Title : The Little Bastard - Mireille Pluchard - book Summary Clarisse Chardenon, a veritable little mother to her entire family, is sent to work in the Huguenot Cévennes during the silkworm season. Despite her father's warnings against "these people," she enjoys the Blanchon-Troupet estate. She meets Jean, the youngest son of the house. A romance blossoms during the silkworm-rearing season. Clarisse returns home, but she's not quite the same. On Midsummer night, she became a woman in the arms of her lover. She keeps her secret from her family, but soon her fears are confirmed: she's pregnant. Father Chardenon, furious, decides to abandon the child at the orphanage, the only place he believes a bastard can have. But he doesn't take into account the mother's immense love for her child. EAN : 9782812908699 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Chirac - A unique friendship - Alain Juppé - book Summary Alain Juppé never forgot his first meeting with Jacques Chirac, at the Hôtel de Matignon in 1976: "A physical presence that filled the entire space." In this book, in the form of a confession, begun before the former President's death, he tells the story of this unique political couple that they formed for nearly forty years. It is a hollow portrait that emerges here with truth, a touch of nostalgia and a lot of tenderness. That of a singular friendship founded on mutual respect and the shared passion to serve France, in which the former mayor of Bordeaux hides nothing of his admiration. "This empathy between a people and the man who embodies it is an alchemy that does not always lend itself to analysis because it is a surge of the heart. » Just like this tribute. Alain Juppé was born in Mont-de-Marsan in 1945. A former student of the ENS, the ENA and a financial inspector, he was Jacques Chirac's collaborator at Matignon, then his deputy at Paris City Hall for twelve years, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister, and he chaired the RPR then the UMP. Mayor of Bordeaux for more than twenty years, he is now a member of the Constitutional Council. He is the author of several books including Montesquieu the Modern (1997), The Temptation of Venice (1993) and Dictionnaire amoureux de Bordeaux (2018). EAN : 9791021043008 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Don't Run Away - Harlan Coben - book Summary SECRETS NEVER DIE. A homeless woman in Central Park. SHE'S YOUR DAUGHTER. MISSING FOR MONTHS. She runs away, she's in trouble. YOU WANT TO SAVE HER. Of course, who wouldn't help their child? But you don't know that catching her means putting her and everyone you love in danger. EAN : 9782714475374 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : No One Can Escape It - Romain Sardou - book Summary New Hampshire. Winter 2007. 24 bodies are discovered in the snowy sand of a highway construction site. 24 corpses! Shot in the heart, with no sign of a struggle. Cult sacrifice? Assisted suicide? Gigantic settling of scores? Even more incredible: no one claims them. Not a worried husband, not a frantic mother, not an office colleague contacts the police. That same evening, Frank Franklin, 29, a young literature professor, arrives for his new position at Durrisdeer College, a richly endowed university whose grounds adjoin the 24's construction site. Something quickly begins to worry him on campus. Franklin soon realizes he's been drawn into a terrifying game of deception. EAN : 9782845632905 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Manor in Turmoil - Patricia Wright - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782258008434 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Echo of Doubt - Rebecca Frayn - book Summary Who better than a mother to recognize her child? In London, Dan leaves for class like every morning. In the evening, he doesn't come home. Is this the runaway of a teenager in reaction to his stepfather? Has he been kidnapped? The investigation will provide no answers, neither in the weeks nor in the months that follow. Three years have passed. Dan's mother, Annie, still refuses to give up waiting for her son to return... when finally, she receives the long-awaited phone call. The mystery of Dan's disappearance has only just begun... EAN : 9782298042146 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dictionary of crosswords and word games - Pierre Ripert - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782743409685 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Junk - Melvin Burgess - book Summary Between a violent father and an alcoholic mother, Nico's life is intolerable. There's only one way out: escape. Escape with Gemma, his friend, who follows him as if in defiance. But what can you do, at fourteen, destitute, on the streets of a big city? The two teenagers join a squat and quickly become caught up in the spiral of drugs... The day they accept heroin, they become, without yet being aware of it, junkies. In this internationally acclaimed novel, Melvin Burgess depicts with striking realism, without complacency or moralism, the facets of a contemporary tragedy. A moving and essential read, because "it's better for young people not to hear about drugs for the first time the day someone tries to sell them." EAN : 9782070396924 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And Who's Going to Walk the Dog - Stephen McCauley - book Summary Finally a collector's item! In the heart of the wealthy city of Cambridge, a happy band of misfits drag their lives around like a ball and chain. Together, they will try to find their place in this world hostile to youth. At thirty-five, unable to get over the departure of his ex-boyfriend, Clyde feels like he's at a standstill. And neither his immature roommate nor Otis, a poor, disoriented dog, will convince him otherwise. Through wild trials and tribulations, they try as best they can to adapt to a hostile, absurd, and prodigiously familiar world. "A remarkable chronicler of morals, Stephen McCauley has the art of sublimating the most prosaic everyday life and making the wanderings of his heroes universal." Alexie Lorca, Read EAN : 9782264027566 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lies on the Couch - Irvin D. Yalom - book Summary Renowned psychoanalyst Ernest Lash is plagued by doubts: wouldn't he achieve better results by being closer to his patients? When Carol Leftman, a brilliant and attractive lawyer, enters his office, he puts his new theory into practice. Bad luck: Carol, convinced that her husband left her on the advice of said psychoanalyst, has decided to trap him... EAN : 9782757803899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 101 Anti-Nervousness Tips - Michel Jossay - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782253025979 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sagouin - François Mauriac - book Summary Dirty, stupid, and lazy. Guillou, nicknamed "the Sagouin" by his mother, is a shy and reserved child. The last heir to a family that too quickly fell from nobility to poverty, he finds peace only in reading—a rare occurrence, alas—adventure novels. While everyone considers him lost, meeting a young professor changes everything. Could the Sagouin finally be good for something? François Mauriac put the best of his art into this cruel portrayal of a decadent aristocratic family. EAN : 9782266023139 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Barber of Seville - Beaumarchais - book Summary "An old man in love claims to marry his ward tomorrow; a more skillful young lover anticipates him, and that very day makes her his wife, under the nose and in the house of the guardian. This is the basis, from which one could have made, with equal success, a tragedy, a comedy, a drama, an opera, et cetera ." This is how Beaumarchais himself presented The Barber of Seville , which in 1775 quickly triumphed and then enjoyed lasting success: Marie-Antoinette herself played the role of Rosina in 1785; two opera librettos were taken from it for Paesiello and Rossini. This is because verbal fantasy and dramatic power offer the spectator a play whose action remains suspended on a fragile link - a word or a silence that can end everything or cause everything to fail - and this is the model for comedy in the two centuries to come. EAN : 9782253037798 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Génitrix - François Mauriac - book Summary With Mathilde Cazenave dead, her mother-in-law is jubilant: she will be able to completely win back her beloved son. Félicité is wrong to rejoice too quickly, because, in the peaceful face of the young dead woman, Fernand glimpses what happiness could have been with Mathilde. Who prevented him from getting along with her, if not his mother? A selfish and spoiled old child, he then turns against this "genitrix" guilty of having pampered him too much. A temporary defeat whose phases François Mauriac analyzes with uncompromising lucidity in this harsh and poignant novel, one of his most famous works. EAN : 9782253002925 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Boarding - Christian Garcin - book Summary This is the story of Thomas, frightened by the chaos of the world, and whom the women he has loved have never managed to calm. One day, quite like all the others, he decides to leave. He then leaves Marie, with whom he lives intermittently. But this time, Thomas wants to try to find meaning in this chaos. To do this, he will need to travel through five countries, the memory of forgotten friends, the evening breeze in his hair, the real or imagined presence of former mistresses, a bartender who translates poetry, a few songs, a fair amount of alcohol, a train named "Franz Kafka," a café in the shadow of two towers, glimpses of ghosts, and dreams of murders, rats, caimans, wolf-men, unmade beds, and a few guardian figures. The polyphonic narrative alternates Thomas's wanderings with his own monologues and chapters in which the women of his past intervene. The lively language and the sharp criticism of our times give this fragmented portrait its funny and acid colors. EAN : 9782070320370 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Murderous Gentleness - Dorner Françoise - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744198205 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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