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(0)David Homel
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Language
English
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In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come.
Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body image issues, performance anxiety, and the challenges...
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Language
English
Description
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career.
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career.
Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 5
Language
English
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"When Charlie's artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk about. Charlie has never visited a country as strange and puzzling as Cuba -- a country where he often feels like a time traveler. Where Havana's grand Hotel Nacional sits next to buildings that seem to be crumbling before his very...
4) Ciel
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Ciel, a gender non-conforming transgender kid with a popular YouTube channel, navigates high school, friendship, and a long-distance relationship. A book for middle graders about a trans character that doesn't focus on the character's transition, or dwell exclusively on negative aspects of being trans."--
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlie and his family move to a sleepy little village in the south of France, but it turns out that the neighber's dog is the only sleepy thing around. Instead, raging bulls, a notorious duck thief and adventures large and small await them... p. [4] of cover.
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Series
Travels with my family volume 4
Language
English
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Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia, a country Charlie has never even heard of. An incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and conflict.
9) Body music
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in the languid, European-like neighborhoods on Montreal, Body Music is a beautiful and moving meditation on love and desire in its varied forms between women, between men, between women and men and gender non-conformists alike all varying in age and race. In twenty-one separate vignettes, Body Music is an exhilarating and passionate graphic novel about what it means to fall in love, and what it means to be alive. -- back cover.
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English
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Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the "bombe", which descrambled the German navy's messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise. Despite his heroics, however,...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
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Description
On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.
This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière reveals the shock, rage, and grief
...Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject of Pierre's thesis. The mountain holds many mysteries; it was said to have a mouth that periodically swallowed people up. Pierre, sketchbook in hand, is drawn to the enigmatic powers of the...
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Language
English
Description
François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics. Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for American queer theory, the field of study established in the 1990s and promulgated by writers and scholars such as Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition - by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while...
Author
Series
Travels with my family volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Charlie can't wait for school to be over. But he's wondering what particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family this summer. Canoeing with alligators in Okefenokee? Getting caught in the middle of a revolutionary shootout in Mexico? Or perhaps another trip abroad? Turns out, this summer the family is staying put, in their hometown. Montreal, Canada. A "staycation," his parents call it. Charlie is doubtful at first but, ever resourceful,...