Helen Plum Library

Marshall's poems traverse familial mythography to investigate contemporary politics, Blackness, reproductive justice, and the stakes of race and interracial partnership, queerness, and love. With an unflinching seriousness she interrogates womanhood, meditates on race and queerness, and considers the monetary, mental, and physical costs of adopting or birthing a Black child.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women's movements and the avant-gardes were often in contact with one another, brought together through the socialist internationals. Jill Richards argues that these movements were not just socially linked but also deeply interconnected. Each offered the other an experimental language that could move beyond the nation-state's rights of man and citizen, suggesting an alternative conceptual...

À la découverte des traditions et de la culture du Pérou. L'Eldorado ou le pays de l'or a longtemps fait rêver les Européens. Peut-être le plus secret, en tout cas l'un des plus méconnus des pays d'Amérique du Sud, le Pérou actuel fut l'épicentre de la fascinante civilisation inca qui, du xiie au xvie siècle, se déploya dans la cordillère des Andes, avant d'être annexé par les conquistadors espagnols. Les six cuentos (nouvelles) de...

The romance of Grace Schulman and her husband, Jerome, a distinguished scientist, burgeons in New York's Greenwich Village amid the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Their bond stays brilliantly alive through various trials, including a decade of living apart. "In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is as oxymoronic as 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction. . . " Schulman's passion for poetry leads...

Even the most integrative, supportive doctor can only do so much for an individual during the worst period of healing from Lyme. The process looks different for everyone, but a patient must feel significantly worse before they begin to recover. When Lyme bacteria (or other coinfections) are first attacked by antibiotics, herbs, or other treatment, they release toxins into the body quicker than they can be dispelled. This is called a Jarisch-Herxheimer...

25 Award-winning Authors and Illustrators Brilliant new worlds Captivating new ideas Powerful new stories of action, adventure, and fantasy Just imagine… • It's game on, the fate of the universe is on the line-and you're about to go all in. • Saving the mammoths is in your hands-can you conjure the magic to make it happen? • You've got a monster BFF-whom you're hiding from your own monster-hunting family. • You're part of...

80 histoires pour voyager grâce à la lecture. Depuis Mythologies jusqu'aux Conquérants, en passant par Du bon usage des moyens de transport, Les Vagabonds ou Partir en mer, Marc Wiltz, éditeur de livres de voyage depuis quinze ans, a « classé » quatre-vingts livres dont il s'est nourri pour ses propres voyages. Pour en faire connaître certains ou mieux comprendre d'autres, et pour dire l'affection profonde qu'il ressent pour leurs auteurs,...

Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South

Facts about the writers, artists, film directors, graphic novelists, and other creative personalities that interest teens. International in scope.