Title : Everything on Earth Must Perish The Last Unicorn - Michel Bussi - book Summary : A devilishly seductive historical intrigue that takes the reader on a wild ride, from Bordeaux to Yerevan via the Vatican and Hong Kong, in pursuit of a secret that is nothing less than that of all humanity... A dark, unexplained mass, trapped in the ancient ice of Mount Ararat... A forbidden book, kept under lock and key in the hell of the Vatican... An enigmatic wooden animal, bearing a single horn on its forehead... The clues are there, scattered. A gigantic puzzle to piece together to trace the origins of all the world's religions. From Bordeaux to Hong Kong, via Armenia, Zak Ikabi has only one obsession: to bring all the pieces together. And finally find Noah's Ark. Embarked against her will on her quest, glaciologist Cécile Serval, as erudite as she is volcanic, soon finds herself confronted with a veritable deluge of questions. And Kalashnikov bullets... Because to keep this secret, some are ready to make any sacrifice... “A really well-crafted esoteric thriller.” The Voice of the North This work was previously published under the title The Last Unicorn , behind the pseudonym of Tobby Rolland Unpublished preface by the author EAN: 9782266285490 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The First Night - Marc Levy - book Summary : Love is the ultimate adventure, m But the adventure is not without dangers... "There is a legend that tells that the child in his mother's womb knows everything about the mystery of Creation, from the origin of the world to the end of time. At his birth, a messenger passes over his cradle and places a finger on his lips so that he will never reveal the secret entrusted to him, the secret of life. This finger, which erases the child's memory forever, leaves a mark. We all have this mark above our upper lip, except me. The day I was born, the messenger forgot to visit me, and I remember everything..." From the Ethiopian highlands to the frozen expanses of the northern Urals, Marc Levy concludes with this novel the fantastic epic begun with The First Day . EAN: 9782266203364 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Like a Brother - Françoise Bourdin - book RESUME : A farm lost in the middle of the Jura fir forests, two brothers bound by a tragic destiny. In a closed atmosphere, Like a brother is the story of an exclusive love that the arrival of a woman will turn upside down. A dramatic, dense and profound novel. In an isolated village in the Jura region, one name is terrifying: Nathan Desroches. A colossus capable of lifting a log with his bare hands, the only one who dares to raise horses in this region with its hostile climate. But if the power of this tireless worker impresses those around him, his house is frightening. In this immense house where he has been raising his two brothers alone since the fire that ravaged their parents' farm, Nathan has established a sinister family atmosphere. This authoritarian man reserves all his hatred for one of them, whom he never lets out. It is Justin, the younger brother, simple-minded, who is behind the disaster that left them orphans. To the other, Joachim, a beautiful and fragile child, Nathan gives all his love. A love as inhuman as he is, immense, exclusive, and demanding. To the point that the two brothers never leave each other. No girl has been able to separate them, not even Nathan's wife, who must step aside...Until the day Joachim falls in love. Tragedy, then, is inevitable. "This intimate book evokes the tragic family stories of a Bazin man. A book where every word counts." The Parisian EAN: 9782714450173 Used book The book matches the photo

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Title : The Spook's Apprentice Volume 1 - The Spook's Apprentice - Joseph Delaney - book Summary : Thomas, the seventh son of a seventh son, has the qualities required to become the Spook's apprentice. This is a stroke of luck, as he is not attracted to the life of a farmer. He has a special gift for seeing and hearing things that ordinary mortals cannot. He begins his training with the Spook, who tests him on the first night by locking him in a haunted house. EAN: 9782747017107 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Graceling - Kristin Cashore - book Summary : In the Seven Kingdoms, they are called Gracelings—rare beings with incredible powers. Katsa can kill a man with her bare hands, and her uncle, the King of the Middluns, forces her to kill for him. The killer's encounter with Prince Po, another Graceling, will change the course of her life... EAN: 9782360510023 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Midnight 2 - Stephen King - book Summary : Have you ever wondered what happens after midnight? Everything changes. Time bends, stretches, folds, or breaks, sometimes taking a piece of reality with it. And what happens to the person staring, wide-eyed, at the window between reality and unreality just before it explodes and glass needles start flying in all directions? Stephen King's nightmares will keep you awake for a long time after midnight. Midnight 1 : The hour when a plane can land in nothingness, the world of the Langoliers. Midnight 2 : The hour when a writer can encounter the worst, in a very secret garden from which there is no return. After midnight, it's always Stephen King's time. EAN: 9782226053985 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Antichrista - Amélie Nothomb - book Summary : I was sixteen years old. I owned nothing, no material goods, no spiritual comfort. I had no friends, no love, I had experienced nothing. I had no ideas, I wasn't sure I had a soul. My body was all I had. EAN: 9782226138828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Men Who Didn't Like Women Millennium 1 - Stieg Larsson - book Summary : Former editor of "Millenium," a magazine of social and economic investigations, Mikael Blomkvist is contacted by a major industrialist to relaunch an investigation abandoned forty years ago. Behind closed doors on an island, Henrik Vanger's great-niece has disappeared, probably murdered, and someone takes great pleasure in reminding him of this on each of his birthdays. Assisted by Lisbeth Salander, a rebellious and disturbed young woman, placed under social control but an outstanding snooper, Mikael Blomkvist, broken by a defamation trial that he has just lost, plunges hopelessly into the documents examined a hundred times, until the day when an intuition makes him take up a file again. Regularly shaken by new information, following the twists and turns of family hatreds and financial scandals, soon launched into the world of psychopathic killers, the tenacious journalist and the raw nerve will solve the case of the dried flowers and discover what should perhaps be kept quiet. At the end of this volume, the reader suspects that he will once again encounter the characters and the magazine "Millenium." Threads have been tied, doors opened. Impatient, panting, we will find Mikael and his anger under a good-natured appearance, and Lisbeth with the dark areas that surround her, in: "Millenium 2 - The Girl Who Dreamed of a Can of Gasoline and a Match"; "Millenium 3 - The Queen in the Palace of Drafts." EAN: 9782330055868 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Solitude of the Winner - Paulo Coelho - book Summary : In the middle of the Cannes Film Festival, the Croisette is teeming with fame-hungry starlets, powerful directors, renowned actors, and overexcited tourists. Among them also lurks Igor, shattered by a painful breakup. And who has decided to take revenge. Their destinies intersect: Gabriela, a naive but ambitious young actress; Jasmine, a Rwandan model exiled in the Netherlands; Javits, an influential and crooked producer; Hamid Hussein, a stylist who started from nothing and is now at the height of his fame... All are trying to get noticed in the vicious and superficial world of show business. But Igor's arrival will change their lives forever. The Solitude of the Winner paints a portrait of a world whose moral values ​​are in decline. Paulo Coelho depicts a Croisette where the powerful crush the weak, where men cling to illusory hopes of success and women to tyrannical standards of beauty to achieve a superficial and vain goal. EAN: 9782081222779 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : La Camarguaise - Françoise Bourdin - book Summary : Upon François' death, his granddaughter Jordane takes over the destiny of Biloba, the family country house in the heart of the sumptuous Camargue landscapes. But how can simply farming the iris fields, Merino sheep, and Andalusian horses save such a heavy inheritance from ruin? Cornered, torn by the thought of losing her estate, she decides to transform Biloba into a luxury hotel: a painful choice, violently criticized by those around her. While intrigues unfold around the future of Biloba, Jordane's beauty and passion turn heads and captivate hearts. EAN: 9782365592611 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Millennium 4 - What Doesn't Kill Me - David Lagercrantz - book Summary : She's a genius hacker. A ruthless vigilante who obeys only her own laws. He's an investigative journalist. An old-school reporter, convinced that you can change the world with one article. "Millennium" magazine is his life. When he learns that a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence may have explosive information about American intelligence, Mikael Blomkvist thinks he has the scoop that "Millennium" and his career so desperately need. At the same time, Lisbeth Salander is trying to break into the NSA's servers... Ten years after the Swedish publication of the first volume of "Millennium," David Lagercrantz delivers a thriller of burning relevance and marks the reunion of the cult characters created by Stieg Larsson. The saga continues. EAN: 9782330053901 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Double Life of Laura Swan - Benjamin Black - book Summary : Deirdre Hunt threw herself off a cliff into Dublin Bay. Suicide, according to her husband; morphine overdose, according to coroner Quirke. Delving into her past, he discovers that the young woman was leading a double life... On the trail of a strange "doctor," Quirke will have to reveal her true colors and protect her daughter Phoebe, who is also implicated in the case. In this captivating sequel to The Lost in Dublin , John Banville, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, establishes himself as a master of atmospheric thrillers. EAN: 9782264056382 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Bérégovoy - Investigation into the death of a Prime Minister - Charles Villeneuve - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266062107 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crisis 1974-1982 - The Facts Their Marxist Interpretation - Ernest Mandel - book Summary : This book places the widespread recessions of 1974-1975 and 1980-1982 both in their precise historical context—the break with the long period of post-war expansion—and in the more general context of the history of the capitalist mode of production as a whole. It is a matter of explaining how these recessions and the phases of depression—of hesitant, uneven, and non-cumulative recovery—that followed them were neither the result of chance nor the product of exogenous factors (the rise in the price of oil; the liberation struggle of the peoples of the Third World; the irrational behavior of trade unions; the wage demands of workers anticipating inflation). On the contrary, they correspond to the immanent logic of the system, although exogenous, or accidental, factors obviously play a role in the particularities of each cycle. Along the way, we can refine both the exposition and the application of the Marxist theory of periodic crises and the industrial cycle, which remains one of the most controversial but, at the same time, one of the most impressive chapters in Karl Marx's theoretical work. EAN: 9782081218895 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One Summer - Vincent Almendros - book Summary : My brother, Jean, had just bought a sailboat and invited me to spend a few days at sea. I wasn't sure it was a good idea for us to go on vacation together. When I say "we," I wasn't thinking of Jean. I was thinking of Jeanne. Jeanne and me. "You shouldn't miss Vincent Almendros's second novel. This 36-year-old author manages the feat, in troubled waters and in 96 pages, of simultaneously containing a love story, a maritime thriller, a tale of brotherhood, and an open-air closed-door novel. All three are ambiguous, and the mystery only emerges, cruel and sneering, on the very last page. Pierre, the narrator, embarks in Naples on his brother Jean's sailboat. The former came with the blonde Lone, his Swedish girlfriend who is finishing a thesis on gender equality. The latter has lived for seven years with Jeanne, the brunette, with whom Pierre was once a lover. The boat glides slowly toward Capri. It is scorching hot. The air is unbreathable. Bodies are oozing. By day, the sea is oily, and by night, tarry. Jellyfish proliferate, traveling back in time and the current with their opaline umbels. Pierre and Jeanne observe each other, brush past each other, get closer, and find themselves in the cabin. Nothing is emphasized. Everything is suggested. An astonishing painter of atmosphere, Vincent Almendros writes in watercolor. It is literature. And the best. (Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur) Un été was published in 2015. EAN: 9782707344250 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fall seven times, get up eight - Philippe Labro - book Summary : It happened surreptitiously, slyly, without warning, a real mess, a slow and insidious penetration. I am the slave of an indefinable thing that is destroying me and I obey it without any resistance. " "Something has changed." This "something" is none other than the beginning of the descent into a nervous breakdown of which the famous novelist was a victim. In a true story, without embellishment or concession, the author of La traversée recounts what it means to lose desire, energy, passion, self-esteem. With an intimate style, driven by the authentic concern to restore "this sadness without tears," and "tell how it was," in the words of his writing masters, Hemingway and Hugo, Philippe Labro evokes the effects of "the crusher" that gnaws at your stomach. But this unique testimony, carried by the breath of writing, also constitutes a brilliant affirmation of the strength of life and love. EAN: 9782070305124 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confession Day - Allan Folsom - book Summary : "Harry, it's your brother, Danny... It's been so long... But... I have... no one to talk to... I'm very scared, Harry..." When Harry Addison, a young corporate lawyer representing Hollywood's biggest stars, receives this anguished call, he doesn't know that it's the last time he'll hear the voice of his brother Daniel, a priest stationed at the Vatican. When he hurriedly calls back to Italy, he learns that Daniel has just been killed in a terrorist attack. Rushing to Rome, Harry, isolated in this unfamiliar country, quickly finds himself plunged into a nightmare. The body isn't his brother's. But then... whose? A suspenseful novel with a frenetic pace. EAN: 9782266086905 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Asia - Collectives - book Summary : Discover Asia as you've never imagined it: the Asia of all passions, the Asia of all dangers. Follow the trail of adventurers and missionaries, explorers and reporters, barbarians and thurifers, philosophers and storytellers. Enter the mysteries of Buddhism, calligraphy, martial arts, enigmatic customs, strategy games, forbidden pleasures, and the amorous and culinary practices of Asia. Selected writers share their encounters, their dazzlements, their doubts. Without them, what would we know of Asia? They tell their stories, they bear witness, they are afraid of nothing, not even of displeasing. Alexandra David-Néel, Yukio Mishima, Anna Moï, Tash Aw, Claude Farrère, Stefan Zweig, Clara Malraux, Shan Sa, Rudyard Kipling, Dai Sijie, Roland Barthes, Fabienne Verdier, Henri Michaux, Mayuzumi Madoka, and many others..., each presents, in their own way, a scintillating facet of the Asian enigma. EAN: 9782715242791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fables - Jean de La Fontaine - book Summary : The Fables occupy a singular place in our memory: through the memory we keep of these poems before which we remained children, but also through the grace of so many verses that have become proverbial and that our daily speech brings back to life. And everything happens as if a secret correspondence is maintained from century to century between these Fables and the identity of our country as well as our language. The first collection appeared in 1668, and the second ten years later. The success was immense, and the poems then fully belonged to their time: the France of the reign of Louis XIV. But the mystery of their power is to quickly free themselves from this immediate environment, to illuminate our successive realities, to always brilliantly combine the particular and the universal. In this "comedy with a hundred different acts, / And whose stage is the Universe," the text eludes any definitive meaning. But La Fontaine, on every page, convinces us that poetry, in his eyes, remains an instrument of knowledge: there is a beauty in knowledge - and we never cease to find it in it. EAN: 9782253010043 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A New France - Reflections, Volume 1 - Jacques Chirac - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782841110117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louisa Elliott - Ann Roberts - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253055358 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Father's Book - Urs Widmer - book Summary : The grandson of peasants from a high valley in German-speaking Switzerland, Karl, born at the beginning of the century, developed a passion for the French language and literature. In the intellectual and political effervescence of the interwar period, he enjoyed the bohemian life, but above all, without boasting or any socializing, he began the life of a true man of letters. A hard worker, he translated more than a hundred French works into German, from classics to contemporary works. Until his death, he organized readings and conferences, contributed to journals, took charge of publications, and rubbed shoulders with authors who would soon be famous. But, for all that, this passionate man did not forget to live, with the same uncalculating generosity. The man of letters was also a man and a citizen, so that this portrait, both funny and moving, is also a mirror of an era EAN: 9782070347957 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Short Treatise on Nonchalance - Denis Grozdanovitch - book Summary : Are cats wiser than us? Do you have to train your whole life to become a tennis champion? What lies behind the famous British fair play? What do Proust and Robinson Crusoe have in common? Through brief chronicles, Denis Grozdanovitch sketches a hymn to nonchalance and the simple joys of everyday life. Born in 1946, Denis Grozdanovitch was a professional athlete: tennis, squash, and real tennis. A Little Treatise on Nonchalance, published in 2002, is his first book. He is also the author of Dreamers and Swimmers, Brief Glimpses of the Eternal Feminine and of The art of taking the ball on the bounce. "A short treatise on nonchalance is winning – and rightly so – the prize for best word of mouth. The Express Society of People and Letters Prize 2002 EAN: 9782020659215 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Words for Teenagers The Lobster Complex - Françoise Dolto, Catherine Dolto-Tolitch - book Summary : A teenager, said Françoise Dolto, is like a lobster during moulting: without a shell, forced to make another one, and in the meantime confronted with all the dangers. Self-discovery, first social experiences, sexuality, rebellion, temptations of violence or drugs: this book aims to help you address all these challenges. It is primarily aimed at teenagers, but parents and educators will also find food for thought. Speaking directly to adolescents, sincerely, instead of talking about them: such was the last audacity of the great psychoanalyst, author of Quand l'enfant semble and La Cause des enfants. A legal guide covering all aspects of adolescent life, written by a specialist, completes this work destined to become a classic. EAN: 9782253060116 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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