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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Title : The Time of Our Singing - Richard Powers - book in English Attention book in English Summary See photos EAN : 9780312422189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Der Hirte - Ingar Johnsrud - book in German Attention book in German Summary See photos EAN : 9783764505875 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Die französische Braut - Clare Clark - book in German Attention book in German Summary See photos EAN : 9783453435995 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie wa - oachim Meyerhoff - book in German Attention book in German Summary See photos EAN : 9783462046816 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Scheißkerle - Warum es immer die Falschen sind - Roman Maria Koidl - book in German Attention book in German Summary See photos EAN : 9783442172467 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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