Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his...
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Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
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Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
À la suite de l’immense succès d’Aminata, Lawrence Hill revient en force avec Le Sans-papiers. Identité, appartenance et exclusion sont des sujets au cœur de son univers romanesque. Avec Le Sans-...
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Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is...
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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader...
Genre: Literary arts, Essays, Canadian nonfiction -
Auteur: Hipworth, Sarah, Stewart, LukeSommaire:
In February 2004 the first of many U.S. soldiers came to Canada, seeking sanctuary after saying "no" to the war on Iraq. Unlike the Vietnam War when over 40,000 draft dodgers and military...
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Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
One of Canada's most celebrated author's debut novel for young readers. Beatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forest. How did she arrive in this cozy...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on...
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Auteur: Carrière, Marie J.Sommaire:
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most...
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Auteur: Shadd, Adrienne, Cooper, Afua, Smardz Frost, KarolynSommaire:
"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn...
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Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge...
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Auteur: Hill, Lawrence, Noël, CaroleSommaire:
Dans LE SANG, essence de la vie, l’auteur à succès Lawrence Hill propose un examen audacieux de l’histoire scientifique et sociale du sang et des multiples façons dont il nous unit et nous divise...
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Nous sommes au début des années 1980. Mahatma Grafton vient de décrocher un emploi dans un quotidien de Winnipeg. C’est son premier poste. Avant même son arrivée, les journalistes s’amusent à...
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Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South...
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Auteur: Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Keita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home-- a brutal dictatorship that produces the world' s fastest marathoners-- to live as an illegal...
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Auteur: Shreve, CraigSommaire:
Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan's first foreign-born samurai and the...
Genre: Historical fiction