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This extremely successful series consists of 7 books: A Modern Witch, A Hidden Witch, A. Reckless .... History/Gourmet/Crime | Le Livre de Poche | June 2013.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction (English language) Geary, Debora: A Modern Witch series Geary, Debora: The Witchlight Trilogy Gelfan, Peter: Found Objects Rummel, Erika: Head Games Sayres, Meghan Nuttall : Anahita's Woven Riddle Smelcer, John: Lone Wolves

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Fiction (French language) Barriere, Michele: Murder at the Ritz Lemaitre, Pierre: Rosy & John Vian, Boris: Goodnight girls

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Fiction (Dutch language) De Bruijn, Maurits: Brother Van Emmerik, Gerard: Chicken Boy Hulst, Auke: Children of the Savage Land Laterveer, Maartje: The Most Beautiful Color that Doesn't Exist Van Der Mast, Jan: Prince Mignon, The Smallest Man in the World Player X & Marie, Sylvie: Player X

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Non-Fiction (English language) Allan W. Anderson: On Krishnamurti's Teachings Bullen, Daniel: The Love Lives of the Artists Campbell, Anna M.: Honeycomb Kids Dr Kouffman Sherman, Paulette: When Mars Women Date Wolfe, Robert: Living Nonduality

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Non-Fiction (French language) Althusser, Louis: Psychoanalysis and Social Sciences Delacampagne, Christian: A History of Racism Delacampagne, Christian: A History of Slavery Delacampagne, Christian: The Philosopher and the Tyrant Delahaie, Patricia: How To Keep Your Spirits Up Midal, Fabrice: The Practice of Meditation Murat, Michel: Surrealism Onfray, Michel: Theory of Travel Tavoillot, Pierre-Henri: Small Almanac of the Meaning of Life

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Non-Fiction (Dutch language) Fokkens, Martine & Louise: Meet the Fokkens

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Fiction: English language A MODERN WITCH SERIES – Debora Geary Fantasy/Women's Fiction/YA | Fireweed Publishing | 300 pp | 2011- 2013 Rights sold: Brazil (Novo Conceito), Germany (Heyne), Italy (Leone), Korea (Greenfish), Spain (Principal de los Libros), Turkey (Inkilap) This extremely successful series consists of 7 books: A Modern Witch, A Hidden Witch, A Reckless Witch, A Nomadic Witch, A Different Witch, A Celtic Witch, A Lost Witch. This series is best described as “light contemporary fantasy”, but it also reads well as women’s fiction with a touch of magic. A good dose of humor, a little romance, and characters you won’t want to leave. It’s a character-driven series with a strong cast of secondary characters that call the readers back to the next book. -350,000+ copies sold -Several books in the series have been in the 10 top rated fiction books on Amazon based on reader reviews -A Modern Witch reached #1 in the Kindle store.

THE WITCHLIGHT TRILOGY – Debora Geary Fantasy/ Women's Fiction | Fireweed Publishing | 400 pp. | September 2012 This unputdownable trilogy consists of the following titles : Witches on Parole, Witches Under Way, Witches in Flight. It is a companion trilogy to the main series A Modern Witch (some of the same characters are the same), but it reads very well on its own. It is very much women’s fiction—journeys of self-discovery and sisterhood. Magic is very light in this trilogy. - 100,000 copies sold - All three books are in the 30 top rated fiction books on Amazon based on reader reviews - Witches on Parole reached #5 in the Kindle store

FOUND OBJECTS – Peter Gelfan Literary Fiction | Nortia Press | 280 pp. | April 2013 Aldo Zoria is a successful commercial photographer who lives in a happy ménage à trois with his wife and their lover, along with the lover’s two young children. But domestic bliss shatters when an unexpected guest arrives and threatens to turn their world upside down. Found Objects is a novel about the struggle between values and instincts, ideas and reality, whom we strive to become and whom we were born to be. A wise, rueful tale for our times, unerringly told, by a masterful writer — Tony Cohan, bestselling author of Canary (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year)

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HEAD GAMES – Erika Rummel Fiction | Guernica Editions | 200 pp | April 2013 A Latino bar in Toronto, 1978. Lisa meets Don, a realtor with a murky South American past. She tells him she is looking for her father, a wealthy man living in Argentina. Determined to find her roots, Lisa goes to Argentina. Don offers to come along. He is on a mission of his own, looking for his run-away daughter, Asu. Or so he says. Soon Lisa acquires a second escort: Santos, a man with connections to the spirit world. He wants to help Lisa. Or so he says. Is Santos a charlatan, or a shaman fighting the eternal battle of good against evil? Lisa’s search for her father dead-ends: instead she finds love. A happy ending is in sight, just when Lisa’s life turns into a nightmare.

ANAHITA’S WOVEN RIDDLE – Meghan Nuttall Sayres Literary Fiction (12+) | Nortia Press | 354 pp. | November 2012 (reissue) Rights Sold: Israel (Keter), Italy (Rizzoli), Spain (Roca Editorial), Turkey. American Library Association Top Ten Best Books | American Booksellers Association Book Sense/Indie Pick An enchanting tale set in Persia rich with romance, adventure, and Sufi poetry in which a young woman is determined to weave her own fate. When Anahita, a nomadic weaver in 19th century Iran, learns that her father wants her to wed the leader of her tribe, a man she finds repulsive, she is determined to design her own fate. She devises a contest in which suitors must guess the meaning of a riddle woven into her wedding carpet. A richly textured, carefully researched novel […] excellent use of Sufi poetry and a strong cast of characters make this more than memorable. Romantic, delightful and educational too!—Kirkus

LONE WOLVES – John Smelcer Young Adult Fiction | Leapfrog Press | 184 pp. | September 2013 Deneena Yazzie’s love of the woods and trail come from her grandfather, who teaches her their all-but-vanished Native Alaskan language. While her peers lose hope, trapped between the old and the modern cultures, and turn to destructive behaviors, Denny and her mysterious lead dog, a blue-eyed wolf, train for the Great Race—giving her town a new pride and hope. A half-Indian with an outcast wolf as lead dog, Deneena attempts the Great Race to prove herself and her heritage. A beautiful and moving story of courage and love—Ray Bradbury Praise for The Great Death: An amazing story—Frank McCourt | A beautiful, poignant story—Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Winner | An engaging tale of survival—Kirkus

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Fiction – French language MURDER AT THE RITZ – Michele Barriere History/Gourmet/Crime | Le Livre de Poche | June 2013 Set right in the middle of the Dreyffus Affair, the hero is Quentin Savoisy, a young and vibrant food reviewer living in Montmartre, and whose godfather is the famous chef Auguste Escoffier. It so happens that Auguste Escoffier has been hired by César Ritz to be in charge of the Ritz kitchen, about to open. Things take a dire turn when a woman is found hung to a butcher hook in the cold room of the Ritz: Quentin Savoisy takes over the investigation, teamed up with his lovely fiancée, an aristocratic rebel. The duo will face many dangers to reach the truth. Throughout the book, delicious dishes are described, from the five star creations of the Ritz, to the more rustic bistrot food of Montmartre.

ROSY & JOHN – Pierre Lemaitre Thriller | Le Livre de Poche | 144 pp | January 2014 Bestselling French thriller writer Pierre Lemaitre is back with an excellent new fast-paced addendum to his trilogy. Jean Garnier, a lonely loser, has lost everything: his job after his boss died mysteriously; his girlfriend who was killed in a strange accident; and his mother, imprisoned recently. He sets up seven bombs hidden all over Paris, to explode every 24 hours. He gives himself up to the police, with one simple request: his mother’s liberation or the daily explosions will continue… Inspector Verhoeven is faced with the biggest dilemma of his career: While the inspector tries to decipher who’s really hidden behind the quiet young man, the clock ticks on to hundreds of potential new victims. Rosy & John will first come out this summer as part of a promotional campaign as a free copy offered for the acquisition of two Livre de Poche books. In January 2014, it will be launched in all French bookstores.

GOODNIGHT GIRLS INC - Boris Vian Theatre plays/Classics | Le Livre de Poche | 405 pp | October 2009 Goodnight Girls Inc. is a comedy-ballet written in 1955. Life is slow in the offices of a personal ads magazine. One of the employees has a brilliant idea : auditioning a girl who will be able to help single people fall asleep. The girl is found and charms the editor-inchief as well as everyone which comes near her, including an insomniac serial killer… Featuring ballets, choirs, tramp choreographies and robot dances! In the second musical, Queen of the Bitches, the famous Overlord Mauser lives like a star until his daughter’s wedding, who hilariously decides to take revenge on her father by becoming… Read the play and you’ll find out!

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Fiction – Dutch language BROTHER – Maurits De Bruijn Literary Fiction | Nieuw Amsterdam | 176 pp. | August 2012 | English sample available A poignant debut novel about the disappearance of a brother. Wolf’s brother disappeared ten years ago. For ten years, he hasn’t been able to face the facts, but he now decides to look at what his brother’s disappearance means to him. He leaves his home and parents behind and begins his quest, via Berlin and Budapest to Barcelona, Tel Aviv and New York. It is a trip down memory lane, to his childhood, to past friendships and loves. A cleverly written debut by De Bruijn, which will leave the reader with an uncomfortable feeling–Dejaap.nl

CHICKEN BOY – Gerard van Emmerik Literary Fiction | Nieuw Amsterdam | 224 pp. | 2011| English sample available Chicken farmer Lucas, a childish spirit in a strong body, lives together with the much younger Noor, completely isolated on their farm. He has his chicken, she has her pen-pals and her dreams. And they have each other. Unexpectedly, after twenty years, a baby is born, and their love comes to an end. There is something wrong with the child. And moreover: with the parents. In act of desperation, Lucas permanently drives the child into the arms of Noor. The Chicken Boy is an impressive novel in which yearning, jealousy and finally love are the central themes. A wonderful psychological novel in the spirit of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin. Lovely, very surprising and extraordinarily tense — Trouw | A very special novel on love, jealousy and yearning — Winq | Tense and gripping […] psychology and suspense are a good couple. It’s a page-turner to read in one sitting — De Stentor

CHILDREN OF THE SAVAGE LAND – Auke Hulst Literary Fiction | J.M. Meulenhoff | 336 pp. | August 2012 | English sample available In this alternately poignant, perplexing and humorous autobiographical novel, Auke Hulst depicts the decline of a family who are out of touch with reality—for better and for worse. Four children grow up surrounded by chaos, somewhere in the northern countryside, in a rough area that is referred to as the Savage Land. They live alienated from their family and the village a little further down the road. Their mother is a high-spirited yet deceitful woman who is haunted by creditors. Can the children escape from the growing problems around them, or has their fate already been decided on? [Hulst] slides smoothly through his youth from scene to scene, using a clear, rhythmical style and only sporadically a beautiful metaphor — BOEK | This book is an ode to the landscapes of youth — De Groene Amsterdammer

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOR THAT DOESN'T EXIST – Maartje Laterveer Literary Fiction | Meulenhoff | 223 pp. | November 2012 | English sample available In the late seventies, Julia escapes from East Berlin to the West. She is twenty-three years old and only wants one thing: the freedom to be who she is. It is a novel about freedom and choices; old love and maternal love; the madness of a country that needed a wall to keep its people inside; but also about the effort to find freedom in a society where money and appearances seem to play the leading role. Gripping and from time to time shocking and sad … Beautiful and socially engaged. — Libelle Accurately, [Laterveer] takes you with her to East-Berlin through sharp, realistic dialogs and a convincing, poetic style. — Opzij, monthly “literary talent scout,” November 2012

PRINCE MIGNON, THE SMALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD – Jan van Der Mast Literary Fiction/Fictionalised Biography| Nieuw Amsterdam | 288 pp. | April 2012 English sample available | Nominated for the Halewijn Prize 2012 | Contains a great selection of pictures. From his sixth birthday, Dutch dwarf Gerrit Keizer is exhibited at fairs and carnivals as a rare wonder of nature. At fourteen, when he’s 80 inches tall, an impresario lures him to America. His mother ignores everything, but when Gerrit writes her that he pines away in a New York museum, she sets off to save him. Prince Mignon, The Smallest Man In The World is a compelling novel based on the true life of Gerrit Keizer (1874-1946). Keizer’s biography was incomplete and needed a writer with talent. Jan van der Mast is the right man. I finished the book in one reading. Recommended for those who fancy a great historical narrative. — De Standaard. The result of fictionalizing Gerrit’s bizarre life is wonderful, because it gave Van der Mast a chance to write it down with much panache. — Veronica Magazine.

PLAYER X – Sylvie Marie & Player X True Fiction | Podium/Vrijdag | 255 pp. | March 2013 English sample and detailed synopsis available A revealing, exciting football novel by an anonymous football player - Player X - refined by Flemish poet Sylvie Marie. Player X takes us into the fast life behind the scenes of an English Premier League football club. His story is also a touching love story, about the choice he had to make between true love and the addictive, devastating temptations of his life as a professional football player. Despite several attempts, no one has found out who hides behind Player X…

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Non-Fiction – English language ON KRISHNAMURTI'S TEACHINGS – Allan W. Anderson Eastern Philosophy/ Spirituality | Karina Library Press | 292 pp. | July 2012 An outstanding collection of writings and lectures all focused on the teachings of author and mystic J. Krishnamurti [1895-1986]. Extensive reference is made to the dialogues that Krishnamurti had with Prof. Anderson in 1974 where they explore many subjects ranging over listening, conditioning, perception, transformation, and meditation in rapid questioning of each other. The lectures in this book serve as an excellent study companion to the dialogues and their printed texts. Readers will benefit and learn from Prof. Anderson’s affectionately open and inviting style of questioning and expression of subjects could be impersonal and intellectual. The entire teachings are there — Krishnamurti on his 18 dialogues with Anderson

THE LOVE LIVES OF THE ARTISTS – Daniel Bullen Literary Essay | Counterpoint Press | 336 pp. | 2011 Rights Sold: Brazil (Pensamento-Cultrix Ltda), Korea (Korea Price Information, Corp.) Five artist couples, five open relationships: Lou Andreas-Salomé and Rilke, Stieglitz and O'Keeffe, Sartre and Beauvoir, Diego and Frida, and Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin. The Love Lives of the Artists follows these artists' relationships from childhood and artistic development through years of shared vision, affairs, crises of conscience, deepening intimacy and continued creativity. Taken together, these five stories examine the challenges and the rewards of practicing creativity in love. A captivating exploration — Kirkus | Totally engrossing — Amity Gaige, author of The Folded World | The Love Lives of the Artists will have significance for anyone with a creative streak — The Erotic Review Magazine

HONEYCOMB KIDS – Anna M. Campbell Parenting/Lifestyle | Cape Able | 264 pp. | 2012 | Rights Sold: Korea (Green Knowledge) Finalist in the Book of the Year Awards through Foreword Magazine: ecology & environment and family & relationships sections Including more than 300 practical ideas and activities, Honeycomb Kids is a book which helps you prepare your children for an uncertain tomorrow, and to shift to a better family life for today. It is about making the most of the day-to-day with your family while preparing your children for likely impacts on their world including global population growth, peak oil, competition for resources, increasing costs of living (food, electricity), health issues and plenty more. It’s about raising contributors not just consumers. The book also covers off on ‘nature deficit disorder’ and how to mitigate every day threats to children while making them more resilient and capable. One world. One humanity. One destiny. It can all start with one family: yours. Honeycomb Kids gives you the ideas and tools you need to parent with the future in mind. — Professor Tim Flannery, NY Times bestselling author of The Weathermakers

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WHEN MARS WOMEN DATE – Dr Paulette Kouffman Sherman How-to Guide, Relationships | Parachute Jump Publishing | 282 pp. | December 2012 Winner of the London Book Festival 2012, How-to category As pointed out recently in Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling Lean In, women have difficulties prospering at their career and familial roles, and it is important for career women to learn to pick the right mate. Single career women can be independent and strong on dates and still find the man of their dreams. Experts advise women to be passive and to disguise their accomplishments during dating if they want to attract a man. It’s time women had an equal playing field with men in work, dating, marriage, domestic work and childcare. When Mars Women Date is written from the male and female perspective, to reveal how we can create balanced, authentic partnerships, from the start. If you’re an independent, strong, passionate woman, you are meant to have a great life and you know it. This book will give you permission to claim who you really are, and create a love relationship that celebrates your highest strength and offers you the highest happiness. — Tama Kieves, bestselling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love

LIVING NONDUALITY – Robert Wolfe Eastern Philosophy | Karina Library Press | 468 pp. | 2009 Living Nonduality is about the nature of living without division. In recent decades, many in the Western world have begun to look anew at the ancient spiritual teachings from the East: the Zen Buddhism of Japan; the Tao of China; the Sufis of the Muslim Middle East; the Vedanta scriptures of India. What all of these spiritual traditions have in common is a viewpoint which is different from mainstream Christianity, Judaism and Islam. How is it different, and what are the differences? That is what this book sets out. “I have finally come across a book worth reading. Robert Wolfe’s Living Nonduality is simple, unassuming, direct, sincere. It will be of great help to many a confused seeker.” — Sri Mumtaz Ali, founder of The Satsang Foundation, author of Wisdom of the Rishis among others.

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! PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES – Louis Althusser Philosophy/Social Sciences | Le Livre de Poche | 128 pp | 1996 Rights Sold: Argentina (Nueva Vision), China (Horizon Media) and Japan (Sakuin Sha) The two lectures of this book were given by Louis Althusser within the context of the seminar about Lacan and psychoanalysis he organized at the École normale supérieure in Paris, during the academic year 1963-64. The philosopher approaches in detail the relations between psychoanalysis and social sciences, philosophy and, above all, psychology.

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A HISTORY OF RACISM – Christian Delacampagne History | Le Livre de Poche | 288 pp | 2000 Rights Sold: Germany (Patmos-Artemis & Winkler) and Korea (Wisdom Publishing House) Racism takes many shapes. All of them have an origin, a date and a place of birth. This book aims to examine their numerous genealogies. Skimming through the GreekRoman world, Middle Ages and the classic period, it endeavours its forms in the XIXth and XXth centuries, from the Dreyfus affair to the Shoah, from colonial racism to problems of immigration in modern France, and from the Armenian genocide to the great mass murders which bathed the latest half a century with blood.

A HISTORY OF SLAVERY – Christian Delacampagne History | Le Livre de Poche | 319 pp | 2002 Rights Sold: Germany (Patmos-Artemis & Winkler), Korea (Wisdom Publishing House), and Portugal (Texto e Grafia). Slavery is the most horrendous of all the institutions and, for that very reason, one of the less well examined. Up to now, no book gave an overview of slavery from its origins to modern times: such is the gap that this book would like to fill. Against this absolute scandal, against this endemic disease of human societies, the struggle is not over. This book would aim to go on fighting.

THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE TYRANT – Christian Delacampagne Philosophy | Le Livre de Poche | 336 pp | May 2012 According to Robert Musil, philosophers are violent human beings, who, for lack of having an army at their disposal, are submitting the world to themselves by locking it in a system. They sometimes even try to achieve their goals by becoming advisors to Princes. They expose themselves to painful frustrations as a prince (“good” king or “evil” tyrant) has nothing to do with the advices of a naïve philosopher. I do not cite Plato and Dionysius, Descartes and Christine, Voltaire and Frederick, Heidegger and Hitler, etc, to tell philosophers to move away from politics. Instead, I am attempting to establish a genuine dialogue between power and thought. However, we must first acknowledge the paranoid nature of the philosophical approach.

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HOW TO KEEP YOUR SPIRITS UP – Patricia Delahaie How-to/Practical Guide/Psychology | Le Livre de Poche | 224 pp | January 2013 Today, more than ever, we need to cultivate our joie de vivre, our joy of living. That isn’t easy though, in the current context of global crisis! Yet some people manage to keep their spirits up, without necessarily being insensitive to hardships. What is their secret? Psychosociologist, life coach and best-selling author Patricia Delahaie has gathered their stories and has learned a precious lesson that she shares with us in her new book: happiness is a goal to keep in mind. Indeed, we can learn to protect ourselves, put our emotions in perspective, enjoy gratuitous bliss, and maintain good and healthy relationships with others. Having to deal with the crisis, we only have one solution: to retrieve the sense of sharing and helping each other.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION – Fabrice Midal Self-Development, Practice Guide | Le Livre de Poche | 224 pp | October 2012 20,000+ copies sold Fabrice Midal explains concretely how to meditate, he guides us step by step and answers all our questions. By paying attention to ourselves and the world around us, this work allows us to know our shadow part and discover the true peace of mind. The accompanying CD guides you through six mediations, concentrated on the notions of attention and presence. ELLE Magazine: Everybody is talking about it, but nobody really knows what it’s about. It all becomes clear thanks to the new book by Fabrice Midal. […] The author, which has been meditating for 25 years, is a philosopher, publisher and founder of a meditation center gives a concrete, simple, non-religious, enthusiastic and enlightening talk about meditation. Sitting down and breathing has never appeared so revolution

SURREALISM – Michel Murat History, Philosophy | Le Livre de Poche | 408 pp | March 2013 Surrealism acquired legendary status quite quickly, largely due to the place that surrealist works granted dreams, the supernatural and love. But, from its quasi-magical beginningsautomatic and hypnotized writing-to its slow, post-war receding it was a constantly evolving movement, which perpetually re-evaluated its manifesto, built bridges with politics in the hope of a revolution, extended its influence to the visual arts and, finally, provoked other surrealist movements abroad. These are all aspects which this book studies in turn, The general history within which the theory, means for collective action, leaflets and magazines existed, as well as the entire aesthetic practice and international works of surrealism are examined. It responds to the question asked by André Breton himself: “What is Surrealism?”

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THE THEORY OF TRAVEL – Michel Onfray Accessible Philosophy | Le Livre de Poche | 128 pp | 2007 Rights sold: Korea, Hungary, Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie), Portugal (Bertrand), Brasil (LPM) Also available by the same author: Tragical Wisdom and The Invention of Pleasure A small philosophical study on travel and travelers. Going away, following close on shepherds’ heels, is testing out a kind of an extremely pagan pantheism and finding out the traces of ancient gods [...]. The choice of the whole planet for one’s own journey is a condemnation of everything that closes and enslaves: Labour, Family, Country, such are the most visible constraints [...]. Asocial, unsociable, beyond redemption, the nomad knows nothing on clocks and he works according to the sun or the stars, he educates himself by looking at constellations and the run of the day star, he has no clock, but an animal eye trained recognize dawns, auroras, storms, sunny spells, twilights, comets, and stellar flickering, he knows how to read the clouds and decipher their promises, he interprets winds and knows their habits. Whim is the master of his plans.

SMALL ALMANACH OF THE MEANING OF LIFE – Pierre-Henri Tavoillot Philosophy | Le Livre de Poche | 192 pp | March 2013 The stages of life, previously well defined, have now become confused, opaque and disorderly. Can we hope to put back a little (well) meaning? This is the challenge of this book, developed from columns the author had written for Philosophy Magazine over a three-year period. It is a question of thinking out, step by step, the way in which an individual’s life today is constructed- and if possible, successfully soup until its inevitable end, and with the additional constraint of being oneself at every age. Guided by the great philosophies of the past, there is wisdom in the sketching out of every stage: why be born, grow up, mature, get old and, eventually, die?

Non-Fiction – Dutch language MEET THE FOKKENS – Martine & Louise Fokkens Memoir | Bertram + De Leeuw | 192 pp. | October 2011 Rights Sold: Brazil (L&PM), Finland (Minerva Kustannus Oy), France (Fleuve Noir), Germany (Blanvalet), Italy (Vallardi), Lithuania (Alma) English reading sample, full French & German translations available Twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens have been working in the Amsterdam red-light district for 50 years. Despite many setbacks and a great deal of negativity from those outside the world of prostitution, these strong, optimistic and humorous women have managed to survive all those years with verve. The twins tell amusing tales of how they came to be in this line of work, how they eventually went into business for themselves, and how relationships in the world of prostitution have changed over the years.

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CLIENTS & CO-AGENTS 2 Seas Agency | London Book Fair 2013 2 Seas Agency is proud to represent works by the following publishers, agencies & authors: • ENGLISH LANGUAGE / World Rights: Guernica Editions | Leapfrog Press | Karina Library Press | Nortia Press | James Altucher | Claudia Azula Altucher | Daniel Bullen | Anna M. Campbell | Debora Geary | Michael Krohnen | Dr. Paulette Kouffman Sherman • FRANCE / World Rights: Le Livre de Poche • THE NETHERLANDS / World Rights: Bertram + De Leeuw | De Boekerij | J.M. Meulenhoff | Nieuw Amsterdam • GERMANY / Selected Territories: Thiele Verlag (China, World English Rights) • ENGLISH LANGUAGE / Selected Territories: OR Books (France) | University of New South Wales Press (Netherlands) • FRANCE / Selected Territories: L’Autre agence (Netherlands, Nordic Countries, North America) | Au Diable Vauvert (Netherlands, Nordic Countries, World English) | Denoël (China, North America) | Dunod (Netherlands) | Viviane Hamy (China) | XO Editions (Netherlands, author Guillaume Musso) • BRAZIL / Selected Territories: Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Consultancy (China, Netherlands, Nordic Countries) • CANADA / Selected Territories: Boréal (China, Netherlands, North America, Nordic Countries) | Groupe HMH (Netherlands, Nordic Countries) • SPAIN, PORTUGAL & LATIN AMERICA / Selected Territories: The Ella Sher Literary Agency (Netherlands, North America)

EXCLUSIVE CO-AGENTS (World Rights Titles) Brazil: Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Consultancy | Greece: Ersilia Agency | Hungary, Croatia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Budapest | Israel: The Deborah Harris Agency | Italy & Portugal: The Ella Sher Literary Agency | Japan: The English Agency | Poland: Graal Agency | Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia: Livia Stoia Literary Agency | Russia, Belarus, Ukraine: Anastasia Lester Literary Agency | Spain: Salmaia Literary Agency | Turkey: Ackali Agency

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