Title : Anatomy of Stupor - Ann Patchett - book Summary Marina Singh, a researcher at a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson. She appears to have vanished into the Amazon jungle while working on a potentially revolutionary new drug: a pill that would extend fertility by several years. No one knows where Dr. Swenson is, and Marina's lab colleague, who was sent there before her, died under mysterious circumstances before completing his mission. Consumed by anxiety, Marina embarks on this odyssey into an insect-infested jungle, hoping to find her former professor and answer the troubling questions surrounding her friend's disappearance, the future of her company, and her own past. A subtle initiatory quest punctuated by poisoned arrows and voracious snakes, Anatomy of Stupor confronts the beauty of the unexpected with the intensity of loss. EAN : 9782330117030 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beating Heart of the World - Sébastien Spitzer - book Summary In the 1860s, London, the heart of the world's most powerful empire, gorges itself on the weak. Its streets reek of poverty, insurrection, and opium. In the city's suburbs, a bastard is taken in by Charlotte, an Irish woman fleeing famine. Out of love for him, she steals, lies, and prostitutes herself without ever revealing the mystery of his birth. The illegitimate child is the hidden son of a famous man pursued by all the police forces of Europe. His name is Freddy, and his father is Karl Marx. While Marx merely theorizes about revolution in books, Freddy takes up arms with the oppressed in Ireland. With The Beating Heart of the World, Sébastien Spitzer takes the pulse of an era where the all-powerful nature of money is destroying people, friendships, and the hope for better days. EAN : 9782253079774 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Massoud the Afghan - Christophe de Ponfilly - book Summary Our calendar shows the date September 9, 2001. In Paris, France, it's just another Sunday. In New York, it's almost time for the hurried crowds walking between blocks of flats as if through corridors. From a distance, the twin towers of the World Trade Center stand out against an increasingly bright dawn. Farther away, much farther away, in a country that hasn't interested many people, this day will be the day of a drama that will become the first act of a terrible tragedy. Christophe de Ponfilly spent a long time working with Commander Massoud, a charismatic figure in the Afghan resistance against the Soviets. Since the Taliban's arrival on the scene, Massoud had abandoned Kabul and retreated to his stronghold in Panjshir. Through the sensitivity of a writer-reporter, a singular portrait of a fighter the West failed to listen to gradually emerges. EAN : 9782070424689 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In God's Country - Douglas Kennedy - book Summary Recent political events in the United States are a constant reminder of the considerable influence that religion—particularly Christian fundamentalists—plays in the public life of this country. Douglas Kennedy foresaw this development. Driven by a desire to understand, he set out to discover the southern states of the country—known as the "Bible Belt"—and their inhabitants, these men and women driven by an unshakeable faith. A former mobster, young rockers, a miracle-working priest, and a ruthless businesswoman are just some of the unusual characters he encountered, who, under his incisive pen, compose a gallery of portraits as fascinating as they are disturbing. EAN : 9782266154642 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flames of Liberty - Georges Coulonges - book Summary In occupied France, the Resistance has organized itself. Dédé Lassale and his friends are part of it. One night, they are preparing to receive a parachute drop of weapons from London. But the Germans capture the head of the network, Hervé Garin-Millaud, and find at his home the list of his 120 group leaders, who are immediately arrested. The head of the Gestapo offers him a deal: "You give us the weapons and I free your 120 comrades." Hervé accepts. The Resistance then divided into two camps: those who accused Garin-Millaud of treason and those who defended him. The flames of freedom would burn many people before lighting up the skies of France in 1944. EAN : 9782266080941 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Praise for the First Time - Vincent Wackenheim - book Summary "The very first time an old friend of your father's gets close to you in the kitchen, demand a large sum of money without delay, failing which you would be sadly obliged to denounce him both to his wife and to your own mother. Once the sum is spent, nothing prevents you from seeing your father's old friend again quite closely, and not only in the kitchen, because then things between you will be clear. If the game is worth the candle, ruin him slowly, taking care not to let the fat burn." EAN : 9782070438815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Substitute - Agnès Desarthe - book Summary Bouz, Boris, Baruch is a fake grandfather, just a substitute. My real grandfather died at Auschwitz in 1942. Triple B survived. He is a simple and gentle man, almost ordinary. His only merit is that he loves life and tells stories. But today he is too old: it is up to me to tell my grandpa's story. Born in Paris in 1966, Agnès Desarthe has written numerous novels. Among them, Good Intentions, A few minutes of absolute happiness, A secret of no importance And Eat me are available in Points. "The humble vigor of this man, his talent as a storyteller, his humor, his banality too, make him a metaphor of a beauty that makes you cry and laugh." The Literary Magazine EAN : 9782757819432 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : God, Business and Us - Chronicle of Half a Century - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary A committed observer, Jean d'Ormesson has never ceased to be fascinated by the spectacle of politics, the battle of ideas, and the march of the world. A literary work in its own right, this chronicle, punctuated by portraits, reports, commentaries, and positions, bears witness to his constant presence in the great debates of our time and to the lucid and passionate view he casts on his contemporaries. This journey of a man of loyalty and hope enlightens us at every step on the challenges of the present. "The feeling of taking a galloping journey through time and the reinforced conviction that what matters in travel is not the destination but the companion." Le Point "It reads like a brilliant, touching, and funny historical tale." Les Échos EAN : 9782266268387 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thérèse Raquin - Emile Zola - book Summary I wanted to study temperaments and not characters. I chose characters supremely dominated by their nerves and their blood, devoid of free will, driven to every act of their life by the fatalities of their flesh: Thérèse and Laurent are human brutes, nothing more. [...] In a word, I had only one desire: given a powerful man and an unfulfilled woman, to seek the beast in them, to see only the beast, to throw them into a violent drama, and to scrupulously note the sensations and actions of these beings. I simply did on two living bodies the analytical work that surgeons do on cadavers. Zola, Preface to the 2nd edition of Thérèse Raquin. What dazzles us today in Thérèse Raquin is Zola the poet and visionary, director of reality and painter of the souls of the night. [...] What force in the description of these beings walled up within themselves, defeated by obscure powers they cannot name, already ransomed by the death that awaits them! And what brilliant dramatic invention throughout this descent into hell, breathless, convulsive, wild! Robert Abirached Full text EAN : 9782253010074 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pigs in Paradise - Barbara Kingsolver - book Summary When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident near a dam, her insistence on telling what she saw and her mother's trust in her save a man and make her... a TV star. This fame will force Turtle and her mother, Taylor, to flee. Kentucky, Oklahoma, all the way to Las Vegas. Past and future intertwine for the adopted Cherokee girl. Her grandmother, Alice, already present in The Bean Tree, will have an indispensable and warm place there, as will Jax, Taylor's friend, and Cash, the Cherokee Indian who will provide the key to the mystery of Turtle's birth. The reader is drawn into a world of sometimes painful love where the idea of ​​family is undermined. Where is the truth and where is the falsehood in family ties? the author seems to ask with relentless humor. EAN : 9782743603441 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut - Abbé Prévost - book Summary At the age of seventeen, he was about to leave Amiens, where he was completing his philosophy studies. Des Grieux saw the Arras coach arrive. A young girl got off, so charming that he approached her to question her: her parents were sending her to become a nun, and she knew she would be unhappy. Determined to free her from the tyranny of her parents, he put her up in an inn whose owner was devoted to him, and the next day, at daybreak, the two of them left for Paris. When it tragically ended, des Grieux recounted his tumultuous affair with Manon to the Marquis de Renoncour, who reported it in his Memoirs that Prévost published in May 1731. It is thus the very voice of the knight that we hear, it is the emotion that he feels in recounting and reliving what he has experienced that touches us - and his words sound so true that we could believe that Manon and des Grieux had really existed, or that Abbé Prévost was transposing a moment from his own life. But the poignant realism of this tale filled with suffering, of this story where pleasure is lived, bought, and leads to death, is only due to the dazzling art of the author. Professor Emeritus at the University of Tours and former member of the University Institute of France, Jean Goulemot recently published Adieu les philosophes. Que reste-t-il des Lumières? (Seuil, 2001). He also provided Livre de Poche with an edition of Diderot's Paradox on the Actor and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse. EAN : 9782253081036 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thugs and Gentlemen - A History of Rugby - Jean Lacouture - book Summary Born in England, in the rain and on the pitch of Rugby College, this "rogue game played by gentlemen" crossed the Channel to establish itself - thanks to a few British emigrants - in Le Havre, Paris, then Bordeaux, before conquering what would become its stronghold, Occitanie. But the oval ball followed a very surprising trajectory, described by Jean Lacouture: New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Japan, Romania, Fiji... So many countries, so many styles. In 1987, after half a century of the Five Nations Tournament, international competition finally opened up to rugby players from the antipodes with the creation of the World Cup. In an age of sponsors and ratings, what should we fear - or hope for - for this noble sport, proud of its lands, jealous of its folklore and nostalgic for its amateurism? EAN : 9782070531394 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Daughters and their Mothers - Aldo Naouri - book Summary Between daughters and their mothers circulates a violence that is all the more terrifying because it is often ignored. Yet, not only does it condition the nature and future of their bonds, but it invades the emotional world of all women. It reflects the power that, beyond the years, all mothers retain over their daughters, thus influencing their relationships with their partners as well as with their children, weighing on their entire history. Maternal love has its downside: the temptation to seek the ideal double for mothers; violence and pressure for daughters, prevented from being themselves... Aldo Naouri delivers, step by step, his reflections and experiences as a practitioner open to psychoanalysis, in a personal and sensitive tone. "Mothers are all-powerful. Children do not always recover." La Vie. "I saw women around me immerse themselves in this book and resurface with the expression of a child who has just come back to life." Alain Sarton, Le Journal des psychologues. EAN : 9782738107961 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Investigation in the Snow - Michael Malone - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782020164832 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disgrace - Nicole Avril - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782226010810  Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Life in Spite of Everything - Macdonald Sara - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782298022711 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Call of the Lake - Carol Goodman - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744181849 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Night Is My Kingdom - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744179075 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cathars. The Counter-Investigation - Brenon Anne - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782286043995 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prince Who Searched for Love - Christian Oster - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782211058896 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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