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By Émilie Choquet. 2020
Frondeuse et brillante, une jeune femme se prépare à ajouter un élément à la liste de ses réalisations : avoir…
un enfant. Tout au long de la grossesse, la maternité a fait lobjet d'une préparation minutieuse. Les projets ne manquent pas pour remplir de moments magiques le temps avec le bébé. Mais dès l'accouchement, où le scénario prévu ne se réalise pas, le savoir accumulé pendant des mois se retourne contre la mère. Le corps et lesprit, apprend-elle, n'agissent pas toujours de concert. De retour à la maison, la nouvelle mère fait face à la fatigue qui s'accumule et à des journées où s'enchaînent séances d'allaitement, bercements, changements de couche. Malgré ses efforts pour éviter que la situation ne lui échappe, des failles apparaissent partout. Dans l'espace qui se creuse entre sa perception du monde et le réel, sa raison s'égare peu à peu. L'hospitalisation devient nécessaire. On ne sait ni quand ni comment elle parviendra à sortir de la boucle temporelle dont elle est prisonnière. Ce sera à elle de trouver à tâtons la voie hors du labyrintheBy Ibram X Kendi. 2020
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh…
new audiobook that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves, now with added discussion prompts to help listeners recognize and reflect on bias in their daily lives. Featured on Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more! Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby 's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest listeners and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for listeners of all ages dedicated to forming a just societyBy Travis Langley. 2020
Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest…
in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including the following: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with bad girls he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal green-haired clown? This book, which is written by a psychology professor and Superherologist (a scholar of superheroes), gives fresh insight into the complex inner world of Batman and Bruce Wayne (and the other characters of Gotham City), using this popular comic-book character as a lens to help explain psychological theory and conceptsBy Kim Ventrella. 2020
Eleven-year-old June is a problem-solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. Just look at all the…
couples she helped find love! (Grateful newlyweds Marlene and Big Vic have even promised June free hot chocolate for life at their café.)However, when June learns that her parents are getting divorced, she has to face the fact that there are some problems too big even for her. At least, that's what the adults in her life keep saying.But June's convinced there's a way to make her parents fall back in love. While brainstorming ideas on her new secondhand laptop-purchased from a mysterious store in town called The Shop of Last Resort-June gets a strange IM from someone named JuniePie28…someone who claims to be an older version of June messaging her from the future.At first, she assumes it's a prank. But JuniePie28 knows too much about June's life to be a fraud, and future June warns her against interfering with her parents' marriage. But June can't just sit around and watch her parents' marriage dissolve, not when there's a magical shop in town that could be the answer to all her problems! Will June prove her older self wrong and stop the divorce? Or will she have to accept that there are some things she can't control?By Jael Richardson. 2021
A fierce and heartbreaking debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman with the courage to determine her…
own future Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself all alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs. When she makes friends with Gutter children, each making their own way through the crushing cycle of the Gutter System in whatever ways they know how, Elimina will discover that the thing she needs more than anything may not be the freedom she imagined after all. Gutter Child takes us on the journey of a young woman in a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and horrific injustices. Richardson’s Elimina is a modern heroine in an altered but all too recognizable reality, who, must find the strength within herself to determine her own future and defy a system that tries to shape her destiny. Jael Richardson is the Artistic Director of The FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s ‘q’ and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. She is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The book received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award as an Emerging Artist. A children’s book called The Stone Thrower was published by Groundwood Books in 2016. Her essay “Conception” is part of Room’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play, my upside down black.By Marie-Pier Savaria. 2021
Un papa, une maman, trois beaux enfants, du bonheur à profusion. Mais un jour, en jouant à retenir sa respiration…
sous l'eau dans la piscine d'un ami, Justin, l'aîné âgé de huit ans, perd la vie. Une mère peut-elle survivre à un tel drame ?By Rafael López, Sonia Sotomayor. 2019
By Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014By Anita Shreve. 2010
Young EMT Webster's strong attraction to drunken car-crash victim Sheila quickly leads to dating, pregnancy, marriage, and the birth of…
Rowan. When Sheila's drinking becomes dangerous, Webster sends her away and raises Rowan alone. Now seventeen-year-old Rowan is drinking and Sheila reappears. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010By Maurice Cotterell, Gilbert Cotterell. 2010
An author and a scientist explore the Mesoamerican civilization of the Maya. They analyze Mayan history, cosmology, and astronomy, with…
an emphasis on concepts of time and the predictions that the world will end in 2012. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2009By Rob Oliver, Chloe Oliver. 2012
Rob Oliver had the privilege of sharing Who, Me? Yeah, You! at Cornerstone Christian Academy near Pittsburgh. It's an Anti-Bullying…
presentation that emphasizes the role each person plays in bullying. You're either a bully, bullied, or a bystander. This story comes from the section on Conflict Resolution. The explanation centers on the 3 resolutions to conflict: win-win, win-lose, and lose-loseBy Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sBy John Welwood. 1992
By Susan Kathleen Hartung, Maria Fasal Faulconer, Maria Faulconer. 2014
Because his own mother is too young to take care of him, Umande, a newborn gorilla, is fed and cuddled…
by human zookeepers until a surrogate mother is found. For grades K-3By Alvin Schwartz, Victoria Chess. 1991
By Nathan Clement. 2008
By Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. 2010
Thirteen-year-old Kat, a psychic medium who can see spirits, is overwhelmed by her abilities when she and a friend explore…
the abandoned house next door where they discover the unhappy spirit of a young boy. For grades 4-7By Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
By Jana Bommersbach, Jeff Yesh. 2013
A squirrel moves into a birdhouse to keep her babies safe from the neighborhood cat. However, she worries that her…
son is becoming overly afraid of the world that awaits him outside. For grades K-3By Kurt Vonnegut. 2008
Twelve fiction and nonfiction pieces representing Vonnegut's views on violence and war and his desire for world peace. Contains both…
a 1945 letter to his family summarizing his prisoner-of-war experience in Germany and his last speech, written in 2007. Introduction by his son Mark Vonnegut. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008