Title : Multiple Splendor - Han Suyin - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2253010189 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Strong Souls - Jean Giono - book Summary : "She was at that time, by far and away, the most beautiful woman in Châtillon, and certainly even elsewhere. Someone who knew her well at that time said to me: "She was as beautiful as that hammer, you see!" And he showed me the hammer he had been using for twenty years (he was a shoemaker), a hammer whose handle was made of a wood as soft as satin from the time he had wielded it, whose iron, struck so often, sparkled like white gold. And with that she was always affable and kind." EAN : 9782070362493 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Silent World - Frederic Dumas - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2253006572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : White Paper on Defense 1994 - François Léotard - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782264020499 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Palimpsest. Memoirs - Gore Vidal - book Summary : Palimpsest: parchment from which the first writing has been erased to write a new text. In an original form, the writer Gore Vidal summons here his memories and the figures of his youth: the Kennedys, Anaïs Nin, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Cocteau… In an admirably subtle but uncompromising style, he paints a superb gallery of portraits coupled with a profound reflection on America, its puritanism and its morals. Born in 1925, Gore Vidal divides his time between literature and politics. A great critic of the failings of American society, he is one of the major figures in contemporary American literature. “A captivating and delightful read. An undeniable success.” William Boyd EAN : 9782757803875 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Gaunce engages the iron - Serge Laforest - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Leda and the Pigeon - Roger Vilard - book Summary : See photos EAN : Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Clay Pigeon - Donald E. Westlake - book Summary : Okay, I'm a slacker, a good-for-nothing, and a joker. But not a snitch. Never! So when the little comrades of the "Organization" decided to liquidate me because I had supposedly snitched on them, allow me to tell you that, for a slacker, I got moving. And it wasn't by myself. Luckily, I had Chloe to help me. Oh, if you only knew Chloe! EAN : 9782070497218 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Corner of Paradise - John Gearon - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782070477722 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles - Pierre De Beaumont - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253010845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One from Baumugnes - Jean Giono - book Summary : At the Buvette du Piémont, an old day laborer is attracted to a tall guy who seems terribly sad; he provokes his confidences: Albin comes from the mountains, from Baumugnes. Three years earlier, he had fallen madly in love with a girl who let herself be seduced by Louis, "a guy from Marseille, a young man as hollow as a bad radish." Louis had not hidden from him that his intention was to put the girl on the street. Since then, Albin has been inconsolable, wandering from farm to farm, unable to bring himself to go back to Baumugnes. So the old man, who is nothing but kindness, decides to help Albin... Filled with love, tenderness and freshness, Un de Baumugnes is the second novel in the Pan trilogy, the other two being Colline and Regain . EAN : 9782253010845 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In Praise of the Bald - Philippe Eliakim - book Summary : The true and hilarious story of a premature bald man. What can one lose at the end of adolescence? One's time, one's illusions, one's virginity, one's friends, one's grandmother, one's love, one's glasses, one's wallet, all at once if one wishes. But one's hair! I won't let anyone say that twenty is the best age, having seen it frolicking one winter evening on a garnet carpet on Rue Marx-Dormoy... At twenty, Philippe Eliakim saw the long blond curls he was so proud of fall out one by one... From this traumatic experience and the years of plucking that followed, he now draws a personal, original and offbeat account. With finesse and humor, he hides nothing from us about his numerous and unsuccessful attempts at care and camouflage, his medical readings, his problems of seduction, his obsessive research on bald people through the ages, their manic classification (from semi-shorn to completely bald)... A book to give to all men without exception to make them laugh about one of their biggest sources of anxiety. EAN : 9782221105603 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Passport Iranian Style - Nahal Tajadod - book Summary : Getting your passport renewed in Iran is a real obstacle course! And that's the experience the author of this book had, an adventure that mobilizes all the ordinary people of Tehran, the pretext for a gallery of irresistible portraits: two photographers specializing in Islamic portraits, a pimp who wants to send girls to Dubai, a grandmother who offers a live chicken to an implacable soldier, a technician who hides a TV dish in a pot of religious offerings... Contrary to popular belief, Nahal Tajadod describes a generous, funny Iran, where resourcefulness is the key word in daily life, a country she loves passionately. EAN : 9782253123835 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The English Patient (The Burnt Man) - Michael Ondaatje - book Summary : In an Italian villa transformed into a field hospital, Hana, a young nurse, watches over a badly burned English airman. Her only company is an adventurer who worked in intelligence and a young Sikh bomb disposal expert. A doomsday atmosphere where everyone gradually reveals their secrets. But the most enigmatic remains this burned man, bound to his nurse by a strange passion... Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje received the Nelly Sachs Prize for his poetic work. The English Patient , adapted to the screen under the title The Burning Man , won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. “A quality and originality of writing that gives this mysterious and beautiful book the energy and brilliance of an oriental tale.” EAN : 9782020181617 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Salamander - Jean-Christophe Rufin - book Summary : Catherine, whose life revolved around work, a hatred of Sundays, the help of television, affection for a cat, and the frequent use of sleeping pills, turns her back on France to settle in Brazil. Moving beyond her status as a tourist, she leaves the world of travel agencies for that of the favelas. The violence with which people treat each other is no longer spared her. In this tale of an absolute journey, Jean-Christophe Rufin delivers a modern tragedy, where the heroine suddenly seems to obey a profound law that pushes her to destroy and fulfill herself at the same time. Through this portrait of a woman who loses and discovers herself, the author also revisits a theme dear to him: the encounter between Westerners and their fantasized third world. Far from the exotic showcase and the revolutionary myth, it goes beyond the idealized, or at least "ideologized," vision of the Third World, towards an ambivalent world, made up of both wealth and violence, repulsive and attractive. EAN : 9782070328765 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memoirs from overseas - Guy Bedos - book Summary : I wasn't dreaming. I definitely saw my mother hitting my father with a hammer. I must have been between two and three years old..." It is with this indelible childhood image that Guy Bedos' memories begin. The image of a mother he will never be able to love or forget. Around her, Algeria, that of the racist little white people around her, and also that of Finouche, the teacher who introduces her to other values, tolerance, respect for others. Then it's France, her debut on stage... A successful comedian, a ruthless satirist, and a political activist, Bedos lifts the veil on the joys and sorrows of the private man with the same provocative and generous frankness he displays on stage, in pages where we will also encounter the figures of Sophie Daumier and Alain Delon, Boris Cyrulnik and François Mitterrand. All those who, from near or far, for good or ill, have left their mark on a life. EAN : 9782253114338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Pilgrim's Inn - Elizabeth Goudge - book Summary : This inn was an old house, quite large, with thick whitewashed walls and a battered, steeply pitched roof of amber-colored tiles. It resembled a sturdy fortress, welcoming and deeply alive, with a heavy oak door. Upon discovering it, none of the family members dared move: this house had bewitched them. It was too good to be true, like a vision that threatens to vanish at the slightest movement. In the Eliot family, it is Lucilla, the gentle grandmother, in reality with an iron fist, who leads her "clan" from her beautiful house deep in the English countryside. Worried about her favorite grandson, David, who has become a famous actor, and whom she knows is in love with his ravishing young aunt by marriage, she will do everything to find him the ideal wife. But will the shy Sally—one of Elizabeth Goudge's most endearing characters—be able to assert herself against the dazzling Nadine? However, it is in fact the very old inn that once welcomed pilgrims, and which her husband has just purchased, that will seduce Nadine—and us with her—and become the heart of this marvelous novel. EAN : 9782715248038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Further to the Right - Fred Vargas - book Summary : It was at Place de la Contrescarpe that Louis Kehlweiler suddenly noticed something strange on a tree railing: a human bone. His research stalled and his curiosity gnawed at him. Obsessed, he left his Parisian spinning mills to follow a lead in a remote village on the coast of Finistère: Port-Nicholas and its harborside café, where tongues loosened as the plumes of smoke rose. EAN : 9782290304556 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Eternal Woods - Fred Vargas - book Summary : The Brigade had accumulated undeniable results, but Veyrenc remained very skeptical. Whether this efficiency was the result of a strategy or the fruit of Providence. Providence that turned a blind eye, for example, to the fact that Mercadet had installed cushions upstairs and slept there several hours a day, to the fact that an abnormal cat defecated on the reams of paper, that Commander Danglard hid his wine in the cellar cupboard, and that documents unrelated to the investigations were lying around on the tables: real estate ads, shopping lists, ichthyology articles, private reproaches, the geopolitical press, the spectrum of the colors of the rainbow, for what little he had seen in a month. This state of affairs didn't seem to bother anyone, except perhaps Lieutenant Noël, a brutal guy who couldn't find anyone to his liking. And who, on the second day, had made an offensive remark about his hair. Twenty years ago, he would have cried, but today, he almost didn't care. Lieutenant Veyrenc crossed his arms and pressed his head against the wall. An indestructible force nestled in a compact substance. EAN : 9782878582338 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Damn it, Baudelaire! - Jean Teulé - book Summary : If the work dazzles, the man was detestable. Charles Baudelaire respected nothing, bore no obligation to anyone, and poured the worst insanities on everyone who approached him. Drugged to the core, a hallucinating dandy, he never had any other ambition than to capture this beauty that ravaged his head and to transmit it through poetry. In his verses, which he worked tirelessly, he wanted to unite in a single music the ignoble and the sublime. He wrote a hundred poems that he threw in the face of humanity. A hundred flowers of evil that changed the destiny of French poetry. EAN : 9782080208842 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kevin and the Magicians, Volume 2 - The Bewitched Medal - John Bellairs - book Summary : A year after moving to New Zebedee, staying with Uncle Jonathan, Kevin is still having trouble with the other kids at school. The terrible Woody even steals his Sherlock Holmes cap. Worst of all, his best friend Emily—a real tomboy—comes to his defense, making Kevin feel even more humiliated... So, when Jonathan entrusts him with a medal that seems to have magical powers, Kevin doesn't hesitate: he's even ready to cast the spell that will allow him to take his revenge. However, magic can also be evil; and without realizing it, Kevin will provoke the arrival of a mysterious man in black... It will take many more talismans from Uncle Jonathan to Emily to get Kevin out of this bad situation! EAN : 9782268041452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kevin and the Magicians, Volume 4 - The Phantom in the Mirror - John Bellairs - book Summary : What started out as a simple two-week vacation turns into a terrifying journey through time. Emily is thrilled when her parents agree to let her go on vacation with her old friend Mrs. Zimmermann—who turns out to be a witch. She knows the adventure will be dangerous, but she doesn't realize what it will take until they encounter a tunnel... and find themselves in the snow, in the winter of 1828, in the heart of Pennsylvania. This journey back in time is supposed to allow Mrs. Zimmermann to regain her magical powers, helped by her initiator, Mamie Wetherbee. But she had no idea that she would lose her memory and that they would both find themselves trapped in 1828... EAN : 9782268043807 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kevin and the Magicians, Volume 3 - Emily and the Magic Ring - John Bellairs - book Summary : Emily would love to go to summer camp with Kevin and his friends: after all, why shouldn't girls have the right to have fun like boys? But now Mrs. Zimmermann, a magician in her spare time, offers her an equally thrilling adventure: inheriting her cousin Oley's farm, she must at all costs recover a magic ring he left behind. A ring that could very well be dangerous if it were to fall into the wrong hands. And just when the two friends arrive at the deserted farm, the ring has indeed disappeared... EAN : 9782268043043 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kevin and the Magicians, Volume 1 - The Halloween Clock - John Bellairs - book Summary : A new life begins for Kevin Barnavelt! The ten-year-old boy is going to live with his uncle Jonathan in the town of New Zebedee. A very nice uncle who knows how to lose at poker; as for his friend and neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, she bakes cookies like no one else! But Jonathan and Mrs. Zimmermann also have other, much more exciting talents: they are members of the Capernaum County Magicians' Association. So when a strange ticking sound is heard through the walls of his new house, Kevin is determined to unravel the mystery... He's even ready to do anything to impress Tarby, his new school friend. But be careful: if good magicians exist, bad witches do too! In the middle of Halloween night, Kevin will unleash an uncontrollable curse... EAN : 9782268040714 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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