Fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner accompanies his photographer father to France, where he is working on a coffee-table book. As Ned strolls along roads walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions, he discovers a very old story playing itself...
France
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Author:Kay, Guy GavrielSummary: - Author:Gossard, Julia M.Summary:
Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young...
- Author:Saint-Pierre, ÉlianeSummary:
On a prédit un destin exceptionnel à Yändicha, une belle Huronne du Canada, passionnée de danse et éprise de liberté. Lors d'un spectacle à Québec, Etienne Gallois, le directeur d'une troupe de théâtre, remarque l...
- Author:Stine, MeganSummary:
Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie...
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Author:Myers, MuguetteSummary:From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they sought refuge from the war. Written in vignettes with child-like...
- Author:Granville, BrigitteSummary:
As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the...
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Author:Korman, GordonSummary:There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village,...
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend Ian Murray. Both are...
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Author:Cook, TimSummary:Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s...
- Author:Berton, PierreSummary:
Drawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men, some no more than sixteen years old, who clawed their way up the sodden, shell-torn slopes in a struggle they innocently...
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Author:Thiessen, VernSummary:France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they'll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova...
- Author:NDiaye, MarieSummary:
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from...
- Author:Laxer, EmilySummary:
Over the last few decades, politicians in Europe and North America have fiercely debated the effects of a growing Muslim minority on their respective national identities. Some of these countries have prohibited Islamic religious...
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Author:Doucette, Paul H.Summary:France 1945. MPs, Sergeant Jack Reilly and his partner Sergeant Frank Contini, find themselves closing in on a gang of thieves who have been pilfering military goods for the black market. In the course of arresting the villains, Jack is...
- Author:Meunier, StéfaniSummary:
Quatre ans après la mort de son père, la narratrice, qui vit seule avec ses deux enfants, tombe sur une vieille photo de lui entouré de cinq personnes qu'elle ne connaît pas. Grâce aux souvenirs recueillis auprès des vivants, elle...
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Author:Michèle CartierSummary:Une Atalaya pour Gerry Roufs, de Michèle Cartier, la compagne du navigateur disparu en haute mer il y a huit ans, relate les faits saillants de l'interminable recherche du corps de Gerry Roufs à la suite du tragique et célèbre...
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Author:Marie-Claude DenysSummary:D'un côté, Samuel de Champlain, navigateur, géographe, explorateur, fondateur, personnage plus grand que nature, cependant figé depuis 1898. De l'autre, Marie, professeure d'informatique au secondaire, mère...
- Author:BICKEL, LennardSummary:
The story of Louis Braille, born in France in 1809, and his struggle amid harsh conditions to perfect a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper, to fashion an alphabet that opened the world of learning to the blind.
- Author:Deborah, PriscilleSummary:
Comment se donner le droit d'exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d'une maladie incurable? Prisonnière de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune...
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Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
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