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My mama's waltz: a book for daughters of alcoholic mothers
By Eleanor Agnew. 1999
The authors share their personal accounts along with the memories and experiences of hundreds of women who are the daughters…
of alcoholic mothers. Co-author is Sharon Robideaux, foreword by Dr. Robert J. Ackerman. 1999On writing
By Charles Bukowski. 2015
Collection of previously unpublished correspondence by the author of Pulp (DB 40326) and The Pleasures of the Damned (DB 66380),…
discussing the art of creation with publishers, editors, friends, and peers. Shares the joys and tribulations of not only writing, but writing for publication. 2015Happy birthday: a novel
By Danielle Steel. 2011
Three people start out miserable on their landmark birthdays but end up happy. Aging style guru Valerie Wyatt turns sixty…
unattached, Valerie's single daughter April is thirty and pregnant, and quarterback-turned-sportscaster Jack Adams faces fifty alone. Bestseller. 2011Gaston Leroux, le vrai Rouletabille
By Gaston Leroux. 2003
"Né à Paris le 6 mai 1868, Gaston Leroux est mort à Nice le 15 avril 1927. Entre ces dates,…
le temps d'une oeuvre remplie d'énigmes a fait de son auteur un maître du roman policier. Gaston Leroux a donc vécu un peu plus d'un demi-siècle, mais avec l'éternité devant lui. Des générations de lecteurs ont prolongé son existence bien au-delà de ses rêves d'écrivain voulant échapper aux incertitudes terrestres. Ses deux romans les plus célèbres, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune et Le Parfum de la dame en noir, suffisent à sa gloire qui s'est incarnée à travers le personnage du jeune journaliste Joseph Rouletabille. Gaston Leroux, lui-même reporter, a été chasseur de mystères, aussi débrouillard que son héros lancé dans des aventures extraordinaires. Le vrai Rouletabille, c'est lui, comme le raconte Jean-Claude Lamy dans cette biographie, la seule existante à ce jour. Les Six Histoires épouvantables qui complètent ce volume montrent aussi de quelle merveilleuse façon ce constructeur d'intrigues incroyables pouvait faire irruption dans le fantastique - sans pour autant perdre le bon bout de la raison ." -- 4e de couvLe divan et le grigri
By Catherine Clément. 2002
"Ce n'est pas tant la psychanalyse comme science humaine qui se trouve ici mise en question mais, plus profondément et…
à travers elle, notre identité culturelle et psychique. Comprendre comment une culture, cette dette de vie qui nous lie à nos ancêtres, façonne nos modes de représentatiom mais aussi le monde de nos émotions : tel est l'enjeu de ce livre où la réflexion se nourrit d'observations concrètes. Cette confrontation entre un praticien qui n'a jamais cessé de penser sa discipline au contact d'autres pratiques de l'esprit et une philosophe qui l'a éprouvée dans son expérience donne un livre éblouissant et inédit." -- 4e de couvL'éducation sentimentale
By Gustave Flaubert. 1992
"Le héros de ce livre, un matin d'octobre, arriva à Paris avec un coeur de dix-huit ans et un diplôme…
de bachelier des lettres. Il fit son entrée dans cette capitale du monde civilisé par la porte Saint-Denis, dont il put admirer la belle architecture ; il vit dans les rues des voitures de fumier traînées par un cheval et un âne, des charrettes de boulanger tirées à bras d'homme, des laitières qui vendaient leur lait, des portières qui balayaient le ruisseau."Le passé simple (Collection Folio #1728)
By Driss Chraïbi. 2010
" Lors de sa parution en 1954, ce livre fit l'effet d'une véritable bombe, tant en France qu'au Maroc qui…
luttait pour son indépendance. Avec une rare violence, il projetait le roman maghrébin d'expression française vers des thèmes majeurs : poids de l'Islam, condition féminine dans la société arabe, identité culturelle, conflit des civilisations. Vilipendé au début, commenté par des générations de lecteurs, il est enseigné depuis quelques années dans les universités marocaines. Dix-huit thèses de doctorat lui ont été consacrées à ce jour. " -- 4e de couvFalling up: poems and drawings
By Shel Silverstein. 1996
A collection of brief and humorous poems featuring silly situations and a gallery of zany characters. You will see the…
world from "a different angle" as you meet the Terrible Toy-Eating Tookle, attend the "Rotten Convention," and visit Hungry Kid Island. For grades 2-4 and older readers. BestsellerSeparate sisters
By Nancy Springer. 2001
Thirteen-year-old Donni, living with her father, is so upset over her parents' divorce that she gets into increasingly serious trouble…
at school. She does not realize how much her fourteen-year-old sister, Trisha, who lives with their mother, is also hurting. For grades 6-9. 2001Colette, une certaine France (Foi et culture)
By Michel Castillo. 1999
Ni biographie, ni essai critique, ce livre est un hommage tant à la femme qu'à l'écrivain et, au fil des…
lectures, retrace la vie et l'influence qu'a eue Colette tant sur lui-même que sur la France littéraire. Prix Femina essai 1999Lines and shadows
By Joseph Wambaugh. 1984
In this true crime story, Wambaugh focuses on the Border Crime Task Force, an eighteen-month experiment conducted by the San…
Diego Police. This task force foot-patrolled the Mexican-U.S. border between Tijuana and San Diego in an effort to stop the gangs who mug, rob, rape, and murder Mexican, illegal aliens. Powerful and compassionate. Strong language. Violence. Bestseller 1984A continual feast: words of comfort and celebration collected by Father Tim
By 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). 2005On the News: Our First Talk About Tragedy (The World Around Us #2)
By Dr Jillian Roberts, Jillian Roberts. 2018
On the News gently introduces young children to the realities of natural disasters, terrorism and other forms of tragedy. In…
age-appropriate language and tone, Dr. Roberts explains what tragedy is, the feelings it may create and how to manage those feelings. She also emphasizes the good that can come out of tragedy, looking at how people help one another in caring, compassionate and heroic ways. The book's question-and-answer format will help parents have a meaningful conversation about these difficult topics with their children and equip them to better handle questions that arise when children are exposed to the news. The World Around Us series introduces children to complex cultural, social and environmental issues that they may encounter outside their homes, in a way that is accessible. Sidebars offer further reading for older children or care providers who have bigger questions. For younger children just starting to make these observations, the simple question-and-answer format of the main text will provide a foundation of knowledge on the subject matter.No more words: a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
By Reeve Lindbergh. 2001
This book is a moving and compassionate memoir of the final seventeen months of Reeve's mother's life. Reeve writes with…
great sensitivity of her mother's flight while also analyzing her own conficting feeling. Anyone who has had to care for an elderly parent disabled by Alzheimer's or stroke will understand the heartache and find comfort in the storyGlimpses of grace: daily thoughts and reflections
By Madeleine L'Engle. 1996
For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has spun magic with words, touching millions of lives and earning a devoted readership…
with her award-winning fiction, candid reflections on her personal and family life and graceful meditations on faith. Now, Glimpses of Grace captures the essence of L'Engle's literary gift in one unprecedented volume. Ranging freely throughout L'Engle's remarkable lifework of more than 40 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, adventure stories, family dramas, autobiography and religious commentary, editor Carole P. Chase has collected evocative passages and arranged them as daily readings that offer illuminating bits of wisdom, provocative insight, and, above all, engaging and intelligent daily inspiration. With enduring power and resonance, each of these 366 rich selections speaks to the simple joys and sorrows of daily life and the deepest questions of the human heart and spirit, while reflecting the exhilarating artistry of one of the most spiritually alive and articulate storytellers of this century. AdultTristan et Iseult
By Tristan. 1974
Tristan a pour mission de mener Iseult à son futur époux, le roi Marc. Sur le bateau du retour, ils…
boivent tous deux par erreur un philtre d'amour. Les noces auront pourtant lieu et, dès lors, les amants ne connaîtront plus que la souffrance. Reprise d'une édition établie par le philologue et archéologue René Louis (1906-1991).Le vacarmeur: notes sur l'art de voir, de lire et d'écrire (Le Français tel qu'on le parle)
By Robert Lalonde. 1999
RX
By Rachel Lindsay. 2018
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice…
between sanity and happiness.In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she is promoted onto the Pfizer account and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. She is the audience of the work she's been pouring over and it highlights just how unhappy and trapped she feels, stuck in an endless cycle of treatment, insurance and medication. Overwhelmed by the stress of her professional life and the self-scrutiny it inspires, she begins to destabilize and while in the midst of a crushing job search, her mania takes hold. Her altered mindset yields a simple solution: to quit her job and pursue life as an artist, an identity she had abandoned in exchange for medical treatment. When her parents intervene, she finds herself hospitalized against her will, and stripped of the control she felt she had finally reclaimed. Over the course of her two weeks in the ward, she struggles in the midst of doctors, nurses, patients and endless rules to find a path out of the hospital and this cycle of treatment. One where she can live the life she wants, finding freedom and autonomy, without sacrificing her dreams in order to stay well.British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s (British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940 #1)
By Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton. 2018
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from…
1840 to 1940. Critically assessing both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each of its volumes devoted to two decades, the series is wide in scope but historically sharply defined. Volume 1: 1840s and 1850s inaugurates the series by historically and culturally contextualizing Victorian women’s writing distinctly within the 1840s and 1850s. Using a range of critical perspectives including political and literary history, feminist approaches, disability studies, and the history of reading, the volume’s 16 original essays consider such developments as the construction of a post-Romantic tradition, the politicization of the domestic sphere, and the development of crime and sensation writing. Centrally, it reassesses key mid-nineteenth-century female authors in the context in which they first published while also recovering neglected women writers who helped to shape the literary landscape of the 1840s and 1850s.Glass Grapes: and Other Stories
By Martha Ronk. 2008
Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha…
Ronk. Ronk's work has garnered critical accolades and numerous awards, including, most recently, a 2005 PEN USA Award in poetry, a 2007 NEA Fellowship, and a 2007 National Poetry Series Award. Glass Grapes is a collection of short, experimental stories, usually dominated by an object imbued with fetishistic qualities by an obsessive, self-involved narrator. The language of these stories is repetitive, provocative, imagistic, occasionally comic, and unnerving. Ronk's fiction moves with the same grace, beauty, and attention to language as her most accomplished poetry.