Title : The Ballad of Lila K - Blandine Le Callet - Book Summary : A young woman, Lila K., fragile and strong-willed, tells her story. One day, men in black brutally tore her from her mother and took her to a center, half boarding school, half prison, where she was taken care of. Gifted and antisocial, Lila has forgotten everything about her previous life. Her obsession: to find her mother, to recover her lost memory. Thus begins a chaotic apprenticeship for her, in a strangely offbeat, sanitized universe, where books are no longer allowed... More than a coming-of-age story with Orwellian overtones, a moving novel about the strength of connection and forgiveness. Christine Rousseau, The World of Books. This novel, which mixes a love story and a critique of a security policy at all costs, is strangely caught up in current events. Pascale Frey, Elle. EAN: 9782253161752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Tale of the Demon Princes - The Book of Dreams - Jack Vance - Book Summary : Howard Alan Treesong, the last survivor of the Demon Princes, had already become legendary for the monstrosity of the crimes attributed to him. And it was known that with him, the greatest criminal of all time was on his way to becoming the Supreme Coordinator of the Galactic Police. This meant that if he succeeded in his goals, the Empire would once again become a lawless jungle. Kirth Gersen's revenge was no longer a private matter. But Treesong was also waging his holy war, a merciless struggle inspired by his BOOK OF DREAMS, a manhunt without rules and without respite, along a road without refuge, and which for Gersen or Treesong could only lead to apotheosis or apocalypse. EAN: 9782266012171 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Eragon - Christopher Paolini - Book Summary : A young farm boy, Eragon leads an uneventful life in a village in Alagaësia. Until the day he discovers a magnificent blue stone. He has no idea then that it is a dragon egg, and that his life is about to be turned upside down. He will become a Dragon Rider, heir to an elite caste that the king wants to eradicate... Eragon is only sixteen years old, but the fate of the kingdom is in his hands. EAN: 9782747021067 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Guadeloupeans and Martinicans at the Panama Canal - Story of an emigration - Joseph Jos - Book Summary : The 22,000 Caribbean, Martinican, and Guadeloupean dead of the "French Canal," added to the thousands more of the "American Canal," have entered the pantheon of Panama. But for their country, they are marking time at the gates of memory. French history, in fact, has retained from this technological feat only the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the financial scandal that shook French society, and the final American achievement. But it has ignored the artisans who, by the tens of thousands, from 1851 onward, set off in successive waves from Guadeloupe and Martinique toward the transoceanic route to be built. EAN: 9782747558037 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Remarks on education followed by Children's pedagogy - Alain - Book Summary : Two texts are brought together here. The Propos sur l'éducation are general and theoretical reflections, sometimes lapidary, published in one volume in 1932. La Pédagogie enfantine corresponds to a series of thirty-one lessons (October 1924 - June 1925) written at the request of the director of the Collège Sévigné who wanted a course intended for her students, future "kindergartens". "This text will ensure a better understanding of the Propos, insofar as it explains its doctrinal coherence and philosophical basis", notes Robert Bourgne in a Warning. EAN: 9782130550983 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fixed Passion - Philippe Sollers - Book Summary : "I say fixed passion, because no matter how much I have changed, moved, contradicted myself, advanced, retreated, progressed, evolved, slipped, regressed, grown fat, thinned, aged, rejuvenated, stopped, started again, I have never followed, in short, anything but this passionate fixity. I want to say that it is she who lives me, dies me, uses me, shapes me, abandons me, takes me back, rolls me. I forget her, I remember her, I trust her, she makes her way through me. I am me when she is me. She envelops me, leaves me, advises me, abstains, absents herself, joins me. I am a fish in her water, a first name in her multiple name. She let me be born, she will know how to make me die." Philippe Sollers. EAN: 9782070749058 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho - Book Summary : Is man good or evil? Led by a mysterious stranger, the inhabitants of a small village have one week to choose between Good and Evil. A dazzling parable about the battle between darkness and light within us, and a reflection on the freedom we have, at every moment, to choose our path. EAN: 9782843371431 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger - Book Summary : Andrea can't believe it: even with her mismatched clothes, she's landed her dream job. At twenty-three, she's going to join the editorial staff of Runway , a prestigious New York fashion magazine! And become the personal assistant to the editor-in-chief, the pope of good taste: Miranda Priestly. An incredible stroke of luck. But behind the rhinestones and glitter of this dream factory hides a hell populated by stiletto heels and viper's tongues... "Funny and mean." Read "A whirlwind of glamour and mental torture." L'Express EAN: 9782266150149 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782020058674 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flowers of Hiroshima - Edita Morris - Book Summary : "Our voices are only whispers and we sing these laments that are so dear to us. (..) It is with all our passion that we launch this cry from the heart: Never again Hiroshima! - How close we feel to each other! We are a species apart." Yuka is thirty years old. She and her family survived the bomb dropped on Hiroshima fifteen years before the beginning of this story. Yuka will do everything so that her family and loved ones can have a normal life, even with the arrival of this young American who rents her a room and who has the joy of innocence. It is the simple story of people incapable of forgetting but who show the immense courage of survivors and sacrificed: that of hiding their suffering from the rest of the world. EAN: 9782290307847 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hotel Castellana - Ruta Sepetys - Book Summary : "Sometimes, a haunting question arises in a corner of his heart: what can be built on silence?" Summer 1957. On vacation in Madrid, Daniel, a young American photojournalist, tries to capture Spanish life through his photographs. He is far from imagining that what he sees is only a facade, a staging that the Franco dictatorship dangles in front of tourists. His encounter with Ana, an employee of the grand Castellana Hotel, will change his destiny: as they grow closer, the young woman gives him a glimpse of the dark side of this country controlled by fear and oppression. Determined to break the silence, the two lovers find themselves plunged into the heart of one of the worst scandals of the time, which will bind them forever. EAN: 9782072977275 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Modification - Michel Butor - Book Summary : Renaudot Prize 1957 From the first sentence, you enter the book, this book that you write while reading it and that you will end up picking up on the seat of the train that took you from Paris to Rome, not without multiple stops and detours. Michel Butor's third novel, published in 1957, the same year as Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie, Claude Simon's Le Vent, and Nathalie Sarraute's Tropismes, immediately received an excellent critical acclaim. Awarded the Prix Renaudot and translated into twenty languages, it is still today the most widely read work of the Nouveau Roman. In the afterword, "The Mythological Realism of Michel Butor" by Michel Leiris. EAN: 9782707303127 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ninety-three - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : 1793: a terrifying year in which the Revolution was attacked from all sides and responded to the threat with the Terror. Three men embodied the struggle between the partisans of the Ancien Régime and those of the Republic of Enlightenment and progress: the Marquis de Lantenac, an old aristocrat who was the soul of the Vendée insurrection; Cimourdain, a member of the people and an intractable delegate of the Convention; and Gauvain—nephew of the Marquis and spiritual son of Cimourdain—a nobleman who had joined the ranks of the people. Their terrible confrontation would reveal, beyond the bloody twists and turns of the Revolution, the greatness of the man, his moral conscience, and his integrity. The edition's dossier offers an analysis of David's painting, The Sabine Women (1799), an allegory of France after the Terror. EAN: 9782080722416 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Crimes of Blood Volume 2 - Pierre Bellemare - Book Summary : We witness a detailed reconstruction of news stories, taken at different times and in different places, which may have made the headlines or which, on the contrary, are of a disturbingly banal nature. "Earth in Chicago", "Blood in the Canal", "The Wrong Person", "The Murderous Santa Claus": in cities, in the countryside, prey to jealousy, suspicion, revenge, men and women kill... But, as these true stories prove, there are no perfect crimes! EAN: 9782266122337 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Suspense volume 1 - Pierre Bellemare - Book Summary : When a jealous husband wants to murder his wife's lover with a stamp... When, in a newspaper, a man places ads asking for 1 dollar... …the suspense begins. Suspens was first a show by Pierre Bellemare on TF1. It is now a book. Suspense : Breathtaking stories, told "à la Bellemare," fast-paced, varied, and always exciting. Breathtaking stories. EAN: 9782253035213 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Extraordinary Files Volume 2 - Pierre Bellemare - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253035367 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It Happened One Day, Volume 1 - Pierre Bellemare - Book Summary : Human life is woven with astonishing, unusual, tragic, burlesque, or heroic stories that erase the monotony of the present-day plot. These stories, gathered by Marie-Thérèse Cuny, Jean-Pierre Cuny, and Jean-Paul Rouland, were presented by Pierre Bellemare every evening for several months on TF1. Here they are gathered in the form of short stories: speech has given way to writing, to the reader's great pleasure. EAN: 9782253030829 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Book Summary : On an expedition to the North Pole, Robert Walton writes to his sister in which he describes the strange sight he has just witnessed from his ship: the discovery, on an iceberg, of a man lost in his sleigh. Invited to come aboard, Victor Frankenstein says that he has only come here to catch someone—none other than the monstrous creature he once created, which has proven itself to be fearsomely criminal. Published in 1818, Frankenstein was born two years earlier on the shores of Lake Geneva, one day when Lord Byron suggested to some friends, including the poet Shelley and his wife Mary, that each write a ghost story. This fantastic novel predates science fiction and, for nearly two centuries, has continued to arouse sublime terror—to terrify, therefore, but above all to seduce. EAN: 9782253088752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Forgotten Sundays - Valérie Perrin - Book Summary : Twenty-one-year-old Justine has been living with her grandparents and cousin Jules since their respective parents died in an accident. Justine is a caregiver at Hortensias, a retirement home, and loves the elderly above all else. Especially Hélène, a centenarian, who has always dreamed of learning to read. The two women become friends, listen to each other, and reveal themselves to each other. Thanks to the resident, Justine will gradually confront the secrets of her own history. One day, a mysterious "crow" sows trouble in the retirement home and makes a terrible revelation. Both funny and melancholic, a novel of past, present, unacknowledged... dazzling loves. A beautiful book about memory and transmission, carried by sensitive writing. Delphine Perras, L'Express styles . An original and endearing heroine, a surprising universe, a very talented storyteller. Nathalie Dupuis, She . EAN: 9782253071167 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Book Summary : In the year of grace and disgrace 1327, all is well in Christendom. Bands of heretics roam the kingdoms. When William of Baskerville, accompanied by his secretary, arrives in the haven of serenity and neutrality that is the abbey located between Provence and Liguria – admired throughout the West for the knowledge of its monks and the richness of its library – he is immediately put to work by the abbot. The day before, a monk threw himself from the top of the walls. It is the first of the assassinations that will be punctuated by the canonical hours of monastic life. Crimes, debauchery, vice, heresy, all will occur in the space of seven days. In its amusing form of detective novel and clever form of erudite riddle, a vibrant plea for freedom, for moderation, for wisdom, threatened on all sides by the forces of unreason and darkness. Dominique Fernandez, L'Express. EAN: 9782253033134 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jean le bleu - Jean Giono - Book Summary : In this autobiographical account, Jean Giono recalls his childhood spent in Manosque, in a tall house with a narrow staircase that connects the ground-floor laundry, where his mother, Pauline, worked, to the third floor where his father's shoemaker's workshop was located. It was there that Jean Giono learned to feel, see, and think, under the watchful care of his mother, shaped by the wisdom and great kindness of his father. Jean Giono also tells us about the adventures and dramas that marked him and his discovery of sensuality during a stay with the shepherds. This wonderful collection of childhood memories, filled with freshness and tenderness, ends with his departure for the war in 1914. EAN: 9782253000228 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A delicacy - Muriel Barbery - Book Summary : He is the world's greatest food critic, the Pope of gastronomy, the Messiah of sumptuous feasts. Tomorrow, he will die. He knows it and he doesn't care: at death's door, he is searching for a flavor that lingers in his heart, a flavor from childhood or adolescence, an original and marvelous dish that he senses is worth far more than all his feasts as an accomplished gourmet. So he remembers. Silently, sometimes frantically, he sails through the twists and turns of his taste memory, he dives into the casseroles of his childhood, he roams their beaches and vegetable gardens, between countryside and perfumes, smells and flavors, fragrances, aromas, game, meat, fish and first alcohols... He remembers - and he doesn't find it. Not yet. EAN: 9782070421657 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Five Billion Men in a Ship - Albert Jacquard - Book Summary : Man, the singular culmination of the processes at work in the universe since the Big Bang, and on our planet, Earth, since the appearance of the first DNA molecules, is a marvel: he is the only being endowed with the power to attribute powers to himself. The only one whose fate is in his own hands. He uses this privilege today stupidly to pursue derisory objectives of supremacy, of domination; he has accumulated such means of destruction that everything is ready for the suicide of humanity. Perhaps all it would take is a little more lucidity for our intelligence and our energy to finally be put at the service of man. Let's try! EAN: 9782020094818 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals - E. Kant - Book Summary : "What are the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason about ? The foundation of moral discourse, a coherent discourse, absolutely valid for all beings endowed with reason, obliging everything that is finite and reasonable. It is not a question of morality in the traditional sense of the term, of a system of rules of conduct for concrete situations, of precise prescriptions, of prohibitions to be observed. What Kant is looking for is exactly what the title of the first of these writings indicates: a foundation of the metaphysics of morals, not this one. History and the present are full of moralities, without any of the systems advocated being able to claim universal validity: morality remains to be founded." EAN: 9782206001555 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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