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Life is an ocean of experiences, an eternal alternation of conflicts andresolutions. It is a source of contingencies but also growth. For centuries, to give a satisfactory answer to what was happening around him, man sought help in the past, looking to the great minds that have populated it. Likewise, the author of this book turns his gaze to the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, whose words are, even today, a source of inspiration and reflection. Combining his personal life and work experience as a psychologist and psychotherapist with the teachingsleft to us by authors such as Aristotle or Epictetus and stories from Greek mythology, the author wants to offer his contribution, demonstrating, through clear examples, how it is possible to employ new approaches in the field of psychotherapy, based on the teachings of great authors of the past and with amazing results.

A middle-aged man believes he is suffering from a mental health condition. Gilbert Martin can "see" things that others don't and predict the future with disturbing dreams and visions. Whilst on a school holiday to France during his teens, he meets a girl called Margaux on Chatelaillon-Plage. Somehow, she manages to leave the beach with him and since then, she has inhabited his life: he talks to her, he chats with her and she answers back. Seeking a resolution, one way or the other, he decides to write a book about his experiences and uses the interest in his novel to garner the sympathy of the public and to make it easy for him to travel to France where it all began. Will he able to resolve the mystery and to discover if Margaux is real and who is she? A suspense-mystery novel of love, courage and perseverance that will make the reader dwell on how, no matter how extreme the situation someone is going through, life can be a surprising journey.

KNOWING THEM Lorna Stevenson

MIRRORS AND WATERShort story for childrenOussama Safraoui

A Way without an EndProud to be the King's MessengerG. B. Zechendorf

Extracts from the life of an artist, an athlete, a philosopher; a man occupied with the determined and instinctive research of beauty, justice, and of the deepest truth. A search that crosses several fields: from the purely artistic one to the sacred one, from the most ancient and remote times to our modern and contemporary world. An observer that, thanks to painting, manages to escape from the day-to-day banality and human mediocrity. A fascinating text that proves the redeeming power of art.

This fast-paced novel sweeps the reader up into an amazing adventure, beginning with the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. A cult, dedicated to the goddess Isis, will go to any lengths, including murder, to protect Egyptian antiquities from plunder by Osiris, an exclusive men's club. Two powerful Egyptian Queens, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, are resurrected by the cult through dark magic passed down through the ages from the dawn of Egyptian civilization. As Samara and Nigel get caught up in the web of intrigue between Isis and Osiris, they begin to unravel the mysteries of the ancients as well as dark family secrets.As preordained, only one Queen will survive, with the consequence of unleashing catastrophic forces threatening the world's very survival.In the cult's pursuit of a mystical talisman, the Blue Scarab, the reader is taken within the sacred halls of the Vatican, revealing intrigue and cloak and daggers as diabolical as any mad Roman Emperor's court, and back in time to the dazzling ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome and Greece.All set against the backdrop of star crossed lovers, whose destinies have already been decided by the Fates...The novel is epic in its breadth, exploring the paradoxes of civilizations, religions and humanity's quest for immortality.

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