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  • Antonine Maillet : Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures

    Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures

    by Antonine Maillet, Wade McLauchlan, Margaret Conrad ...
    Series series The Symons Medal Series/Collection de la Médaille Symons
    A veritable artist, Maillet becomes a “creator of sounds, of colours, of forms and words.” As she speaks, she paints a vast landscape of mountains and oceans, history and story, using the tools on her palette: blending the colours of myths and those of contemporary issues, creating an epic poem in a profoundly personal voice. This country she portrays is both young and old, speaks two languages, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • La Sagouine

    by Antonine Maillet ...
    Translated by Wayne Grady ...
    The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she reminisces and rants, telling stories about herself, her friends and neighbours, the priest and his church, and every other aspect of life in her village, she is actually telling the story of Acadie.More than 30 years after its first publication in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • What I Wish I Had Told My Children

    by Michel Bastarache, Antoine Trépanier, Antonine Maillet ...
    Translated by Julie da Silva ...
    Series series Biography and memoirs
    Dans cet ouvrage intimiste, Michel Bastarache se confie sur son enfance en Acadie et ses multiples incarnations professionnelles avant de devenir le premier juge acadien à siéger à la Cour suprême du Canada.Dans une lettre qu’il adresse à ses deux enfants, morts d’une maladie incurable, Me Bastarache raconte sa constante lutte pour l’égalité des communautés francophone et anglophone. Il revient ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Sounder

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    Illustrated by James Barkley ...
    by William H. Armstrong ...
    This powerful Newbery-winning classic tells the story of the great coon dog Sounder and his family.An African American boy and his family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the boy's father takes their dog, Sounder, out to look for food. The man grows more desperate by the day.When food suddenly appears on the table one morning, it seems like a blessing. But the sheriff and his deputies are ... Read more

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  • The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

    by Lilian Jackson Braun ...
    Series Book 1 - Cat Who Short Stories
    The New York Times bestselling author of the Cat Who mysteries presents a fantastic collection of feline fiction which includes fourteen short stories about kitties who just can’t keep their whiskers out of trouble...Filled with furballs like a courageous Siamese who bags a cunning cat burglar, a country kitty who proves a stumbling block in a violent murder, and an intuitive feline whose ... Read more

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  • The Devil in America

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    by Kai Ashante Wilson ...
    Series series A Tor.Com Original
    Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shattering consequences of this confrontation echo backwards and forwards in time, even to the present day."There’s so much here to appreciate and admire, fine storytelling with a clearly-realized setting and ... Read more

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  • Manhattan Transfer

    by John Dos Passos ...
    Manhattan Transfer, considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works, describes the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories, primarily, of four people living in Manhattan from the 1890s to the late 1920s. The book attacks the consumerism and social indifference of contemporary urban life, ... Read more

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  • Old Man's Boy Grows Up

    by Robert Ruark ...
    The year 1957 marked the publication of Robert Ruark's best seller, The Old Man and the Boy, a tale of "infinite warmth and wisdom, love and understanding " It told of the Boy, Ruark himself, and the Old Man, his grandfather, as they roamed the North Carolina outdoors together, savoring the sights, sounds, and smells of the earth. As they explored the woods and fished the streams, the Old Man ... Read more

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  • The First Nudist

    by Janice Daugharty ...
    Following a family reunion, Gransallie learns that her favorite niece, Ophelia, ia a not only a school teacher but a nudist. Hating to be proved wrong, Gransallie tries to defend Ophelia to her granddaughters, who "don't care where they are going or what shape they arrive in as long as they are going." Gransallie is their driver and chapperone on trips to Florida, or just anywhere. ... Read more

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  • River Of Earth

    by James Still ...
    First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity. In his world privation, violence, and death are part of everyday ... Read more

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  • The Hedgehog of Oz

    by Cory Leonardo ...
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