Title : To the tune of Piaf - David Lelait - book Summary : A little woman in black, an eternal voice, a legend... From the tarmac where she was born in 1915 to the greatest music halls, Edith Piaf lived passionately, without compromise or half measures. When she died in 1963, all of Paris remembered and mourned her. Even if we thought we knew her, there was still a part of her to discover. Far from the wildest rumors, she appears here as angry, tender and unpredictable, funny and insolent. From her childhood in the warm poverty of the suburbs to the conquest of America, the street bird continues her journey. She survives dramas, throws herself intensely into romances with small and big thugs... Tumultuous loves that would become the refrains of her time. Wounds sublimated into song. An exceptional destiny, tirelessly moving. EAN: 9782290339053 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The House of Happy Days - Danielle Steel - book Summary : For years, like his father before him, Jeremiah Thurston devoted himself entirely to his Napa Valley mines, extracting gold, then silver, and finally mercury. At forty-three, he found himself practically the richest man in all of California. During a trip to Atlanta, he met and fell passionately in love with a beautiful young girl, married her, and had a house built for her in San Francisco fit for a princess. But his wife was seventeen and had a completely different outlook on life... Joys, sorrows, misfortunes... The Thurston House, however, holder of all secrets and symbol of eternity, would constitute the memory and cement of an entire family and remain its only anchor. A powerful, poignant novel, which, through several generations, evokes the tumultuous history of the United States, from the Gold Rush to the Second World War, The House of Happy Days is one of the greatest successes of the famous novelist Danielle Steel. EAN: 9782253044925 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Five Days in Paris - Danielle Steel - book Summary : Fate would have it that they met in Paris in the corridors of the Ritz. He was Peter Haskell, director of Wilson-Donovan Laboratories. She was Olivia, the wife of Andy Thatcher, the powerful senator from Virginia, who was running for president of the United States. From that moment on, they knew they were meant for each other. They would never forget Paris. That June, the most beautiful city in the world offered them five wonderful days of happiness to discover each other and realize that it was now up to them to prolong these magical moments. But will they be able to break with a past that, until now, had forced them to live vicariously? EAN: 9782266076777 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Leonardo da Vinci - Serge Bramly - book Summary : Capable of developing a general theory of the world, solid, powerful, coherent, Leonardo da Vinci was undoubtedly the universal man of whom the Renaissance dreamed. The painter-sculptor was also a musician, engineer, architect, anatomist, astronomer, mathematician, director, writer, geologist… A visionary genius, he is said to have invented the airplane, the submarine, the bicycle, the violin. He was described as divine . There was something infinitely disturbing, in truth, in the multiplicity, the almost abnormal extent of his talents and qualities, because the author of the Mona Lisa astonished first of all by his charm, his humor, his physical strength and the beauty of his features. And on top of that, dandyish, extravagant. To recount the eventful life of Leonardo, Serge Bramly conducted the investigation; He followed the artist closely, observing him in his daily dealings with his rivals, his close friends, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli... Thus emerges the fascinating portrait of a unique, exemplary man, in the chiaroscuro of an era like no other. EAN: 9782253052586 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bohèmes - Dan Franck - book Summary : It was a time when Paris was still the capital of the world. Where, facing each other, two hills - Montmartre and Montparnasse, each populated by ordinary people and artists from all over the world who would "change life", reinvent Art and language - stared at each other... Like a true magician, Dan Franck resurrects the past, transforms the reader into a "flaneur of the two banks", into a "pedestrian of Paris", allows him to push open the door of the workshops of the Bateau-Lavoir or La Ruche, to see the birth of works by Picasso, Van Dongen, Soutine and so many others. An amused witness to the provocations of the surrealists, he mourns the death of Modigliani or the suicide of Pascin and becomes intoxicated by sounds, colors, poetry, letting himself be voluptuously carried away in the mad waltz of wine and parties of these "sublime troublemakers". EAN: 9782266092029 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : America - Volume 1 - The Thirteenth Colony - Romain Sardou - book Summary : 1691. As Irish Catholics revolt against England, young Harry Bateman and his wife Lilly are forced to flee their country and embark for America. After a long journey, they reach a new land where they will try to make a place for themselves. Arriving in the colony of New York, they clashed with Augustus Muir, a wealthy merchant of German origin, who had come to create a thirteenth English colony which would allow him to increase his wealth. From their meeting was born a fierce hatred that would last for several generations. These two families, with their inextricably linked destinies, will each write, in their own way, the history of America. “It’s gripping, it’s vibrant.” Femme Actuelle EAN: 9782266215725 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Incidences - Philippe Djian - book Summary : A Fiat 500. Marc is at the wheel. Next to him, his prettiest student. It's nighttime, and they're heading to his place to end the evening in style. In the early morning, his pronounced liking for the young students in his writing class will suddenly disappear. Is it because of the mountain roads? The prevailing neo-conservatism? His sister's tantrums? Or rather, the charm of married women? Marc can't say. At least, for the moment... EAN: 9782070443222 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Secrets - Danielle Steel - book Summary : In Hollywood, for the filming of a major television series, like Dynasty or Dallas, men and women fight fiercely to belong to the prestigious team of producer Mel Wechsler. He finally hires: Sabina Quarles, who, already forty-five years old, is at the peak of her career; Jane Adam, until now she hasn't done much but Mel was seduced by her personality; Gabby Smith, young, pretty, full of talent; Bill Warwick, determined this time to seize the opportunity of a lifetime, and, finally, Zack Taylor, the male lead, a star. Everything seems to be going well. On the surface at least, because every life has its secrets... And suddenly the drama erupts, forcing destinies to reveal themselves. EAN: 9782253045151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Virgin in Blue - Tracy Chevalier - book Summary : Southwest France, today. Recently arrived from the United States with her husband, Ella Turner struggles to find her place in this provincial town. Feeling alone and unwelcome, she begins researching her ancestors, who, as Protestants, had to flee persecution. Little does she know, this quest will turn her life upside down. Four centuries earlier, in the midst of the Wars of Religion, Isabelle du Moulin, nicknamed "The Redhead" because of her flamboyant hair, faces a witch trial for her worship of the Virgin Mary. However, the child she is carrying leaves her no choice but to join the intolerant Tournier family, which embraced the Reformation. Separated by generations but united by a mysterious heritage, Ella and Isabelle will reconnect the threads of time with their two voices. EAN: 9782710326380 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : After, Volume 2 - Anna Todd - book Summary : After a tumultuous start, Tessa and Hardin's relationship seemed to be on the mend. Until Tessa discovers secrets from Hardin's past, which shock her. She knew he could be cruel, but this much... Is he really the man Tessa fell head over heels in love with, or has he been lying all along? It's not so easy. The memory of their passionate nights clouds her judgment. Tessa isn't sure she can handle another broken promise, but she needs him to move on. Hardin knows he's made a mistake, perhaps the biggest of his life, and that he could lose Tessa. He also knows that sometimes you have to be wary of your friends. He wants to fight for her, but can he change for the sake of love? The second volume of a phenomenal series, a true global bestseller. EAN: 9782253194590 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marilyn Monroe - Investigation into an assassination - Don Wolfe - book Summary : Giancana was there to make it clear that he was very keen to ensure that Marilyn didn't create any difficulties. Sam wasn't one to mince words. He made sure to make it clear that if she became a problem, there was always a way to find a solution. "Marilyn Monroe, the greatest of American stars, did not commit suicide. Unofficially, she was allegedly assassinated on August 5, 1962, because she endangered the country's security. Many of the people behind the assassination sought to silence the artist. Among them were the Mafia, the Kennedys, her closest "friends." Don Wolfe's investigation brought to light a truth that had been suppressed until then. He collected and analyzed the main testimonies to bring justice. An explosive investigation, a document that reads like a novel. EAN: 9782290300015 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : His Dark Materials - Volume 2 - The Tower of Angels - Philip Pullman, - book Summary : Young Will, searching for his father, who has been missing for years, believes he has killed a man. In his escape, he crosses the breach that allows him to pass into a parallel world. There, in Cittàgazze, the city beyond the Dawn, he meets Lyra. The two children will have to fight against the dark forces of evil and, to complete their quest, enter the mysterious Tower of Angels. EAN: 9782070612437 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Lightning - Danielle Steel - book Summary : It was during a routine checkup that her life was turned upside down: at 42, Alexandra learned she had breast cancer. A mutilating operation, grueling chemotherapy. Sam, her husband, was unable to cope with the situation and left her. Her only reason for living was now her little girl. And those around her, who were determined not to leave her alone to overcome this terrible ordeal. EAN: 9782266180344 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The First Sip of Beer and Other Tiny Pleasures - Philippe Delerm - book Summary : It's easy to shell peas. Press your thumb against the slit of the pod and it opens, docile, offered. Some, less ripe, are more reluctant - an incision with your index fingernail then allows you to tear the green, and feel the wetness and the dense flesh, just beneath the faux-parchment skin. Then you slide the balls off with a single finger. The last one is so tiny. Sometimes you want to bite into it. It's not good, a little bitter, but fresh as the kitchen at 11 o'clock, cooking cold water, peeled vegetables - nearby, against the sink, a few bare carrots shine on a cloth, finishing drying. So we talk in small bursts, and here too the music of the words seems to come from within, peaceful, familiar. We talk about work, projects, fatigue - not psychology. EAN: 9782070744831 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Music of a Life - Andrei Makine - book Summary : RTL Lire Grand Prix 2001 In the heart of the storm, in the vast white Urals, frozen travelers wait for a train that never comes. As this endless night stretches on, an old pianist traces his life, from the beginnings of a great career to the trauma of war. Guided by an inner music, Alexei's memories reveal to us the indomitable strength of the Russian spirit. Born in Siberia in 1957, Andrei Makine is notably the best-selling author of French will (Goncourt Prize and Médicis Prize 1995) and The Woman Who Waited , available in Points. “A very beautiful novel with refined writing that aims for emotion and touches the heart.” The Express RTL-Lire Prize 2001 EAN: 9782020542852 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Bright Future - Catherine Cusset - book Summary : 2008 Goncourt High School Students' Prize Elena, a young Romanian woman born in Bessarabia and tossed about by history, meets a man at a ball in 1958 with whom she falls passionately in love. He is Jewish, and her parents oppose the marriage. Elena ends up marrying Jacob and realizing her dream: to leave Ceausescu's communist and anti-Semitic Romania. To emigrate to the United States. She becomes American, and calls herself Helen. She has broken with the past, but the future is no longer a dream. Helen is now confronted with a reality that escapes her: the illness and depression of her husband; the independence of this son for whom she has sacrificed everything, and who is marrying a French woman despite his parents' opposition. Helen does not like this selfish, arrogant young woman, imbued with an almost national sense of superiority. Marie fears this mother-in-law, whose silence conceals growing hostility. Yet, between these two women who are complete opposites - their origins, their values ​​and their attachment to the same man - something grows that resembles love. EAN: 9782070402588 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Oh... - Philippe Djian - book Summary : December is a month when men get drunk - kill, rape, get into relationships, recognize children who aren't theirs, run away, moan, die..." "Oh..." recounts thirty days of a life without respite, where memories, sex and death short-circuit each other at every moment. EAN: 9782070456284 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Spell of the Antilles - Cartland Barbara - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782277214977 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Consolant - Anna Gavalda - book Summary : The Consoling Charles Balanda, 47, an architect in Paris, incidentally learns of the death of a woman he knew as a child and who embodied for him a world very different from his lower-middle-class family: a world of madness, passion, even pain, a living world. Upon hearing this news, he falls into anguish and grief. He loses his footing. In his relationship, in his work, in his certainties... until his encounter with the luminous Kate changes his vision of the world. EAN: 9782290014288 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Sin Belongs to Me Only - Herbjorg Wassmo - book Summary : Benjamin Grønelv returns home—to his Norway. But in Reinsnes, joy is brief. The thriving industry of the late 19th century threatens the family fishery, old loves sow confusion, and the shadow of his mother, Dina, still looms over his family. A world of torment is what the young doctor offers the frail child who accompanies him: his daughter Karna. "Herbjørg Wassmo writes about Norway, its demonic moors, its furious sea, and also tells of human storms, of shipwrecks of love. Wassmo is fiery, a reader-eater." - Télérama EAN: 9782264034557 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the City of Intrepid Widows - James Canon - book Summary : 2008 First Foreign Novel Prize Since the day the guerrillas landed and requisitioned all the men in the village of Mariquita, the women have been left to their own devices. No matter! The submissive housewives and docile wives will establish a new social order. Thus, the very mustachioed Morales sisters decide to remedy their condition as frustrated spinsters by creating a traveling brothel; Francisca, the widow of a notorious money-grubber, leads the high life after discovering her husband's loot. And then there is the tenacious Rosalba, self-proclaimed mayor, and Padre Rafael, the only survivor of the male sex, volunteering to ensure the procreation of the new generation... Baroque, dazzling with fantasy, the tragic-burlesque chronicle of a lost village in the depths of Colombia. Cañón, a disciple of García Márquez and his magical realism, succeeds in creating an optimistic, tasty and naughty tale. Jacques Gantié, Nice Matin. EAN: 9782253126638 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Prophecy - James Patterson - book Summary : Kathleen was counting on Dr. Higgins to provide a solution to this inexplicable pregnancy. But the appointment with the obstetrician is cut short: the young woman discovers her hanged, in her own office... For Kathleen, a girl from a well-to-do Boston family who has never had sexual relations, nothing will ever be the same again. The nightmare spreads. In Ireland, a similar pregnancy is reported. Around the world, plagues are sweeping the population, claiming thousands of victims. Prophets announce the arrival of the Antichrist. The Vatican is quick to connect the dots: it's time to reveal some dark secrets and commission an expert in miracles and a former nun with a firearms license... The salvation of the world is in the hands of two young virgins. The countdown has already begun. EAN: 9782266124355 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Letting You Go - Clare Mackintosh - book Summary : Cognac Prize - Polar for the best international novel 2016 One rainy evening in Bristol, a little boy is hit by a hit-and-run driver. The investigation begins, but quickly reaches a standstill. Captain Ray Stevens and his team have no leads. Nothing. After that tragic night, Jenna left everything behind and found refuge in Wales, in a windswept cottage. But more than a year later, Kate, a homicide detective, reopens the hit-and-run case. What if the moment that destroyed so many lives wasn't a coincidence? Clare Mackintosh's first book was a huge success in England and won the Best International Novel Award at the 2016 Cognac Polar Festival. Let you go has the power of those books that change the color of the atmosphere in one page. Oppressive, even downright suffocating. Catherine Balle, The Parisian . Don't be fooled by the title, it's hard to put it down once you open it. Françoise Dargent, The Literary Figaro . EAN: 9782253086727 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carré - book Summary : Issa, a young, starving Russian Muslim, arrives clandestinely in Hamburg... Along with Annabel, an idealistic lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a bank boss, they form a love triangle that will be swooped down upon by spies from three nations at war with terrorism. With caustic humor, mounting tension, and a poignant final scene, this work reveals a dark vision, impressive in its logic and acuity. EAN: 9782757814680 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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