Results for "Schwartz, Ros"

French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin ClassicOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been des... Read More about The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being

Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their liv... Read More about I Who Have Never Known Men

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREFor fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of interviews, writing by critics and journalists, with diary excerpts and unpublished texts by Ernaux herself, also includes visual material like drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings.... Read More about Writing, the Other Life: Annie Ernaux and others

Laura Nsafou and Amélie-Anne Calmo’s picture book Fadya and the Song of the River is a vibrantly colorful illustrated tale celebrating creativity and serving your community.   Between the deserts of Mali and the rivers of Mauritania is a song known only to Africa itself. It is a song that can b... Read More about Fadya and the Song of the River: A Picture Book

A powerful debut novel from a talented young Senegalese author.... Read More about The Belly of the Atlantic

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le CarréMaigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A... Read More about Maigret Is Afraid (Inspector Maigret #42)