Title : The Ladies of Boston - Eileen Lottman - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253036203 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Abbé Pierre - The Insurgent of God - Pierre Lunel - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253056300 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My beautiful orange tree - José Mauro de Vasconcelos - book Summary : At five years old, Zézé has taught himself everything: reading, the vulgarities of the street, marble dealing, the sentimental tangos of the song merchant. Everyone beats him, except his sister Gloria. Angel or devil, he has a secret in his heart: a small sweet orange vine, the only confidant of his dreams, who listens to him and answers him. EAN: 9782010139802 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tchipayuk Or The Way of the Wolf - Ronald Lavallee - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253051480 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Most Beautiful Novel by Wade Phillips - Lorna Michaels - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782280114974 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Secret of the Kingdom - Myrina - Mika Waltari - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253034506 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cods - Titiou Lecoq - book Summary : This is the story of the Morues, three girls - Ema, Gabrielle, and Alice - and a boy - Fred - thirty-something feminists caught up in their romantic and professional turpitudes. A book that begins with a tribute to Kurt Cobain, continues like a detective story, grabs you like a political journalism thriller, reveals the underside of the privatization of public services, and finally ends with a novel about how we love and desire each other in France, in the age of the internet. It is the novel of an era, ours. Thrilling in its thriller section, sensitive when it recounts the energy expended by women to preserve their independence, Les Morues paints an insolent portrait of an era without instructions. An excellent first novel. Be. Well written in a neglected scholarly style, this is a stunning, funny and instructive first novel. The Chained Duck. EAN: 9782253166801 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Heart of a Golden Summer - Anne Serre - book Summary : "In what life did I set these murderous snares? It seems so distant. I will never know why I was a murderer, but there may be no explanations. We always believe there are, but I have seen many cases where there were none." In this thirty-three-faceted self-portrait, celebrities and writers mingle with scenes of everyday life. An unknown mother who resembles Liz Taylor, a tenderly loved father who thinks he is Musset, a married lover who plays with a revolver, another who appears on the day of Beckett's death. By turns man or woman, murderer or vulnerable, the narrator blurs the lines and questions reality. Is the truth always worth telling? EAN: 9782072939921 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Father and Son - Larry Brown - book Summary : Upon his release from prison, Glen Davis returns to his hometown to commit a double homicide in less than forty-eight hours. Sheriff Bobby Blanchard, as straight as Glen is crooked, traces the chaos Glen sowed and attempts to rebuild the fragile bonds of community and family they have always shared. Dark secrets festering for two generations suddenly explode to the surface, revealing how evil can fester in a man's heart and eat away at his very soul. The eternal tale of good and evil, superbly staged in the poor white man's Deep South... EAN: 9782070416615 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Greta Garbo - Jean Lacouture - book Summary : It was a September day in 1951, towards the end of the morning. On the sidewalk of the Rue de Rivoli, along the arcades between the Louvre and the Concorde, I saw two tall women approaching me. The face of one suddenly caught my eye. That face? Yes, it was her! No glasses, no protective hat, her hair down to her shoulders in large, light locks, a marine look. Already, I had to turn around to see her. And I, who had never dared to follow a woman in the street, envying the audacity of the heroes of Morand and Drieu, fell in step with her along the paths of the Tuileries... "It took me half a century to dare to call out to her, as I am doing here EAN: 9782867462146 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sisters Enemies and Other Stories - Armand Marie-Paul - book Summary : See photos EAN: 2744183792 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This world to come - Alain Minc - book Summary : Since history began to move again after the fall of communism, everything, everywhere, has been constantly changing. What, then, will the world of the future look like? EAN: 9782253082828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Contemplations. Books IV-V - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "What are Les Contemplations? It is what one could call, if the word had no pretension, the Memoirs of a Soul" (Preface). Few poetic works refer more openly to their historical and biographical context than this one. Published in 1856, Les Contemplations bears the mark of a double mourning: the loss of the poet's daughter, Léopoldine, and the symbolic death represented by exile. But what is at stake touches on the power of poetic speech: through contemplation, plunged into the depths of oneself from which poetry must emerge, Hugo makes heartbreak a creative act and the lyrical word the instrument of a search for the absolute. Dossier 1. Les Contemplations and their reception 2. Mourning, poetry and the strength to live 3. Writing to resist 4. Post-apocalyptic literature EAN: 9782081510845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Around the World - Laurent Mauvignier - book Summary : Meeting a tattooed girl in Japan, saving a man's life on a cruise ship in the North Sea, swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas, making love in Moscow, working in Dubai, hunting lions in Tanzania, enjoying a romantic getaway in Rome, meeting pirates in the Gulf of Aden, trying your luck at a casino in Slovenia, getting lost in the jungle of Thailand, hitchhiking to Florida. The only connection between the characters is the event on which all eyes converge in March 2011: the tsunami in Japan, a media drama giving everyone the feeling and illusion of sharing the same world. But if everything melts into the speed of this globalization where we are chained to each other, if everyone can go very far, he remains first and foremost riveted to himself and to his own stories, in anonymity.   "Laurent Mauvignier doesn't just tell what happened on the day of Fukushima, he goes back in time, there's no rush, he settles into the story, provides a thousand details, compares points of view, describes places and characters, takes the reader into a novel that will stop 15 or 30 pages later to slip subtly into another, located 10,000 kilometers away." Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du dimanche "His novel speaks of the crazy contradiction of globalization, this lightning-fast circulation of information and people in a universe that multiplies solitudes. It highlights the paradox of accessibility that distances, of communication that isolates, of the swarming that ends up creating a traffic jam. And above all, it shows how everyone has lost their center of gravity, in a world where we are constantly moving, where travel makes every place a possible home. The real feat is to have written such a solid book on tottering. The secret of its haughty and powerful rotation? Laurent Mauvignier's fixed point remains literature. Never fabricated, both instinctive and highly mastered, language is his homeland. And his need to write, so palpable, so absolute, makes each of his novels an infallible survival kit." Marine Landrot, Télérama EAN: 9782707329929 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Annabel - Kathleen Winter - book Summary : 1968, a coastal town in Labrador, Canada. A child is born, neither boy nor girl. Intersex. Three people share this secret: the parents and a trusted neighbor. It is decided to have the child operated on; it will be Wayne—the father's choice. But in the murky waters of adolescence, his hidden self, this Annabel who accompanies him like a shadow, reappears. And with her, the truth. A magnificent novel about difference and identity, carried by a poetic language where Nature and human beings vibrate intimately. "We all have a novel that's a little rare, a little strange, totally different, that we give to those who seem to deserve it. A dear book that we share with trustworthy people, who will be forbidden to express the slightest disappointment for fear of unreasonably hurting you. Annabel is one of them. EAN: 9782264062314 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cure and the Poison - Dirk Wittenborn - book Summary : Depression, schizophrenia, anxiety... The ambitious Will Friedrich, a psychology professor at Yale, seems to have found the miracle cure for neuroses of all kinds, based on an elixir concocted by the shamans of New Guinea. And to test this happy pill, Casper Padrag, a tortured teenager, seems the ideal guinea pig. But has Friedrich fully measured all the side effects of his discovery? Dirk Wittenborn, writer, screenwriter and producer, lives in New York. The Cure and the Poison is his fifth novel. “A fun family saga, a thrilling psychological thriller and a fascinating scientific story EAN: 9782757817582 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Paris-Briançon - Philippe Besson - book Summary : Nothing connects the passengers who board night train 5789. Under the imposed lockdown, as they crisscross sleepy lands, a dozen or so bond, allowing intimacy and trust to blossom, words to be exchanged, and secrets to be revealed. Behind the surface, vulnerable people are revealed, victims of ordinary ills or the violence of the time, travelers trying to escape their solitude, their routine, or their lies. They don't yet know it, but by dawn, some will have met their deaths. This thrilling novel reminds us that no one controls their own destiny. Through the delicacy and accuracy of his observations, Paris-Briançon celebrates the miracle of chance encounters and the grace of suspended moments, where all truths can finally be told. EAN: 9782260054641 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Path of Souls - Joseph Boyden - book Summary : Northern Ontario. Niska, an elderly Cree woman, waits on a train platform for the return of a soldier who survived the war. However, the man getting off the train is not Elijah, but her nephew Xavier, whom she believed to be missing, or rather his sick and unrecognizable shadow. For three days, aboard the canoe taking them home, Xavier, between life and death, plunges back into the dark waters of his past. In 1914, Xavier and Elijah, his best friend, enlisted in the Canadian army, both certain of experiencing the adventure of a lifetime. But on the French battlefields, hell awaited them... Through the shattered destinies of these two characters, Joseph Boyden evokes, in this remarkable first novel, the horror of war with rare power. Heartbreaking and gripping, The Way of Souls is also a reflection on our own humanity and what threatens it. EAN: 9782226173201 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Caravel Liberty - Marie-Reine de Jaham - book Summary : During the Revolution, the question of freedom arose in the islands. A new, profound question that would touch everyone, black or white, to the depths of their souls and unleash violence. Ruth de Fronsac, the rebel, finds herself brutally confronted with these terrifying issues. Already thirty-eight years old, without illusions and without beauty, Ruth's only reason is to live on the plantation she will inherit upon the death of her grandfather, an old, impotent despot with whom she shares a strange and evil complicity. While secretly condemning the slavery system, she strives to muzzle her conscience. Two encounters will tear her apathy apart. First, Raphaël: he is black, he is old enough to be her son, nothing is possible between them, and yet love springs forth, ardent and sensual. An intense, dizzying passion that will change her outlook on things. Then comes Lou, the unknown cousin, who arrives one fine morning from America, pulling her little boy by the hand and begging for asylum. The child wins Ruth's heart, who sees in him the son to whom she will later bequeath the plantation. As for Lou, her beauty causes a sensation everywhere. Little by little, the newcomer asserts herself. The grandfather falls under her spell. But who is she really? What does she want? When Ruth discovers her cousin's plan, there is only one thing left for her to do. EAN: 9782843374401 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Spring of Monsters - Philippe Jaenada - book Summary : This story is no picnic to summarize. You have to proceed calmly. It's a true story, as they say. An eleven-year-old boy is abducted in Paris one evening in the spring of 1964. Luc Taron. (If you'd rather discover the story in the book, don't read on: stop!) His body is found the next day in a suburban forest. He was murdered for no apparent reason. For more than a month, a madman floods the media and the police with insane letters of demand, signed "The Strangler"; he even addresses vile, diabolical, cruel words to the child's horrified parents. He is finally arrested. He is an ordinary young man, a nurse. He confesses to the murder, is incarcerated, and ostracized from society for the rest of his life. End of story. But of course, if it were that simple, I wouldn't have spent four years writing this big thing (I'm not crazy). In this nascent society that will become ours, everything is murky, everything is artificial. Everyone fakes, lies, cheats. Except for one woman, a point of light. And what we knew is confirmed: the perverts, the madmen, the odious, the monsters are not often those we point to. EAN: 9782080238184 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Frede - Denis Cosnard - book Summary : She is a woman of the night, who appears in Patrick Modiano's Remise de peine. She has blue-green eyes, long eyelashes, brown hair, and a cat-like, tomboyish air. Her name is Frede. This stage name, as enigmatic as a sphinx, deserved investigation, because it masks an extravagant conqueror of women's hearts. In the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, where cabarets for women grew like poisonous flowers, Frede bewitched the most beautiful: Anaïs Nin, Marlene Dietrich, the Mexican actress María Félix, and the young Lana Marconi, Sacha Guitry's last wife. In her establishments in Montparnasse, Biarritz, Cap d'Antibes, and the Champs-Élysées, the new queen of the party attracts, to a diabolical rhythm, the happy and the damned: Juliette Gréco, Orson Welles, Marlon Brando, Françoise Sagan, Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel, Michel Déon... She sends morals flying, breaks hearts and conformisms. In this ballet of shadows, Frede is the first to let women dance together, cheek to cheek. Here is the story of a freed woman and a clandestine France, as captivating and precise as a report from the Brigade Mondaine. In Frede's company, the night is tender: no reader can resist her... EAN: 9782849904992 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : General Catastrophe Laboratory - Metaphysical and Polemic Journal 2000-2001 - Maurice G. Dantec - book Summary : The post-human of this early 21st century is therefore a simple animal endowed with reason. He is the super-ape capable very soon of interconnecting the cells of his brain with high-performance logic machines. In short, a chimpanzee playing with a typewriter. Suffice to say that his probabilities of producing even a line of Shakespeare, or Baudelaire, resist all orders of magnitude. Because before producing the post-human, we would still have to know how to form a man. Certainly, humanity is doomed, it has the choice between cultures without societies - therefore without (bio)politics - and nations without cultures (therefore without metaphysics); between individuals with useless, massified solitudes, and communities with absurd rights and rituals; between the intensification of the powers of cyberphotonic surveillance and genetic control of the Machine and the return to the proto-industrial "golden ages"; between the totalitarian videodrome and the hyper-spectacular riot; between simulacrum and nothingness. But what the metalocal and hyper-corporate Command Center is now undertaking is the extension of control into the internal cellular and biotopic theater of individuals, now coextensive nodes of the network of nanomachines, fissile vectors of totalized, micronized, cybernetic and iconic advertising communication. Metacritical guerrilla. Please note that some pages may have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this will not interfere with reading. EAN: 9782070428229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Virginian - Barbara Chase-Riboud - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253029274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Humboldt's Gift Volume 1 - Saul Bellow - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782253028840 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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