Title : Diary of a Happy Man - Philippe Delerm - Book Summary : I woke up this morning thinking it was going to be a good day. I think I'll go to bed tonight thinking I'm the happiest man alive. How can I not shudder a little at that thought? I am rich, immeasurably rich in what almost everyone lacks: time." This newspaper is from a golden age. Choosing to live in the countryside far from literary and Parisian circles. Watching the flowers in your garden grow through the window, following the rhythm of the seasons. Take the time to live your life, to admire your partner, to love your child. Write thinking that one day you will perhaps be recognized. Philippe Delerm only kept a diary for one year of his life. He was 37 years old. Long before the hurricane of success of The First Sip of Beer . "I have probably never been happier than that year. EAN: 9782021333756 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wandering Souls - Stephenie Meyer - Book Summary : Melanie Stryder is a rebel. Our Earth has been invaded by an invisible enemy. Little by little, wandering souls take over human bodies, neutralizing their minds. Almost all of humanity has thus succumbed. Melanie Stryder is part of the last group of free men. When she is captured by the Trackers, she is given Vagabond, an exceptional soul who has already known several bodies. She knows the difficulties of invading a hostile human: the devastating emotions, the tumult of the senses, the all-too-vivid memories. And Vagabond faces an additional obstacle: the spirit of the former owner resists. The soul explores Melanie's memories in hopes of discovering the whereabouts of the last human resistance fighters. But instead of this information, Melanie overwhelms Vagabonde with images of the man she loves—Jared, a human still on the run. Unable to dissociate herself from the urges of her borrowed body, Vagabonde begins to love the man she is supposed to deliver to the authorities. Faced with external pressures, Melanie and Vagabonde find themselves reluctantly allied; thus begins their uncertain and perilous search for the man they both love. EAN: 9782709630269 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : AOC: Controlled Origin Assassinations - Eric Le Boloc'h - Book Summary : Famous for its medieval remains and the diversity of its terroirs, the peaceful little town of Saint-Émilion descends into horror as the green harvest approaches. In this wine-growing city with its rich ecclesiastical heritage, the priest's murder is sure to inflame tempers. Is the victim's membership in the local wine brotherhood the motive for the crime? That's what Bordeaux SRPJ captain Thierry Cuche seems to think, for whom the members of this notorious order are all suspects. Flimsy alibis, old grudges: everyone seems to have something to hide. The investigation intensifies with the appearance of a crow and the proliferation of corpses. The nightmare is about to begin. Soon, Saint-Émilion will be known more for its murders than for its wines. With a focus on realistic storytelling, balancing suspense and humor, Le Boloc'h and Marchesseau create a new genre: the onological thriller! EAN: 9782749907499 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Paler Shadow - Andrea H. Japp - Book Summary : FBI profiler Diane Silver relentlessly pursues her pursuit of serial killers. Hoping he'll help her eliminate these predators, Diane makes a deal with the devil by partnering with Rupert Teelaney, aka Nathan Hunter... himself a serial killer. But what she's really after is finding the "hunter" who led her eleven-year-old daughter Leonor to her torturer, thus sentencing her to death. While in Paris, Yves Guéguen, a French police officer, is keeping tabs on Sara Heurtel, whose Satanist daughter was shot dead by Nathan, Diane must confront a triple crime. As lab results pile up, the monstrous charade becomes increasingly incomprehensible... Andrea H. Japp has created a thriller that is as effective as it is original. Pascale Frey, Elle. EAN: 9782253158271 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : History of 36 Quai des Orfèvres - Claude Cancès - Book Summary : Over the course of more than a century of history, 36 Quai des Orfèvres has often opened its doors to thugs, before closing them behind them, handcuffs on their wrists... In his thirty-five-year career, Claude Cancès, former director of the PJ, has become familiar with one of the most legendary buildings in Paris, revealing its memories and uncovering its secrets. From the first cases of the brigades to the birth of the PJ and the scientific police, he brings Parisian crime back to life: the Bonnot gang, Ben Barka, kidnapped in the heart of the capital, the story of the "good" Doctor Petiot, or even, closer to us, the assassination of Jean de Broglie and the case of the Irish of Vincennes. "A dive into the world of evil, where Great History intersects with the most sordid affairs. A passionate and fascinating tribute." Jean-Marie Pontaut – The Express EAN: 9782266236218 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : From the Red Terror to the Terrorist State - Russian Secret Services Conquer the World - Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Popov - Book Summary : This is the secret chronicle of the occult power of agents who, from Lenin to Putin, via Stalin, reveal the hidden face of the Kremlin and a century of alliance between terror and crime. What is the secret link between Lenin, Stalin, and Putin? Between the old nomenklatura and the new oligarchy? Between the past massacres of opponents by the Bolsheviks and the current assassinations of dissidents by the siloviki? Between the crushing of Eastern Europe yesterday and the destruction of Ukraine today? This link is the one that unites over a century the Cheka, the GPU, the NKVD, the GRU, the KGB, the FSB, the organs of terror that were at the heart of the rise of the USSR and that conquered all the powers in Russia after its fall. It is the underground history of this struggle for world conquest that this stunningly revelatory book reveals. It recounts the original pact between agents and mafiosi, their rivalries with politicians, their final victory over ideologues, their complete domination of the state, transformed into a kleptomaniac, repressive, and warmongering tool. From the poisonings in the Kremlin to the machinations of the Cold War and the bombings of Chechnya, from the executioners of the Gulag to the tankers of Prague and the manipulators of Cyber, from the GEBists of Dzerzhinsky, Yezhov, Beria, Andropov to the Wagners of Prigozhin, here, episode after episode, actor after actor, are all the keys to this rise that illuminates the hidden side of current events and dismantles the mechanisms of a third world conflict. An essential decryption. A monumental and vivid fresco. A tragically true thriller. EAN: 9782204161978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I was a doctor in the trenches: August 2, 1914 - July 14, 1919 - Maufrais Louis, Martine Veillet - Book Summary : August 1914. Louis Maufrais, a medical student, is thinking of presenting his internship when war breaks out. The young man joins the front, discovers the trenches. He will stay there for four years. Four years during which he brushes with death, his feet in the mud and his hands in blood, buried day and night in the depths of aid stations shaken by the blast of shells. When he has a moment of rest, he takes notes, photographs, to recount the suffering, that of his comrades, his own, but also friendship, the burlesque, the absurd... "This is a mind-blowing text. The work of a doctor who fought in the trenches throughout the Great War, it is unpublished to this day, published for the first time on this 90th anniversary of the Armistice. "Maufrais was everywhere: first in Argonne and Champagne in 1915, at Verdun and on the Somme in 1916, again at Verdun in 1917, finally as a surgeon in an ambulance from April 1918 to January 1919. Not only was he on all the fronts of the war, in France, but in action four years out of four. In this, his testimony is unique. It is also unique in that his activity as an auxiliary doctor led him to take notes for the follow-up of his wounded. "It was his notebooks and photographs, saved, that allowed him, sixty years later, to dictate fragments of unparalleled precision: information and memories intact, as if frozen." Marc Ferro EAN: 9782221109182 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Elegance of Widows - Alice Ferney - Book Summary : Following the rhythm of birth and death announcements, here is the chronicle of women's destinies in bourgeois society at the beginning of the century. Engagements, marriages, childbirth, deaths... the cycle never ends, because the fertile wombs of women know how to fill the loss of loved ones. It is with the elegance of renunciation that the secrets of flesh and blood are transmitted here, from mother to daughter, as if death could dissolve into a new beginning. EAN: 9782742713707 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Iacobus - Matilde Asensi - Book Summary : It's one of Christianity's best-kept secrets; a fabulous treasure that disappeared with the dissolution of the most fascinating order of soldier-monks: the Templars. The wildest stories surround this secret society, keeper of humanity's greatest mysteries. For them, the King of France, Philip the Fair, and Pope Clement V are already dead. For them, the powerful are tearing each other apart. The man who will cross Europe from Galicia to Paris to try to discover them is called Galcerán de Born. He is a doctor and a knight. The year is 1319. EAN: 9782070300884 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Nicolas Le Floch Affair - Volume 4 - Jean-François Parot - Book Summary : In January 1774, Nicolas Le Floch, the famous commissioner at the Châtelet, is in a dark mood. His mistress, the beautiful and capricious Julie de Lastérieux, is found poisoned and all the clues point to him as the culprit. Who is trying to compromise the protégé of the king and Lieutenant General Sartine? To prove his innocence and unravel the tangles of this affair which directly jeopardizes the security of the State, Nicolas must go into hiding. In the service of the King's Secret, he will discover the cruel subtleties of court plots. With the help of the faithful inspector Bourdeau, while rival factions clash between London, Versailles and Paris, he will have to foil many traps. After The Phantom of the Rue Royale , it is with the same pleasure that we find the intrepid and talented Nicolas Le Floch in an adventure set against the backdrop of the end of the reign, as the anger of the people begins to rumble. EAN: 9782264036896 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Summer of Our Twenties - Christian Signol - Book Summary : Every summer, Charles invites Antoine to his grandparents' house in the Dordogne. Despite everything separating them, the two teenagers share an uncompromising friendship, one that helps them surpass themselves. It's the long-awaited moment of vacation, those warm days when the boys help in the fields when they're not cycling to the cool waters of the river. On its banks, they meet Séverine, a student like them. Between these three, a bond of love and friendship is formed. But this happiness is shattered at the end of the summer of 1939: like thousands of young people who only wanted to live happily, Charles, Antoine, and Séverine will have to fight to regain the lost harmony and peace of the seasons. It is these ardent hours, those of a youth overwhelmed by the madness of an era, confident in friendship, courage and the beauty of the world, that Christian Signol brings to life in this poignant novel which celebrates the authenticity of souls and the strength of memories. A moving novel. LeFigaro.fr. Christian Signol takes us into the whirlwind of mad love in times of war. The Parisian. EAN: 9782253101680 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Village - Dan Smith - Book Summary : On the trail of a serial killer in Stalin's Russia. Winter 1930. Vyriv, a small, isolated village in western Ukraine. In the snowy steppe, Luka, a Crimean War veteran, rescues an unconscious man. In his sled, two horribly mutilated children's bodies. When Luka returns to the village, the inhabitants panic. With Stalin's rise to power, paranoia reigns. In this small, hitherto unspoiled community, everyone fears the arrival of the Red Army and the militants. Doesn't the arrival of this stranger herald an even greater peril? Has Luka brought a monster into the village, a child murderer, the embodiment of evil? When a young girl from the village disappears, Luka solemnly promises to find her. Across the frozen expanses of this hostile region torn apart by war and brutality, where survival is a constant concern, he sets out in pursuit of a particularly devious predator. EAN: 9782264064509 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Wardrobe of Forgotten Dresses - Riikka Pulkkinen - Book Summary : Anna's grandmother, Elsa, is struck down by devastating cancer. Surrounded by her loved ones, she intends to enjoy every moment, every pleasure, to the very end: the rays of the sun, the sea bathing, or the body of Martti, her husband of over fifty years, against her own. But Anna discovers that behind this happy marriage lies a tragedy that has forever marked all the members of her family. It is an old dress forgotten in a wardrobe, found by chance, that will awaken the past... Praised by Finnish critics, this moving novel gracefully combines freshness and power, lightness and depth. Corinne Renou-Nativel, La Croix. In a simple but unfussy style, Riika Pulkkinen knows how to describe with precision the different ages of happiness and suffering. Certain scenes, certain pages of this novel, border on perfection. Nils C. Ahl, Le Monde des livres. EAN: 9782253175568 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Funny Girl - Nick Hornby - Book Summary : England, 1964. With the Miss Blackpool title in her pocket, Sophie Straw leaves her province for London where she dreams of becoming an actress. She then lands a role in the new BBC comedy series: Barbara and Jim. Success is there and she becomes a television star. Soon, reality meets fiction: Sophie and Clive, a couple on screen, become a couple in the city. Meanwhile, the two writers are hiding a secret and the producer suffers from marital problems. A funny and touching illustration of 1960s pop culture. EAN: 9782264066503 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Icarus Complex - Erica Jong - Book Summary : Sadora Wing, a seductive and insolent young New Yorker, finds herself in an embarrassing situation: while she is afraid of flying, she is taken to an altitude of 10,000 meters with 117 psychoanalysts, seven of whom have had her as an analysand. Sitting next to her, the seventh has become her second husband. Although he bores her terribly, she accompanies him to Vienna where she is preparing to spend a week of tedious seminars. But her encounter with Adrian Goodlove, an Englishman with irresistible charm, will turn her trip, her marriage, and her life upside down. Erotic and literary, sensual and intelligent, this captivating novel sparked a heated debate when it was published in the United States in 1973, at the height of the women's liberation movement, and brought Erica Jong international success at just twenty-nine years old. The Icarus Complex is a comic masterpiece that remains monumentally insolent. EAN: 9782221198964 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Purgatory of the Innocents - Karine Giebel - Book Summary : The hunter becomes the hunter... My name is Raphaël, I spent fourteen years of my life behind bars. My brother, William, and I have just stolen thirty million euros worth of jewelry. It should have been the heist of the century, but it was a bloodbath. Two dead, one seriously injured. The injured man is my brother. So, I have to find a safe place where he can regain his strength. My name is Sandra. I died a long time ago, in a squalid room. Or rather, something was born that day... I thought I had found the perfect refuge. I have just set foot in hell. Something that walks and talks for me. And its smile is the most abominable ever... " Fascinating. " Southwest EAN: 9782266246248 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Tricycle - Vincent Hauuy - Book Summary : Noah Wallace is a worn-out man, a shadow of the brilliant profiler he once was until an accident robbed him of both his wife and his career. But a phone call will force him back into action. His friend and former teammate Steve Raymond needs him. A postcard found at the scene of a gruesome crime in Canada directly implicates him and leads him back to a string of murders five years earlier. It seems a presumed-dead serial killer, the Vermont Demon, is at work again. Meanwhile, in New York, journalist-blogger Sophie Lavallée investigates a reporter who disappeared in the 1970s. What if the two cases were linked by the same dark secret? EAN: 9782253014454 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Along Comes a Vagabond - Robert Goolrick - Book Summary : Elle Roman Readers' Prize 2013 It was during the summer of 1948 that Charlie Beale arrived in Brownsburg. He was carrying two suitcases—one containing a few belongings and butcher knives, the other a large sum of money. Charlie fell in love twice. First, he fell in love with this peaceful Virginia town whose inhabitants seemed to live with dignity, in tolerable fear of a God they had every reason to find rather benevolent towards them. One proof among others: there had never been a crime in Brownsburg before. The second time Charlie fell in love was the day he met Sylvan Glass. After Fierce And A simple and honest woman , Robert Goolrick offers us, with A vagabond arrives , a sensual and intoxicating dive into the heart of passion. EAN: 9782264068262 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler - Book Summary : In a house on the outskirts of Stockholm, a family is brutally murdered. Only one boy escapes the massacre, but he hovers between life and death, unconscious. Inspector Joona Linna then decides to use a hypnotist to penetrate the boy's subconscious and attempt to see the carnage through his eyes... A formidably intelligent detective novel and terrifying thriller. EAN: 9782330014407 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Frozen - Joan-D Vinge - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277217077 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Unforgivable - Philippe Djian - Book Summary : Yet I thought I had gotten out of all these stories, with age coming. I thought I had understood that these stories were no longer worth the trouble we were still taking yesterday to live them, I thought I had understood that we had reached a higher level, that we could no longer play these stupid games, that we could do without them and there I was, shivering in the twilight like a schoolboy, totally helpless, overcome." Francis is a successful writer, bruised by existence. His wife and one of his two daughters died before his eyes. At sixty, he is now living in the Basque Country where he has put aside his last remorse by remarrying. But then his daughter Alice, whom he cherishes more than anything, suddenly disappears and shatters this fragile balance. From the mental fortress he builds to avoid collapsing, he will discover a world without possible forgiveness. EAN: 9782070420049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : What the night tells the day - Hector Bianciotti - Book Summary : For this book to exist, two continents were needed first, and for some Piedmontese, driven by poverty, to emigrate and clear a corner of this boundless plain called the pampas, where the center of the world moves with the man who walks. It was also necessary for a child, naturally destined for field work, to thwart his parents' plan and seize the only opportunity then offered to people of his condition: the seminary, where a jumble of special friendships, music, books, and the discovery of the French language awaited him. He was twelve years old. Over there, in Europe, the war was in full swing, while here, the dictatorship was established and prospered, soon to be that of Perón and Eva Duarte, under which no one escaped surveillance and denunciation. And it is the best friend who, suddenly revealing himself to be a high-ranking informer, and wanting to be forgiven, offers the former seminarian the saving boat ticket. Then begins the narrator's exile, his pockets empty, but in his heart, the certainty that, in the newfound freedom, life could, as for everyone, resemble a destiny. EAN: 9782070409914 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie - Book Summary : The disappearance of great-grandfather Francisco, swallowed by the churning waters of a lagoon somewhere on the southern coast of India, is the first of a long series of dramas set within the improbable Gama-Zogoiby family, from which the narrator Moraes, known as "The Moor," comes. He is the only, deformed son of the vivacious Aurora who, on bags of pepper, cardamom, and cumin, seduced the humble Abraham. Very quickly, the escapades of this stunning and perverse beauty will lead the Moor and his family into situations as comical as they are uncomfortable and perilous, from the murky waters of Bombay's slums to the corrupt circles of high finance. Blending comedy and farce, the epic and the marvelous, this allegory on the world's disorders is the author's first novel since The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie here returns to the vain picaresque of Midnight's Children, and his delicious and sensual writing, as much as his prodigious power of evocation, places him at the forefront of the writers of our time. Salman Rushdie, born in 1947 in Bombay, has lived in Great Britain since 1961. His books have all been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes and have been translated into twenty-five languages. EAN: 9782259182713 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of Travel - Bernard Werber - Book Summary : Imagine a book who would be like a paper friend. Imagine a book that helps you explore your own mind. Imagine a book which leads you towards the most beautiful, the simplest and the most amazing of journeys. A journey in your life. A journey into your dreams. A journey through time. You hold this book in your hands. EAN: 9782226094452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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