A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"My good friend, Eric Schmitt, former Attorney General, and now Senator, from the GREAT State of Missouri, has a wonderful new book just out, entitled, The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Eric is a FIGHTER, who beat back Biden’s disastrous Policies as A.G. and, in the U.S. Senate, has been working hard to defend our America First Agenda from the Radical Left. Get your copy today!" — President...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER""My good friend, Eric Schmitt, former Attorney General, and now Senator, from the GREAT State of Missouri, has a wonderful new book just out, entitled, The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Eric is a FIGHTER, who beat back Biden’s disastrous Policies as A.G. and, in the U.S. Senate, has been working hard to defend our America First Agenda from the Radical Left. Get your copy today!"" — Preside...

Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary strategies to fight terrorism—and their game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home.In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way.In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of The N...

Five unforgettable stories. "What a delight when a writer hits his target as deftly and with such beauty as Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt does in Invisible Love" ( New York Journal of Books).In this latest collection, two young lovers secretly love the child they will never be able to have; an esteemed physician and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps finds inner peace thanks to the love of a faithful dog; a man loves his wife through the memories of ...

"A miraculous book in praise of women, in praise of both their shortcomings and their strengths" from the internationally bestselling author ( l'Express).Anne, Hanna, and Anny. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect—a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of u...

The beginning of a unique adventure, the tremendous challenge of recounting the history of humanity.Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his whole life upside down. Destined to live forever as an immortal, Noam travels through the centuries in search of the meaning of life, and the events which shaped who we have become today.Paradises Lost is the first in...

A collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World. "They read like modern fairy tales." — Foreword ReviewsIn this collection of stories, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt probes the paradox that the events that shape our lives are often the stuff of dreams, yet nonetheless true. Humor, tenderness, irony and exquisite writing have always been the hallmarks of Schmitt's work. Here, he adds a pinch of phil...

The international bestselling story collection. "Truth and beauty are here brought together with all the visual beauty and power of a major literary work" ( Lire Magazine, France).A cast of extravagant and affecting characters lovingly portrayed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt animates these eight contemporary fables about people in search of happiness. One of Europe's most popular and bestselling authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spiri...

La proposta, arrivata direttamente dal Vaticano, era semplice e diretta: si chiedeva a Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt di fare un viaggio in Terra santa e scrivere un diario.Lo scrittore francese ha accettato e ha trascorso un mese tra Betlemme, Nazareth, la Galilea, Gerusalemme, scrivendo un vero e proprio itinerario tra i dubbi della ragione e le aperture della fede che quei luoghi suscitano. Il risultato è questo bellissimo libro, unico da tanti punti di vista.Con una lettera di pa...

Momo is een joodse jongen van twaalf jaar die opgroeit in het Parijs van de jaren vijftig. Zijn moeder heeft hij nooit gekend, zijn vader heeft in de oorlog veel meegemaakt en is daar nogal zwijgzaam van geworden. Momo zorgt voor het huishouden en leert de Arabische kruidenier uit de straat kennen. Met meneer Ibrahim kan hij alles bespreken wat een opgroeiende puber bezighoudt. Zo leert hij het leven zoals het is onder ogen zien en accepteren. Samen bedenken ze originele oplossingen voor d...

From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation.It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motle...

De tienjarige Oscar schrijft vanuit zijn ziekbed brieven aan God. In die brieven, die sprankelen van levenslust, vertelt hij over oma Rozerood, een dame die hem regelmatig bezoekt en met hem praat over allerlei kleine en grote levensvragen. Oscars brieven geven een prachtige en ontroerende beschrijving van wat wellicht de laatste twaalf dagen van zijn leven zijn. Dit luisterboek werd genomineerd voor De Prijs van het beste Luisterboek 2006.