In an age when spiritual life was considered the exclusive domain of monks, nuns, and those who had withdrawn entirely from the world, one remarkable French bishop dared to ask a radical question: what if holiness was not reserved for the cloister, but was instead the birthright of every human soul? Written in 1609 by Saint Francis de Sales, this extraordinary work shattered centuries of assumption and spoke directly to merchants, mothers, soldiers, and servants, insisting that a life of g...

What if nothing in life happens by chance?Evros is a philosophical journey through history, war, love, power, freedom, fate, and the deepest contradictions of human nature.Moving across different eras and places, the book explores how seemingly insignificant events can change the course of a life—and perhaps even the course of history.Love becomes a force of creation and destruction. War reveals the darkest sides of humanity. Freedom confronts power. And be...

Lena Cruz was supposed to spend five minutes pretending to be someone else.Instead, she is kidnapped as the wrong bride and dragged into Chicago’s most dangerous criminal world.Roman Sokolov is ruthless, commanding, and accustomed to getting exactly what he wants. Misha Morozov trusts security more than people and hides more than he says. Dante Riva can charm his way through almost anything—except the woman who refuses to play by their rules.

This philosophical and literary novel is a profound journey through time, human consciousness, love, suffering, war, faith, freedom, and the mysterious order of the Universe. Moving between different historical periods and radically different human lives, the book brings together revolutionaries, soldiers, thinkers, artists, lovers, believers, and outsiders whose destinies become parts of a much larger philosophical panorama.From the bloody atmosphere of the French Revolution and t...

King Alfred's Old English rendering of St. Augustine's Soliloquies appears here in modern English, framed by Hargrove's scholarly preface and Alfred's own reflective introduction. From the opening, the work joins practical labor to spiritual aspiration: timber, cottages, and eternal homes become emblems of earthly effort directed toward divine rest and glory. At its heart is a searching dialogue in which Augustine, through Reason, wrestles with the soul, the existence of God, and the diffe...

The competition is cutthroat!In the world of high fashion, beauty is everything...until it becomes deadly.Someone is murdering New York's fashion elite.Each victim has one thing in common: celebrated designer Len St. Michel, whose long-shot comeback is about to put him back in the spotlight—or directly in a killer's crosshairs.Assigned to the case is tough-as-nails NYPD detective Mario Corso, a born-and-bred New Yorker with ...

What shapes the course of history — power, chance, destiny, or the human will?Across centuries, empires rise and fall, revolutions erupt, wars redraw the world, and individual lives become caught within forces far greater than themselves. Yet behind every historical event lies a deeper question: what does it mean to remain human when confronted with power, violence, fear, freedom, and fate?This philosophical journey moves through thirty moments scattered across history — fr...

Failure will cost her more than love.It will cost her freedom.Avelina Wright swore she would never return to Terridon—the city ruled by the Ruthless Divine Order. Her home.But love has a way of making you break vows.Already reeling from the death of her closest friend, when a warlock binds her sorceress lover to a lethal bargain, Avelina accepts a mission to save her. To do so, she must steal a forbidden artifact locked deep...

Tortoises from The Carnival of the Animals is a charming character piece marked Andante maestoso. In a relaxed 4/4 meter it paints a vivid and gently humorous picture of these slow creatures.This simplified edition with fingerings makes the popular piece accessible to beginners and offers an ideal first encounter with Saint-Saëns’s playful musical language. Young pianists can develop a feel for phrasing, a singing touch and musical express...

Two children grow up together on the Île de France, in a valley with their mothers and no fathers, knowing nothing of money, rank or Europe — until Virginia is summoned to France by a rich aunt. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was an engineer and naturalist who spent three years on the island; his 1788 romance made half of Europe weep, put the tropics into French literature, and the shipwreck at the end became one of the most illustrated scenes of the century.

This collection brings together five beautiful slow classical pieces in accessible, simplified arrangements – perfect for anyone who wants to enjoy making music at a relaxed pace.Included are: Schumann’s A Chorale, Chopin’s famous Prelude No. 20, Handel’s Sarabande, Saint-Saëns’ humorous Tortoises, and the tender Berceuse by Dora Pejačević.With fingerings and pedal markings for a quick and uncomplicated start.A special feature: thoughtful “Sloth Tip...

Flight to Arras is a memoir recounting the author's role in the French Air Force as pilot of a reconnaissance plane during the Battle of France in 1940. The book condenses months of his flights into a single terrifying mission over the town of Arras. At the start of the war there were only fifty reconnaissance crews, of which twenty-three were in his unit. Within the first few days of the German invasion of France in May 1940, seventeen of the crews were sacrificed recklessly, he ...