LOVE FOR LIVRES

Le Livre de poche

Le Livre de Poche (literally The Pocket Book) is the name of a collection of publications which first appeared on 9 February 1953 under the leadership of Henri Filipacchi and published by the Librairie générale française, a subsidiary of Hachette.

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Légende d`un dormeur éveillé

Gaëlle Nohant - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Publisher`s presentation: From the Montparnasse of the Roaring Twenties to the Paris of the Occupation, Gaëlle Nohant resurrects an incandescent, generous and free hero. His friends were called Jacques Prévert, Louis Aragon, Jean-Louis Barrault or Pablo Neruda. A poet, a lover, a resistance fighter, a fierce and joking man, he loved life, Youki and freedom to...
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Before sleep	Autumn	To my parents	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few days

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Eden

Monica Sabolo - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

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A forest spirit. That was what she had seen. When she was asked, gently, then in a more and more tense, urgent voice, if it was not Lucy - Lucy, fifteen years old, blond, one meter sixty-five, jean shorts, missing for two days -, when she was asked if she had not seen Lucy, she answered shaking her head: No, no, it was a spirit, the spirit of the...
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Before sleep	Summer	To my friends	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few hours

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Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Publisher`s presentation : A woman recalls with painstaking cynicism the week that turned her life around fifty years earlier. In 1964, at the age of twenty-four, she lives with her alcoholic father in a dilapidated house near Boston and works as a receptionist in a prison for juvenile offenders. She endures this grim existence with a mixture of helplessness, anger and hatred - mostly for...
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To not die of boredom	Winter	To my friends	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
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Les gratitudes

Delphine de Vigan - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

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Have you ever wondered how many times in your life you have actually said thank you? A real thank you. The expression of your gratitude, of your appreciation, of your debt. To whom?

We always think we have time to say things, and then suddenly it`s too late.

After Les Loyautés, Delphine de Vigan continues in Les...
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In the metro, train, bus	Spring	To my parents	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
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Les loyautés

Delphine de Vigan - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Presentation of the publisher : Théo, child of divorce, leads his friend Mathis into dangerous territory. Hélène, a high school teacher with a violent childhood, is worried about Théo: could he be in danger in his family?
As for Cécile, Mathis`s mother, she sees her family`s equilibrium wavering, at a time when she needs support to protect her son.
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Before sleep	Winter	To my parents	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
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L`été circulaire

Marion Brunet - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Publisher`s presentation : A small town in the south, its subdivisions, its dull daily life and its endless summer days. Jo and Céline, two sisters aged fifteen and sixteen, wander between fairs, shopping centers and nighttime swimming in the luxurious villa`s pools of the region. Too young yet to give up on their dreams and follow in the footsteps of their parents who work hard to pay...
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For the week-ends	Summer	To my sister or brother	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
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Les quatre saisons de l`été

Grégoire Delacourt - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

Publisher`s presentation: That summer, Cabrel sang Hors saison and everyone sang Cabrel.
That summer, on the beach of Le Touquet, bodies were revealed, hearts were excited.
That summer, on the immense dunes, the love destinies of four couples were played out, at the age of the four seasons of a life.
Is summer always fatal to love stories?

Moving and sunny, this...
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During my holidays	Summer	To my male lover	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
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Baise-moi

Virginie Despentes - Publisher : Le Livre de poche

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This is the story of a passionate friendship: two girls with no bearings whose paths cross by chance, and who will discover that they have nothing left to lose... Published in 1993 and translated into more than twenty languages, Baise-moi is a declaration of war on good taste, beautiful feelings and elegance. At the crossroads of the hard boiled novel...
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For the week-ends	Spring	To my friends	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few hours

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