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Auteur:Worth, JenniferSommaire:Leaving a middle-class childhood to become a midwife in London's poor East End, Jennifer Worth not only delivered babies, she touched numerous lives and recounted with depth the heartrending story of a neighborhood in transition. Call...
- Auteur:Woodson, JacquelineSommaire:
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson...
- Auteur:Winter, KathleenSommaire:
A chronicle of author Kathleen Winter's journey through the Northwest Passage, including vivid descriptions of the land and its people.
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Auteur:Brode, PatricSommaire:Border Cities Powerhouse chronicles one of the most dramatic urban transformations in Canadian history, documenting the shift from modest industry to manufacturing dynamo. The coming of the automobile in 1904 put the Border Cities on...
- Auteur:Lepore, JillSommaire:
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
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Auteur:Ladha, YasminSommaire:In the early 1960s, a young girl and her brother move to their grandparents’ flourmill in Dodoma in newly-independent Tanzania. Her grandfather bellows his love for East Africa, where he and other Indian merchants have thrived. But the...
- Auteur:Turtledove, HarrySommaire:
Alternate history author Turtledove offers a new vision of America after World War I. In 1920, as veterans question the very nation they fought for, socialist Upton Sinclair challenges Teddy Roosevelt for the presidency. And in the...
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Auteur:D'Offizi, MarioSommaire:Bless Me Father is the true story of an incredible South African life. Born into a violent and broken family, and growing up in a variety of institutions, Cape Town based poet and writer Mario d'Offizi tells his remarkable, often...
- Auteur:Seesequasis, PaulSommaire:
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs - a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. The narrative essay...
- Auteur:Fanon, FrantzSommaire:
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace...
- Auteur:Lehr, DickSommaire:
Told in narrative style by two Boston Globe reporters, Black Mass is an epic crime story that is also a book about Boston and Irish America; about the pull of place; and about the ties between people--ties that bind, and ties that blind...
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Auteur:Griffin, John HowardSommaire:Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment fifty years ago. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family,...
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Auteur:Boo, KatherineSommaire:The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a...
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Auteur:McDougall, Allan K., Philips, Lisa, Boxberger, Daniel L.Sommaire:The creation of the Canada–US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals. Before and After the State examines the imposition of a...
- Auteur:Miranda, Deborah A.Sommaire:
“If we allow the pieces of our culture to lie scattered in the dust of history, trampled on by racism and grief, then yes, we are irreparably damaged. But if we pick up the pieces and use them in new ways that honor their integrity,...
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Auteur:Moreira, PeterSommaire:This hard-hitting but fair assessment of Nova Scotia and the Maritimes will shock and surprise many Maritimers who have been conditioned to think that the east coast of Canada is one of the most liveable regions in the country. Author...
- Auteur:Gay, Roxane, Péan, StanleySommaire:
Par l'auteure de Bad Feminist Dans Ayiti , Roxane Gay rompt avec les stéréotypes et les idées fausses sur les Haïtiens et les Américains d'origine haïtienne. Traduit de l'anglais par Stanley Péan Résumé...
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Auteur:Duder, CameronSommaire:The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
- Auteur:Lavoie, FrédérickSommaire:
Voir Cuba avant que ça change ; Voir Cuba avant l’après. Sur l’île des Caraïbes, le présent semble pencher vers l’avenir. Entre le réchauffement des relations avec les États-Unis et la fin annoncée du règne des Castro, le pays est « en...
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