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Squids will be squids: fresh morals, beastly fables
Par Jon Scieszka. 1998
Eighteen modern fables with fresh morals about bossy, sneaky, funny, annoying, "dim-bulb" people--all disguised as animals to avoid hurting anyone's…
feelings. Topics include homework, using the telephone on the right occasion, friendship, and dinner-table talk. For grades 3-6Radio and television anchorman edits and introduces a collection of essays, jokes, and poems from the Second World War. Includes…
"A Dictionary of American Military Slang 1941-1944"; spoofs featuring Artie Greengroin, Pfc.; and selections from Yank magazine and the Reader's Digest's regular "Humor in Uniform" feature. Some strong language. 2001Fou rire au parlement: quand nos politiciens se bidonnent! (Romans terres de France)
Par Guy Giguère. 2003
Sélection de 123 anecdotes à caractère humoristique tirées des débats de l'Assemblée nationale. A partir des procès-verbaux de 1989 à…
2001, on nous présente des citations savoureuses de nombreux parlementaires tels que Bernard Landry, Robert Bourassa, Guy Chevrette, Yvon Picotte, Jean Garon, etcPure drivel
Par Steve Martin. 1998
Collection of humorous essays (many first published in the New Yorker) by comedian, actor, and screenwriter Martin. Topics include memory…
loss, drug side effects, and the number of movie stars who are secretly Nobel prize-worthy scientists. BestsellerThe dissident: Alexey navalny: profile of a political prisoner
Par David Herszenhorn. 2023
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny— lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and…
presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader. THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival—so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name. There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence that Russians can defy the stereotype and create an entirely different country made him such a threat to Putin that the Kremlin wanted him exiled—or dead—and now seems intent on keeping him locked in a prison colony for decades. International correspondent David M. Herszenhorn, weaves together the threads of Navalny's remarkable life and work: The assassination attempt with a military- grade nerve agent by an FSB hit squad in Siberia, his recovery, and the vigilante-style investigation with news outlet Bellingcat to identify and confront his own would-be killers; Navalny's personal biography as part of the generation that straddled the end of the Soviet Union and birth of the Russian Federation, including childhood summers with his Ukrainian grandparents near Chernobyl, and his fellowship at Yale University, which spurred conspiracy theories about his ties to the U.S.; His anti-corruption investigations that exposed billions in graft at Russia's biggest state-owned companies and vast bribe-taking by top Russian officials, including his blockbuster revelations about Putin's Black Sea Palace; His political activism, including huge street protests, his bid for Moscow mayor in 2013, renegade run for president in 2017, his controversial views on nationalism, gun rights and Crimea, his transformation into a prisoner of conscience bravely denouncing Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, and more. Riveting and complex, THE DISSIDENT introduces readers to modern Russia's greatest agitator, a man willing to sacrifice his freedom—and even his own life—to build the decent, democratic country he wants to live in and hopes to pass on to his childrenThe great brain is back (The Great Brain #8.)
Par John Fitzgerald, Diane DeGroat. 1995
In this final book about the Great Brain (the manuscript was found after the author's death), J.D. narrates eight more…
tales about how his big brother, Tom, now thirteen, continues to swindle people out of their money. Tom convinces J.D. to sell bars of soap, he almost outwits Polly Reagan in the spelling bee, and he helps rescue a gang of outlaws. For grades 4-7Something happened yesterday
Par Beryl Bainbridge. 1998
Fifty articles written over a period of six years for the Evening Standard in London describing events that were experienced…
by the author. Includes mundane occurrences such as a street fair, cinemas, and her family's antics, as well as societal observationsWhen your phone doesn't ring, it'll be me
Par Cynthia Heimel. 1995
Humorous essays on such topics as searching for a city to live in that isn't full of crackheads and bigots,…
discovering that romance novels are often pornographic, trying to understand men, and living with dogs. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexDeux grandes dames: Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé à la Cour suprême du Canada (Biographies et mémoires)
Par Constance Backhouse. 2021
Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L'une représentait le…
Canada anglais, l'autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l'establishment juridiqueCactus tracks & cowboy philosophy
Par Baxter Black. 1997
Poetry and stories by a veterinarian-turned-commentator and columnist. All of the material is extracted from the files of National Public…
Radio, where Black has an occasional morning program. A humorous perspective on ranch life out west, where cowboys, horses, rodeos, and farmers dominate the landscape. For senior high and older readers101 classic Jewish jokes: Jewish humor from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld
Par Robert Menchin. 1998
Brown boy: A memoir
Par Omer Aziz. 2023
An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that "cuts to the bone" ( Publishers Weekly , starred…
review) told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn't have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy , Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to beLife among the savages
Par Shirley Jackson. 1981
Living somewhere between estrogen and death
Par Barbara Johnson. 1997
Biggest riddle book in the world
Par Joseph Rosenbloom. 1976
Collection of more than two thousand riddles compiled by a children's librarian. Topics include warm ups, goodies and baddies, fooling…
mother nature, riddles for thinkers, weird characters, and super stumpers. For grades 4-7 and older readersSous l'arbre à palabres, mon grand-père disait
Par Boucar Diouf. 2007
"Toutes ces années passées dans le Bas-du-Fleuve ont fait de Boucar Diouf un "baobab recomposé", comme il le dit lui-même.…
"Entre mes racines africaines et mon feuillage québécois, se dresse mon tronc sénégalais." Ce recueil de contes et d'anecdotes est à l'image de ses spectacles : un délicieux mélange de tendresse et d'humour, un savoureux voyage de la savane à la banquise." -- 4e de couvJacob Two-Two's first spy case (Jacob Two-two Ser.)
Par Mordecai Richler. 1997
Jacob Two-Two is called that because he has to say everything twice to be heard in his large family. Even…
so, nobody listens when he complains that the new principal is serving horrid meals at school. Jacob must turn to his new neighbor, master spy Mr. Dinglebat, for help. For grades 3-6Roasts & toasts: snappy one-liners for every occasion
Par Gene Perret. 1997
Creepy riddles
Par Katy Hall. 1998
Collection of forty-two riddles about scary, spooky things. Topics include food preferences among witches, ghosts, vampires, and sea monsters; the…
social lives of ghosts, werewolves, and zombies; and "physical" characteristics of ghouls and other creatures. For grades 2-4