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- 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: 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: Tremblay, ReÌmi
Date: 1884
Language: Français (English translation available)
Find in a Library: 458367612
Le roman d'un soldat canadien français (franco-ameÌricain) qui a combattu dans la Guerre de SeÌcession aux EÌtats-Unis.
- Author: Proulx, E. Annie
Date: 1996
Language: English
Find in a Library: 34515071
A startlingly inclusive selection of a century's worth of American immigrant vignettes tied together by the movement of a single accordion. For immigration studies, it is a portrayal attentive in sentiment and beckoning in its concern for the new…
- Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)
Date: 1941
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4207548
Open Library: OL6420912M
Novel set in an American ore-mining town at the end of the 19th century. Begins with Père La Tendresse sending his son, Joseph, from their farm near Trois-Rivières, Québec to work for a time in the United States, in Michigan's Upper…
- Author: Woodbury, Kenneth B., Jr.
Date: 1967-06
Publication: The New England Quarterly
Volume: 40
Language: en
Find in a Library: 480490583
An essay on the reactions of Franco American journalists and national societies to the naming of an Irish successor to the Maine Roman Catholic diocese's bishopric in 1906. Lewiston, Maine's "Le Messager" extended its criticisms to the Holy See and…
- Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.
Date: 1967
Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec
Volume: 11
Language: en
Find in a Library: 60627975
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A concise account of the Acadian migrations between 1750 and 1800, including intercontinental migration routes, community prevalance, and the political context that motivated such a tumultuous half-century in and out of Atlantic Canada.
- Author: Madore, Nelson (editor)
- Author: Rodrigue, Barry H. (editor)
- Author: Miller, Corinna (editor)
- Author: Hébert, Chase (editor)
- Author: Beaupré, Normand (French language editor)
Date: 2007
Language: en
Find in a Library: 131062883
Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance:
Foreword by…
- Author: Doty, C. Stewart
Date: 1997 October
Publication: Journal of Contemporary History
Volume: 32
Language: en
Find in a Library: 477889483
Essay on the Franco American elite's adopted regard for French fascist politics and sentiment in New England. How WWII heightened political divisions in the United States, and the Franco elite failed to appeal politically to working-class Franco…