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      • Les particuliers de Tanger
        Fiction

        Les particuliers de Tanger

        by Santiago de Luca

        Il existe différents mythes sur la fondation de Tanger. L’auteur de ce libre vient les briser et le réinventer, se risquant une nouvelle légende qui découvre que, à diverses époques de notre passé, pas toujours très inclusives, ceux qu’on appelle ici ‘particuliers’ ont été mis dans un bateau et relâchés vers leur sort dans les eaux de la mer. Il n’est pas difficile d’imaginer qu’un de ces bateaux qui transportaient tant de singularités ait fait naufrage et ait réussi à rejoindre Tanger, établissant ainsi une lignée et une sorte d’attraction magnétique de la Ville Blanche pour tous ceux qui vivent en dehors des tendances les plus courants.    De la rigueur du style qui ne manque pas d’ironie, Santiago De Luca, sans rechercher la vérité absolue mais plutôt la partie la plus profonde de l’être humain, a créé son propre genre, où chaque histoire racontée est un personnage et le décor dans lequel une singularité se déroule. Avec toute la complicité qu’il éprouve pour les ‘particuliers’, puisqu’il se sent comme l’un d’entre eux, il invite le lecteur à se plonger dans cette mer de personnages: le paresseux, le faux espión, le proche, le porteur de gilet…, sachant qu’ils seront eux.mêmes les personnages, ceux qui placeront finalment le lecteur devant un miroir. Santiago De Luca (Santa Fe, Argentine) est le directeur de la publication littéraire SureS et le responsable de l’espace argentino-maghrébin Jorge Luis Borges, chargé des représentations diplomatiques de la région. Docteur en philologie de l’Université Complutense de Madrid, il a enseigné la littérature dans des universités du Moyen-Orient, d’Afrique, d’Europe et d’Amérique latine. Au cours de sa carrière d’écrivain, il a publié des romans, des essais, des nouvelles et de la poésie.

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      • The Snows of Yesteryear
        Fiction

        The Snows of Yesteryear

        by Roger Butters

        Book 3 in a series of novels set during the Napoleonic Wars, dealing with the adventure of Anglo-Prussian gentleman-spy Richard Karelius. Approximate length 60,000 words. Autumn, 1806. A year after the defeat of the Austrian and Russian armies at Austerlitz, it is now the Kingdom of Prussia which stands in the way of Napoleonic ambition. Meanwhile Richard Karelius, gentleman spy, is requested by the Prussian Queen to investigate the disappearance of a young officer on the eve of the war. The campaign begins badly for the Prussians, as their greatest general, the dashing Prince Louis Ferdinand, is killed in the very first skirmish. Worse still, it becomes apparent that he died not by the fortune of war, but by betrayal. As Prussia collapses under the Napoleonic onslaught at Jena, investigation reveals the traitor to have been one of the Queen’s four ladies in waiting. Matters are complicated by the fact that one of them seems hopelessly in love with Karelius, whilst another is the mistress of his friend and colleague. Meanwhile Jacques Thiercelin, a spycatcher of the Grand Army, commences enquiry into events following the shooting of a bookseller for publishing anti-Napoleonic literature. Once more destiny brings him into contact with Karelius. These two men, both admirable, cast on opposite sides by fate, close in on the truth, and bring events to a gripping climax amidst the snows of East Prussia.

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      • Democracy's Defenders
        Politics & government
        April 2020

        Democracy's Defenders

        U.S. Embassy Prague, the Fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, and Its Aftermath

        by Edited by Norman L. Eisen

        A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States aided the Velvet Revolution Democracy’s Defenders offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the U.S. embassy in Prague in the collapse of communism in what was then Czechoslovakia. Featuring fifty-two newly declassified diplomatic cables, the book shows how the staff of the embassy led by U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black worked with dissident groups and negotiated with the communist government during a key period of the Velvet Revolution that freed Czechoslovakia from Soviet rule. In the vivid reporting of these cables, Black and other members of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Prague describe student demonstrations and their meetings with anti-government activists. The embassy also worked to forestall a violent crackdown by the communist regime during its final months in power. Edited by Norman L. Eisen, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014, Democracy’s Defenders contributes fresh evidence to the literature on U.S. diplomatic history, the cold war era, and American promotion of democracy overseas. In an introductory essay, Eisen places the diplomatic cables in context and analyzes their main themes. In an afterword, Eisen, Czech historian Dr. Mikuláš Pešta, and Brookings researcher Kelsey Landau explain how the seeds of democracy that the United States helped plant have grown in the decades since the Velvet Revolution. The authors trace a line from U.S. efforts to promote democracy and economic liberalization after the Velvet Revolution to the contemporary situations of what are now the separate nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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      • SIX POPES
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2021

        SIX POPES

        A Son of the Church Remembers

        by Monsignor Hilary C. Franco

        SIX POPES: A Son of the Church Remembers is Monsignor Hilary C. Franco’s engaging memoir and a story only a son can tell, a son not only of the Catholic Church, but also of Italian immigrants.From Belmont, his Bronx neighborhood, Franco rose to work with the highest and most influential figures of the Roman Catholic Church.As a young man he attended Rome’s premier seminary, soon after becoming the special assistant to Archbishop Fulton Sheen. As a priest he would travel the world, and he recounts a harrowing experience in the Deep South in the early 1960s, his work at the Vatican Councils that redefined the Church, and his time posted at the Church’s diplomatic missions in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations. This most formidable churchman reveals his tales of intellectual, pastoral, and diplomatic service to the Catholic Church, enlivened by recollections of the fascinating people he came to know from U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state, to religious leaders like Padre Pio and Saint Mother Teresa.The title of his current role, Advisor at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, gives little hint of the drama of the times he recollects.Stories of this book’s six pontiffs that Franco served under — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis — offer landmarks along Franco’s trek through the corridors of spiritual power in New York, Washington, D.C., and Rome.SIX POPES: A Son of the Church Remembersis written from a unique eyewitness vantage on many of the events and movements that shaped our world and the Catholic Church. There is really no other book like it.“Monsignor Franco is known as an engaging storyteller of his impactful time in the Church. Read this book and you will see why.” — Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archdiocese of New York

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      • The Estate of Georgette Heyer
        Fiction

        The Estate of Georgette Heyer

        Regency Romances & Classic Crime

        by Georgette Heyer

        The Queen of Regency Romance as well as the author of a series of classic detective novels, Georgette Heyer is a worldwide bestseller having sold many millions of copies since her first novel was published in 1921. She continues to be a bestseller today, over 40 years after her death.

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      • A SHIFT IN CAPITALISM
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2020

        A SHIFT IN CAPITALISM

        NEW SOCIAL ARCHITECTURES

        by Ladislau Dowbor

        In this book, Ladislau Dowbor analyzes a set of changes in capitalism that suggests we are in transition to another system of production, leaving behind the so-called industrial era and developing something new, which the author calls the Age of Knowledge. However, new does not necessarily mean better: we may be living in a more connected and collaborative society,  but old problems – such as environmental, social and economic ones – that are getting worse every day, in addition to individualized control over populations, through algorithms and artificial intelligence, weigh on the future of humanity. It is up to us to foresee the directions that this brave – or horrid – new world will take.

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      • Book of the Hunt
        The Arts

        Book of the Hunt

        by Gaston Phoebus

        Written between 1387 and 1389 by Gastone of Foix, the Book of the Hunt is one of the most interesting testimonies of the cultural history of this time. The four parts of the manuscript show the naturalistic knowledge at the end of the 14thcentury, based on the direct observation of the natural world. It was used as a manual of natural history up until the 19th century. The text is complemented by 87 miniatures in large format, executed by the Master of the Bedford Hours, as well as by a great number of illuminated initial letters and floral decorations that make the pages of the manuscript one of the masterworks of French miniature. The style of the miniatures is very particular, related to those of contemporary tapestries: the horizon of the scene is kept high, thus creating an ample space for the characters; the flora is described with a singular effect of relief, obtained by juxtaposing different tonalities of colour.

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