural goodness in children, which human society had not yet perverted, Rousseau came to the idea that childhood is an essential moment in existence and that its development obeys general laws on which any good teacher should rely. The first two books of Émile deal with the two initial stages of childhood (from birth to 2 years and from 2 to 12 years), during which pedagogy is, from the outset, a very serious issue. Staging a governor and his young pupil through a theoretical narrative of infinite richness, Rousseau makes us think about the most crucial questions raised by any reflection on childhood. Dossier 1. The sources of Rousseau's educational thought 2. Émile, a compendium of Rousseauist anthropology 3. Pedagogy and childhood in the age of Enlightenment 4. Rousseauist-inspired approaches to childhood. EAN : 9782080247452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Water Ploughman - Hoda Barakat - book Summary : Like his father and grandfather, Nicolas is a well-to-do merchant in downtown Beirut, where he owns a renowned fabric store. During the civil war, the shop burned down, and he took refuge in the basement and decided to live there. Wrapped in his sumptuous silks, he remembers the two women in his life: his mother, capricious and unfaithful, and Chamsa, his Kurdish mistress, a worthy descendant of a rebellious people, a much-loved woman with whom he could have escaped his grim destiny... When it was published in Arabic in 2000, "The Water Plowman" won the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Literary Prize. EAN : 9782742744657 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Quiet Days in Belleville - Thierry Jonquet - book Summary : Belleville has remained a popular, folkloric, multicultural Parisian neighborhood where life is good. Yet, poverty increases year after year, racism is gaining ground, and insecurity is becoming tangible. A no-holds-barred account of the degradation of the so-called "social fabric," far from politically correct, insolent, and necessary. Born in 1954, Thierry Jonquet has published a dozen crime novels, including Ad vitam aeternam And They Are Your Terror and You Are Their Fear, available in Points. He is also a screenwriter and author of children's texts. "A terrible portrait that has aroused the indignation of those who believe that not all truths are worth telling. EAN : 9782020591911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Like the Shadow That Leaves - Antonio Muñoz Molina - book Summary : April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray shoots Martin Luther King. Then he flees to Lisbon, waiting for a visa to Angola. The wait drags on, as he wanders unfamiliar streets. Thirty years later, Antonio Muñoz Molina walks the city, the setting for his first novel, on the trail of the assassin. Reconstructing the past, the writer mixes his own memories with those of the world's most wanted man. Born in 1956, Antonio Muñoz Molina has received numerous literary awards including the National Prize for Literature in Spain, the Prix Femina étranger for Full moon and the Principe de Asturias Award for his lifetime achievement. He is a member of the Real Academia de Letras. “A novel of exceptional scope.” The Obs “Dizzying and unique.” The Literary Figaro EAN : 9782757868751 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wounded - Percival Everett - book Summary : For years, John Hunt, now in his forties, has chosen to turn away from the society of men by going to live on a ranch where, alongside an aging uncle, he raises horses. But the fragile Eden of these two black men in the great American West begins to crack: a young homosexual is found in the desert beaten to death, an Indian farmer discovers two of his animals brutally murdered, and the inscription "Red Negro" in letters of blood in the snow... It is in this threatening context that John questions his life choices since the tragic death of his wife, the guilty silences that cover the actions of a disturbing neo-Nazi group, the imminent end of Uncle Gus, and finally, the love that a young woman awakens in him... Favoring a writing of action that exalts the powers of the unsaid, Percival Everett offers, through a subtle denunciation of all the hatreds - racial, sexual - that wound contemporary America, a variation on the human condition, in its overwhelming vulnerability. EAN : 9782742779895 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The African Farm - Karen Blixen - book Summary : When the breath whistled past my head, it was the wind in the tall trees of the forest, not rain. When it skimmed the ground, it was the wind in the bushes and tall grass, but it was not rain. When it rustled and hissed at eye level, it was the wind in the cornfields. It possessed the sounds of rain so well that one was continually deceived, yet one listened to it with a certain pleasure, as if a long-awaited spectacle were at last appearing on the scene. And still it was not rain. But when the earth responded in unison with a deep, luxuriant, and growing roar, when the whole world sang around me in all directions, above and below me, then it was rain indeed. It was like finding the sea again after having been deprived of it for a long time, like the embrace of a lover." The work of Alain Gnaedig, one of the most eminent translators of Scandinavian languages, but also the author of a new translation of Dickens, finally restores all its brilliance to Karen Blixen's prose, by offering the French reader a faithful translation of the Danish original of The African Farm, one of the most popular titles in 20th-century literature. EAN : 9782070370375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : By the Lake - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : Written between 1937 and 1953, these unpublished texts, which have sometimes been developed into novels, never cease to surprise with their sustained beauty, their mystery, their melancholy and, always, their acute vision of a world of deceptive serenity. Whether in Au bord du lac (whose narrator, a bitter old man, refuses to acknowledge that his selfish intransigence has doomed him to solitude and his family to unhappiness), or in Les plumiers blancs (twenty years after a memorable escape, a painter finds the daughter of his first great love: could she also be his?) or even in Le cahier du moine Tchoken (in the evening of his life, an old academic undertakes to write the story of the existence of a monk whose scandalous conduct fascinated him in his youth) we find this dreamy nostalgia, this need to imagine what could have been and was not, treated in a dazzling and often disturbing manner by the great Japanese master of the short story. EAN : 9782234054721 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Giudecca Manuscript - Yvon Toussaint - book Summary : The life of Cardinal Girolamo Aleandro was a grueling cavalcade from one end of Europe to the other. A scholar and a great official of the Church, he crossed paths with an emperor, four popes, a handful of kings, and most of the humanists who illuminated the Renaissance. He was in turn rector of the Sorbonne, chancellor of the Bishop of Liège, prefect of the Vatican Library, prosecutor against Luther at the Diet of Worms, witness to the capture of Francis I in Pavia, nuncio to Venice, and, despite a stubborn case of syphilis, the fulfilled lover of a beautiful Roman woman. Yet, the great passion of his life was... Erasmus. The two men met in Venice during their younger years. Each time they met again, it was to experience the same explosion of love and hate, the irrefutable marks of which their correspondence bears. The manuscript found in the foundations of the Giudecca in Venice reveals, in a shameless and ferocious tale, the secrets of this liaison between the flamboyant prelate and the most famous philosopher of his time. A great "novel of formation": that of the European spirit. EAN : 9782253155676 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Aesthetics of the North Pole - Michel Onfray - book Summary : Since winning the Prix Médicis-essai for La sculpture de soi, Michel Onfray has continued to establish himself as one of the finest essayists of his generation. A long time ago, Michel Onfray's father, a modest man who had never left his Normandy homeland, confessed to his son that, if he could travel, he would love to discover the North Pole. Twenty years later, his son, now a famous writer, decided to make this dream come true and, last June, he took his father for three weeks to this enigmatic and almost inaccessible "pole"... He brought back a book that is at once a travelogue, a philosophy of the cold, a meditation on disappearing civilizations, on the evils of industrialization, on the wisdom of dying peoples. It is also a book of fidelity and filial piety. At the North Pole, Michel Onfray, a hedonistic philosopher, primarily questioned the nature of cultures where pleasure has no place. "Up there," "over there," everything is played out in a logic of survival. He therefore questions stone, space, sites, the repetition of gestures, the conflict between sedentary and nomadic lifestyles. Michel Onfray immersed himself in the thought of the Inuit; he learned about myths, the curious relationships that polar peoples have with nihilism and hope, and the marvelous serenity of these desperate souls. In this approach, we will therefore find (splendid) descriptions, reflections, anecdotes, and echoes of conversations with guides or seal hunters. Of course, Michel Onfray is also an ethnologist, following in the footsteps of Jean Malaurie. He uses this "pole" to reflect on his own epicurean nostalgia for the South. This is an incredibly dense, poetic, and intelligent text. A photographer accompanied Michel Onfray on this journey. He brought back striking images that will be reproduced in a photo notebook inside this book. EAN : 9782246629412 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island of Slaves - Pierre de Marivaux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782038712650 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Selected Fables - Jean de La Fontaine - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253023715 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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