Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life.In The Out...

A novel of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship from the award-winning French feminist and existentialist, unpublished in her lifetime.Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation PrizeIntroduction by Margaret AtwoodFrom the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of fri...

Hope Against Odds: Navigating the Journey of Infertility helps single people and couples through the complex process of infertility. This book empowers readers confronting the difficult obstacles of infertility by fusing medical knowledge with emotional support, offering helpful guidance and motivational anecdotes.The first section of the book examines the psychological and emotional effects of infertility, stressing the significance of comprehending and t...

2024 National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA personal journey into a family’s history gradually becomes a historical investigation into the lesser known tragedy of the Nazi’s mass arrests of prominent French Jews and their imprisonment at the “camp of slow death” just fifty miles from Paris.“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a novel about ambition and greed set against the fabulously wealthy French aristocracy of the 1920s.A starving young immigrant doctor of Italian and Greek descent, Dario Asfar struggles to establish his practice, and is desperate to provide for his wife and newborn son. When the vulgar, self-indulgent French aristocrat Philippe Wardes dismisses his personal physician’s advice to ab...

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky’s other novels–all of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, except DAVID GOLDER, available in English for the first time.DAVID GOL...

A bestseller in France, this is the first English translation of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès’ fascinating, impassioned letters - a record of one of the great love affairs of the twentieth centuryYou and I met and fell in love passionately, impatiently, dangerously. I regret nothing and I feel that these last days I’ve lived are enough to justify a life. – Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, 1st July 1944Their affair began in wartime Paris. Maria Casa...

Change is needed now. For too long, stories of Black Women, where English is not their first language, and Women of Colour in Public Services have been silenced, distorted, and ignored. Driving Systemic Change and Empowerment for Women of Colour in Public Services: The Burden of One presents a powerful, multi-voiced, faith-filled narrative that reclaims space and presence.The personal journeys reveal the invisible labour, silent tears, self-efficacy, and relentless determi...

Introducing "Pensacola Days":In 1969, four recent college graduates who all dream of becoming Naval Aviators meet in Pensacola, Florida. Completing Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS), sixteen weeks of intense Marine Corps training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, is the first step in achieving their dream. They quickly realize that the Marine Corps Drill Instructor training in AOCS was far more rigorous than they ever imagined. In fact, during the first ten days of trainin...

Diane, owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cosy coffee shop turned library in Paris, seems to have the perfect life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, her life is overturned and the world as she knows it disappears. Trapped by her memories, Diane closes her shop and retreats from friends and family.One year later, she moves from Paris to a small town on the Irish coast, determined to heal by rebuilding her life alone, without anyone'...

Jewels from the Word & Manna for the Soul is full of the gems of God's Word and His promises to pray over your circumstances.(Proverbs 18:21) "The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit."Give life to your words! Meditate on God's Word & speak it! Do you want joy or depression? Your words do have life.(John 6:63) "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. ...

A story of hope and inspiration that becomes torn in the hands of the cold and greedy, and of betrayal by the powerful over lesser ones.Set in what was then contemporary Russia at the turn of the century, in a large port town on the Black Sea, The Prodigal Child is a story of a boy with a gift for composing poetry and songs—his inspiration drawn from within—who attracts the attention of a Princess. This wealthy and sophisticated woman rescues Baruch from his hard l...