"Troubled" is a brief memoir of a young 30-ish American who grew up in the most unfavourable of circumstances but went on to earn a BS in psychology at Yale University and a PhD at the University of Cambridge in England.
"Unfavourable" may be a euphemism. Henderson's mother was a Korean drug addict; he never knew his father, an Hispanic...
Three years have passed since Leo Deminov arrested a serial killer and received, as a reward, the assignment to head a new investigative squad in post-Stalinist Russia. However, his attempts to start a new life with his wife and adopted daughters seem doomed to fail: doubts and suspicions from the past are ever present. And if that were not...
While accompanying his wife Zoya, who is in the throes of death in a London hospital, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev reminisces about the life they have shared for sixty-five years, a life marked by a great secret that has never come to light. Memories flood in a succession of indelible images, starting from that distant day when Georgi left his...
In this short book the author points out that the situation which he terms “Christendom”, for all the apparent health of its Church institutions as well as other positive indicators such as a high level of Church attendance, contains within it the seeds of its own destruction. In a word it grows fat. Practice and devotion, though high, tends to...
An epistolary novel, published in 1930, it has fascinated critics and readers from the beginning. Its main character, the young Chinese girl Kwei-lan, shares her experiences with an anonymous friend through letters, focusing on her in the first half of the book and then on her brother and his relationship with his foreign wife.
The work...
If one were to ask what is the principle task of the post-conciliar Church of the twenty-first century, I suppose few would suggest it would be to go back and study the documents of Vatican II. I suppose many of those documents have been completely forgotten and are rarely dusted off. And yet this is precisely what George Weigel suggests. The...
Byung-Chul Han is arguably the most widely read philosopher today. The subtitle of this book is very significant: "Digitalization and the Crisis of Democracy". Digitalization advances inexorably. We are stunned by communication and information, we feel powerless in the face of the tsunami of data that deploys destructive and deforming forces....
In this book, by therapist and evangelical pastor Gary Chapman, you can find some keys to improve the relationship between spouses.
It goes beyond the purely material sphere (gifts, etc.). The book moves in the sphere of the sentimental and does not pretend to make great philosophical considerations on the subject; however, it gives some...
This is the author's first novel. The story is set in early 19th century England. Seventeen-year-old Marianne Daventry, a rebellious and independent woman for her time, is upset by the recent loss of her mother in an accident. Her father leaves her in the care of her grandmother, and her twin sister leaves for London. She receives an invitation...
Great political thriller from the master of suspense. It is No. 5 of the Camel Club saga, the author's most emblematic series.
Oliver Stone has been struggling for decades to leave behind his past as a hired government hitman. He has lived a quiet time in his Mount Zion home. The President of the United States asks him to carry out a...
