Title: The Enigma of the Park - Martha Grimes - book Summary : One Saturday night in London, Chief Superintendent Jury sees a woman coming out of a pub and turning up the collar of her fur coat. She attracts him like a magnet; he can't help but follow her... Twelve hours later, the body of a young woman matching the description of the unknown woman is found in a park. Richard Jury is then forced to explain the chain of circumstances that led him to witness the victim's last actions. But once at the morgue, he discovers that the fur coat in question is being worn by a woman who bears no resemblance to the one he had followed the day before. With the help of his old friend Melrose Plant, Jury sets out on the hunt, determined to uncover the key to the mystery. EAN: 9782266112918 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Salisbury Affair - Martha Grimes - book Summary : An old woman collapses in Exeter Cathedral while examining one of the famous petit point medallions that are the pride of the locals. A woman's corpse is found in Salisbury. And in London, another woman dies of presumed natural causes. But there are no natural causes in the world where Chief Superintendent Jury of Scotland Yard operates. Is there a connection between these three deaths? Of course. Jury is convinced that the city of Santa Fe, on the other side of the Atlantic, is the link between the three women. And he entrusts his friend Melrose Plant, an aristocrat and amateur detective, with continuing the investigation in London while he leaves for the United States. There, he will discover an astonishing imbroglio involving greed, murder, and gratuitous violence. EAN: 9782266145589 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: An Ordinary Execution - Marc Dugain - book Summary : In August 2000, a Russian nuclear submarine sank into the accessible depths of the Barents Sea. Vania Altman is believed to be one of the last survivors. In a port in the Arctic Circle, the Altman family holds its breath: they risk once again colliding with history. Half a century after Stalin's death, a former KGB officer now rules Russia. After taking us behind the scenes at the FBI with The Curse of Edgar, Marc Dugain offers here a true fresco of contemporary Russia. Inspired by true events, it reveals the profound contempt for life displayed by the paranoid guardians of the Russian empire. EAN: 9782072742088 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Rameau's Nephew - Denis Diderot - book Summary : No one has taken the brilliant mastery of dialogue further than Diderot, and it is the virtuosity of this speech that we find in each of the pages gathered here: Le Neveu de Rameau , Satire seconde , attacks all the powerful of the moment, financiers as well as adversaries of the Encyclopédie ; Satire première multiplies anecdotes and free reflections in the manner of ancient satirists. As for the Entretien d'un père avec ses enfants and the Entretien d'un philosophe avec la maréchale de ***, they revolve around a fairly well-defined theme: the first evokes the danger of putting oneself above the law, and the second makes heard, in counterpoint to the conversation with the devout marshal de Broglie, something of Diderot's conversations with Tsarina Catherine II. Despite their diversity, all these texts respond to each other. But at the same time they are turned towards the reader, a reader too seduced by the philosopher not to understand the father's indulgence towards his rebellious son: "I would not be too angry if there were one or two citizens like you in the city; but I would not live there if they all thought the same." Edition established by Pierre Chartier EAN: 9782253160748 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Cantos of Hyperion, Volume 2 - Hyperion 2 - Dan Simmons - book Summary : On Hyperion, Father Hoyt found his cruciform. He carries it imprinted in his flesh forever. On Hyperion, Colonel Kassad met the beautiful Moneta, bristling with spikes. He saw the impaled Extros, the universal war, the death of all worlds. He has a score to settle with the Shrike. On Hyperion, the poet Silenus was one of King Billy the Sad's companions. He sang for him the bitter triumph of a usurping god. Put some wood in the hearth, Mother, the Shrike is coming to see us tonight. The subject of the poem is the end of humanity, it must be written to the end. However, the elders of Hyperion are back, they are arriving at the Sea of ​​Tall Grass, they will soon reach the Tombs of Time which, it is said, drift from the future to the past. How can we believe it? But the tombs will open and the mystery will dissipate. Hear ye, good people, death has something to tell you! EAN: 9782266064774 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : "Mr. Rikyu has witnessed the death of many samurai... How many of them have tasted the tea prepared by Mr. Rikyu before going to meet their death on the battlefield? When you have witnessed the death of so many warriors, you cannot afford to die in your bed!" No, Mr. Rikyu (1522-1591), a great tea master from Zen Buddhism, did not die in his bed! He committed hara-kiri at the age of 69. Why did he kill himself? An old monk, his disciple, tries to elucidate the mystery of this suicide. This investigative book takes us to Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At that time, the tea ceremony was a serious act, a ritual that demonstrated a formidable commitment, imbued with ethical and political demands, and sometimes a pretext for secret negotiations. The Tea Master is therefore quite naturally a novel of initiation, of meditation, lyrical and sensual at the same time. Through the historical figure of Rikyu, Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991) paints the portrait of a generation haunted by death. Strange to think that he wrote his last story and undoubtedly his masterpiece, published in 1991, the very year of his death! EAN: 9782253933243 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Miracle in Miami - Zoé Valdés - book Summary : While the beautiful Iris Arcane has taken refuge in the ice sanctuary, a wonderful rumor spreads about the imminence of a great miracle in Miami... She is still only a child of Havana when Abomino Dégeu, a poor photographer, notices Iris Arcane outside school and brutally takes her away from her family. Having become a famous model in just a few years, she finally frees herself from this evil genius and the artifices of fashion to pursue the perfect love with the American billionaire Saul Dressler. But evil waves, witchcraft, omens, visions, threaten her new happiness. Revenge of her former Pygmalion, murderous jealousy of False Universe, silicone mystifier who dreams of ousting her rival, or is it these dark forces that the visionary detective Tendron Mesurat has always fought? And where does this mysterious incandescence come from that consumes Iris Arcane and threatens to bury Miami in ashes? From suspense to melodrama, from tragicomedy to... baseball, Zoé Valdés plays with genres and conventions to achieve this carnivalesque apotheosis of the Cuban soul, in the nostalgia of exile and the radiant exuberance of her imagination. EAN: 9782070313570 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Secret Wife Star 10 - Mary Lynn Baxter - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782280177368 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Strange Creature - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253040910 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Wild Grass - Jane Hamilton - book Summary : Honey Creek, in the far north of Illinois, is a small rural town where life flows by uneventfully. Except for Lucy... She was only ten years old in 1940 when her father left the family home and abandoned her in the hands of a mother who only had eyes for her son, Matt, and made Lucy her punching bag, constantly reminding her of her "difference." Lucy was indeed a lonely and misunderstood child, for whom nature was a constant source of wonder. As a young woman, Lucy retains this innocence. She will be seduced by Ruby, a good-for-nothing who will end up behind bars... Alone with her son, Lucy seems at the end of her rope. But, supported by her aunt Sid, she will experience a destiny that nothing could have predicted. EAN: 9782352871378 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Castle of Lake Tchou-An - Frédéric Lenormand - book Summary : In the year 668, surprised by a spectacular flood, Judge Ti takes refuge in a provincial inn. The next day, one of the guests is murdered. Other corpses soon float on the waters of an ever-more threatening flood. Accompanied by his faithful Hong, Ti follows the trail of a splendid castle with strange and disturbing occupants. What secret are they protecting so fiercely? EAN: 9782757800485 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Gold - Blaise Cendrars - book Summary : "The West. Mysterious word. What is the West? [...] There are Indian tales that speak of an enchanted land, of cities of gold, of women with only one breast. Even the trappers who come down from the north with their load of furs have heard in their high latitude of these marvelous western countries where, they say, the fruits are of gold and silver." EAN: 9782070363315 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: 37°2 Le Matin - Philippe Djian - book Summary : “Betty was lying on the bed. She was fully dressed, her back to me. [...] Holy shit, I said to myself deep down as I watched her breathe. The silence was like glitter falling on a layer of glue. We still hadn't exchanged a word.” Betty entered his life, suitcase in hand, one morning, and she was the most beautiful. For her, he was the greatest writer of his generation. Betty has life demands that the writer without a publisher tries to meet. Without respite, they embark on a story that refuses all mediocrity. Yet the struggles keep coming, as if there are people who don't have happiness easily. So, you have to tear it from life, this happiness, to the point of damaging your nails, by being on edge. EAN: 9782290308035 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: People of the Sky - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - book Summary : Two children have a life-changing experience: Petite Croix, a young blind woman in search of the color blue, discovers the beauty of the world during an astonishing inner journey, while Gaspar, raised in a city, is revealed the freedom of nomadism... Unusual stories where children are magicians who take us to the other side of the mirror. EAN: 9782070426768 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Bank Closes at Noon - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782702411742 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: But who is this person lying in bed next to me? - Alec Steiner - book Summary : Brice believes that bad taste deserves terrible punishment. François-Xavier has a weakness for young provincials. Denis is definitely a has-been. Sacha "hunts" in the sauna. Claude dreams of a sham wedding. Christian writes romantic novels. Bijou is over thirty, but swears she's seventeen. They love each other, they hate each other. What they have in common: they're gay, a little crazy, and funny! EAN: 9782757803974 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: A Simple and Honest Woman - Robert Goolrick - book Summary : Wisconsin, 1907. Ralph Truitt waits feverishly on the train platform. In his hand, a photograph of a woman. Despite his 54 years and his fortune, the businessman is as troubled as a teenager. After 20 years of widowhood, he has finally decided to remarry. And Catherine Land has answered his ad. A simple and honest woman, much younger than him, who has come to live in this small country town. But an exchange of letters can conceal many secrets. When she gets off the train, Truitt discovers that she is not the woman in the photograph. What is the value of a relationship that begins with a lie? EAN: 9782266202190 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Secret Alliance - Merline Lovelace - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782280106306 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Nun and the Robber - Frédérique Deghelt - book Summary : As she plunges into a passionate relationship with Pierre, a man she met at an airport, Lysange is invited by a stranger to come and stay at his cabin on the ocean. There, she finds the journal of Sister Madeleine, on a mission in Brazil in the 1950s, caught in the duality of faith and love. The bond between the two women gradually strengthens. EAN: 9782330015121 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Perceval or the Romance of the Grail - Chrétien de Troyes - book Summary : Perceval is first and foremost a coming-of-age novel. The hero is a young nobleman raised by his mother away from society and ignorant of chivalry. For he is the last son, he whose brothers, knights, died in combat, followed by their father, who died of grief. Perceval is therefore naive: he does not know the customs, is surprised by everything, speaks at random, and acts with a spontaneity that borders on insolence. Attracted by the beauty of the weapons of the knights he meets, he decides, against his mother's advice, to become a knight. From then on, he is ordered to behave himself and to ask no more questions. And when the Grail passes before his eyes, he does not dare question the young girls who carry it... This Romance of the Grail, written in the 12th century and interrupted by the author's death, is thus an anti-novel of chivalry. The traditional quest for love is not the driving force: it is rather a quest for self. The hero is the chosen one in spite of himself: the one who could conquer the Grail but ignores it. Between speech and silence, mystical experience and guilt, the story of this young wild knight has given rise to numerous interpretations, notably psychoanalytic. It is also a great, marvelous tale, with sober and powerful lyricism, where astonishment and laughter are never far away, faced with a hero ill-adapted to the world that is his, and soon ours. EAN: 9782070365371 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: So, happy? - Jennifer Weiner - book Summary : Until now, everything had been going well for Candace Shapiro. Twenty-eight years old, too curvy but very charming and witty enough to have made it as a journalist. She had even come to accept that Dad would never come back, that Mom was in love with a woman, and that Lucy, her little sister, danced topless to make ends meet. But the day she discovered her sex life chronicled in detail in a major women's monthly, that day... everything went wrong. The person responsible for this delicate attention? Bruce, her ex, who, clearly, also made a living from his pen by confiding to all of America the details of his love affair with a "different" woman! At first furious, Candace has a choice: sink into depression... or bounce back and prove right those who think that yes, you can be happy without having to lose weight! EAN: 9782266132206 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Frictions - Philippe Djian - book Summary : Five episodes of a life, five demons impossible to chase away. Such is the program of Frictions. Handsome, crazy about his mother, married to a model and having found the solution to his money problems, the narrator has everything he needs to get out of it, at least in theory, because in practice it's much, much more complicated. EAN: 9782070305674 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: The Ballantyne Saga - The Eye of the Hawk - The Conquest of the Kingdom - The Third Prophecy - The Leopard Hunts by Night - Wilbur SMITH - book Summary : The epic tale of an English family settled in southern Africa – the discovery of a flamboyant, captivating world, ravaged by the passion for gold, slavery, war... The Ballantyne Saga The Eye of the Hawk, Conquering the Kingdom, The Third Prophecy, The Leopard Hunts by Night The story begins in the 19th century when Dr. Robyn Ballantyne, a missionary's daughter, sets out for southern Africa to search for her missing father, fight the slave trade, and bring the natives the resources of medicine and the word of God. She and her brother Zouga discover a world of violence, greed, and injustice that they must confront, alongside Cecil Rhodes, himself fighting against the Matabele. Then the winds of history sweep the Ballantyne family away, until, decades later, a descendant settles back on the land of his ancestors and finds himself embroiled in dark political maneuvering... This flamboyant saga with its epic feel also traces the more than eventful destiny of this country which was called Rhodesia during the time of colonial domination and which we know today as Zimbabwe. Preface by François Rivière EAN: 9782258089808 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo

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Title: Stage Notebooks - Patricia Kaas - CD EAN: 5099746918026 The CD matches the photo

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