Title : Anno Domini - George Steiner - book Summary : Under the violence of the effort, his head was sunk into his shoulders as if he were wearing armor, and with each step, beads of sweat beaded at the edge of his red hair. The pain, as well as the constant attention he paid to his precarious balance, clouded his gaze so much that his eyes had taken on an indefinable gray tint. But when, setting his suitcase on the ground, he caught his breath while leaning on his cane like a heron on its long legs, then his eyes regained their natural color, a hard blue. His face, with its thin mouth and delicate bone structure, clashed with his contorted gait. The man was handsome, but of a weary beauty. EAN: 9782070384679 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Evil Eye - Jason Goodwin - book Summary : 1839: The young Abdülmecid succeeds Sultan Mahmut II as head of the Ottoman Empire. The new sultan's inexperience quickly sparks greed and threatens the region's political stability. Surrounded by the Russians and Egyptians, the empire must defend its territory. Amid the plots, Hachim, loyal to the grand vizier, is tasked with investigating a mysterious murder in a Christian monastery. His trail leads him to the heart of power, into the sensual and burning atmosphere of the Sultan's harem, a world apart, governed by fear, ambition and superstition and where certain women are struck by an inexplicable illness... EAN: 9782264060297 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Victoria System - Eric Reinhardt - book Summary : David Kolski is the construction manager of the future tallest tower in France. Insurmountable delays, incessant pressure: he lives only in an emergency. As he prepares for dinner with his family for once, his gaze is caught by a woman of austere elegance, the radiance of a queen. She is Victoria, ambitious and intelligent, beautiful and independent. Director of human resources for a multinational, she manages her life as well as that of her employees. Will the lovers be able to face the demands of their desire? Through the story of a devouring passion, Éric Reinhardt brilliantly continues the study of our contemporary era. A chronicle of an increasingly violent world of work, The Victoria System is a captivating work, where sensuality mixes as much with pleasure as with subjugation. EAN: 9782070446827 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Hercule Poirot Investigations - Agatha Christie - book Summary : He can't say it enough: Hercule Poirot is the greatest detective of all time. What mystery could baffle him? Disappearance of priceless jewels, suspicious suicide, devious spies, heinous murder, high-level fraud, or a murky inheritance affair—nothing can resist him. But above all, no acrobatics on all fours in the grass, magnifying glass in hand. No essay on a lipstick-stained cigarette butt. No, Hercule Poirot leaves these diversions to the hard workers at Scotland Yard. He's content to settle into an armchair and let his illustrious little gray cells do the work. EAN: 9782702400425 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Blue, white, red, volume 2 - Mathilde - Max Gallo - book Summary : From 1848 to the Great War, six families experienced the century's great upheavals. Maximilien Forestier, having become a Marshal of the Empire, chose the cause of the people. At the other end of the spectrum, amidst the pomp of the "imperial festival," the Dussert banker clan continued to grow richer. Then the regime fell, France capitulated. Paris was covered in barricades. After the parenthesis of the Commune, the young republic continued its march, shaken by the Panama scandal and the Dreyfus affair. Once again, everyone chose sides. Pierre Machecoul, who put his pen to the service of royalists like Joseph de Taurignan, Antoine Forestier, Clemenceau's companion, Mathilde, the daughter of the people who climbed the steps of notoriety... So many destinies that intertwine to weave a story that is ours. EAN: 9782266101721 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Pleasure of Honor - Luigi Pirandello - book Summary : Pirandello invites the spectator to witness what is generally hidden from him: what happens on stage when the room is empty; what happens in the mind of the director grappling with the characters entrusted to him; and even more, everything that happens in the heart of an author when characters are imposed on him, and he feels them stronger than he is. EAN: 9782070370634 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ladies' Compartment - Anita Nair - book Summary : One day, Akhila decides to travel to the southern tip of India, where the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the Arabian Sea meet, to take stock of a life she feels she hasn't lived. On the train to her destination, she meets her fellow travelers, with whom she will share the intimacy of a ladies' compartment for an entire night. Through their confidences about their lives filled with renunciations, frustrations, and sometimes rebellion, Akhila seeks the answers to the questions she asks herself: does a woman need a man to feel fulfilled? How can she become master of her destiny again? There is no doubt that, for the author, the compartmentalization of Indian society is uncannily similar to that of a train: "one compartment is permanently reserved for women; it can be comfortable, provided they don't leave it." (Michel Grisolia, L'Express) EAN: 9782877307475 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mexican Whistling Duck - James Crumley - book Summary : And here we go again for CW Sughrue, the unforgettable private eye already encountered in The Last Kiss, Crumley's equally legendary novel. We don't forget the town of Meriwether, Montana, after accompanying his characters. Sughrue, this time, is tasked by a pair of giant twins with recovering rare tropical fish from a deadbeat known to all for having, one day, chewed a cop's nose before swallowing it. A nice little guy, this Norman the Freak! A bit of a biker leader too, from the worst gang in the country. Nothing serious for Sughrue, who has seen it all. Norman, for sure, will politely return the little wonders with the right amount of clear water... It's just a trifle, a hectic prelude... The improbable is elsewhere. Somewhere. In this immense country that Sughrue will once again cross in search of a mother... EAN: 9782070420537 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nails in the Heart - Danielle Thiéry - book Summary : Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2013 "There are things that ruin your life... they stay with you, stuck in your heart like a nail that a bad joker would enjoy manipulating..." Worn down by his excesses and illness, Commander Revel spits blood and his hatred of hypocrisy. Gruff, taciturn, and haughty, he rages at the unsolved cases at the Versailles PJ: suspicious deaths, disappearances... How could the truth come out of the mouth of an autistic child? His team respects the mysteries of the "boss" and, beyond the simple "truth owed to families", the complex truth of a great cop whose courage imposes death, that of others as well as his own! EAN: 9782213670706 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vino Business - Isabelle Saporta - book Summary : In the terroirs of French viticulture, behind the prestigious labels of our bottles, a merciless French Dallas is playing out, with its rivalries, visceral hatreds, intrigues, and backstabbing. A tragicomedy set against a backdrop of speculation, in which a handful of cunning and rival winemakers wage war, where the pesticides used seem far more harmful than we are led to believe, and where the classification of the great vintages remains a mystery. But shh... because our wine hides colossal stakes. A true red gold, it has become modern oil, snapped up at obscene prices by large industrialists and Asian investors under the benevolent gaze of our public services. An unprecedented investigation into one of the glories of our heritage, protected by a code of silence that resists all scandals. EAN: 9782290113202 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Don't Forget My Little Shoes - Joseph Connolly - book Summary : In this vitriolic satire of contemporary life and morals, we find the characters of Vacances anglaises, a few months after the events of the previous summer, around a traditional Christmas meal. And this holiday season will prove to be daunting for each of them: adventures, adultery, dramas and torrid love stories from which no one will emerge unscathed... After the memorable English Holidays, Joseph Connolly returns with this novel, which highlights with incredible linguistic verve the frustrations, guilty fantasies, and identity problems of British society. Emotion, acid humor, and a series of disasters are all on the menu! EAN: 9782020551328 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Desert of Love - François Mauriac - book Summary : Grand Prix for novels from the French Academy 1926 One evening, in a bar, Raymond Courrèges meets Maria Cross by chance, a woman to whom, as a teenager, he showed an ardent and clumsy passion, whom she rejected. In Raymond's memories, which Maria's face brings back to life, we soon discover other shadows, other wounds, such as the ambiguous rivalry of a father and a son for the same woman. It was at the age of forty that François Mauriac published this novel, a disillusioned observation of the sterility of human passions, a melancholic illustration, in the revelry of Paris in the 1920s, of Pascal's theme of the misery of man without God. "The Desert of Love," he wrote, "is the novel of my renunciation. It could be the title of my entire work." EAN: 9782253012344 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Calm chaos - Sandro Veronesi - book Summary : Femina Prize - Foreign Novel 2008 Pietro Paladini is motionless. In the eye of the storm. He no longer leaves his car, parked outside his daughter's school in Milan. This attractive forty-something, whom life had spared, has just lost his wife, Lara. He waits to suffer, but it's not so easy to feel the loss. Friends and strangers come to talk to him, to hug him, to share this suspended time, this "calm chaos" where he now takes refuge. Work colleagues on the eve of an unprecedented financial merger, an opium-smoking brother, a sister-in-law who strips off in the middle of a nervous breakdown—all at one point drop their masks. All renounce social comedy. From this situation worthy of Beckett, Sandro Veronesi constructs a moving, expansive, masterfully woven novel: a blend of the intimate at its most vibrant and the real at its most disturbing. In the wake of a hero who is in no way heroic, eminently contemporary and furiously endearing. Jeanne de Ménibus, Madame Figaro. EAN: 9782253127451 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Netherland - Joseph O'Neill - book Summary : In the aftermath of September 11th, the life of Hans, a financial analyst, is in the same state of ruin as New York. Becoming paranoid, his wife left him to take refuge in London with their young son. Hans has since led a lazy existence. Until the day he meets Chuck. A lifelong friendship will bind him to this strange businessman, whose dream is to launch the cricket trend in New York... Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland in 1964. Formerly a lawyer in London, he has lived in New York for over ten years. Netherlands , the author's first novel to be published in France, received the Pen/Faulkner Award. “Superb, serious and enchanting.” Télérama PEN/Faulkner Award 2009 EAN: 9782757819425 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Vodka-cola - Irina Denejkina - book Summary : They talked about the Beatles, the band Ruki Vverkh!, Pelevin and Tokareva, the Internet, dogs, gender, the cosmos, their childhood and friends, family, vodka, the band Anton had just started playing with. It was the most moving night of their lives." Their names are Anton, Liapa, Macha, Oleg, Svietka, Kostia, Volkova. They are 20 years old and live in St. Petersburg. In a Russia in the throes of anarchy, the children of disorder play hide-and-seek. They protect their loves from a world that doesn't love them, and invent songs too simple for their already complicated lives. Irina Denejkina, "the leader of Pop literature in Russia," paints their portraits, as one might draw with chalk on the sidewalk: violent and raw images, incredibly accurate. EAN: 9782020790727 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pamela - Stéphanie des Horts - book Summary : Light, seductive, insolent, Pamela decided early on to capture the man who would lead her to glory. Randolph Churchill, whom she married at nineteen. Ali Khan, Agnelli, Sinatra, Harriman, Druon, Rubirosa, Rothschild... none could resist her charm. If they had power, she exerted a fatal attraction over them. They all desired her. She loved them all. Pamela's conquests were wedding rings, trophies that she brandished without fear of shocking society circles. Scandalous? Schemer? Courtesan? The ravishing Englishwoman with a sultry reputation, who died like a legend in the swimming pool of the Ritz in Paris where she was the United States ambassador, took her secrets with her. Stéphanie des Horts searches for their scents and reveals the flamboyant existence of an extraordinary seductress. An epic portrait. Pierre Maury, The Literary Magazine. Stéphanie des Horts has a fine, alert, dazzling pen. François-Guillaume Lorrain, The Point. An excellent novel. François Busnel, The big bookstore. EAN: 9782253237990 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Love Object - Edna O'brien - book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Do you want to share my house? - Janine Boissard - book Summary : Line, in her fifties, has just lost her husband. To keep her beautiful house with a garden near Angers, she decided to share it with three tenants. But living with strangers isn't without its challenges. While she was aiming for a joyful and enriching shared apartment, hell is about to set in with young Priscille, who is hiding a terrible family secret. Will Line emerge unscathed? The "house", a magic word in everyone's mind, a place of meeting, of dialogue, is the central character of this novel, where fits of laughter alternate with tears.  Exquisite, like the previous ones. Modern woman. EAN: 9782253069850 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie - book Summary : Is it a good idea to gather children who all have good reasons to hate you for the holidays? Especially when it comes to telling them you're changing your will? Be that as it may, on December 24, Simeon Lee, an old man as rich as he is cynical, is savagely murdered in his bedroom. And here is Hercule Poirot wondering about Alfred and his wife, long tyrannized by their father and father-in-law; about Harry, who cannot forgive him for the humiliations his mother suffered; about Pilar, the Spanish granddaughter, in front of whom the old man may have imprudently displayed his diamonds... Lots of people. And finally, a culprit present from the start, but very difficult to suspect... From the very great Agatha Christie. EAN: 9782702408087 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wanted - Karin Alvtegen - book Summary : For several years, Sibylla has lived in the shadows, fleeing the memory of her childhood, on the fringes of society in which she does not recognize herself. But she is suddenly thrust into the spotlight and makes the front page of the newspapers: a man has been brutally murdered, a man with whom she has just spent the evening. The whole country is looking for her... Soon new murders occur, all signed with a first name: hers... Hunted and alone, Sibylla's only ally is a teenager, Patrik, to whom she confides the secrets of her past. Together, they investigate to find the real killer. Karin Alvtegen paints a subtle portrait of a woman searching for her identity in a psychological thriller that won the award for best Nordic crime novel (Glasnyckeln) and has been published in twenty countries. EAN: 9782020662277 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lazy Girl's Pregnancy - Anna Deville - book Summary : Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you're going to spend 9 months caressing your belly and stuffing yourself with strawberries, I'm a lazy person... While pregnancy is an extraordinary adventure, it's not necessarily the fairy tale you've been led to believe until now. In this guide, we'll tell you everything, especially what others have been careful not to tell you. EAN: 9782501077101 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : L'Assommoir - Émile Zola - book Summary : Edition presented and commented by Gérard Gengembre, professor of French literature at the University of Caen. A battered child, lame from birth and yet so pretty, pregnant at 14 and thrown onto the streets by her lover Lantier, Gervaise marries Coupeau, the zinc worker who soon has an accident and sinks into drunkenness, dragging her into alcoholic decline. The once cheerful young girl becomes a tramp among this suburban people teeming with misfortune who destroy themselves to forget their misery. Possessed to the point of madness and death, painted by Zola with infinite human pity, the couple abandons themselves to the poison of "this slow and stubborn source which floods the immense hole of Paris." In 1877, Zola wrote L'Assommoir au vitriol, as the brandy that ravaged the working classes was called at the time in the Goutte d'Or district. EAN: 9782266205146 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Germinal - Emile Zola - book Summary : Here, in modern, industrial France, is Zola's "Les Misérables." This novel about miners is also Hell, in a Dantesque world, where one "travels to the end of the night." But at the end of the prodigious journey to the center of the earth, from the depths of the underground where he has lived crushed for so long, man finally stands up and emerges in a revolt full of hope. It is Zola's most beautiful and greatest work, the poem of brotherhood in misery, and the novel of the human condition. EAN: 9782253004226 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Liberty & Co. - When employee freedom makes companies happy - Brian M. Carney, Isaac Getz - book Summary : Our society has elevated freedom to one of its cardinal values, supposedly governing our political system as well as our private lives. Bosses are often the first to extol its virtues, making it a pillar of capitalism. But these fine words stop short at the corporate gates: in the workplace, hierarchy, control, and constant surveillance seem to remain the rule. However, the investigation by Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz shows that there is another way of acting and invites us into companies where freedom has become the management principle. Employees are allowed to take initiatives instead of being told how to do things. They are treated as responsible adults instead of limiting the information available to them and having their every move controlled by a bloated hierarchy. Risk-taking is encouraged. Located in France, the United States, Japan, and Finland, these companies have been "liberated" by visionary leaders who have completely revolutionized their firm's culture. And at the same time, their profitability has exploded. We are at the dawn of a new era of management. EAN: 9782081290983 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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