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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Title: Flesh and Blood - Michael Cunningham - book Summary : Constantin Stassos, a Greek immigrant, has little in common with Mary, a beautiful Italian-American married during the great utopia of the 1950s. A real estate developer based in Newark, New Jersey, he will build his success on the backs of those more unfortunate than him and turn out to be a violent man. Mary is a frustrated woman, who has trouble accepting the narrowness of everyday life. Three children are born: Susan, the eldest, has a relationship with her father that borders on incest. Billy, an emotional, vulnerable boy, is misunderstood by his father, particularly when he discovers his homosexuality. Zoe, the youngest, will go to live in Manhattan where she indulges in drugs and then, pregnant by a passing lover, a Black man, is adopted by a transvestite, Cassandra, who will help her raise her son. Beneath the respectable facade, the scandal is absolute. EAN : 9782253141563 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Cold Virgin and Other Tales - Jørn Riel - book Summary : Heading for Greenland, to the heart of the white landscape. When you find yourself in a community of Danish trappers on the fringes of the world, anything, absolutely anything, becomes possible. Everyone shares their own tale of wild adventure or fabulously absurd experience. Whether virile or tender, these tales sketch out a jubilant human epic and warm the hardest hearts. "These stories from the Arctic have the harshness and beauty of the climate that gives rise to them." Michèle Gazier, Télérama EAN : 9782264022943 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitor - Valerio Evangelisti - book Summary : Nicholas Eymerich, a ruthless defender of the Christian faith, has etched his name in the history of our time. Author of the famous "Inquisitor's Manual" in the 14th century, this authentic character remained the Grand Inquisitor of the Kingdom of Aragon for more than fifty years. In this first volume of Eymerich's adventures, the author takes us to the heart of intertwined intrigues where the future explains the past, where mysteries span centuries and find their resolution thanks to a clever play of temporal mirrors. Based on a rigorous historical background, Nicholas Eymerich's investigations present us with a detective of the strange, halfway between Sherlock Holmes and William of Baskerville in "The Name of the Rose," capable of foiling the most Machiavellian plots and defeating all heresies. EAN : 9782266089067 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Throw Me to the Dogs - Patrick McGuinness - book Summary : "Throw Me to the Dogs" is a gulp of reading, like a strong drink. Le Figaro littéraire In South London, a few days before Christmas, the body of a young woman is found strangled. Police officer Ander investigates the crime. Suspect: Mr. Wolphram, the victim's neighbor and a retired teacher. A loner and eccentric, this shy intellectual with sophisticated tastes is the ideal candidate, especially in the eyes of the press and social media, which immediately brand him a monster to be lynched. But Ander begins to remember another case in which the teacher was involved, decades earlier at an English boarding school where the police officer, then a teenager, resided, and during which Wolphram showed a different side... So is the kind teacher guilty or not? EAN : 9782264080158 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Still Life - Antonia Susan Byatt - book Summary : "The seed of this novel was a fact that was also a metaphor: a young woman, with a child, looking at a tray of earth where unthinned seedlings on pale, etiolated stems are dying in their struggle for life. She held in her hand the image of a flower, the seed packet with its vividly colored image. Giant, climbing nasturtiums, mixed." England, 1960s. Frederica Potter, admitted to Cambridge, embraces the feminist ideas of her time: she intends to make something of her life and not allow herself to be locked into marriage like her sister Stephanie, who is expecting a second child with Daniel. Much courted, Frederica mixes with intellectuals and weaves all sorts of romantic and artistic complicity that will lead her to discover refinement and luxury. She develops a veritable entomology of human characters, both cruel and destructive. In this sequel to The Virgin in the Garden, AS Byatt highlights the inextricable conflicts between ambition, family life and personal achievement while delivering a subtle and corrosive portrait of these years of revolt and liberation of morals. EAN : 9782080671998 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Be Cool - Elmore Leonard - book Summary : Here's the return of Chili Palmer, the inimitable producer of Zigzag Movie. Chili's last film was a flop, which is probably why he agrees to have lunch with an "associate" from his early days, Tommy Athens. The latter has made a career in recording with the RAP (Rien à perdre) label and wants Chili to produce a film about his life. Chili isn't against it because he sees the opportunity to include Linda Moon, a singer with whom he is secretly in love. The lunch begins with iced tea, but ends in a bloodbath: Tommy is machine-gunned at point-blank range by a ridiculous killer wearing a toupee. The project is scrapped. Who wants a story where the hero is shot? On the other hand, why not make a film about the recording industry? Especially when gangsters... EAN : 9782743612542 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Winter Princess - Kai Meyer - book Summary : If the Brothers Grimm had believed in the success of their tales, they probably would not have accepted the offer of their mentor and friend Goethe. While Jacob supports his family through his job as a librarian, Wilhelm no longer wants to be a burden to his brother. So when Goethe offers him a job as a tutor in Karlsruhe in the Duchy of Baden, he cannot believe his good fortune. And yet, the two brothers' journey begins with dire omens: their car overturns in a ditch. They are forced to stop at an inn where they have a fateful encounter. We find the heroes of A Conspiracy of Visionaries in southern Germany during the winter of 1912. Confronted with the mysteries of history, both great and small, they encounter terrible child thieves, a seductive Hindu princess, an aristocratic mercenary, butterfly collectors, and... Napoleon Bonaparte. Once again, Kai Meyer repaints history in the colors of his fertile imagination in this baroque adventure novel. EAN : 9782743604714 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Stormy Days - Kathrine Kressmann Taylor - book Summary : Tuscany, 1960. Amanda Lashe, a young American widow, moves to Florence for a few months with her daughter. But during an excursion in the surrounding hills, a terrible storm breaks out, forcing them to settle temporarily in an isolated village: Rocca al Sole. There they meet the Marquis Eduardo Carleone. Fifteen years earlier, he had lost his wife, brutally murdered by the Nazis who, invading the hills, had massacred women and children. Since that day, the villagers' resentment toward the Germans has never abated. When, on the morning of the storm, they identify one of their torturers among a group of German tourists, the villagers decide to take justice into their own hands. From then on, this isolated village becomes the scene of all tensions. Stormy Days marks Kressmann Taylor's return to his favorite land: the possibility of a pardon for war crimes. But this latest novel also offers us for the first time a magnificent love story. EAN : 9782081208056 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: East of the Mountains - David Guterson - book Summary : On a rainy October morning, retired surgeon Ben Givens prepares to leave his Seattle home. Recently widowed, suffering from incurable cancer and wishing to escape the suffering that awaited him, he decided to end his life. So he plans to return to his home county. There, in the wild surroundings of Washington State, to spare his loved ones, he will make his death look like a simple hunting accident. But life continues to throw surprises at him, and fate continues to thwart his plans. To the point that, at the end of his life, Ben Givens will find meaning in his life and the continuity of his commitment. After his first novel, Snow was falling on the cedars , awarded the Pen/Faulkner Award, appreciated by more than millions of American readers and recently brought to the screen by Scott Hicks, David Guterson depicts the journey of an honest man tossed between his memories and the experiences of what he believes to be the last day of his life, in a book of restrained emotion and compassion for the vagaries of the human condition. EAN : 9782020367356 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: One Year and One Day - Pascal Bruckner - book Summary : Jézabel Thevanaz, a young mathematics teacher, must leave the peaceful peaks of Haute-Savoie to travel to Canada. Her father, a former pastor and amateur watchmaker, made her swear on his deathbed to take the watch he designed to a friend in Quebec. A unique piece whose purpose is not to tell the time but to destroy time. As Jezebel flies over Greenland, the plane is caught in a terrible storm. Forced to divert its trajectory, the aircraft lands at a makeshift airport, lost in the north of the United States. It is pitch black, and the snow, thick and heavy, is falling heavily. Resigned, the young woman finds refuge at the Plazza: an old hotel of immense proportions, twisted like a cathedral. Broken by fatigue, Jezebel rents a room there, believing she can leave the next day. When she wakes up, the nightmare begins. She is told that she hasn't stayed at the Plazza for a day but... a year! Will she manage to regain her freedom? Will she endure it? Will she really have been cloistered for a year, for one night? The reader knows no more than the character, lost in this universe of disturbing strangeness. EAN : 9782246818717 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: In the Secret of Living Beings - Journey of a Biologist - Nicole Le Douarin - book Summary : Bernard Pivot: It's true that you are amazing! Nicole Le Douarin: I had no complexes, I dared. This is the story of a little girl from Brittany who became a great lady of biology. Nicole Le Douarin, a sought-after academic worldwide, professor at the Collège de France, and CNRS gold medalist, recounts her astonishing personal adventure for the first time in a unique scientific memoir. Born into a modest background, encouraged by her schoolteacher mother, she never stopped wanting to enter the world that fascinated her: research. Passionate, she managed to convince laboratory directors and university presidents—previously reluctant to hire women—to let her carry out her embryology experiments, explained here in a very educational manner. They would bring her international recognition. Chimeras, clones, stem cells... None of these major advances were foreign to her. The reader then discovers the scientific intuitions and immense perseverance of the biologist, and enters with her into the little-known behind-the-scenes of research. In an unexpected way, Nicole Le Douarin even makes us feel how "liberating" science is! As her two great friends, the philosopher Mona Ozouf and the historian Michelle Perrot, write in their admiring preface, the reader is invited to meet a true "princess of science." In the secret of living beings was voted best science book of 2012 by the editors of Read . EAN : 9782221111437 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Four Love Letters - Niall Williams - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782080674296 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Missing - Jonathan Valin - book Summary : Harry Stoner is hired by Cindy Dorn to find her friend Mason Greenleaf. They have lived together for several years, but before living with a woman, Mason shared the life of a man. His body is found in a hotel room. Suicide by a mixture of alcohol and barbiturates. He also bears signs of beatings. Stoner will try to discover what happened during the four days preceding his "suicide," which will lead him to rub shoulders with the homosexual community and its anxieties: society's view of him, police violence, illness, death, love and hate, revenge, etc. In sober and effective language, Missing in Action deals with a more than delicate subject: AIDS. It also speaks to us of love, tolerance and compassion but also of guilt, anti-gay racism and the fear of disease, all without complacency. Missing in Action, or how to live "harmoniously" in an intolerant and unjust society when one does not "conform to the norms" established by public morality. EAN : 9782070497690 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The only one of my race - Daysse-N - book Summary : "I turn off my phone. Lying on the bed, I spend a moment replaying the strange proposition that has just been made to me. I don't know if I should be happy about it, if I have the right to be happy about it. The woman who just called me wants to try to repair the enormous harm she caused me more than forty years ago. This woman simply abandoned me at birth. And I found her without her even looking for me." EAN : 9782810003471 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Well - Matthew McIntosh - book Summary : "Maybe not always, but often. Oh, it can happen to me anywhere. In front of my mailbox, or in the morning in my car when I leave for work: all of a sudden I get the thing - it's a impression rather than an image, a kind of sensation, like when you walk in the dark, avoiding bumping into furniture, There you go - the feeling of being at the bottom of a well." Imagine the Northwest United States ten years after the Kurt Cobain's suicide... Federal Way, a working-class suburb of Seattle. Coming from nowhere, bartender, boxer, computer scientist, fisherman, mother, imaginary rock star, bandit - lives in prey to the darkest impulses struggle desperately against the distress that afflicts them. Well, there are so many variations subtle on the major themes of everyday life: the unemployment, dependency, separation. Humanity will never had been embodied in a novel with "as much noise and fury. The torments and defeats of middle America are examined as signs and symptoms of disillusionment but also the hopes of a disillusioned society. “More than characters in a novel, the author describes beings with all their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their hatreds, their passions, their illusions and their power of reason which are part of the dilemma of the human species. This book is a reading pleasure, a wonderful human experience... It still resonates within me." EAN : 9782020613354 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Hold Firm Your Crown - Yannick Haenel - book Summary : A man has written a huge screenplay about the life of Herman Melville: The Great Melville, which no producer wants. One day, he is given the phone number of the great American filmmaker Michael Cimino, the legendary director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. A meeting takes place in New York: Cimino reads the manuscript. A series of incredible adventures ensue between the Musée de la Chasse in Paris, Ellis Island off the coast of New York, and a lake in Italy. We meet Isabelle Huppert, the goddess Diana, a Dalmatian named Sabbat, a demonic neighbor, and two shady mustachioed men; there is also a pretty doctoral student, a devious concierge, and a very aggressive butler who looks like Emmanuel Macron. What truth glitters between cinema and literature? The comedy of our life hides a sacred story: this novel sets out to find it. EAN : 9782070177875 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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