Title: Durango - Gilles Fontaine - book Summary : What could possibly drive a man to seek refuge in a remote village like Durango? To be forgotten, but by whom? To escape the police, and why? To flee another life, and for what dark reasons? The man's name is Laius, and soon Mona, Mars, and Gordo take him under their wing without asking too many questions. However, things get complicated when they discover that Laius is having visions, all of which come true. EAN: 9782092502648 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Princess Remembers - Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur - Devi Gayatri - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782909052007 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Never Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody - book Summary : "He sits down next to me on the bed, tries to hug me, but I push him away. Then he speaks calmly and firmly: "I didn't know how to tell you this... But we're not going back, we're staying here." I jump up, screaming: "Liar! You coward! You know perfectly well why I agreed to come here: it was a vacation. You have to let me go?" He pushes me away roughly. "You're here for the rest of your life, do you understand that? You'll never leave Iran!" I collapsed on the bed, in tears. My daughter started crying, clinging to her stuffed bunny." EAN: 9782876450301 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Reiki, this magnificent practice of happiness - From its authenticity to current deviations - Christian Mortier - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782953399707 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Christmas Mystery - Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : $160 million! An unexpected Christmas present for the Branscombe supermarket employees who landed the winning ticket. Enough to turn the small town's life upside down and arouse the greed of crooks ready to do anything to rob the gullible... Fortunately, Alvirah Meehan and Detective Regan Reilly, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark's favorite heroines, vacationing in this picturesque corner of New Hampshire, will take the case in hand. Mysterious disappearances, suspense, humor... a delightful fantasy to spend the holidays with a smile. EAN: 9782226188731 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Hypertension - Natural solutions for living better - Michel Brack - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782298080766 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Eleanor's Bed - Mireille Calmel - book Summary : A first novel where the supernatural and sensuality mingle with History, recreating an unsuspected Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1137 in Poitiers. Eleanor, the very young Duchess of Aquitaine, is stamping her feet with impatience. Today, Loanna of Grimwald arrives at her court. She is fifteen years old, like her. A new lady-in-waiting for Eleanor, perhaps more interesting than the others, for she is said to be very piquant. What Eleanor doesn't know is that the beautiful Loanna descends from a line of druids, fathered by Merlin the Enchanter and Viviane, guardian of druidic secrets. From mother to daughter, these women watch over the destiny of England. Like her ancestors before her, Loanna is a bit fairy, a bit witch... She is sent to Eleanor with a mission: to become her friend, her advisor, her shadow, and to ensure that one day she marries Henry, the heir to England who is still only four years old. Loanna forms a tender friendship with Eleanor in the Aquitaine court with its very liberal morals. But fate thwarts her plans: Eleanor is given in marriage to Louis VII, the dull King of France. No matter, Loanna follows her to the French court... Because as long as Eleanor doesn't give Louis a male heir, all is not lost for Henry! A surprisingly masterful first novel, driven by the verve of Mireille Calmel, where the supernatural meddles with human life, sometimes cruelly, but often in the service of love. The characters are caught in the whirlwind of rivalry between France and England, in a fierce battle between the Christian Church and ancient pagan beliefs, a world disappearing forever... What more can be said, except that Mireille Calmel has talent? There are few writers who bend history to their story, to the point where one wonders if it really happened like that. EAN: 9782845630413 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Like a song of hope - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : This book - God forgive me! - is a novel about God, about his work, about men and about nothing. "Let's put it simply, with a kind of naivety: it seems impossible to me that the order of the universe immersed in time, with its laws and its rigor, is the result of chance. As a result, evil and suffering take on a meaning - unknown to us, of course, but, despite everything, a meaning. As a result, I rely on something enigmatic which is very high above me and of which I am the creature and the plaything. I am not far from thinking that only the fool would say: "There is no God." I believe in God because the day dawns every morning, because there is a story and because I have an idea of ​​God which I wonder where it could come from if there were no God. EAN: 9782350872766 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: See how we dance - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : One spring morning, Romain's funeral takes place. Driven by an immoderate taste for happiness, he believed in nothing but cultivated a difficult art: the love of life. As he passed by, an inner sun began to shine. At the cemetery, among tearful men and women, his closest friend sees—as in the first scene of "The Barefoot Countess"—the countless lives and intertwined destinies of those who throw a rose on the coffin of the one they loved so much unfold. Two female figures reign throughout these pages: a mother and her daughter. Around them and Romain, from New York in the 1930s to the latest scientific discoveries, via the plains of Ukraine, a Greek island, an Italian hotel and the southern coast of Turkey, we see Hitler's valet, the pilots of the Normandy-Nièmen squadron, an art historian, a professor of theoretical physics, Arthur Rubinstein and Marshal Zhukov, Lucky Luciano and Churchill... Each of them is the hero of a small novel that is linked by history and feelings to the great novel that brings them all together. Life appears as a great saraband; it is also a tearful celebration. EAN: 9782221095355 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Surging Love - Chantal Rassat - book Summary : François is a sweetheart. His restaurant in Biscarrosse is a popular spot, and his life may seem easy to those unfamiliar with his past. Yet, this Don Juan's life has not been easy. Like waves crashing in, tragedy and joy have washed over him, and like foam dispersing on the sand, love has left many scars in this wounded heart. Spanning the periods of our history over the past fifty years, this beautiful novel reminds us that human destiny remains suspended at random, like driftwood at the mercy of the tides. Chantal Rassat has taught French and English in various colleges in France, notably in Parentis-en-Born. Her first novel, Un destin apprivoisé, was a resounding success. EAN: 9782355193477 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Boy - Marcus Malte - book Summary : He has no name. He doesn't speak. The boy is a near-savage, born in an arid region of southern France. Of the world, he knows only his mother and the surroundings of their cabin. It is 1908 when he sets out on his journey—by instinct. Then begins his encounter with men: the inhabitants of a remote hamlet, Brabek the ogre from the Carpathians, philosopher and fairground wrestler, and his carnal love with Emma, ​​a luminous music lover who is at once sister, lover, and mother. "It is a time when the boy begins to glimpse what existence might, alas, be made of: a great deal of devastation and a few raptures." Then comes the war, the terrible carnage, the height of human madness and of what we call civilization. The journey of a new soul awakening to consciousness through chance and a few necessities, punctuated by the small and large upheavals of History, The Boy is, in its own singular, radical, funny, and serious way, the immense novel of the world's ordeal. Marcus Malte was born in 1967 in La Seyne-sur-Mer. He is the author of several novels and collections of short stories, including Garden of Love (awarded a dozen literary prizes, including the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle, crime fiction category) and, more recently, Les Harmoniques. EAN: 9782843047602 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Sequence of Bodies - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Black Mountain, a sleepy little town in the depths of North Carolina. A small town where the local police rarely deal with more than one homicide a year, if that, and where people have a hard time getting used to locking their doors at night, even these days. It's hardly the kind of place where serial killers prowl, and yet... What other explanation could there be for the murder of eleven-year-old Emily, abducted from her home after attending a church meeting and found a few days later? Especially since the murderer's modus operandi is strangely reminiscent of that of Temple Gault, the killer who managed to elude the FBI and Kay Scarpetta at the end of The Sentence of Exception. Called to the scene, Scarpetta and his usual acolytes, Marino and Wesley, are going to have a tough fight... Once again, Patricia Cornwell demonstrates her extraordinary talent, which propelled The Body Sequence to number one on the American bestseller list. EAN: 9782702478530 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Shipwrecks of Tromelin Island - Irene Frain - book Summary : In 1761, a French ship ran aground on a remote islet in the Indian Ocean. It was carrying 160 slaves. To survive, white and black survivors had to live together. An officer wanted to build a rowboat. The sailors refused to help him. The slaves accepted. Their dignity commanded the respect of the whites. But when it was time to leave, they were not taken on board. Fifteen years later, when word of this crime had spread to all the ports, they were returned for. Only seven women and one child remained. Using maritime archives, archaeological excavations, and a stay on the island, Irène Frain recounts this little-known chapter in human rights, which led to the abolition of slavery. EAN: 9782749909905 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Ancient Days - Michel Winock - book Summary : "As we advance in our obscure journey," as Lamartine's verse says, time transforms our familiar landscapes, so much so that in the long run we end up wondering what remains of our former days. The wind of the years whistles over our lives. Everything changes, everything is metamorphosed, and our shattered memories become the traces of another world. It is this gap between today and the world of yesterday that I wanted to bridge. This book opens with an almost forgotten era, like a village submerged by the construction of a dam. I do not recount my early years in the illusion of a lost paradise. I do not want to give here either to admire a past that is no more or to condemn its flaws. I simply invite you to discover a past that has disappeared but that still speaks to us. The time of my childhood and my adolescence is that of the post-war period and the Fourth Republic, the years just preceding the "Thirty Glorious Years." From the threads that run through this story, we could retain the academic meritocracy and the influence of the republican heritage, outdated morals, the continued prevalence of religion, the optimism and energy of a generation emerging from the Second World War and, for me, a precocious political passion. Without wanting to demonstrate anything, I scraped my violin on my sepia photos. Michel Winock EAN: 9782070140732 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The "88" Affair - Suspense at the time of the Berlin Wall - Ed Nouce - book Summary : "CASE 88" begins in an almost banal way... Except that nothing will be in this unique and captivating story! Ed Nouce ventures brilliantly into the world of the SPY novel while remaining faithful to his poetic universe which is combined with great rigor in the treatment of the historical elements structuring the plot. Brussels, summer 1973. A young girl is preparing to return home to Rhineland-Palatinate for the summer holidays, but she overhears a conversation that makes her fear the worst for the health or even the very life of her father. This is the simple starting point of a suspense that will give the reader NO RESPITE. Faced with the prospect of imminent death, one's own or that of a loved one, everyone reveals the most intimate recesses of their heart and sometimes their soul... The second part of the novel takes us the following year (May 1974) to WEST BERLIN, the capitalist showcase, where Chancellor Willy Brandt has just been forced to resign following the Wilhelm affair. But we will go just as often to communist EAST BERLIN, at the time of Erich Honecker and the reign of the sinister STASI, under the constant gaze of the SOVIET Big Brother. In this historical setting of the Cold War, the WALL is omnipresent and we cross it several times. Surveillance, disappearances, stalking, autopsies, interrogations, nothing will be spared us... This profound and beautiful novel is the fourth volume of Ed Nouce's family saga, LIFE RETURNS TO US AT DAWN. But rest assured, there's no need to have read the previous books to enjoy this thrilling tale and become attached to the characters! Ed Nouce's loyal readers will find the Kuhn family and their friend Smoke-Finch in the main roles. Let's add that at least one new hero makes a remarkable entrance in the second part. And as always, the author is also, and perhaps even primarily, interested in the MYSTERY or the CRACK that is at the center of the human soul. In this register, it's impossible not to particularly salute the chiaroscuro touches suggested in the portrait of MANFRED KUHN, the former Abwehr colonel, a complex character, full of restraint, introversion, and ambiguity, decidedly unforgettable... Hélène confirms the light that has emanated from her since the first novel, and the young people, Markus, Wilhelm, and Téri, assert their temperaments. With no doubt a special mention to Wilhelm, striking in the confrontation with his father... As for the British Horace Smoke-Finch, in his seventies, but still in the know, he retains his humor as well as his panache. EAN: 9781533142214 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Learning to Finish - Laurent Mauvignier - book Summary : Inter Book Prize 2001 - Wepler Prize 2000 He had said: I can't take it anymore here. I can't take it anymore with you. So after her accident, the weeks in the white room, her return home to convalesce, it was like a new chance for her, for them. She regained confidence and she said to herself, I will be the one who gives everything, flowers, my time, everything. So that everything can start again. EAN: 9782707317216 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Beasts - Federigo Tozzi - book Summary : This collection aims to place the living at the heart of transdisciplinary insights and dreams of all times: ethologists, philosophers, zoologists, ethnologists, systematists, folklorists, naturalists, explorers and creators (novelists, poets, illustrators) will be able to meet there in the teeming bush of species whose future is one of the major challenges of ours. Biophilia is borrowed from the eponymous title of Edward O. Wilson, which therefore naturally inaugurates the collection. (Fabienne Raphoz) EAN: 9782714310798 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Sentimental Professor - Notebook - Catherine Henri - book Summary : Sentimental? One cannot teach in indifference. Chronicles of the World of Education, in other words supposedly miscellaneous facts, short stories, stories of encounters, of abandonment, where a few figures, current, outdated, pass and repass. One cannot teach without memory. Wanderings and digressions in literature: Jules Verne glimpses today's school, and Balzac enlightens us on ugliness, or the taste of young girls in matters of color... The novel does not expire. EAN: 9782846820639 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: By Then - John Berger - book Summary : Translated from English by Katya Berger Andreadakis In Lisbon, at the corner of a street, John Berger meets his mother, who has been dead for fifteen years. She accompanies him on a stroll among the colorful azulejos and tells him about her first love. In Krakow, in the maze of a market, he sees Ken, his "ferryman," the man thirty years his senior who taught him everything—how to paint, how to cheat at cards, how to drink—when he was a teenager. In Madrid, it's his old school teacher who reappears. From here there is based on the power of literary imagination and the writer's gift of ubiquity: to be both here and there, among the living and the dead, in the present and in the past. By calling upon those who made him the man and the committed artist that he is, this novel sketches a portrait of its author. EAN: 9782879294834 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Lily and the Serpent - Nikos Kazantzaki - book Summary : A long, baroque novella, imbued with mystery and lyricism, whose immorality caused a scandal. Kazantzaki's first appearance in Greek literature was in 1906. EAN: 9782268008868 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Escapee from Saint-Martin - Olivia Dupuy - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782817706696 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Swallow Before the Storm - Robert Littell - book Summary : Spring 1934. In a Russia subjected to Stalinist terror, the poet Osip Mandelstam, at the risk of his freedom, his art and even his life, composes a violent indictment against the master of the Kremlin, in the form of an epigram which circulates clandestinely until Stalin learns of its existence. Through the alternating voices of the poet and those close to him - his wife Nadezhda, his close friend the poet Anna Akhmatova and the writer Boris Pasternak, future author of Doctor Zhivago - The Swallow Before the Storm recounts the painful journey of Mandelstam, who suffered arrest, torture and exile for having dared to speak his truth. Robert Littell, often considered one of the contemporary masters of the spy novel, reveals in this poetic book another side of his immense talent. Inspired by the tragic destiny of the great Russian poet, with his unique art of interweaving fiction and history, he offers us a meditation of rare power on the artist facing power. Through the story of the strange fascination between the poet and the dictator, this novel pays homage to Mandelstam's incredible act of defiance and explores the full complexity of the writer's commitment. EAN: 9782917559062 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Birth of Ghosts - Marie Darrieussecq - book Summary : It begins as a simple, banal, and sad story. A man disappears. His wife waits for him; she cannot accept his disappearance; she searches for him. Then the world will unravel, or, more precisely, open up. It opens up to its mystery, to its inconceivable levels, to its enigmas, the infinitely large, the infinitely small, the infinitely moving, powerfully punctuated by waiting. All the landmarks shift, no perspective is certain, stars and atoms exchange their weight, their value. Little by little, this disappearance disintegrates everything that constitutes generally accepted reality; it projects us into another dimension of feelings and sensations. Ghosts can appear because, like the narrator, we are ready. EAN: 9782867446139 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Good Life - John Dos Passos - book Summary : It was yesterday. Americans were arriving in Europe. Their names were Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, and a few others. It was love at first sight. Paris and the Côte d'Azur, jazz and bistros, the Italian lakes and the parties of Barcelona, ​​​​walking and writing: those were the good times, the good life. From the Sacco and Vanzetti affair to the Spanish Civil War, from the literary revolution that was the American novel to the first hotels in Juan-les-Pins, the 1920s are revisited through the memories of one of the greatest contemporary writers. EAN: 9782070763894 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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