Title : The Last Banquet - Jonathan Grimwood - book Summary : A filthy child eats beetles next to a pile of manure. He is five years old and his parents are dead. His name is Jean-Charles d'Aumout, a penniless nobleman who will experience an exceptional destiny. In 18th-century France, the orphan who became a cadet at the Military Academy will, thanks to a marriage, climb the social ladder. Soldier, diplomat, spy, lover: Aumout is all of these at once. His life is filled with passion and intrigue, but that is not enough for him. He has only one obsession: the culinary art, which he takes to its paroxysm. While society is dying under the blows of the Revolution, like an alchemist ready for any experiment, Aumout seeks the perfect, absolute taste. But in cooking, no more than in politics, perfection is not of this world... "This historical novel is a masterpiece." EAN: 9782824605043 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cat Guide - Pugnetti Gino - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782092842355 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The world of the art figurine and the tin soldier - CBG - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 150 Proverbs and Expressions Explained - Gilles Guilleron - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782298057522 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cathar Phenomenon - Nelli René - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782708923621 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Itinerary of a Pirate - Incardona Leonardo - book Summary : Adventures and twists of a Metro in the Antilles. Largely autobiographical, this unpublished novel tells the story of an Italian-Grenoblois confronted with the vagaries of business in mainland France who then finds a form of serenity in the Antilles. However, not finding happiness with the island's women, he finds love thanks to the Internet. However... Voodoo, mafia, cyclone and murder come to thwart this beautiful story which transports the reader from the Caribbean to Grenoble and all the way to Sicily. EAN: 9782908778700 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Serena - Martine Desèvre - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782857044802 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Living in Madeira - Jacques Chardonne - book Summary : A middle-aged writer sets off for Madeira, where he hopes to find a friend who once retired there to experience happiness far from the vicissitudes of the world. But does such happiness exist? The narrator discovers that his friend may have committed suicide; yet, without being fully aware of it, he resumes the search for his missing friend, seeking to understand the nature of this happiness that constantly eludes him... The masterpiece of Chardonne's last "manner": virtuoso writing for the most fluid, the most elegant and, perhaps, the most astonishing of post-war novels. EAN: 9782246180128 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Companions of Silence - Paul Feval - book Summary : At the very beginning of the 19th century, Count Mario de Monteleone, cousin of Ferdinand, King of Naples, secretly leads the fight against the French. Secret: that's all there is to it. The conspirators have no weapons, but they possess a sense of their rights and know they can count on the surest ally: silence. Traps, kidnappings, crimes, real and fake suicides, and plots follow one another at a breathless pace. In this labyrinthine novel, published in volume form in 1858, Paul Féval explores the genesis of the terrible secret societies that Southern Italy soon made a dark specialty of, later giving rise to the Mafia and the Neapolitan Camorra. Both in style and in novelistic energy, the author once again proves himself the equal of the master of the serial novel: Alexandre Dumas. EAN: 9782752903891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Kill a Man - Carlo Gébler - book Summary : Ireland, 1854. The Great Famine is wreaking havoc. A secret society recruits among the starving farmers and practices murder, torture, and assassination under the pretext of driving out the English occupier. Greed is never far away. Political or religious discourse hides more private interests and creates a divide that will bloodily separate two communities that had once lived together. It is in this context that the steward Thomas French arrives with his family on the land of an English woman ruined by the poverty of her Irish tenant farmers. Very quickly, ordinary terror surrounds the newcomer, who is determined not to let himself be pushed around... Inspired by the memoirs of an administrator who was once condemned to death by his neighbors, How to Kill a Man is a dark, very dark novel with strong contemporary resonances. EAN: 9782752905185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : It's Going to End Badly - François Léotard - book Summary : It's a kid marveling at the multitude of his toys. It's Sunday. It's Christmas. It's a celebration. He's sitting at the foot of the tree and hesitates for a moment: which present should he open first? That one, right next to it, with a beautiful ribbon? He grabs it: a big plane sent by Bush, you turn the key and it bombs the living room. Another one over there? It's a nuclear power plant, a scale model for Chinese beginners. And then this multitude of little packages that he feverishly discovers: a large plastic Mickey Mouse, a journalist lying on his stomach, several stuffed Guainos, and vouchers from a MEDEF catalog: a cruise on the Nile, a subscription to TF1, Star'Ac at the Elysée, little bottles for DNA tests... He never stops discovering his joy. Where are the photographers? He presses the multitude of buttons, black, red, blue, offered by big brother Hortefeux. Fillon arrives, believing it's him they're calling. Stamping his feet, anger: out! Quick reshuffle. The little boy is in heaven... It was the morning of the seventh day. God saw that it was good and decided to rest. But he didn't really rest! And it continued on the eighth, the ninth, the tenth day... Without stopping. The creation of the world was never finished. And the public wanted more. That's normal. When you prefer the Crazy Horse audience, it shouldn't be surprising that demand outweighs supply. In this field, there are some very good jobs: DJ, crooner, TV host, fire-eater, rapper. There's nothing dishonorable about it. It's even better than "Little Father of the People." Above all, it's less dangerous... EAN: 9782246737919 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I make you judges - Rachida Dati - book Summary : I am not proof, a concept, an idea, a disembodied character! My life is not a "beautiful story"! I am not the heroine of an edifying novel, to be presented to the people to bring tears to their eyes or encourage them to work. My life is not folklore. Neither Cosette nor Cinderella. The pathos that some people put into talking about me says more about their own fantasies than about my reality. - But then, why this book? - Precisely for that: to put an end to fantasies, to purge them, and to be able to move forward. To try to find the right words and escape the clichés. To tell the truth, before others lie. Indeed, what I am imposes itself on me, and writing this book is to accept it, so as not to remain a prisoner of it afterwards. What I am can be of interest, obviously? It's worth explaining. I know that I inspire curiosity, benevolent, friendly most of the time, but sometimes also malicious, brutal... EAN: 9782246734017 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : On Fellatio - As an Ideal in the Love Relationship - Gérard Lenne - book Summary : Still punishable by imprisonment in remote areas, such as certain American states, fellatio is today a common practice among civilized peoples. However, there is a contradiction between this trivialization and the reluctance it continues to arouse. Rejecting a historical, sociological or psychoanalytic approach, already adopted many times, the author here draws up a sort of inventory, based on literary and cinematic references. In reality, he strives to demonstrate that, far from being a secondary, accessory or useful practice, fellatio is a true ideal in the romantic relationship. EAN: 9782842711924 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : 302 Advanced Techniques to Drive a Man Crazy - Olivia Saint-Claire - book Summary : What is feminine seduction all about? How do you make a man succumb to desire? This book reveals all the secrets that can create erotic thrills and trigger torrid passion. Erogenous zones, positions conducive to pleasure, oriental techniques, and love rituals... New sensual horizons are open to you! Here are 302 techniques to highlight your assets, help you be more daring, and use your charms to drive him crazy with love... EAN: 9782501073394 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Turbulent Silence - André Brink - book Summary : 1824. On an isolated farm in South Africa, a slave revolt breaks out. Galant the Chained One rises up against his masters: Nicolaas, who is in fact his foster brother, and Barend, the husband of the beautiful Hester. In this doomed revolt, the white Hester ends up joining the black slave. Galant, recaptured, will be hanged. But in the meantime, an inexorable wind of freedom will have blown, generating the future storms of decolonization. A novel unanimously hailed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1978. EAN: 9782234053403 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fouchet and the roundabouts - Bugat-Fouchet - book Summary : When, in the small town of Sauvagnacq, the vagaries of globalization bring together Chinese, Polish, and indigenous Béarn residents around the same devastating protest project, the Republic had better watch out. Because it's the craziest private detective in history and his agency "A. Fouchet, investigations and miracles" who are leading the insurrection! Heavy, very heavy! Flanked by the superb Béatrice Canon and the ineffable Black Pole Zbiniew Grolac, he will undermine the five hundred thousand laws and decrees invented by psychopathic torturers walking freely between Paris and Brussels... The first investigation signed by the Bugat-Fouchet pair (see also Fouchet and the Sétrécon) hits hard in its biting and nonsensical humor, jubilationly destroying political correctness. A preposterous but damn intelligent story with very colorful characters. What does the people ask for? EAN: 9782822100809 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Emma's Child - Abbie Taylor - book Summary : A moment of inattention, a child who disappears, a single mother's fight against all... In the tradition of Jodi Picoult, a moving novel about the strength of blood ties and maternal love. A young single mother, Emma's life is turned upside down the day the subway doors close on Ritchie, her two-year-old son. Luckily, a woman waves at her, and Emma finds her son at the next station. But the relief is short-lived: the stranger disappears, taking Ritchie with her. Emma calls for help, but no one believes her: who would dream of kidnapping a child in front of so many witnesses? Isn't Emma one of those unbalanced, fabricating stories? Does she really have a child? From then on, Emma will embark on a desperate chase to prove that her child has been taken from her and to find him, whatever the cost. EAN: 9782714445155 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the War - Alice Ferney - book Summary : 1914. War breaks out, and no one believes it will. No one believes in its duration, in the pain and violence, and no one imagines how many men will perish, how many will return four years later with ineffable terror in their eyes. Young Félicité didn't believe in war either, and now that Jules, her husband, has left, she doesn't believe he might not return. So she waits for him, raising their very young child and doing her peasant work, even as she faces the silent hostility of a jealous mother-in-law. Félicité and Jules aren't the only protagonists in the drama Alice Ferney depicts in her novel; there's also Prince, their dog. This Collie, unable to understand and bear his master's absence, crosses the whole of France to join him. Arriving at the front, he learns from Jules the art of killing and how to transmit messages when soldiers can't go under fire. The very embodiment of loyalty, Prince then understands how a suffering man lets the beast within him be reborn. In war, all wars are present. Through these breathless pages, as she makes heard the song of agony of a world reeling under the blows of those who sow blood and despair, Alice Ferney also shows with emotion how new and precious bonds are woven between comrades in arms, between husband and wife, between parents and children, between man and animal. And thus, through this chronicle of desolation, written with grave fervor, she makes us hear in counterpoint another song, a song of love and innocence. EAN: 9782742744398 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Memory of the River - Christian Dedet - book Summary : Booksellers' Prize 1985 Fight of an elephant caught by an anaconda while bathing in the river. Around the tenth hour of this titanic struggle, the elephant, which had left its trunk sticking out of the water each time it submerged, finally dragged the 15-meter snake to the bank to trample it in fury... Such is the Africa that Jean Michonet, son of a Norman and a mixed-race woman born to the Myéné people, tells of; a fabulous Africa of forests and rivers, chiaroscuro and vines torn apart by apocalyptic gallops... EAN: 9782859405731 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Tales from the Lost City - Richard Bohringer - book Summary : Endearing and magnificent characters meet at the bar of Au bout du monde, the bar on 300th Street where those who wish life would still make them dream meet. There's John, married twice and abandoned twice. It's not his real first name, but some nights he prefers to be called John to see if it brings back love. There he meets Solange, who lives without sex and without a boyfriend. Except when she becomes Betty, Betty who loves love and men. With Paulo, they share an immense knowledge of drunkenness, a disgust for the world devoted to the cult of money, swollen with pride and prejudice. Together, they will hit the road to conquer new territories sheltered from the vanities and malevolence of the old world. Richard Bohringer delivers us perhaps his most intimate and committed text. He talks about men as they are and as they would like to be; he has never described the world of today so much, nor shed so much light on the paths that the provocateurs and their enlightenment give us to see. EAN: 9782081260917 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Poland - Blue Guides Evasion - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782012424500 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Basque Country, the ideal guide - Christophe Berliocchi - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782758803805 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Spain, East Coast - Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Zaragoza - Geoguide - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782742438327 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Greek Islands - Dominique De La Tour - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9791031403298 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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