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Si tu passes la rivière: roman (Hamac)
By Geneviève Damas. 2013
" Si tu passes la rivière, si tu passes la rivière, a dit le père, tu ne remettras plus les…
pieds dans cette maison . Cest ainsi que commence la poignante histoire de François, jeune paysan naïf et ultra sensible en quête de vérité et de liberté. Prisonnier de son milieu familial rigide et fermé, il passe le plus clair de son temps à garder les cochons auxquels il parle et se confie. Avec ce premier roman, Geneviève Damas fait preuve dune maîtrise remarquable en dépeignant dune manière aussi juste un univers rempli dhumanité, de compassion et de silences... " -- 4e de couvAventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon (Idéal-bibliothèque #191)
By Alphonse Daudet. 1960
Publié en 1872, ce récit est l'un des plus célèbres de l'auteur. Il y incarne de façon vivante le type…
méridional du vantard, bavard, goguenard, hanté par la fantaisie et les folles aventures, mais tenant ferme à un bon sens fort prosaïque qui le place dans la lignée de Sancho Pança.Les rois en exil (Rediviva)
By Alphonse Daudet. 2015
Feédérique dormait depuis le matin. Un sommeil de fièvre et de fatigue où le rêve était fait de toutes ses…
détresses de reine exilée et déchue, un sommeil que le fracas, les angoisses d’un siège de deux mois secouaient encore, traversé de visions ...Veiller sur elle
By Jean-Baptiste Andrea. 2023
Août 1986. Dans un monastère italien où il vit depuis quarante ans, veillant sur sa dernière oeuvre, Mimo se meurt.…
Au cours de ses dernières heures, entre souvenirs et divagations, il plonge dans l'histoire de sa vie : son apprentissage chez un sculpteur alcoolique et brutal, sa rencontre avec Viola, fille unique de la famille Orsini, dont il tombe amoureux, et son succès. Prix Goncourt 2023.War and peace (Penguin classics)
By Leo Tolstoy. 1992
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes)
By Arthur Conan Doyle. 1892
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the…
unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "A Case of Identity", "The Red-Headed League" and "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". 1892.The night birds
By Thomas James Maltman. 2007
Minnesota, 1876. Lonely teenager Asa's aunt Hazel comes to live with his family after a long stay in a mental…
institution. Asa appreciates her company and stories, which teach him about his German-immigrant relatives, their divide over slavery, and Hazel's bond with a Dakota warrior. Violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Alex Award. 2007.The Sleeping Car Porter
By Suzette Mayr. 2022
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter,…
must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you’ll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter’s memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can’t part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor. "Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter offers a richly detailed account of a particular occupation and time—train porter on a Canadian passenger train in 1929—and unforcedly allows it to illuminate the societal strictures imposed on black men at the time—and today. Baxter is a secretly-queer and sleep-deprived porter saving up for dental school, working a system that periodically assigns unexplained demerits, and once a certain threshold is reached, the porter loses his job. Thus, success is impossible, the best one can do is to fail slowly. As Baxter takes a cross-continental run, the boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks. The Sleeping Car Porter is an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets." – Keith Mosman, Powell's Books "I thought The Sleeping Car Porter was fantastic! It strikes a balance between being about the struggles of being black and gay at that time while not being too heavy handed with it. I enjoyed his constant mental math on how many demerits he might receive for each infraction. The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through. I really liked reading a book from the perspective of a porter." – Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale BooksGone with the wind
By Margaret Mitchell. 1974
A romantic Civil War epic in which Scarlet O'Hara, a forceful and ruthless heroine, and Rhett Butler, a war profiteer,…
play out their tempestuous love affair against the background of the war-torn South. 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner. 1974, c1936.The invisible man (World's classics)
By H. G Wells. 1897
My side of the mountain
By Jean Craighead George. 1959
A New York City boy who wants the independent, self-sufficient life of the country runs away to the Catskill Mountains.…
Followed by "On the far side of the mountain" (DC09392). Grades 4-7. 1975, c1959.Blueberries for Sal
By Robert McCloskey. 1976
One day in Maine, Little Sal goes blueberry picking with her mother. Little Bear also comes with his mother to…
eat blueberries on the other side of the hill. There is quite a mix up when the little ones stray from their mothers. Grades P-2. Caldecott Honor. c1976.Great expectations (Works.)
By Charles Dickens. 1861
Pip, a young orphan, learns he has an unknown benefactor who will pay for him to be raised as a…
gentleman of "Great expectations." The mystery surrounding the benefactor and Pip's unrequited love for Estella, the orphaned ward of a rich old lady, create a moving and exciting story. 1861.The secret river
By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. 1955
Because her father cannot catch any fish to sell, Calpurnia sets out with her dog, Buggy-horse, to find a secret…
river that will always be full of fish. Grades 2-4. 1956 Newbery Honor book. 1955.Our mutual friend
By Charles Dickens. 1964
A young man is destined to inherit a mysterious fortune if he marries a certain young woman. Having never met…
her, he conceals his identity in order to appraise her. 1964, c1865.All the king's men (The Modern library of the world's best books, 170)
By Robert Penn Warren. 1953
Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Paterson. 1978
The bride of Lammermoor
By Walter Scott. 1819
Lord Ravenswood, deprived of his title for his part in the Civil War and dispossessed of his estate by trickery,…
dies in a fit of fury against Sir William Ashton, the man whom he regards as the author of his ruin. His son, the fiery Master of Ravenshood, inherits his father's hatred of Sir William but Fate makes him fall in love with Ashton's daughter, bringing disaster upon both households. 1819.Arrowsmith
By Sinclair Lewis. 1925
Follows the scientific career of an inquisitive, dedicated physician from medical school and early practice to his work on a…
West Indian island and a directorship of a medical institute. Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. 1925.The mill on the Floss (A Signet classic)
By George Eliot. 1860
Maggie Tulliver is deeply attached to her brother Tom, but their conflicting temperaments and outlook produce only stress and misunderstanding…
until they are finally reconciled in a moment of revelation before tragedy overtakes them. 1860.