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The Book of Mating
by Laksmi Pamuntjak
The Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2020 Kitab Kawin (The Book of Mating) offers a more versatile interpretation on women in relationships. It depicts a cruel and tender world not only where desire, longing, and modern perversity go side by side, but also where the realities of women’s lives often include the violence visited upon their bodies. In the twelve stories that make up this collection, we meet women as diverse in experience as they are in age and occupation: former child brides living together in a Korean restaurant-cum-presumed brothel; a pair of middle-aged artists bickering at the funeral of their famous former lover; and a ghost telling the story of her own grisly murder. The women in these stories are brave and fulnerable, malleable and intractable, raw and calculated, healthy and hurt. They yearn, trust, desire and love. They fear, waver, doubt, and hate. They fight, defy, fail and triumph. Though the stories’ contemplation is bound up in sex, power, pleasure, pain, guilt, and often debilitating sense of duty, the true events of Kitab Kawin are the unending quest for selfknowledge: what holds the solitary self together and what blows it apart, what makes a woman and what undoes her, how to make peace with one’s past and present selves.
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January 1994Listen to your body, part 2
by Lise Bourbeau
Listen to your body - Part 2 is the long-awaited sequel to bestseller Listen to your body, your best friend on Earth (commonly referred to as that famous “little pink book” by her hundreds of thousands of readers) that reached heights of popularity in Quebec unequaled to this day.Part 2 is the result of the author’s continuing research in the field of personal growth. In it, she shares new insights and guides the reader through the step-by-step application of valuable growth principles designed to lay the foundation on which to build a satisfying and successful life.The book is comprised of twenty-one chapters, each closing with simple, practical exercises through which the reader is lead easily toward selfknowledge. Ms Bourbeau's fundamental premise is that understanding and knowledge are gained most effectively through personal experience.In identifying and differentiating between the three primary states of “Having”, “Doing”, and “Being”, the reader achieves a simple clarity that allows a greater personal vision to emerge. From this new perspective, greater horizons are seen.Once again, Lise Bourbeau, a prolific and beloved author, brings us a breath of fresh air in a user-friendly package.No human being has the power to make another person happy,because happiness comes from inside oneself.It is therefore impossible to be happy if we expect our happiness to be provided by someone or something outside ourselves...
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Mind, Body, SpiritNovember 2022The Scarce and the Essential
A Book of Hours
by John von Düffel
There is no right life in the wrong one. But there is a right direction. A search for self-knowledge in the story of one’s own life: a short poetology of life A modern book of hours about minimalism, mindfulness and clarity, a short account of the important questions in life How Do I Live a Good Life? New Year’s Day in the Ligurian back country. A room in a monastery. A landscape which is sparse and green at once. It is in these tranquil surroundings, on this day of beginnings and endings that the oldest question of all presents itself again: how do I live a good life? It begins with a chain of thought that runs through the hours of the day from before sunrise until after sunset, from the beginnings of the contemplation of life, into the present and beyond, forever conscious of the fact that a life will not simply be lived, it will also be read about. This book acts as a companion, and also an invitation to come along on the search for the right direction: it contemplates the human and the monastic, rules for life regarding what matters, and the classical imperative of beauty, of degree and of self-knowledge. In this guide, author and doctor of philosophy John von Düffel has not written a story for important days in the conventional sense; he has written a short chronicle about coming to a realisation about how a life should be relayed. Transparent and compact, his book of hours is a literary text that presents a philosophy of life. The answer to everything is in the societal and yet very personal question: what story am I living in? Which point in the story? And how do I proceed?
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Children's & YAApril 2023A LINE AND A DOT …AND A MIRACLE ON THE SPOT!
by EVANGELIA GKIONI
If you search the Fairytale Map, two ice creams up and onesomersault to the right, somewhere there next to Wonderland,you will discover a different Land. A Land that is truly admirable!The famous Land of the Wows! There where everything is flowingtruly wonderfully until… something weird happens! What dreamdid the hero of our story see? And what is it looking for? Doesanyone know how to answer it? Our hero’s quest will lead it to theWise Man’s House. But will it go in? And if it does go in, what willit find? These and many more things that are worthy of wonderare what you will read about in this book, which maybe shouldhave had the shape of… an exclamation mark!
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June 2021It is you who you are looking for
A journey to recognize who you are and who you could become
by Valerie Bertschin
Throughout 10 chapters, Valerie Bertschin guides us through the path of self-discovery using reflections and exercises to silence the noise of the outside world, close the cycles that prevent us from moving forward, reconnecting with ourselves and inhabiting with greater harmony the world. A book to regain inner peace and to focus positive energy.
