Title : Mémé - Philippe Torreton - book Summary This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. EAN : 9782913366619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Who Loved Dogs - Leonardo Padura - book Summary The Destructive Power of Lies In 2004, after the death of his wife, Iván, a budding writer and manager of a miserable veterinary practice in Havana, recalls his encounter in 1977 with a mysterious man who was walking on the beach with two borzoi greyhounds. After a few conversations, the "man who loved dogs" confides in him about Trotsky's assassin, Ramón Mercader, whom he seems to know intimately. Through these confidences, Iván reconstructs the trajectories of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, also known as Trotsky, and Ramón Mercader, also known as Jacques Mornard, and how they became victim and executioner of one of the most revealing crimes of the 20th century. He follows these two itineraries, starting from the exile of one and the childhood of the other, and their meeting in Mexico City. These two stories take on their full meaning when the Cuban projects his private and intellectual adventures into contemporary Cuba. Leonardo Padura, in a powerful writing style, tells, through ambiguous and convincing characters, the story of the consequences of ideological lies and their destructive force on the most important utopia of the 20th century and its current repercussions in the lives of individuals, particularly in Cuba. EAN : 9782864249009 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journeys into Absurdity - Stéphane de Groodt - book Summary Stéphane De Groodt offers a collection of his best columns. In a very offbeat tone, he plays with words with a self-proclaimed absurdity and follows in the footsteps of Raymond Devos. A humorist with a growing reputation, this collection is his first published work. "You may know, yes, well I say what I want... and if you don't know I'll tell you anyway, because forewarned is forearmed and forearmed is forearmed, but these chronicles, from Latin chronicum and Franco-Greek chroNikos, will have allowed me to lead my pen to London of my own accord, to the six sides of the Hexagon, to the highest peaks of the depths, in the most remote, advanced, seated, standing, lying regions of the four corners of the world for encounters as sure as they are realistic, as curious as they are laughing. With a single keystroke on my spiral keyboard I met Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah and the cat, saw Régine dance the girdle twist, transported myself from Obama's shack to Silvio's jacuzzi, embedded myself in Fidel, entered the queen, made Delon walk wide, struggled with Jean-Marine, and left Mitt on the ground... " EAN : 9782259222464 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confession in the Hills - Angelo Rinaldi - book Summary During Holy Week, two secular pilgrimages plunge the narrator back into his past, without restraint. In Paris, in front of a vacant lot where a hotel once stood, near the Buttes-Chaumont, this solitary rediscovers "the awakenings in the alcove of Lardennois, the mad laughter of Maleterre, the songs of Teddy, the cackling of Éliane de Lassonne, a sleeping cat, a prunus in the sun and the fleece of a woman's sex like a stuffed object under the hand". The second pilgrimage, more dangerous, and surely guilty, brings him back to his native country. In his luggage, a briefcase with mysterious contents. This bad boy will redeem himself there, however. Not as he had intended for a moment, by carrying the cross of Christ in the Good Friday procession, but by procuring a sinner for his old regimental comrade, Restitude, who looks after goats in the bush, at the end of the world. The renewal of the mystery of the Passion, the intertwining of destinies, a faceless fear, the syncopes and surprises of memory, by the virtue of writing, will never cease to surprise. EAN : 9782070721290 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Orphans of Evil - Nicolas D'Estienne D'Orve - book Summary 1995, in Germany. Four men are found dead. Naked, with a broken cyanide vial in their mouths, their right hand severed. All were born in a "Lebensborn," the human stud farms where the SS bred Aryan babies to "purify the race." The authorities cover up the affair. Paris, 2005. A young journalist, Anaïs, is contacted by a strange character, Vidkun Venner, a wealthy Norwegian collector who has received four mummified right hands in a briefcase. He would like Anaïs to help him discover what lies behind this macabre package. But very quickly, archive files are stolen, witnesses refuse to speak, others... disappear. Anaïs begins to doubt: did everything really stop at the end of the war? A virtuoso and gripping thriller. EAN : 9782298010183 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Promise - Sorj Chalandon - book Summary We are in Mayenne, a house on the edge of a village. In this house, here are Etienne and Fauvette, an old couple who have never stopped loving each other. The house is silent. The shutters are closed and the door is closed. Night and day, however, seven of them cross the threshold. Seven friends, one after the other, from Sunday to Monday, each in turn and each with their own task. There is the boatswain, a former sailor who runs the village bar, there is Madeleine who, every week, decorates the house with flowers, there is Berthevin who turns all the lights on and off, there is the teacher who recites poems aloud, there is Ivan, the former railwayman, who opens the windows, there is Léo who crosses the village on his bicycle, and then finally Paradis, who winds the small clock. In the attic, like a sentinel, an old lamp watches over the ceremony. This is the story of a promise. The promise made to Etienne and Fauvette. A childhood promise, kept by seven friends, to thwart the greatest of perils. These men swore to cheat death. And then one day, they gave up. They stopped visiting the old house. Because time passed. Because of weariness. Because in the attic, the night light waited for two souls to give in to it. This is the story of a brotherhood. EAN : 9782246711711 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Frenchman of Roseville - Ahmed Tiab - book Summary Oran, Algeria. Commissioner Kémal Fadil is called to a renovation site in the Marine district, where human remains have just been found, likely dating back to the 1960s. It appears to be that of a child wearing a crucifix around his neck. The investigation isn't going to be easy, is it?! In reality, it had been started much earlier, led by French police officers... Fifty years later, the historical truth is still just as complicated to tell. Ahmed Tiab offers us an immersion in Algeria before independence, but also in Oran today, and will lead his investigator to Marseille. This series is a great discovery, effective and promising. EAN : 9782815913577 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Laughter Brigade - Gérard Mordillat - book Summary There's Kowalski, known as Kol, born angry. Betty, fired from the printing house where she worked. Dylan, an English teacher and poet. The twins Dorith and Muriel, for whom life is a permanent party. Wolf Child, a runner and fighter. Suzana, a psychiatric nurse. Rousseau, a handsome economics teacher. Hurel, an industrialist, a reader of Marx and Kropotkin. Isaac the redhead, a film distributor, and Victoria, whom no one expected... Formed into a "Laughter Brigade", for fun, they kidnap Pierre Ramut, the star editorialist of French values, and, in a bunker converted into a workshop, they install him in front of a drill press. Forced to work according to what he prescribes in his weekly papers - 48-hour week, salary 20% below the minimum wage, maximum productivity, Sunday work - Ramut will now know what he's talking about... In a great tragicomic fresco, faithful to its universe - Long live the social, The Living and the Dead - Gérard Mordillat talks about today's world, its injustices, its struggles, and those who refuse to submit and take revenge with a great burst of laughter. EAN : 9782226318084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This country that resembles you - Tobie Nathan - book Summary It is in the Jewish ghetto of Cairo that Zohar the rebellious is born, against all odds, to a flamboyant young mother and a blind father. And now his foster sister, Masreya, born from the mire of the Delta, a dancer with the wiles of an enchantress, leads him to the gates of power. Here also are the beggars and the proud, the rogues and the gossips of the alley, the poor and the wealthy, the little people who go about rolling, shouting, rebelling, hoping and suffering. This saga, in the colors of the ancient sun, tells everything about Egypt: the rise and fall of King Farouk, the last pharaoh, a despot with the appearance of a charming prince, adored by his people and paralyzed by neuroses. Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power in 1952 and the expulsion of the Jews. The Islamization of Egypt under the pressure of the Muslim Brotherhood, the first eruption of a volcano that never stops roaring... It is the fall of the ancient world, which wrapped magic and spells in the clothes of Hollywood. The birth of a modern world, caught between gods and devils. EAN : 9782234078222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What Does It All Mean? A Very Brief Introduction to Philosophy - Thomas Nagel - book Summary An introduction to philosophy must be philosophical. It can also renew the genre. Thomas Nagel believes that there is no better way to learn something about philosophy than to focus on the questions: "Before learning a bunch of philosophical theories, it is better," he says, "to have been intrigued by the questions to which these theories attempt to find an answer." From knowledge of the world outside our minds to the question of the meaning of life, he examines, in this capacity, nine problems, with the legitimate concern of leaving them open, but without refusing to say what he thinks about them. With a remarkable economy of means, Thomas Nagel shows here that the presumed obscurity surrounding "philosophical problems" can easily be resolved in the clarity of a presentation whose rigor and conciseness are combined here with originality. EAN : 9782905372796 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski - Edgar Hilsenrath - book Summary An ideal novel for discovering or rediscovering Edgar Hilsenrath, a sensitive and intimate look at a little-known historical period. Torn from the carefree, playful spirit of childhood by Nazi terror, young Ruben Jablonski finds himself in a desperate situation at the end of World War II. Freed from a ghetto, separated from his family, and in search of a new destiny, he embarks on an epic journey that takes him from Romania to the United States, via Ukraine, Turkey, Palestine, and France... Childhood memories, humanity surviving horror, and a love of literature as a guiding compass give The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski a rare power and humor. Edgar Hilsenrath wrote this novel in 1997—well after the other books that had already brought him international fame—and it provides a moving synthesis of the fifteen years that saw his life change dramatically. EAN : 9782370551375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memory of Abraham - Marek Halter - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782724219913 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tony Hogan bought me an ice cream soda before he stole my mom - Kerry Hudson - book Summary The opening line sets the tone: little Janie Ryan is welcomed into the world with a barrage of insults from her laboring mother, Iris. Thrust into the midst of screaming, cigarette smoke, alcohol fumes, and a whole lot of love, Janie is the youngest child in a highly dysfunctional family. In a striking and original language, between laughter and tears, she goes back to her early days to tell us about her Scottish childhood between shelters, shabby council housing and dubious bed and breakfasts. Alcohol, drugs, difficult ends of the month and passing stepfathers: everything comes together to make her task difficult. But, full of verve and ready to face life, Janie is an irresistible heroine who, at sixteen, will find the courage and determination to build the life that corresponds to her expectations. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Soda Before He Stabbed My Mom may sound grim, but like Janie, the novel is hair-raising and brilliant. It's an intimate and authentic story about mothers, daughters, and what it means to grow up relying only on yourself. Kerry Hudson is a modern and original voice, who manages the feat of being both funny and sad, sarcastic and empathetic, but without ever being maudlin. EAN : 9782848763767 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Boris after love - Yann Queffélec - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744165290 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marie des brebis - Signol Christian - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782724260120 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Idealist - John Grisham - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782744109515 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sacred Night - Tahar Ben Jelloun - book Summary Goncourt Prize 1987 “Remember! I was a child with a troubled and vacillating identity. I was a daughter masked by the will of a father who felt diminished, humiliated because he had not had a son. As you know, I was the son he dreamed of. The rest, some of you know; others have heard snatches here and there. Those who have ventured to tell the life of this child of sand and wind have had some trouble: some have been struck with amnesia; others have almost lost their souls. You have been told stories. They are not really mine. Even locked up and isolated, the news reached me. I was neither surprised nor troubled. I knew that by disappearing I was leaving behind me enough to fuel the most extravagant tales. But, as my life is not a tale, I wanted to re-establish the facts and deliver to you the secret kept under a black stone in a house with high walls at the end of an alley closed by seven doors. Ahmed, "the sand child," has grown up. He (or she) has aged and is now speaking. In this In Sacred Night, Tahar Ben Jelloun perhaps provides the key to one of his most disturbing novels of recent years. The Sand Child had been critically acclaimed and read by tens of thousands of readers. EAN : 9782020097161 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bagatelle - Maurice Denuzière - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782724210460 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beautiful galleys - Patrick Cauvin - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782738207876 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Orphans' House - Helen Dunmore - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782298016024 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Princess of Lamballe - Decker Michel - book Summary A cousin of the kings of Sardinia, sadly married to a prince of debauchery, the Princess of Lamballe fell under the spell of Marie-Antoinette as soon as she arrived at Versailles. And vice versa. But the latter gradually became impulsive and fickle, while the princess desired an exclusive friendship. She fell ill and distanced herself from the court. It took the Revolution and its horrors for the queen to discover that her former friend, unlike so many others who abandoned her, remained loyal to her to the point of allowing herself to be assassinated. Guillotined, her head was hoisted on a pike and paraded beneath the windows of the sovereign, imprisoned in the Temple. Michel de Decker explored numerous boxes of archives, never before dusted, to bring to life this woman, overwhelming in her loyalty, sincerity, and love. EAN : 9782262001568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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