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  • Author: Dufresne, John

Date: 1991 (1997)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 21677261

Find Online: OL2644840W

Collection of short stories from native of Worcester, Massachusetts and professor of creative writing at Florida International University. Author of the novels "Louisiana Power & Light" (1994), "Love Warps the Mind a Little" (1997), "Requiem, Mass."…

  • Author: Tremblay, Rémy

Date: 2006

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 753328626

Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme…

  • Author: Banks, Russell

Date: 2000 (2011)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 42861911

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Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in…

  • Author: Banks, Russell

Date: 1985

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10998820

Find Online: OL35483W ; OL15136638W

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Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her…

  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 2012

Language: en

Find in a Library: 689858563

Find Online: OL25075223M

Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and…

  • Author: Fecteau, Edward

Date: 1945

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1312704

Find Online: OL6484968M

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Historical text on French, French Canadian, and Franco American persons significant to political, social, religious, and artistic life in the United States both before and after 1776 - from the early 17th century to the 1940s. Composed of…

  • Author: Maher, Paul, Jr.

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 52347737

Recent historical biography of Lowell, Massachusetts writer, Jack Kerouac. Based largely on primary sources. Written by an independent scholar whose childhood and later life was also spent in Lowell.

  • Author: Bibeau, Gilles

Date: 2004

Publication: Anthropologie et Sociétés

Volume: 28

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 613061578

Essai qui explore l'écriture de Kerouac à travers son auto-identification ethnique, et en tant que participant à la production d'un mythe création franco-américaine. Comment cette lecture de Kerouac se compare à sa renommée comme…

  • Author: Landry, Thomas-Marie

Date: 1962

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 10197020, 300126253

Find Online: OL11296882W

Une collection de discours, sermons, des papiers, des émissions de radio, articles de journaux, les manifestes, et d'autres présentations sur le thème de soutenir et de préserver la religion catholique et la culture…

  • Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 1986 April 27

Publication: The New York Times Magazine

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760221, 11681064

Short essay on the recurring presence of writer Clark Blaise's deceased father - the stories he both took with him and left behind, and the impact of certain memories of this man on Blaise in his adult life.

  • Author: Nichols, Jim

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 51044695

A collection of short stories largely set in Maine with local characters, written by Maine native and author of the 2011 novel, "Hull Creek."

Features the following stories, in order of appearance:
Magic
The Dilly
C'est La Vie (originally…

  • Author: Kemner, Léon

Date: 1908 novembre

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 445763455, 564957447

Une réimpression d'un article en vedette dans "L'Opinion Publique." Un examen d'une analyse statistique réalisée par M.C.H. de Fosse sur des personnes résidant aux Etats-Unis dont la langue maternelle est autre que l'anglais, un accent…

  • Author: Giguère, Madeleine

Date: 1974

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2146602, 77398996

Presentation of data acquired in the 1970 United States census. Statistics collected specifically on the populations of persons of French mother tongue in New England and Louisiana. Illustrates in table form their distribution by county, city, town,…

  • Author: National Materials Development Center

Date: 1975

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 93006875

List of educational materials designed for French and French/English American elementary education in the 1970s. Shares the titles, descriptions of content, and appropriate grade levels for language texts designed for teachers and students in…

  • Author: Péloquin-Faré, Louise

Date: 1983

Institution: École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud (Centre de recherche et d'étude pour la diffusion du français)

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 11599243

Find Online: OL5382031W

Une description des moeurs et de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Une exploration de la survivance dans le contexte d'une histoire précise et d'un avenir imprévisible pour un peuple francophone aux Etats-Unis. Etude…

  • Author: Chodos, Robert
  • Author: Hamovitch, Eric

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 28181742

Find Online: OL1357139M

An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American…

  • Author: Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: en

Find in a Library: 658153238

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From the author: "This thesis explains and analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal, long-term winter travel to Florida, travelers that South Floridians have called 'snowbirds.' It demonstrates what pushed and pulled [Canadian and American] snowbirds to…

  • Author: Banks, Ann

Date: 1980 (1991)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6448346

Find Online: OL7452912M

Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers…

  • Author: Fosdick, Lucian J.

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find Online: 614130

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  • Author: Louder, Dean
  • Author: Waddell, Eric

Date: 2008

Language: Français

Find Online: 228855988

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  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

Find Online: OL7003802W

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

  • Author: Paré, Paul

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: 603676674

From the author: "How does a recently widowed, 50-year old man work his way through his mid-life crisis? He flies to Palm Springs and checks himself into a gay resort, of course. Well-crafted, with complex and compelling characters, this novel…

  • Author: Tremblay, Remy

Date: 2000

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Géographie

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 50754742

Le résumé de Tremblay: "Dans cette these de doctorat, nous explorons le concept de communauté, lequel appartient à la sociologie mais qui est d'un grand intéret pour les géographes par sa dimension spatiale plutot méconnue.…

  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2010

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

Find in a Library: 636583583

Review of two 2008 history texts on French America: "Franco-Amérique," by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States," by Mark Paul Richard.