États-Unis

A spirited, deeply personal inquiry into the near-mythic life and canonical work of J. D. Salinger by a writer known for his sensitivity to the Manhattan culture that was Salinger's great theme....

Like thousands of Aboriginal children, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school....

Les Rockefeller… rarement une dynastie a marqué à ce point l’histoire des États-Unis et, plus largement, celle du XXe siècle. Pour le plus grand nombre,...

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States, Making The Presidency shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.

Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last 75 years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism....

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....

Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the Black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. In Blackout, Owens argues this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned....

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology.

"Le premier des droits de l'homme est celui de pouvoir manger à sa faim." Franklin D. Roosevelt. Qui fut cet homme, hors du commun, élu quatre fois à la tête des États-Unis...

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. How do they fare as re-creations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more.

Abracadabra! Jack and Annie are on a mission for Merlin the magician. They’re looking for a secret of greatness from the best escape artist that ever lived, Harry Houdini. Using the magic tree house to travel back in time, Jack and Annie head to Coney Island to look for the elusive magician. How can they find the master of escape? It’s going to take some determination, a little bit of trouble, and a whole lot of magic!

Andy watches from behind a bush as his entire family leaves the only home he has known. What is a nine-week old kitten to do? Follow Andy’s adventures as he searches for his one true home. He tells everyone he meets his real name, but they don’t seem to care. Andy meets a most unusual assortment of friends who are willing to help him in his quest. Will Jimmy Gumbo be his greatest champion, or is that just another dead end?

Henry and Peter adopt a cat, or rather it adopts them, but they just can't decide what to call it! 

Catherine is a very messy girl. Her room is such a mess that she can hardly find anything when she needs it! She ignores her mom’s requests to keep her room tidy because she doesn’t really care how it looks. But Catherine is about to learn the consequences of her choices, when the Tooth Fairy gets injured on her first visit to Catherine’s house. Will Catherine take responsibility and think up a solution to make things right? And will she learn the bigger lesson about the importance of keeping her things tidy?

In this eagerly awaited sequel to A House Called Awful End, Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hot-air balloon, and arrested...only to find himself falling head over heels for a girl with a face like a camel's and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts, up on the misty moors, who have a "little job" for him to do.

Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just-plain-annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have found a way around that problem - they just make like Aesop and change all the people to animals or food, add a moral to each story, and call the stories fables!