In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their...
Poets
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Auteur:Carey, PeterSommaire:Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in...
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Auteur:Ives, LucySommaire:It’s the end of summer 2003. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and Martha Stewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Meanwhile, somewhere in...
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Auteur:Debel, MarcelSommaire:La magie du passé, que d’histoires ! Les vieilles remises, les hangars, les petites granges possèdent beaucoup d’histoires. Elles font partie du patrimoine québécois. Si elles pouvaient parler, elles auraient de bien nombreuses et...
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Auteur:Hall, PhilSommaire:WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGNSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEThese are poems of critical thought that have been...
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Auteur:Banks, CatherineSommaire:When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking...
- Auteur:Bellow, SaulSommaire:
For years, they were the best of friends: Humboldt, a grand, erratic figure, and Charlie, a young man of frenzied and noble longings. But by the 1970s, Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken...
- Auteur:Moser, NancySommaire:
Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom through Bible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind...
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Auteur:Williams, NiallSommaire:Ruthie Swain, the bedridden daughter of a dead poet, tries to find her father through stories -- and through generations of family history in County Clare.
- Auteur:McDonald, CraigSommaire:
When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Pancho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.
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Auteur:Quatro, JamieSommaire:Jamie Quatro’s remarkable first book of stories, I Want to Show You More, published to spectacular reviews, announced her arrival to American letters as “a writer of great originality” (New York Times Book Review). Now, with her debut...
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Auteur:Tate, NikkiSommaire:Tara’s sister died a year ago, on the day that Tara didn’t answer her phone when Hannah called. Hannah stepped in front of a bus. Now Tara lives with the guilt of wondering if things would be different if she had been there when Hannah...
- Auteur:Carson, LouiseSommaire:
When the poet Eleanor Brandon dies, an apparent suicide, Peter Forrest, her former student, sometime lover and now a married professor, is asked to be her literary executor. He agrees, although he makes it clear that he is only...
- Auteur:Alexis, AndréSommaire:
Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip through Southwestern Ontario by his parents' friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious...
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Auteur:Whittle, TinaSommaire:The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle’s gun shop is more demanding than she ever imagined. Her best friend Rico is competing for a national slam poetry title. And Atlanta is overrun...
- Auteur:LLEWELLYN, SamSommaire:
When Camille, the sister of poet and bird artist, George Devis, is murdered whilst working for an aid project in Ethiopia, George is forced to get involved. Things get very deadly when, whilst sailing across the Atlantic, someone tries...
- Auteur:Benvie, RobSommaire:
A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the next stage in a secretive covenant. A renowned poet retraces her...
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Auteur:Siré, CoraSommaire:After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at his university on the tragic Uruguayan...
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Auteur:Bar-El, DanSommaire:"Audrey is a cow with poetry in her blood, who yearns for the greener pastures beyond Bittersweet Farms. But when Roy the horse tells this bovine dreamer that she is headed for Abbot's War, the slaughter house, Audrey knows that she...
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Auteur:Kolewe, R.Sommaire:Lovers wrote letters. Letters crossed absence, longing, joy, passion, loss and heartbreak. Sometimes letters were answered. Sometimes not. And sometimes not for years, but then – In 1948, in the exhausted aftermath of WWII, the poets...
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