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- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2001 July/August
Publication: Eclectica
Volume: 5
Language: English
Find in a Library: 370158292
Short story about the relationship between father and son. The father, a Vietnam War veteran who speaks little of his war experience, narrates the persistence of a son whose interest in his father's war involvement drives both son and father to ask…
- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2007
Book Title: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
Language: English
Find in a Library: 71800711
Short story about French-Canadian grandparents, the pull of family, and irrevocable realities of class and culture. From the Waterville, Maine author of "God is Dead" and "Everything Matters!"
- Author: Gosselin, Henri
Date: 2001
Language: English
Find in a Library: 47671730
Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…
- Author: Gosselin, Henri
Date: 1998
Language: English (traduction en français disponible)
Find in a Library: 42249878
Historical fiction piece about a French Canadian spy participating in the American Revolution and risking, from the threats of his Canadian bishop, excommunication from the Catholic Church. Based on actual events.
- Author: Genest, Eloise
Date: 2001
Language: English
Find in a Library: 49396582
A 21st-century novel about Louisiana's colonial period, and the demise of French power on the North American continent before the end of the 1700s.. From Amazon.com: " It is the period of the Enlightenment in France and Europe, and early French…
- Author: Fuller, Robert G., Jr.
Date: 2009
Language: English
Find in a Library: 466715527
A crime novel set in a small fictional Maine town. Written by local attorney and resident of Central Maine. From the author's website: "Why would anyone want to kill Harvey Coburn? This question perplexes Maine state police detective Martin Counihan.…
- Author: Field, Rachel
Date: 1931
Language: English
Find in a Library: 4411669
Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…
- Author: Cather, Willa
Date: 1931
Language: English
Find in a Library: 167912
Novel set in seventeenth-century Canada - New France - maneuvering between a widower, his family and guests, and the great political figures of the time. Written by Cather out of a brief obsession with Québec and French Canada in the early…
- Author: Cather, Willa
Date: 1927
Language: English
Find in a Library: 346243
The famed Middle-American author of "O Pioneers!" writes a novel about French Catholic priests on a mission to New Mexico in the middle of the nineteenth century. Cather writes out Mexican custom and Roman faith as they merge in the desert at the…
- Author: Albert, FeÌlix
Date: 1909 (1991)
Language: English (traduction du français)
Find in a Library: 21761314
Translated and republished autobiography of French-Canadian immigrant to Lowell, Massachusetts, originally made public at the beginning of the 20th century. Introduction written by Frances H. Early. From the book jacket: "This is the story of a…
- 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. RepublieÌ 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: 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: 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: Belair, Richard L.
Date: 1991
Language: English
Find in a Library: 21195458
Novel about conflict between Irish and French Canadian communities in the Catholic parish of a New England town where the "Fathers" play a particularly important role. From the text, a review by Robert Courmier: "In a New England city teeming with…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2008
Language: English
Find in a Library: 304550258
From the author's website: "Professor Emeritus Beaupré enjoyed teaching world literature and French Impressionism as well as Post-Impressionism during his college career. Over the years, he developed a special liking for Van Gogh, the man, his…