Title : The Rapture of the Innocents - Taiye Selasi - Book Summary : This is the story of a family, the breakups and heartbreaks that occur within it, and the efforts made by each to work towards reconciliation. In the space of one evening, the peaceful life of the Sai family collapses: Kweku, the father, a Ghanaian surgeon highly respected in the United States, suffers a blatant professional injustice. Unable to bear this humiliation, he abandons Folá, his beautiful Nigerian wife, and their four children. From now on, Olu, their eldest son, will have no other goal than to live the life his father should have had. The twins, the beautiful Taiwo and her brother Kehinde, the renowned artist, will see their adolescence turned upside down by a tragedy that will haunt them long after the fact. Sadie, the youngest, is jealous of all her siblings. But the outbreak of a new tragedy forces them all to question themselves. The experiences and memories of each character intertwine in this irresistibly original and dazzlingly powerful novel, spanning generations and cultures, traveling back and forth between West Africa and the suburbs of Boston, between London and New York. EAN: 9782070142675 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Commercial Court Mafia - A Tour of France's Corruption - Antoine Gaudino - Book Summary : In ten years, the shenanigans within the commercial courts and the proven dishonesty of too many consular magistrates and legal representatives have cost the country a million jobs and businesses billions of francs! This is the distressing assessment drawn up by Antoine Gaudino at the end of a mind-blowing tour of France of this form of institutionalized corruption. From Brittany to the Mediterranean coast, from Bordeaux to Boulogne-sur-Mer, via Bobigny and Nanterre, the former inspector of the Marseille financial brigade, who revealed the scandal of hidden political financing, opens his files, denounces a perverted system, paints an uncompromising portrait of many actors and calls for respect for the law. How can we accept this concerted sharing of spoils among insiders, in defiance of the law? How can we understand that cases can drag on for years, while the fee counter continues to tick? For daring to denounce these practices, a Breton lawyer found himself in prison. Because, it seems, no one should disturb the vultures' meal... All governments, although aware of the extent of the disruption, have so far backed down in the face of pressure from the magistrates and delayed essential reform. EAN: 9782226100221 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Silver Forests - Maurice Rheims - Book Summary : It could be the story of a chance encounter between a man and a woman ten years his senior: he, an obscure lawyer; she, the ultimate heir to a line of foresters. It is the story of an attachment, cemented by the long course of two lives sealed by power, might, and money. And it is much more. What binds these two beings with a bond stronger than the passing years belongs to the universe of the great legend, to the immemorial essence of the world. Between them have never ceased to grow the intertwined roots, the profuse foliage, the dark mosses, and the dense humus of a multitude of trees, woods, and forests. It is this story that makes two lives a mystery. EAN: 9782070742219 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Become a Rock Star (or Not) - Anne Percin - Book Summary : Maxime, who was abandoned in the hands of police officers at the Gare du Nord because of a contraband phone, while his dear Natacha had just boarded a flight to London, is trying to get back on track as best he can after his (failed) Christmas vacation. To avoid going straight back to his parents' house, he finds refuge in Creil, with Uncle Christian, whom he met in Season 1. This loser seems to have never left adolescence, his records, his joints... EAN: 9782812603921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to (well) manage your love story - Anne Percin - Book Summary : He'll have to learn to manage love and friendship, especially the inevitably stormy relationship between Natacha and Alex, Maxime's old girlfriend... Dealing with going out with a Sorbonne student, him, the little high school senior: "Sometimes, I feel like Shrek who married Princess Fiona," he thinks. Dealing with the fact that love can be a bit overwhelming some days, when you'd rather spend your time without your girlfriend strumming your Fender... EAN: 9782812603006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bordeaux and the Commune 1870-1871 - Jacques Girault - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782865772643 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Aviatrix - Paula McLain - Book Summary : Wings of Desire Beryl Markham was two years old when her family moved to Kenya in 1904. Quickly abandoned by her mother, she was raised by her father—a racehorse trainer—and by the natives of the Kipsigi tribe, who lived on her father's land. This unconventional upbringing for someone of her rank transformed her into a bold and fierce young woman, who had a boundless love for the wilderness and disregarded decency. From failed marriages to thwarted affairs—she fell madly in love with Denys Finch Hatton, the lover of author Karen Blixen—Beryl gradually established herself as one of the most remarkable women of her time. She would become the first female aviator to complete a solo transatlantic flight from east to west... Set against the majestic landscapes of early 20th-century Africa, Paula McLain tells the story of an extraordinary woman who yearns only to be free. EAN: 9782258118492 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Edna, Irma and Gloria - Denise Bombardier - Book Summary : Passionate, committed, and exhilarating, Denise Bombardier's new novel has the vitality and earthiness of its heroines: Edna, Irma, and Gloria, three sisters as inseparable as they are feisty. Under the thumb of an uncompromising mother, this infernal trio will challenge, in their own way, institutions and morality in a country held prisoner by tradition. Tyrannizing men and drowning the emptiness of their existence in alcohol, these rebellious and endearing women are nevertheless powerless to invent a life that lives up to their desires and aspirations... A family saga, a novel of origins, a picturesque and moving fresco, Edna, Irma and Gloria takes a lucid and offbeat look at the struggle of women of yesterday and today . EAN: 9782226176899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louise des Ombrages - Yves Viollier - Book Summary : From certain elements of the life of a painter who existed, Yves Viollier has woven a moving story around lineage, creation, and secrecy, along the fresh waters of the green Venice. The father and daughter were holding hands, their eyes closed. It looked as if they were asleep. "They were found, as I tell it, in their house in Les Ombrages. It was after the Great War, at Gué-des-Marais. At that time, suicide was unforgivable. So, father and daughter! Louise, a young painter with precocious talent, was already exhibiting in salons alongside the greatest artists. She had a bright future. The code of silence weighed on the village. Rumors spread, but the mystery was never solved. I went to film in this land of water and sky with changing colors that we call Green Venice. I read the newspapers of the time and looked for paintings by the woman who inspired this story, and whom I named Louise. I visited her house, which I named Les Ombrages. And I tried to retrace through the novel the paths of a destiny that made them decide to take each other by the hand. So that they might live again. And so that we might get to know them. So, perhaps, that we might love them. EAN: 9782258192904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Long Impatience - Gaëlle Josse - Book Summary : This is the story of a son who leaves and a mother who waits. It is a couple who hurt each other and who love each other. It is in Brittany, around the sixties, and could it be elsewhere, everywhere where women wait for those who leave, everywhere where mothers worry?: A woman loses her husband, a fisherman at sea, and remarries the rich pharmacist of the village. Her son, from his first union, has difficulty integrating into this new family and also ends up going to sea. Then begins for the narrator a long wait that she will try, as best she can, to fill by imagining the great banquet that she will prepare for her son, upon his return. Having come to writing through poetry, Gaëlle Josse has published three novels with Autrement. Une longue impatience is her third novel with Notabilia, after The Last Guardian of Ellis Island , which was a resounding success in September 2014 and won numerous awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Prix de l'Académie littéraire de Breton, and the Prix de la Académie littéraire de Breton. EAN: 9782848688121 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Best of Days - Yassaman Montazami - Book Summary : Karl Marx and my father had one thing in common: they never worked for a living. True revolutionaries don't work, my father used to say. This state of affairs seemed logical to him: you couldn't work for the abolition of wage labor and be an employee - it was incompatible." YM After his father's death, Yassaman Montazami took refuge in writing to try to keep the memory of this extraordinary character alive. The humor and the comical nature of the memories gradually eased the immense sorrow caused by his loss. Born prematurely, condemned and then miraculously saved, the child adored by his mother, who never refused him anything, was named Behrouz - in Persian: "the best of days" - a name predestined for a future idealist in love with justice and a clown incapable of taking life seriously. Sent to France to pursue studies he would never complete, he participated in his own way in the revolutionary events of 1979, during which Iran shifted from monarchy to the Islamic Republic, by making his Parisian apartment a refuge for Iranians in exile. Their crisscrossing between Paris and Tehran gives the author the opportunity to portray a multitude of improbable characters from the most diverse backgrounds: a colonel's wife on the run, a fanatic of Gone with the Wind, a libertine poet, mystic and banned from publication, a Maoist revolutionary imprisoned in Evin prison, and even a former business leader turned opium addict. Evoking a world that has now disappeared, this first novel is striking for its mastery and the acuity of its writing. EAN: 9782848051161 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of Memory - Lucia Graves - Book Summary : September 1939. The Cazalet family, gathered at Home Place, learns of England's entry into the war following the invasion of Poland. One after another, London homes are closed to seek shelter in Sussex, where the concerns of everyone—parent, child, or servant—are regularly interrupted by German raids. Polly, whose parents are sinking into an unbearable silence, turns to Christopher's pacifist speeches and Miss Milliment's attentive ear. Clary, her best friend, records every inch of her life in notebooks and develops a thousand scenarios to explain the silence of her father Rupert, who has disappeared off the French coast. Could he have become a spy alongside General de Gaulle? Zoë, his wife, has just given birth to Juliet, who may never know her father. Fascinated, the two teenagers also observe their cousin Louise: at eighteen, when she makes her debut in a sinister provincial theater, she smokes and wears trousers, to the great displeasure of her family. Second volume of the Cazalet saga, A Rude Test picks up the thread of the lives of characters whose most buried secrets Elizabeth Jane Howard continues to explore, while England suffers the full force of the much-feared world conflict. EAN: 9782710388531 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of Memory - Lucia Graves - Book Summary : The House of Memory depicts a fascinating and crucial moment in our history: in 1492, by royal decree, the Jews of Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism were forced into exile. Lucia Graves recounts the separation thus imposed on two lovers: Vidal Ruben, who belonged to a Jewish family that decided to stay and convert, and Alba de Porta, whose close relatives opted for exile. It is the latter, the main character of the story, who, in the twilight of her life, tells her granddaughter her whole story. "Here you are at last, Alba Simha. Come near me, and listen carefully to what I have to say. I have little time left, but please don't cry. I can't bear it when people cry. And don't try to contradict me, as your mother does: I am over eighty years old, I have had a full life, more blessed than most. Listen to me carefully, Alba Simha. I need to tell my story, and who better to hear it than you? It is not only because you are my granddaughter that you bear my name. Other mysterious affinities bind us, and you are the only one I can trust to repeat my words—if you ever wish to do so—without distorting the truth to suit the opinion of others. [...]. It was the third day of Iyyar in the year 5252, in other words the last day April of the year 1492 of the Christian era. A groundswell was rising, which was about to burst the calm waters of our daily life, and in all the kingdoms of Spain things were being plotted with terrible consequences for all the Jews who lived there. I see all this clearly now, but at the time I did not fully understand it - perhaps I did not want to understand it? At sixteen, it is very difficult to believe in the forces of evil, all the more difficult when one experiences the first dazzling flash of love, and when this love is shared, as was the case for me. EAN: 9782268051888 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Romance of Marriage - Jeffrey Eugenides - Book Summary : The Marriage Novel is the story of three American students, one girl and two boys, who meet at Brown University in the early 1980s. Together, they discover with excitement literature, sex, Roland Barthes and the Talking Heads. Madeleine falls under Leonard's spell, Mitchell falls under Madeleine's spell. Like a character from Jane Austen, the young woman finds herself in the middle of a dilemma, between the manic-depressive lover and the ideal son-in-law attracted by spirituality. But Reagan's America is not Victorian England, and love no longer has the same meaning. Perhaps the real subject of this book is coming-of-age. Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell are the heroes of a nation of hypersexualized, idealistic teenagers. Like the Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides or the hermaphrodite in Middlesex, Madeleine learns about femininity by losing her innocence, without giving up all her illusions. Acclaimed worldwide, this new book by Jeffrey Eugenides, released ten years after Middlesex, reinvents the very idea of ​​marital intrigue. From a classic love triangle, Eugenides creates a masterful novel, a sparkling dramedy that is also the portrait of a generation. Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit in 1960. His first novel, Virgin Suicides , enjoyed international success before being adapted for the cinema by Sofia Coppola. Middlesex (Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003) has been translated into around thirty countries and won the Pulitzer Prize. EAN: 9782879299860 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Nights of Favonio - Carmelo Sardo - Book Summary : At night, in Favonio, on the perimeter wall of the old castle converted into a penitentiary, a young man prays for the wind to die down and let him return home. Aged 20, he is doing his military service on the island, as a jailer for mafia bosses. But soon dismay and anguish give way to fascination with the stories of these dark and damp cells: atrocious revenge, cruel deprivation, consuming passions and sincere friendships. While the guard is seduced by the harsh charm of the island and the secrets of the inmates, one of the godfathers observes him... and chooses him, because he needs help in his journey of repentance. A complicity that will forever change the young man's existence by binding him to beings who will haunt him day and night... Full of poetry and humanity, this mafia sentimental education offers a unique perspective, both tender and uncompromising, on men locked up for life, in search of love and redemption. “A captivating novel that finds the perfect balance between the edginess of a crime novel and an intimate dive into feelings.” The Tempo EAN: 9782754026192 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mansions of the World - Francisco Asensio Cerver - Book Summary : Demeures du monde offers the reader a panorama of architectural trends during the last decade of the 20th century. Over a thousand pages illustrated with more than 2,000 color photographs, a collection of projects in settings as diverse as the city and its suburbs, the countryside, the seaside, and the mountains perfectly captures architectural creativity throughout the world. Architects, interior designers, and anyone involved in the construction or redesign of a home will find in this book an unparalleled source of inspiration and the most innovative ideas in terms of material selection, design, and the use of light and space. EAN: 9783829056007 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Where dogs bark with their tails - Estelle-Sarah Bulle - Book Summary : Eugène Dabit Prize 2018 - Stanislas Prize 2018 In the Ezechiel family, Antoine is the one who calls the shots. With her "savannah name," chosen to confuse evil spirits, her bizarre beliefs, and her sense of independence, she is the most indomitable of the siblings. Neither Lucinde nor Petit-Frère have ever managed to stand up to her. But her memory is like a gold mine. A thousand nuggets of memories spring from it, which her niece, a young woman born in the Parisian suburbs and torn by her mixed-race identity, eagerly collects. Over the course of their conversations, Antoine brings to life for her the family history that has been closely linked to that of Guadeloupe since the end of the 1940s: childhood in the depths of the countryside, the splendors and slums of Pointe-à-Pitre, trade in the Caribbean Sea, the inevitable exile to the metropolis... Intensely romantic, carried by a lively language where a touch of Creole surfaces, Là où les chiens aboient par la queue embraces the destiny of an entire generation of West Indians caught between two worlds. EAN: 9791034901753 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Irresistible Alchemy - Simone Elkeles - Book Summary : Brittany is beautiful, intelligent, and sweet. She's dating the captain of the football team. Alex, terribly attractive, is known to be a member of the dangerous Latino Blood gang. Everyone opposes them, even this chemistry class and the required work in pairs. Beyond appearances, Alex and Brittany are growing closer. Their attraction, stronger than prejudices and taboos, could change their future, but at what cost? EAN: 9782011614100 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Trapped Memory - Nicci French - Book Summary : Twenty-five years ago, Natalie Martello disappeared. Today, her body was discovered in the garden of the family estate, and the police concluded it was murder. What unspeakable secret have the Martellos buried? Jane, Natalie's best friend at the time of the events, remembers those autumn days when everything changed: with the help of a psychoanalyst, she explores her memory until she understands that she alone holds the key to the enigma... "The story is so skillfully constructed that you feel like you've got the killer in your grasp from the first third of the story. But nothing is settled until the last lines! Thrilling." Femina Hebdo EAN: 9782266204613 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The 6:27 Reader - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent - Book Summary : So, we wanted to tell you, we like what you do. It makes us feel really good. It will soon be a year that Josette and I have been coming to listen to you every Monday and Thursday morning." On his way to work, Guylain reads to the passengers of the 6:27 RER a few pages rescued from books destined for destruction. This curious pastime will lead him to meet colorful characters who are also trying to reinvent their lives. A concentrate of good humor, full of tenderness and humanity. EAN: 9782070461448 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Year in the Country - Sue Hubbell - Book Summary : I have often dreamed of a complete book, where there would be birds, insects flying in the morning light, drops caught in spiders' webs, the sky changing with the seasons, the smell of rain and the sound of the wind, the cries of animals, a book where one would feel the warmth of the sun, the light touch of plants, a book where there would be the visible and invisible secrets of the world, and even extraordinary and reassuring things like the recipe for persimmon tart. A book that would give me the same happiness as when I once read Virgil, sitting by the sea in the shade of olive trees (now replaced by buildings). A book where poetry would be like breathing, where language would make its familiar music. It seems to me that Sue Hubbell's book is that book." JMG Le Clézio. EAN: 9782072851032 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The City Whose Cape Is Red - Asli Erdogan - Book Summary : Ozgür, a young student from Istanbul, arrives in Rio one day expecting to stay with a university student. A taxi takes her to the address indicated, where, unfortunately, she is not expected. Alone in this city overflowing with sensuality but also terror, she decides to stay. Thus begins for her an initiation through falling. Every day, violence draws closer and poverty suffocates her, but Ozgür pushes back fear, sidesteps death, then tames it. Every day, vertigo draws her, toward the depths, toward the very heart of Rio de Janeiro, a sublime labyrinth hiding behind its carnival mask a monstrous creature that will reveal the young woman to herself: she will write a book. A hymn to the fragility of man in his own hell, The City Whose Cape Is Red was hailed, upon its publication in 1998, as a masterpiece. EAN: 9782330113544 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mystic Masseur - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - Book Summary : Ganesh Ramsumair was born in Trinidad into a poor rural Indian family. From an early age, his love of books and education aroused suspicion mixed with respect in those around him. After a brief and mediocre education at Queen's College, he failed to make it as a teacher and returned to his native village where, upon the death of his father, he discovered he was gifted with a spiritual fluid. And this was the starting point of an extraordinary career as a pandit, by turns masseur, healer, writer, journalist, mystic, and politician, which would lead him to the heights of power and wealth, amidst an incredible swarm of colorful characters, friends, rivals, enemies, and acquaintances. EAN: 9782264019127 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Letters to Youth - From Socrates to Delphine De Vigan - Duclert Vincent - Book Summary : From Socrates to Delphine de Vigan 45 texts collected and presented by Vincent Duclert Youth is the age of all possibilities: thirst for freedom, questioning of the established order, desire for emancipation, it is also the time of great friendships and the discovery of love. This new anthology by historian Vincent Duclert traces the aspirations, joys, and struggles of these young people over the centuries. It brings together poems, songs, novel excerpts, tracts, speeches, letters, and diaries. These texts by great classical authors (Rimbaud, Rilke, Boris Vian) and contemporary authors (Marie N'Diaye, Delphine de Vigan), as well as by collectives and anonymous authors, express the dreams of this youth. Moving and invigorating, these “letters to youth” carry us towards the future. EAN: 9782253186267 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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