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Clara S., les secrets d'une passion: biographie romanesque de Clara Schumann
Par Claude Samuel. 2006
"Pianiste prodige, compositrice de talent, pédagogue sévère, amoureuse passionnée, muse dévouée, mère de famille tourmentée... Clara Schumann fut tout cela,…
et bien plus encore. De son enfance éblouissante, saluée aussi bien par Goethe que par Paganini, jusqu'à la gloire de son grand âge, célébrée à travers toute l'Europe et par ses têtes couronnées, l'existence de Clara fut dédiée à son métier de musicienne. [...] La vie de Clara fut aussi habitée par la passion d'un homme, Robert Schumann, un des grands génies du romantisme musical, qui la troubla dès l'enfance mais qu'elle ne put épouser qu'après avoir traîné son père devant les tribunaux. Un homme qui lui donna huit enfants et dont elle pleura la disparition pendant quarante ans. Mais dans ce tableau idyllique, que vint faire le jeune homme blond, qui débarqua un matin à Düsseldorf, quelques mois avant la tentative de suicide de Schumann ? Quels furent les liens qui lièrent ce fameux Johannes Brahms et Clara, alors que son mari sombrait dans la folie ? Et combien de secrets de famille ont accompagné ces deux noms, dissimulés par une postérité qui n'a pu altérer la pureté de Clara ? [...]" -- 4e de couvMy Name Is Saajin Singh (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
Par Kuljinder Brar, Samrath Kaur. 2022
A debut picture book that explores the importance of pronouncing names properly and celebrates cultural identity.Saajin loves his name—he loves…
it so much that he sees it spelled out in the world around him in his snacks, in the sky and sometimes he even sings it aloud. On his first day of school, Saajin is excited to meet his new classmates, but things take a turn when the teacher mispronounces his name as Say-jin and he is not sure how—or if he should—correct her. After trying to live with the different version of his name for a while and some thoughtful conversations with his family about the meaning behind it, Saajin realizes the importance of reclaiming his name and embracing his identity. This empowering story, accompanied by energetic and vibrant art by Samrath Kaur, will resonate with any reader who has ever felt misunderstood.Loser
Par Jerry Spinelli. 2002
Even though his classmates from first grade through middle school consider Donald Zinkoff to be strange and a loser, his…
exuberant good nature keeps him going, through field day disasters and clumsy accidents. Best of all, his family loves and supports him. For grades 4-7. 2002Katy no-pocket
Par H. A. Rey, Emmy Payne. 1944
Katy is a kangaroo without a pocket. She tries to carry her son, Freddy, the way other types of animals…
carry their young, but nothing works. So Katy and Freddy head for the city to buy a pocket. For grades K-3Hello, Dark
Par Tamara Campeau, Wai Wong. 2021
Faire face à la musique (Gloire #2)
Par Isabelle Roy. 2022
Après le grave accident de sa blonde Jade, Alexis est convaincu que tout est de la faute de Nathan. Pour…
se venger, il quitte le groupe afin de poursuivre sa carrière de rappeur en solo. De plus, il s'allie à Reptil, qui était pourtant leur ennemi juré. Aveuglé par sa colère, Alexis s'engage dans un chemin dangereuxThe restaurant critic's wife
Par Elizabeth LaBan. 2016
Lila's husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he's determined to…
remain anonymous and that preoccupation takes over their lives. Meanwhile, Lisa craves adult conversation and relief from her homemaker role. With her husband obsessed with anonymity, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has disappeared. Adult. UnratedA continual feast: words of comfort and celebration collected by Father Tim
Par 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). 2005Rosie colored glasses
Par Brianna Wolfson. 2018
Whimsical, heartbreaking and uplifting, this is a novel about the many ways love can find you. Rosie Colored Glasses triumphs…
with the most endearing examples of how mothers and fathers and sons and daughters bend for one another. Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosie's daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willow's bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosie's divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosie's behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed. Rex had removed his Rosie colored glasses long ago, but will Willow do the same? UnratedThe girls of No Return
Par Erin Saldin. 2012
The Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area stretches across two million acres in central Idaho, with the Alice…
Marshall School for Girls at its heart. When Lida arrives at AMS, she meets Boone, who once burned down a building; Jules, who seems too happy to belong at the school; and Gia, whose glamour entrances everyone she meets. As they prepare for their personal wilderness treks, Lida is both thrilled and terrified to be chosen as Gia's friend. But all the girls have their own secrets to guard-and when those come out, the knives do too. Adult. Strong languageNo more words: a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Par 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 storyTo the front!: Clara Barton braves the battle of Antietam
Par Claudia Friddell. 2022
During the Civil War, nurse Clara Barton carefully snuck her wagon filled with supplies and provisions onto the field where…
Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the war, was set to take place. On the day of the battle, Clara and her team of helpers sprang into action. She found herself comforting the wounded and dying, cooking meals for soldiers, and providing doctors with innovative sources of light so they could see better. No soldier went unnoticed or unaided by the woman called "The Angel of Antietam." Author Claudia Friddell blends her words with Clara Barton's firsthand account to capture the nurse's brave actions while Christopher Cyr's accurate and dramatic illustrations portray one of the most heroic women in history. For grades 3-6My hands sing the blues: Romare Bearden's childhood journey
Par Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3Glimpses of grace: daily thoughts and reflections
Par 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. AdultCréativité. un art de vivre
Par Rick Rubin. 2024
De nombreux producteurs de musique célèbres sont connus pour un son particulier qui fait leur succès. Rick Rubin, lui, est…
connu pour autre chose : la création d'un espace où des artistes de tous genres et de toutes traditions peuvent cultiver ce qu'ils sont réellement et ce qu'ils ont réellement à offrir. Créativité est une belle et généreuse leçon qui présente le chemin de l'artiste comme une voie pouvant être empruntée par tout un chacun. « En entamant l'écriture de ce livre, j'entendais expliquer comment on crée des œuvres d'art de qualité. Ce qui s'est révélé, au final, c'est un livre sur l'art de vivre. » Rick Rubin Avec la collaboration de Neil Strauss L'acte créatif est un programme d'études beau et généreux qui éclaire le chemin de l'artiste comme un chemin que nous pouvons tous suivre. Il distille la sagesse glanée au cours d'une vie de travail dans une expérience de lecture lumineuse qui met le pouvoir de créer des moments - et des vies - d'exaltation et de transcendance à portée de main de nous tousHopeless in Hope
Par Wanda John-Kehewin. 2023
Fourteen-year-old Eva’s life is like her shoes: rapidly falling apart. With Nohkum in the hospital, Eva’s mother struggles to keep…
things together and loses custody of Eva and her little brother. As Eva tries to adjust to living in a group home, can she find forgiveness for her mother within the pages of an old diary?How to Party Like a Snail
Par Naseem Hrab. 2022
Like a Hurricane
Par Jonathan Bécotte. 2023
The Gift
Par Zoe Maeve. 2021
The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent.The Gift opens on the snow-blanketed…
grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western Russia where a moth has come to attend the birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anastasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gilded world, isolated from the society beyond the palace walls despite their dominion over it. After mysteriously receiving a camera on her fifteenth birthday, she begins to document her world, but the gift carries with it a weight she can't yet see. A creature moves on the edge of her vision and stalks her dreams. As the revolution unfolds, the confines of Anastasia's world keep closing in. Something is following her, and it might not be human.You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Par Millicent Dillon. 1998
The famously enigmatic writer-composer Paul Bowles is the subject of Millicent Dillon's unforgettable new book. Her portrait of the chameleonlike…
artist is much more than an account of Bowles's life, however. It is also a meditation on biography that questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of "truth" in the telling of a life.Millicent Dillon first met Paul Bowles in Tangier in 1977, when she was writing a biography of his wife, the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973. Dillon returned to Morocco in 1992 to work with Bowles on a book about his own life. In Bowles's book-lined apartment often crowded with visitors, Dillon observes the magnetism the aging artist exerts on anyone who comes into his circle. Bowles talks of his difficult childhood and of his grief over Jane's long illness, of exile, dreams, and madness. He is charming and evasive with Dillon, generous and devious. As the book unfolds, Dillon's own reflections and concerns surface alongside details of Bowles's daily life, his physical condition, his interactions with others. Her portrait of the artist is seen simultaneously with her construction of that portrait, and in a kind of literary legerdemain we are able to observe Dillon on the biographical canvas along with Bowles and his deceased wife.Author of the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky and numerous other works, as well as an acclaimed composer, Paul Bowles has had an immensely rich creative life. Millicent Dillon seems to have been destined to write this unconventional biography of the artist, and the result is wonderful, disturbing, and strangely compelling, like Paul Bowles himself.