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1) Happening
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"In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she...
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208 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
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English
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French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the renowned artistic period of Belle Epoque Paris, the art scene in the South of France and war time Paris. Her companions were all the great French writers and artists.
4) The years
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English
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"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect,...
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Dante/Quincenal volume 12
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Español
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Tierra de hombres es un libro que contiene una recopilación de ensayos autobiográficos de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry publicado en Francia el mes de febrero del año 1939, donde recibe el gran premio de la novela de la Academia Francesa. Más tarde, en junio de ese mismo año se publica en los Estados Unidos, bajo el tirulo Wind, Sand and Stars y obtiene el reconocimiento de National Book Award.
8) Black sun
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A look at the life and career of Count Hugues de Montalembert, a French visual artist and filmmaker who was permanently blinded at the age of 35. In the three decades since then, he has turned his efforts to writing & traveling.
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"[Elie Wiesel] taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger -- devoted protégé, apprentice, and friend -- takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom. There, Wiesel challenged his students to explore moral complexity and to resist the dangerous lure of absolutes. In bringing together never-before-recounted moments between Wiesel and his students, Witness serves as a moral education in and of itself...
13) Night
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"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
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