A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux

Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years.   In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern...

The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

A guidebook to making life meaningful by cultivating compassion, embracing adversity, and training the mind-from one of the foremost living Buddhist nuns.Freeing ourselves from our habitual emotional patterns starts with taming the mind. Why is this so important? Because a wild mind tends to hurt rather...