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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2007

Language: English

Find in a Library: 7446073

A collection of short stories loosely connected, all based on the premise of the death of God. From Viking Press: "Ron Currie's gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it?…

  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 268957344

Waterville, Maine, native Ron Currie, Jr.’s sophomore effort, Everything Matters!, is not a story about aliens – although it could be. The voice in Junior Thibodeau’s head has told him precisely when the world will end. Lecturing…

  • Author: Coté, Gertrude M.

Date: 1953

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8811829

Autobiographical collection of essays that chronicle a Franco American's family life in western Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes one chapter on the history of Rumford, Maine.

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1974

Language: English

Find in a Library: 722968

Young adult novel about the violence of peer pressure and the search for adolescent identity. From Laurel Leaf Books: "Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity School fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry…

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1960

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1436332

Cormier's first novel, partly inspired by the death of his father, chronicles the life changes that come with the illness and potential death of his protagonist, Alph LeBlanc.

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1977

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3925983

A back-and-forth between third- and first-person narration, "I Am The Cheese" is Adam's journey to visit his ailing father, as well as our own trip through Adam's returning memories as they are laid out in psychiatric therapy. From Knopf Publishing:…

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1963

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1630266

From Laurel Leaf Books: "Already a widow with three kids, Gracie Adams is pregnant again. Things are bound to be tough, but Gracie never gives up hope of finding a love that will once again pull everyone together as a real family. A strikingly honest…

  • Author: Bonang, Claude B.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 76884009

Revised edition of "Memories in Verse" (Bonang, 1996) with some added prose. A literary look at coming of age in a coastal Maine mill town - Brunswick.

  • Author: Bonang, Claude B.

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36363536

Collection of anecdotal verse on growing up in Brunswick, Maine. Illustrations also provided by the author.

  • Author: Blanchette, Michel A.

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 67294624

Self-published memoir about life in Québec, and life after Québec. From iUniverse: "Michel learns that his father is dying. This news precipitates a nostalgic journey into the past-a childhood spent on a dairy farm in French Québec. As a…

  • Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26398865

From Library Journal: "This unusual memoir focuses on the author's attempt to understand his dead father. Blaise, a prize-winning novelist and director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, combines fragments of memories, mostly…

  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 1999

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 43280504

Un roman quasi-autobiographique, sur la vie d'un jeune dans "un petit Canada" de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.

  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 2006

Language: Français (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 122931605

A monologue on life and love, written in the French vernacular of Biddeford, Maine. Based on a Southern Maine character from an earlier of Beaupré's novels, "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs" (1999). De Llumina Press: "[La Souillonne] se 'debourre…

  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 2005

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 145498315

De Llumina Press: "...l'histoire de sa [Beaupré] grand-mere maternelle venue du Québec avec son mari et leurs dix enfants pour prendre demeure aux Etats-Unis dans un village du New Hampshire."

  • Author: Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy

Date: 1972

Language: fr (en translation)

Find in a Library: 877702, 2966704

Un livre comme essai sur les rélations entre la vie et la littérature de Jack Kerouac - son écriture et son héritage - avec des réactions de l'auteur.

  • Author: Beaugrand, Honoré

Date: 1878

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8517304

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Un texte éssentiel à la collection de la littérature franco-américaine du 19e siècle. Un conte d'émigration du Canada à la Nouvelle-Angleterre avant l'année 1900. Ecrit par l'ancien maire de Montréal, et…

  • Author: April, Susan
  • Author: Brouillette, Paul
  • Author: Marion, Paul
  • Author: St. Onge, Marie Louise

Date: 1999

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40471565

Read: Preview

A selection of various literatures from Franco-American New England writers. From the Introduction: "In these poems and essays we have four people, artists, holding the threads of a fading ethnic subculture and tying the ends tightly to the fabric of…

  • Author: Albert, Renaud S.
  • Author: Chabot, Gregoire
  • Author: Dube, Normand C.
  • Author: Pare, Paul

Date: 1980

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 9170217

From Robert L. Paris' introduction to the text:"'À Tour de Rôle' is a collection of nine original dramatic skits in French, of twenty to forty-five minutes duration each. These skits can be used in bilingual classes at the secondary level and…

  • Author: Beaupré, Normand R.

Date: 2009

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 463283976

Une anthologie des contes et histoires franco-américaines, écrits par et pour le franco-américanie. A self-proclaimed fictional companion to the recently published Franco-American reader, "Voyages," "proclamer notre appartenance au monde…

  • Author: Jones, James T.

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 40735081

From ECW Press: "With this fascinating new book, Jim Jones debunks many of the myths surrounding the life and times of Jack Kerouac. Jones concentrates on those whose lives were most affected by Kerouac: daughter Jan Kerouac, wives Edie Parker, Joan…

  • Author: HeÌ€mon, Louis

Date: 1921

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 959660

Classic romance novel from 1914 about rural Québec, love of family, and the rejection of America in the name of "la survivance."

  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10915093

Third novel of the "Darby Series," and the only installment currently out of print. From Google Books: "Plans to build a large shopping mall in rural Darby, New Hampshire, provoke new alliances and rivalries among the town's aristocrats, newcomers,…

  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 28066130

Second and fourth novels in Hebert's Darby series, with a new essay included. From the University Press of New England: (A Little More Than Kin) "Evicted from the New Hampshire shack he proudly called home, Ollie Jordan--ignorant, ingenious, angry,…

  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 1979

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4492057

The first piece of Hebert's "Darby Series" - five novels set in a fictional town in rural New Hampshire. From University Press of New England: "Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New…

  • Author: Tremblay, Bill

Date: 1986

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31206498

A book of poems in reflection of the author's hometown, Southbridge, Massachusetts. From Gale Literature: "Tremblay returned to his mill-town roots with the historical poems in 'Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada.' Through his evocation of…

  • Author: Tremblay, Bill

Date: 1971

Language: English

Find in a Library: 197842

Debut book of poems by a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts.

  • Author: Touchette, Charleen

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56615738

From Touch Art Books: "This story with its bold contrasts of good and bad, love and hate, inextricably connected, is situated in the context of the bigger history of French Canadian and Indian people amid mainstream American culture from the mid…

  • Author: Theriault, Jeri

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 51164913

New England writer's book of poems. From the author of "Corn Dance."

  • Author: Tetreau Brandt, Claire
  • Author: McCune Irvine, Patricia

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 123028893

Biography of a Franco-American girl growing up in Southern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • Author: Shreve, Anita

Date: 2000

Language: English

Find in a Library: 41991464

From Little, Brown, and Company: "Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the…