Title : The Rose and the Lilac - Jean Anglade - Book Summary : The sweet and studious Rose, a young girl from the early 20th century, dreams of becoming a teacher, marries a road worker, and becomes a crossing guard on the railway line from Vichy to Le Puy. This life, though solitary and obscure, will prove to be extraordinarily rich. Between two rare trains, in school notebooks, she keeps a vivid chronicle of a lost hamlet and a rural world that has now disappeared. Jean Anglade rescued the humble destiny of a Rose from oblivion, making the life of this farm worker's daughter who became a woman of letters a true novel. "A luminous and touching novel, an ode to Auvergne and a tribute to writing." Edmonde Vergnes-Permingeat – The Black Mountain EAN: 9782266143899 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Crazy Look - Isabelle Spaak - Book Summary : Simone Veil Prize 2016 Mathilde raised her daughter, Annie, born out of wedlock, alone, facing the wealthy society of interwar Brussels with her characteristic courage. Annie murdered her wayward husband one day in 1981 and then committed suicide. Mathilde is Isabelle Spaak's grandmother, Annie her mother. The author sets out on the trail of these two eccentric women with controversial reputations. She begins by exhuming numerous letters and photos from the family home to write their story. During her investigation, she receives a letter from the Israeli memorial Yad Vashem, concerning her mother. Suddenly, everything changes: the murderer transforms into the Righteous One. The intelligence and finesse of Isabelle Spaak's approach are matched only by the subtlety and gentle edge of her words. Nathalie Crom, Télérama . This book has the crazy allure of a police report written by a poet. Astrid de Larminat, Le Figaro . EAN: 9782253069980 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fairytale for the Darkness - Jérôme Noirez - Book Summary : Stuck in the middle of the Underworld like a leprosy, black Caquehan shines with a somber glow. We hear all at once the din of technology regurgitating the poorly digested trinkets of a more prosperous era, the death rattles of the dying, the sighs of the whore, and sometimes the laughter escaping from the palaces. In this ogre-like and orgasmic Babylon, Obicion the officer struggles, investigating a young girl so savagely mutilated that we can see her bones—plastic bones—Malgasta the tyrant-eater, Orbarin the butcher-king, Meurlon the witness, Mesvolu the frasel, and Grenotte and Gourgou, the two orphans with talkative orifices... EAN: 9782290072349 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Heart of Flames - Nicholas Evans - Book Summary : Connor Ford is a firefighter parachutist. One day, while working in the Montana mountains ravaged by a monstrous fire, he takes a candid photograph of a magnificent moose whose antlers are ablaze like a tree. While developing the photo, he notices that the animal is looking at him strangely. Connor sees it as a terrible omen: the accident that will soon blind Ed Tullis, his lifelong friend. But the worst is yet to come. Since Ed's blindness was discovered, Connor's heart has been in ashes, torn between his impossible love for Julia, Ed's fiancée, and his faithful friendship. Connor runs away. The flaming beast has sealed the fate of these three people forever; it will catch up with Connor, even at the ends of the earth. EAN: 9782266124300 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Laws of Vengeance - Christopher Reich - Book Summary : In the heart of London, a bomb dynamites the car of a Russian minister. A doctor present at the scene, Jonathan Ransom, becomes suspect number one. This ordinary man quickly realizes that he is only bait to trap a bigger fish: his wife, Emma, ​​a gifted spy, who was also present at the time of the attack, and now nowhere to be found. Convinced that the only way to clear his name is to find his wife and discover, once and for all, who she really is, Jonathan goes on the run. Drawn into a Hitchcockian spiral, hunted throughout Europe by the British and Russian secret services, he no longer has a choice: he must find Emma. A breathtaking dive into the world of post-Cold War espionage, a deadly and thrilling game where cats and mice are not necessarily who we think they are. EAN: 9782253167181 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Mother's Piano - Yann Queffélec - Book Summary : My mother sang, played the piano, and ensured everyone's happiness. My father was famous, my sister a musical prodigy, my brother Hervé a magnificently absent-minded mathematician. I myself was a persevering dunce, a friend of the poètes maudits. A piano, if not two, cooed in the house. Epinal images are beautiful, they thwart destiny..." This book traces the stormy relationship I always had with my father, the man I loved, admired, and feared the most, and who wanted to make me bend to his law. It also tells the story of the decline of the Queffélec family, contradictory people, as modest as they were pretentious, as discreet as they were arrogant. "This autobiographical story ends with the death of his mother in 1969. "She disappeared so furtively that I still wonder today when she will return. Looking back," writes Yann Queffélec, "I ask myself a question. Was my mother ever happy with us, so demanding? With this book, I go to meet her, I join her... EAN: 9782352872153 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Novels and Tales - Voltaire - Book Summary : Zadig or Destiny - The World as it Goes - Memnon or Human Wisdom - Letter from a Turk on the Fakirs and his Friend Bababec - Micromégas - Plato's Dream - The Two Consoled - History of Scarmentado's Travels - Candide or Optimism - History of a Good Brahmin - The White and the Black - Jeannot and Colin - Potpourri - Little Digression - Indian Adventure - The Ingenuous - The Man with Forty Crowns - The Princess of Babylon - The Letters of Amabed - The White Bull - The One-Eyed Hooker - Historical Praise of Reason - History of Jenni or the Atheist and the Sage - The Ears of the Count of Chesterfield and the Chaplain Goudman - Adventure of Memory - Cosi-Sancta. EAN: 9782080701114 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Knight of the Order of Merit - Sylvie Testud - Book Summary : As soon as I walk through the door of our apartment, I transform. Without any further coquetry, I take off my pumps, throw my clothes in the laundry basket. I tie my hair on top of my head, roll up my sleeves, and off we go for the rodeo of order and cleanliness. A choreography of a not-so-sexy kind, which I only give up when I'm falling asleep. Poor Adrien: he lives with a shrew. The image is not exciting. It's at the office that they live with me. Well-dressed, made-up, hair done. Why am I transforming? Why can't I keep up with Adrien's lifestyle? Why doesn't it turn out more... more... more square? ST The comic-pathetic tribulations of a woman crazy about order. Fabrice Gaignault, Marie Claire. In this novel, where good dialogues abound, we find the thousand faults of our modern societies, always with humor. Jennifer Lesieur, Metro. EAN: 9782253162247 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Stranger in the Cove - Martha Grimes - Book Summary : In the middle of the windswept Cornish moorland stands Seabourne Manor, a gigantic mansion built into the side of a cliff. This secluded place, ideal for those wishing to escape the company of men, is the retreat of the very aristocratic Melrose Plant. But the stay promises to be less restful than expected: Melrose learns that long ago, at the foot of the building, two children were found drowned. Soon, the discovery of a corpse on a beach awakens memories of the deceased children... Melrose Plant's composure is put to the test: when a murderer is on the prowl, living with only ghosts for company can be deadly distressing... EAN: 9782266125109 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mystery of Tarn House - Martha Grimes - Book Summary : The life expectancy of the Holdsworth family has dropped dramatically. Jane's suicide is the fourth death in less than six years. Enough to arouse the suspicions of Scotland Yard and Commissioner Jury, who is personally affected by the death. Removed from the investigation, he therefore tasks his old friend Melrose Plant with infiltrating the Holdsworth clan, whose patriarch, the wealthy and eccentric great-grandfather, defies all statistics by persisting in living.... EAN: 9782266142045 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Miraculous Necklace - Martha Grimes - Book Summary : A violinist is brutally murdered in the London Underground. She was originally from a village with the charming name of Littlebourne. However, a dog has just discovered a strange treat in the nearby woods: a human finger! Scotland Yard has only one bloodhound capable of establishing a link between these two cases: Commissioner Richard Jury. And since the mystery is unusually opaque, he calls on his friend Melrose Plant, an amateur detective. Together, they will explore the corridors of the London tube and the outskirts of the dark Horndean Forest. And the most diverse suspects present themselves to them: a couple of odious snobbish country squires, a surly old ornithologist, a widow living in a freezing manor house and a wild little girl who knows how to tame the most unruly horses... but not the most phlegmatic duo in the Yard! This book received the Nero Wolfe Award for "Best Mystery of the Year" upon its release in 1983. This award has already been given to Michael Connelly and Fred Harris. EAN: 9782266133609 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : There Aren't Many Stars Tonight - Sylvie Testud - Book Summary : Angry. Hungry. Exhausted. Terrified. Late. Frozen. For Sylvie Testud, days are a succession of intense moments. She takes us to an interview at the Plaza, to a Japanese-language shoot, to buy plaster at BHV, to make love in front of twenty people for eight hours, to try on dresses at Chanel for the Césars, all the while refusing to kiss a snake or jump out of a window... The daily life of an actress, in short. Except that Sylvie Testud displays an ultra-lucid perspective. How do you enter a role? How do you learn to love it, how do you leave it, how do you say no, how do you say yes? Where is the line between the life you live and the life you play? What if our existence were an endless casting? Offbeat, with a voice unlike any other, funny and uncompromising, Sylvie Testud turns off the deceptive spotlight, and we discover that there are not many stars this evening . EAN: 9782253108528 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Eternal Fiancé - Agnès Desarthe - Book Summary : What does a life look like? For the narrator, it is a declaration of love between two four-year-old children during a music class. Or meeting them in the middle of winter, forty years later, on a street in Paris. We could also mention acrobatic rock'n'roll, the death of a mother, a contemporary art exhibition, a wedding for laughs, a summer day in the countryside or the secret life of a gigolo. These scenes - and many others - are the images in which are recorded the moments of an existence which, without them, would be irrevocably doomed to oblivion. Because everything that is not written disappears. To ward off oblivion: this appears to us to be one of the meanings of this novel animated by an extraordinary vitality, alternating falls and rebounds, collapses and triumphs, melancholy and exaltation. A major work by a novelist passionate about the invention of forms, The Eternal Bridegroom confirms her exceptional talent: that of an author who has sworn to amaze us - and to worry us - by offering us a world in perpetual disagreement. EAN: 9782823615821 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My America - Alice de Poncheville - Book Summary : You don't have to go to America to discover America. Nor do you have to be an Indian to find yourself wearing feathers. Sometimes they grow on your head without a sound. For Lisa, they appear on a calm, warm summer night. The next day, she hides them under a cotton cap. However, when she meets Lalou, this generous boy who is also hiding a secret, one thing becomes clear. It is to him and him alone that she wants to show them. But first, she must explore the mountains, understand the presence of these multicolored birds that speak with their eyes and draw her into the forest, and visit the magic triangle where they nest. In the shadows of the undergrowth, Lisa will discover all the facets of friendship and the bonds that are woven between generations. The power of love also lies in ambush. All it takes is a first kiss for it to be revealed to her. Beneath the canopy of the acacias lies her America. EAN: 9782211209564 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Stern Figures - Marcel Mariën - Book Summary : See photos EAN: B0000E99ZU Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dying is perhaps not the worst thing - Pascal Dessaint - Book Summary : Toulouse, June 2000. Madame Jourda doesn't know what to do with the iguana in its cage, which her neighbor Jérômine Gartner entrusted to her. The young woman hasn't come back for it and hasn't given any sign of life since. When the police prepare to force open the door to her apartment, they find that it simply isn't locked. Inside, Jérômine is lying in an armchair. Strangled. Singular details: the air conditioning is turned up to maximum, and the forensic examination will reveal the presence of seven grains of rice and seven fragments of metal in the victim's esophagus. Through this four-part story, which moves from revelation to revelation, Pascal Dessaint confronts us with the major issues of the coming decades. Here, he has written a truly great book, dark and lyrical. EAN: 9782743610579 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The City of Wonders - Eduardo Mendoza - Book Summary : Barcelona, ​​1888: a frightened peasant arrives at the construction site of the Universal Exhibition, earning a miserable living distributing anarchist propaganda. Barcelona, ​​1929: a stunning machine, half flying saucer, half helicopter, takes off from a pavilion at the second Universal Exhibition. At the controls, the peasant has become one of the richest and most extravagant men in the world. In the meantime, a villainous Prometheus of modern times, he has been a hawker, a henchman, a gang leader, a great avant-garde industrialist. In the meantime, war has ravaged Europe, cinema has begun to make the crowds dream, factory chimneys have blackened the sky, workers' riots have bloodied the streets, and airplane wings have cast their shadows over the city of wonders. At the dizzying pace of a contemporary "picaresque" novel, individual adventure is stirred by collective adventure, local history becomes universal history: the great carnival of pimps, ruffians, kings, arms traffickers, the burlesque ball where bombers and drunken generals, condemned to death and mad scientists, assassinated empresses, spies, transvestites, virgins and martyrs, myths and apparitions dance. EAN: 9782020102957 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dear Love - Bernard Giraudeau - Book Summary : "What follows is told to you, Mrs. T, to you and no one else, unless you wish it to be otherwise. It's because I've loved you for so long, since before the beginning, you see. These are journeys to the land of men. Travel, they say, and you never come back. That's right, I'm writing to you to prolong the moment, to keep a trace, to twist the neck of transience, of oblivion, of impermanence, this without success of course since it is wanting to freeze the ephemeral and I love the ephemeral, no one is perfect. Will you take this time to read me, to prolong me a little in you?" A man writes to the woman he has not yet met, he tells her about his travels, with passion, with humor, he writes to live and to seduce her. From the Amazon to Cambodia via Chile, Indonesia or Djibouti, he tells extraordinary stories as well as landscapes and daily lives, and on his returns to Paris, where he searches for this unknown woman, his experiences on film sets or in the theater. He shares with us extraordinary experiences as well as his quest for love and for himself. Bernard Giraudeau writes in an exceptional style, both poetic and raw. Bernard Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle in 1947. An actor and filmmaker, he directed feature films, The Other and The Caprices of a River, as well as documentaries, including The Transamazonian, Chili Norte, and A Chilean Friend. He is the author of The Sailor at Anchor, Tales of Humahuaca, Men on Shore and The Rowing Ladies. EAN: 9782864246879 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mad Love - Françoise Hardy - Book Summary : Mad love is the kind that robs you of yourself, while making you believe that it alone can fulfill you. EAN: 9782226244314 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : These women - Gérard Mordillat - Book Summary : "No one had ever heard such a roar. No one had ever seen it: the young, the old, the virgins, the prostitutes, the lovers, the Muslims, the Africans, the Asians, the disheveled, the shaved, the severe, the red dresses, the black pants, the beauties, the disgraced, the wheelchair-bound, the crutches, the sirens, the gorgons, the high heels, the low shoes, the nearsighted, the dark glasses, the beaten, the fighters, the veiled, the bare-breasted, the callipygians, the screamers, the shy, the tall, the small, the big dondons, the wires, the roploplos, the fried eggs, the revolted, the rebels, the revolutionaries... They were chaos, insurrection. After The Tower abolished And In La Brigade du rire, Gérard Mordillat captures the power of collective action through a multitude of individual stories. Epic, political, and human: a visionary fresco. EAN: 9782226440020 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Red Pavilion - Pauline Chen - Book Summary : Passions, betrayals, court intrigues, a fascinating dive into the confined and merciless world of the women's apartments, within an aristocratic Pekingese family of the 18th century. “A true literary marvel, an epic yet intimate tale of palace intrigue and political turmoil, dazzling on every page.” Julie Otsuka, author of Some had never seen the sea . China, 1721. Daiyu, a seventeen-year-old provincial girl, is welcomed to Beijing by her mother's family, who has just died. Having lived simply and without constraints, Daiyu is completely disconcerted by the splendor and rigidity of Rongguo Palace, where she meets the entire Jia family, aristocrats linked to the imperial house. Her grandmother, Lady Jia, reigns over the women's residence where everyone, servants and concubines alike, obeys strict hierarchical rules. When Daiyu falls in love with the Jia heir, she attracts the matriarch's wrath and awakens some buried secrets. A murder, illicit love affairs, and a coup d'état after the Emperor's death will precipitate the fall of this dynasty. Three unforgettable women, Daiyu, Xifeng, and Baochai, will each attempt, in their own way, to shape their destiny. Pauline Chen gives new life to a classic of 18th-century Chinese literature, The Dream in the Red Pavilion , by Cao Xueqin. EAN: 9782221129784 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lionesses of Venice, volume 1 - Mireille Calmel - Book Summary : When desire and power rub shoulders with the most intriguing of mysteries. Venice, Campo Santa Fosca, October 1627. Lucia, a young and mischievous Venetian, finds herself in the midst of the flames devastating the modest family printing shop. Before her eyes, her father is kidnapped by three armed men. Who is behind this crime? The day before, the magnificent Isabella Rosselli, the most cunning spy in the city of the Doges, came to have a strange engraving reproduced. Lucia is determined to unravel this enigma and save her father. In a frantic quest, she infiltrates the powerful, mingles with the carnival's pretenses, and delves into the courtyards of palaces. A fascinating, oppressive Venice, where power merges with love, where embraces follow duels and kisses follow plots. In these depths of the lakeside city, friends and enemies advance masked. Lucia plays with her charms, her sword, and even her dagger, which she wears on her calf. She uses cunning, crossing swords with Giorgio Cornaro, the son of the Doge, a corrupt and dangerous man, ready to do anything to discover the truth about this engraving, which everyone in Venice is convinced holds the secret to absolute power. Following the success of her series on Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mireille Calmel masterfully immerses us in the troubled Venice of the 17th century. A formidable swashbuckling novel that will take the reader from the city of masks to the land of the musketeers. EAN: 9782845638532 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Olive Tree Valley - Françoise Bourdon - Book Summary :  Every time he contemplated his trees, Ulysses thought of his father, his grandfather, and the generations of Valentines who had succeeded one another at Combe aux Oliviers, an estate in the Nyons region. They all shared the sacred tree. At La Combe aux Oliviers, the Valentin family—Ulysse, the father, Armide and Lucrèce, his two daughters—lives to the rhythm of the seasons. Just like her father, Lucrèce, the youngest, has a passion for olive trees. When, in the aftermath of the Great War, she takes over the estate, she devotes her life to her trees, including Noé, the oldest, her confidant in good times and bad. At the dawn of a new life, everything changes. Widowed and mother of little Aurélie, this whole-hearted woman conquers the right to experience new loves, lives through the Second World War as a resistance fighter, and above all fights for her daughter, who has polio, as much as for the survival of her olive trees. A superb family saga about the fate of a passionate Provençal woman, at the heart of the turmoil of the 20th century. EAN: 9782258080911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sycamore Lane - John Grisham - Book Summary : Seth Hubbard, a wealthy man suffering from cancer, trusts no one. Before hanging himself from a sycamore tree, he leaves a handwritten will. This document will plunge his now-grown children, his Black housekeeper, and lawyer Jake Brigance into a legal conflict as brutal and dramatic as the murder trial that had made headlines in the county just three years earlier. This second will raises many unanswered questions. Why does Seth Hubbard want to leave almost his entire fortune to his housekeeper? Have chemotherapy and painkillers affected his judgment? And what does all this have to do with the plot of land once called Sycamore Lane? EAN: 9782709646222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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