Title : The First Wife - Françoise Chandernagor - book Summary "Divorce or separation?" When her husband uttered this little phrase in a low voice, Catherine wondered if she had heard correctly. "Divorce or separation"? How could she imagine that after twenty-five years of marriage, Francis left her no other choice? If he had never promised to be faithful (they were "modern," weren't they?), hadn't he sworn to her that she was the chosen one, the soul mate, that she would forever be the favorite—his "first wife"? They were a real couple; with their four children, a real family. They laughed together at Francis's flings, since he always came back to her and she always forgave. From whims to adventures, from adventures to affairs, and from affairs to bigamy, over the years the first wife accepted everything. When, at the age of maturity, she had to give way to a "young conquest," it wasn't a man she lost, but two-thirds of her past. From one day to the next, she is a "widow," worse than a widow, because it is a living being that she mourns, a living being who - throughout a painful breakup, a slow divorce, three years of winter and ice - will not let himself be forgotten... In this novel in which she lends her pen to the abandoned lover, Françoise Chandernagor speaks to us of marital passion and romantic failure with a restrained lyricism, a poignant emotion that is underlined by a sober and incisive style. By changing era and tone, the author of L'Allée du Roi and L'Enfant des Lumières retains this lucidity, this art of analysis, which have already transported thousands of readers. EAN : 9782877063333 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Your 30 Itineraries in the Basque Country - MACIA Pierre - book Summary Walking is the surest way to access reality. Of oneself, of others, of countries. The 30 itineraries proposed and described in this book are all colored by the love of an author for a space designated as a true hiking paradise. These routes are not a matter for specialists: it is for each of us here and now, in the evidence of the step followed by another step, in the intimate discovery of a territory - much more than a setting -, in the simple happiness of being there. A veil lifted on the visible, a time that, certainly, can be measured, but which also expands in the satisfaction of an accomplishment at the height of a man or a woman. This volume is set in five of the seven historic provinces of the Basque Country (Labourd, Lower Navarre, Soule, Guiptizcoa and Navarre), with two incursions into the south of the Landes and two others into the neighboring Béarnais. The shortest of these routes (3h30 and 4h00) lead to the Pic d'Orhy or around Navarrenx, to the Adour estuary or in the Jara loop. The longest are called: grand circuit d'Occabé (6h30 and 1300 m of ascent), Artzamendi from the Pas de Roland (6h30 and 1000 m), Haltzamendi from Ossès (6h00) or coastal path from Guéthary to Hendaye (6h00). You will still find significant differences in altitude at the Ehujarré canyon (1200 m), at the Pic de Petrexema (1050 m). All between the Ocean and the dried-up causses of Arbailles or Pierre-Saint-Martin, between the barthes of the Adour and the majestic sunset of San Sebastian. EAN : 9782841823413 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girls' Dictionary 2008 - Marie Clerc - book Summary Another exceptional vintage! The 2008 Girls' Dictionary is: -new texts: the 200 words of the girls' lives have been completely rewritten, adapted, updated... -47 new words, such as Blog, City, Concert, Declaration of love, Move, Women, Gothic, Mag, Perfume, Skin, People, Prostitution, Break up, TV series, Sales, Star, Download, Reality TV... - a new, even more feminine and trendy graphic design: new illustrations, new photos and a completely renovated layout! -the 2008 special magazine: 80 pages with fashion previews, news and girls' lives, good deals... -the first 24 pages of the girls' first comic book exclusively! EAN : 9782215046554 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Feast of the Empire - Angelo Rinaldi - book Summary Back on his island, the narrator visits the "Café de l'Empire" for the last time, which his mother has just sold. It is then that a flood of memories and images is born. The day that "l'Empire" closes contains several destinies. The past and the present alternate, revealing a humanity without grandeur, but not without madness. And above all, there is the mother, in her solitary old age, from whom the son takes leave, without suspecting that with those we love, the banal goodbye is sometimes a farewell. EAN : 9782070231799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The First Alliance - Nicole Avril - book Summary Sonia Salzères is back. Her father, the great silk merchant from Lyon, suddenly comes back to life. She has discovered the world, experienced the pleasure of a few embraces... what does all that matter? Their alliance is immediately reunited, intact, flawless. The only survivors of a dynasty ravaged by war and hatred, father and daughter have never ceased to live a mutual passion, jealous and unfulfilled. Around this ambiguous couple, other beings try to exist, to participate in their understanding or to break the original love. Isn't it in vain? Surrounding them all, Lyon, beautiful and shadowy, the city of silenced, exacerbated passions. What is this first alliance that unites father and daughter? A tragic and innocent fatality that crushes some and sends others running to their own destruction? A prison? Or perhaps a mad happiness? EAN : 9782080648549 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Best Part of Men - Tristan Garcia - book Summary Flora Prize 2008 "Dominique Rossi, a former left-wing activist, founded the first major movement to fight and emancipate homosexuality in France in the late 1980s. Willie is a young loser, a scandalous writer whom some consider genius. They love each other, hate each other, and then destroy each other before the eyes of the narrator and her lover, a media intellectual, who more or less consciously miss the mark of their time. We witness with them the spectacle of a radical and absolute hatred between two individuals, but also the joyful birth, and at the end, sickening, of a decisive period in the history of sexuality and politics in the West. This moral tale is not autofiction. It is the story, which I did not live, of a community and a generation torn apart by AIDS, in neighborhoods where I never lived. It is the faithful account of most of the possible betrayals of our existence, the portrait of the worst part of men and - in negative - of the best." Tristan Garcia. EAN : 9782070120642 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : White Paradise - Kristin Hannah - book Summary When Ernt returns from Vietnam, ten-year-old Leni doesn't recognize her father. Haunted by terrible nightmares, he becomes violent toward his wife, Cora. ​​One day, he receives a letter from the father of one of his friends, who died in his arms during this hellish experience, who leaves him a shack in Alaska. Ernt thinks he'll be able to rebuild his life there. Before the war, they were so happy... "Someone once told me that Alaska doesn't build character, it reveals it. The sad truth is that the darkness that can exist in Alaska revealed the dark side of my father. He was a Vietnam veteran, a former prisoner of war. We didn't know then what that meant. Now we do. KRISTIN HANNAH, born in 1960 in California, was a lawyer before becoming a successful writer and writing more than twenty novels, all popular in her country. After The Song of the Nightingale, a worldwide bestseller, Kristin Hannah returns with this historical novel, a dazzling family saga set in 1970s Alaska. EAN : 9782749935492 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Queens for One King - Claudine Beja - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782221008669 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : All the fishing on the coast - Jean-Louis Guillou - book Please note that some pages may have been highlighted with highlighter or pencil, but this will not interfere with reading. Summary With 60 technical drawings, all the tips and secrets of a sea fishing expert. EAN : 9782737317507 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Target Was French - A New Jack Reacher Adventure - Lee Child - book Summary There's a stir in the world's security services: an unknown person has just shot the President of the French Republic in Paris, and the bullet is American. The sniper hit the protective screen at the phenomenal distance of 1,300 meters. The warning is clear: next time, it will happen at the G8. And God knows how many victims there will be. But who is this sniper? Only four men are capable of such a feat. One of them, John Kott, is an American whom Jack Reacher had imprisoned fifteen years earlier, and it turns out that, recently released, the man is nowhere to be found. It is, of course, Reacher whom the army secretly sends to catch the shooter. Between Paris and London, alongside the Russian, French, and English special services, each playing their part, his task may not be easy.  “Jack Reacher is the new James Bond. The hero we will never tire of.” Ken Follett EAN : 9782702160367 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Operation Manta - Secret Documents Chad 1983 1984 - Colonel Spartacus - book Summary Telling the truth about how Operation Manta, decided in August 1983, unfolded, explaining the phoney war in Chad and the sinking of the Elysée authorities in the shifting sands of Libya, such will perhaps be my last act as a man of war. EAN : 9782259013307 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Purple Ink - Louis Tamain - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782950755360 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - book Summary After the immense success of the Kabul Kites : Khaled Hosseini's new novel. Set against a backdrop of chaos and violence in an Afghanistan torn apart by fifty years of conflict, the moving story of two women whose destinies intertwine, a poignant love song to a sacrificed land and a city: Kabul. Forced to marry a man thirty years her senior, Mariam is unable to bear him a son. After eighteen years of submission to this brutal man, she must endure a new ordeal: the arrival under her own roof of Laila, a fourteen-year-old neighbor. Pregnant, Laila gives birth to a daughter. At first consumed by jealousy, Mariam eventually finds an ally in her rival. Both victims of their husband's violence and misogyny, they join forces to try to escape Afghanistan. But will they ever manage to tear themselves away from this sacrificed Afghan land, and from their city, Kabul, the one that once hid behind its walls "a thousand splendid suns"? EAN : 9782714443274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Child of the Next Dawn - Louise Erdrich - book Summary Our world is coming to an end. In the wake of a biological apocalypse, the evolution of species has come to an abrupt halt, and the United States is now under the control of a religious and totalitarian government that requires pregnant women to register. It is in this context that Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a young Indian woman adopted at birth by a white couple in Minneapolis, learns that she is expecting a child. Determined to protect her baby at all costs, she sets out on a desperate flight, hoping to find a safe place to take refuge. Knowing she is threatened, she sets out on a desperate flight, determined to protect her baby at all costs. Strikingly renewing the universe of the author of LaRose And In the silence of the wind, Louise Erdrich's new novel takes us far beyond fiction, into a frightening future where the notions of freedom and procreation are political weapons. Echoing The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, this story, reminiscent of an Orwellian fable, reminds us of the power of imagination, the key to interpreting a reality that is beyond us. EAN : 9782226438904 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Art of Losing - Alice Zeniter - book Summary Algeria, where her family originates, has long been nothing more than a backdrop of little interest to Naha. Yet, in a French society racked by questions of identity, everything seems to want to send her back to her origins. But what connection could she have with a family history that was never told to her? Her grandfather Ali, a Kabyle mountaineer, died before she could ask him why history had made him a Harki. Yema, her grandmother, could perhaps answer, but not in a language that Naha understands. As for Hamid, her father, who arrived in France in the summer of 1962 in the hastily set up transit camps, he no longer speaks of the Algeria of his childhood. How can a country of silence be resurrected? In a powerful and daring novelistic fresco, Alice Zeniter recounts the destiny, between France and Algeria, of successive generations of a family imprisoned by a tenacious past. But this book is also a great novel about the freedom to be oneself, beyond inheritance and personal or social injunctions. EAN : 9782081395534 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mountain of Perfumes - Pedro Nguyen Long - book Summary Thao and Xuân have four lovely daughters, but no sons... In one of the sixteen pagodas of Perfume Mountain, Thao then goes on a pilgrimage. His wish will be granted: a boy will be born, Nguyên Long Cuong - he will later be called Pedro. His exceptional and tormented destiny will merge with that of his country, Vietnam. Pampered by his family, Pedro grows up in Haiphong, where, in the 1940s, colonization was casting its last flames. He is still a child when the first bombings of the Indochina War push his family onto the roads of exodus. Soon seduced by the revolutionary ideal, Pedro joins the maquis and becomes an actor in a communist propaganda troupe. He is fourteen years old. Two years later, his father rescues him from the hands of the Viet Minh. He is nevertheless tortured in French jails. Released from prison, now a man, he learns to survive, first in Hanoi, then, after the fall of Dien Bien Phu, in a charming and corrupt Saigon where he will experience impossible love with a Eurasian woman... Pedro manages to leave Vietnam before the war against the Americans sets his country ablaze. But his family will continue to suffer - in the re-education camps, in the hell of the boat people - and he will not rest until his family is finally reunited... Twenty years after the bestseller The Palanquin of Tears, the new great story by Georges Walter. EAN : 9782221079645 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Transparency - Marc Dugain - book Summary In the late 2060s, the French president of Transparence, a digital company based in the wilds of Iceland, is accused by the local police of orchestrating her own assassination. At the same time, her company is preparing to market the Endless program, a revolutionary project on immortality, which consists of transplanting the human soul into an artificial body shell. With the planet seriously threatened by global warming, will this small start-up, which is about to take control of the digital sector, be able to save humanity? This dazzling futuristic novel reveals the world of tomorrow to better reveal the world of today and shed light on the greatest technological revolution in our history. EAN : 9782072797033 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Inch' Allah - Complete - The Breath of Jasmine - The Cry of the Stones - Gilbert Sinoué - book Summary 1916-2001. In the heart of the Middle East, four families—one Egyptian, one Iraqi, one Israeli, and one Palestinian—will experience the tragic events of the 20th century, during which the power of certain states enslaved countries and communities that had previously lived in tolerance and peace. Characters who are at once courageous, fragile, dignified, and committed, they refuse the shipwreck imposed on them by the West. Generation after generation, they all try to preserve the humanity that drives them. But between the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, the conflagration of Lebanon and the Intifada, is there still room for love? A Syrian woman as passionate as she is elusive and an Egyptian, a Palestinian woman ready for any fight and an Israeli, will try to prove it, like a challenge to the madness of men. Here are brought together, in a single volume, the two parts of this grandiose and romantic fresco. EAN : 9782290100462 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Birth of a Bridge - Maylis de Kerangal - book Summary Medici Prize 2010 "At dawn on the second day, when suddenly the Coca-Cola buildings rise, perpendicular to the surface of the river, it is another man who emerges from the woods, a man beside himself, a potential murderer. The sun rises, it ricochets against the glass and steel facades, iridescent the rainbow-colored oil slicks that halo the waters, and the triangular metal plates that festoon the planking of the canoe, gleaming in the light, draw an open jaw." This book starts with an ambition that is both simple and crazy: to tell the story of the construction of a suspension bridge somewhere in an imaginary California based on the intertwined destinies of a dozen men and women, all employees of the gigantic construction site. A sweeping novel, "American style," that mixes sensations and dreams, landscapes and machines, career plans and social classes, trades and bodies in general. EAN : 9782070130504 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Book of the Lost - François Debré - book Summary This novel takes place during the revolutionary period and tells the story of how French Jews gained citizenship. It follows the character of Théodore Cerf, a young Jewish orphan who became a figure of the Enlightenment. The Book of the Perplexed begins at the end of the 18th century, with a pogrom scene in an Alsatian village. It tells the story of the accession of French Jews to French citizenship, led by the character of Théodore Cerf, a young orphan who became a figure of the Enlightenment. This novel takes place against a backdrop of anti-Semitism in an entire society and competition between poor Jews from the East of France and wealthy Jews well established in Paris and Bordeaux. It is the story of this march towards justice, integration, dignity, and reconciliation between Jews and Christians that François Debré tells us in this beautiful book. EAN : 9782716508742 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mémé - Philippe Torreton - book Summary This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. This is the portrait that Philippe Torreton, at over forty years old, paints of the woman who was the central character of his childhood, a tender and nostalgic portrait, constructed with small touches like memory, where everyone will find their grandmother or the one they dreamed of. EAN : 9782913366619 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Who Loved Dogs - Leonardo Padura - book Summary The Destructive Power of Lies In 2004, after the death of his wife, Iván, a budding writer and manager of a miserable veterinary practice in Havana, recalls his encounter in 1977 with a mysterious man who was walking on the beach with two borzoi greyhounds. After a few conversations, the "man who loved dogs" confides in him about Trotsky's assassin, Ramón Mercader, whom he seems to know intimately. Through these confidences, Iván reconstructs the trajectories of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, also known as Trotsky, and Ramón Mercader, also known as Jacques Mornard, and how they became victim and executioner of one of the most revealing crimes of the 20th century. He follows these two itineraries, starting from the exile of one and the childhood of the other, and their meeting in Mexico City. These two stories take on their full meaning when the Cuban projects his private and intellectual adventures into contemporary Cuba. Leonardo Padura, in a powerful writing style, tells, through ambiguous and convincing characters, the story of the consequences of ideological lies and their destructive force on the most important utopia of the 20th century and its current repercussions in the lives of individuals, particularly in Cuba. EAN : 9782864249009 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Journeys into Absurdity - Stéphane de Groodt - book Summary Stéphane De Groodt offers a collection of his best columns. In a very offbeat tone, he plays with words with a self-proclaimed absurdity and follows in the footsteps of Raymond Devos. A humorist with a growing reputation, this collection is his first published work. "You may know, yes, well I say what I want... and if you don't know I'll tell you anyway, because forewarned is forearmed and forearmed is forearmed, but these chronicles, from Latin chronicum and Franco-Greek chroNikos, will have allowed me to lead my pen to London of my own accord, to the six sides of the Hexagon, to the highest peaks of the depths, in the most remote, advanced, seated, standing, lying regions of the four corners of the world for encounters as sure as they are realistic, as curious as they are laughing. With a single keystroke on my spiral keyboard I met Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah and the cat, saw Régine dance the girdle twist, transported myself from Obama's shack to Silvio's jacuzzi, embedded myself in Fidel, entered the queen, made Delon walk wide, struggled with Jean-Marine, and left Mitt on the ground... " EAN : 9782259222464 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Confession in the Hills - Angelo Rinaldi - book Summary During Holy Week, two secular pilgrimages plunge the narrator back into his past, without restraint. In Paris, in front of a vacant lot where a hotel once stood, near the Buttes-Chaumont, this solitary rediscovers "the awakenings in the alcove of Lardennois, the mad laughter of Maleterre, the songs of Teddy, the cackling of Éliane de Lassonne, a sleeping cat, a prunus in the sun and the fleece of a woman's sex like a stuffed object under the hand". The second pilgrimage, more dangerous, and surely guilty, brings him back to his native country. In his luggage, a briefcase with mysterious contents. This bad boy will redeem himself there, however. Not as he had intended for a moment, by carrying the cross of Christ in the Good Friday procession, but by procuring a sinner for his old regimental comrade, Restitude, who looks after goats in the bush, at the end of the world. The renewal of the mystery of the Passion, the intertwining of destinies, a faceless fear, the syncopes and surprises of memory, by the virtue of writing, will never cease to surprise. EAN : 9782070721290 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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