Title : The Blue of Bees - Laura Alcoba - book Summary : In front of the bathroom mirror, I practice pronouncing complicated words, with lots of r's, g's, and s's between two vowels that tickle the roof of my mouth. I also practice pronouncing words with u's at full speed, and even u's on their own, which I make last as long as possible." At ten years old, the heroine leaves Videla's Argentina to join her mother, who has taken refuge in France, while her father is imprisoned in La Plata. The harsh reality of exile is soon mixed with the enthusiasm of discovering a country and a language. A story told from a child's perspective, tangy, joyful, and deeply touching. EAN: 9782070465972 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Letters from London - Julian Barnes - book Summary : Asked by the American magazine The New Yorker to write a series of reports on current events in England between 1990 and 1994, Julian Barnes became, in his own words, a "foreign correspondent in his own country." The result is fourteen hilarious "Letters from London" that take on Mrs. Thatcher, one of her favorite whipping boys, the entire royal family, and the unfortunate John Major, who didn't have the slightest chance of escaping her claws from the start. Add to that the account of a few inglorious episodes in English political life and a joyful visit to a maze maker (there is only one in the world, and of course, it is English). All this makes for a bracing and ferociously funny book. EAN: 9782070403943 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On the margins of the days - Jean-Bertrand Pontalis - book Summary : Do not date these fragments. For me, they are on the margins of passing time, of the chain of time. Even when they evoke a circumstance, an encounter, a reading from long ago, these circumstances, encounters, readings are my present. I take these fragments from the margins of my memory, itself fragmented, incomplete, to bring them not to the center—no one has a center within them, or at least this untraceable center never occupies the same place—but so that they come to light in the living today. EAN: 9782070302031 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lazarillo de Tormes - Anonimo - book in Spanish Summary : When it was first published, the “Lazarillo” did not present itself as an imaginary object, otherwise it was the authentic story of a real Lázaro de Tormes (and therefore it did not appear other than the number of the protagonist). Con tal mistificación creaba un typeo de ficción hasta entonces desconocido y constituía en principio absoluto de la novela moderna. In addition to studying this fundamental historical and literary aspect, Francisco Rico's “new edition” reexamines the great problems of “Lazarillo” in the light of new materials and investigations; offer the text message more faithfully at the author's will; y, through an exhaustive anotación, situating the novel in the context of life and the literature of the era, resolving one by a todas las dudas that the reading can arouse. EAN: 9788437606606 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Feminine Genius, Volume 2 - Melanie Klein - Julia Kristeva - book Summary : Melanie Klein (1882-1960) appears to be the most original innovator in psychoanalysis. While Freud focused the subject's psychic life on the test of castration and the function of the father, Melanie Klein—without ignoring them—supported them with a maternal function, absent in the founder's theory. She was the first to consider matricide: capable from birth of a bond with the object (the breast, the mother), and inhabited by fantasies as violent as they were restorative, the child according to Melanie Klein opened new horizons in the clinical study of psychosis and autism. EAN: 9782070427390 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ashworth Hall - Anne Perry - book Summary : At the end of the 19th century, political and religious dissensions in Ireland continue to poison the British government; civil war threatens. A secret meeting is then organized between Irish Protestants and Catholics in the magnificent Ashworth Hall mansion, and Commissioner Pitt is forced to discreetly ensure the security of the place. Assisted by Inspector Tellman, disguised as a valet and more grumpy than ever, and his wife Charlotte, Pitt monitors the progress of this high-risk event while tensions rise among the guests. When one of the guests is murdered, the stormy atmosphere at Ashworth Hall could well turn into an explosion of violence and jeopardize the peace of the entire kingdom. EAN: 9782264040169 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The New Love - Philippe Forest - book Summary : It seems that love is not the great affair in the existence of men, that they do not grow up thinking that there is before them this maddening thing, this worry of belonging to someone else where all the possible meaning of their life lies. It seems that such fables are the exclusive affair of women. That they alone calculate everything of their time in view of the love that will come. I do not know. It seems to me that I always thought that love was waiting for me, that I was going to meet it, and that if by misfortune I missed it, I would have missed everything with it. That there was basically nothing else to expect from life. Nothing else, yes, except love. And as a poet writes, all the rest is dead leaves to me." Philippe Forest recounts the strange effervescence of love that comes to those whose existence survives grief, and probes, with rare integrity and intelligence, the birth of a new love. EAN: 9782070361236 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Letter to Sister Bénédicte - Rose Tremain - book Summary : As Christmas approaches, in the streets of London filled with the joyful bustle of the festive eve, Ruby Constad is more alone than ever. At fifty, she has lived little more than her two children and her husband. But Paul and Alexandra have not followed the path imagined by their parents. And Léon, her once loving husband, who has become authoritarian and unfaithful, is dying in a hospital bed... In her dismay, Ruby turns to the memory of a nun she knew during her childhood in India. She begins to tell her, in a long imaginary letter, the disappointments of her life. And it is by retracing the past, randomly retracing her memories, her joys, her sorrows, that she will find within herself resources of hope, an appetite for life she never suspected. EAN: 9782253142669 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Savage, followed by The Invitation to the Castle - Jean Anouilh - book Summary : "Why did you come in? I don't want to see you. I'm happy here, you hear. I'm happy and I love her. I don't want to have anything to do with your pain and misery anymore. I love her, you hear, Gosta; I love her... What did you come here to do, with your unhappiness at arm's length? And first of all, why do you allow yourself to smile when I tell you that I love her and that I'm happy? You're ugly, Gosta, you're old, you're lazy. You always said that you could have done better than the others, but you never did anything..." EAN: 9782070368747 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Children of the Dawn - Patrick Poivre d'Arvor - book Summary : Patrick Poivre d'Arvor's first novel is a romance. A story of the passionate love between two teenagers. Away from the adult comedy they reject. They throw themselves into the most beautiful and moving of adventures... like birds against a windowpane in the colors of dawn. Each of us has lived this tender and tragic love story, or dreamed it. EAN: 9782253032243 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wings of the Morning - Mireille Lesage - book Summary : Louis XIII, through his all-powerful minister, Cardinal Richelieu, rules France. But the unchallenged authority of his feared advisor stirs up hatred and greed, and a determined group of high-ranking conspirators rises up to bring down the "red man." In this feverish atmosphere of conspiracy, the very young and ardent Floriane de Saint-Évy arrives in Paris. Presented at Court, adored, she arouses passions and provokes, despite herself, conflicts that end in bloodshed. Duels, traps, kidnappings, escapes, rides, romances, twists and turns follow one another at a frenzied pace, until the day when, in the shadow of a sinister scaffold, his destiny seems to change definitively. In the superbly reconstructed setting of 17th century France, following the precise scenario of dramatic events that really took place, the author portrays, with the same vigor and the same meticulousness, authentic characters and heroes born of his sparkling and fertile imagination. Painting a romantic fresco in the colors of a prestigious past, Mireille Lesage brilliantly combines the picturesque and the emotional, the panache and the joy of living, the history of France and fiction. EAN: 9782253052609 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories and Regrets Too - Catherine Allégret - book Summary : I must be four years old. I'm alone with my mother in the living room, we're waiting for Montand, who's due back from his trip. Suddenly, I hear the front door close. I hide behind an armchair. Montand enters. He's holding something behind his back. Is it a present for me? I'm getting ready to come out of my hiding place to surprise him with my presence, but I don't have time. He's already embracing my mother. They're kissing. And that kiss lasts... lasts so long that it still lingers in my memory today. And I don't dare go out anymore, I'm afraid of disturbing someone. "I think that all my life, I've felt trapped behind that armchair, with, planted in the pit of my stomach, this fear of disturbing something or someone. EAN: 9782277240006 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Louison or the Exquisite Hour - Fanny Deschamps - book Summary : This is a novel that perfectly lives up to its title: everything about it is exquisite, sparkling, light, and gracefully frivolous. In a language as delicate as the stature of its heroine, Fanny Deschamps reveals the first emotions of Louison, the bastard of the Duke of Conti, her first steps in life, and her missteps too, a few years before the French Revolution, in the rustle of silk and the sparkle of pearls. Those who loved La Bougainvillée will adore this suave and witty Louison. Claude Méheust, Marie-Claire This book can also be savored like a treat, as the author knows how to capture the sensuality of things (...). A colorful style, whose tone and elegance seem to come straight from the Age of Enlightenment. Françoise de Comberousse, France-Soir We meet Fragonard, Beaumarchais, and the great minds who, at the time, met in Paris (...). Louison's story is nothing but a collection of dazzling moments. And since Fanny Deschamps has not forgotten the primary requirement of journalism, one piece of information per line, she has also made it the most lively of reports on Paris in the 18th century. Danièle Mazingarbe, Madame Figaro EAN: 9782253052562 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red Sweater - Gilles Perrault - book Summary : Twenty-two-year-old Christian Ranucci was guillotined on July 28, 1976, at 4:13 a.m. in the courtyard of Baumettes Prison. Was he guilty or innocent? In The Red Sweater , which provides an important piece to the case for the death penalty, we find the remarkable qualities of Gilles Perrault's famous works: The Gardens of the Observatory, The Boy with Grey Eyes, and Oberleutnant von La Rochelle's Holiday. EAN: 9782253025436 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Combustion - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : A Machiavellian killer who uses fire to cover his crimes: in Kay Scarpetta's eyes, this could be just another investigation. But she becomes convinced that her mortal enemy, Carrie Grethen, who has escaped from her New York prison, is involved in these murders. When Carrie targets her niece, Lucy, the investigation takes on a personal dimension, and tragedy catches up with her... With this tenth novel, which has sold more than a million copies in the United States, Patricia Cornwell offers her countless fans a new masterpiece, as powerful as Postmortem Or A death without a name. A thriller in which Kay Scarpetta, by turns strong and fragile, helpless and implacable, proves more endearing than ever. In the unlikely event that you are not yet familiar with the Cornwellian universe, here is something to introduce you and get you hooked. Didier Decoin, from the Goncourt Academy. EAN: 9782253171348 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Revenge of Saint Michael - The Adventures of Alain Bivelin - Laurent Guérineau - book Summary : It's Christmas Eve aboard Sir John Petegale's yacht, cruising in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. Suddenly, there's a shock: the boat has just struck something. The sea is rough, and the cold is biting around the Rohein Reef. The evening wear, so radiant for the party, will be like rich shrouds for the occupants of the sinking ship. There will be no survivors... What are the causes of this mysterious shipwreck? A simple breakdown, a tragic human error, a heinous act of sabotage? Investigators are not short of accusations and leads. Alain Bivelin knows boats inside and out; it's his job! It was no less necessary for him to be called upon in such circumstances... The final outcome of a trilogy on the actions of an indestructible criminal who operates between Val-André, Erquy and Saint-Malo, this story makes intelligence and opportunism the pillars of good and evil; love, like death, find their place there. EAN: 9782845831117 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Tahir Shah - book Summary : India is a land of miracles, where "holy men" and mystics mesmerize their audiences with astonishing magic tricks. In major cities and remote villages alike, these earthly incarnations of the deity transform wands into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate, and even practice levitation. Born in 1966, Tahir Shah is an ethnologist already well-known for his work on the Near East, Central Asia, South America, and Africa. As a child in the English countryside, he learned the first secrets of illusionism from an Indian magician. More than twenty years later, he set out in search of this magician, the traditional guardian of the tomb of his great-grandfather, a renowned Afghan warlord. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the story of this quest and the author's initiation into the world of India's "holy men," sadhus , magi, and sages, throughout a journey that took him from Calcutta to Madras, and from Bangalore to Bombay, in search of the magical, unusual, and secret world that lies behind modern India. EAN: 9782253155195 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flower of Time - 1983-1987 - Claude Roy - book Summary : Residence Permit ended "well." The Flower of Time picks up the thread of Claude Roy's days where the previous journal left off. What use did the writer make of his visa extension? He continued to cast a gaze on life that artificializes the distinction between personal diary and things seen, between "inner life" and "outer views." Whether he recounts a marvelous trip to Japan or a new and banal stay in the hospital, whether he subtly analyzes the pleasures of nature, his work as a poet, or experiences of pain, whether he recounts a walk in the Île-de-France forest or a stroll on the Bosphorus, it is always that rare blend of compassionate insight and midnight-blue humor. EAN: 9782070385256 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ubu roi - Ubu cocu - Ubu enchaîné - Ubu sur la Butte by Alfred Jarry - Barbara Pascarel - book Summary : A century after Alfred Jarry's death, Ubu Roi remains one of the most performed French-language plays in the world. How can we define the specificity of such a text in literary history, and how does it relate to the other works in the cycle in which Ubu is the protagonist? Its singular genesis provides one of the keys, as will be shown in the first part of this essay, "Genèse de la geste ubique," which highlights its kinship with other plays in the cycle, in the high school melting pot." Barbara Pascarel. EAN: 9782070337613 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Venetian Queen - Sylvia Mazzeri de Alberti - book Summary : Catherine Cornaro, daughter of a noble merchant belonging to one of the oldest and most illustrious families of Venice, becomes queen when the King of Cyprus, having fallen in love with her portrait, asks for her hand in marriage. She soon discovers that, even in the "land of Venus," the purest loves cannot withstand the villainy of the court. Widowed after a year of marriage, proclaimed regent, she finds herself at the heart of a dangerous political game: the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Venice want to seize the island to fight against the Turks... Sylvia Mazzeri de Alberti restores in all its splendor the story of an incredible destiny. EAN: 9782290055434 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Girl of Shadows - Sabine Thierry - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782952490917 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memoirs, volume 1 - Saint-Simon, Yves Coirault - book Summary : This Princess of Harcourt was a kind of character that it is good to make known, to make known more particularly a court that did not cease to receive such. She had been very beautiful and gallant; although she was not old, the graces and beauty had turned into arse-scratching. She was then a tall, fat, very lively creature, the color of milk soup, with large, ugly lips and hair of string always sticking out and trailing like all her dirty, unclean clothing; always scheming, pretending, enterprising; always quarreling, and always as low as the grass, or on the rainbow, according to those with whom she had to deal. She was a blond fury, and a harpy to boot..." EAN: 9782070382347 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banker - Francis Dick - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277221494 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hello My Sweet Life - Sibylle Claudel - book Summary : Sometimes I feel like fate is holding a gun to my head and ordering me to stay alive..." Such is, over the course of a long season of hardship, the state of mind of the author of this book-testimony who is, as they say, "suffering from a nasty illness." But Sibylle Claudel knows how to fight. Normal: she has already experienced misfortune and is not unaware that you can, with a smile, put death to flight. A lesson in life? Courage? No, because Sybille does not like to give lessons. She is content, with her so true voice, to take the blows and offer us a hand. EAN: 9782298026016 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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