Title : Chance - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Book Summary : "At daybreak, as he took his watch, Juan Moguer's gaze was drawn to what he first thought was a pile of rags lying on the deck, to port, against the edge of the deckhouse. The sea was calm, a faint glow lit up a cloud to the east. The coast was already far away, only the high snow-capped mountains glittered in the sun. Moguer opened the cockpit door and shone his torch on the unusual object. In the gloom, the pile of rags unraveled a little in the wind and two large black eyes shone in a small, dark face that looked like a child's." How Nassima, disguised as a boy, boarded the Azzar and what followed. The two short novels (or long stories) that we are about to read, Hasard and Angoli Mala, are separated by fifteen years. It seemed to me that they were talking about the same apprenticeship, about the love of nature, about evil too. But when it comes to bringing them together, I'm no longer sure which one is the mirror of the other. JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782070755370 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Allah Superstar - YB - Book Summary : "Let me introduce myself: Kamel Hassani. I was born in Algeria nineteen years ago. My father's name is Mohamed like everyone else. Back home, he worked in tourism, so he met my mother on the beach in Tipaza in '82, Martine Gros, a shorthand typist on vacation with her funny works council. My father screwed her so well that she stayed with him in Algiers, and I was born right after. A year later, my poor mother, a bearded man in a white robe spat on her and called her a "satanic Frenchwoman," even though she's just a good woman from Charente. Luckily, my father reacted like a man: he rushed to the travel agency to buy three tickets." Kamel wants to be a movie star or a trendy comedian, because "Jamel Debbouze can eat his fill," "but for Arabs, it's easier to get into Al Qaeda than TF1." » Here is the resistible rise of "a young man from a difficult background", from Evry where he was a teammate at Quick, to the Olympia, where he would end up in glory, his head in the stars... Through the eyes, as piercing as they are naive, of this son of an Algerian immigrant, YB recounts the difficulty of existing outside of economic, social, and cultural ghettos. This novel, where laughter serves virulence, sends back to back the soft democrats and the Islamists, the society of the spectacle and traditionalisms, mocks communitarianism of all kinds, and blasts the stupidity of some, the lies of others. With this book, comic from one end to the other, twisting the language of the projects and French rap, YB, armed with words, drops a bomb of a new kind. EAN: 9782246624516 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Chess Player - Bertina Henrichs - Book Summary : Can a game turn a woman's life upside down? It's hard to believe. On the island of Naxos, backgammon players are legion, but no woman has ever approached the black and white pawns. As for those on a chessboard, don't even think about it! However, for Eleni, caught up in a life without rough edges or madness, the oldest game in the world will be the beginning of the adventure... EAN: 9782867464010 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Women's Choir - Martin Winckler - Book Summary : "My name is Jean Atwood. I'm a hospital intern and top of my class. I'm planning on going into gynecological surgery. I'm aiming for a position as a senior resident in the best department in France. But first, I'm being forced to spend six months in a tiny "Women's Medicine" unit, run by a rough-hewn, bearded man who isn't even a gynecologist, but a general practitioner! If he thinks I'm going to spend six months in his service, he's seriously mistaken. What does he think? That he's going to teach me my job? I've received unparalleled training; I know everything a gynecological surgeon needs to know to operate on, repair, and reconstruct the female body. So, I can't—and I don't want to—waste my time listening to women pour out their hearts and tell their stories. I really don't see what they could teach me." EAN: 9782846822671 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. Dick or the Tenth Book - Jean-Pierre Ohl - Book Summary : The narrator, François Daumal, harbors an exclusive passion for Dickens. He is haunted by the desire to know the ending the great writer planned for his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, whose incompleteness has given rise to a deluge of sometimes delirious hypotheses to this day. But Daumal has a rival, in the person of Michel Mangematin, who pursues the same chimera... Under the gaze of a mysterious old bookseller, Mr. Krook, the two young people engage in a fierce duel, which extends into the realm of love. The enigmas multiply, the twists and turns carry the story from one era to another at a frenetic pace, in the company of extravagant characters worthy of Miss Havisham or Mr. Pickwick. Which of the two young men will discover Edwin Drood's secret? A brilliant entertainment, Mr. Dick is also a hymn to literature and its powers. EAN: 9782070770991 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Chems Palace - Ali Bécheur - Book Summary : The oasis, nestled between rock, desert, and salt marshes, rises up in the heart of the steppe, blazing under a fierce sun. An island of lushness where the narrator, a retired schoolteacher, intends to live out the time he has left. With the "sons" of the oasis, he shares date honey, acrid, syrupy tea, rites, and pilgrimages... A tiny world steeped in its timeless traditions. Why is he led to tell the story of Nadir, a hotel magnate who left empty-handed and returned laden with riches? And who is this Sandra, who transforms a barefoot man into a pasha? A lush and sensual novel in which we learn that whoever escapes from the oasis is condemned to return, at the end of an initiatory journey through the peril of existence. EAN: 9789973580658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Promenade - Régis Jauffret - Book Summary : "Life is a walk, we come, we go, we move on. People follow one another without us recognizing them. We make out their presence with the tips of our antennae like bodies placed on the conveyor belt of the species. Anguish beats, palpitates in place of the heart. The brain is a torture chamber where we dare not scream for fear of exasperating the pain. The decades of existence pile up one on top of the other like cubes. We pass through them haggard, without experiencing each moment towards which we were unknowingly heading from the beginning. Everything becomes clear, illuminates, happiness sets the horizon ablaze like a shower of suns. We don't have time to tell ourselves that the walk was worth it despite everything. The lights have already gone out, we will have existed only for this immense and brief joy." Régis Jauffret. EAN: 9782843351006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Teacher Man - A Young Teacher in New York - Frank MCCOURT - Book Summary : The sequel and finale of Frank McCourt's memoir trilogy. After his Irish childhood and his American youth, he recounts his chaotic and comical journey through the twists and turns of teaching, facing a formidable audience: his students. After the phenomenal success of the Angela's Ashes and of What's America Like?, Frank McCourt closes his trilogy of memoirs and offers us a portrait of the artist as a young teacher in New York in the sixties, full of verve, passion and emotion. After using his talents in a number of highly unlikely odd jobs, Frank McCourt decides to put his teaching degree to good use. His first job: a technical high school on Staten Island. First students: wild animals. Faced with these young monsters, what attitude should we adopt? Punish them or let them stew in their own ignorance? At the risk of upsetting his superiors, Frank opts for cunning. The students have sandwich fights? He catches them in mid-air and eats them. They never bring apologies for being late? He sees this as an opportunity to teach them writing by having them write the apologies of Eve or Judas. They don't listen in class? He intrigues them, astonishes them, captivates them with anecdotes about his Irish childhood, fascinating stories that will captivate even the most reluctant students and move generations of readers around the world. EAN: 9782714442420 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mother Goddess - François Cavanna - Book Summary : "... a woman, a woman more than a woman, gloriously, outrageously a woman, buttocks, belly, breasts, hips, curves and folds, a woman with a high, wide and deep cleft, a woman without a look and without a mouth because she has no face, a woman without hands, without feet, without anything other than woman, the exuberance of woman in the glory of her overflowing femininity, the delectable and maternal woman, mountain of flesh, abyss of delights, who would have digested a hundred males and nourished a thousand children." It takes place more than ten thousand years ago. In wild times, in a hostile world, among primitive and barbaric beings. One might think that this has nothing to do with today's evolved humanity. And yet... Through this bawdy, philosophical and partisan novel, it is indeed man - or rather the male! - and especially woman - or perhaps the goddess? - that Cavanna depicts in his own way, with humor, joy and truculence, reconnecting with the exuberance of the word that we know him for. EAN: 9782226089038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hunger Refrain - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Book Summary : "My mother, when she told me about the premiere of Boléro, spoke of her emotion, the shouts, the bravos and the whistles, the tumult. In the same room, somewhere, was a young man she never met, Claude Lévi-Strauss. Like him, long afterward, my mother confided in me that this music had changed her life. Now I understand why. I know what this repeated, drummed phrase, imposed by the rhythm and the crescendo, meant to her generation. Boléro is not a musical piece like the others. It is a prophecy. It tells the story of anger, of hunger. When it ends in violence, the silence that follows is terrible for the stunned survivors. I wrote this story in memory of a young girl who was, in spite of herself, a heroine at twenty." JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782070122837 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girls of the New World - Susan Richards Schreve - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782856166437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Circle of Women - Sophie Brocas - Book Summary : During a great-grandmother's funeral, four generations of women are confronted with the discovery of a painful family secret. "I join Mom in the cool house. She continues her patient work of sorting: the pile of things to throw away, the pile of things to keep, the pile of things we'll figure out later. What possessed me to get down on all fours to look under the large wardrobe? My hand pulled out yet another shoebox. I blew off the film of dust covering its lid before lifting it." Gathered for a few days in the countryside for the funeral of their grandmother and friend, four generations of women share their intimacy and their grief. Young Lia inadvertently discovers a family secret jealously guarded for sixty years. Do these revelations threaten to trigger a cataclysm within this very endearing tribe? A coming-of-age novel, The Women's Circle delicately explores the unconscious mechanisms of transmission from mothers to daughters and offers us a gallery of characters as touching as they are whimsical. EAN: 9782260022008 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Monsieur Malaussène - Daniel Pennac - Book Summary : "- The sequel! demanded the children. The sequel! The sequel! My sequel is the other little me who is preparing my succession in Julie's bosom. How beautiful a woman is in these first months when she does you the honor of being two! But, Julie, do you think that's reasonable? Julie, do you think so? Honestly... eh? And you, little shit, do you think that this is the world, the family, the time to settle down? Not there yet and already with bad company!- The sequel! The sequel! They were so keen on their sequel that I, Benjamin Malaussène, highly responsible family brother, resurrected goat, potential father, ended up in prison accused of twenty-one murders. All that for a dark trafficking of images in this century of Enlightenment. So, do you really want me to tell you the sequel?" EAN: 9782070731404 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On the Street Where the One I Love Lives - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : In 1891, young girls mysteriously disappear. But when a century later, their skeletons are discovered, along with the bodies of more recent victims, the small town of Spring Lake, a chic old seaside resort on the Atlantic coast, is paralyzed. Everyone seems to have something to hide. The doctor, the real estate agent, the restaurateur... they all seem suspect. But are they guilty? In this atmosphere of growing anxiety, Emily Graham, a young New York lawyer, moves into the family home where her murdered ancestor Madeline once lived. A man observes her every move. Is he a killer? Mysterious links seem to connect him to all these victims of the past. Will Emily be his next target? EAN: 9782226125538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Accused - John Grisham - Book Summary : On December 7, 1982, in a small Oklahoma town, a twenty-one-year-old woman, Debbie Carter, was brutally raped and murdered. The investigation stalled despite clues leading to a high school friend with whom she was seen the night of the crime. Five years later, another man, Ron Williamson, was arrested by the police in charge of the case. He would be sentenced to death. Just days before his execution, DNA tests cleared him... and pointed to the real culprit: the high school friend—who was never charged. Twelve years passed between Ron Williamson's arrest and his release. Twelve years during which the police and the justice system have accumulated false testimonies, lies, pseudo-expertise... With his inimitable art of suspense and thanks to his experience as a lawyer, John Grisham dismantles the infernal mechanism of judicial error and asks: how many innocent people are there on death row in American prisons? EAN: 9782221108215 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : Love is Crazy - Yann Queffélec - Book Summary : What if Alba came back? This is the question that Aline asks Marc, seemingly confused. She is forty-two, Marc is twenty-five, they love each other, want a child. He himself is still a child for whom the future is only a virtual game, a pastime. Marc is a bit like my double, my damned soul, in another life. He lost his mother at eighteen, his first wife. Every day he loses her a little more by losing himself. He no longer sees Cathy, his blind little sister, he runs away from Tim, his eternal friend, he doesn't work. He would like to try to establish a dialogue with his father, but he is so unnatural in front of him. Alba is Marc's childhood friend, an ex-girlfriend, and also Aline's daughter. She disappeared five years ago for no apparent reason. What would happen if she came back to Marc's heart? She calls one morning. I missed you, she says. Love is crazy. EAN: 9782213625010 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I Married a Stranger - Patricia MacDonald - Book Summary : Young married. Soon a child. Perfect bliss. For their honeymoon, Emma and David have chosen a simple cabin in the forest. But the romantic getaway turns into tragedy: attacked by a masked man armed with an axe, Emma is rescued by a hunter. It is he who will be killed by the criminal. For the police, there is no doubt: David is suspect number 1. And the evidence piles up: his strange refusal to cooperate, his unexplained absence at the time of the events, the testimony of a neighbor, the fortune of the young woman he would inherit... Doubt then creeps into Emma's mind, devastating. Does she really know the man she married? Patricia MacDonald has a knack for writing novels that command no price. In this new, unnerving psychological thriller, she draws her reader into a nightmarish web of deadly possibilities without revealing anything until the very last page. EAN: 9782226173447 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corpse in the Rolls-Royce - Michael Connelly - Book Summary : Do you know what means "to blackmail" the trunk-»-?  For the Las Vegas Mafia, "blackmailing the trunk" means killing someone and leaving them in the trunk of a car. So, when Harry Bosch learns that a producer of erotic turnips is found dead in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce, the culprits seem obvious. Except for a few minor details: the widow doesn't seem the least bit upset by the news of the death, and organized crime specialists don't share Bosch's point of view on the matter. The solution? Head to Las Vegas and try to figure it out. Revenge for the cheated wife? A dark, high-level cop showdown? EAN: 9782702160985 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of Love - Tales of Longing for Her and Desire for Him - Henri Gougaud - Book Summary : When we read the tales and myths of primitive peoples, it appears that the thousand games of sex were everywhere celebrated as the most sacred manifestations of the happiness of being. Our West, today, no longer considers them inspired by the devil, but it still does not dare to think that they can, or could one day, please God. For our simple ancestors, it goes without saying that the strength to love has its source in the Master of Creation, and that there is no more joyful duty than to celebrate these tools that were given to us to serve it. The tales that populate this book are all, of course, from oral tradition. Whatever their country of birth, they speak of the same astonishment at seeing themselves in the sun after the unfathomable shadow, the same wonder at love. I enjoyed serving these works which have so much to teach us about a happiness to be reinvented. HG EAN: 9782020254656 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Night of Error - Tahar Ben Jelloun - Book Summary : A grim fate decreed that Zina, the heroine of this novel, was conceived during a cursed night, "a night of error" during which nothing was to be conceived. She was born on the day of her grandfather's death. Thus, what was supposed to be a celebration was a mourning. Struck by fate, cursed forever, she would become a child, then a marginalized woman, the one through whom misfortune befalls. Zina would make cruelty her way of being in the world and take revenge on the men captivated by her beauty. "Women are cruel," she would say, "because men are cowards." Zina would endeavor to seduce and then destroy her lovers. Three magical places, three Moroccan cities serve as the setting for this story: Fez in the 1940s, Tangier ten years later, and Chaouen today. Tahar Ben Jelloun brings together several storytellers to combine the themes that have always inhabited his work: the violence of relationships between men and women, freedom... "As if by chance," he writes, "it is in the disaster of the world that I find myself, in the suffering of the innocent that I recognize myself." EAN: 9782020215954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mysteries of Osiris, Volume 1 - The Tree of Life - Christian Jacq - Book Summary : At the heart of the temple of Abydos, an acacia tree is dying... And through it, all of Egypt is threatened. For it is not a tree like the others: it sprang from the tomb of the god Osiris, to announce his rebirth. The great pharaoh Sesostris III immediately engages in battle against the invisible enemy who wants to lead Egypt to its ruin. But he is unaware that in his closest circle hides a traitor, a man who dreams of power and honors, a man who will sell himself to the occult forces... A young apprentice scribe, Iker, becomes a very involuntary actor in this mystery. Kidnapped by sailors invoking a "state secret," the adolescent does not know who is trying to kill him, nor who is protecting him. Haunted by the vision of a sublime young priestess, Iker has the feeling of being guided or manipulated, in any case of advancing on a path whose end he does not know. Together, Iker and Sesostris, the weak and the powerful, the innocent and the wise, will they succeed in preventing Osiris from dying for the last time? The Mysteries of Osiris, beyond the fiery quest of young Iker in search of his truth, and the fight of Sesostris III against the forces of Evil, is the absolutely magical and fascinating story of an Egypt that is no more and yet resists in our memories - thanks to Christian Jacq, who gives us here the keys and the secrets of its unalterable dimension... EAN: 9782845631113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Night Abduction - Patricia J. MacDonald - Book Summary : Tess was nine years old when her older sister Phoebe was kidnapped, raped, and strangled. Based on her testimony, the culprit was immediately arrested, tried, and then executed. Twenty years later, a test revealed that his DNA was not the same as that found on Phoebe. Traumatized by the thought of having convicted an innocent man, Tess decided to get to the bottom of this case. Even if it meant reliving the nightmare that turned her life upside down and becoming the prime suspect in her sister's murder... Patricia MacDonald deploys all her talent to distill doubt and ambiguity, through an oppressive psychological suspense, haunted by dramas and family secrets. EAN: 9782226181084 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Delicate Truth - John le Carré - Book Summary : 2008. The Rock of Gibraltar, the jewel of the British colonies, is the scene of a counterterrorism operation led by a British commando and American mercenaries. Codename: Wildlife. Objective: to kidnap a jihadist arms buyer. Sponsors: an ambitious foreign minister and his personal friend, the head of a private military company. Kit Probyn, a candid diplomat, is summoned to be the politician's hotline. The operation is so delicate that even the minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is kept out of it. 2011. Kit Probyn, now retired, summons Toby Bell to his Cornish manor. Toby must choose between his conscience and his loyalty as a servant of the state. But if the passivity of honest men is enough to make evil triumph, how can he remain silent? Of burning topicality – the clash between Christianity and Islam –, Such a delicate truth, The author's twenty-third novel is hard-hitting, tight as a fist. Masterful. Translated from English (Great Britain) by Isabelle Perrin John le Carré , born in 1931, studied at the universities of Bern and Oxford, taught at Eton, and worked briefly for British intelligence during the Cold War. For six decades, he devoted himself to writing. He died in 2020 at the age of 89. Isabelle Perrin , who was destined for a wise academic career, caught the literary translation bug from his mother Mimi. The incurable duettists would co-author more than thirty translations, including all of John le Carré's novels since The Russia House . Press excerpts: "John le Carré transcends mere genre literature and will go down in history as perhaps the most important writer of the second half of the 20th century." Ian McEwan "Le Carré returns to his roots here. Jubilant and subtle, this novel is the most striking of his recent works." The Times “John le Carré’s best novel! It hits the mark: a gripping story about state cover-ups, individual conscience, and duty to one’s country.” New York Times " In Such a delicate truth , the tension mounts as the revelations unfold. Le Carré, a fine analyst of the contemporary world, knows how to provoke while giving food for thought. The Independent “Le Carré’s voice is as recognizable as Dickens’ or Jane Austen’s: often imitated, never equaled, he created his own world of pathetic spies, treacherous lovers, guilt-ridden private school alumni, and ruthless establishment figures as seductive as they are immoral.” Financial Times EAN: 9782021113921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Not all men inhabit the world in the same way - Jean-Paul Dubois - Book Summary : Paul Hansen has been serving his sentence in Montreal's provincial jail for two years, sharing a cell with Horton, a Hells Angel incarcerated for murder. Flashback: Hansen is superintendent at The Excelsior , a residence where he deploys his talents as concierge, guard, factotum, and – even more – repairer of souls and consoler of the afflicted. When he is not busy helping the inhabitants of The Excelsior or maintaining the buildings, he joins Winona, his companion. At the controls of her airplane, she takes him into the sky, above the clouds. But soon everything changes. A new manager arrives. The Excelsior , conflicts arise. And the inevitable happens. A church buried in the dunes of a beach, an open-cast asbestos mine, the meanders of a silver-colored river, the sound waves of an organ make up the varied landscapes in which this novel takes place. Story of a life, Not all men inhabit the world in the same way. is one of Jean-Paul Dubois's finest books. It reveals a writer driven by a keen sense of brotherhood and a feeling of revolt against all forms of injustice. EAN: 9782823615166 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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