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 : 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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Title : Before It's Too Late - Barbara d'Amato - book Summary In May 2001, Barbara d'Amato was awarded the Mary Higgins Clark Prize by the Empress of the Thriller, thus making her heir apparent to an author already familiar with bestsellers in the United States. This novel is the first installment in the famous investigations of its heroine: Susannah Figueroa. Twenty-five years old, half-Cuban, half-Irish, Susannah Figueroa, a charming cop, usually operates in the underworld of Chicago. Inspector Delgado, on the other hand, specializes in white-collar crime, tax fraud, and all kinds of scams. But the body of a colleague fished out of Lake Michigan and a series of murders disguised as accidents will propel these two police officers into a whole other world. Their mission? Stop as quickly as possible an all-powerful tycoon who uses computer hacking as a deadly weapon... BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE: a thrilling novel, paced at a diabolically fast pace, where we realize that the quest for absolute power is now within everyone's reach. EAN : 9782840987475 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The First Wife - Françoise Chandernagor - book Summary "Divorce or separation?" When her husband uttered this little phrase in a low voice, Catherine wondered if she had heard correctly. "Divorce or separation"? How could she imagine that after twenty-five years of marriage, Francis left her no other choice? If he had never promised to be faithful (they were "modern," weren't they?), hadn't he sworn to her that she was the chosen one, the soul mate, that she would forever be the favorite—his "first wife"? They were a real couple; with their four children, a real family. They laughed together at Francis's flings, since he always came back to her and she always forgave. From whims to adventures, from adventures to affairs, and from affairs to bigamy, over the years the first wife accepted everything. When, at the age of maturity, she had to give way to a "young conquest," it wasn't a man she lost, but two-thirds of her past. From one day to the next, she is a "widow," worse than a widow, because it is a living being that she mourns, a living being who - throughout a painful breakup, a slow divorce, three years of winter and ice - will not let himself be forgotten... In this novel in which she lends her pen to the abandoned lover, Françoise Chandernagor speaks to us of marital passion and romantic failure with a restrained lyricism, a poignant emotion that is underlined by a sober and incisive style. By changing era and tone, the author of L'Allée du Roi and L'Enfant des Lumières retains this lucidity, this art of analysis, which have already transported thousands of readers. EAN : 9782877063333 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Your 30 Itineraries in the Basque Country - MACIA Pierre - book Summary Walking is the surest way to access reality. Of oneself, of others, of countries. The 30 itineraries proposed and described in this book are all colored by the love of an author for a space designated as a true hiking paradise. These routes are not a matter for specialists: it is for each of us here and now, in the evidence of the step followed by another step, in the intimate discovery of a territory - much more than a setting -, in the simple happiness of being there. A veil lifted on the visible, a time that, certainly, can be measured, but which also expands in the satisfaction of an accomplishment at the height of a man or a woman. This volume is set in five of the seven historic provinces of the Basque Country (Labourd, Lower Navarre, Soule, Guiptizcoa and Navarre), with two incursions into the south of the Landes and two others into the neighboring Béarnais. The shortest of these routes (3h30 and 4h00) lead to the Pic d'Orhy or around Navarrenx, to the Adour estuary or in the Jara loop. The longest are called: grand circuit d'Occabé (6h30 and 1300 m of ascent), Artzamendi from the Pas de Roland (6h30 and 1000 m), Haltzamendi from Ossès (6h00) or coastal path from Guéthary to Hendaye (6h00). You will still find significant differences in altitude at the Ehujarré canyon (1200 m), at the Pic de Petrexema (1050 m). All between the Ocean and the dried-up causses of Arbailles or Pierre-Saint-Martin, between the barthes of the Adour and the majestic sunset of San Sebastian. EAN : 9782841823413 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girls' Dictionary 2008 - Marie Clerc - book Summary Another exceptional vintage! The 2008 Girls' Dictionary is: -new texts: the 200 words of the girls' lives have been completely rewritten, adapted, updated... -47 new words, such as Blog, City, Concert, Declaration of love, Move, Women, Gothic, Mag, Perfume, Skin, People, Prostitution, Break up, TV series, Sales, Star, Download, Reality TV... - a new, even more feminine and trendy graphic design: new illustrations, new photos and a completely renovated layout! -the 2008 special magazine: 80 pages with fashion previews, news and girls' lives, good deals... -the first 24 pages of the girls' first comic book exclusively! EAN : 9782215046554 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Feast of the Empire - Angelo Rinaldi - book Summary Back on his island, the narrator visits the "Café de l'Empire" for the last time, which his mother has just sold. It is then that a flood of memories and images is born. The day that "l'Empire" closes contains several destinies. The past and the present alternate, revealing a humanity without grandeur, but not without madness. And above all, there is the mother, in her solitary old age, from whom the son takes leave, without suspecting that with those we love, the banal goodbye is sometimes a farewell. EAN : 9782070231799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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