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  • Define Your Why

    Own Your Story So You can Live and Learn on Purpose

    by Barbara Bray ...
    Barbara Bray wrote Define Your WHY from the process she went through to figure out her WHY and through coaching others who did not feel valued, appreciated, or why they needed to live on purpose. Barbara tells her story with stories from 26 inspirational thought leaders along with quotes, resources, questions, and activities to help you on your journey to define your WHY so you own your story. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bridge of Beyond

    by Simone Schwarz-Bart ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    by Jean Giono ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    ‘A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man’s efforts can change the future for so many. It’s a real message of hope.’ Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and to the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • The Old Man and the Wolves

    A Novel

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Wolves have invaded the seaside resort town of Santa Varvara, a fictional postindustrial city in Eastern Europe, killing thousands of people, but no one will speak of it except a Latin professor known as the Old Man. Part detective story, part fable, this novel is set in a mythical landscape where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased. Narrated by a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ibn Saud

    The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    by Barbara Bray, Michael Darlow ...
    Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham. Equipped with immense physical courage, he fought and won, often with weapons and tactics not unlike those employed by the ancient Assyrians, a series of astonishing military victories over a succession of enemies much more powerful than himself. Over the same ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Balthasar's Odyssey

    by Amin Maalouf ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name?In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is to find the secret that could save the world.Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Glory of the Empire

    A Novel, a History

    by Jean D'Ormesson ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • India Song

    by Marguerite Duras ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Làhore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.Originally commissioned as a play for Britain’s National Theatre,India Song was made into a film ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • An Economic History of Modern France

    by Francois Caron ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1979, this richly documented study of French development from the early nineteenth century to the present day is of particular importance to students both of history and economics. Francis Caron moves as confidently through the fields of current economic policy and modern economics as he does through the traditional subject matter of French nineteenth-century economic history. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Possessions

    A Novel

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    This sequel to Julia Kristeva’s celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased. Part mystery, part meditation, this engrossing tale features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour (Kristeva’s alter ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Prisoner of Love

    by Jean Genet ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Starting in 1970, Jean Genet—petty thief, prostitute, modernist master—spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Samurai

    A Novel

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Barbara Bray ...
    Julia Kristeva’s dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir’s 1954 masterpiece, The Samurai brilliantly reconstructs a pivotal era of postwar French history—Paris in the late 1960s—and at the same time records the political disillusionment and ferment of a generation. In a brisk ... Read more

    $20.89 USD