Saving SoullSynopsisIn the spirit of a tragic fairy tale, Saving Soull is written in surreal, story book fashion. The characters are representations of a social services system that has become mechanical in its responses and medieval in its view of the human experience. Ego, surface efficiency, and power are the primary aspects of this pseudo world and Jimmy Soull is the victim of its insane disconnect from what is naturalJimmy Soull's passage through...

Oceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament-of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images, and documents...

An inspirational novel of the real-life engineer whose ambitious project to build an electrical grid in Catalonia changed Barcelona forever.   Xavier Moret illuminates the story of the American engineer Frederick Stark Pearson, an entrepreneur with a global vision, whose innovative business ventures brought electricity to Catalonia. From his arrival in Barcelona in June 1911, Dr. Pearson played a key role in the industrialization of the city, building...

The conclusion to Buck's celebrated Good Earth trilogy: the story of a man's return to a homeland embroiled in revolution. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to study agriculture. When he returns to China six years later, he encounters a nation still...

Partir seule avec un sac à dos, se laisser guider par le destin et chercher à découvrir ce que la vie réserve de plus beau, cette expérience, l'auteure de cet ouvrage l'a vécue et vous la raconte. Pendant son voyage à travers divers pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, elle était motivée par une seule idée : rencontrer des personnes, explorer la terre et comprendre pourquoi ce continent l'attirait tant depuis toujours. Dans ce qui s'apparente à un...

Peacocks of Instagram is a fresh and intimate debut collection of short stories filled with the dilemmas, heartbreaks, and joys of diasporic Indians. Peacocks of Instagram is a fresh and intimate debut collection of short stories filled with the dilemmas, heartbreaks, and joys of diasporic Indians. In these brilliant and witty stories, Deepa Rajagopalan centres a cast of Indian women who are flawed, enterprising, and filled with desire. In the...

Ce livre porte sur un personnage de fiction qui parcourt l'histoire humaine pour trouver des gens en temps de paix. C'est un livre double, qui enseigne également les salutations des enfants dans plus de neuf langues du monde entier.

Will a vow of vengeance harden his heart to love… Abducted and imprisoned in an army stockade by an obsessed army officer, Sophia Deveraux needs protection if she hopes to make the long, dangerous journey into Indian Territory. When an injured native is captured, her hopes for survival are renewed. With his assistance, she believes she will finally be free of the evil man pursuing her. Choctaw lighthorseman Clay Jefferson is not innocent to the...

Anatomie d'une dictature militaire, "Dans les limbes des nuits guigoziennes" explore les tourments du peuple comorien sous la tyrannie. Offrant un voyage interne à travers les angoisses de la narratrice, ce roman oscille entre désir de révolte, parfums cathartiques et rêve de liberté. Découvrez le mois de Ramadan dans un contexte oppressant, enveloppé par l'amour salvateur de la fratrie. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Auteur polyvalent et ancien...

Au début des années 1630, Venise subit une épidémie de peste qui dura seize mois. La narratrice l'apprend en lisant un livre rapporté d'un séjour dans la Sérénissime en février 2020. Le carnaval a été interrompu par l'annonce d'une possible pandémie. Elle et ses enfants, placés en quarantaine à leur retour, habitent une autre lagune, en France ; ils espèrent reprendre rapidement une existence normale. Le temps semble toutefois retourner...