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Paul Glynn évoque le parcours de vie exemplaire d'un homme saint au pays du Soleil Levant. 11 heures du matin, le 9 août 1945 : de son bombardier B29, le major Chuck Sweeney largue une bombe A de 4 tonnes et demie – l’équivalent de 22 000 tonnes d’explosifs conventionnels – au-dessus de Nagasaki et c’est le récit de la destruction de 72 000 habitants d’une ville magnifique. Nagai perd sa femme et, bien qu’en phase terminale de la maladie des rayons X il construit une hutte au m...

Date de sortie: 2018-02-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 13,99 €

Une jeune fille athée hapée par la spirale salafiste. Charlotte a 12 ans lorsque son attrait pour la religion musulmane se manifeste. À mi-chemin entre l’outil de séduction pour reconquérir le cœur d’un garçon aimé et la recherche identitaire de l’adolescence, elle va entamer une quête éperdue qui va la conduire sur le chemin de la radicalisation. Issue d’une famille athée, elle applique les préceptes appris. Dans sa démarche solitaire et dans le plus grand secret, elle trou...

Date de sortie: 2018-04-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

Le 13 février 1936, la voiture de Léon Blum est attaquée par des nationalistes d’extrême droite à sa sortie de la Chambre des députés. « À mort Blum ! » hurle la foule. Il est roué de coups et n’évite le lynchage que grâce à l’intervention de la police et de passants qui ont accouru. Trois mois plus tard, la France se donne, en toute connaissance de cause, un président du Conseil juif et socialiste. On est là au cœur de la grandeur et du mystère français. À celui-ci s...

Date de sortie: 2021-01-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedicat...

Date de sortie: 2012-02-07 10,99 €

Un hommage à la force indestructible de l'esprit humain Dans ces mémoires récompensées par la médaille d'or du Prix des lecteurs 2019, Nanette Blitz Konig raconte l'incroyable histoire de sa survie durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle retrace l'itinéraire de sa déportation - celle de sa famille, mais aussi de millions d'autres juifs - et du sort funeste que leur réservaient les nazis. Nanette est née en 1929, et était une camarade d'Anne Frank au lycée juif d'Amsterdam. C'est dans ...

Date de sortie: 2021-06-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,99 €

J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time. Discovered by the Theosophist as a boy in India, he was groomed by them as the new Messiah, a role he rejected when he set out independently on his own spiritual quest. Travelling the world, lecturing and teaching, he acquired an enormous following, including many eminent statesmen and intellectuals. As one of Krishnamurti’s closest friends and devotees, Mary Lutyens is uniquely qualified to write his biogr...

Date de sortie: 2012-05-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 12,99 €

Une personnalité aux aspects extrêmement divers. Laissons s’exprimer l’auteur lui-même : « Docteur « en l’un et l’autre droit », prêtre et évêque d’un diocèse déchiré par le schisme de Calvin et ravagé par les « gens de Genève », de Savoie ou de France, diplomate, pasteur, directeur d’âmes, écrivain spirituel… comment cerner en une courte biographie une personnalité aux aspects si divers ? D’autant que François de Sales a vécu à une époque-charnière : entr...

Date de sortie: 2018-06-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century … I don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to ...

Date de sortie: 2020-03-05 6,99 €

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times __________________________________________________ Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupat...

Date de sortie: 2018-08-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection and was killed instantly by a speeding automobile. He left behind a grieving sister. For weeks she struggled with grief and tried to make sense of Billy's seemingly wasted life and tragic death. A few weeks after his death, William Cohen, aka Billy Fingers, woke his sister Annie at dawn. 'I'm drifting weightlessly through these glorious stars and gal...

Date de sortie: 2014-08-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

Une véritable enquête, enrichie de témoignages de l'époque, pour découvrir un homme au destin exceptionnel. En écrivant en 1921 cette biographie de Charles de Foucauld, assassiné le 1er décembre 1916, René Bazin révélait au grand public une figure encore assez peu connue, même si certains milieux vantaient déjà sa science et une foi chrétienne missionnaire qui en faisaient un pionnier. De son vivant, Charles de Foucauld avait lui-même émis l’idée de confier à René Bazin le ...

Date de sortie: 2018-02-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 13,99 €

'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancie...

Date de sortie: 2010-09-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenm...

Date de sortie: 2008-08-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

The Times Biography of the Year Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2019 Friedrich Nietzsche's work blasted the foundation of western thinking. The death of God, the Übermensch, and the slave morality permeate our culture, high and low, and yet he is one of history's most misunderstood philosophers. Nietzsche himself thought that all philosophy was autobiograph...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

How to bring more love into your life by the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of Stairways to Heaven and A Message of Hope from the Angels. Lorna Byrne has become a bestselling author around the world because she sees angels as clearly as the rest of us see human beings. Now she reveals that she also sees love as a physical force. What Lorna has seen has led her to develop a 7 day path to help us all change our lives. She says: ' The more we love ourselves the more we can love others. ...

Date de sortie: 2014-04-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,49 €

Jean-Pierre Lévy raconte Israël, ce pays qu’il a rencontré en 1962 et avec lequel il entretient des liens profonds. Son ouvrage s’adresse en particulier aux plus jeunes, eux qui ignorent quelquefois ce que fut la Shoah et connaissent peu, ou mal, l’État hébreu. Dans une relation tout à la fois historique et pédagogique, l’auteur leur présente les grandes réalisations israéliennes. Homme de dialogue, il propose également de tendre ce livre, tel un message de paix, aux négation...

Date de sortie: 2022-01-18 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

« La blessure m'a toujours hanté comme une injustice. Pourquoi moi ? Une des conséquences fut que je vivais surtout en référence aux autres, n'ayant pas conscience de qui j'étais, ni de mes désirs. » L'auteur, en s'appuyant à la fois sur son expérience et sur sa formation intellectuelle, décrit de façon totalement inédite le mécanisme de la blessure intérieure qui entraîne un désamour de soi et la mise en place de béquilles affectives. Alors comment mettre fin à cet engrenage ...

Date de sortie: 2020-04-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold. Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austri...

Date de sortie: 2011-03-22 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn’t locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin’s Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. ‘Bracing and witty . . . Never, frankly, can there have been a more blasphemous book . . . Foreskin’s Lament somehow expresses the ideas of Rich...

Date de sortie: 2010-11-30 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,49 €

Cet ouvrage propose au lecteur de parcourir les écrits de Charles de Foucauld à travers quinze thèmes fondamentaux. À l’occasion du centenaire de sa mort, cet ouvrage présente Charles de Foucauld par un choix de textes ordonné de manière thématique : Beauté, Joie, Miséricorde, Humilité, Nazareth, Prière, Désert, Travail... Découvrir la vie, les questionnements, les souffrances, les rencontres de ce frère universel, par des textes choisis parmi ses écrits spirituels et sa corres...

Date de sortie: 2018-02-14 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom. ‘Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming’ – Daily Express Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of...

Date de sortie: 2020-11-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby f...

Date de sortie: 2019-11-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

Ce livre retrace la vie mouvementée de Nichiren, moine bouddhiste japonais du XIIIe siècle. Né à une époque-charnière d’un Japon traversé par des crises politiques et religieuses, Nichiren s’est révélé le plus grand réformateur bouddhiste de son époque. Cherchant à assurer le bonheur du peuple accablé par les calamités (pestes, famines, inondations, invasions…) et déchiré par les dissensions politiques et l’incapacité des religieux, son enseignement révolutionnaire non...

Date de sortie: 2017-12-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

New York Times bestseller One of PW’s Best Books of the Year One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions. These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels when dealing with unimaginable...

Date de sortie: 2018-11-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Mémoires de Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), ou Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon couvrant les années 1691-1723 et comportant, notamment, la chronique des années 1701 à 1723, c’est-à-dire la fin du règne de Louis XIV et les débuts de la Régence , ne parurent que fort tard : projetés en 1694, écrits dans les années 1739-1749, ils furent saisis – parmi un très grand nombre de manuscrits – sur or...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Confessions , ouvrage de saint Augustin (354-430) le plus célèbre avec La Cité de Dieu , furent rédigées de 397 à 401. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Confessions de saint Augustin Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l’auteur de l’œuvre. A propos de...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,99 €

“One of the greatest religious biographies ever written.” – Dennis Prager In this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch, into one of the most dynamic and widespread organizations ever seen in the Jewish world. At once an incisive work of history and a compendium of Rabbi Schneerson's teachings, Rebbe is the ...

Date de sortie: 2016-06-14 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 19,99 €

From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. 'Lively, effortlessly readable, superb. A beautifully layered portrait of one of the most complex characters in English history' The Times ____________________ This is the man, not the legend . . . Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, ...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Commemorative edition Hailed as "the world's preacher," Billy Graham enjoyed a career that spanned six decades and his ministry of faith touched the hearts and souls of millions. In Just As I Am, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls "a disarmingly honest autobiography." With down-to-earth warmth and candor, Graham tells the stories of the events and encounters that helped shape his life. He recounts meetings with pres...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-11 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - The Daily Telegraph 'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.' From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made an incalculable contribution not just to the religious life of the Jewish community but to the national conversation - and increasingly to the global community - on issues of ethics and morality. Commemorating the first an...

Date de sortie: 2021-10-11 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 2,99 €

The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series) — now updated with more than 50 percent new material—the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sect in Williamsburg in order to forge her own path in the world. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to fin...

Date de sortie: 2021-08-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Te...

Date de sortie: 2020-02-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

L'HOMOSEXUALITÉ :« UNE APPÉTENCE PERVERSE ET SATANIQUE ! » Frédéric n'a que huit ans quand les Témoins de Jéhovah commencent à lui inculquer cette idéologie homophobe. Il grandit alors avec la conviction que les homosexuels sont promis à la destruction divine. Mais quand l'adolescence lui fait prendre conscience de sa propre différence, son sentiment de culpabilité se transforme en une longue et sourde dépression. Dans le secret et à l'abri des regards inquisiteurs...

Date de sortie: 2018-05-22 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

Le portrait d'une femme fascinante, source inépuisable d'inspiration. Ce livre est le fruit de la recherche opiniâtre de deux hommes passionnés. Mettant en contact avec les écrits et avec de nombreux témoignages, il renouvelle en profondeur la connaissance que l’on avait de Madeleine Delbrêl. Son itinéraire, de l’athéisme à l’éblouissement de la foi et à l’engagement, se dessine avec netteté au fil d’un récit qui parcourt ses soixante années de vie, dont plus de la moiti...

Date de sortie: 2018-02-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 13,99 €

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis « On m’a donné l’ordre d’écrire ma manière d’oraison et les grâces dont le Seigneur m’a favorisée, en me laissant pour cela toute latitude. » C’est par ces mots que commence le Livre de la vie , que Thérèse d’Ávila (1515-1582) appelait aussi Le Livre des Miséricordes du Seigneur . Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Livre de la vie de sainte Thérèse d'Avil...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions, and none. Her selfless commitment to the care of the sick and the dying, as well as to thousands of others who no one else was prepared to help, has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world. Yet this impressive collection of her writings shows a different and unexpected picture of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her absolute conviction that she was doing God's wi...

Date de sortie: 2012-07-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years' War. In his masterful biography, Hu...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

TRAVELLING WITH POMEGRANATES is a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages. From Sue Monk Kidd, the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS, and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turning point in her life. What emerged was a quest for Ann and Sue to redefine themselves and also redi...

Date de sortie: 2011-05-12 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at l...

Date de sortie: 2007-01-23 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically de...

Date de sortie: 2010-12-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,99 €

In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s “compelling” ( The Economist) and “fascinating” ( The Wall Street Journal ) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending his country and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel’s independen...

Date de sortie: 2022-10-18 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 16,99 €

A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor "Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent—and brilliant—tour of Holocaust tourism . . . Stahl knows his Holocaust history . . . but he was also prepared to be surprised . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide."  — Kirkus Reviews,  a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 "Stahl e...

Date de sortie: 2022-07-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 13,99 €

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III. 'Unforgettable' – Daily Mail When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself makin...

Date de sortie: 2021-09-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 4,99 €

Un détenu. Que je quitte les larmes aux yeux. Un dur à cuire pourtant. Un gros nounours. Deux vieillards assassinés : « Je n’y crois pas ! Je n’y crois pas ! Il faut que j’aille en taule pour découvrir ce qu’est l’amour ! » Munis de bienveillance et d’ouverture d’esprit comme de cœur, les visiteurs de prison sont des « passe-muraille » qui apportent un peu d’air de « l’extérieur » et qui repartent avec un extraordinaire capital de vie. Rencontres improbables, confid...

Date de sortie: 2019-11-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

Henri Tort-Nougués philosophe et franc-maçon est l’exemple d’une vie au service de l’intelligence, de la fraternité, de la philosophie. Il reste un exemple hors du commun d’une manière de vivre digne des plus sages mais aussi des plus passionnés. Cet ouvrage mariant images de son enfance, émissions de radio, textes de conférences et témoignages vidéo nous permet de partager la vie d’un homme hors du commun.

Date de sortie: 2019-06-27 4,99 €

National Jewish Book Award Finalist The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War ll. Hollywood was created by its “others”; that is, by women, Jews, and immigrants. Salka Viertel was all three and so much more. She was the screenwriter for five of Greta Garbo's movies and also her most intimate friend. At one point during the Irving Thalberg years, Vier...

Date de sortie: 2020-01-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €

A New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would b...

Date de sortie: 2019-09-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

Chicago Tribune Notable Book of 2019 A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family’s painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. “The Survivors is an astonishingly beautiful and profoundly moving book.  Frankel’s haunting search to unravel the mysteries of his family is so compelling that it reads like a fine novel.”...

Date de sortie: 2019-10-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist "[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man . . . this is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of power." — The Economist As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his count...

Date de sortie: 2019-09-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

Les aventures incroyables de deux pélerins chinois. Le récit détaillé des voyages que firent, au VIIe siècle, les moines chinois vers l'Inde, à la recherche des textes bouddhiques. Parmi ces pèlerinages riches en péripéties, celui de Hiuan-tsang est le plus renommé car il inspira l'un des plus célèbres romans de la littérature chinoise, La pérégrination vers l'Ouest . Suivez pas à pas les péripéties de pélerins chinois qui, animés par leur foi, se dirigent vers l'Inde afin d'...

Date de sortie: 2018-09-13 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 14,99 €