Title : The Kindness Manual - Hornby Nick - book Summary : In her forties, exhausted by her grueling job as a doctor and a marriage that has lost all flavor, Kate decides to file for divorce. Hoping to keep her, David, her husband, will then change radically: reconnecting with his youthful ideals, the irascible man becomes a model of kindness, preaching the redistribution of wealth and taking in the homeless. Destabilized by this sudden change and these initiatives as generous as they are clumsy, Kate finds herself facing a new and explosive situation... At what point do you become a good person and how far can you go to remain so? In this multifaceted comedy, Nick Hornby tackles political correctness and questions what makes a couple strong. "Nick Hornby has a unique sense of phrasing and a knack for making situations that are not at all comical." Olivia de Lamberterie, She EAN: 9782264051936 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Twilight Child - Warren Adler - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266038508 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Day of the Bees - Thomas Sanchez - book Summary : In The Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez evokes the violence of despair and the elegiac grandeur of two lives transformed by love and exile. An American art history professor travels to Europe to discover why a famous Spanish painter abandoned this beautiful French woman, who was none other than his muse, in Provence during the Second World War. He thus accidentally unearths a secret buried for half a century: this carefully preserved oath, this spell tinged with eroticism that has resisted everything, even death. Two lovers caught in the infernal machine of history, whose universe implodes under the ferocity of their passion, while at the same time the outside world explodes under the blow of global war. Exploring both occupied France, the stories of the resistance fighters fighting in the shadows, and the painter's contemporary retreat on the island of Majorca, the American professor uncovers a passionate love affair that cannot be separated from art and politics. He finds himself at the heart of a mystery that forces him to probe the enigma of his own desire, from which it emerges that History is written as much by those who love as by those who fight. EAN: 9782070425211 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Diamond as Big as the Ritz - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - book Summary : In Fitzgerald's eyes, Hemingway said, the rich were a special breed, surrounded by a mysterious prestige. All his life, the author of "The Gatsby" searched for his "Diamond as Big as the Ritz," the title of the disturbing and delicious masterpiece that opens this collection of short stories. In this fairy tale, in which we see a poor young man enter, at his own risk, a fabulous estate with halls of sapphires and mountains of diamonds, how can we fail to recognize the central theme of his entire work? The thirty short stories collected by his friend and contemporary Malcolm Cowley constitute the most representative part of the art of the extravagant, melancholic, and tender Fitzgerald. Behind the glitter of the Roaring Twenties, we glimpse the extraordinary and sad destiny of the great jazz-age entertainer, hero and martyr of the "Lost Generation." EAN: 9782266062954 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island of Muettes - Bachellerie - book Summary : Five kilometers by two. We quickly go around this island. Only tourists find it beautiful. The idiots! You can see they don't live here. And then the wind. Always the wind. It's the wind that drives people crazy here. This winter alone, three suicides. Now a series of murders. Maybe because it's spring. Savage murders, murders full of blood. Crazy murders, really. Murdered Mother Le Garrec. To steal her money. Murdered the kid Gaétane. And raped for extra weight. Five kilometers by two. And the wind, always the wind. It's no life. EAN: 9782702416136 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Unfinished Waltz - Catherine Clément - book Summary : In 1874, at the Redoute ball in Vienna, a young and attractive foreign affairs official waltzes with a masked woman. It's love at first sight. She says her name is Gabrielle. Franz will never see his stranger again. He will receive letters and poems from her. Only sixty years later will he learn the truth. In the meantime, Austria will have experienced a sparkling and dramatic history, the cultural apogee of Vienna, the syphilis epidemic, scandals and suicides, the collapse of the Empire in the First World War... It is from real events - the poems and letters have come down to us - that Catherine Clément unfolds this moving historical and romantic fresco, revealing one of the best-kept secrets of the unknown woman at the Redoute ball: the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth, Sissi. Catherine Clément knows how to teach history by captivating us with stories. We have rarely experienced such joyful celebration and study. Jean-François Josselin, Le Nouvel Observateur. EAN: 9782253139423 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Three Fat Ladies of Antibes - Somerset Maugham - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782266014328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Group rate - Hugues Pagan - book Summary : Group Rate, Pagan's eighth novel, airs the factory's dirty laundry—police in internal jargon. The sight of a fast-food dumpster would probably be more appetizing. This cop with the blues doesn't do innuendo. His ex-inspector Chess knows them inside out, these guys who practice the methods of organized crime, under the mask of truth and justice. Cops who gorge themselves: 50 grand on a drug deal. The most sinister crook in history ordered the murder of a prostitute. Why? For nothing. Because she never agreed to have sex with him. She was found dead and tortured in the worst way. Case closed. Chess stirs up the mud. In the end, in this camp, crime pays." (Sylvaine Pasquier, "L'Express") EAN: 9782743607968 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Patience, volume 1 - The House of Others - Bernal Clavel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277125228 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor - book Summary : November 1847. Fleeing a dying Ireland where famine is wreaking more havoc every day, hundreds of Irish people have sold their last possessions to board The Star of the Sea , hoping to start a new life in America. About fifteen privileged people share the first-class cabins, while below, the steerage passengers try to survive a crossing haunted by hunger and disease. Among them, a mysterious man, nicknamed the Ghost, wanders the ship every night, bent under the weight of the terrible mission entrusted to him... Mixing historical documents (letters from Irish immigrants, press articles) and fictional documents (the captain's log, letters and songs from passengers), The Star of the Sea has the breath of great masterpieces. "When we told you that there are adventures from which one does not return with impunity! This magnificent and nightmarish crossing aboard the Star of the Seas attests to it. The crossing of a truly great novel." Frédéric Vitoux, The New Observer EAN: 9782264046741 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song for One Who Desires to Live Volume 1 - Heq - Jørn Riel - book Summary : With this first part of the cycle The Song for One Who Desires to Live , Jørn Riel transports us to the immemorial times of the first humans. Humanity then spread across the five continents, and Heq and his clan migrated to Greenland through the Canadian Far North. During a glacial epic, a fabulous ethnological fresco punctuated by bear hunts and evening gatherings. EAN: 9782264030436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Shoulder Defect - Béatrice Bourrier - book Summary : Devastated by the death of his wife, Ruben knows that life must go on at the farmhouse in Midian... So he takes his son to the donkey fair that takes place every year in town. He meets a woman in tears, broken by the loss of her fiancé, who was the victim of a motorcycle accident. She is lost, broken from her family, and penniless. Ruben is incapable of leaving a troubled soul without coming to their aid. So, like his father, who had taken in a mute orphaned girl years earlier, he brings Rita back to the farmhouse. But the stranger's arrival changes the atmosphere in the house and turns the lives of the entire family upside down, starting with that of this solid man, attached to the values ​​of the land. He has no idea that happiness can take unexpected paths and that passion will carry him to hitherto unknown lands. In this gripping thriller, two fascinating female characters confront each other. Béatrice Bourrier once again delivers a powerful and incredibly moving book that sweeps the reader away on a captivating adventure. With refined writing, this is a novel about the power and explosion of emotions. EAN: 9782848864969 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book Summary : Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary. EAN: 9782253128946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bad Blood - Sarah Cohen-Scali - book Summary : I wasn't always a monster. It was my job that transformed me. Let me explain: a doctor must fight pain. He controls it, doses it, plays with it. And one day we realize that we delight in the spectacle of suffering. EAN: 9782081613478 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Revenant - Michael PUNKE - book Summary : United States, 1823. During an expedition across the Great Plains, trapper Hugh Glass is attacked by a grizzly bear. Disfigured and his body torn to pieces, Hugh is entrusted to two volunteers tasked with watching over him until his death and then burying him. But his keepers decide to abandon the wounded man. In the middle of Indian territory, alone, unarmed, and exhausted, Glass survives. His only motivation: revenge. Thus begins the legend of Hugh Glass: the story of an extraordinary man who travels 5,000 kilometers, from South Dakota to Nebraska, to find those who betrayed him. A most judicious adventure novel, a fiction carried by an equally judicious inspiration. Hubert Artus, Lire . It is Jeremiah Johnson And The Count of Monte Cristo together, in the snowy forests of Missouri. François Forestier, Le Nouvel Observateur EAN: 9782253095125 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Left No Longer Has the Right to Make Mistakes - Michel Rocard, Pierre Larrouturou - book Summary : Who can believe that the crisis is over? While unemployment and precariousness are reaching unprecedented levels, François Hollande and the entire Socialist Party are banking on the return of growth to reduce them. However, the country will undoubtedly be marked by a very clear worsening of the crisis... Is the left in power doomed to disappoint? What are the dangers that threaten us and what can be the solutions? Our systems are increasingly interdependent. For the worse, but also for the better: the domino effect could play a role in emerging from the crisis. Michel Rocard and Pierre Larrouturou are holding the French and European left to face up to its responsibilities and putting forward very concrete proposals. EAN: 9782290081778 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Delhi - Khushwant Singh - book Summary : In this novel, I have tried to tell the story of Delhi from its origins to the present day. History provided me with the skeleton. I covered it with flesh and injected it with blood and a generous dose of semen. It took me twenty-five years to achieve this. I poured into it everything I was as a writer: love, desire, sex, hatred, revenge, violence, and, above all, tears. My sole ambition was to share with my readers what I learned about this city from its ruins, its crowded bazaars, its diplomatic corps, and its cocktail parties. I only wanted them to get to know Delhi and love it as much as I do. EAN: 9782809701876 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Hero - Félicité Herzog - book Summary : How far back do we have to go to find the source of a personal tragedy? To the lies of the war, to the grandparents' generation? To those of my "hero" father, who set out to conquer the mythical summit of Annapurna in 1950 and left in the peaks of this glorious ascent a part of himself that would make him perpetually the director of his legend? To the freedom of a seductive and modern mother, too intelligent for her time, too rebellious for her milieu? To the fusional and rival fraternity of two "enfants terribles" raised in a shared solitude and in the cult of exploit? The fact remains that my big brother Laurent, promised a magnificent destiny, will end up as a shaggy and crazy vagabond of the stars, found by the police after months on the run... until his predictable fall. It was him or me: it was him... This novel of our wounded fraternity, I owe it to him. FH EAN: 9782253174806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blasphemer - Isaac Bashevis Singer - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253037163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brides of Cape Ténès - Venus Khoury-Ghata - book Summary : 1802. Far from the Napoleonic epic that shook Europe, five women, survivors of the sinking of a French warship on the Algerian coast, in Ténès, were taken in and given to the highest bidder among the Bani Haoua mountaineers. Almost forgotten by France, they chose to face their destiny and explore this country so different from their own. One, a laundress in Toulon, seduced the dey of Algiers. The aristocrat Hélène de Courtavray became the first French teacher in Algeria. Two others were married, the first to a farmer, the second to the son of an emir. As for Jeanne, the nun, who became a healer and member of the village council of elders, she was venerated after her death—and still is today—throughout Algeria. Inspired by historical facts, Vénus Khoury-Ghata describes in a sumptuous fresco the clash of two civilizations. EAN: 9782253141082 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - book Summary : The Lambert family is a family like any other: behind their apparent good nature lie sometimes unspeakable desires... From heartbreak to reconciliation, Enid, Alfred, and their three children try to make sense of their contradictions. What if we were only born to correct our parents' mistakes? A sweeping novel with fierce humor, whose power sweeps everything away in its path. EAN: 9782020611961 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Deliver us from evil - Romain Sardou - book Summary : Winter 1288. In an isolated parish in Quercy, a troop of men in black seizes a child. Refusing to admit the worst, the village priest, Father Aba, sets out in pursuit of the kidnappers. Meanwhile, in Rome, the eminent investigator Benedict Gui accepts a new mission: to find a young man employed by the Pope's administration. He too has been kidnapped by men in black. With children disappearing on the rise, archives being stolen, cardinals being assassinated... In this Middle Ages where the power of the Church is stronger than ever, a tragedy is brewing. EAN: 9782266191975 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Queen of the Night - Marc Behm - book Summary : The Queen of the Night recounts, in a picaresque manner, the deadly trek of a young German woman who unwillingly becomes a Nazi, who finds herself, through adventures and tribulations, a member of the SA and then the SS, before ending up hanged for crimes against humanity. The author's particularly dark humor is completely devastating, especially in the chapters where all the leading figures of the Reich appear. Other passages are revealed to be on the edge of bearable. In any case, a fabulous novel. Jean-Pierre Deloux, Polar A book that could well be ahead of its time and which treats the horror of the Holocaust years as a metaphysical, picaresque, psychological thriller that often turns into pure surrealism. Maxim Jakubowski EAN: 9782869305724 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rendezvous in Colorado - Philippe Labro - book Summary : He who does not seek does not live. The path is more important than the goal. Santos-Montané said it: "You will only succeed in your life if it is guided by a personal search." For me, now, as the pickup driven by Larry Luke, the sharecropper, finally takes me to the ranch in Ouray County, at the foot of the forests and mountains, I dare to call myself "seeker of blue." Seeker of blue, what a beautiful expression. Are you then only that, little man, and have you not, all your life, run after this color, that is to say, this serenity and this refuge? You have encountered blue in many latitudes, in every place and every moment of your incessant activity. But are you not also, like every other man, a seeker of God? Isn't blue the color of the supernatural? EAN: 9782070411771 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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