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Jean Rouch is known to many worldwide as a French anthropologist and innovative filmmaker. Much of his work is linked to the birth of cinéma vérité. However, Rouch's fifty-year involvement with a particular group of people in Niger shines a more personal light on his work - one of friendship and collaboration. Together with this group, Rouch made numerous ethnographic films and developed their own cinematographic style. These films have been termed...
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Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds. Jillian is the only child of wealthy parents, while Lesley's from a working-class family. They become best friends in the turbulent '60s, but their circumstances, their choices--and their mistakes--take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley stays in their Washington State hometown. She gets pregnant and marries young, living a life defined by the demands...
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Quand Jacob, quinze ans, doit suivre sa mère qui emménage à la campagne avec son nouveau conjoint, son monde s'écroule. Révolté, il refuse de vider ses boîtes et mijote un plan pour retourner vers ses amis et sa blonde à Montréal. Mais pourquoi ceux-ci répondent-ils si peu à ses textos ? La constance d'Henri, grand amateur de VTT, la bonne humeur d'Emma, lectrice enthousiaste, et la gentillesse de Fred, Étienne et Émile,...
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Caillou trouve ça injuste qu'Emma soit la seule à pouvoir prendre une collation. Puis, il apprend qu'Emma est atteinte du diabète de type 1. Inquiet, Caillouprend soin de son amie. Mais lorsqu' Emma dépasse Caillou dans une course, il comprend que la maladie d'Emma n'est pas comme un rhume. C'est unemaladie avec laquelle Emma vit au quotidien. Caillou est rassuré de connaîtreles moyens que prend Emma pour prendre soin d'elle et rester...
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La Maison des viscères
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Léa adore : sa BFF Lily; NYC; son carnet avec des chats tout choupinet; l'Halloween; le jour du pâté chinois à la café; les biscuits de mamie Lulu; Ouija; faire des listes pour prendre sa vie en main. Léa déteste : rougir à tout propos; quand sa mère lui souligne à grands traits ses fautes de français; quand son père capote sur les protéines; le cheerleading et l'adultite aiguë sous toutes ses formes. Léa rêve : de...
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Ados volume 13
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Avec ce roman, Christiane Dupont-Champagne transmet son amour pour l'Afrique et son peuple ; elle y décrit d'une façon remarquable les émotions d'une jeune fille qui doit suivre sa famille dans un pays qui lui est totalement inconnu. Un séjour inopiné présente une année dans la vie d'une jeune fille au regard parfois ironique, mais le plus souvent aigu et acéré. La jeune Rachel part à la découverte d'elle-même, de l'amour et...
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"She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family's support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating--and each other--to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world...
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"Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn't really exist. She's never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now. As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes...
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At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding — a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. Written with the fluent narrative artistry that distinguishes all of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, A Wedding in December acutely probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless...
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When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
12) Happy place
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"A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now-for reasons they're still not discussing-they don't. They broke up...
13) Tangerine
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Tanger, 1956. Alice Shipley n'y arrive pas. Cette violence palpable, ces rues surpeuplées, cette chaleur constante : à croire que la ville la rejette, lui veut du mal.L'arrivée de son ancienne colocataire, Lucy, transforme son quotidien mortifère. Ses journées ne se résument plus à attendre le retour de son mari, John. Son amie lui donne la force d'affronter la ville, de sortir de son isolement.Puis advient ce glissement, lent, insidieux....
14) Funny story
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Jackie, Nia, and Cheryl are three individuals whose lives are interwoven together in a story about family, tragedy, hate, love, inspiration, and a higher power. Each of them is forced to call on God to help with their individually issue. Jackie and Nia are also challenged through therapeutic intervention to look inward and unlock the hurt that has caused their lives to become stuck, full of hate, and grief. Cheryl is challenged to take on another...
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As you enter the world of these amazing characters, you too will come to a place of hope and healing. Davie, Ida May, Floppy Bear, and all the rest will transport your spirit to a new height of acceptance and love. Come with all these individuals as they teach and show you the way to a life of greater meaning and personal fulfillment. Also venture into the depths of life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as it unfolds with all its beauty. Then find...
17) MAD Druggist
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Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break!
The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing...
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NOT JUST A DREAM tells how a little girl reacts to a new Hispanic student. She has many questions, but she has already decided that the new student will not "fit" into the class. After she dreams about the day, she realizes that she had not shown tolerance to someone, who is not like her. She feels much better, when she interacts with the new student and finds out that they are a lot alike.
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For readers of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a beautifully illustrated philosophical book on the value of friendship and life, told from the perspective of a fly, and a gift book for all ages.
What if you were thrown into existence in the middle of your life, with numbered days left ahead of you? Would you see the world in the same way? In his inimitable style, Jaap Robben answers these questions through the unexpectedly witty...
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Sliding Across Mountains is a book about the power of friendship. In a small town in Tennessee, a writer, a mother, a widow, and a parish nurse form an unlikely friendship and a curling team. These four ladies learn more than sliding rocks down a sheet of ice. They learn what they can accomplish with a team of support and love is not always on the rocks.
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