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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Title : The Night of Calama - Claude Michelet - book Summary For a long time, Christian Leyrac knew nothing about his father, who died in deportation to Dachau in 1944. "He wanted to join the resistance and he died doing so." A dry and ambiguous phrase that he was content with for years. Today, a senior reporter, he has just been thrown into a stinking jail in Calama by Pinochet's henchmen. In a few days, a few hours, the victim of a grotesque misunderstanding, he will die. Like his father, that stranger whose tragic fate and extraordinary secret he has finally unraveled. He is now at peace with himself. The guards can enter. EAN : 9782266065450 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Horla and other fantastic tales - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary This volume of fantastic stories, most of which were written between 1882 and 1887, was not composed by Maupassant himself. Reading them in sequence, collected in the order of their publication, one will better understand, however, that the fantastic is a constant in the work - and one that appeared very early on: contrary to what a certain legend has led people to believe, Maupassant, although madness overcame him at the end of his life, did not write from his own dictation. But is it really fantasy? Nothing supernatural here, nor marvelous. But stories that give way to anguish and cruelty, madness and fear, to the division of being that is analyzed with lucidity. The genius of the author is then to make his reader captive, to act on his conscience and to make him believe naturally and simply that this interior fantasy, coherent and logical, is also ordinary life, but suddenly become strange. EAN : 9782253005391 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Green Cricket - Jean Anglade - book Summary Fontgiève, the "Little Cayenne," a working-class neighborhood of Clermont-Ferrand. This is where the Grillon Vert hotel and restaurant is located. Under the benevolent gaze of its owners, we meet some very unusual customers: Mr. Maxime, the pimp, Mr. Aussoleil, the lamplighter, Jean Desvignes, the accordionist who is said to be as crazy as a goat, or Amandine, the bald schoolteacher who is looking for a third husband... All these people shout, cry, scream, lament, bang, laugh, live and die. This is life between the two wars in Auvergne and it sparkles like champagne! EAN : 9782266094320 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Great Illusion - Alain Minc - book Summary Europe? Everyone talks about it or dreams about it, but no one knows what Europe is. A reality? A perspective? A fantasy into which we project ourselves for fear of facing the real problems? In fact, as Alain Minc shows, the single market does not create an economic identity; economic identity itself does not induce a community of destiny. On the contrary, there is a great risk, from tomorrow, of discovering that this radiant future is encumbered with clouds and that Europe, far from fulfilling great hopes, could cause some surprises. At the heart of this book, a decisive reflection on "the new German question" and on the way in which, imperceptibly, the Federal Republic is sliding from Western Europe to Central Europe, the pivot and lung of a whole that will stretch from the Atlantic to the Urals. Indeed, an inexorable process? -transforms the communitarian Europe of the founding fathers into a continental Europe which, by crossing the Iron Curtain, risks leading to a gentle but fatal "Finlandization", despite the hope which is beginning to flicker from Moscow. Would lucidity now be Euro-pessimist? EAN : 9782253052111 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I chose the earth - Claude Michelet - book Summary Claude Michelet was twelve years old when he announced to his father, a Corrèze parliamentarian living in Paris, that he wanted to be a farmer. First, he attended the Lancosme agricultural school, then moved to Marcillac, to his childhood estate, where he found only fallow land and a few animals... No matter! He set to work and, under the amused gaze of the "real farmers," modernized the farm he still runs today. He recounts his years of labor, lucidly analyzes the rural world, and speaks on behalf of all the small farmers who, like him, are fighting for the survival of a civilization with a human face. A book that will enchant farmers and city dwellers alike. The former will recognize themselves in it, and the latter will discover an ignored and forgotten world. EAN : 9782266033107 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Impossible Rival - Baxter Mary Lynn - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782280126168 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The 20th Century from 1914 to the Present Day - René Rémond - book Summary Understanding one's time is impossible for someone who knows nothing about the past; being a contemporary also means being aware of legacies, whether accepted or contested. Studying yesterday in relation to today - and even tomorrow - is precisely the purpose of this book, which is directly related to a course taught at the Institute of Political Studies (preparatory year). What is the importance of the war of 1914? What is fascism? What are the characteristic elements of the communist world? What are the origins of the Cold War? What happened to Europe in the 20th century? To these questions and a hundred others, this third volume provides clear and rigorous answers. Without any scholarly preoccupation, this work will allow everyone to revise notions that have remained imprecise and to acquire the historical bases essential to the understanding of our time. EAN : 9782020574266 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mistress on the Stake - Jean Anglade - book Summary Dreamy, sensitive, and cultured, Frédérique teaches in a priority education zone. Destabilized by a passionate love affair, plagued by anxiety, and undermined by urban stress, she requests a transfer to the heart of Auvergne, near Issoire. There, she finds meaning in her life by helping the most deprived, from isolated elderly people to battered children. She then meets Vincent, a young worker thanks to whom she will be able to overcome the many challenges that await her. EAN : 9782266077989 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Our spoiled children - Madeleine Chapsal - book Summary They want everything and they want it now, and they have it! They are our children, our spoiled children! In this novel – so close to real life – there are four of them: twelve, fifteen, eighteen and twenty years old! Their parents take them or send them on holiday to the Île de Ré – to be left alone, they believe… Isn't this small territory off the continent called the "children's island"? What tribulations await them on these beautiful August days! From bicycle accidents to nighttime fights, to abuse of all kinds: cigarettes, drugs... Wherever they are, today's children encounter today's world. Because if parents and society spoil them, modern life does not spare them... This funny, powerful and accurate novel, about the new, tense but not loveless relationships between parents and children, is set in a sunny and enchanting setting that the author – who lives there – knows inside and out! EAN : 9782253111689 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Stupid Dog - John Fante - book Summary An enormous, obsessed, and very badly behaved dog with a bear's head arrives one evening in the life of Henry J. Molise, a failed and disillusioned fifty-something author who has only one desire: to drop everything and fly away from his family, who is driving him crazy. Despite Henry's affection for the beast, his wife Harriet and his four children remain wary of this untamable canine. In the charming Californian suburb of Point Dume, on the edge of the Pacific, this endearing monster is about to sow unspeakable chaos. A jewel of wacky humor and devastating provocation. "It's funny, ironic, tragic, moving, and wonderfully written. A must-read." Pierre Roudil, Le Figaro Magazine EAN : 9782264034502 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Truisms - Marie Darrieussecq - book Summary The director was very kind to me the day I was hired. I was allowed to run my perfume shop on my own. It was going well. Only, when the first symptoms appeared, I had to leave the perfume shop. It wasn't a matter of decency or anything; it was just that everything was getting too complicated. Luckily, I met Edgar, and Edgar, as you know, became President of the Republic. I was Edgar's muse. But no one recognized me. I had changed too much. Had I missed the chance of a lifetime? In any case, I still didn't really understand what was happening to me. It was especially this bruise under my right breast that worried me..." EAN : 9782070403073 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Space of a Life Volume 2 - Bradford Barbara Taylor - book Summary Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel is the story of a life that we will follow step by step, the life of Emma Harte. At fourteen, Emma is a servant in a castle near Leeds, England. But she refuses to accept the destiny that awaits her, that of her parents, her brothers, the poor and the hopeless. The Space of a Life is a very beautiful novel of passion, of all passions, those of loved ones, that of ambition. Published in Le Livre de Poche, Hold on to your dream , The Legacy of Emma Harte and The Secret of Emma Harte constitute a sequel to The Space of a Life EAN : 9782253028130 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Education - Flaubert Gustave - book Summary Sentimental Education, The Story of a Young Man is a novel written by Gustave Flaubert and published in 1869. The heart of the story is taken from Sainte-Beuve's novel: Volupté, which Honoré de Balzac had already treated and in a way rewritten with The Lily of the Valley. Flaubert's novel takes up the same subject according to entirely new narrative rules, reinventing the coming-of-age novel to give it a depth and acuity never before achieved. Sentimental Education includes many autobiographical elements, such as the meeting of Madame Arnoux, inspired by Flaubert's meeting with Élisa Schlésinger, the love of his life. The main character is Frédéric Moreau, a young provincial of eighteen who comes to study in Paris. From 1840 to 1867, he experienced unwavering friendship and the power of stupidity, art, politics, and the revolutions of a world hesitating between monarchy, republic, and empire. Several women (Rosanette, Madame Dambreuse) crossed his life, but none could compare to Marie Arnoux, wife of a wealthy art dealer, with whom he was madly in love. It was through contact with this inactive passion and the contingencies of the world that he received his sentimental education, which essentially boiled down to gradually burning his illusions. Less well-known than Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education is, however, a complete novel with a fully mastered style, and where the meticulously constructed world is one he knew from experience. The fresco thus created is both a summary of Romanticism and a precise picture of an era, making Flaubert the spiritual initiator of naturalism. Maupassant and Émile Zola would consider him their master. EAN : 9782743400392 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Viou - Henri Troyat - book Summary Sylvie felt as if she would, with a kick of her hock, rise a few meters above the ground. Of the whole class, she was the one who ran the fastest. However, no one in the family seemed to pay attention to this exceptional talent. Inexplicably, the adults, when they took care of the children, only gave importance to their studies." Immediately after the war, Viou was entrusted to her paternal grandparents. Her mother left for Paris where she tried to rebuild her life, a separation even harder for Viou to bear than the death of her father. A coming-of-age novel that accurately and movingly describes the worries, hopes, and sorrows of a child discovering the adult world. EAN : 9782277213185 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Television - Jean-Philippe Toussaint - book Summary The book tells the story of an art historian's summer in Berlin as he prepares to write an essay on Titian Vecelli and, at the same time, decides to stop watching television. It is both a description of his daily work (studious breakfasts, Berlin swimming pools, walks in the parks), and a study of his state of mind since he stopped watching television. "Halfway between a pamphlet and a fable, all this is told with constant humor, a writing that is limpid but applied to the smallest detail. Everyone will find in it the echo of their own relationship with television, in all its ambiguity." (Françoise Giroud, Le Figaro) "A few essayists have gravely analyzed the crisis of representation - and therefore of civilization - opened by the continuous bombardment of virtual images that we undergo, in ecstasy and lack. Jean-Philippe Toussaint gives it a novelistic expression of exemplary comic and critical effectiveness. » (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde) Television was published in 1997. EAN : 9782707318022 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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