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- Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)
Date: 1939
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1400482
Find Online: OL6382378M
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Novel set near Trois-Rivières, Québec, that begins with the birth of a first child - a daughter, Lucien - to Marie Charbonneau, whose husband Léonce despairs for not having a son to work on their farm. Two hundred miles away, the…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1999
Language: en
Find in a Library: 40857068
Find Online: OL24770070M
Selections from Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) earliest imaginative and other writings composed between 1936 and 1943, with introduction and commentary from poet and editor, Paul Marion. Includes notes, poetry, creative and journalistic prose, and an…
- Author: Fontaine, Robert Louis
Date: 1953
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1687374
Find Online: OL6132711M
Autobiographical novel revisiting a boy's childhood in Ottawa and the colorful character of his armchair philosopher uncle, Louis LaFrance. When Uncle Louis's marriage troubles find him moving in with the narrator child and his two parents, the…
- Author: Moreau, David
Date: 2004
Language: en
Find in a Library: 61727160
Book of poems from Wayne, Maine writer and author of the 2004 chapbook, "Children Are Ugly Little Monsters (But You Have to Love Them Anyway").
- Author: Craig, Béatrice
Date: 1983 Spring
Publication: Québec Studies
Volume: 1
Language: en
Find in a Library: 60628349
Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she…
- Author: Woolfson, A. Peter
Date: 1983-spr
Publication: Québec Studies
Volume: 1
Language: en
Find in a Library: 60628349
How the Québécois farmer of the 1980s - confronted with urbanization and industrialization - compares with the agricultural traditions and longheld assumptions about Québec "habitant" ways of life. Based on a case study of farm business,…
- Author: Poulin, A., Jr.
Date: 1972
Language: en
Find in a Library: 340273
Find Online: OL5708981M
Book of poems from Lisbon, Maine native, former professor of creative writing at SUNY Brockport, and translator of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies.
- Author: Dumas, Emma
Date: 1979 (1910)
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 7913042
Un roman sur la vie immigrante et catholique d'une actrice dans la ville de Holyoke, Massachusetts; sa communauté et paroisse canadienne-française.
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à …
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à …
- Author: Sleeper, Frank H.
Date: 1995
Language: en
Find in a Library: 34053616
Find Online: OL10819418M
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An "Images of America" series, pictorial history of the city of Augusta - Maine's capital - with images and captions from the late nineteenth through the first half of the twentieth century. Augusta's place in Maine state politics; its early…
- Author: Monette, Paul
Date: 1992
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24872593
Autobiography and coming-out narrative of Paul Monette, an Andover, Massachusetts writer. Monette recounts twenty-five closeted years of alienation and invisibility, explorations of his sexual identity, and observations on the sexual prejudice and…
- Author: Poulin, Susan
Date: 2012
Language: en
Find in a Library: 778426192
Maine humor self-help guide in the voice of Ida LeClair, the character creation of Maine writer and performer, Susan Poulin. "Commonsensical" wisdoms from the western Maine town of Mahoosuc Mills, drawn from Ida's life experiences; her husband,…
- Author: Kegley, Alice
Date: 2006-12-18
Language: en
Find in a Library: 314398691
Historical novel introducing the author's great-great-grandparents' from Montréal, Québec, and their family's new life after immigrating to Rapid City in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, USA. Begins with the mother - Alphonsine - and her…
- Author: Nicosia, Gerald
Date: 1983-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9392871
Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth…
- Author: Wood, Monica
Date: 2012
Language: en
Find in a Library: 719673406
Find Online: OL16686833W
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Memoir from Mexico, Maine native and author of fiction, Monica Wood. Recalls the period of the author's youth around the time of the sudden death of her father. Her family's experience of the loss of its breadwinner in the 1960s. The shape of her…
- Author: Trottier, Maurice
Date: 1981
Language: en / fr
Find in a Library: 9400262
Book of French and English language poems, written in a sequence modeled after the author's teenage years, from 13-20. From a Manchester, New Hampshire native writer. Illustrated in photographs and black and white drawings. Un livre de poèsie…