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41) Pillow talk
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"Grace Mendes a.k.a. Cinderhella is a fierce competitor in the PFF, a pillow fight federation that's part roller derby, part professional wrestling. But in this fresh, coming-of-age YA graphic novel, Grace needs to learn to overcome her biggest enemy: herself."--
42) Main-d'œuvre
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Hommage aux travailleurs essentiels, à la main qui travaille et façonne le jour. Respect à ces corps de femmes et d'hommes broyés par le système, mais qui y échappent par le rêve et l'amour. D'une fulgurance à l'autre, la poésie de Lorrie Jean-Louis nous tient par les tripes. On ne sort pas indemne de cette traversée. Après le succès de La femme cent couleurs, Lorrie Jean-Louis revient avec Main-d'œuvre, livre d'une rare...
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Culbuter le malheur suivi d'Après le progrès, livre-phare marquant la commémoration des 30 ans du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda (1994-2024). Un million de morts en trois mois. Des silences et des silences. Adolescente à l'époque, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse a échappé au géno-cide. Elle offre dans ce double recueil les mots justes pour faire mémoire par une énonciation radicale de ce qui est un désir puissant de vivre à présent, au présent....
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Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Sur un air de Leonard Cohen, la poète Laure Morali marche dans la ville de Montréal. Elle s'arrête, médite et écrit d'une rue à l'autre. D'un rêve à l'autre. Entre en résonance avec les mots et les lettres. Engage le dialogue avec l'ange. Les mots se détachent et dans leur miroir, tout s'éclaire ou s'efface. Personne seulement est une méditation sur l'ombre et la lumière, sur les paradoxes et les forces opposées qui nous fondent,...
45) Watch it burn
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"Three women investigate the death of a high-profile local woman in a small Southern town, and when they find a connection to a cultish personal development group, their discoveries have scorching consequences for the whole community."--
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Les Herbes Rouges
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Vladimir Maïakovski aime Lili Brik. Célèbre poète de l'avant-garde russe, il écrit, voyage, se lie à d'autres, mais ne cesse jamais d'adorer Lili. À trente-six ans, il se tire une balle dans le coeur. « Lili, aime-moi », l'invoque-t-il jusque dans sa lettre de suicide.
C'est une histoire d'amour comme il y en a tant. Celle d'un jeune homme en feu, d'un amour démesuré, insupportable. Celle du jour où le poète vise le coeur et tire. Ce...
48) Wicked problems
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Craft wars ; 2
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A deadly force has been unleashed into the world. With apocalypse on the horizon, a girl and a god have joined in order to turn back the coming end. Young, brash, and desperate, they are willing to destroy anything and everything that stands between them and their goals. The structures of the Craft are theirs to overturn, with billions of lives in the balance. And it is all Tara Abernathy's fault. The battle for the world of the Craft is heating...
51) Coming home
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist-a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.
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"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed....
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2024.
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"Although enjoying her extended stay working at Second Chance Books and Bindery in West Yorkshire, Addie still feels adrift--far from home, her friends, and her own beloved bookstore, Beyond the Page Books and Curios. The engagement party of her dear friend, Tony, at Milton Manor promises to be a joyful distraction. But there's an ill wind blowing at the estate: When Tony presents his fiancé with a special copy of Wuthering Heights as an engagement...
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December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright’s flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she’s...
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Sylvie Chenard
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Texte poétique inspiré du moment du deuil entre les générations et les peuples en guerre. Il s'agit d'un seuil de transformation, soudain, inéluctable qui est symbolisé par la libellule. Ce récit imaginaire voyage à travers les éléments, les émotions pour honorer le vivant tellement précieux qui a existé et que nous souhaitons préserver par la création d'espaces de bienveillance.
Sylvie Chenard, artiste multidisciplinaire, a
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56) Up-island harbor
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"The quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha’s Vineyard that tourists don’t always see. Maddie Clarke’s late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy’s cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenureship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything . . . It turns out Grandma...
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2024.
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Shizuko's Daughter (a New York Times Notable Book) and Yarn, comes a fascinating new memoir about animals, loss, and finding a home in the world. Cat and Bird, a "memoir in animals," is anchored around Kyoko Mori's relationship with the six house cats who defined the major eras of her life as a writer: Dorian, Oscar, Ernest, Algernon, Miles, and Jackson. As she details the rhythms and routines of their days...
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Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family's Astoria, Queens, catering hall, Belle View Banquet Manor, into becoming the borough's premiere party site, and nothing could make her happier—except her boyfriend proposing. There's just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way . . .
A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's...
A strong, independent woman and respected entrepreneur, Mia never imagined she'd pine for a marriage proposal. Yet lately, with her beloved Shane, she's...
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Signées Jm
Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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La pomme ne tombe jamais bien loin de l'arbre... Quelle vérité dans mon cas ! Élevée par des parents entrepreneurs, j'aspire très jeune à suivre ma voie, celle de l'entrepreneuriat.
Ici comme ailleurs, les femmes devraient toutes être libres de faire et de choisir selon leur propre volonté. C'est le succès qui nous mènera à l'abondance, à trouver l'autonomie financière et, surtout, à réaliser nos rêves.
Honorons nos parts d'ombre comme...
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"Signing on to record a podcast sharing relationship advice, best-selling romance novelist Truly Livingston finds herself bickering with a cynical divorce lawyer and walks out, but when he tracks her down, asking for a fresh start, they go from enemies to something else entirely."--
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