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The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
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This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.
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A history of the Hudson's Bay Company which started out small in 1670, trading manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous population of subarctic Canada. It eventually expanded to the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest.
5) Ellesmere
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L'île la plus au nord de l'Arctique. Le théâtre d'une tragédie humaine. Au cours des années 1950, le gouvernement canadien y a sauvagement déporté une centaine d'Inuits pour assurer la souveraineté territoriale du pays.
Bien plus tard, mon frère Jess — sombre héros de mon histoire et de celle de ma soeur — s'y est réfugié pour échapper aux conséquences de ses crimes.
Le malheur des uns fait parfois le bonheur des autres... Je suis...
6) Odette
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Diplomatie. Méfiance. Filature. Espionnage. Ambiguïté.
C'est dans cet univers administratif étouffant que Paul vient d'accéder au poste de directeur général aux Affaires étrangères. Il travaille dans un service diplomatique o les petites intrigues se multiplient dans un contexte de relations sociales difficiles.
Il est bel homme, ce Paul. Il attire l'attention de la gent féminine. Il est volage. Il est assez peu sympathique, finalement-presque...
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"The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world. The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces, and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, which he kept in poetic form...
11) Memoriam
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Philippe, jeune neurologue, consacre sa carrière à la maladie d'Alzheimer. Sa seule motivation: prouver l'innocence de son père, atteint d'Alzheimer, d'allégations de complot terroriste, qui a coûté la vie à sa mère.
Son acharnement l'amène à transgresser certaines limites au grand désespoir de sa sœur aînée, qui cache aussi un important secret.
Les avancées lentes et difficiles du chercheur prennent une tournure inédite à la...
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Claude était éminemment habile à converser. Car il écoutait. Il écoutait attentivement et pesamment. Il jaugeait les paroles qu'il entendait, et réfléchissait longuement avant de hasarder une réponse. Si longuement que le narrateur en est perplexe, au début. De toute évidence, il n'était pas de ces gens qui, selon La Bruyère, « parlent un moment avant que d'avoir pensé ».
Il y a donc un paradoxe : un livre de conversations avec quelqu'un...
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Des réflexions sur des sujets essentiels, notamment
la politique — car pendant de longues années,
Maurice Henrie a travaillé à l'ombre des parlementaires
fédéraux —, des questions d'ordre littéraire et des
sujets de nature socioéconomique.
Ici, la plume est au service de la libre pensée, sans
censure. Elle aborde une foule de sujets dans des
textes regroupés selon leur appartenance et leur
orientation. Du cté de la politique, par exemple,
Henrie...
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