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« 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. »

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.

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. 

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.

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…

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...

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.

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.

Adele, a Native American witch, returns to the cabin where it all began, hoping to start a new life. As she opened the door to her rebuilt cabin, she felt estranged in her own home. That night, when she went to sleep, the dreams that had always haunted her on this Littleton, New Hampshire soil returned, but with a new twist of fate. Jake, a shapeshifting Lycan and the love of Adele's life, has turned over a new leaf. He is starting a new life and working at his father's old woodworking shop. He remains optimistic, hoping to finally solidify his relationship with Adele.

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They thawed him out to save humanity. Now they want him buried. In the year 2220, cryogenically preserved scientist Dr. Peter Royce and his wife, Monica, are awakened to save a dying world. They emerge into a chilling dystopia where a devastating plague known as mitocancer threatens to extinguish humanity, and a ruthless regime dictates human worth based solely on usefulness to society.

The evidence is encrypted on six drives hidden in a Chicago bank vault. The only man with the passwords is dying, and Olivia has 72 hours to get them before federal prosecutors lose their case. When she cracks those drives, what's inside rewrites everything she thought she knew about the night Leo died. Now there's a trial. Three months in Chicago, maybe four. Grace is four years old and has already learned that Gamma stays, Mama leaves.

This story should never have been told. It was meant to stay buried, hidden among children’s fables and nursery rhymes, safe behind painted illustrations and whispered lullabies. Wonderland was always a lie. It was never a dream, it was a trap. And now, thanks to me, Aryn Bats, you hold the proof in your hands. What you are about to hear is not a fairy-tale. It is a dissection. A peeling back of bright colors to reveal the rotting muscle beneath. Every smiling face you remember has been carved into something else, something hungry, something waiting.

Her life was shattered in an instant. Her purpose will demand everything. After a devastating accident, Kasha is drawn toward a calling she doesn’t fully understand—and isn’t sure she can survive. Each step forward brings doubt, darkness, and trials that test her faith and her heart.

Four years sober and Olivia thought she'd broken the pattern. Then she bet everything on revenge. The margin call came at 6:47 AM: deposit $480,000 in 72 hours or lose it all. Olivia didn't have it. But billionaire activist David Keller did. He had the resources, the strategy, and an offer Olivia couldn't refuse. For three weeks, she believes she can finally win. Then Olivia gets a text: The warehouse where Leo died. Storage unit #23. Evidence inside. Come alone. Tonight.

If you’re looking for a gritty, immersive LitRPG adventure that doesn’t pull its punches, this book is exactly what you need. It’s packed with intense combat, real stakes, and a protagonist who doesn’t just survive, he fights, claws, and bleeds his way through the horrors that stand in his path. The world isn’t just a backdrop; it’s a living, breathing entity full of dangers, from undead hordes to spectral warriors and powerful necromancers. Every battle matters, and every decision carries weight.

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.

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.