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  • Author: Marquis, Fr. Alphie

Date: 1980

Language: English

Find in a Library: 22467565

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Memoirs of a priest from the St. John River Valley, Maine and New Brunswick, who was born in the first decade of the 20th century and spent most of his late life preaching in the Roman Catholic parishes of northern Maine.

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  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 12075115

A book of poems from a Lowell, Massachusetts, native. From Apple Tree Review: "Marion seems to delight in grasping the elemental thing that is the city, the significant, the insignificant, the reality, the metaphor....His language is clear, precise,…

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  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1989

Language: English

Find in a Library: 20807405

A book of poems from a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. Marion is author of many other works of poetry, as well as editor of a collection of Jack Kerouac's writings.

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  • Author: Marion, Paul

Date: 1986

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16000166

A chapbook of poems from a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. Marion is author of many other works of poetry, as well as editor of a collection of Jack Kerouac's writings.

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  • Author: Madore, Paul A.

Date: 1990

Language: English

Find in a Library: None (can be viewed at the Franco-American Centre, University of Maine, Orono, Maine)

Book of poems and one short story from a native of Van Buren, Maine.

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  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 1897 (1847)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27193052

Find Online: OL496004W

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Maine native Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's search for her love lost. First published in 1847.

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  • Author: L'Heureux, John

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49421619

From Grove/Atlantic Press: "John L’Heureux has been acclaimed as '[a] master storyteller . . . elegant, cunning, and wickedly funny' (The Washington Post). Now, in a pitch-perfect, deeply satisfying work of fiction, he enters the world of an…

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  • Author: Robbins, Rhea Côté (editor)

Date: 2006

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 76901514

Contains an English translation of Camille Lessard-Bissonnette's 1936 serialized novel "Canuck," an historical section entitled "French Women of North America," and an English translation of "The Young Franco American" by Alberte Gastonguay.

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  • Author: Leland, John

Date: 2007

Language: English

Find in a Library: 83758819

Critical study of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" through the lens of its author and one of its main characters. From Viking Press: "In 'Why Kerouac Matters,' John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel ['On the…

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  • Author: Ledoux, Denis

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 18787563

Ledoux has woven a tapestry of vignettes all coming to a seam at self-reflection. 'What Became of Them' is a collection of short stories that spans a century of Franco America, its cultural mutations, and its burdening self-absorption. Ledoux finds a…

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  • Author: Ledoux, Denis (editor)

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23009726

In this 1991 anthology, Denis Ledoux places together the poetry and short fiction prose of thirteen authors in an effort to illustrate the range of the contemporary Franco-American artistic voice. All of the pieces included in this collection might…

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  • Author: Ledoux, Denis

Date: 1990

Language: English

Find in a Library: 27833685

Four short stories embedded in Franco-American life from a writer who hails from Lisbon, Maine.

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  • Author: Le Blanc, Barbara

Date: 2003 June

Language: English (with français)

Find in a Library: 52070757

From Gaspereau Press: "In 'Postcards from Acadie,' Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and symbolic resonance of the Grand Pré National Historic site...Excavating the political and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand Pré, Le Blanc…

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  • Author: Lambert, Adélard

Date: 2008 (1938)

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 232536785

English translation of "L'innocente victime," first published in 1938. From Images from the Past: "A fast-paced tale of deceit, determination, lies, love, loss, and murder. The dramatic story of Jean and Marie Legendre enlightens the reader about the…

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  • Author: Lacroix, BenoiÌ‚t

Date: 1980

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8345159

De l'avant-propos: "Le père Benoit Lacroix, O.P., avec toute la lucidité qu'on lui connait, a su, lui aussi, plonger dans la profondeur de l'âme du pecheur pour essayer d'en decouvrir le phénomène religieux maritime; et, en bon…

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  • Author: Labonté, Robert

Date: 1992

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 27851198

Une grande texte qui contient des photos, poèsie, quelques recettes populaires, et des vieux blagues de la vallée St. Jean dans le comté Aroostook du Maine, sur la frontière des Etats-Unis et la Nouveau-Brunswick.

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  • Author: La Voye, G.

Date: 1978

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 7404070

Une collection poèsie d'un écrivain francophone de Massachusetts, publiée à Beverly, Massachusetts - une ville de banlieue à l'extérieur de Boston.

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1963

Language: English

Find in a Library: 5887038

Auto/biographical novel about Gerard - Jack Kerouac's older brother - whose personality, illness, and death at a young age shaped the early part of Jack's life. An early piece of the "Duluoz Legend."

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1960

Language: English

Find in a Library: 24871127

Originally published in 1960, "Tristessa" is a short novel that reflects on Jack's life in Mexico City and the people around him - particularly the woman of his admiration, the novel's title character. This is another later installment of the…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1950

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1165357

This is the first major novel published by Kerouac. It also makes up the foundation - the first installment - of his famed, unofficial, autobiographical fiction series, the "Duluoz Legend." "The Town and the City" is set in the fictional town of…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1958

Language: English

Find in a Library: 285385

Another installment of Kerouac's collection of novels known as the "Duluoz Legend." From Grove Press: "Written over the course of three days and three nights, 'The Subterraneans' was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1966

Language:

Find in a Library: 401934

In perhaps the culminating text of Kerouac's "Duluoz Legend," Jack goes to France to dig up the roots and bloodlines beneath his family name and cultural identity. From the 1985 edition: "'Satori in Paris' is a rollicking autobiographical account of…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1959

Language:

Find in a Library: 28534657

Novel set at the end of Jack's high school days, chronicling an episode of teenage love and the tensions wrought on it when one moves on. Written in and out of the Lowell, Massachusetts of Kerouac's youth. Another piece of Jack Kerouac's…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1959

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6082499

Find Online: OL65937W

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The spaces and tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1930s are prowled by a mythic, devilish character in the 'Doctor Sax' of the narrator's imagination. A weaving of real and fantastical images from the Lowell of Kerouac's youth. This title is…

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1962

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26089403

One of the later installments in Kerouac's "Dulouz Legend." Jack attempts to make an escape from a life in the public eye to the sea and forest surrounding a remote cabin in Big Sur, the wild of northern California.

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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2003

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55504516

A study of gender in the context of Quebecois immigration to the United States over a sixty-year period (1870-1930). Observations on gender evidenced in the labor statistics of this time period. The foundation and development of a Franco American…

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  • Author: Vicero, Ralph

Date: 1968

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Geography

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2934957

Find Online: OL13204047W

Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From…

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  • Author: Péloquin-Faré, Louise

Date: 1981

Thesis Type: D.M.L.

Institution: Middlebury College

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 17760529

From the author: "In the first part of the dissertation, we analyze the institutions which traditionally favored bilingualism: the family, the parochial school, the Catholic parish, the social environment, the media and other organisms such as mutual…

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  • Author: Tremblay, Remy

Date: 2000

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Géographie

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 50754742

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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.…

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  • Author: Therriault, Mary-Carmel

Date: 1945

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Littérature française

Institution: Université Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 77409396

Un oeuvre qui explore le phénomène de la littérature langue française écrit et lit dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, jusqu'à 1945. Réédité en 1946 par Fides, les Publications de l'Université…

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