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- Author: Giamo, Benedict
Date: 2000
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42690123
From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 7 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 65236969 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 8 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" -…
- 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…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 1999
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 43280504
Un roman quasi-autobiographique, sur la vie d'un jeune dans "un petit Canada" de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2006
Language: Français (English translation available)
Find in a Library: 122931605
A monologue on life and love, written in the French vernacular of Biddeford, Maine. Based on a Southern Maine character from an earlier of Beaupré's novels, "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs" (1999). De Llumina Press: "[La Souillonne] se 'debourre…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2008
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 251338043
From the author's website: "The dramatic monologue, La Souillonne, was such a tremendous success for its author, Norman Beaupré, that it prompted a friend of his to say, 'There must be a follow-up to this.' The author replied that he had not…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2005
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 145498315
De Llumina Press: "...l'histoire de sa [Beaupré] grand-mere maternelle venue du Québec avec son mari et leurs dix enfants pour prendre demeure aux Etats-Unis dans un village du New Hampshire."
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2010
Language: English
Find in a Library: None
From the author: "This novel can be seen as a companion work to Beaupré's recent publication on Van Gogh. Both are based on the historical and aesthetic facts surrounding the lives of the two artists, Van Gogh in Arles and Friant in the…
- Author: Beaugrand, HonoreÌ
Date: 1878
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 8517304
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Un texte eÌssentiel à la collection de la litteÌrature franco-ameÌricaine du 19e siècle. Un conte d'eÌmigration du Canada à la Nouvelle-Angleterre avant l'anneÌe 1900. Ecrit par l'ancien maire de MontreÌal, et…