In 1975, Najat, a little Moroccan girl, arrived in Mézin in Lot-et-Garonne. Her parents had decided to leave their country: life was too hard in the rural villages, and schooling for children was almost non-existent. Illiteracy was widespread. They considered that studying was the best way to access a better life. Najat was eight years old. She could neither read, write, nor speak French. She was therefore directed to the preparatory course at the Mézin school. Claire, her teacher, quickly grew to admire and affection for this courageous, pugnacious girl. Her progress was rapid. A few years later, life separated them. Thirty years later, mischievous fate organized their reunion in Brive, Corrèze. Najat tells her story... and like Claire, let's listen to her. Publication date: September 1, 2023 Order

Annie and Pascal, two young retirees from Corrèze, decide to move to Brittany, near Audierne, the birthplace of Annie's family. Their relatives have disappeared, leaving only a cousin, Pierric, who helps them move in. He is a charming, endearing, but very introverted man. He willingly tells them the history of this region divided between land and sea, farmers and sailors. With him, we rediscover forgotten events that nevertheless marked 20th-century Brittany and also the whole of France. On the other hand, he speaks very little about himself. Yet his life has not been ordinary. We discover it at the same time as Danielle, his partner, and his "nephews in the Breton style," Annie and Pascal. A life full of suffering. Will Danielle, cheerful and tender, succeed in convincing him to live in the present? Publication date: June 1, 2023 Order

A family. Endearing and colorful characters who, over the generations, take us from Périgord to Lyon, from Burgundy to Provence, and lead us to the 1950s. This is the beginning of the "events in Algeria." Gilbert, a lawyer imbued with his grandmother's humanist ideas, meets Monique in Marseille, a trade unionist and communist like her father. They marry. She helps Algerians who tell her about their struggle for their country's independence. The young couple, deeply committed to justice and the fundamental values of our Republic, decide to move there. They discover a magnificent country and become friends with ordinary Muslim, Christian, and Jewish workers, confronted with the horror of war... Will they emerge unscathed? In France, sixty years after Algerian independence, the media constantly discuss Franco-Algerian relations, which remain difficult and painful. The wound never heals. But do we know each other better today than yesterday? With this novel, Adel Monchaoui and Régine Laprade want us to discover what many of us continue to ignore. It was said, "Algeria is France." Yet, in the land of equality, two distinct communities coexisted with different rights. What do we really know about this war, about events that were kept secret, kept secret? People are beginning to speak out. Sadly, many witnesses have disappeared. Current generations, neither guilty nor responsible, are demanding to hear History presented differently than through truncated, hidden realities, distorted by a racist, resentful psychology that continues to divide people to the point of ignorance. Order

In less than a year, a quiet, previously uneventful provincial village is rocked by three surprising incidents. Jacky's widow behaves shockingly. Soon described as a merry widow, it is rumored that she may have killed her husband. On Christmas Eve, Guillaume, soon to be a father, mysteriously disappears. The day after the neighborhood party, a young woman is gunned down in cold blood on her doorstep. The population shudders. What is going on? Is there a link between these three tragedies? Certainly, yes, the population itself. Friends, neighbors, relatives, everyone knows each other. The bakery and the supermarket become the preferred meeting places to exchange hypotheses and news, to reassure or distress each other, to support or attack each other. Order

Ce roman raconte l’histoire d’un jeune homme. Akli. Il est berbère. De ces hommes fiers, courageux, volontaires, épris de justice et de liberté. Il aurait pu être né ailleurs, au milieu d’un autre peuple, dans un autre pays. Qu’importe. Il est leur alter ego, l’histoire serait la même. Il est originaire d’un petit village pauvre, perché sur le flanc d’une montagne. Son père lui a appris qu’à l’école il faut travailler pour être premier, que l’instruction est un rempart contre la misère...

This novel is a love story. To tell us about loving the Other, Régine Laprade tells us a lovely story that Dr. JF Saint-Bauzel, psychiatrist, comments on thus: "Régine did not fall into the trap of cuckoo's nests or into the criticism of the arbitrary system of confinement. Nor did she go to the side of the dangerousness of the mentally ill as a threat to society, which should defend itself against it. No, she presents us with a completely different aspect of psychiatric care, which is not ashamed to say its name because it is in the direct line of humanists, and she brings it to life before our astonished and delighted eyes to see that we can still think this way." Order