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Self-help: to millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke.

From the oppressed shores of India to a racially charged Fiji, her mother's death at her birth, early adoption, marital abuse, military takeover, and move to Australia, Shirley had already ove

Merzlakov, once a robust stable-hand, now fights hunger, pain and exhaustion after a year and a half at a labour camp.

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic *Is There No Place on Earth

In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, howeve

Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance.

Simone de Beauvoir a marqué le XXe siècle, et singulièrement les femmes, par les livres qu'elle a écrits.

The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories. In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag.

In this haunting suite of three fictions, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the twentieth century.

"Midnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of a group of strangers and family gathered together to partake in this ancient aboriginal ceremony.

From "The Robot Baby," in which we discover what happens when a robot feels emotion for the very first time, to "Heaven," about a grandfather who died for a few minutes when he

Samuel Archibald’s stories come from over there: way, way over there.  They live in the woods, hunting for creatures that may or may not exist, and they sometimes go surging down the highway a

Blaise croyait qu'il avait laissé derrière lui la misère de son enfance. Que, malgré les stigmates de son passé, il deviendrait un artiste accompli.