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        La chant des blessures (The song of the wounds)

        by Sybille Claude

        In the midst of Operation Baghdad in Port-au-Prince, a man, poet and family man, is murdered with five bullets to the head. A dying, despairing and despondent mother succumbs to the banal disaster and the weight of a thankless, bitter life too heavy to bear. Faced with the disarray of his country, the son decides to set sail in search of artificial paradises under other skies. And it's a debacle. The only one left is little Sarah who, through books and poetry, tries to pick up the pieces of her life.

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        Poème pour une petite fille à l’autre bout du monde (Poem for a little girl on the other side of the world)

        by Dieulermesson Petit Frère

        A statement on otherness, a song of love and sincerity, Poème pour une petite fille à l’autre bout du monde is an invitation into the intimate sphere of the poet. It is the figuration of the paternal real brought to its highest point. A father and a little girl meet somewhere, at the other end of a street or a railway station, to talk about friendship, life and their regrets, to take stock of all their failed acts and to give each other reasons to love each other, despite the distance, the disarray and the madness that can arise from absence.

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        Nulle veine n’est fumante quand la joie est borgne (No vein is smoking when joy is one-eyed)

        by Snayder Pierre-Louis

        Nulle veine n'est fumante quand la joie est borgne is a book that one must go to meet as one goes to discover the song of the world. For this impulse of life and dream that emanates from poetic expression. For the need for tenderness that is born on the page. Finally, for the breath of life that words breathe in the face of the daily chaos that erodes hope.

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        Powèm entèdi ak lòt powèm (Forbidden poems and other poems)

        by Guy Régis Jr

        Forbidden poems and other poems are a book designed with a series of words that say without lure all cause people fear to speak daylight. It gathers all the sweet words that make life thrive at night. Every poem in this book is a ochan so life can be plagued even when at night bare the sun at the tip of the dawn. It's a song the poet's hopes bring, a veve he draws for love spread without measure like the hay pid of Christmas.

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        February 2021

        The Stage and the Story

        by Djawad Rostom Touati

        ‘‘So he thought of writing a play inspired by the residents' strike, which was in full swing. He was in his fifth year of medical school and his future was directly affected by the outcome of this movement, for which he was enthusiastic. However, when he wanted to take an interest in the nuts and bolts, the details he could incorporate into his art, an indefinable discomfort overcame him, and he couldn't quite grasp the cause. The project remained at half-mast in a corner of his mind, and the end of the strike finished by gathering the dust of oblivion on it.’’ Dj. R. Touati The one is multiple, and that which unites, after the moment of egregore, becomes that which divides; irreconcilably. At a time when the failure of the intuition of diversity has never been so prevalent, so widespread, it seemed salubrious to the author to show - without seeking to demonstrate - through the painting of an aesthetic reality, that if a historical moment has given rise to debate and division within the same class, then nothing is more absurd - or more specious - than the claim to unanimity within an entire people. Against the schizophrenic false identification, attempting to grasp the totality appears to be the only way to confront totalitarianism, which is, as those who denounce it pretend to ignore in order to exonerate themselves, THE PART THAT TAKES ITSELF FOR THE WHOLE. On stage, Molière, Brecht, Kateb, Alloula and others play out history... against a backdrop of burgundy-red curtains, where a dialogue of the deaf imposes blindness on the actors in action. Far from the imposing “noise” of movement, La scène et l'histoire, like a “socio-temporal” filter, sets the historical record straight: curtain up. Theater teacher Nadji, on the lookout for the old days, Rahim and Lamia, the pretenders of a politically better future, and all the others... followers of culture, that's us..., (are) beating the floor of the present.

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        Children's & YA

        Bras de fer pour un ballon (Arm wrestling for a ball)

        by Augustin Mansare

        Salif is a good student, but a soccer fan. His father finds that he spends too much time playing in the street with "thugs". In no time the passion turns to obsession. The father gives nothing. From hope to disappointment, from running away to depression, how will this showdown for a ball end?

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        Children's & YA

        Le voyage de papa (Dad's journey)

        by Saliou Bah

        Dad is not there when Bobo wakes up. The child looks for him everywhere. How could Dad leave without telling his little boy?

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        Children's & YA

        Bobo et le cerf volant (Bobo and the flying deer)

        by Saliou Bah

        Bobo would like Mom to buy Grand Bali's beautiful kite right away. But Mom doesn't see it that way. How will Bobo react? This new adventure of Bobo plunges us into the heart of the emotions of a little boy who wants everything right away.

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        Children's & YA

        La forêt sacrée (The sacred forest)

        by Nicolas Condé

        Koné is old enough to return to the sacred forest to bring back a fantastic animal that will accompany him all his life. But the forest is full of dangers and the animals have become rare and hard to find. When Koné finally meets the Chameleon, will he understand the message and be able to carry out his mission?

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        Children's & YA

        Le mouton de Modibo (Modibo's sheep)

        by Abdourahmane Diallo

        Fanta gets up, walks around the house, looks in the kitchen, in the garage and even in the bedrooms. No sheep! She walks around the block. Still no sheep. Distraught and trembling, she returns to announce the disaster to Modibo...

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        Children's & YA

        Alamako, l'enfant aux grands rêves (Alamako, the child with big dreams)

        by Abdoulaye Kéita

        Alamako bustles near the cemetery. The whole village would like to know his secret.Will Alamako be able to follow his dreams to the end?

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        Children's & YA

        Un amour de parapluie (An umbrella love)

        by Adrienne Yabouza

        A bride more beautiful than beautiful under her beautiful umbrella. And here is Djénabou dreaming, dreaming of the day when, in turn, she will have a beautiful red shirt over her indigo loincloth!

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        Children's & YA

        Les chimpanzés de Bossou (The chimpanzees of Bossou)

        by Moussa Kourouma

        The chimpanzee is a very intelligent animal that knows how to use tools: stones to crush palm kernels, sticks to pick fruit, leaves to drink water, stems to search termite mounds or catch grasshoppers. When he falls ill he knows how to use certain plants to heal himself.

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        Children's & YA

        L'orage (The storm)

        by Kidi Bebey

        Kidi Bebey offers toddlers a poetic explanation of the storm to ward off their fear.

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        Children's & YA

        La fille de l'eau (The water girl)

        by Yves Pinguilly, Sarang Seck

        West African mythical tale. Yves Pinguilly and Saran Seick introduce you to the world of love and beauty of the African woman.

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        January 2021

        Upper-Stage Rockets

        by Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.

        This eBook describes some of the iconic, expendable upper-stage rocket vehicles that American aerospace engineers and program managers have used to accomplish this important task. Readers will learn about the Agena and Centaur upper-stage rocket vehicles and the inertial upper stage (IUS) system. Selected missions enabled by each of these marvelous families of propulsion machines highlight their collective contributions to the security of the United States, as well as the comprehensive exploration of the solar system from the Sun and Mercury to beyond Neptune and Pluto.

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        The Arts
        November 2020

        Stage rights!

        The Actresses’ Franchise League, activism and politics 1908–58

        by Naomi Paxton

        Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, challenged stereotypes of suffragists and actresses, created new work inspired by the movement and was an integral part of the performative propaganda of the campaign. Introducing new archival material to both suffrage and theatre histories, this book is the first to focus in detail on the Actresses' Franchise League, its membership and its work. The volume is formulated as a historiographically innovative critical biography of the organisation over the fifty years of its activities, and invites a total reassessment of the League within the accepted narratives of the development of political theatre in the UK.

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        March 2019

        Kid Normal / Kid Normal (2). Die Schurken sind los!

        by James, Greg; Smith, Chris

        Murphs Leben als Normalo-Superheld ist aufregend - und voller Fragen: Bekommt er jetzt ein Heldenkostüm? Einen Gürtel mit coolen Waffen? Oder zumindest einen Butler, der Ratschläge erteilt, wenn ihm das Heldendasein mal über den Kopf wächst? Inzwischen kennen Murph und die Supernullen die Antworten auf all diese Fragen. Sie lauten - in beliebiger Reihenfolge - nein, nein und nein. Als sich tief unter dem Gefängnis für abtrünnige Superhelden etwas Unheilvolles zusammenbraut, müssen die Supernullen ihre mehr oder weniger brauchbaren Kräfte vereinen. Denn die Elster, der größte Schurke, den die Welt je gesehen hat, verlangt nur eines: „Bringt mir Kid Normal!"

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