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  • ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD - A NOVEL

    ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD - A NOVEL

    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Tarantino''s long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film RICK DALTON - Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick''s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH - Rick''s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he''s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder.... SHARON TATE - She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon''s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON - The ex-con''s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he''s their spiritual leader, but he''d trade it all to be a rock ''n'' roll star. HOLLYWOOD 1969 - YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE

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  • Sapiens a graphic history Nouv.

    Sapiens a graphic history

    Yuval Noah Harari

    Grand format 24.90 €
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  • A WOMAN IS NO MAN - A NOVEL

    A WOMAN IS NO MAN - A NOVEL

    Etaf Rum

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  • FASCISM : A WARNING

    FASCISM : A WARNING

    Madeleine Albright

    #1 New York Times Bestseller Best Books of 2018 -- The Economist A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, "is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have." The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. In Fascism: A Warning , Madeleine Albright draws on her experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that assumption. Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates division and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s. Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.

    Poche 19.80 €
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  • GOODBYE, AGAIN - ESSAYS, REFLECTIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS

    GOODBYE, AGAIN - ESSAYS, REFLECTIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS

    Jonny Sun

    The wonderfully original author of E veryone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too gives us a collection of touching, hilarious, and unique personal essays, stories, poems, and illustrations covering topics such as mental health, happiness, and what it means to belong. Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writing in his uniquely strange, funny, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like happiness, quietness, and being an outsider, to short humor pieces, transcripts of conversations, and one-liners. It will also have illustrations in Jonny's beloved style that enhance the essays. This format will let Jonny connect with the same audience that came to everyone's a aliebn when ur a aleibn too. Like Jonny, his followers are creative people struggling with what productivity means in a world where the internet makes so much temporary--so much art disappears unseen. Jonny's discussions of his struggles with feeling productive will connect deeply with readers everywhere. One more thing: it features a recipe for scrambled eggs that is absolutely heartbreaking.

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  • WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE

    WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE

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    From the creators of the #1 international hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves . . . no matter where we live. Welcome to Night Vale . . . a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest. In this ordinary little town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge. Pawnshop proprietor Jackie Fierro abides by routine. But a crack appears in the standard order of her perpetually nineteen-year-old life when a mysterious man in a tan jacket gives her a slip of paper marked by two pencil-smudged words: KING CITY. Everything about the man unsettles her, especially the paper that she cannot remove from her hand. Yet when Jackie puts her life on hold to search for the man, no one who meets him can seem to remember anything about him. Diane Crayton's fifteen-year-old son, Josh, is moody and a shape-shifter. Lately, Diane has started to see the boy's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as he did the day he left when they were teenagers. Josh is growing ever more curious about his estranged father--leading to a disaster Diane can see coming but is helpless to prevent. Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search to reclaim her routine life draw them increasingly closer to each other, and to this place that may hold the key to their mysteries and their futures . . . if they can ever find it.

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  • Alice isn't dead

    Alice isn't dead

    Joseph Fink

    Grand format 18.90 €
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  • SAPIENS - A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

    SAPIENS - A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

    Yuval Noah Harari

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.

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  • The Raising

    Anglais The Raising

    Laura Kasischke

    After Nicole, a sorority girl, is seemingly killed in an accident, her boyfriend Craig is blamed for her death by those close to her, but is not charged by police, while Nicole's childhood friend, Perry, tries to work through his grief, and Shelly, the first person on the scene of the accident, is convinced that the girl she saw that night was not dead at all.

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Anglais The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Thornton Wilder

    Poche 15.00 €
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  • A PEOPLE''S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES : 1492-PRESENT

    Anglais A PEOPLE''S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES : 1492-PRESENT

    Howard Zinn

    Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

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  • THE RESERVE

    Anglais THE RESERVE

    Russell Banks

    Losing her father to a heart attack on the same night she meets a politically liberal artist, scandal-marked heiress Vanessa Cole hides a dark family secret that takes her from the Adirondacks to war-torn Europe and threatens everyone she encounters. By the author of The Darling. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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  • Alfred and Emily

    Alfred and Emily

    Doris Lessing

    The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead.'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.'In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book, Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all, a story that has them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester as children but leading separate lives. This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war, their move to Rhodesia, a damaged couple squatting over Doris's childhood in a strange land.'Here I still am,' says Doris Lessing, 'trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free.' With the pubication of Alfred and Emily she has done just that.

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  • Chicago ; A Novel

    Anglais Chicago ; A Novel

    Alaa Al Aswany

    Post-September 11 Chicago becomes the site of a cultural collision involving a sixties-style anti-establishment professor who is targeted for his relationship with an African-American woman, a veiled Ph.D. candidate whose traditional upbringing is challenged by her American experiences, and an émigré whose western values are countered by questions about his daughter's honor. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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  • TALES OF THE CITY - OLIVE EDITION

    TALES OF THE CITY - OLIVE EDITION

    Armistead Maupin

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  • STATE OF WONDER - P.S.

    STATE OF WONDER - P.S.

    Ann Patchett

    A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

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  • THE CITY OF MIST - STORIES Nouv.

    THE CITY OF MIST - STORIES

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    "Ruiz Zafon''s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself."-- USA Today Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits. Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind . Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafon''s inimitable voice. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece. Imaginative and beguiling, these and other stories in The City of Mist summon up the mesmerizing magic of their brilliant creator and invite us to come dream along with him.

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  • The real jane austen - a life in small things

    The real jane austen - a life in small things

    Paula Byrne

    Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the original publication of Pride and Prejudice , this revealing portrait of the beloved novelist, drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources, presents a modern take on this artist and the world that shaped her. 35,000 first printing.

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  • THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS

    Anglais THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS

    Simon Van Booy

    Through seemingly random acts of selflessness, the lives of several individuals become intertwined, shattering the illusion of their separateness.

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  • TALES OF ACCIDENTAL GENIUS

    Anglais TALES OF ACCIDENTAL GENIUS

    Simon Van Booy

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  • IDEAS - A HISTORY OF THOUGHT AND INVENTION, FROM FIRE TO FREUD

    IDEAS - A HISTORY OF THOUGHT AND INVENTION, FROM FIRE TO FREUD

    Peter Watson

    Traces the evolution of numerous schools of thought in the western intellectual and cultural communities, from beliefs about paradise and the invention of mathematical principles to the creation of language and theories about the origins of life, in a narrative account that offers insight into human development prior to the twentieth century. By the author of The Modern Mind. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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  • Europe - no rights this territory

    Europe - no rights this territory

    Davies Norman

    From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. Chosen ten times as Book of the Year, it is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken.

    Grand format 24.90 €
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  • Understanding Iraq ; The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History ...

    Understanding Iraq ; The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History ...

    William R. Polk

    A historical explanation of the U.S.'s decision to intervene in Iraq explains the Middle-Eastern nation's potential future role in the face of the world's growing energy needs, offering insight into the economic and political forces shaping the region and the events that will affect U.S.-Iraqi relations. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

    Poche 16.00 €
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  • Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

    Anglais Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War

    Douglas Brinkley

    Poche 17.00 €
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