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A portrait of a place and its people through the writings and musings of one of the Twin Cities' most beloved and prolific writers.
For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cities life, telling the stories of our people, places, and (sometimes delicious) things. If journalism is the first draft of history, what Dara does-reported features and essays-are more like the first draft of culture. What do we see looking back at...
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What sort of mad longing besets a woman-nearing fifty and recently widowed-to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question.
Set in 1990–'91, Judy's story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first...
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Kim's previous essay collection, Womanish, which we published in 2019, sold over 3000 copies, and was reviewed in the New York Times, and excerpted in the Washington Post.
Blurbs to come from Jerald Walker, whose 2020 collection, How To Make A Slave and Other Essays, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Marita Golden, author of The Strong Black Woman and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
Kim teaches at Emerson College and lives...
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Plongez au coeur du mystère entourant les imposantes statues de basalte de l'île de Pâques
En 1872, le jeune aspirant Julien Viaud, à bord du navire La Flore, fait route entre Valparaiso, capitale du Chili, et Tahiti, territoire français de Polynésie d'o il reviendra avec le pseudonyme de Pierre Loti (1850-1923). La mystérieuse île de Pâques est l'une des premières escales marquantes du futur grand écrivain voyageur, et ses talents de...
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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the world. Yet they are rarely discussed together, perhaps because of their differences in race and social position. Douglass escaped from slavery and tied his...
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Histoire politique récente de l'Islande
Sous forme de chroniques, Jérme Skalski rend compte de la « Révolution des casseroles » en Islande. Suite au déclenchement de la crise financière internationale à l'automne 2008, l'Islande a choisi de tourner le dos à la « doctrine d'austérité » qui forme actuellement le lieu commun dominant des politiques de gestion de l'après-crise.
Passée du statut de laboratoire de la finance triomphante...
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Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces illustrates again that rediscovering an admired author-especially through his or her later works-is every bit as engaging as discovering a new literary voice. Joan Williams, an accomplished and prize-winning southern novelist, published a number of short stories and nonfiction pieces in the later years of her life; a life complicated early on by the influential men with whom she was involved, namely...
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A comprehensive food-lover's guidebook to New York City from Eater, the online authority on where to eat and why it matters.
Eater City Guide: New York is your go-to source for getting immersed in NYC's famously vibrant and diverse dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, the guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight into the City That Never Sleeps and its one-of-a-kind...
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After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
C'est une valse dont les Viennois ne se lassent pas. Dans l'ancienne capitale des Habsbourg, parée de palais et de musées parmi les plus beaux d'Europe, tout est fait pour danser avec la vie.
Il est si facile de raconter la Vienne impériale. De se remémorer la ville assiégée par les Ottomans ou conquise par Napoléon. Plus difficile en revanche est le récit de la Vienne...
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Extrait : "Il y a beaucoup de façons de raconter en quelques pages une randonnée automobile de 17. 000 kilomètres, telle que celle qui nous mena de Saïgon à Paris, parce qu'on peut l'envisager sous de multiples points de vue. Si j'avais le talent de Pierre Loti, je vous parlerais des fleurs, des parfums de l'Orient ou de la couleur des yeux des femmes."
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A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.
When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before.
His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique.
Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland, and...
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For those who love sailing and you-are-there travel literature. Also for those who enjoy studying the life and times of the Apostle Paul. But definitely for those who love adventure, or at least reading about it! Seafaring isn't for the faint of heart. It wasn't for the Apostle Paul in the first century A.D.-shipwrecked, imprisoned, and often a stranger in foreign lands. And it turned out to be a heart-stopping task some two thousand years later,...
10334) Inde: Miscellanées
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Des croyances et des traditions profondément ancrées dans les mœurs, à l'ouverture de l'Inde sur le monde
L'Inde n'est pas un pays, c'est un continent, à peine moins vaste que l'Europe et tramé d'au moins autant de diversités que du Cap Nord à Palerme ou de Lisbonne à Moscou : paysages, langues, modes de vie, histoires, saveurs, couleurs…
Reste cette ferveur spirituelle qui émaille la vie quotidienne dans les villes comme dans les...
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How does an immortal deal with death?What can an ancient Time Lord teach us about real human nature?Why does the Doctor say he and Freud "got on very well"?How do the Daleks and Cybermen reflect concerns about losing our humanity?And what new challenges loom ahead when the Doctor regenerates as a woman?Hailed as the "most successful sci-fi series ever made" (Guinness World Records), Doctor Who has been a cult-classic for more than half a century....
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Extrait: "Sans remonter à la Tour de Babel, on peut observer que l'idée même de la construction d'une tour de très grande hauteur a depuis longtemps hanté l'imagination des hommes. Cette sorte de victoire sur cette terrible loi de la pesanteur qui attache l'homme au sol lui a toujours paru un symbole de la force et des difficultés vaincues."
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Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir, Tristesse, Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre...
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On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.
But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to live within the Old City's walls, living in each of the four quarters: Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish.
Jerusalem's Old City is the hottest piece...
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Extrait : "Lorsque rit la belle saison, ne trouvez-vous pas qu'il est agréable d'errer, sans plan, sans parti pris, au jour le jour, — et de laisser aller son esprit — comme ses jambes — au hasard ? Voilà comme je viens de faire, depuis tout à l'heure trois mois, en Berry, en Dauphiné, en Savoie, en Suisse, en Alsace. Vive l'école buissonnière ! Chacun le fait de son cté, en été. Si vous voulez venir du ntre, vous n'irez que jusqu'o...
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Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace...
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