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The Heart Junction Series 100 Year Special Edition includes three full-length novels, Laura's Lost Love, Stephanie's Surprise and Mari's Miracle. Special historical information about the time period in which these books are set, 1912, 1913, 1914 is also included. Laura's Lost Love: 1912. Laura...

En lien avec le thème «  Résister au plus fort  » du nouveau programme de français en 6e, la célèbre comédie de Molière dans une édition «  Spécial théâtre  : avec des ateliers théâtre, des photos de mise en scène et des extraits vidéo.   La pièce Sur un canevas simple de farce,...

Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The Philosophy of Living, François Jullien meditates on Far Eastern thought and philosophy to analyze...

Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred • Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death • Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship...

Hannah Jordan's life is shattered when she walks in on the double homicide of her parents. Forced to leave her home, Hannah desperately seeks a way to escape her pain. When she meets the seemingly perfect Josh, she believes she has finally found her safe haven. Or has she? As Hannah's mind...

It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A woman who is firmly strapped into a giant pair of GRANNY PANTIES.Yes, aging is inevitable, but looking, and acting, like your grandma is not. So join Mary...

François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work...

Lorsque Georges Bernanos commence à rédiger les articles qui formeront Le Chemin de la Croix-des-Âmes, il est au Brésil. Quelques mois avant l'appel du 18 juin 1940, dans Les Enfants humiliés, il prophétisait : « Mon pays est soigneusement tenu dans l'ignorance de ce qu'il défend, de ce qu'il...

According to Wikipedia: "François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac (September 15, 1613 March 17, 1680), was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. He was born in Paris in the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when...

PENELOPE, by Jean-François Marmontel, tells the story of Ulysses' return to Ithaca after his long journey home from Troy, and how he takes revenge on the boorish suitors of his wife, Penelope, who have browbeaten her for years. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.

Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be approached...

'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by D�terville,...

En plein cœur de la Camargue, une jeune femme se démène pour sauver de la ruine la bastide familiale. Eminemment courtisée, elle devra également questionner son cœur pour faire le bon choix amoureux. À la mort de François Valence, sa petite-fille Jordane a repris en main la destinée...

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures,...