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It's a travel story. In September 2023 we took a plane to San Francisco. We planned to visit California and that's what we did. After San Francisco we travelled to Merced, Yosemite, Sacramento and afterwards we went to Monterey, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. We travelled by bus and it was a fabulous experience. It was an opportunity to meet different people and the diversity of California. After Los Angeles we went back to San Francisco and finally back to France. Read the book, you'll know more about this beautiful journey.

In this first part of the trilogy "In the Shadow of the Dragon", Wang Jun, a Beijing policeman and Cao Yu a student are caught in a conspiracy led by the Beijing police to track down the dissidents still active after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Their life is suddenly destroyed by ruthless agents. A strange play happens between Wang Jun and Mona, a Franco-Chinese whose cynicism is matched only by her beauty. Tang Gang, a Tiananmen cleaner shows his human face helping his girlfriend, a nurse, to solve social problems. Between love and hate Erwan and Cécile, a couple of European ...

Hear, good ladies and gentlemen, peasants and noble people, poor and rich! From Conques to Herbeumont, in the heart of the Ardennes forest, here is the story of Jean Gueux. Son of a robber, a robber himself, his bravery is matched only by his naivety. In Dark Ages, he is the symbol of a certain tradition of revolt against the powerful, the masters. This is the story of Jean Gueux. A story that is far from over

An odd crime was committed in Agen on 1st October 1993. A young gypsy was killed in atrocious conditions but her body was never found. 20 years later, the main suspect has been found horribly mutilated along the Gave de Pau... On January 1, 2014, bones have been discovered in the well belonging to Patrick Flanaghan in a small village in Central Brittany. The Lorient Judicial Police suspects Flanaghan, an Irishman first married to an etarra and former IRA activist to be the criminal. In addition, Flanaghan’s wife, Djamila Larbi, a Moroccan national had her brother, a jihadist, killed by ...

This second volume of the series "In the Shadow of the Dragon" takes us into the Laogai of Gansu. After being kidnapped by the Beijing police, Cao Yu is transferred there. She will have to survive at the cost of her own morality and her innocence. Fortunately for her the friendship of her friend Weina will enable her to meet these challenges and to escape many dangers. The lover of Weina, the terrible Wang Gang, a follower of Kang Sheng (the former Chief of Chinese secret police), will manipulate all the labor camp staff and inmates to achieve his goals. In Beijing during that time, Mona ...

Fleur is a little girl. She lives in a rural area somewhere in North West Europe. She has an imaginary friend, Iris. For her, Iris is real, but no one believes her except maybe her father and her big brother. Her life is not easy. Her sisters and her mother are not very nice to her, at least that's what she believes. But Christmas comes with many surprises...

This third and final volume of "In the Shadow of the Dragon" takes us into the difficulties of the characters. They are definitely wandering on the boulevard of broken dreams. Erwan multiplies several sentimental adventures and exchanges around Scotch whiskey with his friend Rochester, a Quebec native and descendant of the Scottish clan Mac Neil. As cynic as a businessman can be, Rochester doesn’t hesitate to buy textile produced by the prisoners in the Gansu Laogai. He even dares to paraphrase Vespasian: Money has no honor! Mona will know the failure of her police projects and the ...