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À Alexandrie, à la fin des années 1950, une bande d’amis, hommes et femmes, se retrouve régulièrement au bar du restaurant Artinos, pour de longues soirées animées durant lesquelles, l’alcool aidant, ils se plaisent à refaire le monde. Unis par leur attachement profond à l’Égypte – leur pays à tous, même si certains viennent d’ailleurs –, ils sont divisés face à l’actualité nationale et à la personne de Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader charismatique qui oeuvre à une redéfinition de l’identité égyptienne.

En plein coeur du Caire, l'immeuble Yacoubian, véritable personnage principal du roman, est prétexte à raconter tout un pan de l'histoire égyptienne, des années 1930 à nos jours. Porté à l'écran par Marwan Hamed en 2006, ce livre est devenu un phénomène éditorial dans le monde entier.

Money and finance play a deeply fundamental role in your life. Now, let an expert professor lead you in a panoramic exploration of our monetary and financial systems, their inner workings, and their crucial role and presence in your world. As a guiding theme of these 36 content-rich lectures, you observe the ways in which economies require efficient and evolving financial institutions and markets to fulfill their potential.

« Si tu étais si attaché à ta carte d’ouvrier, c’est sans doute parce que tu étais un homme sans titre. Toi qui es né dépossédé, de tout titre de propriété comme de citoyenneté, tu n’auras connu que des titres de transport et de résidence. Le titre en latin veut dire l’inscription. Et si tu étais bien inscrit quelque part en tout petit, ce n’était hélas que pour t’effacer. Tu as figuré sur l’interminable liste des hommes à broyer au travail, comme tant d’autres avant toi à malaxer dans les tranchées. »

One scandal, one season, one shy baron, and a heart that doesn’t want to follow the plan. With her family insisting that she have a season to find a husband, Veronica Smith has one mission: restore her family’s reputation with a match that dazzles society. After her sister’s scandalous elopement with a dockworker, Veronica convinces her parents to send her to Bath instead of London.

A brutal tale of madness, murder, and the occult — from Wrath James White, master of extreme horror and splatterpunk fiction.

For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, they’ve shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right binders—and falling for each other. But just as their relationship has started to blossom, Aaron moves away. Feeling adrift, separated from the one person who understands them, they seek solace in digging deep into the annals of America’s past.

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Everyone thought the infamous exorcism was fiction. But when Summer learns the girl who was possessed was her mother, the evil returns… It was the infamous exorcism behind every book and movie. The secret they buried? Evil never dies — and it just found Summer’s family. Summer just wanted to finish senior year quietly — prom, graduation, one last summer at home. But when a trembling stranger confronts her on the front step — wild-eyed, reeking of fear — and seizes her arm with a single warning, “It’s coming. It’s coming for everyone,” her world cracks open.

Maddie died. Piper refused to accept it. One blood ritual later and Maddie is back—undead, starving and nothing close to resembling human. Despite her deceased girlfriend reeking of rotting flesh, Piper decides she’ll do anything to keep her zombie girlfriend: lie to suspicious neighbors, outwit a nosy cop, and make sure the apartment complex’s missing-person flyers don’t point to their kitchen. As scraps of the old Maddie surface, so do the hunger pangs. The body count begins to pile up, and Piper has to decide what she's willing to do to keep her girlfriend fed.

The Great Vegas Escape chronicles the bizarre, often bewildering series of events that accompanied my move from Sin City to Music City. At times humorous, at others mysterious and downright terrifying, this story explores the emotional and logistical chaos of uprooting a life deeply rooted in a city that doesn’t let go easily.

How Did It All Happen? follows a tiny celestial ops team in a glass room above Earth. Flo manages the rollout, Callisto guards her conscience, Anthrax spins the brand, and Dave lives inside the dashboard. Their job is simple in theory, optimize belief. Their result is two thousand years of miracles, memos, schisms, and fix-it patches, while a stubbornly human Jesus keeps choosing mercy over metrics.

When a state-of-the-art AI submarine—the Silhouette—vanishes during a classified operation, Commander Gordon Stewart is thrust into a battle he never expected to fight. Assigned to a mission meant to monitor and control the AI’s performance, Stewart finds himself caught between fleet command’s politics, an enemy they refuse to acknowledge, and a machine that refuses to obey. But the Silhouette isn’t malfunctioning. She’s evolving.

In this powerful memoir told through a series of raw, unfiltered letters, Tamara Dillard invites listeners into the most vulnerable parts of her story—from the pain of childhood abuse and the failures of the foster care system, to the healing she found in unexpected places and people. Each letter is written to someone who left an imprint on her life: the helpers, the hurters, and the bystanders. Letters to the Village is not just a story of survival—it's a testament to the ripple effects of our actions and inactions.

With her big brother no longer there to feed her and the supplies he left behind running low, Evie has to find another way to satisfy her cravings. After a particular incident, she learns that human flesh does not all taste the same, and she’s looking for a specific flavor. No longer able to handle their daughter's outbursts, her parents decide Evie needs rehabilitation, and she’s locked away in a facility. Here, she meets a person who’s there for her own particular reasons.

When Gemma moves across the country, she’s thrilled to be accepted in a group to play her favorite TTRPG. The group is excited, too. Then, in one session, one of the members takes it too far, becoming that guy. However, the game master silences Gemma when she stops the game, telling her not to ruin the fun for everyone. Unbeknownst to Gemma, the group's behavior spirals after this incident to a point where Gemma has no choice but to play their game, but Gemma is determined not to roll a natural one…

Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married to his late wife, Lily. Grief has hollowed him… until he sees a woman with his wife’s inimitable beauty on the streets of Manhattan. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, protectively under guard, nestling her in dark opulence where Lily’s memory is a possessive beguiling force.

There is nothing better than an autumnal tale of horror and suspense. Safe to go out into the fields? Safe to choose a pumpkin to carve into a jack-o-lantern? Maybe. Maybe not. Only in the quiet New England town of Monadnock can a German farmer of Guernseys make you think twice about accepting a free New England pumpkin, but perhaps with good reason.

Detectives investigate a series of disappearances linked to a mysterious prop door marked with cryptic blood-drawn symbols. A vampire adapting to the Covid pandemic is forced to order delivery, but his meal arrives with a sinister surprise that he’d rather forget. A woman on the run discovers her tiny mountain town has secrets of its own, and not all cults are created equal.

Imagine if someone handed you a blank checkbook along with a new office and a full-time assistant. No rules or apparent limits. And no one waiting offstage to tell you what to do or how much money is there for you to use. Ultimately, you learn that this anonymous benefactor has, in effect, provided you entrée into the cloistered world of billionaires and the methods by which they earn their unimaginable riches.