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The unsufferable lightness of being

Milan Kundera - Publisher : HarperCollins

The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath. The main characters are: Tomáš, an adulterous surgeon his wife Tereza, a photographer...
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Pour tous les jours	Spring	To my friends	enough easy to read	Classic modern	Between 10 and 20$
A few days

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie - Publisher : HarperCollins

Ten strangers on an isolated island, a murder, some tensions : all the ingredients create an atpmosphere that you will never forget. A classic among classics!
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To not die of boredom	Winter	To my sister or brother	Child's play	Great classic	Less than 10$
A few hours

Pet Sematary

Stephen King - Publisher : HarperCollins

Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago, is appointed director of the University of Maine's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Church. From the moment they arrive, the family runs into trouble: Ellie hurts her knee after falling off a swing, and Gage is stung by a bee. Their new...
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For the week-ends	Winter	To my friends	Easy to read	Classic modern	Less than 10$
A few days

I'll walk alone

Mary Higgins Clark - Publisher : HarperCollins

In I ll Walk Alone, Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, an interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan...
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In the metro, train, bus	Autumn	To my friends	Child's play	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few hours

The lover

Marguerite Duras - Publisher : HarperCollins

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man. In 1929, a 15-year-old nameless girl is traveling by ferry across the Mekong Delta, returning from a holiday at her family home in the town of Sa ?éc, to her boarding...
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Before sleep	Autumn	To my female lover	Not easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few days

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry - Publisher : HarperCollins

In the first chapter, set on 2 November 1939, Jacques Laruelle and Dr. Vigil drink anisette at the Hotel Casino de la Selva, on a hill above Quauhnahuac (an approximation of the Nahuatl name of Cuernavaca), and reminisce on the Consul's presence, exactly a year ago. His alcoholism is discussed and his unhappy marriage that his wife came back to him is remarked upon as particularly striking. Their...
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During my holidays	Autumn	To my parents in-law	Not easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
At least one month

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho - Publisher : HarperCollins

The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he decides to travel to a Romani fortune-teller in a nearby town to discover its meaning. The woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that there is a treasure in the pyramids in Egypt. Early into his journey, he meets an old king, whose name was Melchizedek,...
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For the week-ends	Spring	For all	Easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
A few days

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes - Publisher : HarperCollins

The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical...
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Pour tous les jours	Autumn	To my boss	Not easy to read	Great classic	Between 10 and 20$
At least one month

The gravedigger's daughter

Joyce Carol Oates - Publisher : HarperCollins

In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing...
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In the metro, train, bus	Autumn	To my sister or brother	enough easy to read	Contemporary	Between 10 and 20$
A few days

Chicago

Alaa al-Aswany - Publisher : HarperCollins

Publisher presentation:the author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs. Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly...
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Pour tous les jours	Winter	To my parents in-law	Not easy to read	Contemporary	Less than 10$
At least one month

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