Title: The Coach Inn - Jean-Paul Malaval - book Summary : In Corrèze, the life and rebirth of an inn masterfully run by Maxence... until a woman gets involved! A joy of words and food by a tasteful author. In 1900, in Meyssenac, in Corrèze, there was a famous hostelry, the Auberge des Diligences... Maxence and Ameline welcome their many guests with a generous table that honors local tastes. Maxence's uncompromising and touchy nature, who reigns alone in his kitchen, creates a lot of tension in the couple. Little Savin and Faustine suffer from it. One day, Ameline cooks up a dish so delicious that the whole village rushes to taste it. Much to Maxence's dismay. A page turns: he sees his supremacy waver, his children run away into the woods, and, in the village, progress arrives with the installation of the tramway, a project started by a handsome engineer living at the inn and in love with Ameline... A delightful novel that delights us with witty remarks, characters and gastronomic descriptions, and which also offers a parallel story about childhood, in the colors of nature and freedom, in the still carefree France before 1914. EAN: 9782258077331 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Death Becomes Them - Peter James - book Summary : “Dear Mr. Bryce, Last night, you accessed a site you weren't authorized to visit. You tried to access it again tonight. We don't appreciate unsolicited visitors. If you tell the police about what you saw or try to access that site again, what happens to your computer will happen to your wife, Kellie, your son, Max, and your daughter, Jessica. Watch and think carefully. Your friends at Scarab Productions» If he had had the slightest inkling of the devastating effect that a damn CD, found on the seat of a commuter train, would have on his life, Tom Bryce would probably have left it where it was... EAN: 9782755701739 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Children of Winter - Gilbert Bordes - book Summary : The moving story of six children lost in the mountains and left to fend for themselves during the Occupation. 1943. Winter has just descended on Oustal, a high-mountain refuge in the heart of the Pyrenees. Two men are held at gunpoint by the SS: they want to know where the six children of resistance fighters they were trying to evacuate to Spain are hiding. Faced with the stubborn silence of the smugglers, they execute them. But the children remain untraceable. Soon frozen, the SS give up the search and decide to let them die of cold. They place explosives on the only footbridge connecting the refuge to the valley and blow it up... Hidden in a cave, the children have seen it all. They are now prisoners of the mountain for an entire winter. Son or daughter of a communist, a worker or a bourgeois, Jewish or Christian, they will have to get along to have any chance of survival. EAN: 9782845633766 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Song of the Plains - Nancy Huston - book Summary : Four generations of an immigrant family, the Sterlings, settled on the plains of Alberta, Canada, between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. One of them, Paddon, knew everything about their existence. But when this novel begins, Paddon has just died. And it is to this beloved grandfather, the son of pioneers in Indian lands, that the narrator, Paula, addresses a lengthy tale in the form of a farewell. EAN: 9782330176372 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shores of the Night - Michael Gruber - book Summary : Under the Miami sun, while showers are rare, it's corpses that fall from the sky... Such as that of Sudanese businessman al-Muwalid, previously shot before impaling himself, from the tenth floor, on the gates of the Trianon Hotel. In the crime room, a shocked young girl, Emmylou, mumbles her prayers: for Inspector Jimmy Paz, this situation is considered a flagrant offense. A prime suspect who constantly invokes these saintly voices that speak to her: in school notebooks, she confesses her hallucinated sins and denies murder... Lorna Wise, the psychologist, is categorical: Emmylou is sane. What credence, then, can be given to her statement? What part does the devil play in this tragedy? Worse: what part does God play? EAN: 9782266183161 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Game over - Freddie Lafargue - book Summary : The future is already here. The welfare recipients have taken up arms, the bourgeoisie is hiding, and the government is fighting the crisis with howitzers. Fortunately, the good old values ​​of the past—jealousy, hatred, and revenge—continue to thrive. EAN: 9782070493401 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Blonde Attitude - Plum Sykes - book Summary : Blonde as wheat and swooningly beautiful, the eccentric and sexy Julie Bergdorf – wealthy heiress to the luxury stores of the same name – truly has it all. Surrounded daily by a pack of admirers, a favorite target of celebrity magazines and the undisputed goddess of fashionable nightclubs and other upscale restaurants, the fashion lolita reigns supreme over the all-powerful New York jet set. The only problem is, she's single. And in the hipster neighborhoods where the chic of chic consists of strutting around on the arm of her fiancé, this situation is an unforgivable faux pas. EAN: 9782266158350 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume 13 - Far from Sunnydale - Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder - book Summary : Every generation has its Slayer. Today, it's Buffy... Without her, vampires would have no enemy worthy of them and would overwhelm the world. Sunnydale is besieged by the forces of evil, of which vampires are only the vanguard. Now, while Giles is hospitalized, Buffy must face a new threat: a dimensional portal that will allow cohorts of monsters to enter our world. The Slayer, Angel, and their friends must locate this passage and close it. To do this, they will have to leave Sunnydale and go to Boston, home to the mysterious Guardian, who until now has managed to contain the creatures of darkness. Until then... EAN: 9782265069930 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Rum Manager, Volume 2 - Sugar Commander - Raphaël Confiant - book Summary : Pierre-Marie de la Vigerie succeeded his father at the Rivière-Salée distillery. Like him, he has only one god: rum. Not the nasty beverage we drink in mainland France, but the precious nectar respectfully extracted from sugar cane, the "grape," as it is called here in Martinique. On the eve of the Second World War, at the distillery, in the cane fields, in the homes of the white masters, in this France at the end of the world, time seems to have stopped. Here, people live to the rhythm of cane, sugar, and rum, without even imagining that the world might be changing... Following "Le Commandeur du sucre," Raphaël Confiant brings to light a crumbling and nostalgic world, that of the convicts of cane and rum, that of social inequalities, injustices, and racism. EAN: 9782266095815 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Sugar Commander - Raphaël Confiant - book Summary : The sugarcane harvest can begin at the Bel-Évent plantation in Martinique in January 1936. Commander Firmin Léandor, a mulatto foreman, mercilessly oversees the work of the cutters and moorers, a backbreaking labor, a daily hell. "Since the beginning of the world, God has written our misfortune on the reverse side of the white man's happiness..." Béké, mulatto, Congo Negro, Couli... For generations, everyone has obeyed the strict hierarchy of their color and rank, bowed under the weight of a double fatality: blackness and sugarcane. Firmin's mother was definitely right: "Cane is cursed!" EAN: 9782266143691 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: G229 - Jean-Philippe Blondel - book Summary : “I’ve given you a room. A room, you know, is priceless. It’s 229, building G. G229. Go get the key from the caretaker. Well, I think this interview is over. We’ll be seeing each other often from now on. Welcome here.” I thank the principal, but he’s already stopped listening. A principal has a lot to think about. A teacher doesn’t. A teacher only thinks about one thing: their classes. Then suddenly, he’s there again, present. He stares at me. He says, “The hardest thing in the job, you know, is handling the “on” and the “I.” I reply that, uh, I’m not sure I understand. “It’s an institution, school. You enter a bulldozer. You have to manage to become a member of it without losing your individuality. It’s not as easy as you think, you’ll see. The “on” and the “I.” Think about it. Good luck! » EAN: 9782283024782 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Pavilion of Crazy Children - Valérie Valère - book Summary : At thirteen, Valérie Valère was interned in the ward for mentally ill children of a large Parisian hospital. At fifteen, she wrote the story of this stay. Her book is not only a vision of the hospital world, of treatments for the mentally ill, the pathetic cry of a thirteen-year-old girl who, one day, refused all food: she becomes aware of the deep reasons that led her to the suicidal behavior that is anorexia. And her story is above all the story of a recovery. EAN: 9782253030072 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Psycho - Richard Montanari - book Summary : In a motel, a young woman relaxes in the shower. Emerging from the steam, one hand pulls back the plastic curtain. Another brandishes a butcher's knife. The stranger screams in terror. Unmoved, the murderer slashes the arm again and again. Soon a bloody spiral forms around the drain... This scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Inspector Byrne and his partner Jessica Balzano thought was reserved for the cinematic pantheon. But now a deranged man has recreated it. And filmed it. For real. And if they don't stop him soon, the movie-loving killer risks transforming Philadelphia into a macabre Hollywood because while the leads multiply, the camera keeps rolling... EAN: 9782266167697 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Kuru - Thomas Gunzig - book Summary : "Fred's social universe consisted of five people, not one more, not one less, each of whom occupied a specific place in the little plane that represented his life. Fred the migraine sufferer, Kristine the intellectual, Paul the revolutionary brute, Pierre the sickly clone, and Katerine, his cousin, a real bombshell. A band of heroes to denounce the horrors of capitalist repression and, if possible, the existence of a great global conspiracy. This thought crossed Fred's mind, he smiled bitterly. He cursed his weakness that had led him here, to Berlin, to this rotten apartment." Here you will find extraordinary romantic disappointments, sex, magic, politics, gurus, anti-globalization demonstrations, police violence, and non-lethal weapons... All in a corrosive style, with that innate sense of the absurd and the wacky that is so characteristic of Thomas Gunzig. EAN: 9782070337637 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Body Art - Don DeLillo - book Summary : After the death of her husband Rey Robles, artist Lauren Hartke soon discovers that she is not alone in her grief, her body to discipline, and her time to organize. There is an intruder in the house, a squatter of unknown origin, a strange and seemingly "unfinished" being. Lauren can't decipher anything about his appearance, his destiny, or most of his words, but in his voice, little by little, she thinks she hears not only her own, but Rey's, then their voices together—perhaps their last conversations... In this dazzling Beckettian variation on the body, art, and death, Don DeLillo explores the depths of consciousness, language, space, and time. A philosophical journey in the form of a descent into hell, to the heart of the human condition. EAN: 9782742744626 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Painter's Studio - Patrick Grainville - book Summary : The narrator left Europe, his old blood, his old images, and settled in Los Angeles, where "the memory of men is absent"; he became a painter there. His studio welcomes young delinquents: learning art "brings together their mutilated selves." Ruth, powerful and rebellious, Hu, the lover, Horace, all "storm and retention," Temple, coherent and academic, are among the painter's favorite students. The Studio takes them into passionate struggles and, above all, exasperates the obsession of a beauty to be achieved. This initiation novel is that of a desired filiation, disputed in violence and bewitchment. EAN: 9782020323727 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - book Summary : 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Olive is the wife of the pharmacist in Crosby, a small coastal town in Maine. She has a son, Christopher, whom she smothers. And he is also a brutal and tyrannical mathematics teacher, capable, however, of bursts of kindness. An extraordinary personality, a priori unlikable, but oh so endearing, Olive traverses this polyphonic fresco where the destinies of the inhabitants of Crosby – ordinary heroes – intertwine over a period of thirty years. Praised across the Atlantic for the virtuosity of its construction and the finesse of its tone, Olive Kitteridge is in the tradition of novels like The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers, or The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. This book won the Pulitzer Prize. A gem of psychology and delicacy, as if Virginia Woolf had leaned over Elizabeth Strout's shoulder. André Clavel, L'Express. EAN: 9782253159780 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Run My Pretty - Lisa Unger - book Summary : An anonymous letter. A photo of a two-year-old girl. A little word: "Are you my daughter?" The life of Ridley Jones, a New York journalist, has just been turned upside down... What if you discovered that your whole life is nothing but deception and illusion? EAN: 9782266174855 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Bay of Angels - Max Gallo - book Summary : In their hundreds, in the disgraced year of 1880, they fled their Italian Piedmont, their land of misery that no longer fed them. Upon the death of their mother, after six days of walking, the Revelli brothers discovered the lights of Nice, like the promise of a new life. The city quickly transformed these unsophisticated, intelligent men, thirsting for dignity. The energetic and ambitious Carlo Revelli made his mark on the construction sites. Vincente entered the service of Doctor Merani, an influential notable, as did Luigi, the youngest and most attractive of the three. But the latter seemed to choose the wrong path, that of shady and dangerous business. It would take very little time to transform them into fully-fledged Frenchmen. EAN: 9782266096591 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella - book Summary : Is your job boring you to death? Are your love affairs lacking? A little shopping to cheer yourself up! That's the motto of Becky Bloomwood, a pretty 25-year-old Londoner. Armed with her credit cards, life seems magical! Shoes, makeup, sublime clothes... nothing can contain her shopping frenzy, not even her frightening overdraft. Until the day when, determined to seduce Luke Brandon, a young and brilliant businessman, Becky tries to make amends, with a little help from her banker, who has just frozen her accounts... EAN: 9782266162265 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Their Little Lives - And Other Stories - Tatiana de Rosnay - book Summary : In sixteen new short stories, Tatiana de Rosnay deploys her remarkable talent as a storyteller to paint the portrait of characters who are both eclectic and unforgettable. A young woman who lives vicariously through the love story of her neighbors, a writer condemned to exile, a mother who gives in to her fantasies... From a Parisian maid's room to a futuristic scientific laboratory, Tatiana de Rosnay creates a subtle blend of genres to celebrate the beauty of human encounters and pay magnificent homage to the figures who inspired her. EAN: 9782253251323 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Vices de forme - Coughlin William - book Summary : Once a brilliant lawyer, famous throughout the state of Michigan, Charley Sloane is now best known for his alcoholic troubles. But Charley is sober now. He's rebuilding his career, slowly regaining the respect of his peers. And now a tricky case looms on the horizon. A case that could pay off big, but one that presents all sorts of dangers. Then comes an unexpected, even more perilous proposition; one that threatens to send him plummeting once again from the respectable position he's been struggling to regain. EAN: 9782070406371 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Never before sunset - Johanna Sinisalo - book Summary : A dynamic advertising photographer, Ange lives a stressed, solitary life. One evening, he rescues something that looks very much like a wounded animal from the boots of a group of youths. But what he finds in his apartment is a troll child, lost, certainly, but wild, and disturbingly violent. Then begins, on the one hand, a discreet investigation into these beings that many documents do not say are imaginary but very real and, on the other hand, a game of hide-and-seek with friends, work colleagues and neighbors in the building. The photographer's daily life, who may have the opportunity to take the photos of his life but must hide the existence of his troll, is thus mixed with data which, gradually, confirms to him that what he is experiencing is not a dream but a dangerous reality to which he will have to find a solution... necessarily radical. EAN: 9782742754298 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Ears on the Back - Georges Arnaud - book Summary : Three men, a woman, a truck (we know what a fetish monster the truck plays for the author of The Wages of Fear): all on the run, ears on their backs (the position of the hunted hare). At the end of a cavalcade across the tracks of the Andean mountain range, death or solitude, which is hardly better. EAN: 9782264010575 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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