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By Michel Tremblay, Alain Pontaut. 1972
Germaine Lauzon, ménagère de Montréal, a gagné un million de timbres-primes. Une bonne occasion pour inviter parentes et amies à…
une soirée de "collage de timbres". Mais les 15 femmes entassées dans la cuisine n'en restent pas longtemps aux civilités : jalousies, vengeances et haines personnelles éclatent, venant gâcher la fête. [1972]By David Lodge. 1999
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path.…
His university friend Sam Sharp, a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a dreadful profile of him in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most - his privacy. 1999.By Jacqueline Woodson. 2003
When Lonnie Collins Motion - Locomotion - was seven years old, his life changed forever, and now at eleven, his…
life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn't so bad after all. Grades 4-7. 2003.By David Rakoff. 2013
In this novel written in verse, Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive…
homeland - a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. 2013.By Emily Dickinson, Alfred Leete Hampson, May Lamberton Becker. 1996
Emily Dickinson, one of America's foremost poets, wrote many poems for children, the majority of them as messages to her…
nephews and nieces who lived next door. This collection of seventy-eight poems highlight the seasons, the passage of time, and living life itself. Grades 2-4. 1996.By John Fowles, Jan Relf. 1998
A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York…
Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces.By Thomas Lynch. 1994
The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of…
gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable. 1994.By James Berry. 1997
Set in Britain, Jamaica, countryside and inner city, this collection contains poetry for every mood and occasion, exploring issues of…
interest and relevance to teenagers. With haunting images, marvellous rhymes and exuberant language, James Berry celebrates the indomitable human spirit. For junior high readers.Includes both Reagan's own writing and his favourite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature. The breadth of…
these notes sheds light on a man who was deeply engaged with the arts, culture, and politics. Known as the "Great Communicator," Reagan sought wisdom from a wide-ranging set of political figures, philosophers, novelists, and poets. Some strong language. c2011.By Shel Silverstein. 2011
A collection of more than one hundred previously unpublished poems from the author of "A Light in the Attic" and…
"Where the Sidewalk Ends". Includes "The Lovetobutcants," "Garlic Breath," "Nasty School," and "The Kid-Eating Land Shark." Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2011.By Agatha Christie, John Curran. 2009
Literary advisor to the bestselling queen of crime's estate describes, excerpts, and discusses the seventy-plus notebooks discovered at Christie's family…
home after her daughter's 2004 death. Includes notes about Christie's books, alternative plot ideas, and two previously unpublished stories featuring her long-running protagonist Hercule Poirot. c2009.By Hoa Nguyen. 2016
What our lives permit us to perceive as givens, Nguyen reveals as mere conditions, inextricably tied to and guided by…
greater forces - from the economy to the environment, from the Mayan predictions to the menstrual cycle, from the weight of history to the burden of the future. The poems contain a sense of dis-ease, rupture, things frayed, and grief as love shimmers the edges. As grounded in the earth as in the stars, the poems are reminders of the possibilities of contemplation in every space and moment. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.By Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite. 1989
This collection of over 200 poems was written between 1938 and 1983. It includes 83 poems, covering every period of…
Larkin's career, which have not been previously published. 1989. Uniform title: PoemsBy Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein. 1966
World famous musical based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about a Jewish family living in a Russian village in 1905. Despite…
hard times the father manages to keep a sense of humour. 1966. Uniform title: Fiddler on the roof.By Rober Racine. 1999
" Depuis toujours, Oxymoron collectionne les collectionneurs, les hommes et les femmes. Il acquiert ceux et celles qui ont possédé,…
contemplé, vécu, incarné les chefs-d'œuvre, les phénomènes naturels, les événements extraordinaires, uniques. La pièce maîtresse d'Oxymoron est Gabriella, la plus grande interprète des madrigaux de don Carlo Gesualdo, prince et compositeur italien du XVIe siècle. Le plus musical sans doute de tous les textes de Rober Racine, cette cantate à deux voix est portée par un lyrisme envoûtant. " -- 4e de couv.By Barbara Kingsolver. 1995
Autobiographical essays from novelist Kingsolver, "Pigs in Heaven". In the title selection, Kingsolver, returning from an ocean vacation, inadvertently brings…
a hermit crab back to her desert home. After puzzling over his odd behavior, she decides her new pet is reacting to the tides of Tucson! Other selections discuss being a writer, a mother, and a desert dweller. Bestseller. 1995.By Robert Graves. 1986
Selection of poems by Graves, chosen by the poet, written since 1914. He "omitted the more baffling or shocking ones,"…
since this publication was directed at a wider public than his original volumes. 1986.By Dennis Lee, Roberta Charlesworth. 1964
By Marcel Dubé. 1970
By Marcel Dubé. 1973
Médée est-il le prototype du Canadien français "innocent", docile, sans cesse humilié. Ou cette comédie dramatique naturaliste ne s'intéresse-t-elle qu'à…
un personnage marginal, naïf d'un quartier populaire, et son auteur n'a-t-il aucune visée symboliste. C'est à chacun d'en décider. Thème central: "l'amour de l'offensé pour ses offenseurs". 1973.