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Hélène a bientôt 40 ans. Elle a fait de belles études, une carrière. Elle a réalisé le programme des magazines et le rêve de son adolescence : se tirer, changer de milieu, réussir. Et pourtant, le sentiment de gâchis est là, les années ont passé, tout a déçu. Christophe, lui, n’a jamais quitté ce bled où ils ont grandi avec Hélène. Il n’est plus si beau. Il a fait sa vie à petits pas, privilégiant les copains, la teuf, remettant au lendemain les grandes décisions, l’âge des choix. On pourrait croire qu’il a tout raté.

Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody. Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control.

Vivian Carter's mom was a Riot Grrrl in the 1990s, but now she and Viv live a pretty quiet life in a small Texas town. When Viv witnesses a series of sexist incidents at her high school, she takes a page from her mom's past and makes a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. Viv is just blowing off steam, but before she knows it she's started a revolution.

In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.

Evie Barnes is a bad girl. So are all her friends. They’re the sort who wear bold makeup, laugh too loud, and run around with boys. Most of all, they protect their own against the world. So when Evie is saved from a sinister encounter by a good girl from the “right” side of the tracks, every rule she’s always lived by is called into question. Now she must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knew about loyalty.

When Caroline's little brother is kidnapped, his subsequent rescue leads to the discovery of Ethan, a teenager who has been living with the kidnapper since he was a young child himself. In the aftermath Caroline can't help but wonder what Ethan knows about everything that happened to her brother, who is not readjusting well to life at home. And although Ethan is desperate for a friend, he can't see Caroline without experiencing a resurgence of traumatic memories.

Have you ever observed a bee up close and wondered what was going on inside its head? Like ours, insects' brains take up most of the space in their heads, but their brains are smaller than a grain of rice, only 0.0002% as large as ours. But what purpose does the insect brain serve, and how does that drive their creativity, morality, and emotions?

An elderly substitute teacher at Baldwin High School is found dead in the faculty lounge. But after a bit of a stir, life quickly returns to normal—it’s not like it’s the worst (or even most interesting) thing that has happened within the building’s walls. But when, a week later, the spontaneous scattering of his ashes on the school grounds catches the attention of some busybody parents, it sets in motion a year that can only be described as wild, bizarre, tragic, mundane, beautiful, and humorous all at once.

Rachel Walker is devoted to God. She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy. But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from and increasingly finds that neither the church nor her homeschool education has the answers she craves.

Août 1992. Une vallée perdue quelque part à l'Est, des hauts fourneaux qui ne brûlent plus, un lac, un après-midi de canicule. Anthony a 14 ans, et avec son cousin, ils s'emmerdent comme c'est pas permis. C'est là qu'ils décident de voler un canoë pour aller voir ce qui se passe de l'autre côté, sur la fameuse plage des culs-nus. Au bout, ce sera pour Anthony le premier amour, le premier été, celui qui décide de toute la suite.

"Je vous souhaite d’être follement aimée", écrivait André Breton. Dans ce recueil de poèmes qui constituent autant de microfictions incandescentes, publiées au fil des années sur Instagram, Nicolas Mathieu dessine les visages de cet amour fou et donne à voir un monde de coïncidences, d’analogies et de banalités transformées en trésors : les villes entrevues, la mer, les rencontres et les commencements, le désespoir et les joies, le bonheur intenable, les saisons, les matins au lit et les dîners avortés, les gueules de bois, l’attente, la désertion, l’enfance et la fin qui viendra.

L'essayiste québécois analyse ce qu'il appelle la vision diversitaire du monde, une forme de terrorisme intellectuel qui, dans les pays occidentaux, inverserait le devoir d'intégration en faisant droit aux revendications issues de minorités ethniques. Il pointe une poussée racialiste, dont la radicalité serait propice à un nouveau totalitarisme se revendiquant de la lutte contre l'intolérance.

Êtes-vous un explorateur, quelqu’un qui cherche toujours à acquérir de nouvelles compétences, ou qui est en quête de découvertes ? Peut-être que l’apprentissage d’une nouvelle langue devrait être la prochaine étape à faire sur votre liste d’accomplissements !

Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That's when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And the summer of 1986 promises to be extra special when she meets J.C., the new boy in town, whose kisses make Elena feel like she's been transported to a new world. Joaquin Finney can't imagine why anyone would want to come to Mariposa Island. He just graduated from high school and dreams about going to California to find his father and escape his mother's manipulation.

Confidences pour acquérir la confiance en soi !

August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a lost valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, 14-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to find out what it’s like on the other side at the famous nudist beach. The trip ultimately takes Anthony to his first love. Four summers and four defining moments, from “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the 1998 World Cup, which encapsulate the hectic lives of the inhabitants of that intermediate France of medium-sized cities and their quiet residential estates....

The surest way to retiring poor is working for money instead of getting money to work for you. Whether you have a 9-5 job or are self-employed, if you cannot put money to work for you in some way, your odds of working the rest of your life and perhaps retiring poor are very high. Moreover, if you work for money, you cannot really do everything you want to do whenever you want to do it since your income is directly connected to your efforts- if you stop working, it is only a matter of time before the income dries up.

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mum was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. 

Mädchen - Lasst euch nicht alles gefallen! Vivian hat die Nase voll. Von den blöden Kommentaren der Jungs während des Unterrichts. Von den Lehrern, die nichts dagegen unternehmen. Von der absurden Kleiderordnung, die nur für Mädchen zu gelten scheint. Aber vor allem hat Vivian es satt, den Mund zu halten. Angeregt durch einen alten Flyer ihrer Mutter, früher ein Punkrock-Riot-Grrrl, beschließt sie, etwas gegen die Ungerechtigkeit zu tun. Heimlich gestaltet sie ihren eigenen Flyer, MOXIE (Englisch: Schwung, Biss haben, Schneid, Selbst- und Zielbewusstsein, Mumm, Courage, Tatkraft, den Mut haben), und verteilt ihn in ihrer Schule.

Ein Ort in der französischen Provinz in den 1990er-Jahren: Die Eltern, gezeichnet von harter Arbeit, verfallen den Versprechungen der Nationalisten. Die Kinder, voller Lebenswut, wachsen inmitten von Gewalt und Hoffnungslosigkeit auf. Über vier Sommer begleiten wir Anthony, Stéph, Hacine und ihre Freunde zwischen Nirvana und der Fußball-WM 1998 - in eine Welt, in der ihnen nichts geschenkt wird und an der sie dennoch hängen. Doch jetzt im Sommer herrscht Aufbruchstimmung, alle haben viel zu viel Zeit und am See mit Badekleidung verwischen die Standesunterschiede.