FICTION This magnificent saga is tinged with Robin Hobb- and Dickens-like signatures. Stricken by fate, Syffe is an orphan in a pre-medieval world. The Primates of Brune are plunged into chaos after the death of their king and the political outbreak that ensued. Syffe is a street urchin of unknown origins, he finds himself involved […]
THRILLER | SUSPENSE Rome, a lazy city swept by the summer heat is the setting of a series of silent and claustrophobic crimes. Murders cast a black light on the city, even law enforcement is filled with concern. Called to investigate, Commissioner Enrico Mancini feels strongly motivated for the first time in far too many […]
FICTION When he dives into the water, Marco feels free. It’s only then that he manages to forget the years he’s spent between one foster family and another, thinking of his parents, about whom he knows nothing, apart from the birthmark shaped like a starfish that he’s probably inherited from them. But now Marco is […]
FICTION Milan, 1944. It’s dawn. At last the sky is silent and unencumbered but the bombing has reduced the city to a heap of rubble. Gemma must go. She has to protect her son, Alberto. Uncle Giacinto lives in the country. There, she and Alberto will be safe, far from the Germans, far from the […]
PSYCHOLOGY | SPIRITUALITY Can Zen Buddhism help you prevent and/or overcome depression, an illness that afflicts 320 million people worldwide? This book by Claudia Dias Baptista de Souza, Monk Coen, says yes and shows you how. With over 300,000 subscribers on Youtube, renowned Brazilian Buddhist monk Coen reveals how Buddhism views depression. She teaches its […]
LITERARY THRILLER Emerald Women is an extraordinary narrative that combines action, love, mystery, and politics, being also a road-novel all over Brazil. Told in superb language, it is also a great “romantic literary thriller” (in the words of Domingos Pellegrini himself), from an accomplished and much-awarded author. As a reporter for Playboy, Pellegrini covered the “Gold Fever” in the Amazon Forest during the 1980’s […]
PERSONAL ACCOUNT The fresh and touching account, full of humour, of a young girl who discovered at the age of fifteen that she should have been born a boy. How to construct a life as a woman after this discovery? Could you forgive your parents for hiding the truth? When she was fifteen, Elodie was […]
PERSONAL ACCOUNT | SPIRITUALITY | HUMOR An incredible testimony! Olivier Emphoux is an embalmer by calling. Conscientious, attentive, he respectfully prepares the dead for their last journey. His uncommon job leads him to take care of more than 10,000 deceased all around the world. Today, he talks about all the incredible things he saw, felt, […]
PHILOSOPHY | HEALTH Philosophy: The beginning of happiness! “There is nothing merrier, livelier, or more cheerful than philosophy.” — Montaigne The “philosophical anti-stress” collection welcomes Montaigne. In this book, discover 99 explained quotes you can read as efficient philosophical pills to calm yourself. The way philosophy can improve our everyday life. Other books in the collection: […]
PHILOSOPHY | HUMOR In the head of… The man of the couch Ego, superconscious, sex drive, Oedipus complex, repression, unconscious… what does Freud mean? Jean-Jacques Ritz and Damien Aupetit give you the answer and lead you further away! These psych authors know history’s most famous psychoanalyst like the back of their hands and use it […]