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  • Author: LeBlanc, Dudley J.

Date: 1966

Language:

Find in a Library: 1829658

Book on Acadian genealogy written by a former Louisiana state senator. Primarily a draft of his family tree.

  • Author: Labonté, Youville

Date: 1977

Language:

Find in a Library: 4808338

List of persons interred at St. Peter and Paul's Cemetery, Lewiston, Maine. Volumes 1 and 2 have names of persons interred between 1870 and 1976. Volume 3 contains names of those interred between 1977 and 1992.

  • Author: Duval-Thibault, Anna-Marie

Date: 1888 (1979)

Language: Français (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 6582362

Un roman qui commence à Montréal avec Maria qui, contre son coeur, épouse un homme de la faveur de ses parents - l'homme qui est aussi a la faveur du première de deux testaments d'une femme très riche. Nous demandons: où est le…

  • Author: Despres, Lewellyn Michael

Date: 1986

Language: English

Find in a Library: 15041772

Novel by Aroostook County, Maine, writer, about the death of a son in a northern Maine family.

  • 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: Crépeau, Georges

Date: 1892-00-00 (créé)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 6471886

Un petit roman policier. L'amour et un assassiner dans un village tranquille. Écrit à Lowell, Massachusetts, en 1892. Republié en 1979 avec le support de Title VII ESEA and le NMDC. Le livre commence: "Mort!...Oui mort!...On crut d'abord…

  • 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: Brennan, William

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 623978169

From PublishAmerica:"The Great Depression has dealt the cotton textile industry repeated blows. Mills are failing and unemployment is rampant. Irish and Franco-American workers in the fictional Southeastern New England town of Millbank,…

  • Author: Boudreau, Amy

Date: 1971 (first printing, 1955)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 579113

Book-length poem on the Acadian expulsion and settlement in the United States, followed by a brief historical sketch of Nova Scotia (modern-day Acadia) and the Acadians in Louisiana. Prefaced with an appreciative letter written by then-Consul General…

  • 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: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 77139371

Novel about WWII and its effects on soldiers and civilians alike. Explores the similar experiences of one boy from New England and one from Berlin. An attempt to remember the War's "forgotten undesirables:" Gypsy, gay, African American, Japanese…

  • Author: Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy

Date: 1978

Language: Français (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 5982692, 184816014

The back cover of the text reads: "'A Québécois Dream' is a nightmare vision of what happens to a man who is dispossessed, impotent, afraid and filled with rage. Joseph-David-Barthélémy Dupuis takes grotesque war measures against his…

  • Author: Archambault, Alberic A.

Date: 1943

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2414523

Early twentieth-centuy novel about a French-Canadian family's immigration to a New England mill town. The author - Archambault - says, "this story is the story of any mill village in New England between 1870 and the present time [1943]. The author…

  • 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-Leiter, Maria

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 463256338

From LSU Press: "From antebellum times, Louisiana’s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In 'Becoming Cajun, Becoming American,' Maria…

  • 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: Tremblay, Rémi

Date: 1884

Language: Français (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 458367612

Le roman d'un soldat canadien français (franco-américain) qui a combattu dans la Guerre de Sécession aux États-Unis.

  • Author: Tremblay, Rémi

Date: 2002

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 48966596

From Images from the Past: "The first published translation into English of 'Un Revenant,' an 1884 romantic adventure written by Rémi Tremblay, a French-Canadian author who turned his own experiences as a teenaged enlistee in the Civil War…

  • 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: 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: Stewart, Sharon

Date: 2004

Language: English (traduction en français est disponible)

Find in a Library: 54371823

A children's book about the Acadian expulsion of 1754 (le Grand Dérangement). From Scholastic Canada: "Angélique Richard's life is turned upside down when she and her family, along with the people of Grand-Pré, are forced by the…

  • 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…

  • Author: Seton, Anya

Date: 1975 (2010)

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1272590, 642838990

Young adult novel heavily influenced by the tale of "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Seton's final novel, originally published in 1975. Republished in 2010. From Chicago Review Press: "Anya Seton, whose many novels won her world-wide…

  • Author: Robichaud, Gerard

Date: 1965

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 13791938

Robichaud returns to the Groveton Falls, Maine, town of his most famous novel, "Papa Martel," in the story of an orphaned Michel Dumont - a boy concerned with absolution for a benign theft as he overhears of the coming end of the world. "Apple" is…

  • Author: Robichaud, Gerard

Date: 1961

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1451604

Ten-story chronicle of the fictional Franco-American Martel family in the fictional town of Groveton, Maine, modeled after Lewiston. A touching, funny, and intimate portrayal of family life in the early twentieth century. Most recent version of the…