The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the...
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Auteur:Jordan-Fenton, Christy, Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret-OlemaunSommaire: -
Auteur:Sommaire:The traumatized woman who dies of grief, the girl whose dream to become a doctor is thwarted, the little girl who raises a vulnerable family of little children because her parents and all her relatives have been killed by LRA rebels and...
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
A gripping tale of a family's denial of its sordid past and one sibling's battle against the rest to have the truth (if it is truth) come out.
- Auteur:Rak, JulieSommaire:
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the...
- Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in...
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Auteur:René ForgetSommaire:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
- Auteur:Adrian, EmilySommaire:
The trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to show up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged best friend, and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her own life.
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Auteur:Frédéric ParrotSommaire:Les Amazones sont de retour?! Toujours dévorées par une ambition sans borne, ces cinq femmes d'exception - belles, éduquées, riches et brillantes - feront encore trembler le globe afin de satisfaire leur appétit extravagant....
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Auteur:Frédéric ParrotSommaire:Les femmes d'une beauté exceptionnelle ont le monde à leurs pieds et aucun diamant, aucune voiture de sport et aucun château n'est à leur hauteur. Cette beauté leur confère un pouvoir, dont elles sont parfaitement...
- Auteur:Bell, MeghanSommaire:
An assault survivor realizes she can rewind time and relives the experience in order to erase it. A teen athlete wonders why she isn't more afraid of death when the plane carrying her team catches fire. The daughter of a superhero...
- Auteur:Rosenthal, Amy KrouseSommaire:
Professed "ordinary" person Rosenthal has challenged a Chicago parking ticket on grounds of karma (and won), and had a professional police artist draw sketches of her based on descriptions from her father and husband. In this...
- Auteur:Sadet, MélissaSommaire:
Clara, jeune femme de 28 ans, mène une vie simple mais heureuse, jusqu'à cette soirée de mi-avril. Agressée et enlevée par un parfait inconnu, elle se retrouvera prisonnière de cet individu. Au fil des semaines et des...
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Auteur:René ForgetSommaire:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
- Auteur:Saint, JenniferSommaire:
A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne. Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. When...
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Auteur:Greenwood, KerrySommaire:In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s Delphic Woman Mystery series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War. But while others have told the story as a struggle of men,...
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Auteur:Freedman, RussellSommaire:A biography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
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Auteur:Westover, TaraSommaire:Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance...
- Auteur:McCully, Emily ArnoldSommaire:
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing....
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Auteur:Ricci-Thode, VanessaSommaire:Dionelle was born unique: she is immune to fire. Shortly after marrying Reiser, Dionelle's unique talents catch the attention of a wicked noblewoman, Lady Karth, who is in need of a new dragon whisperer. Dionelle is crudely thrust into...
- Auteur:Massey, BrandonSommaire:
A woman concealing many dangerous secrets, Rachel has taken great pains to flee from her troubled past. But now a figure from long ago has returned and will stop at nothing to make her suffer for her sins.
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