Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.

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'était la terre promise, c'est-à-dire la terre des épices, de l'or et des soieries. La terre qu'on peut piller, brûler, violer. Et ils pillèrent la terre, violèrent les femmes, massacrèrent les hommes, firent rôtir les enfants, au nom de la chrétienté. Ces barbares furent combattus tout aussi férocement du côté de l'islam, où se trouvaient la civilisation la plus avancée du monde, mais aussi les rivalités et la 'torpeur du monde arabe'. Et Jérusalem, 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 données ! Et pourtant

One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. S., conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand, and it is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.

Ewilan, Ellana, Shaé, Nawel ou encore Eejil, telles sont les héroïnes emblématiques du cycle de Gwendalavir de Pierre Bottero. Publié à partir de 2003, il connaît un succès retentissant et marque de son empreinte les littératures de jeunesse et la fantasy contemporaines. En ouvrant les portes de ses mondes imaginaires, Bottero a ouvert la voie aux héroïnes dans des champs où elles ont longtemps été de grandes oubliées : volontiers magiciennes et guerrières, figures féeriques ou chasseresses, ses personnages offrent de nouveaux modèles féminins, puissants et indépendants. Mais, si ses œuvres accordent aux filles la première place, leur permettent-elles vraiment d’échapper aux représentations féminines traditionnelles, de leur résister, voire de subvertir les normes de genre ? C’est ce que cet ouvrage vous invite à découvrir, en suivant leur parcours de La Quête d’Ewilan (2003) au Chant du troll (2010).

A sweeping, sensual historical novel about one woman’s unconventional life lived in search of an answer by the award-winning author of The End We Start From and The Harpy, Megan Hunter. She marvels at the way a single day can unravel everything, like ribbon pulled from a present. In 2017, Megan Hunter burst onto the literary scene with her debut novel, The End We Start From, a startlingly beautiful story of climate change and motherhood that is now a feature film starring Jodi Comer. Her second book, The Harpy, fiercely explored marriage and power through a dark, imaginative tale of revenge. A writer of remarkable range, Hunter now delivers her first historical novel, a gorgeous story of art, desire, and faith set against the backdrop of a changing England. Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. Her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather in the idyllic English countryside for lunch, arranging themselves around well-worn roles. They trade political views and artistic arguments as they impatiently await the arrival and first sight of Frances, the new beau of Ivy’s beloved older brother, Joseph. In this auspicious atmosphere of springtime, Ivy’s world feels on the cusp of something grand–but neither she nor those closest to her predicts how a single, enchanted evening will alter the rest of their lives. A radiant, philosophical, and intimate journey through time, Days of Light chronicles six pivotal days across six decades to tell the story of Ivy’s pursuit of answers—to the events of this fateful Easter Sunday and to the shifting desires of her own heart. Moving through the Second World War up to the close of the 20th century, Hunter captures the galvanic beauty to be found in loss and love and the transformative days, hours, and moments that define a winding, beautiful life.

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'était la terre promise, c'est-à-dire la terre des épices, de l'or et des soieries. La terre qu'on peut piller, brûler, violer. Et ils pillèrent la terre, violèrent les femmes, massacrèrent les hommes, firent rôtir les enfants, au nom de la chrétienté. Ces barbares furent combattus tout aussi férocement du côté de l'islam, où se trouvaient la civilisation la plus avancée du monde, mais aussi les rivalités et la 'torpeur du monde arabe'. Et Jérusalem, 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 données ! Et pourtant