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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Par Mildred Taylor, Jerry Pinkney. 1976
Nine-year-old Cassie Logan recalls a turbulent time in Mississippi during the Great Depression--a year of night riders, burnings, and threats.…
She describes her African American family's struggle to survive with their dignity and independence intact. Some strong language. For grades 6-9. Newbery Award. 1976Mon amour, mon ange: 9 ans après le suicide de Gaétan Girouard
Par Natalie Préfontaine. 2007
"Natalie Préfontaine, qui a partagé la vie du célèbre animateur Gaétan Girouard, nous révèle dans ce livre, avec candeur et…
courage, son cheminement depuis le suicide de son mari. Ce fut l'une des morts les plus imprévisibles et médiatisées au Québec, à la fin des années 90. [...]" -- 4e de couvOn the line: My story of becoming the first african american rockette
Par Jennifer Jones. 2023
"Though this tale explores painful emotions, its focus on Jennifer's personal experience and the pleasure she found in dance make…
it an absolute delight."—Kirkus Reviews From the first Black Radio City Rockette dancer, Jennifer Jones, comes an inspiring autobiography perfect for fans of trailblazers like Misty Copeland, Mae Jemison, and more. Dancing has always made her feel free, like she can do anything. But when Jennifer was a child, some people didn't think that she had a future as a dancer because of the color of her skin. With the support of her family, especially her mother, she proved that anything is possible when you believe you belong. On the Line is a captivating true story about manifesting your dreamsMississippi: voyages aux sources de l'Amérique
Par Mario Maffi. 2008
"Les tribus indiennes l'appelaient Occochappo ("anciennes eaux"), Misha Sipokni ("au-delà du temps"), ou le "Grand Fleuve" : Misi-ziibi. Au fil…
de l'eau et des siècles, on lui donnera d'autres noms encore : le Père des Fleuves, le Grand Boueux, le Nil d'Amérique, le "Vieil Homme" chanté par les bluesmen de Memphis - Old Man River... Creuset de culture et berceau de la civilisation américaine, le Mississippi, avec ses 4 000 kilomètres de long, ses 250 affluents prenant leur source dans 31 des Etats de l'Union et son fameux delta, est sans doute le monument naturel le plus grandiose de l'Amérique, qu'il coupe en deux telle une immense artère liquide, tantôt majestueuse, tantôt furieuse, charriant un foisonnement de paysages, d'histoires et de légendes. Depuis les guerres de colonisation jusqu'aux ravages de l'ouragan Katrina, sur les traces de Mark Twain ou de Faulkner, en compagnie des griots cajuns et des magiciens vaudous, Mario Maffi raconte les mille et une circonvolutions d'un fleuve à la richesse inépuisable. Aussi poétique qu'érudit, entre carnet de route littéraire et rêverie géographique, Mississippi s'inscrit dans la lignée du Danube de Claudio Magris ou du Radeau de la Gorgone de Dominique Fernandez." -- 4e de couvPassages obligés
Par Josélito Michaud. 2006
Un jour, j'ai constaté mes énormes difficultés à surmonter la mort. Après de nombreuses épreuves, j'en étais arrivé à craindre…
la vie. Alors, tel un archéologue, j'ai entrepris des fouilles importantes pour dénicher des écrits sur ce sujet. Au bout de quelques jours d'intenses lectures, j'ai non seulement trouvé le thème du deuil fascinant, mais j'ai aussi découvert des pistes de solutions possibles à mon problème. Je me suis également rappelé que certaines personnalités que je connaissais avaient vécu des deuils importants et qu'elles s'en étaient sorties vainqueurs. J'ai donc décidé d'aller à leur rencontre et de partager leurs histoires avec vous. Leurs témoignages authentiques, touchants et réconfortants ont jeté un éclairage nouveau sur ce que je croyais être un événement insurmontable : le deuil. Désormais, j'ai la conviction que les petits et les grands deuils qui jalonnent le parcours de nos vies sont des Passages obligés. -- 4e de couvSun & Spoon
Par Kevin Henkes. 1997
After the death of his beloved grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon pockets Gram's special deck of solitaire cards as a keepsake. When…
his grandfather becomes nostalgic and searches for the missing cards, Spoon returns the deck in exchange for another memento with a very special meaning. For grades 4-7Bridge to Terabithia: A Newbery Award Winner
Par Katherine Paterson. 1977
Jess finds his biggest rival and best friend in Leslie, a girl who moves to his rural Virginia community from…
the city. Together they create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods where they reign supreme--until tragedy strikes. For grades 5-8. Newbery MedalLiliana's invincible summer: A sister's search for justice
Par Cristina Garza. 2023
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • "A searing account of grief and the…
quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact" ( The Boston Globe ) , from "one of Mexico’s greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem). "Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. . . . The record of a woman who, against the odds, refuses to be forgotten." —The New York Times A WASHINGTON POST AND TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. "My name is Cristina Rivera Garza," she writes in her request to the attorney general, "and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990." It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice . Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of that quest . In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sister’s history, depicting everything from Liliana’s early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before. Using her skills as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidence—handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Liliana’s loved ones—to document her sister’s life. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, she confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—todayCinco de mayo: A first look (Read about Holidays (Read for a Better World))
Par Percy Leed. 2023
Day of the dead: A first look (Read about Holidays (Read for a Better World))
Par Katie Peters. 2023
I am still with you: A reckoning with silence, inheritance, and history
Par Emmanuel Iduma. 2023
"Powerful and transcendent" — Chigozie Obioma "Both epic and intimate" —Margo Jefferson A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author's…
homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. He traveled home with an elusive mission: to learn the fate of his uncle Emmanuel, his namesake, who disappeared in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. A conflict that left so many families broken, the war remains at the margins of the history books, almost taboo to discuss. To find answers, Iduma stopped in city after city throughout the former Biafra region, reconnecting with relatives dear and distant to probe their memories, prowling university libraries to furtively photocopy illicit books, and visiting half-abandoned monuments along the highway. Perhaps, he realized, if he could understand how his father grieved the loss of a brother in the war, he might learn how to grieve his late father in turn. His is also the story of countless families across the country and across the world who will never have answers or proper funerals for their loved ones. It's a story about the birth of an artist, about writing itself as an act both healing and political, even dangerous. And it's a story about family history and legacy, and all the questions the dead leave unanswered. How much of the author's identity is wrapped up in this inheritance? And what does it mean to return home, when the people who define it are gone? Equal parts memoir, national history, and political reckoning, I Am Still With You is a profoundly personal story of collective loss and making peace with the unknowableJuneteenth: A first look (Read about Holidays (Read for a Better World))
Par Katie Peters. 2023
While you were out: An intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence
Par Meg Kissinger. 2023
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive…
exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the unspoken family rule: never talk about it. While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family's struggles then opens outward, as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country's flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies. Powerful, candid and filled with surprising humor, this is the story of one family's love and resilience in face of great lossSunshine
Par Jarrett Krosoczka. 2023
The extraordinary - and extraordinarily powerful - follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he…
was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp forseriously ill kids and their families. Going into, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such aserious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets peoplethrough the most troubled of times. Not only was he subject to some of the usual rituals that come with being a camp counselor(wilderness challenges, spooky campfire stories, an extremely stinky mascot costume), but he also got a chance to meet someextraordinary kids facing extraordinary circumstances. He learned about the captivity of illness, for sure . . . but he also learnedabout the freedom a safe space can bring.Now, in his follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Hey, Kiddo, Jarrett brings readers back to Camp Sunshine so we canmeet the campers and fellow counselors who changed the course of his lifeMégaptère (Collection L'inconvénient)
Par Martine Béland. 2023
En mai 2020, une baleine égarée remonte le fleuve jusqu'à Montréal. Au moment où elle est retrouvée morte, la mère…
de Martine Béland rend l'âme au terme d'une longue maladie. Dans ses derniers moments, celle qui préférait souvent la compagnie des animaux à celle des humains demandait des nouvelles du "mégaptère", mot qu'elle employait pour désigner ce grand mammifère marin qui la fascinaitThere is no blue
Par Martha Baillie. 2023
THE GLOBE AND MAIL : BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing,…
her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author's mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers Baillie's father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the center of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother's. And then, third, shockingly, the author's sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life, just before the book the sisters co-authored is due to come out. In this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of The Incident Report. "Martha Baillie's novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of sui generis and just plain generous. That There Is No Blue , her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the "disobedient tale" of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie's variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love." — Maud Casey, author of City of Incurable Women "This is a stunning memoir, intense and meticulous in its observations of family life. Baillie subtly interrogates and conveys the devastating mistranslations that take place in childhood, the antagonism and porousness of siblings, and the tragedy of schizophrenia as it unfolds. I couldn't put it down." — Dr. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Mad, Bad and Sad and Everyday Madness "Exquisite." — Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife "I am grateful for this profound meditation on family and loss." — Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker "This strange, unsettling memoir of outer life and inner life and their bizarre twining captures the author's identity by way of her mother's death, her sister's failing battle with mental illness, and the mysterious figure of her father. It combines anguished guilt, deep tenderness, and bemused affection in highly evocative, often disturbing prose. Its brave honesty is amplified by a persistent lyricism; its undercurrent of fear is uplifted by a surprising, resilient hopefulness. It is both a plea for exoneration and an act of exoneration, an authentic meditation on the terrible difficulty of being human." — Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonMissouri (My United States)
Par Jennifer Zeiger. 2019
Ghosts and legends of Nevada's highway 50 (Haunted America Ser.)
Par Janice Oberding. 2018
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in…
America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more. AdultHistoric tales of Utah (American chronicles)
Par Eileen Hallet Stone. 2016
New Mexico sunrise: faith and love hold generations together in four complete novels
Par Tracie Peterson. 2001
Garret Lucas was hired to take Maggie Intissar from Kansas to her estranged father's ranch in the New Mexico territory.…
But Maggie will do anything to avoid the painful memories of her past. Adult