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With the holidays rapidly\napproaching, we believe this is the best time to give you a moment of quite wellbeing.\nWhat better than to dive into a good book and feel the pages  turn under your fingers? Here are our book suggestions,\nin collaboration with Renaud-Bray & Archambault, perfect to help you\nhibernate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\nWho Run With the Wolves<\/em><\/a> by <\/em>Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within every woman lives\na powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and\nageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature\nof women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish\nnature belong to us at birth, society\u2019s attempt to \u201ccivilize\u201d us into rigid\nroles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Dr.\nClarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk\ntales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women\nreconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual\nnature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life of Pi<\/a> by Yann Martel <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life of Pi is a masterful\nand utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who\nfaces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion,\nfaith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of\nall of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure\nthat makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bakhita : a novel of the Saint of Sudan<\/a> by Veronique\nOlmi <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the true\nstory of a former slave who became a saint, this poignant novel explores how a\nhuman being can survive the obliteration of her identity, and how kindness and\ngenerosity can be born out of profound trauma. With rich, evocative language,\nV\u00e9ronique Olmi immerses the reader in Bakhita’s world–her unfathomable\nresilience, her stubborn desire to live, and her ability to turn toward the\npain of others in spite of the terrible sufferings that she too must endure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nPerfect Nanny<\/a> by Leila Slimani<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has the keys to their\napartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their\nlives that it now seems impossible to remove her. When\nMyriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her\nhusband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never\ndreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the\nchildren, cleans the family\u2019s chic Paris apartment, stays late without\ncomplaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny\nbecome more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions\nmount, shattering the idyllic tableau. Building tension with every page, The\nPerfect Nanny is a compulsive, riveting, bravely observed exploration of power,\nclass, race, domesticity, motherhood, and madness\u2014and the American debut of an\nimmensely talented writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Know\nWhy the Caged Bird Sings<\/a> by Maya Angelou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sent by their mother to\nlive with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,\nMaya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice\nof the local \u201cpowhitetrash.\u201d At eight years old and back at her mother\u2019s side\nin St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age\u2014and has to live with\nthe consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns\nthat love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the\nideas of great authors (\u201cI met and fell in love with William Shakespeare\u201d) will\nallow her to be free instead of imprisoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a book as joyous\nand painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the\nCaged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of\nbigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou\u2019s\ndebut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lab Girl<\/a> by Hope\nJahren <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An illuminating debut\nmemoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a long-time collaboration,\nin work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever\nchange how you see and think about the natural world.
\nAcclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three\nlaboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first\nbook might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but\nit is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her\ninspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nTruth about the Harry Quebert Affair<\/a> by Joel\nDicker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 30, 1975. The day\nof the disappearance. The day Aurora, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.That\nsummer Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan.\nThirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a\nmanuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert is the only suspect.\nMarcus Goldman\u2014Quebert’s most gifted protege\u2014throws off his writer’s block to\nclear his mentor’s name.
\nSolving the case and penning a new bestseller\nsoon blur together. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation\nis gripped by the mystery of \u201cThe Girl Who Touched the Heart of America\u201d.\nBut with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is\never as it seems. Joel Dicker’s phenomenal European bestseller is a brilliantly\nintricate murder mystery, a hymn to the boundless reaches of the imagination,\nand a love story like no other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing you’ve read or even felt before can prepare you for The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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