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"Brancas ; Les amours de Quaterquem" d'Alfred Assollant est un roman historique qui se déroule au XVIIe siècle, à l'époque de Louis XIV. L'histoire met en scène des intrigues amoureuses, des conflits de pouvoir et des éléments historiques.

" Alexis de Tocqueville, en publiant en 1835 une magistrale étude, La Démocratie en Amérique, allait devenir, aux yeux de beaucoup, le plus grand analyste de la société américaine et de ses institutions politiques ; au fédéralisme, a même écrit Pierre Ellion Trudeau, il a donné son « expression classique »1) Mais on a aussi écrit que, lors de leur passage a Québec en 1831, le même Tocqueville et son ami Gustave de Beaumont, pris par une soudaine fièvre nationaliste, s¿étaient par moments comportés comme de véritables agitateurs, s¿enflammant à troubler une population jugée encore trop apathique.2 N¿est-ce pas à Québec qüon voit Tocqueville affirmer « que le plus grand et le plus irrémédiable malheur pour un peuple, c¿est d¿être conquis » ?3 N¿est-ce pas là qüon le voit craindre que « les classes intermédiaires et supérieures de la population canadienne abandonnent les basses classes et se laissent entraîner dans le mouvement anglais » ?

" Le texte que je présente aujourd'hui au lecteur fait suite à la biographie intellectuelle de Tocqueville publiée en 2005 pour le bicentenaire de sa naissance. Les textes de Tocqueville sur le Coran et l'hindouisme sont aujourd'hui difficiles à trouver, ils n'ont été publiés que dans le tome III, volume 1 des ¿uvres complètes Gallimard, qui est aujourd'hui épuisé ; le texte sur les sectes n'a, lui, été publié que dans l'édition Vrin de La démocratie, en 2000. Les responsables de la collection et moi-même avons donc considéré qu'il était nécessaire de mettre à la disposition des lecteurs, sinon l'intégralité, du moins l'essentiel des textes les plus importants que Tocqueville a consacrés au fait religieux afin de sortir d'une vulgate tocquevillienne dans laquelle la glose a, trop souvent, pris le pas sur le texte lui-même aux dépens de la vérité qui était celle de l'auteur."

"L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution" est un ouvrage d'Alexis de Tocqueville, publié après sa mort en 1856. Dans cet ouvrage, Tocqueville examine les causes de la Révolution française de 1789 et analyse les transformations sociales, politiques et économiques qui ont eu lieu en France pendant cette période.L'auteur explore les facteurs qui ont conduit à la chute de l'Ancien Régime et à l'émergence d'une société nouvelle. Il examine également les conséquences de la Révolution sur la société française et les implications plus larges pour l'Europe.

America has vastly changed from its originality. Its roots are no longer foundationally secured, and its context has fallen into historical negationism. Original text and the fruit of actions are neglected, and history has been interpreted by popular opinion.This poem is a reflection of the seeds of the past that were planted and watered by our Founders and how, over time, infiltration of germination from some of the very weeds our Founders warned have sprouted "fundamental change" to originality, revising text, pluralizing truth, strangling freedom's roots, and distorting the reality of moral principles.What was America then?Who are we now?Which "truth" will you salute?

Silent Serenades - Haiku Love Poems For Lovers."Silent Serenades | Haiku Love Poems For Lovers" invites you to experience the profound beauty of love through the delicate art of haiku. This collection weaves a tapestry of emotions, capturing the essence of romance, passion, and the subtle whispers of the heart in the timeless and minimalist form of haiku poetry.In the quiet spaces between each line, these haiku love poems create an intimate dialogue with the reader, inviting you to explore the intricacies of connection and the serenity that love brings. Each poem is a silent serenade, a brief yet powerful moment that encapsulates the depth of emotions shared between lovers.Whether you are a seasoned poetry enthusiast or new to the world of haiku, this collection offers a unique journey into the heart of love. The brevity of each haiku allows for a profound connection with the emotions they convey, making "Silent Serenades" a timeless and accessible exploration of the language of love.Allow these haiku to kindle the flames of passion, evoke the tenderness of connection, and create a space for reflection on the beauty found in love's subtleties. "Silent Serenades" is not just a collection of poems; it's an invitation to immerse yourself in the evocative world of haiku and experience the silent whispers that serenade the soul in the realm of love.

Jared Smith's poetry has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in this country, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., and China. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Home Planet News; The New York Quarterly; The Pedestal Magazine; and Turtle Island Quarterly, as well as on the Boards of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. He is listed in The Colorado Encyclopedia; Poets & Writers; Colorado Poets Center; Who's Who in America; and other reference sources. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from New York University, and studied under The Great Books Program at St. John's College. He has taught at New York University and LaGuardia Community College (CCNY,) and worked as Director of Research and Education at an international laboratory, as Special Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory, and as an advisor to several White House Commissions under President William Clinton. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.

"There is an emotional breadth and depth to Tim's work that is palpable. A deep sense of abiding presence and immediacy felt in each poem; as if he's sitting there with you, across some table in a comfortable, darkened café. Two friends, swapping stories. Time well spent. And his words: the kind of intimate and profound vignettes about what colors our thoughts, holds our spirits captive, ruminates in the deepest parts of our mind." -Vincent Larson, author of "Ashtapadi: Webs of Light.""Like Whitman before him, Timothy Tarkelly takes anything and everything as his subject, and of particular interest to both poets is the human condition. The deep empathy Tarkelly shows the characters who populate his work anchors this collection, particularly in those poems he uses to examine his own past. But he's no narcissist, reserving the bulk of his attention for the world around him, even when he is present in a given poem, and that is one of his greatest strengths.Another asset is the pure relatability of these pieces. Tarkelly's chosen topics range from history to religion, emotional health to love and longing, workaday life to consumerism-in other words, issues most of us grapple with every day. And he addresses them in language that is accessible to all: those who are new to poetry, those who have been reading verse for years, and even those who think they have no interest in the enterprise. Such a writer is a rare gem, and I propose that we keep this one in our collection." -Caitlin Johnson, Author of "Gods in the Wilderness" and "WAR/La Guerre""Tim Tarkelly's poetry is another example that the best poetry right now is coming out of the midwest. 21st-century modernist truths for a second lost generation who long for the little moments of life so they can yearn for more."-Daniel W. Wright, Author of "Brian Epstein Died for You"

"Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge" est un roman historique écrit par Alexandre Dumas père. L'histoire se déroule pendant la Révolution française et suit les aventures du Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, un royaliste passionné, et de ses alliés qui luttent pour renverser le régime républicain. Le roman est connu pour ses intrigues politiques, ses rebondissements dramatiques et ses personnages mémorables. Il offre également un regard intéressant sur la période turbulente de la Révolution française à travers le style narratif captivant de Dumas.

Please thank you but why is a collection of poems about how we navigate sacred spaces, how we discover what's true, and how the gods might answer our prayers, even as they whisper their own.

Evasion Therapy is the evolution of unresolved grief. It is a toppling collection of avoidance. A bewildered assembly of one foot out the door. Each poem serves as a pawn in pursuit of eluding darkness-of always keeping the light on. Circumventing governance with a zoom in button. The flaw in evasion is its root in running. Eventually, your feet forget. Eventually, the bulb burns out.

Life on earth goes around in circles. It is like the sun that rises and sets without tiring. As it rises it arouses hope in everyone's life and when it sets it brings about peace and tranquility. By repeating its routine of setting and rising the sun changes seasons, bringing rain and propelling wind, all of which sustain plants, animals and all living creatures. This energy also stirs the waves in the oceans. Katu kowa is a diverse collection of over 150 poems, with contributions from students at the University of Namibia. The book, through the various themes, praises life on earth emphasizing a person's continual hunger and thirst for new heights even after reaching the very top. We always aspire for more, never truly satisfied with our accomplishments. Similarly, the reader will not be satiated from the sweetness of the poems in this book. This book is entirely written in Otjiherero.

This collection will be of interest to those who care for family members with dementia and other debilitating conditions. It grapples with the complexities of being a family caregiver to a spouse with Lewy Body Dementia as he slowly loses autonomy and experiences problems with thinking, movement, memory and hallucinations. It details love and loss in the voices of both the wife and husband.

"Mixing magic and street smarts as easily as English and Spanish, Michelle Lizet Flores gifts us with an intimate but unflinching exploration of the self and the many pasts that shape it. Her Cuban roots and female ancestors imbue her American life and children with a dense, palpable other-worldliness we are the richer for. These poems don't simply celebrate: they show us how to conjure and animate into being a life fully present in all its timelessness."-Andres Rojas, author of Third Winter in our Second Country (Trio House Press, 2021)"Invasive Species plants the reader like a frog on a Florida porch as the sky oranges, time passes, a mother passes, children are born, people pass, hurricanes come and go, the sky goes violet and days become many nights. How much peace we make in all that change depends on the type of lessons we gleaned and the character we were fortunate enough to forge over the fires of hard lessons. Flores teaches us 'how to heal with words rather than herbs.' If not handled correctly, the act of growing can feel invasive and chaotic. However, there is a calm and understood feeling of necessity in the pain that guides Flores' words from poem to poem to beat to story to song. Invasive Species doesn't capture a place, time, history, culture, and simply present it; it captures you, collects you, and keeps you in a jar with these places, people, times, etc. Flores presents Gothic Florida in a Cuban dress, says: 'y que?', and confirms 'It's a verifiable fact / that whiskey tastes best / when you drink it on your porch / while staring at an orange sky.'"-C.L. "Rooster" Martinez, a San Antonio poet and author of A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press, 2020), As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Press, 2020), and Mexican Dinosaur (Write About Now Press, 2023)"Michelle Lizet Flores' Invasive Species contains the expansive magic required to dress the wounds of heartbreak and survival. Part vexed, Floridian pastoral, part ode to diasporic selfhood, this book enthralled me with its vivid voice, its persistent attention to a self always at odds with geography, familial inheritance, and grief's long tenure. Rooted in hurricanes and heat, Flores invades a southern stillness-she runs the page. And in that surge, this book will upend how you look at the miracle of our temporary bodies, of motherhood and the fleeting moments that compose an undying kind of love. For me, Invasive Species illuminates the dark hallways of life-death and its inevitable lessons-and the conjuro needed to remake the world and to carry on. I invite you to encounter the exposed nerve of these deep roots; "the kind our abuelas taught us to boil, / the kind our children consume."-Jessica Q. Stark, author of Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020) and Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, 2023)

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And don't imagine you can control the course of love; love, if it thinks you worthy, will guide you. Kahlil Gibran's poems, parables, aphorisms, and stories cover a wide range of topics, from social issues to human concerns; from the tragedy and power of love to the soul's longings; from good and evil to crime and punishment; from happiness and sorrow to life and death; from inner beauty to dreams and mysticism; and from good and evil to crime and punishment. The Deluxe Edition is a collectible hardbound book that has been carefully produced and designed. It's ideal for both gifting and keeping. A valuable addition to any library's collection. The Prophet, The Wanderer, The Madman, and The Broken Wings are just a few of the works included in this unique collection.

Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) wasbrought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the ageof twelve in the chawls of Mumbai. He grew up in the streets of the big city,taught himself to read and write-working as doffer boy in a textile mill, asweeper, a peon-and became a school teacher and a celebrated revolutionarypoet. An abiding allegiance to the workers' movement was the thread that ranthrough his extraordinary journey. His poetry was thus as much ammunition tofight the good fight as it was art. It evolved a new idiom, written in the Marathispoken on the streets, freely borrowing words from Hindi or English, unafraidto break literary conventions upheld by the cultured elite. As he puts it, thepeople were 'my holy books, my scriptures, my gurus'.Surve makes no pretence to objectivity. His verse is unostentatious, unabashedlyso. He wants to write about, and for, the masses. There's no attempt to idealizethem, however-to gloss over the ugliness of life-for he is one of them. Hissubjects let their guard down and speak their minds. Activists crack jokes whileputting up posters, a sex worker hustles her client, and a butcher remembershow he lost his leg in a riot trying to save a woman from his co-religionists.The mill worker and farmer know exactly who oppresses them; there is angerin them. For all the misery we come across, though, these are not poems ofdespair, but, instead, of a dogged optimism.Jerry Pinto renders a broad selection of Surve's poetry into colourful yeteffortless English verse, retaining both its raw energy and immediacy, and theessence of its unyielding commitment to a better future.