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"Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." — The Washington Post.

Once considered a feat for superhuman athletes, the marathon is now within every mortal's grasp.

Un nouveau regard sur Le Pen : le sien. « Mes grands-parents ne savaient pas lire mais surent donner une vie décente à leurs enfants.

African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife.

À sa parution en 1989, cinq ans après la mort de Foucault, cette biographie fut internationalement saluée comme un événement.

Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller; her beautiful, funny stories about growing up a lesbian butch in the Canadian North attract audiences both gay and straight.

Alcoholism has become something common that you probably know a person or two who are struggling with alcoholism.

Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal, offered readers a startling, first-hand look at his own addictions to drugs and alcohol, prompting People ma

Il existe dans chaque famille des histoires qui laissent des traces pour des générations. Des micromythes qui ne sortent pas de la microcellule familiale. Qu’on entretient un peu comme...

Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks

Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe—it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, C

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina.

A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers" and Publishers Weekly says is "a pra

An in-depth exploration of how a transportation company created a vision for a burgeoning nation and played a leading role in driving immigration to the Canadian West.

A stolen sign, "No Jews Live Here," kept John Lorinc's Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.