Title : 105 Days Alone - Christophe Auguin - book Summary : With this logbook, you will follow my life at sea through daily communications with land and with my fellow competitors. Like me, you will read Sylvie Rouch's "chronicles." They allowed me to understand how those who remained on land felt about the race. Christophe Auguin. EAN : 9782207246054 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dear Visitor - Alphonse Boudard - book Summary : She, Hortense de Wilfried, is a great lady of the aristocracy, wife of a wealthy banker. She is still beautiful, approaching fifty. For more than thirty years, she collected lovers from her high society: artists, champions, and princes. In the 1950s, she decided, on the advice of a priest, to renounce her easy life and rediscover the faith of her childhood through charity. In this case, to devote herself to the most deprived of all... those convicted of common law. She became a prison visitor. An apostolate to which she devoted herself with exemplary self-denial. But the Devil had a big surprise in store for her. Temptation was thirty years old, with blue eyes that were called a whore mirror in slang, and he was the most seductive of thugs. A star of the prison. A criminal record as a robber, a thief of all trades, and above all, a master of escape. This is why Gilles Dastel is in a prison cell where the Countess of Wilfried comes to visit him to save his soul. And it is she who will lose it, his soul. She falls under the spell of the gangster. Gilles has all the powers to make her lose her passion. He is promised many years in prison. Hortense, with her money and her connections, will perform miracles to have him released as soon as possible. After that, they will have to live a love story that won't sink into the banality of household bread... EAN : 9782268032054 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Olduvaï - The Moods of the Sea - Vladimir Volkoff - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2260001904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Master of the Reeds - Jean-Max Tixier - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782738220806 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Red Sorghum - Ding Ya - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782234020689 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Radio Corbeau - Yves Ellena - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782724242560 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bride of the Seraglio - Robin Lee Hatcher - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782744121982 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : And I still live - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : There is only one novel - and we are both its authors and its characters: History. Everything else is imitation, copy, scattered fragments, stammerings. It is History that this world-novel revisits, where, sometimes man, sometimes woman, the narrator flies from era to era and resurrects before our eyes the adventures of men and their great discoveries. Living by gathering and hunting in a still virgin nature, he arrives, after millennia of walking, on the banks of the Nile where agriculture and writing develop. By turns African, Sumerian, Trojan, friend of Achilles and Ulysses, Roman citizen, wandering Jew, he salutes the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World, the Revolution of 1789, the progress of science. Sailor, servant in a tavern on the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, valet of a great painter or an astronomer, mistress of an emperor, he is at home in Jerusalem, in Byzantium, in Venice, in New York. This vast enterprise of exploration and admiration ends up sketching in hollow, with irony and gaiety, a sort of intellectual autobiography of the author. EAN : 9782072744303 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Everything We Could Have Been, You and I, If We Hadn't Been You and I - Albert Espinosa - book Summary : I feel weaker and weaker... Soon I will no longer be able to speak... So I will beg you today to do me one last favor, my child. As I truly no longer have the courage to continue suffering and it may no longer be possible for me to ask you, kill me." The unfortunate Mathilde will have to pay dearly for her terrible act. Murder is still murder, even when it is ordered by the victim. Tortured until the end of her life by a diabolical abbot and his mistress - who know the crime she has committed -, Mathilde is forced to sign a will in which she leaves them practically all of her fortune, which, at the time of her death, is considerable. But the two accomplices are far from suspecting that the family of the deceased, seeing themselves clearly wronged, has decided to take the matter to court. EAN : 9782246784289 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Crime of Mathilde - Guy Des Cars - book Summary : I feel weaker and weaker... Soon I will no longer be able to speak... So I will beg you today to do me one last favor, my child. As I truly no longer have the courage to continue suffering and it may no longer be possible for me to ask you, kill me." The unfortunate Mathilde will have to pay dearly for her terrible act. Murder is still murder, even when it is ordered by the victim. Tortured until the end of her life by a diabolical abbot and his mistress - who know the crime she has committed -, Mathilde is forced to sign a will in which she leaves them practically all of her fortune, which, at the time of her death, is considerable. But the two accomplices are far from suspecting that the family of the deceased, seeing themselves clearly wronged, has decided to take the matter to court. EAN : 9782277021001 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jesus of Nazareth - Benedict XVI - book Summary : "This is the great question that will accompany us throughout this book: what did Jesus really bring, if he did not bring peace to the world, well-being for all, a better world? What did he bring? The answer is very simple: God. He brought God. He brought the God whose face was slowly and progressively revealed from Abraham to wisdom literature, through Moses and the prophets - the God who had shown his true face only in Israel, and who had been honored in the world of the Gentiles under obscure avatars - it is this God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the true God that he brought to the peoples of the earth. He brought God: from then on, we know his face, from then on we can invoke him. From then on, we know the path that, as men, we must take in this world. Jesus brought God and with him the truth about our origin and our destiny: faith, hope and love." EAN : 9782081203907 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island in a Basin of Water - Beck Béatrix - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782211072274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our Game - John Le Carré - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782286070205 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sperm Whale. Memoirs of a Homeless Man - Danie Lederman, Yves Le Roux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782841143559 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ultimate Desert - Life and Death of Michel Vieuchange - Antoine de Meaux - book Summary : We knew nothing about Michel Vieuchange (1904-1930), the author of the dazzling Smara, a travel diary snatched from the furnace and sands of one of the last blank spots on the world's maps, the Saharan Rio de Oro. Antoine de Meaux does more than recount the odyssey of this twenty-six-year-old explorer, who died at the end of his journey. Having had access to numerous unpublished archives, he manages to bring to life from the inside the journey of this boy from a good family, promised a bright future, and who deliberately chose to subject himself to the test of the worst. Because the photos are there: in the space of a few seasons, the well-bred young man is transformed into a sort of demon or archangel, casting a lightning gaze upon the world... From one image to the next, what had happened? EAN : 9782369141853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Patagonia Express - Paul Theroux - book Summary : “I was studying the map when it occurred to me that there was a railroad line that ran from my home in Massachusetts to the great Patagonian plateau.” So Paul Theroux, one fine winter morning, set off. By subway, a few blocks from his Medford home to the Boston train station, then by train to mythical Patagonia, from the blizzard-battered slopes of Fitzwilliams to the dry, hot winds of the Pampas, from the lavish luxury cars to the pitiful squirrels. Sweating and shivering at the mercy of capricious altitudes and temperatures, having to put up with the dreadful Mr. Thorneberry in Costa Rica and spending nights reading to the blind writer Jorge Borges in Buenos Aires, meeting by chance at a stopover the exact copy of a fictional character from one of his previous novels... Paul Theroux, inventor of an original form in literature that combines travel and adventure, story and drama, takes the reader on a dizzying journey, one that leads "to the end of the line." EAN : 9782246710424 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Anatomy Lesson - Vladimir Volkoff - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782260001911 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Balls, little balls - Henriette Bernier - book Summary : The ball, a true "French institution", is the common thread of this novel which evokes the sentimental and initiatory journey of two sisters over five decades. Every Sunday, Juliette and Camille, two sisters separated by only a few years, get ready to go dancing. Hair rollers and frilly dresses. Floppy sounds and the accordion punctuate the history of a family like so many others. When the fifties give way to the sixties, electric guitars, bell-bottoms, and the pill take over, but there is always, behind the refreshment bar, that little sunken path where lovers go to get lost... And then, as they get older, charity balls will follow the tea dances. Thus, History unfolds to the rhythm of the little balls that will have swirled half a century of French happiness. But first, fifty years in the lives of Juliette and Camille, young girls who became women, somewhere in Lorraine... A little marvel of writing to evoke the very essence of femininity. EAN : 9782258091962 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sacred Woman - Michael of Greece - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782855652535 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Robbery of a Nest of Jewels - Roger Borniche - book Summary : It's the most spectacular post-war heist. On a road on the Côte d'Azur, the agha-khan's Cadillac is blocked by crooks. In the blink of an eye, the gangsters seize the begum's fabulous jewels. At the heart of the police storm, punctuated by scandals and twists and turns that are shaking France, Inspector Borniche conducts his investigation. EAN : 9782246338512 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : They were not born delinquents - Yves Roumajon - book Summary : — What are your full name, age, and profession? — Roumajon Yves, 62, psychiatrist. — You have been appointed to examine the accused and conduct the psychiatric examination. You swear to report your research and findings on your honor and conscience. Raise your right hand and say: "I swear it"... Dr. Roumajon has spent long hours facing strange characters like Claude Buffet, twice murdered, sentenced to death and guillotined, Patrick Henry, murderer of a child, who saved his life in Troyes after a trial that divided France, Lucien Léger, "the Strangler," Jean-Charles Willoquet, Pierre Goldman, an example of an astonishing reconversion. He has also listened to the confidences of hundreds of children who populate the neighborhood reserved for them in Fresnes and those he welcomed into the center he founded in Vauhallan, near Paris. Through these stories - some of which are heartbreaking - what he shows is the incredible waste that is made because society and public opinion stick to ready-made ideas about juvenile delinquency, the relationship between psychiatry and justice, the sentences that should be applied, the appropriate treatments. EAN : 9782221000229 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : One day I will leave without having said everything - Jean d'Ormesson - book Summary : A hike in the beauty of the world. Not a sequel but perhaps a complement to the previous novel, this book is divided into three parts, each of which corresponds to a question or an observation that any somewhat sharp mind asks. A social novel: "Everything passes." We live in a time of transition: books, family, morals, borders, currencies, even religion. Everything is known because, through the Web, everyone is immediately informed of everyone else's fate. To illustrate this point, a contemporary romantic story unfolds where a Buddhist billionaire and communist bursts into a traditional family. A love novel: "Nothing changes." A writer seeks his path and only finds it through the love of a woman, Marie. He gives himself to her, who gives him back to himself. Love is more important than literature and everything else. It does not consist of looking into each other's eyes but of looking at the world together. The spectacle of the world brings about their astonishment and admiration, which are at the root of all knowledge. The social novel has changed into a love novel, which itself will change into a novel of the universe. A novel of the universe: "There is something sacred above us." To the author's now classic grandfather, to Pama the Buddhist, to Mary, God is added as one of the book's main characters. For how can one speak of anything other than God? What follows is a brief history of humanity by those who thought it and made it: philosophers and scientists. A battle has begun between God and science. The position of the author, a Catholic and agnostic, is to give God a chance. This book is easy and profound. It reflects what made previous works so successful: faith in literature, the importance of feelings, the absence of illusions, the taste for happiness, the search for truth. All of this is lifted by the grace of a winged style and writing. EAN : 9782221138335 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Brubaker - William Harrison - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724209311 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Foreign Body - Saul John - book Summary : See photos EAN : 2724232682 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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