Title : The Figure from the Outside - Kenneth White - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782253050421 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Eunuch Woman - Germaine Greer - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Theodora - Paul Wellman - book Summary : See photo EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Summer Palace - Serge Velay - book Summary : At the end of the 1970s, Serge Velay, a young philosophy professor with a passion for literature, met Jean Carrière (1928-2005), a decorated novelist who won the Prix Goncourt in 1972 for Maheux's L'Epervier. Nearly three decades of friendship and fruitful complicity followed. The Summer Palace brings together two sets of fragments composed ten years apart (2005 and 2015), in memory of the late writer. This album is, all at once, the modest chronicle of a mourning, a loving portrait of the artist, and a fervent eulogy to literature and music. "I will probably be criticized for the disjointed nature of these pages," writes Serge Velay, "but I didn't want to squeeze my friend into a book like someone puts him in a tomb. To let his words resonate, I wanted to create a house of words open to the four winds, in a setting that would have all the appearances of disorder." » We will therefore read this book as it was written, following “the butterfly rule”: at random – and at the risk of getting lost in the vicinity of “true literature”. EAN : 9782357800694 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Portraits of Women - Jean Dutourd - book Summary : Rémy Chapotot is a successful novelist, academic, rather left-wing, and surrounded by women he hardly understands but whose company he enjoys: his secretary, a fiancée-mistress, the old fairy of a literary salon... but above all Jackie, an ambitious beautician who has sworn to become Madame Chapotot. It is of all these women's hearts beating around his hero that the novelist of the Bordeaux Seminary speaks to us with jubilation in this funny and subtle novel, where the amused description of the "very Parisian" circles of literature also plays a prominent role. EAN : 9782253065241 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Country You Never Arrive At - André Dhotel - book Summary : What kind of world have I fallen into? I, whom my aunt doomed to routine, was carried off by a piebald horse, sent here by a baroque hairdresser, and now I'm playing checkers with the son of a cat whisker collector, who is immensely rich. So, in this new world for Gaspard, there were certainly terrible and bizarre things. EAN : 2277110612 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Return to Heritage Port The Face of the Past - Meredith Webber Annie Claydon - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280328913 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Season in Venice - Wlodzimierz Odojewski - book Summary : Can Venice, with its canals, its squares, and even its gondolas, fit entirely into a flooded cellar? At least, that's what the occupants of a house want to believe, through which, in these early days of war, an entire family's dreams of escape flow like clear water. A charming metaphor, a chronicle of gentle madness, this simple and zany novel by the Polish writer Wlodzimierz Odozheski, born in 1930, is jubilantly funny, but with the kind of humor that can only spring from the most distressing events: the farewell to childhood, the beginning of war, the loss of illusions. EAN : 9782922868418 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Third Day - Chochana Boukhobza - book Summary : Two cellists arrive from New York to give a concert in Jerusalem. While young Rachel reunites with her family and friends, Elisheva contacts the two men who are to help her trap a former Nazi. The two women have only three days to complete their plans and achieve the goals they have set for themselves: love, justice, and freedom. Chochana Boukhobza weaves a breathtaking adventure centered around Jerusalem, with its scents and intense light. EAN : 9782070446025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : War Memoirs The Call 1940 1942 - General de Gaulle - book Summary : In 1939, when war broke out, a colonel had already been proclaiming in the desert for five years that it was already lost. The French army was too heavy, too weak in its offensive capabilities, its tanks were unsuited to the firepower of Nazi Germany: blinded by the trauma of 1914-18, France was heading for defeat. Urgently called to high ministerial responsibilities, de Gaulle witnessed the debacle, despite some personal feats of arms, in the East. Soon the government fled to Bordeaux, and the armistice was signed. An unbearable cowardice, unacceptable for a man who had always had "a certain idea of ​​France": he flew to London. While others accommodated themselves to Vichy, the General resounded from England with the voice of an irreducible, free, and standing France: the voice of eternal France. EAN : 9782266205993 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mango Bombing - Mohammed Hanif - book Summary : In Pakistan, after eleven years of rule, General Zia ul Haq fears for his life. He, who loves to consult the Quran every day like a horoscope, will he be able to connect the dots with the theft of a military plane, a non-commissioned officer seeking revenge, the secretary of the sweepers' union, and a crow with too much appetite for mangoes? When history is in motion, you have to watch it parade. EAN : 9782264051615 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prince of Central Park - Evan H. Rhodes - book Summary : Beyond this zone stretched a dangerous territory. Jay-jay knew that gangs of teenagers were prowling (...), ready to pounce on the first passerby unwary enough to venture into their hunting ground. When game was scarce, the young wolves devoured each other (...)" When, at eleven years old and in the middle of New York, Jay-jay escapes from his adoptive mother's apartment to flee her tyranny, one could fear for him. But this modern-day Gavroche has more than one trick up his sleeve and quickly becomes the Robinson Crusoe of Central Park. Finding refuge in an oak tree, he takes advantage of the night to discover his new magical territory... He survives there from day to day, takes in a dog, meets an old woman with whom a curious friendship is born. But he must also escape Elmo, a young drug addict who has sworn to kill him... EAN : 9782277128199 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mini-encyclopedia of natural medicines - Georges Millanvoye - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724228649 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Claude Gueux - Victor Hugo - book Summary : A man named Claude Gueux, a poor worker, lived in Paris in 1831. He had with him a girl who was his mistress and a child by this girl... He was capable, skillful, intelligent, very badly treated by education, very well treated by nature, not knowing how to read but knowing how to think. One winter, work was lacking. The man, the girl, and the child were cold and hungry. The man stole. The result was three days of bread and fire for the woman and the child and five years in prison for the man. He was sent to do his time at the Clairvaux Prison. We will see what the Society did with him. An allegorical account of an individual tragedy, this ardent plea against the death penalty and against prison lays bare the mechanism of social brutality which can only respond to distress through repression. With Claude Gueux , Victor Hugo is no longer simply a novelist or poet. He has achieved a prominent place among the greatest orators of Liberty. EAN : 9782253136538 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo pencil annotations

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Title : Guide to Paradise - Comparative Advertising of the Beyond - Pierre Conesa - book Summary : The religious world is in turmoil. The transcendentals on both sides can now fight back by explaining that they have a direct mandate from (their) God. All these many unique and merciful Gods—pervaded by peace and love, as they should be—have had to face the deadly delusions of their disciples and the massive and uncontrolled arrival of the dead at the gates of their paradise. They must all together summon men to bring them back to reason. Does anyone have their addresses? » Pierre Conesa, 2015 "The author uses the right humor and brings us back down to earth. Jubilant?!" La Voix du Nord Pierre Conesa, a former senior official at the Ministry of Defense, is a specialist in international strategic issues – and in particular military ones. EAN : 9782815913683 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Doors to Adventure - Jean Hougron - book Summary : If we were to believe the old man? Quang, the mixed-race Fremont, had seized the Hoa-Binh treasure after killing the chief of the Great Pagoda. But Fremont lives in the heart of Laos, his conscience visibly clear. Is this Quang story false? Half-true - and Fremont tells the true story of the expedition to the island of PouloCondor. There are roads in Indochina. Who builds them? Hard workers like Legras, the Man of Kilometer 53, who fights every meter of ground against bad weather, elephants, and the Viets. A hard life and, in the end, retirement. Henry Lafitte managed differently, and it is still young and already rich that he returns to marry Françoise. But he is not of the stuff of which provincial bourgeois are made. This is the bitter conclusion of Retour, the third short story in this volume, where we find the themes and mastery that made J. Hougron famous in the cycle of La Nuit indochinoise. EAN : 9782253030591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Phoenix Harvest - Suyin Han - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253030591 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Augustus Carp - Henry Howarth Bashford - book Summary : Anthony Burgess, the book's preface writer, doesn't mince his words: "One of the greatest humorous novels of the century." And one is surprised that this unique booklet, an object of worship for a large fan club of readers spread from one end of the planet to the other, had to wait three-quarters of a century before being translated into French (2003). A book that nearly made three generations of readers around the world die laughing and which is now considered a classic. A tremendous slap in the face of the British bourgeoisie's sagging cheeks - and, beyond that, right in the face of the worst human stupidity: that of "virtuous" people... who, once the book is closed, will hopefully never be forgiven for having done good. EAN : 9782752901149 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Barefoot Woman - Scholastique Mukasonga - book Summary : "This barefoot woman who gives the title to my book is my mother, Stefania. When my sisters and I were children in Rwanda, my mother often told us: "When I die, above all, cover my body with my loincloth, no one must see the body of a mother." My mother was murdered, like all the Tutsi of Nyamata, in April 1994; I was unable to cover her body, her remains disappeared. This book is the shroud with which I was unable to adorn my mother. It is also the heartbreaking joy of bringing her back to life, she who, hunted until the end, wanted to save us by thwarting the bloody terror of everyday life for us. This is her story, our story, on the threshold of the horrible genocide." Scholastique Mukasonga. EAN : 9782070446667 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Den of Lies - Patricia Potter - book Summary : When Gabriel Manning meets MerryAnders in the lobby of London's most exclusive gambling club, he has no idea that they are both pursuing the same goal. He is simply surprised by the presence of this fascinating woman in such a place. Isn't it inappropriate? Perhaps if she had been a woman of good society, but Merry's reputation is safe because she is an actress, and a French one at that. Moreover, she is a master of provocation... However, she is playing with fire because Lord Stanhope, whose attention she is clearly seeking, is formidable. Gabriel should know this well: Stanhope ruined his family and drove his father to suicide. What he doesn't know is that Merry has at least as many reasons as he does to hate this man! EAN : 9782290340110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Friendship of Yesteryear - Alain-Fournier, Jacques Rivière - book Summary : They are two young people from their province. One is from Berry, Henri Fournier, who in 1913, under the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, will sign his first novel Le Grand Meaulnes, a book that has now become a myth. The other is Jacques Rivière. He comes from the Gironde and will become the director of the prestigious Nouvelle Revue française, founded by André Gide, to which he will sacrifice his personal work. They are seventeen years old in 1903. Their friendship was born from a reading of the poet Henri de Régnier, which brought to a peak a shared love of literature and art. They will quickly abandon their studies to roam the bookstores, museums, concert halls, and streets of Paris, "the heart of the world." Their correspondence is a living picture of their personal history and that of the world that surrounds them with the abundant riches that overflowed their era. The letters are grouped by themes that evoke the highlights of their friendship: books, England, Gide, holidays, the war... where Alain-Fournier died on September 22, 1914 at the age of twenty-eight. EAN : 9782070428113 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Two Sacraments - Heinrich Böll - book Summary : "You know I'm an architect and that I should have built houses, but I never built any, I only blew them up." On the orders of a mad German army general, Robert Fähmel destroyed the splendid St. Anthony's Abbey during the Second World War. It was his own father, the old Fähmel, who had built it. Now Joseph, the son, is planning to rebuild it... Could it be to ward off the fate that has weighed on this German family of architects for three generations? Beneath the exterior of a vast family saga, a tale of ruins and successive constructions, one of Heinrich Böll's richest works tells us fifty years of German history. Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) grew up in a Catholic family that instilled in him a hatred of Nazism. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, he is one of the greatest German authors of the 20th century. His books Children of the Dead , Group portrait with lady , Lost Honor by Katharina Blum are available in Points. EAN : 9782020091343 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Dream Mom - Emma Richmond - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782280047838 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Wandering Shadows - Pascal Quignard - book Summary : Goncourt Prize 2002 "In reading there is an expectation that does not seek to achieve anything. To read is to wander. Reading is wandering." EAN : 9782070427796 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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