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Akpa's Journey
Par Kagan McLeod, Mia Pelletier. 2022

No Horses in the House!: The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur
Par Mireille Messier, Anna Bron. 2023

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Par Shane McCrae. 2023
An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist…
grandparents.When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane’s grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories, Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually, the truth unveils itself, and with the truth, comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of a singularly American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. And it is also a powerful reflection on what is broken in America—but also what might heal and make it whole again.
Key to grade three braille
Par Lewis W Rodenberg. 1945

The Beach at Summerly
Par Beatriz Williams. 2023
June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a…
glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother, Olive traveled the world, married fascinating men, and involved herself in political causes. She's also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons, Amory and Shep, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic history. As the summer wears on, Emilia develops a deep rapport with Olive, who urges her to leave the island for a life of adventure, while romance blossoms with the sturdy and honorable Shep. But the heady promise of Peabody patronage is blown apart by the arrival of Sumner Fox, an FBI agent who demands Emilia's help to capture a Soviet agent who's transmitting vital intelligence on the West's atomic weapon program from somewhere inside the Summerly estate. April 1954. Eight years later, Summerly is boarded up and Emilia has rebuilt her shattered life as a professor at Wellesley College, when shocking news arrives from Washington—the traitor she helped convict is about to be swapped for an American spy imprisoned in the Soviet Union, but with a mysterious condition only Emilia can fulfill. A reluctant Emilia is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she's forced to confront the harrowing consequences of her actions that fateful summer, and a choice that could destroy the Peabody family—and Emilia's chance for redemption—all over again.
Star Bringer (Star Bringer #1)
Par Tracy Wolff. 2023
Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this snarky, new adult romance. The sun is dying ... and it's happening way…
too damn fast. With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. Which is why it really sucks when some jackass doesn't want the universe saved and blows that station up—while you're still on it. So if your only choices are flaming death or stealing a flying hunk of space junk—you pick that busted-ass spaceship. Even if it leaves seven strangers with deadly secrets trapped together: a princess, a prisoner, a con artist, a warrior, a priestess, a mercenary, and an asshole in charge of us all. Now every faction in the galaxy is hunting this ship—from the Sisterhood to the Corporation, and the rebellion's joining in on the fun, too. We just need to stop drinking, fighting, and screwing long enough to evade them all and save the freaking universe ... somehow. Because apparently the only thing standing between a dying sun and ultimate salvation is seven unlikely misfits ... ahem, heroes.
Kukum
Par Michel Jean. 2023
A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in…
an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.
The Summer Girl (Avalon Bay #3)
Par Elle Kennedy. 2023
Elle Kennedy's next spicy and emotional romance in the blockbuster Avalon Bay series. College student Cassie Soul hasn't spent an…
entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel that's been in their family for five decades, Cassie returns to the quaint beach town to spend time with family, ring in her twenty-first birthday...and maybe find herself a summer fling. On her first night in town, she finds the perfect candidate: Tate Bartlett, Avalon Bay's fun-loving golden boy. Tate, sailing instructor and lovable player, is no stranger to flings. In fact, he's always down for a good time. But the moment he meets Cassie, he knows she's not the girl you play games with. Cassie is gorgeous, hilarious, and, frankly, the coolest person he's ever met. The last thing he wants to do is risk breaking her heart, and so he reluctantly puts her in the friend-zone...only to realize he made a huge mistake. Soon, his attraction to Cassie becomes impossible to ignore. He wants that fling now. Big-time. And maybe even something more. As Cassie and Tate walk the line between friends and lovers, they're about to discover that their situation is the least complicated part of this equation. Because Avalon Bay is full of secrets—and their relationship might not survive when those secrets come to light.
La chair est triste hélas
Par Ovidie. 2023
« J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas froisser les ego fragiles.…
À toutes les fois où mon plaisir était optionnel, où je n'avais pas joui. À tous ces coïts où j'avais eu mal avant, pendant, après. Aux préparatifs douloureux à coups d'épilateur, aux pénétrations à rallonge, aux positions inconfortables, aux cystites du lendemain. À tous ces sacrifices pour rester cotée à l'argus sur le grand marché de la baisabilité. À toute cette mascarade destinée à attirer le chaland ou à maintenir le désir après des années de vie commune. Cette servitude volontaire à laquelle se soumettent les femmes hétérosexuelles, pour si peu de plaisir en retour, sans doute par peur d'être abandonnées, une fois fripées comme ces vieilles filles qu'on regarde avec pitié. Un jour, j'ai arrêté le sexe avec les hommes. » Autrice et documentariste spécialiste de l'intime et du rapport au corps, Ovidie retrace ici la trajectoire qui l'a conduite à quatre années de grève du sexe. Références : Valerie Solanas, S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1968), Paris, Mille et Une Nuits, 2005, traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Emmanuele de Lesseps. Nelly Arcan, Putain (2001), Paris, Seuil, « Points », 2002. Monique Wittig, « À propos du contrat social », in La Pensée straight (1992), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2007. Joe Dassin, « La Fleur aux dents » in Joe Dassin, Paris, CBS Columbia, 1970. Mona Chollet, Réinventer l'amour, Paris, La Découverte, « Zones », 2021. Jacques Rigaut, Écrits, Paris, Gallimard, 1970
Sun damage: A novel
Par Sabine Durrant. 2023
Reminiscent of the works of Patricia Highsmith and Lucy Foley, a compulsive psychological thriller—"the perfect poolside reading" (Guardian)—involving gorgeous grifters…
on the loose in the south of France who prey on a group of unsuspecting vacationers . . . and each other. The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. And there is no escape. In a tiny village in Provence, nine guests arrive at a luxury holiday home. The visitors know each other well, or at least they think they do. The only stranger among them is Lulu, the young woman catering their stay. But Lulu is not exactly the woman on the video the guests thought they'd hired. Turns out Lulu has plenty to hide—and nowhere to run as the heat rises. In this seemingly idyllic getaway, under the scorching sun, loyalties will be tested, secrets exposed, and tensions pushed to the brink . . . Dripping in intrigue, Sun Damage is a glamorous, witty, and totally riveting story chock full of secrets, lies and . . . more lies
The Woman in the Castello
Par Kelsey James. 2023
"You'll get lost in the pages of this lush, entertaining story." -Ellen Marie Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of…
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Perfect for readers of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Kate Morton, this sophisticated, atmospheric debut spins a bewitching web of ruthless ambition, family secrets, and the consequences of forbidden love, as an ambitious American actress snags the starring role in a mysterious horror movie shooting on location in a crumbling medieval castle outside Rome . . . Rome, 1965: Aspiring actress Silvia Whitford arrives at Rome's famed Cinecittà Studios from Los Angeles, ready for her big break and a taste of la dolce vita. Instead, she learns that the movie in which she was cast has been canceled. Desperate for money, Silvia has only one choice: seek out the Italian aunt she has never met. Gabriella Conti lives in a crumbling castello on the edge of a volcanic lake. Silvia's mother refuses to explain the rift that drove the sisters apart, but Silvia is fascinated by Gabriella, a once-famous actress who still radiates charisma. And the eerie castle inspires Silvia's second chance when it becomes the location for a new horror movie, aptly named The Revenge of the Lake Witch-and she lands a starring role. Silvia immerses herself in the part of an ingenue tormented by the ghost of her beautiful, seductive ancestor. But when Gabriella abruptly vanishes, the movie's make-believe terrors seep into reality. No one else on set seems to share Silvia's suspicions. Yet as she delves into Gabriella's disappearance, she triggers a chain of events that illuminate dark secrets in the past-and a growing menace in the present . . . "Like Jess Walters's Beautiful Ruins, the glamour and heady indulgence of the era take center stage in this captivating, multilayered story that will keep you guessing to the end." -Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Mystery, romance, and an enchanting cast of characters with a plucky heroine at its heart. Against the richly drawn backdrop of post-war Italy, in a castle brimming with secrets, Kelsey James explores the enduring and sometimes destructive power of love, family, and ambition." -Amanda Skenandore, author of The Nurse's Secret.
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
Par Lena S. Andrews. 2023
A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the…
Allies' victory. Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, parachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more. They were directly involved in some of the most important moments of the war, from the D-Day landings to the peace negotiations in Paris. These women—who hailed from every race, creed, and walk of life—died for their country and received the nation's highest honors. Their work, both individually and in total, was at the heart of the Allied strategy that won World War II. Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Often the women themselves kept their stories private, even from their own families. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy.
Adieu
Par Jacques Expert. 2023
Des familles assassinées. Des pères portés disparus. Deux flics qui s'affrontent.2001, Châtenay-Malabry. Une mère, son fils et sa fille sont…
retrouvés assassinés à leur domicile. Le père, lui, est introuvable. Est-il victime ou coupable ? Un mois plus tard, c'est au tour d'une seconde famille d'être abattue dans des circonstances identiques. Presse, politique, police, les avis sont unanimes : un tueur en série est à l'œuvre. Mais le commissaire Langelier n'est pas de cet avis. Devant son obstination, et son manque de résultat, son supérieur et ami, le commissaire Ferracci est obligé de lui retirer l'affaire. Leur opposition devient une obsession qui dure dix ans, jusqu'à ce que la vérité éclate.Un thriller à couper le souffle, entre Seven et The Pledge.
Gentleman boss: the life of Chester Alan Arthur
Par Thomas C Reeves. 1975
Biography of the Republican stalwart who survived a great scandal to become the twenty-first President of the United States. The…
son of an intinerant minister, he was at various times a schoolteacher, a young lawyer involved in the abolitionist struggle, and a Quartermaster General for New York during the Civil WarExperience the inspiring stories that fill each issue, from people just like you, who have found their hope restored, faith…
strengthened and lives transformed through miraculous encounters with angels. Angels still visit us today to guide us, and give us reassuring evidence of God’s eternal love. Discover the angels in your own life!A weekly publication packed with news, iTunes and Apps reviews, interviews and original articles on anything and everything Apple. Brings…
a new concept of light, intelligent, innovative reading to your fingertips; with a global view of Apple and its influence on our lives - be it leisure activities, family or work-collaborative projects. Elegantly designed and highly interactive, AppleMagazine will also keep you updated on the latest weekly news.Invites newly independent readers to explore the world of science and ideas with topics that really appeal to kids: What…
makes wind? Where do colors come from? Were pirates real? Filled with lively, well-written articles, vivid graphics, activities, cartoons, and plenty of humor. Grades 2-4.Dans Avantages il n’y a que…des avantages ! Chic et pratique, Avantages s’adresse à toutes les femmes modernes et propose…
plein d’idées astucieuses pour profiter de la vie et faire partager son optimisme. Au programme : cuisine, santé-forme, mode-beauté, développement durable et art de vivre.