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  • A Hymn to Life

    Shame Has to Change Sides

    by Gisèle Pelicot ...
    Translated by Natasha Lehrer, Ruth Diver ...
    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“A rousing feminist manifesto.” – The New York Times Book Review“Staggering . . . a lyrical book about monstrous events, a compelling exploration of what it feels like to hold two existences in your brain at once.” – Washington Post“Deeply vulnerable.” – USA TodayThe sexual assault that stunned the world. A ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Arcadia

    by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    An English-language debut that reveals and subverts contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation.Winner, Prix du Livre Inter, 2019Shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Medicis, Prix de FloreLonglisted for the Prix France-Culture, Prix WeplerFarah moves into Liberty House—an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature—at the tender age of six, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dream of the Jaguar

    A Novel

    by Miguel Bonnefoy ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    An enchanting family saga in the vein of One Hundred Years of Solitude, this prize-winning novel illuminates Venezuela’s history through the lives of its memorable characters.When a mute beggar from Maracaibo, Venezuela, takes in a newborn abandoned on the steps of a church, she has no idea of the extraordinary destiny that awaits the orphan. Raised in poverty, Antonio will be a cigarette seller, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of the Big House

    A Novel

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate.At the end of the 19th century, a man is forced to flee his village after a quarrel. Starting over with nothing, the banished, audacious Wakim Nassar will create orange plantations on the outskirts of Beirut and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Chessboard

    A Memoir

    by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    Through the lens of chess, a celebrated Belgian author unearths fresh insights into his work and relationships in this luminous exploration of childhood, memory, and aging.Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic forced Europe into lockdown, Jean-Philippe Toussaint left Brussels for the seaside city of Ostend. Spending his days editing his novel The Emotions and coming to terms with new aches and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Víctor Jara

    No to Dictatorship

    by Bruno Doucey ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    Series series They Said No
    The only story for young readers of the legendary Chilean songwriter and activist who became a symbol of peace amidst the brutality of Augusto Pinochet's regime.On September 11, 1973, in Santiago de Chile, Augusto Pinochet took power and installed a dictatorship in place of the democratic government of President Salvador Allende. That day Victor Jara, a young songwriter and activist, poet and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Harvey Milk

    No to Homophobia

    by Safia Amor ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    Series series They Said No
    Here is the incredible story of Harvey Milk, one of the greatest fighters for gay rights.Called ""the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States," Harvey Milk fought against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In the 1970s when Harvey is elected into office in San Francisco, homosexual relations are still against the law in the United ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Respectable Occupation

    by Julia Kerninon ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    'The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,' Hemingway famously said. Julia Kerninon, one of France's most acclaimed young novelists, tells an altogether different story in a poetic account of her pursuit. Her journey through her formative years entwines the French and Anglo-Saxon literary traditions, resulting in a vibrant ode to reading, and to writing as a space for discovery ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse

    by Charif Majdalani ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    **World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the YearPopMatters: Best Book of the YearTold in elegant, evocative prose, a devastating and necessary testament to the August explosion that thoughtfully examines the crises that preceded it and its aftermath.**At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and political corruption, in an exhausted Beirut still rising up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Eve's Attire

    Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body

    by Delphine Horvilleur ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?In Eve's Attire confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    The Convoy

    by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse ...
    Narrated by Chloë Sommer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    On the 18th of June 1994, weeks before the end of the massacres in which hundreds of thousands of her fellow Tutsi, Rwanda's Bantu-speaking ethnic group, were slaughtered by the Hutu, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were fortunate to find a safe passage out of Rwanda with a convoy of children organised by a Swiss humanitarian organisation. Fifteen years later, after rebuilding her life and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Hymn to Life

    Shame Has to Change Sides

    by Gisèle Pelicot ...
    Narrated by Emma Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Named a Best Book of 2026 So Far by The New Yorker“A rousing feminist manifesto.” – The New York Times Book Review“Staggering . . . a lyrical book about monstrous events, a compelling exploration of what it feels like to hold two existences in your brain at once.” – Washington Post“Deeply vulnerable.” – USA TodayThe sexual assault that stunned the world. A ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook