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HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is part of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Holtzbrinck/Macmillan,Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The company name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987, whose own name was the result of an earlier merger ofHarper & Brothers (founded 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company


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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

fairly easy to read

Classic modern

Between 10 and 20$

A few days









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
5/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
6/10





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









Key Emotion Indicator
7/10





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

fairly easy to read

Contemporary

Between 10 and 20$

A few days









Key Emotion Indicator
7/10





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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