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- Berry Pickers, The A Novel - Indigenous Family's Tragic Loss And Unwavering Love [electronic resource] : by Peters, Amanda.aut; Warbus, Aaliya.nrt; Waunch, Jordan.nrt; cloudLibrary;
- NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER 2023 BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE WINNER of the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL for EXCELLENCE in FICTION WINNER Best First Novel, Crime Writers of Canada Award WINNER Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction FINALIST Amazon First Novel Award FINALIST for the Atwood-Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize FINALIST Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction FINALIST Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award FINALIST OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years  July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, is seen sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a field before mysteriously vanishing. Her six-year-old brother, Joe, who was the last person to see Ruthie, is devastated by his sister’s disappearance, and her loss ripples through his life for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as an only child in an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, while her mother is overprotective of Norma, who is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem to be too real to be her imagination. As she grows older, Norma senses there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she pursues her family’s secret for decades. A stunning debut novel, The Berry Pickers is a riveting story about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. Looking for a great gift for the book club member in your life? Consider The Berry Pickers, a top-rated novel that explores the secrets and tragedies of a Mi'kmaq family who travels to Maine to pick blueberries in the summer of 1962. With its realistic portrayal of family dynamics and Native American culture, this book is sure to spark engaging discussions and reflections. HarperCollins 2024
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Native American & Aboriginal; Family Life;
- © 2023., HarperCollins,
- We don't know ourselves : a personal history of modern Ireland / by O'Toole, Fintan,1958-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government?in despair, because all the young people were leaving?opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society-perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O'Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland's main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin's streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O'Toole's telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-;
- La araña muy ocupada / by Carle, Eric.; Mercado, Nancy.;
- The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.LSC
- Subjects: Spiders; Spider webs; Animals; Domestic animals; Textured books; Toy and movable books;
- © 2004., Philomel Books,
- Toi! / by Reynolds, Peter H.(Peter Hamilton),1961-; Fortin, Isabelle(Translator);
- LSC
- Subjects: Individualité; Persévérance; Estime de soi; Réalisation de soi; Individuality; Persistence; Self-esteem; Self-realization;
- Sofia et le marchand ambulant / by Canciani, Katia,1971-; Déprez, Antoine,1978-;
- LSC
- Subjects: Pauvreté; Commerçants; Enfants et adultes; Persévérance; Souhaits; Poverty; Merchants; Children and adults; Persistence; Wishes;
- Le bâton doré / by Guilbault, Geneviève,1978-;
- Subjects: Sports fiction.; Ti-Guy La Puck (Personnage fictif); Joueurs de hockey; Hockey players; Amitié; Friendship; Concours et compétitions; Contests; Détermination (Trait de personnalité); Determination (Personality trait); Persévérance; Persistence; Parents et enfants; Parent and child; French language materials.;
- Myrian est peut-être allée trop loin... / by Ouellette, Emilie.; Amé(Illustratrice);
- Subjects: Poulin, Marie-Philip, 1991-; Écoles; Schools; Frères et soeurs; Brothers and sisters; Familles; Families; Identité; Hockey; Hockey; Détermination (Trait de personnalité); Determination (Personality trait); Persévérance; Persistence; Bêtise; Stupidity; French language materials.;
- Baghban. by Chopra, Ravi,film director.; Bachchan, Amitabh,actor.; Malini, Hema,actor.; Choudhary, Mahima,actor.; Khan, Salman,actor.; NH Studioz (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Mahima Choudhary, Salman KhanOriginally produced by NH Studioz in 2003.Raj (Amitabh Bachchan), a banker, has done his best to raise his four sons in the hopes that when he and their mother, Pooja (Hema Malini), retire, they will take good care of them. However, things do not work out that way. When Raj retires, the sons want him to live with the eldest (Aman Verma), while the second-oldest (Samir Soni) cares for Pooja. The youngest two children, in turn, will each take a parent six months later. Will the sons persist with such a cruel arrangement?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.; Motion pictures--India.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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