Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the...
Literature
- Author:Kreuter, AaronSummary:
- Author:Vitto, CaraSummary:
Depuis son accident, Julien souffre d'amnésie. Il consulte le docteur Aguilar qui pratique l'hypnose. Il veut se rappeler : que s'est-il passé avec Marc?? Pourquoi son ami est-il mort?? Mais en menant l'enquête,...
- Author:Balian, JulieSummary:
Clarence Paradis, dix-neuf ans, mène chaque jour le même combat. Celui de camoufler ses désordres alimentaires. Ironiquement, elle est sur le point d'hériter du « Goût du Paradis », la pâtisserie de sa grand-mère. Face au dilemme de...
- Author:Benlabed, SalahSummary:
Ces treize nouvelles, superbement écrites, qui nous entraînent de Montréal à New York, en passant par Alger, avec son exotisme et ses parfums, racontent l’histoire de personnages que le destin a blessés ou déracinés. Ce sont des êtres...
- Author:Canty, DanielSummary:
Écrivain touche-à-tout et artiste multidisciplinaire, Daniel Canty, né en 1972, se mue cette fois en autobiographe précoce et livresque. Entre l'essai et le récit, il revisite dans La Société des grands fonds une série de chroniques...
- Author:Dychto, JeanSummary:
L'anomalie, un aveu se veut une réflexion sur la vie. Le périple de son protagoniste est profondément lumineux. La conscience de la vie à portée des doigts que l’on peut perdre à tout moment est une chose que l’on se doit de se rappeler...
- Author:Milton, PaulSummary:
Educational text introducing the reader to literature.
- Author:DANTE, AlighieriSummary:
Translated by Lacy Lockert. The Inferno is the first part of Dante's Divina Commedia and it describes the nine circles of hell and its inhabitants.
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the...
- Author:Beck, LaurenSummary:
Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid and the multifarious...
- Author:Gerritsen, TessSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives.
“... - Author:Kelman, JamesSummary:
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book' Guardian Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone,...
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The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue. Instead, that it is a region...
- Author:Medie, Peace AdzoSummary:
A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A Time Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 One of BuzzFeed Books We Couldnt Put Down This Year A Must-Read Novel: The New York Times Book Review *...
- Author:Griffith, NicolaSummary:
A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild
In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore;...
- Author:Kingsley, CharlesSummary:
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the...
- Author:Babin, AliceSummary:
2040. L'Europe, suite à des années de crises sanitaires, économiques et politiques, est devenue un vaste État fédéral plus écologique, plus sécurisant, plus sain. Une société idéale, selon la plupart des Euro-citoyens....
- Author:Bernier, FrédériqueSummary:
Ce petit livre est une grotte, une caverne littéraire sur les parois de laquelle se projettent les hantises et les rêveries d'une alter ego nommée Frida Burns. Brève autobiographie intellectuelle et lyrique, ce carnet interroge les...
- Author:O'Farrell, MaggieSummary:
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
"[An] exceptional winner.... It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring."
--Martha Lane Fox,... - Author:Langer, JamesSummary:
What is a Gun Dog? An uncontrolled creature purportedly under our control? These poems strain at the lead. The torque is felt in the line, the verb, the wild thinking in metaphor. The maturity of James Langer's vision reveals itself...