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A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide
By Samantha Power. 2003
Former war correspondent analyzes the U.S. response to major genocides of the twentieth century. Using the Armenian murders in 1915,…
the Holocaust, and Saddam Hussein's destruction of the Kurds in the 1980s as examples, Power demonstrates the failure of political leaders to intervene against global atrocities. Explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 2002.With its unique and powerful design, the best photographers, and a well of award-winning writers, GQ provides the best in…
men's fashion and style, beautiful women and culture, news and politics.De Kooning: an American master
By Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Willem De Kooning. 2004
Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism…
scene. Explores de Kooning's bohemian habits, friendship with Gorky, financial backing from Hirshhorn and Fourcade, only marriage, and passion for painting. Some descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.Delights & shadows: poems
By Ted Kooser. 2004
Kooser, American poet laureate, is a poet of place, that being eastern Nebraska. Seasons rotate and weather matters, natural disasters…
are real. The visible world informs the verbal one, yet there are also spiritual presences. In his poetry, every described delight is shadowed by darkness in poems of small wonders and hard dualisms. Pulitzer Prize winer 2005. 2004.Doubt: a parable
By John Patrick Shanley. 2005
The Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, stern principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School, is convinced that school chaplain Father Flynn is…
a pedophile, and that instead of mentoring the school's only black student, he has seduced him. Through meetings with Flynn, young teacher Sister James, and the student's mother, she gathers her evidence and plans a course of action. No one is totally right or truthful, keeping everyone in a state of doubt. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2005.Counting coup: becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond
By Joseph Medicine Crow, Herman J Viola. 2006
The last traditional Crow chief, Joseph Medicine Crow (born 1913), recalls growing up on a Montana reservation and relates some…
of his experiences after leaving it. He describes the four coups - war deeds - that he accomplished in Germany during World War II that entitled him to be chief. Grades 4-7. 2006.Eden's outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
By John Matteson. 2007
Portrait of nineteenth-century "Little Women" (DC00882) author and her father, Bronson Alcott, a noted New England educator and friend of…
transcendentalists Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. Describes the influence of Bronson's penury and emotional fragility on Louisa, who assisted the family financially despite her Civil War-contracted illness. Pulitzer Prize. 2007.With its unique and powerful design, the best photographers, and a well of award-winning writers, GQ provides the best in…
men's fashion and style, beautiful women and culture, news and politics.Parfois je suis un renard
By Danielle Daniel. 2018
Parfois je suis un renard rusé et astucieux. J'observe mon entourage. Puis, en un clin d'oeil, je disparais. Dans cette…
introduction enjouée aux animaux totémiques de la tradition anishinaabée, douze enfants s'identifient à différentes créatures comme un renard, un chevreuil, un castor ou un orignal. Années 1-3. Gagnant de Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. 2018. Titre uniforme: Sometimes I feel like a fox.With its unique and powerful design, the best photographers, and a well of award-winning writers, GQ provides the best in…
men's fashion and style, beautiful women and culture, news and politics.With its unique and powerful design, the best photographers, and a well of award-winning writers, GQ provides the best in…
men's fashion and style, beautiful women and culture, news and politics.