Title : The Preponderants - Hédi Kaddour - book Summary : Jean Freustié Prize 2015 In the spring of 1922, Americans from Hollywood came to shoot a film in Nahbès, a small town in the Maghreb. This clash of modernity fueled conflicts between traditional notables, French settlers, and young nationalists eager for independence. Raouf, Rania, Kathryn, Neil, Gabrielle, David, Ganthier, and others found themselves caught up in the whirlwind of a universe with multiple languages, multiple cultures, and multiple powers. They all tried to invent their lives, adapting, or rebelling. They sometimes fell in love. From California to Europe via North Africa, The Preponderants takes us into the great turmoil of the 1920s, where worlds and people collided. EAN : 9782072713583 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Tribulations of a Stradivarius in America - Frédéric Chaudière - book Summary : On February 28, 1936, soloist Bronislaw Huberman gave a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Of the two violins he had brought, a Stradivarius and a Guarneri, he chose the latter. When he left the stage, the Stradivarius had vanished and would not resurface for many years. The story of the missing instrument began one winter night in 1706, in a valley in the Italian Alps, when a lumberjack chose the spruce he was going to cut down on that dark January moon. From its creation by master luthier Stradivari to the incredible and true twists and turns that followed the kidnapping, Frédéric Chaudière recounts the eventful existence of a highly coveted violin with the rhythm of a serial novel: for three centuries, in fact, the Stradivarius crystallized and unleashed the passions of artisans, musicians, music lovers, lovers of art, profit, and glory. Born in Dieulefit in 1963, Frédéric Chaudière has been a luthier in Montpellier since 1986. He regularly contributes to the English magazine The Strad and writes articles on guest soloists' instruments for Radio France programs. His instruments are played worldwide by renowned musicians including J.-J. Kantorow, N. Brainin, R. Ricci, YC Cho, and A. Sitkovetski. EAN : 9782742775903 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why I Ate My Father - Roy Lewis - book Summary : The misfortunes of a prehistoric tribe narrated in the language of our modern ethnologists. New edition produced to coincide with the release of the animated film Why I Didn't Eat My Father, directed by Jamel Debbouze, on April 8, 2015. EAN : 9782266040822 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man of High Solitudes - James Salter - book Summary : History textbooks are full of heroic deaths. This book only lists stupid deaths! Tired of a mind-numbing job under a blazing sun, Rand leaves the Californian plains for Chamonix. It's the beginning of a bohemian life, punctuated by climbing, his passion. He bonds with Jack, a climber who, like him, seeks to challenge the Alpine peaks. Through increasingly arduous climbs, the two friends aspire to only one thing: to finally conquer the peace of the high solitudes. James Salter was born in New York in 1925. A fighter pilot, he resigned from the army to successfully devote himself to writing. American Express (Faulkner Prize), A life to burn (PEN-Center USA award) and Perfect happiness are notably available in Points. " The Man of High Solitudes , one of the best books ever written about the mountains, tells the twilight destiny of these anonymous mountaineers in limpid, refined, almost ascetic prose, where poetry bursts forth every time the sun rises. The Express Edition revised and expanded by the authors EAN : 9782757845561 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star - Danielle Steel - book Summary : On her father's ranch in Northern California, young Crystal Wyatt dreams of Hollywood and its stars. Her encounter with a young officer, Spencer Hill, shakes her as much as he does, but their paths diverge almost immediately. Crystal will realize her dream and reach the firmament where the stars of cinema shine, while Spencer pursues a great career in Washington and marries another woman. Life will bring them together again, for brief encounters. But will it allow them to experience the irresistible love that, from the beginning, has driven them towards each other? Queen of dreams and love for millions of readers around the world, the author of Family Album and of Loving takes us on a journey through these two destinies that dream of becoming one. EAN : 9782253063322 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Isle of Dogs - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Tangier Island, Chesapeake Bay. Located a few miles off the coast of Virginia, this small island has just risen up and is threatening to secede. On the brink of civil war, the region is descending into chaos, and a gang of criminals is taking advantage of the situation to steal, rape, and kill with impunity. The governor, manipulated by unscrupulous politicians, is powerless to restore order. Judy Hammer, the new superintendent of the Virginia police, and Andy Brazil, his right-hand man, will have no one to rely on but themselves... Isle of Dogs , Patricia Cornwell's fourteenth novel, is a caustic and irreverent satire of an America consumed by fear and corruption. EAN : 9782253172499 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl in the Woods - Patricia Mac Donald - book Summary : It's been fifteen years since Blair last returned to her childhood hometown. Not since her best friend, Molly, was murdered... But her sister Celeste's cancer-stricken condition leaves her no choice. "I did something wrong": On her deathbed, she reveals to him that the man languishing in prison for Molly's murder is innocent. As proof, she was with him the night of the crime. But how could she confess to their uncle, a hateful racist, that she was having a relationship with an African-American? Blair promises to get him released and, to do so, to find the evidence the police need. She then embarks on a painful investigation to understand what really happened that night, when little Molly's body was found in the woods, not far from her house... Is Blair ready to face the awful truth? Is the past over? Patricia MacDonald is formidable. She has managed to pull off not one thriller, but two. A tour de force. Femina version. EAN : 9782253181170 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bahia of All Saints - Jorge Amado - book Summary : In northeastern Brazil, the picaresque Antonio Balduino embodies the pain and dreams of Black people. A lost child, a bad boy, a professional boxer, a macumba initiate, a tobacco plantation worker, a dockworker, a circus employee, Antonio is always looking for "the way home." He has unreal love affairs with the white woman Lindinalva and an affair with the vibrant Rosenda Roseda. A strike will allow him to discover what solidarity is and give meaning to his life: the struggle for liberation. One of the major books in Latin American literature. EAN : 9782070372997 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Confessions - Books I to IV - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book Summary : I am undertaking an undertaking which has never been preceded and whose execution will have no imitator. I want to show my fellow men a man in all the truth of nature; and that man will be me." In these first four books of his Confessions, Rousseau recounts his youth, from his birth (1712) until the age of 19 (1731). He recounts his difficult childhood in Geneva - he, the son of a modest watchmaker, motherless - and his flight to escape his environment; his travels; finally his providential meeting with Madame de Warens, an older woman with whom he immediately falls in love. It will be for him a new birth, and the entry into adulthood. More than thirty years later, Rousseau looks at Jean-Jacques. He recounts his childhood sorrows, his adolescent joys, confesses his petty thefts ("I was therefore a rascal"), relives his first romantic emotions, and plunges back into his dazzling discovery of reading, which saved him from boredom ("I did not choose: I read everything with equal avidity"). He makes, in in short, the assessment of his apprenticeship in life. In this extraordinary quest for an identity, a true novel of origins, Rousseau tells his story, Rousseau reinvents himself. EAN : 9782070403738 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Phantom - Danielle Steel - book Summary : On his way to Vermont, Charlie Waterston hopes to leave behind the wounds of his recent breakup with his wife Carole and the forced abandonment of his architectural work in London, when a snowstorm forces him to seek refuge with a charming old lady. Seduced by her host, she rents him the small manor she owns. But even more than the beauty and serenity the place provides, it is the apparitions of the ghost of the beautiful Sarah Ferguson, the former owner of the place, that seduce Charlie. Taken aback, intrigued, and then won over, he quickly understands that through Sarah's tragic fate emerges the image of his own life. Marvelously blending past and present, drama and hope, Danielle Steel, the most widely read contemporary author in the world, here intersects two destinies which, despite the centuries that separate them, live, tear each other apart, and love each other like characters of flesh and blood. EAN : 9782266100014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Void and the Full - Notebooks from Japan 1964-1970 - Nicolas Bouvier - book Summary : The famous notebooks that Nicolas Bouvier kept during his stay in Japan in 1964 remained unpublished for a long time. An integral part of the "Book of Wonders" he wanted to write, The Void and the Full imposes his unique art of capturing, like one steals apples from a store window, fragments of eternity. Bouvier discovers, marvels, is astonished, allows himself to be made but also unmade by this country "not so much mysterious as mystifying." And he reveals himself in these short chapters more than perhaps anywhere else. EAN : 9782070361304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fugitives - Alice Munro - book Summary : They run away. Escape. Go and see elsewhere. They: women like any other. Whether through wear and tear or by chance, one fine morning, they leave the family or marital home without looking back. In eight short stories, Alice Munro depicts these shattered lives. With lightness, with ferocity, she tracks the marks left by time and lost opportunities. Alice Munro was born in Canada in 1931. Winner of numerous literary awards and universally admired by authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Franzen, and Cynthia Ozick, she is considered one of the greatest English-speaking writers of our time. On the Castle Rock side is his latest book published in France. “There is something of Chekhov in the Canadian’s pen, and her little music is enchanting.” EAN : 9782757814727 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Roads Traveled - Edith Wharton - book Summary : Her sharp and - even more so than that of her dear Henry James - critical eye on her country and her compatriots earned Edith Wharton the admiration of the severe Edmund Wilson. In this self-portrait, in which the author of The Wedding Planner and The New Yorkers casts, at the end of his life, "a look back on the paths traveled", we find the woman James had christened "the angel of devastation", her ferocious art dressed in chic, this impression of strength and mixed reflections which has struck all readers of her work. Here is a great "portrait of a woman," that of one of the great ladies of American literature, in whom irony and humor have always been able to combine with panache and elegance.9782253155225 EAN : 9782264031891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver - book Summary : Set against the wild and grandiose backdrop of the Appalachians, "A Prodigal Summer" weaves together three women's stories. Deanna, a forestry employee whose solitude is shattered by the arrival of a young hunter. Lusa, an intellectual widow who decides to stay in the valley and win the heart of a hostile family. Finally, Nannie, whose opinions on religion and pesticides spark neighborhood feuds. In this rich and generous novel, Barbara Kingsolver addresses the theme most dear to her—respect for nature—with a charm and grace that inspires enthusiasm. EAN : 9782743612610 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Dictionary of Religions - Robert-Jacques Thibaud - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782743415990 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bridal Trap - Douglas Kennedy - book Summary : Some basic rules for survival in the Australian bush: 1) Never drive in the middle of the night on a deserted road: a kangaroo would be happy to smash your bumper. 2) Never give in to the charms of a local hitchhiker. 3) And never let yourself be drugged, kidnapped and married by the said native. In her village, divorce is not allowed. But the number of widows there is impressive... "Led at breakneck speed, straight from the Styx, the story would make a bald man's hair stand on end, the suspense is so intense!" Valérie Lejeune – Le Figaro Magazine EAN : 9782266192828 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Madame Della Seta is also Jewish - Rosetta Loy - book Summary : The beautiful Roman apartment, the mountain holidays, the sweet memories of an innocent childhood rub shoulders with other, more disturbing memories, which gradually surface in the faces and silhouettes of these people who have become "other" by decree overnight, and persecuted for it. Rosetta Loy finds the mysterious and ambiguous signs of a daily life lived sheltered from History, and she searches behind the facts - focusing on the silences of Pope Pius XII - for the crucial moments of a period during which no one was able to oppose Nazi madness. She thus traces the contours of this "grey" zone in which individual memory and collective memory overlap for the worst, revealing the framework of a historical and moral dilemma that is still relevant today. EAN : 9782743606992 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes - book Summary : Artemio Cruz, a congressman and owner of a major Mexico City newspaper, is suddenly struck down by a serious illness. This powerful figure, who has exploited corrupt political morals for his own benefit, whose flourishing is fostered by major social upheavals, strives, on the brink of death, to take stock of his now-completed life. A fighter in the Revolution, he passionately loved, at the age of twenty, a young girl, Regina, whom he found massacred after a battle. This shock marked his entire existence, and the ideal of his youth gave way to an implacable will to power. But is it only from this fact that the successful Artemio Cruz emerged? An uncompromising portrayal of a bourgeoisie born of a Revolution whose spirit it has betrayed. But also a meditation on the destiny of man caught between freedom and fate. EAN : 9782070368563 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Flood - Henry Bauchau - book Summary : In a small port in the South of France, nowadays, a circle of friendships has formed around Florian, an aging painter, iconoclast, pyromaniac and reputed to be mad, who, with the help of his companions, embarks on a monumental work illustrating the Flood. EAN : 9782330001292 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Surveyors of the World - Daniel Kehlmann - book Summary : One is the great explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). He leaves bourgeois life, makes his way through the rainforest, encounters sea monsters and cannibals, sails the Orinoco, tastes poisons, crawls through underground cavities, climbs volcanoes, and he doesn't like women. The other is Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), "Prince of Mathematics" and astronomer. He jumps from his wedding bed to write down a formula, studies probability, discovers the famous bell-shaped distribution curve that bears his name, and he hates traveling. One day, however, Humboldt managed to bring Gauss to Berlin. What happens when the orbits of two great minds meet? Two science geeks - their lives and their delusions, their genius and their weaknesses, their balancing act between solitude and love, ridicule and grandeur, failure and success - brought to life through the humor and intelligence of a young prodigy of German literature. "Author of eight books and winner of ten literary prizes, Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975. His novel "The Surveyors of the World" (Actes Sud, 2007) was a huge international success: it sold more than a million copies and was translated into some forty countries. In France, Daniel Kehlmann also published "Moi et Kaminski" (Actes Sud, 2004) and Gloire (Actes Sud, 2009)." EAN : 9782742780617 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Lord of the Rings, Volume 3 - The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien - book Summary : The kingdom of Gondor takes up arms against Sauron, the dark lord, who seeks to enslave all free peoples—men and elves, dwarves and hobbits. But the valour of the soldiers of Minas Tirith is no longer able to stand against the evil power of Mordor. A fragile hope, however, remains: the Ring-bearer, day after day, approaches the mountain where the fire of destiny burns, the only one capable of destroying the One Ring and bringing about Sauron's downfall... EAN : 9782070522699 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water from the Hills, volume 1 - Jean de Florette - Marcel Pagnol - book Summary : A simple and powerful tale of a struggle for life, a story of a crime and its punishment, a drama of revenge, a family tragedy, a conflict of pure hearts and strong souls, pitting a young city dweller full of freshness and enthusiasm against two hard, bitter, sly, closed, implacable peasants, an exact and magnificent portrayal of men of the earth, a song of the world, a poem of water, wind, seasons, hills, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are all this and they are much more than that, one of the summits of Pagnol's work: the book of guilt, innocence and forgiveness. EAN : 9782877060547 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Impasse Verlaine - Dalie Farah - book Summary : In her Berber mountains, Friday, the cheeky one, capers among the goats to make her adored father laugh and endures at home the fearsome eye and the nimble hand of her mother. Until the day she is married off to a man who disgusts her and takes her to live on the other side of the Mediterranean. At sixteen, desperate to be pregnant, she gives birth to a little girl for whom she will bear a surprised and brutal love. Impasse Verlaine, in Auvergne, Friday's daughter fills out administrative paperwork for the family and neighbors, does housework with her mother, sometimes arrives in class marked by the blows received at home. On the sly, she reads Dostoyevsky and wins writing competitions, loves a Philippe who does not look at her and the school which nevertheless does not want to see the violence experienced. This is the story of two cruel and joyful childhoods, the story of a mother and her daughter linked by a paradoxical love. A unique and universal story where humor rubs shoulders with poetry in a surge of imperious and magnificent vitality. EAN : 9782379130779 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Time and Straw - Jean Anglade - book Summary : Retired teacher Jacques Saint-André has many stories to tell: those of his native Allier first, and then those of a full life. His arm lost in Dunkirk in 1940, his marriage during the Occupation, his brief posting to Tunis, the unexpected paths taken by his children... But at 88 years old, widowed and isolated in his village of Cournon-d'Auvergne, he no longer has many people to listen to him. Unless the Internet provides him with a remedy for the loneliness of his old age... "What a wonderful storyteller. This novel is a beautiful lesson in life and optimism, which concludes with a rather moving art of aging." Patrick Manuel – The Scout EAN : 9782266174831 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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