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Accounts about the centuries-long struggle to forge a sea passage through Arctic ice. Narratives connect these selections from the journals…
of explorers and navigators, including Frobisher and Henry Hudson. The book is primarily a human story, with enough historical and geographical detail for perspective, about the men who searched for the Northwest Passage. Volume one of the Top of the World TrilogyA comprehensive guide to nutrition compiled by a team of health professionals for use by lay readers. The book covers…
the basics of a healthy diet, provides an overview of what's in food, discusses good nutrition for all ages, deals with nutrition-related problems and their roles in certain diseases, and concludes with practical advice readers can use every dayA collection of essays written since World War II by more than two dozen Polish writers. Topics range from aspects…
of literature and culture to science fiction and political oppression and exile. The editor, and one of the contributors, suggests that he "tried to avoid specifically Polish subjects in the narrow sense," but the theme of exile and the "wound of history" runs throughout these essays. Includes Milosz's 1980 Nobel Prize lectureEighteen essays by astronomers, physicists, science historians, and philosophers presented at the conference commemorating the tercentenary of Newton's "Principia" and…
the 1985-1986 return of Halley's Comet. Four parts treat Newton's and Halley's parallel careers individually, portray the lesser-known Newton, depict the many sides of Halley, and discuss cometsIn this classic narrative poem, written in late-eighteenth-century Vietnam, six common domestic animals--the water buffalo, the dog, the horse, the…
goat, the rooster, and the pig-each brags of the service it performs for its master and is contemptuous of some other beast as useless or harmful. This edition includes the original poem in Vietnamese language with a translation, introduction, and notes in English. Bilingual titleShort stories selected from the seven major regions and languages of India. The authors, all women, write about the experience…
of being a woman amid the turmoil of late twentieth-century India. The subjects are diverse, including the status of women, predicaments caused by varying social classes and castes, political oppression, and, above all, an interest in writingThis anthology of 140 essays, written over four centuries by American and English practitioners of the art, covers topics large…
and small--truth, getting up on cold mornings, wasps, the departure of a guest, being the right size, symmetry and repetition, Gandhi, and movies on television. And each somehow fits Dr. Johnson's definition of an essay as a "loose sally of the mind."An anthology of lies dating back to Biblical times. From minor deceits to monumental falsehoods, Kerr selects examples and adds…
commentary from the same period. He discusses the deceitfulness of answering machines and covers necessary, political, and governmental lies. As an editor, he neither passes judgment nor defines a lie. His choices favor the most amusing, celebrated, and evil specimensMark Strand, 1990 poet laureate of the United States, served as guest editor of a collection of the best poems…
published that year. His choices range from dramatic monologues to sonnets, and the subjects and settings are equally diverse. When he narrows his selection to the allotted seventy-five poems, both newcomers and established poets are represented in titles such as "Celestial Music" and "Desire."Essays illustrating the need for humans to learn to live in an environmentally sensitive manner. By authors such as Edward…
Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Onondaga chief Oren Lyons, the essays are grouped in three sections. The first depicts the current state of nature, the second describes the impact of growth-driven economics and overpopulation, and the third offers some possible solutionsBilled a book for Walden Woods, this collection of essays was compiled to raise money to protect the development-threatened woods…
made famous by Henry Thoreau. The concerned authors include a number of celebrities such as Robert Redford, Cesar Chavez, Tom Hanks, Jimmy Carter, Wallace Stegner, Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, and Edward Kennedy. They discuss either Walden Woods or other environmental problemsOne story from each of the twenty-one writers who have won the award, established in 1981, for promising American writers…
of short fiction. Included is Antonya Nelson's "The Expendables," in which a Sicilian wedding party spills into the street and gets mixed up with a Gypsy funeral procession. Some strong languageAccording to Ramet, each writer in this book believes that religious organizations reinforce ethnic sentiment and vice versa, and that…
this dynamic is a source of hostility in the communist world. Authors examine the relationship between Christianity and states from Armenia to Slovakia. Sequel to Catholicism and Politics in Communist ... (DB 35405)The third issue of "Mixed Moss" includes feature articles about a wide variety of topics, a section titled "Events" that…
reports on activities of the society and its members, and a section titled "Little-known Ransome" that includes a 1934 autobiographical sketch. Also contains reviews of books about Ransome and his work, and brief reports from the regionsRien
Par Jean-Jacques Pelletier. 2023
L'inspecteur Henri Dufaux est stupéfait quand il se voit confier la garde d'une ado. De fait, la jeune mais ô…
combien brillante Maryann est sous sa protection depuis la mort de son père, empoisonné pour avoir refusé de vendre sa maison à un mystérieux acheteur. En tentant de découvrir qui se cache derrière ce meurtre et de déjouer les menaces qui pèsent toujours sur Maryann, Dufaux et son équipe mettent à jour un groupe anonyme qui cherche à acquérir des centaines de kilomètres carrés dans les Laurentides. Face à un complot qui prend des dimensions internationales, Dufaux se sait à court de ressources. Toutefois, il a un as dans sa manche : un certain Gonzague ThébergeNée sous une insondable étoile: roman (Reliefs)
Par Claire Bergeron. 2023
Vancouver, 1916. Auguste Destremont, riche armateur, et sa femme, Rosalyne, forment un couple heureux, auquel il ne manquait qu'un enfant…
pour être comblé. Après dix ans de mariage, Rosalyne donne enfin naissance à une petite fille. De santé fragile, la nouvelle maman a recours à une nourrice, qui vient habiter sous leur toit avec son poupon. Elle y veille tendrement sur les petites tandis que Rosalyne reprend des forces. Un matin, des pleurs persistants se font entendre chez la nourrice... Les Destremont, alertés par une employée, s'y précipitent. Le sol se dérobe sous leurs pieds... La scène qui s'offre à leurs yeux changera leur avenir à jamaisNouveaux départs: des pages tournées, des vies changées, des destins réinventés
Par Mylène Moisan. 2021
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Par Chloé Esposito. 2019
Sans un sou, célibataire, Alvie Knightly est une femme à qui la vie ne sourit pas, contrairement à sa soeur…
jumelle Beth à qui tout réussit. Celle-ci lui propose de venir dans sa villa et de se faire passer pour elle le temps d'une soirée. Quand Beth se fait tuer, Alvie croit à la possibilité d'un nouveau départ. C'est en réalité le début des ennuisLe souffle des rêves
Par Clarisse Sabard. 2023
Abigail O'Dell a besoin de reprendre des forces. Coincée entre un travail de chroniqueuse musicale qui ne lui convient plus…
et un mari qui voudrait la voir renoncer à sa carrière afin de se consacrer tout entière à devenir mère, elle a l'impression d'avoir cent ans. Après une dispute conjugale, elle décide, sur un coup de tête, de s'envoler pour Cork, en IrlandeFa Que
Par Patrice Desbiens. 2023
La poésie de Patrice Desbiens arrive à nous comme une offrande dans les mains d'un enfant. Fa que est un…
recueil qui ne fait pas exception aux précédents livres de cet auteur si remarquable et si simple à la fois : dans cette œuvre comme dans les autres, l'écriture aboutie de Desbiens voyage entre la quotidienneté et la lucidité, et ce, toujours avec précision et économie. Malgré son caractère discret, elle se révèle bien rythmée, imagée, parfois même flamboyante. Cette poésie, très sensible, intime, éminemment touchante à lire, tantôt frappe le lecteur de front, tantôt le réconforte. Elle relève à la fois de la spontanéité de la jeunesse et de la sagesse de ceux qui ont presque tout vécu