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Vahni Capildeo is known for the experimental edge in her work and her love of collaborating on live performances with fellow poets. In this compelling new collection from the Trinidadian-born poet and Rhodes scholar, her uninhibited style invites us to delve deep between the lines and experience for ourselves the heartaches and emotional challenges that come from separation; both from a testing relationship and one's motherland.
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Français
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Vivre à l'étranger est une expérience qui bouleverse le destin de ceux qui ont la chance de la vivre. Pour la plupart, c'est une parenthèse enchantée. Jusqu'au jour du retour. Revenir en France après de longues années dans une autre partie du monde peut sembler simple: on y a ses repères, sa culture, des proches. Et pourtant, le pays que l'on retrouve a changé, tout comme a changé la personne qui revient. Sabrina Rouillé est revenue en...
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English
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"American Journalist Jake Barnes is desperately in love with the beautiful Lady Brett Ashley.he moves seductively through the seemingly glamorous milieu of American and British expats, loving, living and partying in Paris in the 1920's. They're a hedonistic generation, marked by the violence and privations of WW1, in pursuit of adventure."--
4) Separated by the border: a birth mother, a foster mother, and a migrant child's 3,000-mile journey
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209 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Gena Thomas tells the story of five-year-old Julia, whose harrowing journey with her mother from Honduras to the United States took her from cargo trailer to detention center to foster care. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love"--
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x, 690 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation's attention to issues of region, race, and labor. In Sisters...
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