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Le pays au bout du fleuve: 1 (Le pays au bout du fleuve. #1.)
Par Sylvie Gobeil. 2007
"Un après-midi de l'été 1665, au port de La Rochelle, Jeanne attend le signal de l'embarquement. Discrètement, elle surveille ses…
quatre filles qui jouent près du navire. Jean Gobeil, son mari, déborde d'enthousiasme à l'idée du départ, une décision qu'il a prise et à laquelle Jeanne a consenti par amour. Tout quitter pour le pays du non-retour l'effraie. "Jean ne vous entraînerait pas dans une aventure insensée. Fais-lui confiance", lui a conseillé sa mère. Malgré la foi en son homme, rien n'a préparé la jeune femme de 24 ans à ces neuf semaines en mer avant d'atteindre la ville de Québec. Jeanne affronte le premier hiver en Nouvelle-France avec un courage teinté de nostalgie. La France lui manque. Partout, elle n'aperçoit que de la neige et de la forêt. "Comment résister?", se demande-t-elle. Jean la rassure. Ensemble, ils défrichent et cultivent leur lopin de terre à l'île d'Orléans. Deux autres filles et deux garçons viennent compléter la famille. Couple d'exception dans ce Québec du XVIIe siècle où mariage ne rime pas nécessairement avec amour, Jeanne confie à l'une de ses filles : "Jamais je n'ai laissé le travail prendre le dessus sur l'amour". Une vie chargée d'émotions que celle de Jeanne, la Poitevine! Une vie où l'amour qui l'unit à Jean triomphera. même au-delà de la mort." -- 4e de couvForteresses et autres refuges (Collection III)
Par Rafaële Germain. 2023
Il y a les souvenirs dont elle a hérité, ces histoires qui lui ont été tellement racontées qu'elles ont fini…
par faire partie intégrante de sa mémoire. Il y a les images floues qu'elle garde de son enfance et les récits à partir desquels elle s'est construite. Il y a aussi les souhaits qu'elle porte, des projections dans le futur qui prennent racine dans son passé. À travers l'histoire des premières années de sa mère et celle de ses dernières semaines, en passant par le souvenir des petits chaperons de toutes les couleurs que son père a imaginés pour elle enfant, Rafaële Germain tente de trouver des réponses à la question : que veut-on garder de ce que le monde a déposé en nous?Cent ans dans les bois (Collection Roman québécois #55)
Par Antonine Maillet. 1981
« Voici qu’après trois ou quatre générations passées dans la clandestinité des bois, dans ces forêts du Nouveau Monde, aussi…
impénétrables que des oubliettes, une poignée de familles acadiennes s’est refait le goût du ciel et de l’eau, a repris contact avec le sable et le sel des rivages. Nous sommes en 1880... Et les gens du Fond-de-la-Baie de Memramcook, du Barachois et autres lieux, devenus gens des côtes, brisent le mur du silence et nous disent, en paroles antiques et sonores, leur vie, leurs peines et leurs amours incessées depuis ce lointain, cet opiniâtre cheminement des charrettes de Pélagie revenues du sud... » -- 4e de couvLe chevalier Jordan (Best seller (Hurtubise HMH (Firme)))
Par Maryse Rouy. 2006
" [...] L'histoire du futur chevalier commence le jour de ses sept ans et se finit lors de son adoubement.…
Pendant ces années d'apprentissage, il vit toutes sortes d'aventures qui le forcent à se surpasser. Par chance, à ses côtés, il y a toujours le fidèle Paulin, son frère de lait. Plus sage, plus réfléchi, c'est lui qui parle avec la voix de la raison. Mais quand il ne réussit pas à la faire entendre, il n'hésite pas à épauler son impétueux ami, sans souci des conséquences. Suivez-les, chevauchant Vif-argent et Centaurée, sur les routes pleines de pièges et de joies de leur enfance médiévale. " -- 4e de couvA Songbird in Wartime
Par Karen Dickson. 2021
A wartime family saga, perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Val Wood Shaftesbury, 1936. Mansfield House Hotel has…
been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. Not only did they give her employment as a chambermaid, but it&’s also where she met her fiancé Tom. When theatre agent Roland stays at the hotel and hears Emily singing, he is determined to take her away to Bristol and make her a star. But knowing she'd never leave her fiancé, he hatches a plan to get Emily away from Tom. Six years later, Emily has made a name for herself as 'The Bristol Songbird'. Her love for Tom is still as strong as ever, but she's not heard from him since that fateful night so long ago. And with the world enveloped in a war, it seems unlikely the two will ever meet again. Will Emily and Tom ever find their way back to one another? Or will the war – and Roland – succeed in keeping them apart? Praise for Karen Dickson: &‘A compelling saga that will hold you fast from the first page to the last. Loved it&’ VAL WOOD, author of The Lonely Wife 'This rollercoaster of a novel draws you in from the first page… I devoured this in one sitting and look forward to more from this author. In short a gem of a read' FIONA FORD, author of Wartime at Liberty's 'A delight to read... Lily Hayter is a wonderful heroine whose resilience and integrity shine through as she struggles to claim a life of her choosing and find a family. At the heart of the story is a warmth and humanity that makes it a truly uplifting read. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was sorry when I reached the end because I wanted to linger in Dickson&’s world. I eagerly await more from Karen Dickson' VICKI BEEBY, author of The Ops Room Girls &‘An exciting, fresh and talented new voice – a five-star read!&’ CAROL RIVERS, author of Molly&’s Christmas Orphans'The characters in this novel are so believable that I cared deeply about them from the first chapter. A heartfelt, hopeful account of one young woman&’s fight to keep her child safe when all the odds are against her. Atmospheric and beautifully written' JAN CASEY, author of The Women of Waterloo BridgeThe Book of Harlan
Par Bernice L. McFadden. 2016
Bernice L. McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the YearWINNER of the 2017…
American Book AwardWINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)!A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016"McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together."--Library Journal"Simply miraculous...As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music."--Washington Post"Bernice L. McFadden took me on a melodious literary journey through time and place in her masterpiece, The Book of Harlan. It's complex, real, and raw...McFadden intricately and purposefully weaves history as a backdrop in her fiction. The Book of Harlan brilliantly explores questions about agency, purpose, freedom, and survival."--Literary Hub, one of Nicole Dennis-Benn's 26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read"McFadden's writing breaks the heart--and then heals it again. The perspective of a black man in a concentration camp is unique and harrowing and this is a riveting, worthwhile read."--Toronto Star"The Book of Harlan is an incredible read. Bernice McFadden...has created an amazing novel that speaks to lesser known aspects of the African-American experience and illuminates the human heart and spirit. Her spare prose is rich in details that convey deep emotions and draw the reader in. This fictional narrative of Harlan Elliot's life is firmly grounded amidst real people and places--prime historical fiction, and the best book I have read this year."--Historical Novels Review, Editors' Choice"McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history: both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. Partly set in the Jim Crow South, the novel succeeds in showing the prevalence of racism all across the country--whether implemented through institutionalized mechanisms or otherwise. Playing with themes of divine justice and the suffering of the righteous, McFadden presents a remarkably crisp portrait of one average man's extraordinary bravery in the face of pure evil."--Booklist, Starred reviewThe Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre--affectionately referred to as "The Harlem of Paris" by black American musicians--Harlan jumps at the opportunity, convincing Lizard to join him.But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald--the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany--irreparably changing the course of Harlan's life. Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden's mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden's familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.Into the Jungle!: A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II (Cultures of Childhood)
Par Jimmy Kugler. 2023
Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred…
double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by “Frogs” and “Toads,” humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. The history of American youth depends primarily on adult reminiscences of their own childhoods, adult testimony to the lives of youth around them, or surmises based on at best a few creative artifacts. The survival then of such a large collection of adolescent comic strips from America’s small-town Midwest is remarkable. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father’s adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. Kugler emphasizes how US propaganda intended to inspire patriotic support for the war gave this young artist a license for his imagined violence. In a context of progressive American educational reform, these violent comic stories, often in settings modeled on the artist’s small Nebraska town, suggests a form of adolescent rebellion against moral conventions consistent with comic art’s reputation for “outsider” or countercultural expressions. Kugler also argues that these comics provide evidence for the transition in American taste from war stories to the horror comics of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Kugler’s thorough analysis of his father’s adolescent art explains how a small-town boy from the plains distilled the popular culture of his day for an imagined war he could fight on his audacious, even shocking terms.