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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.

« 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. »

“Gorgeous. . . Expertly guides you back to your deepest, truest self.” —Jonathan Van Ness, New York Times bestselling author Intuitive Life and Leadership Coach Mory Fontanez offers a transformative vision: when we align with our intuition, we unlock not only personal fulfillment but also...

Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Set in an America at once foreign to many and staggeringly close at hand, A Woman Is No Man is a story of culture and honour, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. It is an intimate glimpse into a controlling and closed cultural world and a universal tale about family and the ways silence and shame can destroy those we have sworn to protect. 

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.

Let Go, Trust God, Become Who You Were Meant To Be is not a step-by-step guide to fixing your life—it’s a gentle companion for the seasons when nothing makes sense. In these pages, Rebecca Simon offers soulful reflections for anyone sitting in the in-between: between heartbreak and healing...

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.

Lily Black was presumed dead for years. Now she’s returned to the unquestioning arms of her loving husband, Kane. Where she’s been is a mystery, but the deadly danger she’s brought with her is manifest to all. Aliyah, Kane’s mother, has worked hard to position herself in power. No one escapes her bitter ambition, not her children and certainly not a woman who may not be who she claims.

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…

Enter the surreal and thought-provoking world of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, narrated by Richard Salem. This timeless story follows the extraordinary life of Benjamin Button, a man who is born old and ages backward, becoming younger as the years pass. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, Fitzgerald’s masterful tale explores themes of time, identity, and the fleeting nature of life.

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.

What makes a great American president? Moral purity—or decisive action? Vision—or results? Popular acclaim—or the hard, often ruthless ability to seize crisis and bend history's arc? In Great American Presidents, renowned historian Allan J. Lichtman offers a bold, unsentimental answer. Moving beyond polls, rankings, and reputation, he applies a rigorous new framework—the Ten Keys to Presidential Greatness—to assess twelve presidents who did more than occupy the Oval Office: they transformed the presidency and the nation itself.

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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.

On the eve of D-Day, the fate of the world hangs not on the beaches of Normandy, but deep within a secret Nazi facility in occupied France. Here, in a claustrophobic, slave-driven mine codenamed Noball 109, German scientists are racing to perfect a terror weapon that would render the Allied invasion obsolete: atomic-tipped V-2 rockets aimed at the heart of London Enter Miriam Maduro, a ghost haunted by her past.

Twenty years ago, five girls vanished into the woods behind Greyport High School and discovered something impossible beneath the riverbank. Only four came back unchanged enough to keep living. Now, the Class of 1987 is gathering again beneath faded gymnasium lights and awkward nostalgia, but the women who once called themselves Katie, Jojo, Kirsten, Isabella, and Nat are carrying far more than old memories. One has spent decades holding everyone together until she nearly disappeared herself. One sees too much truth to trust anyone fully.

Cristina Isabel Escalante thought she was going to be stuck at home all summer, panicking about starting high school and growing apart from her two best friends. But when her grandfather falls ill, she finds herself traveling all the way to Colombia —and when his deathbed confession reveals that he is passing on his burden to her as executor of cursed magical jewels stolen from the Chachapoya Peruvian Tribe, Cristina must undertake a quest that brings her to Chile and takes her across the continent.

Cranky old ex-cop turned private investigator Jay and his new assistant, his tech-savvy granddaughter, McKayla, arrive in the mining town of Carmine, Nevada looking for their client's young daughter, Rose, whose mother spirited her away in a bitter custody battle. Carmine is a strange, spooky place, and its residents are extremely hostile to the PIs.

A series of crimes strikes the Venice area but they are unrelated and there are no motives to explain them. Endowed with a vivid imagination, former astronomer Andrea, now a passionate politician reading pulp fiction and detective novels, casually notes strange indications leading him to suspect David, his partner's son, is responsible. Only one thing is certain: the killer is acting in accordance with the temporal law regulated by the Fibonacci sequence. The one to discover this is Bobo, one of David’s university friends and a brilliant logical-mathematical mind.