The best sellers of the week from La Procure

Résumé : Anne-Dauphine Julliand, Les Arènes, October 2024. The author lost her two daughters, Thaïs and Azylis, to an orphan disease. Fifteen years later, his eldest son committed suicide. Her husband and their last child Arthur are facing new grief. In this story, she questions her present and seeks to understand how her life and that of her family can continue despite everything. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Pope Francis, Deer, May 2024. On the occasion of Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis invites us to a time of reflection around hope. What is hope? What is it made of? What feeds it? He invites us to reconnect with this key notion of Christian life by relearning patience, the engine of hope, in an increasingly fast-paced world. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : François Cassingena-Trévedy, Albin Michel, September 2024. After more than thirty years of monastic life, Brother Cassingena-Trévedy settled in the heart of Auvergne, on the Cézallier plateau. His existence there is punctuated by prayer, liturgical services and the help he provides to farmers for milking cows or working in the fields. He recounts his daily life. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Jean-François Kieffer, Mame, October 2024. In the main story, Loupio, Joana and Ugo defend a child threatened with being disinherited by a felonious and venal uncle. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Pope Francis, Deer, September 2024. Literature lovers, this text is for you! The Pope returns to the need to associate with the great authors, whether classical or modern. Antidote to the current obsession with screens, literature is not just entertainment. It allows you to train your intelligence and discover other cultures, it forces you to decenter yourself. Because it contributes to forming a judgment, it is the best protection against extremism. Because it is a window open to others and the world, because it always betrays, deep down, a nostalgia for the divine, literature remains the essential open door to the universal. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Thibault de Montaigu, Albin Michel, August 2024. Investigating in the footsteps of one of his ancestors, Louis Tassin de Montaigu, captain of the Hussars who was cut down in 1914, the writer paints the portrait of a family haunted by honor, glory and aristocracy, but also by seduction and dilettantism. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Gilles Kepel, Plon, September 2024. Continuing the reflection started in his essay Holocausts: Israel, Gaza and the war against the West, the author examines the consequences of the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 on global geopolitics, of the politicization of the Palestinian cause during the elections Europeans to the diplomatic dilemma of Joe Biden, including the blocking of Sciences Po Paris. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Kamel Daoud, Gallimard, August 2024. Aube is a young mute Algerian who dreams of a voice transplant. The country’s tragedies, including the War of Independence and the Civil War of the 1990s, are ingrained on his body in the form of a scar on his neck. Pregnant, she goes to her native village to question the dead, questioning her right to keep the unborn child. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Michel Fédou, Desclée De Brouwer, August 2024. Halfway between theology, spirituality and history, an exploration of the various facets of divine compassion, its meaning and the way it has been perceived since the Middle Ages. Find it in bookstores.