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Marek Halter

La Juive de Shanghai

The Jewish Girl of Shanghai

From Nazi Germany to Communist China Ruth and Clara meet in Germany in 1937. Ruth is Jewish and dreams of becoming a fashion and dressmaker icon, and Clara, the daughter of rich bourgeois family, ...

The Jewish Girl of Shanghai

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Xavier Müller

Erectus, Le dernier hiver

Erectus, The last winter

An explosive finale to a dizzying trilogy There you are – two lovers out to admire the extraordinary meteor lighting up the night sky as it rains a shower of gold. And then suddenly, the ...

Erectus, The last winter

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Octavia Polk

La Démesure du désir

Addicted to love

FROM HOPE & ILLUSIONS TO REVENGE When she meets Romain, a young lawyer from Bordeaux, Juliette is immediately convinced: there is true chemistry between them, and Romain is madly in love with ...

Addicted to love

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Olivier Merle

Le Manoir des sacrifiées

Sacrifice Manor

A new Inspector Grimm investigation A Neanderthal skull on a chest in the entry of the manor. On the floor in front of it… the body of a dead man looking like he’s praying. His forehead is ...

Sacrifice Manor

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Amélie Antoine

The Four Winds

AN INSIGHTFUL STORY BOTH HOPEFUL & TRAGIC  Sabran-sur-la-Lys, 1943. Nineteen-year-old Charlotte meets Tobias, a German soldier. It’s love at first sight. She learns she is pregnant just as ...

The Four Winds

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Christian Jacq

The Secret Mission of Sinouhé the Egyptian

A FASCINATING NOVEL ABOUT EGYPT’S GREATEST SPY They say the Egyptians invented everything, including the spy novel. The first one was written in the twelfth dynasty, and Christian Jacq ...

The Secret Mission of Sinouhé the Egyptian

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Nicolas Vanier

An upside-down world

BEFORE THE WORLD IS IRREVERSIBLY TURNED USPIDE DOWN… Stanislas is a ruthless Parisian stockbroker. Dédé is a homeless man – and a bit of a poet – who lives on the street, downstairs the ...

An upside-down world

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Gilbert Bordes

Jesus, three days before his death

THE STORY OF JESUS THE MAN, AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE Who was Jesus, beyond the symbols and the myths? A man like any other — with fears and doubts — who was enraged by injustice. ...

Jesus, three days before his death

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Nicolas Beuglet

The Archipelago of the Forgotten

This story will make you doubt everything you thought you knew…   Detectives Grace Campbell and Sarah Geringën know this much: even though they have diametrically opposite personalities, they ...

The Archipelago of the Forgotten

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Mark Miller

The Road to Key West

My name is Tom Baldwin, I am a writer, and writers have too much imagination. That’s what Annabelle, my ex-wife, used to say all the time. Josh, my wonderful little Josh, used to say ...

The Road to Key West

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Mireille Calmel

Of Swirls and Blood

One of the greatest heroines of the 100 Years’ Warplot 1343. At the beginning of the Breton War of Succession (in present-day Brittany) a pact is signed between England and France. Jeanne de ...

Of Swirls and Blood

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Sandra Martineau

Look to another sky to better see the stars

Humor, tenderness & twists Chloe Edouard is a successful young Parisian author who has lost her inspiration. She was ready for anything expect the news that the grandmother she never knew—who ...

Look to another sky to better see the stars

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