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By Laura Wilder, Garth Williams. 1971
The story of Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their first years together on a homestead on the Dakota prairie in…
the late 1800s. This story follows "These Happy Golden Years" (DB 21200). For grades 4-7 and older readersBy Laura Wilder. 1935
A family moves westward from Wisconsin in a covered wagon and builds a cabin on the Kansas prairie right in…
Indian territory. Sequel to Little House in the Big Woods (BR 4442). For grades 4-7This volume covers Wright's prose through 1940. The editor restores Wright's original manuscripts, which had been extensively changed for publication.…
Includes Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, How "Bigger" Was Born, a literary chronology, and notes by Arnold Rampersad. Prequel to Richard Wright: Later Works (DB 41553, BR 10300). Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sexPresents Wright's complete autobiography for the first time, combining his childhood in the South (Black Boy) with his life as…
an adult in the North (American Hunger). Also contains his 1953 novel (The Outsider), a literary chronology, and extensive notes. Sequel to Richard Wright: Early Works (DB 41552, BR 10299). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexBy Colleen Nelson. 2023
By Nicole Caligaris. 2000
C'est une idée fixe : hobby, manie du voyage, nous partons, promis à la tristesse océanique des pèlerins du dimanche…
qui vont au bord du quai se faire une idée de l'horizon, alors que la contemplation du large nous rend non pas méditatifs mais malheureux profondément, mais objets d'un spleen sans mesure. Notre regard n'est pas fait pour courir hors limites, non. Notre regard est fait pour les immeubles, pour les toits de la ville, pour les parois montagneuses où accrocher ses rêves et ses ambitions. Et nous partons voir le désert, nous partons voir l'océan. -- 4e de couvBy Gustave Rouger. 2006
"L'épopée d'Antar occupe une place unique dans la littérature arabe. Célèbre dans tout l'Orient, telle jadis l'Iliade en Grèce, ce…
poème s'est perpétué à travers les âges par la bouche de nombreux conteurs de profession. [...] Né d'un émir et d'une esclave noire prise dans une razzia, Antar doit vaincre tous les préjugés de la naissance et de la couleur. Bâtard, esclave et noir, mais doué d'une prodigieuse vigueur, d'une vaillance à toute épreuve, d'une éloquence forte et sauvage, d'un sens de liberté et d'une générosité sans limites, poussé par un amour chevaleresque pour sa cousine Abla, il parvient, à force de prouesses, à triompher de toutes les résistances, se fait reconnaître par son père, et, admis aux rang des nobles, épouse celle qu'il aime et devient le premier de sa tribu, qui est la première parmi les nomades de l'Arabie." -- 4e de couvBy Maria D Wilkes. 1997
"Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls' mother. Caroline watches eagerly as new…
buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of new, exciting things for Caroline to do! She marches in her first Independence Day parade, a circus comes to town, and new neighbors become special friends. But then the family has a chance to move to another farm. Will Caroline have to say good-bye to the little town of Brookfield?" -- Provided by publisherBy Jan Karon. 2005
Words of wisdom, faith, and encouragement, as well as lively ideas, humor, commonsense advice, and more, that fictional Father Tim…
of Mitford has collected over the years from writers, philosophers, and the Bible. Companion to Patches of Godlight (DB 61575). 2005By Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki. 2010
Machine of Death tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears…
jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprise. Because even when people have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Some violence and strong languageBy Elizabeth Verdick. 2004
By Celia Wilkins. 2003
By Karen McQuestion. 2012
By 1694-1778 Voltaire. 1994
By Eric Dregni. 2017
By Ernesto R Sábato. 2002
Cinq lettres adressées comme un ultime cri d'alarme au lecteur, dans lesquelles l'auteur argentin poursuit son analyse du monde entré…
dans le XXIe siècle. Face au pouvoir croissant des nouvelles technologies et de la montée en puissance de la mondialisation, E. Sabato souhaite refonder un nouvel humanisme.By Jorge Semprun. 1998
"Ce livre est le récit de la découverte de l'adolescence et de l'exil, des mystères de Paris, du monde, de…
la féminité. Aussi, surtout sans doute, de l'appropriation de la langue française. L'expérience de Buchenwald n'y est pour rien, n'y porte aucune ombre. Aucune lumière non plus..."By Ntozake Shange. 2023
The Millions " Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays,…
plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, curated by National Book Award winner Imani Perry with a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Tarana Burke. In the late '60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school's literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know them, each verse, dance, and song a love letter to Black women and girls, and the community at large. Sing a Black Girl's Song is a new posthumous collection of Shange's unpublished poems, essays, and plays from throughout the life of the seminal Black feminist writer. In these pages we meet young Shange, learn the moments that inspired for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf..., travel with an eclectic family of musicians, sit on "The Couch" opposite Shange's therapist, and discover plays written after for colored girls' international success. Sing a Black Girl's Song houses, in their original form, the literary rebel's politically charged verses from the Black Arts Movement era alongside her signature tender rhythm and cadence that capture the minutia and nuance of Black life. Sing a Black Girl's Song is the continuation of a literary tradition that has bolstered generations of writers and a long-lasting gift from one of the fiercest and most highly celebrated artists of our timeBy Gillian Sze. 2023
By Mihaela Nicolescu, Nadine Browne. 2016
Who holds the whip hand? From a young mother stealing back her child to a disillusioned lover seeking revenge with…
a potion, from house cleaners contemplating a life of crime to a woman parting ways with Jesus, these are stories of people living on the edge. In their collections ‘The Returning’ and ‘Playing Dead’, Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne illuminate the complexity of the everyday with compassionate but unflinching accounts of the ways in which people gain, lose or reclaim control of their lives.