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Les Croisades vues par les Arabes
Amin Maalouf
En partant pour les croisades, ces preux chevaliers avaient bonne conscience : ils portaient leur croix sur le dos et la divine parole en Orient. L'Orient, c'Ă©tait la terre promise, c'est-Ă -dire la terre des Ă©pices, de l'or et des soieries. La terre qu'on peut piller, brĂ»ler, violer. Et ils pillĂšrent la terre, violĂšrent les femmes, massacrĂšrent les hommes, firent rĂŽtir les enfants, au nom de la chrĂ©tientĂ©. Ces barbares furent combattus tout aussi fĂ©rocement du cĂŽtĂ© de l'islam, oĂč se trouvaient la civilisation la plus avancĂ©e du monde, mais aussi les rivalitĂ©s et la 'torpeur du monde arabe'. Et JĂ©rusalem, Damas, Beyrouth, villes saintes, villes maudites, villes martyres, connurent l'enfer. Religion, que de crimes on commet en ton nom! Histoire, que de leçons tu nous as donnĂ©es ! Et pourtant
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debout! les damnĂ©s de la terre! debout! les forçats de la faim! la raison tonne en son cratĂšre, câest lâĂ©ruption de la faim. du passĂ© faisons table rase, foule esclave, debout! debout! le monde va changer de base: nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout!
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
il nâest pas de sauvers suprĂȘmes, ni Dieu, ni CĂ©sar, ni tribun, producteurs sauvons-nous nous-mĂȘmes! dĂ©crĂ©tons le salut commun! pour que le voleur rende gorge, pour tirer lâesprit du cachot, soufflons nous-mĂȘmes notre forge, battons le fer quand il est chaud!
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
lâĂtat comprime et la loi triche, lâimpĂŽt saigne le malheureux; nul devoir ne sâimpose au riche, le droit du pauvre est un mot creux. câest assez languir en tutelle, lâĂ©galitĂ© veut dâautres lois: « pas de droits sans devoirs, dit-elle, Ă©gaux, pas de devoirs sans droits! »
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
hideux dans leur apothĂ©ose les rois de la mine et du rail, ont-ils jamais fait autre chose, que dĂ©valiser le travail? dans les coffres-forts de la bande, ce quâil a crĂ©Ă© sâest fondu. en dĂ©crĂ©tant quâon le lui rende, le peuple ne veut que son sou dĂ».
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
les Rois nous soĂ»laient de fumĂ©es, paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans! appliquons la grĂšve aux armĂ©es, crosse en lâair et rompons les rangs! sâils sâobstinent, ces cannibales, Ă faire de nous des hĂ©ros, ils sauront bientĂŽt que nos balles sont pour nos propres gĂ©nĂ©raux.
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes le grand parti des travailleurs; la terre nâappartient quâaux Hommes, lâoisif ira loger ailleurs. combien de nos chaires se repaissent! mais si les corbeaux, les vautours, un de ces matins disparaissent, le soleil brillera toujours!
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
câest la lutte finale groupons-nous, et demain, lâInternationale, sera le genre humain
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Germinal
Ămile Zola
The thirteenth novel in Ămile Zolaâs great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanityâs capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, in debt, and unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.
âąNew translation
âą Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, filmography, chronology, explanatory notes, and glossary
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In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3)
Kate Canterbary
The last time Audrey Saunders saw Jude Bellessi, he begged her to ditch her wedding and run off with him. She said no. In her defense, she was already in the dress.
Years laterâdivorced and done with relationshipsâAudrey runs right into the one man she never managed to forget. Except Jude isnât the rebellious bad boy she remembers.
Now Jude's an aerospace engineer, a fiercely protective single dadâŠand, apparently, her fiancĂ©. At least thatâs the story he spun for his sick mother.
When Jude asks her to play along for the summer, Audrey knows better. She really does. But unfinished business is a powerful thingâand so is the pull of the boy who once held her whole heart.
Besides, how much damage can one summer vacation with the biggest mistake of her life really do? epic. Catastrophe looks a lot like a motherâinâlaw in turbo weddingâplanner mode, a preschooler who doesnât miss a beat, and a suspiciously high number of hotel rooms with just one bed.
So why does lying about forever feel like the first honest thing she's done in years?
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In a Second (Friendship, RI Book 3)
Kate Canterbary
The last time Audrey Saunders saw Jude Bellessi, he begged her to ditch her wedding and run off with him. She said no. In her defense, she was already in the dress.
Years laterâdivorced and done with relationshipsâAudrey runs right into the one man she never managed to forget. Except Jude isnât the rebellious bad boy she remembers.
Now Jude's an aerospace engineer, a fiercely protective single dadâŠand, apparently, her fiancĂ©. At least thatâs the story he spun for his sick mother.
When Jude asks her to play along for the summer, Audrey knows better. She really does. But unfinished business is a powerful thingâand so is the pull of the boy who once held her whole heart.
Besides, how much damage can one summer vacation with the biggest mistake of her life really do? epic. Catastrophe looks a lot like a motherâinâlaw in turbo weddingâplanner mode, a preschooler who doesnât miss a beat, and a suspiciously high number of hotel rooms with just one bed.
So why does lying about forever feel like the first honest thing she's done in years?
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What I'd Rather Not Think About
Jente Posthuma
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other canât live without them?
This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthumaâs deceptively simple What Iâd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely.
In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.
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The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)
Premee Mohamed
In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent, causing food shortages, ending industry, and leaving little behind. Then came Cad, mysterious mind-altering fungi that invade the bodies of the now scattered citizenry. Reid, a young woman who carries this parasite, has been given a chance to get away - to move to one of the last remnants of pre-disaster society - but she can't bring herself to abandon her mother and the community that relies on her.
When she's offered a coveted place on a dangerous and profitable mission, she jumps at the opportunity to set her family up for life, but how can Reid ask people to put their trust in her when she can't even trust her own mind?
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The Getaway List
Emma Lord
The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List â a list of all the adventures theyâve wanted to do together since he moved away â will hopefully help her get in touch with her old adventurous self, and pave the road to a new future.
Riley isnât sure what to expect from Tom, who has been distant since his famous momâs scriptwriting career pulled him away. But when Riley arrives in the city, their reconnection is as effortless as it was when they were youngâexcept with one, unexpected complication that will pull Rileyâs feelings in a direction she didnât know they could take. As she, Tom, and their newfound friends work their way through the delightfully chaotic items on The Getaway List, Riley learns that sometimes the biggest adventure is not one you take, but one you feel in your heart.
Inescapably romantic and brimming with Emma Lordâs signature cheer, The Getaway List is an uplifting and romantic read that will settle into your heart and never leave.
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Perfect Fit
Clare Gilmore
A hilarious and heartfelt rom-com about having it all, slowing down to see the big picture, and finding out that the person you least expect could be your perfect fit.
Josephine Davis has spent her entire twenties building Revenant: a fashion brand headquartered in downtown Austin. When her biggest investor orders Josie to hire a consultant, the last person she expects to be working with is Will Grant â the twin brother of Josieâs ex best friend.
Sure, Will and Josie may have shared one mistake of a kiss during senior spring break nine years ago, but theyâve never been friends. She remembers him as moody; he always thought of her as shallow. Romance isnât on the table for either of them until they blink, and realize thereâs a reason they canât stay away from each other.
But thereâs Willâs sister to consider â whom Josie hasnât spoken with since their falling out â not to mention, Will and Josie live seventeen hundred miles apart. And itâs not like she has time for a boyfriend anyway when sheâs an overworked CEO. As Josieâs burnout looms while she falls deeper and harder for Will, she contends with the fact that eventually, sheâll have to make a choice: stay alone to be productive, or slow down to be in love.
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
Keigo Higashino
Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered.
When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime...
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Departure(s)
Julian Barnes
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love and the writer's endgame.Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the "There will be a storyâor a story within the storyâbut not just yet.âOf course, whether Departure(s) is mostly a fictional story or not, there is a lot of its author in it, including Barnes's reckoning with the blood disorder he has been living with since he was diagnosed in 2020, his long preoccupation with dying and grief and his mordant sense of the indignities and lost opportunities we're prey to in love. The story he promises to deliver is a love story, that of two friends he met at university in the 1960s, that time of touted but rarely experienced sexual freedom. Julian played matchmaker to Stephen (tall, gangling, uncertain) and Jean (tart and attractive); as the third wheel, he was deeply invested in the success of their love and insulted when they broke up. Time is swift, and forty years later, he tries again, watching as their rekindled affair produces joys, betrayals and disappointments of a different order.Barnes uses both his novelistic memory and his (real?) personal diary entries to examine not just the quixotic relationship of Jean and Stephen but his writer's eye upon it, and how his efforts on their behalf add up in the end. Despite promising them he'd never write about them, he breaks that promise to fulfill another one, amply, to his readers, in this delightful and poignant novelistâs game that only Julian Barnes knows how to play.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Matt Dinniman
The apocalypse will be televised!
A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.
In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earthâfrom Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of shedsâcollapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.
The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.
Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.
You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.
You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this gameâwith the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.
They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.
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A Stage Set for Villains
Shannon J. Spann
The gods are dead. All thatâs left are the PlayersâŠ
The performers of the Playhouse are as worshipped as they are feared, their enchanting shows bending hearts, minds, and even reality itself. Vicious, godlike, lethal. Eighteen-year-old Riven Hesper knows the dangers better than anyone, after her own encounter with a Player resulted in a curse that is slowly killing her.
When the Playhouse announces the spectacle of a lifetimeâa chance for one mortal to steal a Playerâs immortalityâRiven sees her last chance to live. Desperate for answers, she infiltrates the competition. There, she finds Jude, the Playhouseâs brilliant, merciless Lead Player, whose charm is as dangerous as his Craft, and strikes a deadly bargain to save her life.
But with time running out and the Playhouseâs secrets unraveling into a disturbing picture, Riven faces a grim possibility: she might not be the hero of her story after all. In fact, she may be the villain.
Because the Playhouse doesnât just tell stories. It rewrites them.
And Rivenâs might end in blood.
Caraval meets One Dark Window in this lush and dark fantasy.
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Son of Nobody
Yann Martel
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
Homerâs Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows a goatherdâs son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom and the poem of his life is lostâuntil a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later. As Harlow assembles and comments on the fragments in footnotes, he retrieves memories of his wife and daughter and grapples with questions of ambition, family, and responsibility in both the ancient and modern worlds. Son of Nobody upends the regal perspective of traditional epics and shows that âthe past is never done with, that always there are parallels and returns and repetitions, always the song continues.â Readers of Madeline Millerâs The Song of Achilles and Emily Wilsonâs The Iliad will revel in this breathtaking feat of the imagination.
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The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate eventsâa massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobbyâs glass wall: Why donât you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clientsâ accounts. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathanâs wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.
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Thoughts from 80% (page 559) i think iâve seen this film before
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Game Point
Meg Jones
It's game, set, match in the hottest new read of 2025! Pre-order now!
When Aussie Dylan Bailey walks away from her tenth grand slam without a title, she decides to call in for early retirement. But after spending time with fellow pro and British player Oliver Anderson, he convinces her she still has one last title fight left in her. Together, they embark on a journey of rediscovery and second chances, as Dylan and Oliver navigate the highs and lows of professional tennis while falling deeper in love with each passing match.
Tennis Sport Romance
Pro-Athletes
Friends to Lovers
Coach x Player
Golden Retriever x Black Cat
Roommates
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