Title : An Indian Passion. The True Story of the Princess of Kaparthala - Javier Moro - book Summary : 1908: Anita Delgado, an Andalusian dancer, marries the Maharajah of Kapurthala. 1925: the "fifth wife" separates from her husband and leaves India. Anita lived through twenty years of tumultuous passion, causing one of the greatest scandals of the British Empire. A dizzying journey into the splendor of a world swept away by history, somewhere between a modern fairy tale and the true story of a free woman. Born in Spain in 1955, Javier Moro is an author and screenwriter. He lived in the United States where he collaborated with numerous directors, including Ridley Scott. He notably wrote The Pink Sari , available in Points. “A truly enchanting and historical novel about this fiery woman who traded Andalusian frills for the sari.” Marie France EAN: 9782757805619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The River Upside Down - Volume 2 - Hannah - Jean-Claude Mourlevat - book Summary : The continuation of The River Upside Down ! Hannah recounts the adventures that led her to the village of Tomek, at the end of the desert, in search of the water that grants immortality. In The River Upside Down Tomek took us on his incredible quest: to find the Qjar River and its water that prevents death. We walked with him in Hannah's footsteps. This time, it's Hannah herself who recounts her journey along the dizzying Sky Road, then across the desert. Her story takes us to new lands, but we also find familiar landscapes: the Forest of Oblivion, the prairie, the ocean... EAN: 9782266123136 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Silvio's Summer - Jean-Côme Noguès - book Summary : Florence, 1478. Silvio loves to paint. His dearest wish is to make a living from his passion. But when you're just a small-time painter from the hills, isn't such an ambition madness? One day, however, he is commissioned to paint a portrait of a young heiress in Florence. But the road is long and dangerous, and jealous people are lurking. EAN: 9782013225502 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : To You That I Love - Helen Exley - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782873882556 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Story of a White Man - Philippe Soupault - book Summary : I was determined to write everything down, but now, on the threshold of a past that forms my present, I dare not confess. It is not out of modesty, it is not out of fear of suffering. I believe that, on the contrary, by explaining some of my actions, some of my cruelties, some of my indifference, I would do myself justice and people would better understand what made me back down. It is because I do not want my life to be changed and turned upside down by a confession. I am infinitely curious to know what will become of me; I do not want to divert this locomotive that is the symbol of my life onto another track. EAN: 9782070734634 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Black Angel Passes - Anne Bragance - book Summary : She, fifteen years old and a few weeks. Me, not far from seventy-eight. I could be her grandfather or even her great-grandfather: a strange team that the two of us form. A week later, for the first time, I told her about the black boy and the wonderful gift I received from him, that a cappella singing that flowed from his throat like liquid gold. It was a primitive incantation, a melody where lament alternated with a kind of jubilant fervor, and these sounds flowed through my veins, through my bones, and I would have given anything for this joy that filled me to last forever. Every day, Andres Soriano, crippled with arthritis, sits on the bench in the bus shelter for line 15. That's where he meets Milush, the teenager with the funny name. The young girl and the old man start up a conversation. She lives alone with her mother; he nourishes the almost obsessive hope of finding the dark angel who once amazed him with her magnificent singing... Despite the disparity in their ages, the heavy family secrets, the fears and the sorrows, an extraordinary elective affinity will be revealed between the impertinent girl and the old man, who will gradually establish a beautiful bond and illuminate their lives. EAN: 9782715228375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Night at Fouquet's - Ariane Chemin, Judith Perrignon - book Summary : Nicolas Sarkozy celebrated his victory on the corner of the Champs-Élysées. His wife chose Fouquet's, a glitzy old haunt of fame. That evening, colossal fortunes, media bosses, celebrities, and the box office gathered around him. They are the president's friends. They say a lot about him and what he will do tomorrow. In one night, one place, one poster, the primitive scene of Sarkozysme was written. EAN: 9782213635453 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Monsieur Pourceaugnac - Molière - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218074110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kaddish for a Famous Orphan and an Unknown Sailor - Emmanuel Ruben - book Summary : Emmanuel Ruben invites us through this kaddish to question the importance of individual and collective memory. Two men, one night in the summer of 1957, in the midst of the Algerian War. They are the same age, born in the same region. The first, fatherless, lives far from the colonial hell. He knows how to handle words: his sentences are like punches. The second, a former sailor, is a man plunged into the misery and violence of the time. The first is called Albert Camus. The second is the narrator's grandfather. They are "brothers of the country and of torment." EAN: 9782916136639 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Silence - Daniel Arsand - book Summary : A chronicle of a family in the provinces at the beginning of this century, In Silence evokes a time that for millions of people was first one of exile: peasants believed they would find a better future in the city, and were then forced to wander as lost souls. Edgar sold the poor farm that his family ran in the hamlet of Doisnons, in the Madeleine mountains, and moved to Roanne with his wife Adélaïde and his two daughters, Marie and Anne. But the city is a strange place, where pleasure is bought - and escaped - where the earth is no longer there to protect you from its authority. Edgar will not resist it for long. He leaves behind three women who will each attempt, with varying success, to invent a new world in which to live... All three remain haunted by the feeling of a loss to be filled: Adélaïde, powerless to grasp life, withdraws into seclusion; Marie, who embodies the norm (selfishness and ambition mixed together), will soon offer the image of what is rather hastily called success; Anne, for her part, guardian of the old savageries, will refuse to abandon the free paths even if they lead to the worst. Three characters condemned to live outside themselves who have nothing left but the desperate desire to find themselves... or the fervor to lose themselves. Everything in them is irretrievable. Carried by the memory of a past from which they know they are excluded, they are at the mercy of the whims and renunciations of their own memory. Doomed by it to be, well before the hour of the end, nothing but emptiness and silence. A deafening silence, echoing with the thousand questions we cannot formulate. EAN: 9782752902085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : All the answers to the questions you never asked yourself - Philippe Nessmann - book Summary : From the smallest details of our daily lives to the most spectacular cosmic phenomena, there are a thousand and one things to learn while having fun! Where do the names of musical notes come from? Why do the English drive on the left? Can you be reincarnated as a diamond? And, by the way, how many stars are there in the sky? With humor and simplicity, Philippe Nessmann answers these questions we've never asked ourselves. Food, great inventions, ecology, astronomy... Everything is said! EAN: 9782501055390 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Reclining Ones - Jeanne Galzy - book Summary : After her first novel published in 1912, Jeanne Galzy was struck down by Pott's disease, a bone tuberculosis that forced her to remain bedridden, immobilized by a plaster cast. This tragedy inspired her to write Les couchés, which received the Prix Femina in 1923. The novel opens and closes in the spring, in a sanatorium in Berck, the Maison des Sables. Throughout the pages, the narrator evokes her long stay alongside the "lying ones," suffering like her from an illness that keeps them isolated from life. With stunning lucidity, the heroine describes these friendships formed through the ordeal. Accurate and poetic, Jeanne Galzy's writing offers us a timeless reflection on pain, the body, and the price of existence. What if these "half-lives" taught us to better grasp the poetry of the ephemeral? EAN: 9782073027092 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Djem - Roderick Conway Morris - book Summary : This novel is based on historical facts that have fascinated mankind since the 15th century. Djem, the younger son of Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, really did exist. This prince, gifted in the arts, open to both Christianity and Islam, and curious about everything that came from the West, was at the center of a fierce succession dispute upon his father's death. Defeated by his brother, taken in by the Knights of Rhodes in 1482, then received as a "guest" in France and hidden to escape assassination attempts, he would later be at the heart of particularly devious political and religious intrigues. Some dream of a new crusade, others of a hidden treasure... Between the Borgias, the Pope, the kings, and the dissatisfied master of a vast Ottoman Empire, Djem, in order to survive, could not indefinitely retreat into proud distress. EAN: 9782752906038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Devourer - Lorenza Ghinelli - book Summary : If you see it, you believe it. If you believe it, it eats you. Pietro is an autistic child who can only communicate through his drawings. A favorite target of the teenagers in his neighborhood, he is one day violently attacked by three of them. Traumatized, he draws the attack. Alice, his teacher, immediately spots a detail: in the background, a disturbing-looking old man is watching the scene. The next day, the leader of the gang that attacked Pietro disappears. His clothes are found scattered on the floor as if he had vanished into thin air... Could the old man be involved? Now that Pietro has drawn him, will he be his next victim? Childhood terrors are embodied in this spine-chilling thriller that effectively revisits the bogeyman theme. EAN: 9782258090507 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Not a Passerby in Sight - Barbara d'Amato - book Summary : A stranger sneaks into your home, takes over your attic, slips into your sheets, inspects your drawers, spies on your family, and is dying to get to know the teenage girls who live under your roof better... Suze Figueroa, a police officer, has always imagined her home as a sanctuary, safe from the crimes, darkness, and tragedies she encounters every day in the course of her work. Absorbed by an investigation that leads her in the footsteps of a serial killer, she doesn't realize that there, under the eaves, the happiness and survival of her loved ones are at stake... EAN: 9782840988212 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Littoral - Wajdi Mouawad - book Summary : Upon learning of his unknown father's death, the orphan Wilfrid decides to give him a burial in his native country. But this corner of the world is devastated by the horrors of war, its cemeteries are full, and the man's relatives reject his remains. Through the painful encounters he will have on this occasion, Wilfrid sets out to rediscover the very foundations of his existence and his identity. Born in Lebanon, Wajdi Mouawad lived in Paris, then for a long time in Montreal before returning to France. "Littoral" is the first part of his tetralogy "The Blood of Promises," a cycle of tragic theater in major mode, widely acclaimed at the dawn of the 21st century. EAN: 9782742783373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Series of Unfortunate Events, Volume 2 - The Snake Laboratory - Lemony Snicket - book Summary : Dear Reader, If you're looking for a gentle read, I'm afraid you've come to the wrong book. This story starts off as a bit of a laugh: a whimsical uncle, fascinating reptiles... Alas! This beginning is misleading, and the Baudelaire orphans will experience many misfortunes: a foul odor, a poisonous snake, a car accident, a stubborn lock, and the return of a person they hoped never to see again. I vowed to recount these tragic events, but you, dear reader, are free to close this volume and choose something funnier. With respect, Lemony Snicket. EAN: 9782092506837 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Goosebumps - Volume 6 - The House of the Dead - RL Stine - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782227729025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Goosebumps Volume 70 - Attack of the Mars Eggs - RL Stine - book Summary : A large greenish egg, streaked with blue veins, in the grass in my garden? " This strange discovery fascinates Cliff. But his curiosity turns to anxiety when the egg cracks open, revealing the large eyes of a creature from elsewhere. EAN: 9782747001564 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The precise moment when destinies intertwine - Angélique Barbérat - book Summary : Kyle was five years old when he discovered his mother had been beaten to death by his father. Taken in by his stepsister, the little boy took refuge in music. Twenty years later, he had become a rock star adored by the world. But nothing could erase the anger within him. Coryn married Jack Brannigan when she was seventeen. Despite his appearance as the perfect man, Jack quickly revealed himself to be a possessive, jealous, and violent husband. One day, while Coryn was walking with her two children, one of them escaped her vigilance and was hit by a car. At that precise moment, Kyle and Coryn's destinies intertwined. But how could these two people, whom everything seemed to separate, have the slightest chance of loving each other? EAN: 9782290093306 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Maybe the moon - Armistead Maupin - delivered Summary : In Hollywood, anything goes! But when you're a dwarf named Cady, the heights of fame don't exceed eighty centimeters. Especially after having played the unforgettable role of the elf in a legendary film twenty years earlier... Deciphered through the diary of a star in the scrap heap, Los Angeles abandons its glitter for the duration of a funny and piercing chronicle. "After his Chronicles of San Francisco , Armistead Maupin continues his humorous critique of American society. And only Cady comes out of it feeling better." Marie Gobin, Read EAN: 9782264032201 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Book of Big Hugs - Kathleen Keating - book Summary : Some days, we feel like a teddy bear in a gray world. Nothing beats a good hug. A hug brings happiness, dries tears, helps us appreciate ourselves, slows the effects of aging, makes dieting easier, eliminates insomnia, exercises arm and shoulder muscles, and is a healthy alternative to alcohol or drugs. A cuddle book to relearn how to talk with your hands... EAN: 9782020500302 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Time of Regrets - Mary Higgins Clark - book Summary : Delaney Wright is at the height of her career: covering the most sensational trial of the moment earns this young journalist a promotion to the 6 p.m. news! The case of Betsy Grant, accused of killing her husband, a wealthy doctor, fascinates the public. Especially since, while numerous clues point to the widow, she is prepared to do anything to prove her innocence. Including refusing the plea bargain offered by her lawyer. Delaney, convinced that Betsy is not guilty, wants to help her at all costs. But, as the trial begins, her friends Alvirah and Willy Meehan reveal a secret that shocks her: the identity of her biological mother, a secret she had never known. EAN: 9782253014539 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A god, an animal - Jérôme Ferrari - book Summary : A strange man joins a team tasked with building a dam high in the mountains. Lost in the mist, deep in a little-known valley, the outline of a hamlet is revealed, but the work is not jeopardized by this discovery: the village will be submerged under water. During this terrible change, the fate of this man resonates with that of the small community condemned to exile. On the eve of the departure imposed on them, he observes the first silhouettes lined up on the steep path. They are countless and carry on their backs a singular burden. Beautiful, unforgettable images. "Akira Yoshimura (1927-2006) left a considerable body of work which left its mark on the post-war period in Japan. EAN: 9782742771509 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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