Bernard Henri Lévy 215318

American vertigo

Grasset & Fasquelle, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 494. Depuis la deuxième guerre d'Irak, et même bien avant, les Etats-Unis occupent, dans l'imaginaire mondial, une place symbolique qui dépasse largement les notions de puissance, de politique, de géographie. L'Amérique, en vérité, est devenue un concept, une " région de l'âme ", une matrice de passions et de phobies dont le déploiement contradictoire n'en finit pas d'infuser nos propres débats. C'est, précisément, cette réalité diverse que Bernard-Henri Lévy a voulu cerner, observer, penser, dans ce livre où le reportage se mêle à la réflexion, et où le pittoresque emprunte à la philosophie de l'histoire.. ISBN: 9782246683919. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Olen Steinhauer 42642

American Spy

Corvus, 2013. Paperback. Readers are in for a treat with this world-class spy fiction novel which stars a black-ops agent to rival Bauer or Bourne. From the }New York Times{ bestselling author of }The Tourist{ and with the film rights having already been sold, this is a must for all readers who love to be thrilled. ISBN: 9781848876040. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Philipp Meyer 63832

American Rust

Simon & Schuster, 2009. Paperback. Pp: 367. Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifaces of the now empty steel mills that once provided the livelihood of generations, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and and polluted river. Isaac is the town genius, a young man left behind to care for his paralyzed father after his mother's suicide and his sister's departure for Yale. On the day that he steals $6,000 from his old man's desk and sets off to make his way to California to study astrophysics, he and his sister's ex-boyfriend Poe, a former high school baseball star, are waylaid by a group of transients. Isaac's inadvertant murder of one of the men changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendance, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us. ISBN: 9781847373960. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Philip Roth 31297

American pastoral

Vintage, 1998. Pocket. Pp: 423. ISBN: 9780099275350. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Rudyard Kipling 11297

American notes

Arcadia House, 1950. Linnen band. Pp: 239. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Vince Flynn 38946

American Assassin

SIMON & SCHUSTER. Paperback. Pp: 514. ISBN: 9781849830348. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Katharine McGee 135832

American Royals

Random House Children's Books. Paperback. Pp: 464. New York Times Bestseller What if America had a royal family? If you can't get enough of Harry and Meghan or Kate and William, meet American princesses Beatrice and Samantha. Crazy Rich Asians meets The Crown. Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue and The Royal We! Two princesses vying for the ultimate crown. Two girls vying for the prince's heart. This is the story of the American royals. When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare. A future monarch and a backup battery. Each child knows exactly what is expected of them. But these aren't just any royals. They're American. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't care much about anything, either. except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her. And then there's Samantha's twin, Prince Jefferson. If he'd been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince. but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart. The duty. The intrigue. The Crown. New York Times bestselling author Katharine McGee imagines an alternate version of the modern world, one where the glittering age of monarchies has not yet faded-and where love is still powerful enough to change the course of history. "The lives of the American royal family will hook you in the very first pages and never let go. Relatable, believable, fantastical, aspirational, and completely addictive." -Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars and Perfectionists series. ISBN: 9781984830203. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Tayari Jones 169639

An American Marriage. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019

Oneworld Publications. Paperback. Pp: 336. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn`t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy`s time in prison passes, she struggles to hold on to the love that has been her centre. When his conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward �"“ with hope and pain �"“ into the future. ISBN: 9781786075192. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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Henry James 23833

The American. Revised Edition

1981. Paperback. Pp: 480. When in France the marriage of American millionaire, Christopher Newman, to Claire de Bellegarde is opposed by her family, he finds a secret in their past. ISBN: 9780140390827. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Jean Giono 20985

Les Âmes fortes

Pocket. ISBN: 9782070362493. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Hervé Guibert 35633

À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

Gallimard, 1992. Paperback. Pp: 265. ISBN: 9782070718900. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Hélène de Monferrand 273207

Les amies d'Héloïse

Ed. de Fallois, 1990. Paperback. Pp: 403. ISBN: 9782877060868. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Paul Verlaine 13232

Les Amies. Scène d'amour sapphique

Drucke der Serapionsbrüder. Gekartonneerd. Verlaines Les Amies mit den Radierungen und Vignetten von Hans Freese wurden als erster Privatdruck für die Serapionsbrüder gesetzt und gedruckt nach der in nur 50 Exemplaren hergestellten ersten Ausgabe von 1866. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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John Le Carré 232102

Une amitié absolue

Seuil, 2004. Paperback. Pp: 372. Au lendemain de la guerre en Irak, l'Anglais Edward " Ted " Mundy, fils d'un major dans l'armée des Indes, écrivain raté et guide touristique en Bavière, voit resurgir son passé en la personne de Sasha, l'Allemand de l'Est militant qu'il a rencontré à la fin des années 60 dans un Berlin en proie à l'agitation révolutionnaire et revu dans le crasseux miroir aux espions de la guerre froide pour le montage d'une longue opération d'agent double. Mais aujourd'hui les temps ont changé, et leur amitié renouée au nom d'un idéalisme devenu obsolète se heurtera aux manÅ“uvres cyniques d'une Amérique plus impérialiste que jamais. Avec ce roman engagé d'une actualité brûlante, le Carré sonne le glas de l'espionnage à l'ancienne et des valeurs surannées qui structuraient l'univers des agents secrets : depuis le 11 septembre, le monde ignore tout code de l'honneur et les " justes causes " n'y ont plus cours quand l'Amérique de Bush fait subir à tous la marche forcée de son autocélébration triomphaliste et hégémonique. Portant un regard cruellement désabusé sur les agissements machiavéliques d'une Amérique drapée dans sa bonne conscience, le Carré dénonce aussi la veulerie aveugle de ses contemporains, et son message désespéré hantera le lecteur longtemps après la dernière ligne. ISBN: 9782020633437. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Peter Carey 43326

Amnesia

Groothandel - Fab. Paperback. Pp: 360. When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of some 5000 American places of incarceration also opened. Both countries' secrets threatened to pour out. Was this a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America. That conflict dates back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1943, stretches forward to America's security interests in Pine Gap and commercial interests everywhere, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want?. ISBN: 9780571311194. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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