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Oak Island : An Acadian Tale
Author: Labine, MarkDate: 2012Publication: Self-publishedLanguage : enFind in a library: 840842060Historical novel driven by a love story, with a search for treasures extending from the 11th-century Crusades and the Knights of Templar, to the Acadians and Mi'kmaq of 17th-century Atlantic Canada, to colonial Boston. Includes illustrations, maps, ancestry charts of historical characters, depictions of settings in 18th-century Boston and Nova Scotia. -
The Way That Water Enters Stone
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 1991 (1997)Publication: NortonLanguage : enFind in a library: 21677261Collection of short stories from native of Worcester, Massachusetts and professor of creative writing at Florida International University. Author of the novels "Louisiana Power & Light" (1994), "Love Warps the Mind a Little" (1997), "Requiem, Mass." (2008), and several other works of prose.Tags Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Florida, Gorham ME, Irish Americans, Lake Winepesaukee NH, Leominster MA, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Orono ME, Providence RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Violence, Worcester MA -
The Back Roads
Author: Martin, JaneDate: 2013-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 60637997Short story narrating Maxime's detours: from a rare West Coast business trip out of Maine to visit his sister and her partner in San Francisco; from routes of his present to certain back roads of memory. -
The Angel on the Roof
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 2000 (2011)Publication: HarperCollinsLanguage : enSource : Preview (2011 edition)Find in a library: 42861911Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
The Happy Time
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1945Publication: Simon and SchusterLanguage : enFind in a library: 1686763Coming-of-age novel in lighthearted stories set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, amidst the young narrator Robert's extended family of eccentric men and stern women. Robert's small obsession with a much older boarding woman, and other various crushes; the brief appearances of a friendly canary, a mouse, and Robert's French-Canadian uncles; Father Sebastian building a new church for life's finer things; the errands of neighbor Mrs. Merryweather; pipe organs, adult magazines, little green apples, and special characters in other vignettes. Illustrated. Adapted for stage and screen. -
Continental Drift
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 1985Publication: Harper & RowLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 10998820Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her family along the sea route northward to Florida. -
Under Canadian Skies : A French-Canadian Historical Romance
Author: Choquet, Joseph P.Date: 1922Publication: Oxford PressLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 6908693Novel of historical fiction depicting the Rebellion of 1837 in Canada. Philippe Champagne and Edouard Dumas are two young attorneys whose advocacy on behalf of Lower Canada carries them from Montréal to the Québec countryside, and from the Champagne family and their friends to some of the most notable political figures of the period. The spy, Mireau, who unsettles Lower Canada and threatens its rebellion. Shots fired and swordplay between peasant militia and advancing soldiers. Depictions of animosity between English and French Canadians. Written by a Rhode Island author, and introduced with a brief discussion of New England French speakers. -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed EditionsLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Little French Mary
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1895 NovemberLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1762497Short story about a French Canadian family newly arrived to Dulham, in New England, and its six-year-old daughter, Mary, who captures the hearts of Dulham's old men. First published in The Pocket Magazine in 1895. Reprinted in The Life of Nancy (1969) (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47340) and published online by Coe College: http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/lon/mary.htm. -
Never Back Down
Author: Hebert, ErnestDate: 2012Publication: David R. GodineLanguage : enFind in a library: 689858563Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction (Vt.), Youth -
Man and His World
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1992Publication: Porcupine's QuillLanguage : enFind in a library: 26801089Book of international short stories rooted in Montréal and the US Northeast. Written in English with a recognizable play of languages, especially French and German. From renowned fiction writer and essayist, Clark Blaise, author of such books as "I Had a Father," "A North American Education," and "Tribal Justice." Blaise is the former director of the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
Translation
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1987Publication: MethuenLanguage : enFind in a library: 16044405Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Woman in a Bar
Author: Laux, DorianneDate: 2009-06-25Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: UnknownShort story about a friend who, always when visiting the narrator, is eager to find a bar. From the author of the poetry collections, "Awake," "What We Carry," "Smoke," and "Facts About the Moon." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly. -
The Captain
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2006-06-15Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: UnknownShort fiction piece that finds a retired navy captain long after World War II, and his housekeeper, far from the sea. From the author of "God is Dead," "Everything Matters!" and "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly -
Lucien
Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)Date: 1939Publication: Dodd, Mead & Company PublishersLanguage : enSource : Full TextFind in a library: 1400482Novel set near Trois-Rivières, Québec, that begins with the birth of a first child - a daughter, Lucien - to Marie Charbonneau, whose husband Léonce despairs for not having a son to work on their farm. Two hundred miles away, the first-cousins Phonce and Pierre are married and forced to leave their home, later giving birth to a son. The lives of both families and their subsequent children as they come to live side-by-side on neighboring farms. The later life of a maligned Lucien. Winner of the 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize at the University of Michigan. From the author of "Not Without Honor" (1941). -
The Pleasures of a Destroyed City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1986 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 37589723Short story featuring Joseph Beauchemin, an American expatriate in London, and Dolores, in their apartment in the wake of a public protest. The ways in which they struggle to know one another and to make themselves known - or not - amidst death, politics, and sex. From the author of "The Country," "The Family," and the recent memoir, "American Ghosts." -
The Tent in the Wind
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1997 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 2256746Short story that finds James Briggs in London receiving a New York phone call in the nighttime from the mother of his ex-wife, Joanna, an expatriate in London, alerting him to Joanna's attempt at suicide across town. -
My Uncle Louis
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1953Publication: McGraw-HillLanguage : enFind in a library: 1687374Autobiographical novel revisiting a boy's childhood in Ottawa and the colorful character of his armchair philosopher uncle, Louis LaFrance. When Uncle Louis's marriage troubles find him moving in with the narrator child and his two parents, the household fills with his love of women, wine, good food, poetry, and Canadian politics. From the author of "The Happy Time" and "Hello to Springtime." -
Mirbah
Author: Dumas, EmmaDate: 1979 (1910)Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : frFind in a library: 7913042Un roman sur la vie immigrante et catholique d'une actrice dans la ville de Holyoke, Massachusetts; sa communauté et paroisse canadienne-française.
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à Holyoke, sous le nom de plume "Emma Port-Joli." Republié à 1979 par le National Materials Development Center for French. -
Say No More
Author: Bonnie, FredDate: 1994-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 29353487Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Alphonsine
Author: Kegley, AliceDate: 2006-12-18Publication: AuthorHouseLanguage : enFind in a library: 314398691Historical novel introducing the author's great-great-grandparents' from Montréal, Québec, and their family's new life after immigrating to Rapid City in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, USA. Begins with the mother - Alphonsine - and her children as they leave Montréal to reunite with the father who had left long before to seek work. Family life in the United States in the 19th century. Illustrated in black and white drawings. Contains an epilogue charting the later lives of Alphonsine, her husband Charles, and their several children. -
Arrhythmia
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2011 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 9801056Short fiction piece about a woman's relationship with her mother illuminated in the ticks and increasing demands of her mother's heart condition. A parallel story of the woman's failed relationship with her partner, Mauricia. -
Your People's Ways
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2010 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1640212Short fiction piece told from the perspective of Rosaire, a young woman who suffers from a painful and mysterious physical injury. Movements in the relationship between Rosaire and her partner Gabriela, a graduate student, who decides to travel from their Michigan home to California, where a past boss and former lover suffers from cancer. -
Buffleheads
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enSource : Full text @ Michigan Quarterly ReviewFind in a library: 1757375Short fiction piece that finds Liliane coming upon the news of a suicide within the family of a former relative, gripped still by the emotions and tensions surrounding the suicide of her own sister - her tie to this other family - decades earlier. -
Jumelage
Author: Martin, Jane E.Date: 2012 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1766210Short fiction piece that follows Maggie - a Maine woman in Montréal - through a sudden relationship with her "jumelle interlinguistique," Noémi, and with the province and people of which she discovers she may not be a part. -
The Gray Mills of Farley
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1898-06-00Language : enFind in a library: 1565217Short story that finds a textile mill agent caught between the greed of his directors, the powerlessness and plight of his workers, and the wisdom of a priest around the time of a New England mill's cut-back and shut-down. A New England manufactory-town setting and its diverse characters around the turn of the century. Written by a South Berwick, Maine native and author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Featured in the following collections:
American Local-Color Stories, edited by Harry R. Warfel. 1941. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1188060
Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Richard Cary. 1971. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227485
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, edited by Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza. 1996. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34475664 -
Sanatorium : un roman
Author: Dufault, PaulDate: 1938-00-00Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : frFind in a library: 9373180Un roman sur Pierre Gagnon, un personnage médecin qui est devenu un nouveau malade dans un infirmerie pour les tuberculeux dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre au début de 20e siècle. Des descriptions vivantes de la vie, des autres malades, et de l'hébergement de l'infirmerie. Écrit par un vrai médecin; basé sur ses experiences avec ceux tuberculeux hôpitalisés à Rutland State Sanatorium, Rutland, Massachusetts. Republié en 1982. -
Madame Athanase T. Brindamour , raconteuse
Author: Beaupré, NormandDate: 2012-00-00Publication: Llumina PressLanguage : FrançaisFind in a library: https://francolibrary.com/items/show/2025Roman composé d'histoires de vie et de la famille à Manchester New Hampshire, tel que racontées par le personnage-titre et son épouse : Marie Solfège Desruisseaux Brindamour et Athanase T. Brindamour. Les voix, personnalités, et communautés de deux raconteurs - femme et homme - franco-americains. Créé par auteur et créateur de "la Souillonne." Comme écrit l'auteur, chacun de ces trois caractères parlent "en dialecte franco-américain." -
Requiem, Mass.
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 2008Publication: W.W. Norton & Co.Language : ENSource : Read: PREVIEWFind in a library: 181139334Novel centered around a family of four and a son's retelling of his disrupted youth. An absent, long-haul trucker father and his multiple families; a psychologically troubled mother who claims, among other things, that her children are imposters; an imaginative younger sister; the ubiquitous cat. The real and make-believe characters who intersect the narrator's life at home, school, and wherever his journeys take him in his attempts to save his family - in life or in story. Plays with, and discusses, concepts of fiction and memoir. Written by Worcester, Massachusetts native and teacher of Creative Writing at Florida International University. Winner of the Florida Book Award. -
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
Author: Chute, CarolynDate: 1988Publication: Ticknor & FieldsLanguage : enFind in a library: 17441000The second in a collection of novels by this North Parsonsfield, Maine author. Set in the fictional, rural Maine town of Egypt. A series of vignettes centered around Big Lucien Letourneau, his family, and the other hardscrabble characters in their rural community. Letourneau's auto parts business and all the quirks, love, and violence between the people in his salvage yard/shantytown known as "Miracle City." -
Cecile's Dog Bo
Author: Fuller, Jacquie GiassonDate: 1994Publication: University Press of New EnglandLanguage : enFind in a library: 45731570Short story about Maureen, a young woman with distant Maine roots, returning to her "homeland" in a town like Lewiston. Her roommate, Cecile, and the dog named "Bo" that was left in their care with the departure of Cecile's husband. First published in Yankee Magazine, 1993. Reprinted in a collection of Maine writings edited by Wesley McNair. -
Canuck
Author: Lessard-Bissonnette, CamilleDate: 1936Publication: Le MessagerLanguage : frFind in a library: 8517171Ce roman franco-américain essentiel commence en 1900 avec l'arrivée à Lowell, Massachusetts d'immigrants canadiens-français. La nouvelle vie de travail de Victoria (Vic) Labranche, quinze ans, dans les moulins de Lowell. Ses jours dans un Petit Canada de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Son retour au Québec après avoir appris la maladie de son père. Publié à l'origine comme feuilleton par le journal Le Messager de Lewiston, Maine. Republié en 1980 par le National Materials Development Center à Bedford, New Hampshire. Traductions en anglais sont disponibles. (English translation is also available. Read more HERE)Tags Concord NH, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Laconia NH, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, Québec, St. Johnsbury VT, St. Martinville LA, Travel and Movement -
La jeune Franco-Américaine
Author: Gastonguay, AlberteDate: 1933Publication: Le MessagerLanguage : frFind in a library: 7724259L'histoire de Jeanne, fille de Jean, dans le Petit Canada de la ville de Lewiston, Maine, au debut du XXe siècle. Le mort de sa mère, la fierté de son père, sa foi catholique, et les luttes qu'elle endure avec l'amour dans sa jeune vie. Publié à l'origine en 1933 par Le Messager de Lewiston, Maine. Republié en 1980 par le National Materials Development Center à Bedford, New Hampshire. Traductions en anglais sont disponibles. (English translation is also available. Read more HERE) -
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Madame Simone Lavoie
Author: Fuller, Jacquie GiassonDate: 1993 WinterLanguage : enFind in a library: 10990654Short fiction set in the author's Bateston, Maine. Madame Simone Lavoie narrates suppertime at home with her family - daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Mémère's illness and some of the changes it has forced on her routine. Dinner conversation. Part II of The Façade, a novel in progress. -
The Questing Beast
Author: Hébert, RichardDate: 1984Publication: McClelland and StewartLanguage : enFind in a library: 10866546Novel told in parallel stories of a father and son. An American artist's eventual return to Canada in search of an identity in the place of his father's birth and death; the father's youthful departure from Quebec to New England many years before. Each man's personal "quest" forward and backward, and the pressures he endures.
From McClelland and Stewart: "'The Questing Beast' traces the lives of a father and son - heirs to a mysterious family disgrace - and their obsessive attempts to appease the specter of their past. Each of them is guided by enigmatic, even mystical, women as their separate journeys take them from the asbestos pits of Thetford Mines, Quebec, to the lush gardens of Miami Beach and, ultimately, back to the same destination."Tags Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Hartford CT, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lynn MA, Miami FL, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Québec, Taunton MA, United States, Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
Everything I Own
Author: Beauchemin, RaymondDate: 2011 November 18Publication: Guernica EditionsLanguage : EnglishFind in a library: 712851483From Guernica Editions: "Songwriter Michel Laflamme is stuck in traffic on Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge. While waiting for police to try to talk down a potential suicide, Michel turns on the radio and hears his wife, Bijou, founding member of Beaupré, the seminal Quebec folk-rock group. The music takes Michel across a 30-year span of memory, through the emotional and political upheavals of his own life and that of his Belle Province."
"Jack Kerouac meets Beau Dommage! This novel of a coming-of-age in the Montreal music scene of the Seventies is a Québécois blues, wise, pungent, and funny." -- Peter Behrens, Governor-General's Award winning author of The Law of Dreams -
Alphonsine
Author: Kegley, AliceDate: 2006-12-18Publication: AuthorHouseLanguage : enFind in a library: 314398691Historical novel introducing the author's great-great-grandparents' from Montréal, Québec, and their family's new life after immigrating to Rapid City in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, USA. Begins with the mother - Alphonsine - and her children as they leave Montréal to reunite with the father who had left long before to seek work. Family life in the United States in the 19th century. Illustrated in black and white drawings. Contains an epilogue charting the later lives of Alphonsine, her husband Charles, and their several children. -
Say No More
Author: Bonnie, FredDate: 1994-04-00Language : enFind in a library: 29353487Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Mirbah
Author: Dumas, EmmaDate: 1979 (1910)Publication: National Materials Development CenterLanguage : frFind in a library: 7913042Un roman sur la vie immigrante et catholique d'une actrice dans la ville de Holyoke, Massachusetts; sa communauté et paroisse canadienne-française.
Un roman feuilleton publié en dix fascicules entre 1910 et 1912 par "La Justice" à Holyoke, sous le nom de plume "Emma Port-Joli." Republié à 1979 par le National Materials Development Center for French. -
My Uncle Louis
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1953Publication: McGraw-HillLanguage : enFind in a library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1687374Autobiographical novel revisiting a boy's childhood in Ottawa and the colorful character of his armchair philosopher uncle, Louis LaFrance. When Uncle Louis's marriage troubles find him moving in with the narrator child and his two parents, the household fills with his love of women, wine, good food, poetry, and Canadian politics. From the author of "The Happy Time" and "Hello to Springtime." -
Atop an Underwood : Early Stories and Other Writings
Author: Kerouac, JackDate: 1999Publication: Viking PenguinLanguage : enFind in a library: 40857068Selections from Jack Kerouac's (1922-1969) earliest imaginative and other writings composed between 1936 and 1943, with introduction and commentary from poet and editor, Paul Marion. Includes notes, poetry, creative and journalistic prose, and an excerpt from Kerouac's early novel, "The Sea Is My Brother." Written during Kerouac's youth in Lowell, Massachusetts, during his time at Columbia University, later as a merchant marine, and elsewhere. Presented in three chronological sections: Pine Forests and Pure Thought, 1936-1940; An Original Kicker, 1941; To Portray Life Accurately, 1942-1943. -
The Buried City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1976 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 1590374Short story that finds George returned to his family's New England home and to Hunter, his brother, as they struggle through the emotional aftermath of their mother's funeral. An early work from Providence, Rhode Island-native author of "The Country," "The Family," and the memoir, "American Ghosts." -
The Tent in the Wind
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1997 FallLanguage : enFind in a library: 2256746Short story that finds James Briggs in London receiving a New York phone call in the nighttime from the mother of his ex-wife, Joanna, an expatriate in London, alerting him to Joanna's attempt at suicide across town. -
The Pleasures of a Destroyed City
Author: Plante, DavidDate: 1986 SpringLanguage : enFind in a library: 37589723Short story featuring Joseph Beauchemin, an American expatriate in London, and Dolores, in their apartment in the wake of a public protest. The ways in which they struggle to know one another and to make themselves known - or not - amidst death, politics, and sex. From the author of "The Country," "The Family," and the recent memoir, "American Ghosts." -
Lucien
Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)Date: 1939Publication: Dodd, Mead & Company PublishersLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1400482Novel set near Trois-Rivières, Québec, that begins with the birth of a first child - a daughter, Lucien - to Marie Charbonneau, whose husband Léonce despairs for not having a son to work on their farm. Two hundred miles away, the first-cousins Phonce and Pierre are married and forced to leave their home, later giving birth to a son. The lives of both families and their subsequent children as they come to live side-by-side on neighboring farms. The later life of a maligned Lucien. Winner of the 1938 Avery Hopwood Prize at the University of Michigan. From the author of "Not Without Honor" (1941). -
The Captain
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2006-06-15Language : enSource : Full textFind in a library: UnknownShort fiction piece that finds a retired navy captain long after World War II, and his housekeeper, far from the sea. From the author of "God is Dead," "Everything Matters!" and "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly -
Woman in a Bar
Author: Laux, DorianneDate: 2009-06-25Language : enSource : Full TextFind in a library: UnknownShort story about a friend who, always when visiting the narrator, is eager to find a bar. From the author of the poetry collections, "Awake," "What We Carry," "Smoke," and "Facts About the Moon." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly. -
I took my dead father to a Red Sox game
Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.Date: 2012-03-09Language : enSource : Full textShort fiction piece by Waterville, Maine writer, Ron Currie, Jr., about a trip to Fenway Park with his dead father. Published in the online magazine, "Salon," with reference to the author's recent novel, "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" (Viking, 2013). -
Translation
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1987Publication: MethuenLanguage : enFind in a library: 16044405Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Man and His World
Author: Blaise, ClarkDate: 1992Publication: Porcupine's QuillLanguage : enFind in a library: 26801089 -
Little French Mary
Author: Jewett, Sarah OrneDate: 1895 NovemberLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 1762497Short story about a French Canadian family newly arrived to Dulham, in New England, and its six-year-old daughter, Mary, who captures the hearts of Dulham's old men. First published in The Pocket Magazine in 1895. Reprinted in The Life of Nancy (1969) (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47340) and published online by Coe College: http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/lon/mary.htm. -
Never Back Down
Author: Hebert, ErnestDate: 2012Publication: David R. GodineLanguage : enFind in a library: 689858563Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction VT, Youth -
Vandal Love
Author: Béchard, Deni Y.Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)Publication: Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)Language : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 758646813Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
Under Canadian Skies : A French-Canadian Historical Romance
Author: Choquet, Joseph P.Date: 1922Publication: Oxford PressLanguage : enSource : Full textFind in a library: 6908693Novel of historical fiction depicting the Rebellion of 1837 in Canada. Philippe Champagne and Edouard Dumas are two young attorneys whose advocacy on behalf of Lower Canada carries them from Montréal to the Québec countryside, and from the Champagne family and their friends to some of the most notable political figures of the period. The spy, Mireau, who unsettles Lower Canada and threatens its rebellion. Shots fired and swordplay between peasant militia and advancing soldiers. Depictions of animosity between English and French Canadians. Written by a Rhode Island author, and introduced with a brief discussion of New England French speakers. -
Continental Drift
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 1985Publication: Harper & RowLanguage : enSource : PreviewFind in a library: 10998820Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her family along the sea route northward to Florida. -
The Happy Time
Author: Fontaine, Robert LouisDate: 1945Publication: Simon and SchusterLanguage : enFind in a library: 1686763Coming-of-age novel in lighthearted stories set in and around Ottawa, Ontario, amidst the young narrator Robert's extended family of eccentric men and stern women. Robert's small obsession with a much older boarding woman, and other various crushes; the brief appearances of a friendly canary, a mouse, and Robert's French-Canadian uncles; Father Sebastian building a new church for life's finer things; the errands of neighbor Mrs. Merryweather; pipe organs, adult magazines, little green apples, and special characters in other vignettes. Illustrated. Adapted for stage and screen. -
The Angel on the Roof
Author: Banks, RussellDate: 2000 (2011)Publication: HarperCollinsLanguage : enSource : Preview (2011 Edition)Find in a library: 42861911Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
The Back Roads
Author: Martin, JaneDate: 2013-fallLanguage : enFind in a library: 60637997Short story narrating Maxime's detours: from a rare West Coast business trip out of Maine to visit his sister and her partner in San Francisco; from routes of his present to certain back roads of memory. -
The Way That Water Enters Stone
Author: Dufresne, JohnDate: 1991 (1997)Publication: NortonFind in a library: 20th century; New England; Louisiana; FloridaTags Baton Rouge LA, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Family, Florida, Gorham ME, Irish Americans, Lake Winepesaukee NH, Leominster MA, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Orono ME, Providence RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Violence, Worcester MA -
Oak Island : An Acadian Tale
Author: Labine, MarkDate: 2012Publication: Self-publishedLanguage : enFind in a library: 840842060Historical novel driven by a love story, with a search for treasures extending from the 11th-century Crusades and the Knights of Templar, to the Acadians and Mi'kmaq of 17th-century Atlantic Canada, to colonial Boston. Includes illustrations, maps, ancestry charts of historical characters, depictions of settings in 18th-century Boston and Nova Scotia.