Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
Violence
-
Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary: -
Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:In 'Riders of the Dawn', a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American...
-
Author:Magini, RogerSummary:Ce roman au ton intimiste propose une réflexion sur l’oubli et la banalisation de l’horreur. Assis à la terrasse d’un café de Cholula, l’antique Cité Sacrée du Mexique, un journaliste écrit un article sur « Hiroshima, soixante ans plus...
-
Author:Sontag, SusanSummary: - Author:Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
La paisible ville de Moose Jaw est le théâtre de violentes attaques de la part d'un clown sinistre. En tentant de découvrir qui est le « zozo » qui rôde dans le parc Wakamow Valley, Luc et Chloé, amis inséparables, apprennent...
- Author:Lambert, KevinSummary:
Les ouvriers et ouvrières de la scierie de Roberval sont en grève. Sous l'apparente cohésion de la lutte, on découvre rapidement les revendications plus personnelles de chacun. Ils partagent toutefois un même désir d'...
-
Author:Cole, SusanSummary:Frank, clear-eyed and consistent, this collection of Susan G. Cole's writings bucks the backlash against feminist ideas. With a twist on 'Lesbian Chic,' Madonna and other icons, Cole analyzes the many forms of violence against women....
-
Author:Ward, LizaSummary:Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann...
-
Author:High, StevenSummary:Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral...
-
Author:Surani, MoezSummary:From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes Operations—a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted...
-
Author:Connie Guberman, Margie, WolfeSummary:Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society. In No Safe Place, all of these issues are...
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
In the small town of Castle Rock, strange Leland Gaunt sets up a curio shop called "Needful Things" where people can buy anything they desire -- for a price! Some Violence and strong language
- Author:Dussault, SandraSummary:
En passant par cette porte, tu trouveras ce que tu cherches, mais aussi ce que tu n'as jamais cherché… Féroce et irascible comme le carcajou, Lucy Wolvérène, 17 ans, sent la colère bouillir en elle depuis qu'elle a été...
-
Author:Cohen, JoshuaSummary:In a school where the football team rules, footballer Kurt and gymnast Danny form an unlikely friendship. When one of the gym team is viciously assaulted by the quarterback and his cronies, Kurt defends him, challenging the stereotypes...
-
Author:Laplante, JacquesSummary:La violence a de multiples faces, toutes celles qu'on lui donne selon les soucis de l'heure et les jeunes font toujours partie de ces soucis. Le piège de la violence dans lequel le jeune peut tomber ne dépend pas uniquement de son agir...
- Author:Campana, AurélieSummary:
Comment expliquer un attentat dans un cinéma aux États-Unis, dans une mosquée à Québec ou sur une promenade à Nice, en France ? Quelles sont les motivations qui poussent certains individus à commettre des actes aussi odieux que violents...
-
Author:Citra, BeckySummary:Fifteen-year-old Pam is assaulted when she and her twin brother, Danny, are walking home through the woods. Danny is frozen with fear and does nothing; luckily, Pam is rescued by a woman out walking her dog. Pam deals with the trauma by...
-
Author:Girard, RenéSummary: -
Author:Sitomer, Alan LawrenceSummary:Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.
-
Author:Sitomer, Alan LawrenceSummary:Follows an African-American teenager through four years at her inner-city high school.
Pages
