Title: A Life - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : Jeanne, the pampered only daughter of Baron and Baroness Le Perthuis des Vauds, had everything to be happy. Her marriage to Julien de Lamare, a boorish and greedy man, would prove to be a disaster. Her life would be a series of trials and disappointments. This novel, Guy de Maupassant's first, is a remarkable depiction of the provincial customs of 19th-century Normandy: squires, servants and peasants are described with great realism. EAN : 9782253004240 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Jordan Fantosme - Jean-Baptiste Evette - book Summary : London, 1911. A man has been injured and thrown into the Thames. He is saved from drowning by an Italian exile and taken in by a pub owner. It is in this cosmopolitan and picturesque world of the East End docks that he wakes up, amnesiac. The only clues to his identity: his tuxedo and an invitation card. Distraught, he wanders the streets for a while and meets a young woman, Grazia. Then, with the help of his new friends, he sets out in search of his past and his attackers. His investigation takes him to all corners of London, here magnificently described, and even to the heart of a secret society, whose members, aristocrats who love artificial paradises, indulge in croquet as well as spiritualism and, above all, in "perfect" crimes, in the style of Thomas De Quincey, author of Murder as One of the Fine Arts. But when the time comes, will Jordan Fantosme accept to take on, along with his past, his old identity? EAN : 9782070408863 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Blue Line - Ingrid Betancourt - book Summary : Buenos Aires, 1970s. Julia inherited a precious and cumbersome gift from her grandmother Josefina: sometimes scenes of the future appear to her, seen through the eyes of others. Julia's story will change dramatically when Perón returns to Argentina. Sympathizers of the Montoneros movement, she and her companion will experience the destiny of this idealistic and revolutionary youth of Latin America, fascinated as much by the figure of Christ as by that of Che Guevara and confronted with the reality of the military dictatorship. "The blue line" is that of happiness, the one that Théo and Julia strive to reach through the twists and turns of history and the whims of love. EAN : 9782070468102 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Insane Asylums - Régis Jauffret - book Summary : "You must have found this family strange, but even more than love stories, all families are madhouses." In Madhouses, Régis Jauffret explores his major theme through a banal story of breakup: the exploration of ordinary madness. Domestic neuroses, everyday psychological disturbances, nothing emerges unscathed, neither the couple, nor love, and even less so the family. A cynical and burlesque reflection, carried by tense, meticulous, and powerfully expressionist writing. EAN : 9782070342969 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs - book Summary : In the shadow of psychotic parents, Augusten dreams of fame and glamour. When his shrink becomes his legal guardian, an even wilder life opens up to him, in a household of astonishing extravagance. Everyone is free to chew dog food in front of the TV or play with the electroshock machine. The poignant and hilarious tale of a childhood unlike any other. "Augusten Burroughs tells his story very well: the comedy of the situation is echoed from scene to scene, until the end, to modestly shade the drama of the loss of childhood." The Angels' Registration Number EAN : 9782264043788 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Poisoned Pen - Agatha Christie - book Summary : The notary, the doctor, the pastor's wife... everyone is involved. And doubt creeps into people's minds. Where there's smoke, there's fire... Yet the accusations made by the anonymous letters flooding into Lymstock are utterly grotesque. Wouldn't it be more judicious to tackle the minor scandals that pepper village life? But no... The author of the letters prefers to indulge in fantasy... However, by bombarding the small community with remarks as improbable as they are filthy, he will end up hitting the nail on the head one day. And who knows if he won't trigger a tragedy? EAN : 9782702400500 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Wine of Discord - Gérard Raynal - book Summary : Swept up in the turmoil of 1907, the Parot family experienced a terrible descent into hell. During the first wine festival in Narbonne, Rémy, the eldest son, fell under the spell of a young girl of fascinating beauty. He then joined all the major agricultural gatherings, hoping to find her again. But darkness soon invades his life, and to save his little sister Pauline from being placed in administrative care, he finds himself forced to start a family. Yet, the image of the sublime Narbonne woman continues to haunt him. In Boule d'Amont, where he has decided to retire, he finally receives news of her. A heather carrier in the Quéra massif, a mason on the Pont Séjourné, he sets out on the trail of the woman he now loves more than anything. Will he find his beloved? EAN : 9782366521993 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer - book Summary : Pearlie thinks she's living a peaceful life. In 1949, in San Francisco, she reunited with and married Holland Cook, her teenage sweetheart. Holland survived the war and refuses to talk about it. One thing is certain: he's not the same anymore... The past resurfaces the day a businessman, Charles Drummer, interferes in the couple's life and offers Pearlie a strange deal. Born in 1969 in Washington, Andrew Sean Greer began writing at a very early age. He lives in San Francisco. He is also the author of Confessions of Max Tivoli , available in Points. “A formidable dive into the intimacy of a couple in peril, The Story of a Marriage confirms the storytelling talent of that devil Greer. Only for the best.” EAN : 9782757816486 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: A Handful of Rye - Agatha Christie - book Summary : Why slip a handful of rye into a man's pocket after poisoning him? Why hang a clothes hanger up a young girl's nose after strangling her? What do these ludicrous clues mean? Are they the murderer's signature? If so, he can only be a madman. A monster. A dangerous maniac is walking free at Yewtree Lodge. A maniac who may strike again. A maniac whom Miss Marple has come to unmask. For what may seem ludicrous to some takes on meaning in her eyes. Miss Marple is a very old lady and she has seen so much. EAN : 9782702400067 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Crime of Paragon Walk - Anne Perry - book Summary : A sordid crime disturbs the upscale tranquility of Paragon Walk. While Inspector Pitt, in charge of the case, encounters the hostility and silence of the neighborhood's residents, his wife Charlotte, assisted by her sister Emily, the charming Lady Ashworth, is not intimidated by this class omerta. From garden parties to soirées, they gradually remove the masks of the elite. The respectable facades of Paragon Walk will gradually crack, exposing their unspeakable secrets and lies to this infallible trio of detectives. EAN : 9782264035295 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Real Tough Guys Don't Dance - Norman Mailer - book Summary : In Provincetown, in the deceptive quiet of the off-season, Tim Madden, a failed writer and womanizer, drowns his boredom in bourbon. One more morning, he wakes up with a terrible hangover, but this time, he's going from discovery to discovery: a strange tattoo on his arm, blood in his car, and in the stash where he keeps his marijuana, the cleanly severed head of a beautiful platinum blonde... Is he a murderer? To answer this question, Tim embarks on a personal investigation. A pursuit full of adventures, which will lead him to meet ex-boxers, sex maniacs, ex-convicts, a former mistress, and finally his own father, whose colorful figure will remain one of Mailer's most memorable creations. EAN : 9782264034267 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Viper's Tongue and Hangover - Adèle Lang - book Summary : Saturday, September 7: I rush to the tapas bar immediately and set about dazzling them with my striking good looks and innate intelligence. One is old enough to be my father but keeps buying me tequilas (sucker). The other is really nice and offers me a rose (silly). The last is a handsome and dark Italian who tries to ignore me (bastard). "Katya makes the world go round in circles: with her viper's tongue and princess-like attitude, you wouldn't risk giving her God without confession. It must be said that she goes for it: nothing can resist her anger and her low blows. Nothing, and no one, for that matter. Employers, friends, lovers - they all get their share, in this vitriolic diary of a single Londoner with a penchant for alcohol, money, and men. As for happiness, that's a different story. EAN : 9782290309339 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Mordoc - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Kay Scarpetta has seen many corpses in her career as a forensic pathologist. Often dismembered, cut up, strangled... But she had yet to see one whose skin displayed, as a distinctive sign, the symptoms of the same disease. A disease that has been eradicated from the planet for thirty years! So who is Mordoc, serial killer, bold enough to introduce himself to Kay on the Internet, evil enough and crazy enough to spread a deadly virus? After Postmortem , A Death Without a Name and Death in Troubled Waters , the internationally successful thriller queen has managed to push the boundaries of terror a little further. EAN : 9782253170778 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Wickedness - Willy Pasini - book Summary : Malice, sadism, envy, rage, anger: while they rhyme with meanness, these feelings are not necessarily synonymous. From Snow White's witch to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from literature to television, at home, in the office, in the therapist's office, Willy Pasini paints a portrait of all these villains who attack and fascinate us. His conclusions are surprising, to say the least: we are all a little mean, but it is often for our greater good. EAN : 9782228898485 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Disintegration - Emmanuelle Richard - book Summary : It talks about dreams and reality, about what we would like and what we see ourselves becoming. It talks about shame and place, about odd jobs and impossible cohabitation, because through humiliation there is no longer any neutrality possible. It talks about the feeling of being the Other and about contempt that ends up being reversed. So anger, until then fuel, ends up blooming into a flower of carnivorous hatred, and hatred of the poor turns into hatred of the rich. Emmanuelle Richard has published two novels: Lightness in 2014 and For the skin in 2016, which earned her the Anaïs Nin Prize and the Marie Claire Prize for Women's Novels. She lives in Paris. “The electric novel of a precarious youth. A tense fiction, with jubilant writing.” Anne Brigaudeau, France Info EAN : 9782757875643 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Song of the Crows - Erin Hart - book Summary : Ireland, County Galway. While working the land, a farmer makes a terrifying discovery: the decapitated head of a young woman with long red hair, preserved intact by the peat! Newly arrived on the scene, archaeologist Cormac Maguire, accompanied by the charming pathologist Nora Gavin, will attempt to piece together the story of this mysterious skull. Their research quickly echoes other criminal investigations, notably the unsolved disappearance of Mina Osborne and her son Christopher, whose traces are also lost in the peat bog. What is this macabre link that seems to connect the two cases? By searching the sticky bowels of the place, scientists will awaken a terrible secret... EAN : 9782266138062 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: SLAM - Nick Hornby - book Summary : Sam is fifteen years old. His passions: skateboarding and girls. His mentor, Tony Hawk, the world champion of the discipline, with whom he communicates via a giant poster pinned to the wall of his room. If it weren't for his mother's chronic anxieties, his little world would be perfect. But love is like skateboarding: accidents can happen quickly. His girlfriend, the very beautiful and intimidating Alicia, announces that she's pregnant and determined to keep the baby... For Sam, it's the fall of the century, the famous "slam" that skateboarders dread so much! Between laughter and emotion, this is the story of a teenager's forced journey into adulthood... " Slam , with its humor and lucidity, its stripped-down, oral style against a pop culture backdrop, remains a pure Nick Hornby moment." Marie Rogatien, Le Figaro Magazine EAN : 9782264048882 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Fables - La Fontaine - book Summary : "All children are taught La Fontaine's fables, and not a single one of them understands them. Even if they did, it would be even worse; for the morality is so mixed up and so disproportionate to their age that it would lead them more to vice than to virtue." These are the terms in which Rousseau, in Émile, speaks of the Fables. For the Fables are not what they seem; they hide, disguise, simulate, and dissimulate at the same time. We must learn to read them. To do this, we must dismantle their mechanisms and their subtle codes, rediscover the secret architecture that orders them. The Fables are a decoy, the reverse of appearances; to appreciate them, it is necessary to turn the evidence inside out. EAN : 9782081489714 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Followed by Claude Gueux and the Tapner Affair - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "V. Hugo wrote admirable poems, he wrote admirable novels and admirable dramas; but, for us, his capital work - when the executioner has been chased away - will be to have helped to chase the executioner away. "There is something greater than a great poet or a great novelist, and that is a wise man. There is something more beautiful, more enviable than imagination, and that is the heart." This was at a time when Joseph de Maistre saw the death penalty as the keystone of the social edifice. But Pierre Larousse was right to congratulate himself on the effectiveness of this strange book. Hugo reinvents his art to serve the noblest of causes. Who is he, this condemned man? What crime has he committed? We will never know. With his hand, with his pen, he simply has to lead us towards his immediate future. How can we think about man when man decides on the death of man? EAN : 9782253050063 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Don't Read This Book If You Are Stupid - Tibor Fischer - book Summary : According to the characters of a Tibor Fischer more cynical than ever, London would be nothing more than a vast battlefield, where perverts of all kinds and other neurotics would contribute to ruining your day. But, if living in this atmosphere is depressing as can be, it seems beyond human reach to fight against it, wherever you find yourself: ruined boss invited by billionaire friends to the Côte d'Azur, young artist resigned to becoming a serial killer to achieve success or nymphomaniac actress obsessed with tweezers, all these chronic failures seek to fill the void of their existence by heading straight for the wall. Spiced with a pinch of dark humor and impertinence, it's a real treat! EAN : 9782264039514 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The War of the Duchesses - Volume 1 - The Daughter of the Condemned Man - Juliette Benzoni - book Summary : On June 22, 1627, François de Montmorency-Bouteville was beheaded in Place de Grève. He left behind a young wife of twenty, two little girls, and an unborn son. The family would have sunk into poverty if the Princess of Condé, their cousin, had not taken charge of raising the children according to their rank. Isabelle, the youngest, falls in love very early on with the Duke of Enghien, the future Grand Condé. He is six years older than her and disdains her until she reveals herself to be a ravishing young woman, which does not please Anne-Geneviève, who has a troubled relationship with her brother. War between the two women is brewing. So is the Fronde... "A captivating story in every way." The Free Channel EAN : 9782266243575 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Cabot-Caboche - Daniel Pennac - book Summary : Rediscover the story of Apple Who Tames the Dog, or rather, The Dog Who Tames Apple. A great classic of children's literature. Brave, The Dog! Not pretty, pretty, but a hell of a mutt! How he fights to live! What is he looking for? A mistress. A real one, who truly loves him. The Dog really likes Apple. A big laugh, hair like the sun... Alas, she's so capricious! A real noggin, this Apple. How will The Dog tame her? EAN : 9782266199667 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Patty Diphusa, the Venus of the Sinks - Pedro Almodovar - book Summary : Patty Diphusa, "international porn star," has the opportunity to write for a trendy magazine. The one nicknamed the "Venus of the Sinks" has found her topical subject: it's her! Her memoirs about her Madrid escapades, with cocktails, sex, and drugs on the menu, are a wonderful excuse to pose as a philosopher and improvise poetry. Born in 1949, Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most famous Spanish filmmakers. He directed Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1988), All About My Mother (1999) or again Talk to her (2002). “A master of unbridled and daring storytelling.” The Daily Cinema EAN : 9782757823194 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Bohemian Wine - Joanne Harris - book Summary : During three wonderful summers spent with his grandparents, young Jay Mackintosh met a very mysterious man: Joe. This enigmatic character transformed reality into an exuberant party. Above all, he made a special wine, each sip of which was a magical elixir. Joe disappeared, and this world suddenly vanished. That was fifteen years ago, but the memory still haunts him. Since then, Jay has become a famous writer. But, lacking inspiration, he willingly indulges in drinking... until the day a real estate ad leads him on the trail of his past. The castle for sale strangely resembles a place his friend had described to him... EAN : 9782070420841 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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