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The boys' war: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War
By Jim Murphy. 1999
Although precise records do not exist, between ten and twenty percent of the soldiers who fought in the Civil War…
were boys sixteen and younger. Many kept diaries and journals and sent letters home. Some wrote memoirs and company histories. Through these primary sources the author presents a vivid portrait of their experiences. Junior and Senior High. 1999.The bridge across forever: a lovestory
By Richard Bach. 1984
The author writes of his long quest for his soulmate. In this book, he shares an intimate view of their…
discovery of each other, and their love which has led them on many journeys, including out-of-body experiences. Bestseller 1984.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
By Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.The bookseller of Kabul
By Åsne Seierstad. 2003
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the…
following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months. For more than 20 years Sultan Khan defied the authorities - be they Communist or Taliban - in order to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the Communists, and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. 2003.The book of my lives
By Aleksandar Hemon. 2013
Aleksandar Hemon’s lives begin in Sarajevo, a small city where a young boy’s life is consumed with street soccer, resentment…
of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man’s life is about poking at the pretensions of the city’s elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo, leaving behind all they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. 2013.Tes blessures sont plus douces que leurs caresses: vie de Renée Vivien
By Jean-Paul Goujon. 1986
Biographie de Renée Vivien. Morte à Paris en 1909, à peine âgée de trente-deux ans, Renée Vivien a écrit pendant…
sa trop brève vie une oeuvre toute imprégnée de sa passion pour les femmes. Affrontant la désapprobation, elle chantera ses amours homosexuelles à travers toute son oeuvre poétique et romanesque. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.The Black mask boys: masters in the hard-boiled school of detective fiction
By William F Nolan. 1985
Brief biographies of eight detective writers from the "Black Mask" magazine era (1922-1943). Includes such writers as Dashiel Hammett, Raymond…
Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner. Some strong language. 1985. Uniform title: Black mask.Simone de Beauvoir
By Claude Francis, Fernande Gontier. 1985
Voici la première biographie consacrée a Simone de Beauvoir. Elle révèle une femme très différente de l'image qu'en ont donnée…
les medias. C'est une femme douée pour le bonheur, gourmande, sensuelle, sportive; une voyageuse, une séductrice. On y découvre une femme qui a l'intelligence d'une Germaine de Staël et les passions d'une George Sand. 1985.Former Los Angeles prosecutor asserts that U.S. Supreme Court justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy "did not act impartially…
in the case of Bush v. Gore" when they stopped the recount of contested Florida votes during the 2000 presidential election. Developed from an article that originally appeared in the Nation. Bestseller. 2001.The black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against Al-Qaeda
By Daniel Freedman, Ali H Soufan. 2011
On September 12, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months…
earlier--when it was requested--the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan helped thwart plots around the world and elicited some of the most important confessions from terrorists in the war against al-Qaeda--without laying so much as a hand on them. Most of these stories have never been reported before and never by anyone with such intimate firsthand knowledge. 2011.The biker who shot me: recollections of a crime reporter
By Michel Auger, Jean-Paul Murray. 2001
As a journalist, Auger has observed and reported upon the growth of the biker gangs and their increasing involvement in…
organized crime. He has written a number of articles that exposed the Hells Angels' links to the Mafia; articles that he knows enraged the bikers enough to have him killed. This is an account of his life as a crime reporter, with particular attention to his brush with death when he was shot in the back six times with a pistol equipped with a silencer, and the events that followed. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.Sept années de bonheur
By Jean-Pierre Carasso, Jacqueline Huet, Etgar Keret. 2014
" Si une roquette peut nous tomber dessus à tout moment, à quoi bon faire la vaisselle ? Et les…
oiseaux du jeu Angry Birds, lancés à pleine vitesse sur de frêles maisons, ne ressemblent-ils pas à de furieux terroristes ? Avec une ironie hors du commun, Etgar Keret relate sept années de sa vie à Tel-Aviv : la naissance de son fils, l'histoire de sa soeur ultra-orthodoxe et de ses onze enfants, les chauffeurs de taxi irascibles, ses parents rescapés de l'Holocauste, les tournées littéraires mouvementées... et l'attitude peu banale qu'il convient d'adopter lors d'une alerte à la bombe. Etgar Keret offre dans ces chroniques intimes une étonnante radiographie de ses contemporains, où l'émotion et l'humour se conjuguent à tous les temps de l'insolence. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Seven good years.Sur la ligne de feu: Sur La Ligne De Feu
By Jean-François Lépine. 2014
Pendant quarante-deux ans à la télévision et à la radio, j'ai toujours eu à portée de main un de mes…
carnets de notes. À l'écran, ils faisaient partie de l'image. Quand Marc Laurendeau m'a invité à participer à sa magnifique série radiophonique Nos témoins sur la ligne de feu, consacrée aux correspondants de Radio-Canada à l'étranger, j'ai eu envie de redécouvrir et de raconter, à travers les anecdotes tirées de ces carnets, les grands moments de mes expéditions sur la planète, quitte à en être bouleversé. Durant ma vie de journaliste, j'ai couvert deux référendums qui ont déchiré les Québécois. J'ai vu des foules gagner leur liberté, contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud, contre l'empire soviétique en Europe. J'ai vu les enfants palestiniens contre les chars israéliens, les Arabes contre leurs dictateurs. J'ai vu les Chinois rejeter Mao pour partir à la conquête du monde. J'ai vu la guerre, au Liban, en Irak, en Iran, en Afghanistan. J'ai vu le monde changer. 2014.Tête haute
By Mémona Hintermann. 2006
Née à l'île de la Réunion d'un père musulman et d'une mère créole d'origine bretonne et catholique, Memona Hintermann, grand…
reporter sur France 3, doit à l'école républicaine son ascension sociale. Elle fait le récit du combat qu'elle a mené pour réussir.The Americans, the national experience (Americans. #2.)
By Daniel J Boorstin. 1965
In this sequel to The Americans: "The Colonial Experience", historian Boorstin covers American history from the Revolution to the Civil…
War. He discusses Americans' search for a better way of life, discovering themselves and their capabilities, and coming together to establish a better community. 1965.Tête-à-tête: Beauvoir et Sartre, un pacte d'amour
By Hazel Rowley, Pierre Demarty. 2006
L'auteur raconte l'histoire du couple formé par "ces deux maîtres à penser existentialistes". Un couple qui partageait la même "soif…
d'absolu" et refusait les "conventions sociales". Beauvoir et Sartre ne "vécurent jamais ensemble", "ne se cachèrent jamais" leurs multiples "liaisons", etc. 2006.The American military: a concise history
By Joseph T Glatthaar. 2018
Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military…
has been an omnipresent part of America. In "The American Military: A Concise History", Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this relationship from its origins in the thirteen colonies to today's ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. During the Revolutionary War, tension grew between local militias and a standing army. The Founding Fathers attempted to strike a balance, enshrining an army, navy, and a "well-regulated Militia" in the Constitution. The U.S. soon witnessed the rise of a professional military, a boon to its successes in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. However, after the Civil War, the U.S. soon learned that the purpose of a peacetime army is to prepare for war. When war did arrive, it arrived with a vengeance, gutting the trenches of the Great War with effective innovations: tanks, planes, machine guns, and poison gas. The U.S. embraced the technology that would win both world wars and change the nature of battle in the Second World War. The nuclear era brought encounters defined by stalemate--from the Cold War conflicts of Korea and Vietnam to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since 9/11, the U.S. has been frustrated by unconventional warfare, including terrorism and cyberwar, largely negating the technological advantage it had held. Glatthaar examines all these challenges, looking to the future of the U.S. military and its often proud and complicated legacy. 2018.The American crisis
By Thomas Paine. 2006
"The American Crisis" was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by 18th-century Enlightenment…
philosopher and author Thomas Paine. The writings bolstered the morale of the American colonists, appealed to the English people's consideration of the war with America, clarified the issues at stake in the war, and denounced the advocates of a negotiated peace. 2006.The American crucible: slavery, emancipation and human rights
By Robin Blackburn. 2011
A history of the rise and abolition of slavery in the Americas covers such topics as the plantation revolution of…
the seventeenth century, the emergence of anti-slavery thought, and the contributions of such figures as Thomas Paine and Frederick Douglass. 2011.From blue bells to armadillos and the San Antonio River Walk to Cadillac Ranch, here's the inside story about the…
very things that give the state its character. Did you know that Texas has more bird species than any other state? That Texas is the largest producer of oil and gas in the United States and the nation's leader in pickup sales? That Texas has museums and larger-than-life statues that honor native sons and daughters such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Buddy Holly, and J. Frank Dobie? 2017. Uniform title: Texas icons