Title : Lise and Loïc's Summer - Berneuil Elisabeth Bobrie - book Summary : Lise, a young teacher in an English college at the beginning of the 20th century, writes day after day the extraordinary story of a little girl, Macha. Loïc, 10, who is spending the summer with her, is her first audience. Each reading is an opportunity for laughter-filled exchanges on many themes as varied as respect, tolerance, forgiveness, but also the evolution of beings, reincarnation... punctuated by the twists and turns of the story. A playful novel in a fluid and imaginative language. EAN : 9782955194119 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journey to the Land of Cotton - Erik Orsenna - book Summary : “This story begins in the mists of time. A passing man notices a shrub whose branches end in white flakes. We can imagine him approaching it with his hand. The human race has just become acquainted with the softness of cotton. For years, something told me that by following the paths of cotton, from agriculture to the textile industry via biochemistry, from Koutiala (Mali) to Datang (China) via Lubbock (Texas), Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), Alexandria, Tashkent and the Vologne Valley (France, Vosges department), I would better understand my planet. The results of the long investigation exceeded my expectations. To understand globalization, both past and present, nothing beats examining a piece of fabric. Probably because it is made only of threads and ties, and shuttle journeys. EAN : 9782213625270 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Children of Alexandria - The Forgotten Queen - Volume 1 - Françoise Chandernagor - Book Summary : At that time, the world was young, and Alexandria was the most beautiful city in the world. At sea level, the Most Brilliant dazzled with its whiteness. White were the soft stone terraces, the alabaster columns, the marble-paved avenues, and white was the great Lighthouse... Alexandria: jewel of an empire that Antony and Clopter would drag down with them in their fall. From the loves of the Imperator and the Queen of Egypt were born three children: Slen and Alexander, twins, a girl and a boy, brown and blond, and little Ptolemy. Ephemeral princes, who grew up in the purple and incense of the Royal Quarter with their half-brother, the child-pharaoh born to Caesar. All still so young, so fragile, when the turmoil fell upon them. Four children with a tragic destiny. Slen, the sole survivor, would never forget the annihilation of his kingdom, his dynasty, his gods. Prisoner in a foreign land, she will now live to avenge her brothers and ensure the survival of the vanquished in the world of the victors... With the writing sensitivity and novelistic force that made The King's Alley a classic, François Chandernagor captures the little-known life of the last of the Ptolemies, the Forgotten Queen. Exploring the said and unsaid of History with a erudition that does not preclude empathy, she questions a two-thousand-year-old past. A singular, breathtaking tale. A grandiose fresco. EAN : 9782226221315 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Song of the Innocents - Donna Leon - book Summary : A pediatrician and his wife attacked in the middle of the night, their eighteen-month-old baby kidnapped before their eyes... Why on earth did the Carabinieri - the Italian gendarmes - burst into this couple's home and seize this little boy? Did the blow dealt by his assailant really render the doctor mute, as he claims? What connection does this arrest have with those carried out simultaneously by the Carabinieri in other cities? And finally, who could have ordered such a horrific operation? These are the questions that plague Commissioner Guido Brunetti and his deputy, Inspector Vianello, when they are assigned this case. For this new investigation, Donna Leon takes us into the twists and turns of magnificent Venice and into the sordid twists and turns of a child trafficking network. "The sixteenth installment of the adventures of Inspector Brunetti is dazzling. Donna Leon continues to refine her work, each time painting vivid portraits of her characters and of Venice, without ever losing her capacity for indignation." EAN : 9782702140796 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In a Nutshell - Ian McEwan - book Summary : "Cramped in my mother's womb, with only a few weeks left before my entry into the world, I keep watch. I hear everything. A plot is being hatched against my father. My mother and her lover want to get rid of him. The beautiful, so beautiful Trudy prefers to my father, John, a talented poet in need of recognition who nevertheless loves her madly, that ignorant Claude. And now I learn that Claude is none other than my uncle: my father's brother. A crime of passion coupled with a fratricide that may see me born in prison, orphaned forever! I must stop them." There is something rotten in the kingdom of England in the 21st century... After The Best Interest of the Child, Ian McEwan never ceases to surprise and composes here, in a short novel of remarkable intensity, a brilliant rewriting of Hamlet in utero. EAN : 9782072696800 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Little Girl of His Dreams - An Investigation by Inspector Brunetti - Donna Leon - book Summary : Just as Commissioner Brunetti has buried his mother, a strange request is presented to him by a missionary who has just returned from Africa: could the police officer be interested in the activities of a sect that has been operating in Venice for some time? Brunetti hesitates. Perhaps Father Antonin Scallon is simply afraid of competition. On the other hand, if the guru is trying to fleece his followers, he will have to take a closer look. But soon, a more serious matter will monopolize Brunetti's thoughts. One cold, rainy morning, a little girl's body is found in a canal. Strangely, no one has reported her disappearance, nor that of the jewelry recovered from her clothes. Who is this child? Who caused her death? To protect what secrets was she murdered? Until Brunetti discovers the truth about her, this little girl will haunt his nights... EAN : 9782702141403 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ball of the Wolves, volume 1 - The Cursed Room - Mireille Calmel - book Summary : ~Between history and legend, a powerful and captivating novel December 1500. At the foot of the ramparts of Montguerlhe Castle, under the icy moon, lies a young girl with long, soiled hair. She is bloodied, unconscious. Because she was too beautiful and refused her master, Lord François de Chazeron, he had her husband hanged as they left their wedding, raped her, beat her, and branded her with a hot iron. But he was wrong to have her thrown to the wolves. For she is not a young girl like the others. The women in his family have strange powers. Some, like Isabeau, speak to wolves. Others, like her sister Albérie, transform on nights of the full moon... And from now on, these two women, as well as little Loraline who will be born from this filthy rape, will live for only one thing: revenge! A deadly plot is brewing around François de Chazeron. When he is struck down by an unknown illness, his wife doesn't seem very upset... but she is afraid of him and so calls a doctor. He agrees to sit at the sick man's bedside to try to understand. One night, half asleep, he thinks he sees a long silhouette leaning over the bed where the lord is moaning. Can Death have such a pretty face? In any case, the doctor falls in love and will do anything to find this young girl, whether she is real or a ghost. Isabeau, Albérie, Loraline, these women hardened by trials will be torn between their desire to live life to the fullest and the thirst for revenge that never leaves them. Their destiny takes us from the underground passages of an Auvergne fortress to the ballrooms of the Louvre, from the Cour des Miracles to that of François Ier, from the prophecies of a child who will become Nostradamus to the search for the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone... Blending alchemy, sensuality, and cruelty, Le Bal des louves sweeps us into a whirlwind of violent feelings and twists and turns. As in Eleanor's Bed, historical elements and forgotten legends have allowed Mireille Calmel to weave the threads of her plot. Under her pen, reality is transformed, and one would swear it was the truth. The supernatural slips into the characters' lives with such spontaneity and obviousness that the reader is captivated. This second novel reaffirms it: this young woman has incredible talent. EAN : 9782845630758 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Muchachas - Volume 1 - Katherine Pancol - book Summary : Girls are everywhere in this novel. They lead the dance. From New York to Paris, from Burgundy to London or Miami. Girls who invent, get excited, love. Girls fighting for life. And the men? They are there too. But it's the muchachas who dance, dance, dance. They shatter destinies. And it never ends! EAN : 9782226254443 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Muchachas - Volume 2 - Katherine Pancol - book Summary : These girls are fearless. They don't ask anything from others. All to themselves. Hide their fear under a smile. It is the surest way to move forward, to invent, to invent oneself. They feel like they have wings, they fly away, fall and take off again with renewed vigor. There are secrets, mysteries, betrayals. Obstacles to overcome. Words of love thrown out in a jiffy. Life, what! EAN : 9782226254450 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Journey Volume 1 - Mohawks and the People Above - Nicolas Vanier - book Summary : After the extraordinary success of his novel Wolf (200,000 copies sold in all formats)... As the cinema release of another of his great successes is being prepared, Gold under the snow (Christmas 2012)... Nicolas Vanier offers us a new great novel of breath and adventure. "You will go by land, stone, sea, and ice." These are the last words Raian, the old chief of the Nahanni Indians, addressed to Mounio, his sixteen-year-old great-grandson. The Great Journey! The highest mission there is. Very rarely initiated, even more rarely successful. Among the obstacles, and not the least: love, which immobilizes. For the road is long... The new Zuhis, the Traveler, must connect the tribes and recreate the bond that is the unity and strength of the Nahannis. Everyone will await his return. We must not delay. A threat looms over the peoples above... Munio sets off on a journey of 48 moons. By canoe, on horseback, and then with a team of dogs, he will connect the different villages, tirelessly crossing the taiga, the tundra, and the ice floes. He will learn a lot from the different tribes. From the women too. He will also go astray and risk losing his quest... But ardent, virile and valiant, the Traveler will never give up... And Mounio, in this extraordinary odyssey, will gradually build the man he will become... EAN : 9782845634244 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Another Idea of ​​Happiness - Marc Levy - book Summary : When an ordinary life becomes extraordinary. Philadelphia. On the first day of spring 2010, Agatha was released from prison, but not through the front door. After thirty years behind bars, she only had a few years left to serve. So why the escape? At a gas station near the campus, she invites herself into Milly's car and drags her along on her escape without revealing anything about her situation. With an irresistible zest for life, Agatha shatters Milly's comfortable routine. Twenty years separate them, but throughout the journey, the two women share dreams that it's never too late to realize and evoke loves that never fade. Five days driving across the United States... At each stop, an encounter with a character from the past will bring them closer to Agatha's secret. How far should we go in our insatiable quest for happiness? What should we never give up? In this novel, Marc Levy reaffirms our unconditional need for freedom and also introduces us to a little-known part of American history. EAN : 9782221135730 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beautiful Sex Bomb - Christina Lauren - Book Summary : After Beautiful Bastard, the first novel in the series, whose success in France confirmed its success across the Atlantic, discover the series of three short stories: Beautiful Bitch, Beautiful Sex Bomb and Beautiful Beginning, which continue the adventures of the hot, sexy and modern couple: Bennett Ryan and Chloé Mills. Three short stories to be published in France in: January, February and March 2014. When Max, Henry, and Will snatch Bennett away from Chloe for a weekend of gambling and strippers in Las Vegas, things don't go exactly as planned. Their planned guys' weekend goes completely off the rails. Max and Bennett then concoct a secret game while sharing secrets with their loved ones to make Vegas nights even hotter... After Beautiful Bitch, Beautiful Sex Bomb is the second novel in a three-part series that continues the adventures of Bennett and Chloe from the sex novel Beautiful Bastard, which has captivated millions of fans worldwide. Beautiful Bitch, ranked among the New York Times bestsellers upon its release in the United States (July 2013), confirms the expectations of fans of the series and the success of the previous volumes. EAN : 9782755614046 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Marie - Marek Halter - book Summary : After The Bible in the feminine , Marek Halter's new challenge. "Is there a person in the world who does not know the name of Mary, mother of Jesus, the one who brought about the greatest spiritual upheaval since the birth of monotheism? Yet, what the Gospels tell us about her is summed up in a few elliptical and mysterious verses. During the years it took to write this novel, which paints a portrait of "my Mary," I tried to imagine who this Miriam of Nazareth could have been, born in Galilee in the chaotic kingdom of Israel, facing Roman occupation. What ties did she have with the resistance and one of its most popular leaders, Barabbas? What was her relationship with the Essenes of Damascus, the sect of therapists? And with her distant cousin John the Baptist? Born in Poland, where the cult of Mary dominates the Catholic Church, I have been fascinated since my childhood by the destiny of this young Jewish woman at the origin of Christianity. One day I had to go looking for her. Today, I would like to share this fascinating story with you. EAN : 9782221102992 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Paper Girl - Guillaume Musso - book Summary : “Soaked to the skin and completely naked, she appeared on my terrace in the middle of a stormy night. - Where are you from? - I fell. - Fell from where? - Fell out of your book. Fell out of your story, what! Tom Boyd, a famous writer lacking inspiration, sees the heroine of his novels appear in his life. She's pretty, she's desperate, she'll die if he stops writing. Impossible? And yet. Together, Tom and Billie will experience an extraordinary adventure where reality and fiction intertwine and collide in a seductive and deadly game... EAN : 9782845634572 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg - book Summary : Grand Prix for Detective Literature Foreign Novel 2008 - Cognac Prize - Polar for the best international novel 2008 Thirty-five-year-old Erica Falck, a biography writer living in a sleepy town on the Swedish west coast, discovers the body of a childhood friend, Alexandra Wijkner, with her wrists slashed, naked in a bathtub of frozen water. Unwillingly drawn into the investigation (unless a certain natural tendency to pry into other people's lives is at work here), Erica quickly becomes convinced that it is not a suicide. On this point—and on many others—Detective Patrik Hedström, lovesick, agrees with her. In search of the truth, spurred on by a budding romance, Erica, a Desperate Housewives-style home investigator, dives into the layers of a small provincial society she thought she knew well and uncovers its secrets, all the darker as the body of a tramp painter is soon found - another staged suicide. Beyond an obvious mastery of the rules of the investigation and its twists and turns, Camilla Läckberg knows how to marvelously portray complex characters and - entirely in the vein of creators like Simenon or Chabrol - dissect a small community whose tranquil surface hides waters that are much murkier than one might think. Camilla Läckberg, born on August 30, 1974, is the author of five crime novels featuring Erica Falck, each set in Fjällbacka, a fishing port on the west coast of Sweden that had its heyday but is now in decline. In Sweden, all of her books have been bestsellers in recent years, alongside Stieg Larsson's Millennium. EAN : 9782742775477 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Illiterate Man Who Knew How to Count - Jonas Jonasson - book Summary : "Statistically, the probability of an illiterate woman born in 1960s Soweto growing up to find herself locked in a potato truck with the King of Sweden and his Prime Minister is one in forty-five billion six hundred and sixty-six million two hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and ten. According to the calculations of the said illiterate. Everything seemed destined for Nombeko Mayeki, a little black girl born in South Africa's largest ghetto, to lead a life of hard work and die young amidst general indifference. Everything except fate. And her prodigious ability to handle numbers. Thus, Nombeko, the illiterate who knows how to count, finds herself propelled far from her country and poverty, into the upper echelons of international politics. During her incredible journey across the world, our heroine meets colorful characters, including two physically identical yet very different brothers, an angry young girl, and a paranoid potter. She alienates the world's most feared secret services and finds herself locked in a potato truck. At that moment, all of humanity is threatened with destruction. After the worldwide success of the An old man who didn't want to celebrate his birthday, Jonas Jonasson delivers a comedy just as explosive as the first. With his trademark wacky humor, he tackles prejudices and definitively demolishes the myth that kings don't wring the necks of chickens. EAN : 9782258097063 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Borgias' Golden Chimera - Juliette Benzoni - book Summary : Between Venice and Paris, the new adventures of the Venetian antiques dealer prince Aldo Morosini in search of the fabulous chimera of gold and emeralds that Cesare Borgia considered his talisman... While the Titanic is sinking and panic reigns on board, a beautiful young girl murders, to steal her jewels with incredible audacity, a very rich passenger: the Marchesa d'Anguisola, née Belmont. A chambermaid, Helen Adler, saw her leave with her loot but is unable to find her... No more upon returning to New York and, thinking that the murderer could have remained among the victims, she ends up forgetting. Twenty years later, in Paris, the Renaissance jewel collection of Van Tilden, a wealthy American who has just committed suicide in his castle in Touraine, is being sold. Aldo Morosini has brought to this sale a picturesque Texan client, fabulously rich, in love with Lucrezia Torelli, a singer who claims to be descended from the Borgias and wants Caesar's Golden Chimera found for her, which is unlikely to be resurrected because it belonged to the Marchesa d'Anguisola and must lie somewhere at the bottom of the Atlantic. However, the sale is interrupted at the request of John-Augustus Belmont: she is offering two of the jewels of Madame d'Anguisola, her aunt. And the Chimera should have been there... The next day, Helen Adler, who has become Pauline Belmont's maid and who has identified the murderer in a newspaper, is left for dead. This is the first blood in a dramatic adventure, but others will come that could lead Morosini to his downfall... EAN : 9782259213929 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl Who Fell from a Dream - Jean-Pierre Richard - book Summary : When Julien meets Sarah on the terrace of a Parisian café, he is far from imagining that their meeting has been arranged by an old Indian, in the Sonoran Desert, 8,800 kilometers away... Across the Atlantic, Big Dream, one of the greatest dreamers in his tribe, smiles. Thanks to the power of the "dreamcatcher ," a fetish object that white men are wrong to take for a toy, he knows that Julien will love Sarah. And Sarah will love Julien. In this sparkling love story, full of surprises, we find the charm, magic and fantasy of Jean-Pierre Richard, the author of Un Ange distrait . A real pleasure to read. EAN : 9782226186560 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Blue are the summers - Christian Signol - book Summary : Aurélien, the old shepherd, has always lived alone on the causse. Life has denied him the companion who would have made his days sweeter and, worse still, the descendants to whom he would have passed on his heritage as a landowner raised under the stars, far from the cities he has never seen. During a magnificent summer, vacationers settle in the hamlet. Between Benjamin, the young adopted son of these Parisians, and the old Aurélien, an immediate and strong bond is formed. Aurélien introduces the young boy to the wild and rugged beauty of this land of short grass, stones, and junipers. Sharing the simplest joys—the flight of a sparrowhawk, watching over the flock—the old man and the child are inseparable. The separation, though inevitable, seems impossible to them. EAN : 9782226095664 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Dying Beast - Philip Roth - book Summary : "A nude with opulent, slightly flared breasts, for which she could have posed herself. A nude with closed eyes, defended like her by her erotic power alone and, like her, both primal and elegant. A bronze nude mysteriously asleep on a velvety black abyss that, in my mood of the moment, I associated with that of the tomb. Tapered, undulating, she awaits you, the young girl, motionless and mute as death." On the threshold of old age, David Kepesh, an aesthete attached to his freedom and a demanding seducer, meets among his students Consuela Castillo, twenty-four years old, daughter of rich Cuban emigrants, "amazed" by culture. And discovers sexual addiction... It is the novel of a spell in an America far from the joyous bacchanalia of the sixties, dear to the Professor of Desire..; And at the turn of the millennium, this alter ego of the author, once the hero of The Breast, is confronted not only with his own aging but with the death that lurks within each of us. After The Stain, Philip Roth offers us at once a love story, an X-ray of our times, and a meditation on the human condition. A new masterpiece, of lapidary perfection. A dizzying psychological thriller with a stunning ending. EAN : 9782070763597 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Twins - Saskia Sarginson - book Summary : Isolte and Viola are twins. Inseparable as children, they are now very different adults: Isolte is an editor at a fashion magazine and shares her life with a prominent photographer; Viola, destroyed by anorexia, is slowly wasting away in a hospital bed. The two sisters barely speak to each other. Why did their paths take such different directions? What tragedy separated them? As they try to unravel the threads of a summer buried deep in their minds, the terrible secrets of their past resurface, threatening to change their lives forever. A dizzying psychological thriller with a stunning ending. EAN : 9782501081696 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell - book Summary : “With a feast of fine character descriptions and each chapter treated like a painting, Rendell delicately leads us along the path of the assassin.” Marie France The first girl had a bite mark on her neck. According to the police, DNA analysis pointed to her fiancé. No matter! The tabloids immediately seized on the story: they dubbed the killer the Rottweiler, and the nickname stuck. The last body was discovered near Inez Ferry's antiques shop in London's Marylebone district. However, since her husband's death, Inez has been supplementing her income by taking in tenants above her shop. The Rottweiler's obsessive and unpredictable activities spread suspicion within this small, disparate community: a maniac, a murderer, is hiding among them. EAN : 9782848930244 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Prince's Act - Amélie Nothomb - book Summary : “There is a moment, between the fifteenth and sixteenth sip of champagne, when every man is an aristocrat.” Amélie Nothomb. EAN : 9782226188441 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Clara's Secret - Françoise Bourdin - book Summary : 1945. A white stone house with blue shutters: Vallongue is the image of serenity. Yet, within these walls, the war is far from over. Clara sadly observes the misfortunes that these five years of conflict have inflicted on her family. Her son Charles, back from Germany where he was a prisoner, is only a shadow of his former self. As for Édouard, the second Morvan son, the disappearance of his wife and daughter is eating away at him from the inside. And between the two men, the fire smolders... EAN : 9782266119009 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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