Ma mère, ma fille, ma sœur nous plonge au cœur du drame personnel d’une adolescente d’origine kabyle vivant en France, déchirée entre les valeurs traditionnelles berbères et celles de son pays d’accueil. Ce récit autobiographique nous...
Women
- Author:Younes, MilaSummary:
- Author:Brownlee, MaureenSummary:
It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the...
- Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:
Kathleen Krull turns the spotlight on the women who have wielded power, revealing their feats--and flaws--for all the world to see. Here you'll find twenty of the most influential women in history: queens, warriors, prime ministers,...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems...
- Author:Koofi, FawziaSummary:
- Author:Scott, Jennifer L.Summary:
- Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Depuis dix ans, Emma, Rudy, Lee et Isabel sont liées par une amitié indéfectible. Esprit, humour et compassion sont les armes qui permettent aux quatre Grâces de résister à tous les tracas de la vie… Jusqu’au jour où survient une...
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
Vous appréciez Louise Tremblay-D’Essiambre pour ses grandes sagas familiales et vous l’admirez pour son talent inimitable. Mais connaissez-vous ses charmantes nouvelles? Voici Les demoiselles du quartier, un recueil de neuf nouvelles...
- Author:Tillion, GermaineSummary:
- Author:Maron, MargaretSummary:
Amy Steadman is the young heiress of a prosperous children's book publishing franchise in New York. After her grandmother is murdered, apparently in a botched robbery, Amy goes to North Carolina to clean out the family home. But as she...
- Author:Steedman, CarolynSummary:
- Author:Byrd, SandraSummary:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Angéline, Lilith, Mélusine. Trois prénoms, un seul personnage énigmatique, assoiffé d’envol et de créativité, qui vit au cœur d’une forêt, en symbiose avec la nature. C’est en suivant une confrérie de corneilles en pleine tempête de...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Voici l’histoire de Cédulie Gallant, descendante de ces pionniers qui ont bâti la Matapédia. Dans un récit peu banal, une jeune fille nous raconte sa jeunesse passée sous le signe de l’austérité et de l’amour de la famille. Par le biais...
- Author:Djebar, AssiaSummary:
- Author:Carey, JacquelineSummary:
The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt....
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees will successfulyly navigate the ocean and...
- Author:Brzezinski, MikaSummary:
Interviews a number of prominent women--including comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, and TV personality Joy Behar--to reveal how all women can achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth in the modern...
- Author:Khelawan, Rajni MalaSummary:
Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one. Her mother educates Kalyana about her Indian heritage,...
- Author:Pfeffer, AnneSummary:
When twenty-five-year-old Pru Anderson—braless, pajama-clad, and clutching her cat, Chuck—is rescued from her burning Los Angeles apartment, the thing that scares her most is meeting the neighbors. New people make her hide in the...