Title : Storm at the Stud - Chris Donner - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782211210331 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : By the roads - Sylvain Prudhomme - Book Summary : Femina Prize 2019 - Prix Femina 1981 "The world is divided into two categories. Those who leave. And those who stay." Forty-something writer Sacha leaves Paris for the tranquility of a small town in the South. Barely settled in, he meets up with his childhood friend. The one he always called the hitchhiker now lives with Marie and their son, accustomed to his disappearances and unexpected returns. But Sacha's arrival upsets this family balance. The bonds between Sacha and Marie are strengthened. What is freedom worth compared to friendship and love? EAN: 9782072921667 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Black Eagles - Larry Collins - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266062787 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Eleven short stories to read alone on football match nights... - Emmanuelle Poinger - Book Summary : Ladies, you must read this book written for you. Why? Because your man is about to abandon you... again. Not for a pretty blonde ten years your junior. No, your rivals are eleven hairy players chasing a ball and rolling around on the floor screaming! Emmanuelle Poinger has always noticed the disastrous effect of football on men's libido, those zombies who keep their eyes glued to the top corner while you walk by in a corset and suspenders. Armed with this observation, she had fun coming up with eleven funny and sensual stories to stop women from getting bored on match nights. Enough to forget the image of your haggard man surrounded by leftover pizza and beer cans. You'll look at it differently once the television is turned off and the book is closed... EAN: 9782266158756 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Metaphysical Meditations - René Descartes - Book Summary : To lay the foundations of all philosophy and all knowledge, by tracing the path that leads from radical doubt to indubitable science: such is Descartes's undertaking in his Metaphysical Meditations. Throughout this original work, which combines demonstration and asceticism, truth is founded as the reader discovers and forms himself, experiencing, after the uncertainty of all knowledge, the existence of the thinking subject, of God, of material things, the distinction between the soul and the body and their union in man. The Meditations, of which we give here the Latin and French texts, are followed by Objections formulated by illustrious theologians and philosophers - including Arnauld, Hobbes, Gassendi - and the author's Responses, through which the exposition of his metaphysics is extended. EAN: 9782080703286 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sculpture of the Self - Michel Onfray - Book Summary : An aesthetic morality requires us to live a life transfigured by the sculpture of the self : it presupposes overflowing vitality, the restoration of the resurgent virtù against Christian virtue, the talent for heroism that strong individuality allows, consent to abundance, the capacity for magnificence. From a hedonistic perspective, this ethic gives all their power to politeness, elegance, the given word, friendship and elective affinities. It is at this price that a jubilant and resolutely contemporary morality will be possible. Michel Onfray. EAN: 9782253942252 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Librarian - Gudule, Christophe Durual - Book Summary : Why does the old lady who lives across the street from Guillaume write so late at night? Who is this young girl who only leaves her house after dark? To solve these mysteries, Guillaume embarks on a fantastic journey to the land of books and writing. EAN: 9782013218658 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Shhh! - Janine Boissard - Book Summary : A beautiful castle surrounded by vineyards, near Cognac. It belonged to Edmond de Saint Junien, producer of the "nectar of the gods." Family motto: "We keep quiet, we hold on!" No matter what. Even when it comes to Roselyne, the eldest daughter, who has been "lost," and of whom there has been no news for years. The arrival at the estate of his eighteen-year-old son, Nils, whose existence was unknown to everyone, will explode a family secret and shatter the apparent unity of the Saint Junien family... "Novelist Janine Boissard is to family sagas what Agatha Christie is to suspense, a high priestess of the genre." Direct Matin EAN: 9782266244442 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Grandfather - Marina Picasso - Book Summary : Picasso, the greatest genius of the century, seen through the eyes of a child, Marina, his granddaughter. In 1973, when the painter died, she was twenty-two years old. For thirty years, she remained silent. It took her all these years to put her suffering into words, to caress this scar with infinite emotion and full of modesty. In the most intimate, the most terrible way, Marina Picasso writes beyond the pain, to where her freedom lies today: her children and those at the ends of the earth. EAN: 9782070427529 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Read at Night - Seamus Deane - Book Summary : Was he a hero or a traitor, this uncle Eddie, an IRA volunteer, whose family legend claims he disappeared in 1922 in a distillery explosion? In Londonderry in the 1950s, the young narrator, the third child in a working-class family of seven, lives under the yoke of this family secret, between a mother closely linked to the mystery and a father kept in ignorance of a truth even more terrible than the one he believes he holds. It is through fragments that Seamus Deane captures the very essence of a distrustful and troubled era, in a city whose social fabric was torn apart by the bloody conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Vibrant and modest, his novel masterfully blends family sorrows and political violence and offers a lyrical and intimate reading of the "Irish problem." EAN: 9782742756780 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : No Exit / The Flies - Jean-Paul Sartre - Book Summary : "Garcin: - The bronze... (He caresses it.) Well, now is the moment. The bronze is there, I contemplate it and I understand that I am in hell. I tell you that everything was planned. They had planned that I would stand in front of this fireplace, pressing my hand on this bronze, with all these looks on me. All these looks devouring me... (He turns around abruptly.) Ha! There are only two of you? I thought there were many more of you. (He laughs.) So, this is hell. I would never have believed... You remember: the sulfur, the pyre, the grill... Ah! What a joke. No need for a grill: hell is the Others." EAN: 9782070368075 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sleeping Dog - Thomas Perry - Book Summary : They called him the Butcher Boy. At the time, the Mafia couldn't have found a better killer than this man who appreciated a job well done. Now, Michael Schaeffer is a peaceful American citizen living in England. Hidden away because a price has been put on his head. But when the past reawakens and old enmities resurface, Michael Schaeffer understands that his routine life risks turning into a nightmarish odyssey. Hunted by the Mafia, local police, and the FBI, the Butcher Boy is forced to return to his original profession and reconnect with his good old habits. EAN: 9782266112673 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Life is not a punishment - Pascal Dessaint - Book Summary : Our life had its ups and downs, not really high ups, nor really low downs, no, it was just a small swell, not enough to capsize a rubber dinghy. I told myself that if a storm were to upset things, to capsize the dinghy with us in it, it wouldn't be our fault, unless we had checked the weather forecast beforehand and hadn't taken into account the precautionary advice. And then, in that case, it was also possible that other parameters, other interventions would come into play without us being able to do anything about it. That night would fall and another, stronger boat would hit us and send us to the bottom, for example. That's basically what happened. EAN: 9782869309708 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Violation - Darian North - Book Summary : A reception in a castle. Théa leaves the gathering. She takes in the cool of the evening. Then nothing. Pitch black for several months. Waking up from a deep coma, Théa is a mother. Her child was born from a pregnancy she has no memory of. Only recurring nightmares haunted by Ronnlie Rusket, her attacker. He was convicted without her ever having seen him. One thing is certain: he is not the father of her son, David. Fourteen years later, the nightmare begins again. David has set off alone to track down his father. She has received only an email from him from New York, the very city where it all began. To find him, Théa must delve into her past and finally agree to put faces to the ghosts that shattered her life. EAN: 9782266114516 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Third Lie - Agota Kristof - Book Summary : Inter Book Prize 1992 Across the border, the war is over, the dictatorship has fallen. To live, to survive, they had to lie all these years. Klaus and Claus T. discover the hard way that newfound freedom is not synonymous with truth. What if their existence itself was a lie? Thus ends the trilogy inaugurated with The Big Notebook , and translated today in around twenty countries. EAN: 9782020257817 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : King Zibeline's World Tour - Jean-Christophe Rufin - Book Summary : "My friends," cried Benjamin Franklin, "allow me to say that, for the moment, your affair is strictly incomprehensible." "It's a long story," said Auguste. "A very long story," added Aphanasie, his young wife, whom Franklin no longer took his eyes off. "It crosses many countries, it depicts dramas and violent passions, it takes place among distant peoples whose cultures and languages ​​are different from anything known in Europe..." "Never mind! On the contrary, you have piqued my interest..." The authentic story of a young nobleman born in central Europe, a contemporary of Voltaire and Casanova. By turns officer, prisoner, navigator, and expedition leader, he will become king of Madagascar and fight to give this island its freedom and independence. EAN: 9782072793257 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Yorkers - Laura Jacobs - Book Summary : Iris Biddle approaches her forties with discretion and elegance. She left Chicago after an unexpected divorce and settled in New York, where she makes lampshades for a wealthy clientele. What began as a homemaker's hobby has become Iris's livelihood and the darling of Manhattan. Lana Burton is a thirty-four-year-old journalist determined to break into the highly aristocratic world of ballet criticism. She gradually finds her place, experiencing dubious friendships and rivalries along the way. Through the portrait of these two women, Laura Jacobs invites us on a stroll through the heart of a city that gradually becomes the main character and whose heroines transmit a singular palpitation. New Yorkaises is a glamorous and delicate novel. EAN: 9782743611286 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This Too Shall Pass - Milena Busquets - Book Summary : It's summer, Blanca's favorite season. After her mother's death, she leaves Barcelona to settle in the family vacation home in Cadaqués. In this land rich with memories of her childhood, under the Mediterranean sun, she seeks peace. But she doesn't leave alone; a disparate and unlikely group accompanies her: her two ex-husbands, the sons she had with them, her friends Sofía and Elisa, her lover Santi, and, of course, her deceased mother, to whom she never stops talking beyond death, so difficult and unacceptable is this loss. Swimming, boat rides, and naps in the hammock will follow one another, as will those long summer dinners during which words are exchanged as easily as joints or love. Memories then surface, intertwining past and present. Blanca thinks back to that whimsical mother, the free and demanding intellectual she loved so much and hated so much. She mentally writes him a silent and intense letter in which she tries to take stock as honestly as possible of their painfully complex relationship. She tells him in her tender, funny, and poignant words that in the face of death she chooses elegance, lightness, life. She tells him that she chooses summer and Cadaqués because she knows that this, too, will pass. A book highlight at the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, translated and published in some thirty countries, this second novel by Milena Busquets is a small prodigy of balance and intelligence. EAN: 9782070149117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In My Skin - Memoirs of a Prostitute - Kate Holden - Book Summary: Straight to hell. How can a young girl from a good family, cultured and reasonable, fall into the spiral of drugs and prostitution? Kate's story begins with the sounds of Nirvana and the swirls of student parties; it continues in the intoxication of bodies and the ecstasy of illicit experiences. It tells the true story of a flirtation with the devil, of a young woman who discovers her power over men at the same time as her vulnerability to the addictions of drugs and sex. Why did Kate fall? And beyond her personal experience, why do some people give in? This document explains, with disconcerting simplicity, the insidious mechanisms that cause a life to slide into the twists and turns of addiction. It is also a text of great literary significance. "I earned money I never imagined I would earn, I wore velvet dresses and gleamed under the lamps. I walked tall through the crowd, knowing I was desired. I was given luxurious gifts. I was a princess in her kingdom, and men couldn't get enough of me." EAN: 9782350871165 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shadow of Your Smile - Mary Higgins Clark - Book Summary : At a time when the grandnephews of the recently deceased Dr. Alex Gannon are fighting over his fabulous inheritance, should Olivia Morrow reveal the terrible secret that only she now knows? Isn't revealing the existence of her granddaughter Monica a betrayal of the promise she made to her cousin Catherine and a betrayal of her memory? Who could suspect Sister Catherine, a nun on the verge of beatification, of having had a child with Alex at the age of seventeen and then abandoned him? Revealing what Alex himself didn't know would endanger the young girl's life. An enormous inheritance is at stake. Because Alex Gannon, the child's father, who knew nothing of his son's fate, left a colossal fortune upon his death, which his greedy grandnephews are already fighting over. They are ready to do anything to prevent Alex's legal heir, Monica Farrell, daughter of the billionaire's child with Catherine, from receiving the inheritance... By revealing her secret, Olivia not only breaks the promise she made to her cousin, but also endangers her life and that of Monica... A fantastic thriller in which the great Mary Higgins Clark intertwines science, faith and the quest for identity in a breathless race against death. EAN: 9782226208415 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl from the Moon Harbor - Simone Gelin - Book Summary : A first novel...inspired by a few years of teaching experience in a city school. EAN: 9782819500292 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Shield of Saint Odile - Yves-olivier Muhlheim - Book Summary : WINNER of the Femme Actuelle prize in the CLASSIC genre: "NOVEL OF SUMMER 2010" President of the Jury: Paulo COELHO 3rd edition of the Summer Novel Prize with FEMME ACTUELLE. 2010 EDITION: 600 manuscripts received (500 classic genre), only 1 winner in the Classic Genre. 1000 reading sheets received to reveal THE winner (best average satisfaction rating of all manuscripts evaluated - excluding thrillers) EAN: 9782917144619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : High Voltage - Ingrid Astier - Book Summary : "How many apocalypses can one carry within oneself?" On the outskirts of Paris, a wealthy Saudi's convoy speeds through the night. An unprecedented attack occurs, worthy of the finest teams. "A great albatross" for Commander Suarez and his men from the anti-banditry brigade, stunned by the scope of the affair. Enough to distract them for a while from their obsession with the Gecko - a living legend who strolls the rooftops of Paris, gold on his fingers, as if it were his home, from the dome of the Institut de France to the Saint-Eustache church... Who is the mastermind behind this bloody attack? The convoy's most precious loot, however, is neither money nor diamonds. But a woman, Ylana, as beautiful as she is lost. Ranko is a hardened loner with incredible willpower. But also a man on edge, affected by the history of the former Yugoslavia. The attack on the convoy brings them together. Ranko's destiny has irrevocably changed. Her uncle, Astrakhan, seals this fate by giving her a chess set. The set of Svetozar Gligoric, the grandmaster who carved his pieces from wine corks. And he asks her to fight—at boxing and chess—to infiltrate the art world and steal its finest works from Enki Bilal, the famous artist. War and love hover like vultures. The police, a woman, or fate—who is capable of bringing Ranko down? EAN: 9782070147939 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nativities - Michèle Gazier - Book Summary : Two women converse, a mother and her daughter. They exchange, as they say, news, a way of letting the banality of everyday life speak for them and of preserving the complicity and tenderness of silence. But in the interplay of these two voices, stories are born, stories of birth, precisely. "We are born," wrote Rousseau, "so to speak, twice; one to exist and the other to live." Jean-Jacques forgot the women who are also born into life by giving existence and the price they pay for this privilege. Far from the unctuous and glorious natalities of imagery, the stories that intersect here, funny or cruel, pathetic or tender, draw most of their strength from the ability to grasp the ordinary nature of the event, the lived nakedness of this upheaval. We find there, a little, of what is sung elsewhere, the expectation, the wonder, the sharing; but also and always what we are accustomed to keeping quiet, the anguish, the humiliation and this terrible solitude in the face of what is sometimes called being born and sometimes also dying. EAN: 9782020231978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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