Julie is lying on the examination table in a doctor. She did not twelve, she is thin, she is weak. It is 4:00 in the afternoon and it still has not been allowed to eat anything. Beside her, her mother seems strangely excited. She is about to suggest open-heart surgery for her daughter ...
From an early age, Julie is a fragile child who spends more time in consultations on the benches of the school. Yet this strange disease she suffers, and only his mother knows describe is not a cure, despite the ingested drugs, abuse and countless experts interviewed ...
Simply because Julie is not sick ... She is a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. My mother, my executioner is the story of his childhood stolen by a mother with a sickly need attention. An unvarnished story. A poignant testimony.
320 pages
Archipoche
March 2, 2011
7 € 27
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In the summer of 2006, Courjault case gave a sudden spotlight on a phenomenon hitherto unknown to most of us, yet well known to some gynecologists, psychiatrists and general practitioners. How pregnancy can it remain invisible to the end? How can women ignore their birth until they are pregnant? How some of these mothers can they go to commit infanticide? It would be wrong to believe that the problem affects only women who do not want children, mentally ill or ignorant teenagers. No: the denial of pregnancy for all women, even those who are already mothers. Paradoxical in societies like ours, which is worshiped by the pregnant woman and scrutinize the maternity fertilization to birth, the phenomenon reflects the fact that pregnancy can not be reduced to a purely physiological event is rather a process complex that involves the whole human being, with its history, its shadows and its relationship to others.
258 pages
Stock
February 21, 2007
€ 16 38 (Ebook 8 € 99)
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"She is here. Resting on my stomach, naked against me. I do not know how to succeed in the hyper squeezing hard without stifling, for that matter while watching. I squint to see her, I head back to admire it. It's me who took it out, I took my hands and put on me, I still can not n ... "
For Muriel, a new adventure begins: exploration (turbulent) of parenthood! Not so simple life ... Far three commonplaces and always with humor, she shares with us his pride in being a mother, the pleasure of seeing her child grow day after day and also its great moments of solitude nights without sleep, beating stress and the blues, married life dotted, anything that makes the salt and pepper of this great happiness.
224 pages
Larousse
January 9, 2013
12 € 83
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When parents raise their eyes to the child who has just been given to them, they are unanimous in proclaiming that they have just given birth to the wonder of wonders. And then the routine, hardware problems, the throes of an often complex to education, gradually tarnish the image of the wonder so admired. So the questions fuse.
Am I a good mother? How do you reconcile that with my personality, so different from my child? How to keep alive the wonder lived early in the lives of our children? For all parents and those who are about to become one, this book is an ode to maternal love from God.
The reader will find no advice or instructions or recipe ... because it does not exist! But draw on the testimony of the daily life of a mother of ten children, resources to find or rediscover the joy and confidence they need in achieving its intended parent.
132 pages
Editions Artege
June 2012
€ 12
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Without flying a single traveler goes around the earth. Walking (3000 km), cycling (5000 km), train, boat ... and on the back, only ten pounds. For, to blend with the landscape and the souls must be light: a hat, stick and ... it's gone for a year and nine months mop. Of France left foot to Budapest, through the horrors of the Siberian cold and dodger of Central America, the comfort of a freighter across the Pacific to seasickness on the Atlantic, and enthusiastic account removed tells resentments, fads, the scares, the fatigue of the adventurer, but above all the omnipresent joy of discovery. Sophie Courtivron thirty-one years old when she set sail. If Mother Nature, generous and implacable, he has actually see all the colors, man, his ingenuity has always approached with a disarmingly natural, has been gracious and magnanimous. Bold, it also takes the reader off the beaten platitudes trails, ignoring the jargon and agreed thinking. This sincere and boardmarked testimony smells a fresh spirit and originality assumed, which are the features of the traveler as the narrator. Started!
464 pages
2 Inks
June 21, 2010
27 € 94
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Your life lacks spice? Why not buy a zoo?
In 2004, the London journalist Benjamin Mee leads a quiet life in the south of France, where he settled with his wife and two children. But their happiness is obscured when Katherine, his wife, finds out she suffers from a serious brain tumor. Rather than be discouraged by this terrible news, Benjamin decided instead to unite his family around a crazy project. This is how he got the idea to buy a zoo.
In 2006, this man, who hardly know anything about animals, moved with his wife, mother, brother and children in the Dartmoor Wildlife Park, a zoo in bankruptcy at the heart of the English countryside. His challenge: to give a second life to this space laisséà abandonment. But above all, he will have to learn to live with the wild animals ...
320 pages
Presses de la Cité
April 5, 2012
19 € 95
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And that's only when I'm about to give up, I get a phone call that will change everything: Hello, I am the contact for the Haitian French nursery to whom you sent a letter. I adopted my daughter there. I read your letter, you fit in quite sought by the Director families. Call him to Haiti, waiting for your call! My legs are shaking, I am reluctant to believe it. The journey begins Via Carolina after a long process of adoption to visit Chello, boy from around the world, will change all his certainties. After months of waiting, the first meeting was finally held: a moment of great emotion, but at the same time, confirmation of the extreme poverty in Haiti state. Other couples, Dutch, as they live the magic of adoption. Three days later today, 10 January 2010 at 16 hours 50, the ground begins to shake. The earthquake is terrifying. Subsequently, the author tells us in a masterful story written on his return to bring order into the chaos experienced during the earthquake. It demonstrates with clarity and emotion on the adoption of Haiti devastated, but mainly about love and the ties between two people who know are not recognized and become inseparable.
110 pages
2 Inks
October 20, 2011
11 € 57
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Created in 1830 to assist solicitors, genealogical Archives Andriveau are the oldest study of its kind in the world. Nobody can imagine that behind its walls, play real detective investigations. Find an heir who is ignorant, just lead to settlement of estates ... the case is not always obvious. So we must follow the thread, from looking for a Simon became a Simone, an illegitimate child that the new shake, a pizzaiolo we will lord ... So many stories that offer an exciting book that unexpected. These stories will eventually probably told around a table, like the Belgian stories, except that ... it's all true!
267 pages
Le Cherche Midi
September 29, 2011
16 € 39
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This humorous book is composed of 100 points (tips, recipes, coaching ...) divided into 4 parts:
1) The ABCs of the regime. Discover basic tips for successful weight loss, especially consolidate its gains! Set a goal, avoid miracle diets, balanced trim, sports, motivate everyday ...
2) A system without a family? Test all revenue Anna, for all occasions, to balance diet, work and family life: soups, salads, vegetables, pasta, sandwiches, eggs, desserts ...
3) The temptation to master. Follow the coaching Anna to resist (or assign a measured way) to many temptations everyday: coffee break, drinks with friends, snacking in front of the television, the small hollow of the afternoon ...
4) Practical a stove warned. How well do your shopping, choose products for the cupboard and freezer, and many other tricks to cook Anna smart.
A funny book, full of tips to lose weight without suffering.
224 pages
Larousse
February 8, 2012
13 € 01
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"I collapsed on my bed. Not want to undress. Even want to try to sleep. All I want, it would be talking to someone who would understand me. "
Cynthia must make a difficult choice, especially when you have 17 years. But she is not alone: New Hope for a meeting with the women who guide and understand. Thanks to them, Cynthia understands that his only choice is the freedom of body and mind.
224 pages
April 11, 2012
Flammarion
10 € 50
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