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The kites / Romain Gary ; translated from the French and with an afterword by Miranda Richmond Mouillot

Hayden Library - PQ2613.A58 C413 2017




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Critical terrains: French and British orientalisms / Lisa Lowe

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La petite Fadette / George Sand ; translated with an introduction by Gretchen van Slyke

Hayden Library - PQ2411.P4 E5 2017




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Incest / Christine Angot ; translated from the French by Tess Lewis

Hayden Library - PQ2661.N4624 I4313 2017




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Such fine boys / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti ; with a foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio

Hayden Library - PQ2673.O3 D413 2017




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Now the night begins / Alain Guiraudie ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ; afterword by Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum

Hayden Library - PQ2707.U57 I3513 2018




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Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s.

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Robur the conqueror / Jules Verne ; translated with introduction and notes by Alex Kirstukas ; edited by Arthur B. Evans

Hayden Library - PQ2469.R6 E5 2017




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Seven plays of Koffi Kwahulé: in and out of Africa / translated by Chantal Bilodeau and Judith G. Miller ; edited with Introductions by Judith G. Miller

Hayden Library - PQ3989.2.K87 A2 2017




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Melville: a novel / Jean Giono ; translated from the French by Paul Eprile ; introduction by Edmund White

Hayden Library - PQ2613.I57 P6513 2017




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Letters to his neighbor / Marcel Proust ; translated, with an afterword, by Lydia Davis ; text edited and annotated by Estelle Gaudry and Jean-Yves Tadié ; with a foreword by Jean-Yves Tadié

Hayden Library - PQ2631.R63 A2 2017




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Together still: followed by Perambulans in noctem / Yves Bonnefoy ; translated by Hoyt Rogers with Mathilde Bonnefoy

Hayden Library - PQ2603.O533 A262 2017




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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalising of modernity. Jan M. Ziolkowski

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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity Jan M. Ziolkowski

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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart / Chrétien de Troyes ; translated by Deborah Webster Rogers ; introduction by W.T.H. Jackson

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A new history of French literature / edited by Denis Hollier ; with R. Howard Bloch [and 7 others]

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Diderot / by Arthur M. Wilson

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The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity. Jan M. Ziolkowski

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The work of poverty: Samuel Beckett's vagabonds and the theater of crisis / Lance Duerfahrd

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Weaving narrative: clothing in twelfth-century French romance / Monica L. Wright

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Translating war: literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Angela Kershaw

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Tristan Corbière: oysters, nightingales and cooking pots: selected poetry and prose in translation / translated by Christopher Pilling ; edited by Richard Hibbitt and Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe ; with an introduction by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe

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Middlebrow matters: women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque / Diana Holmes

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Thinking in public: faith, secular humanism, and development in Jacques Roumain / Celucien L. Joseph ; foreword by Schallum Pierre

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Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale

Hayden Library - PQ3949.2.C45 E8213 2018




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Awu's story: a novel / Justine Mintsa ; translated and with an introduction by Cheryl Toman ; foreword by Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury

Hayden Library - PQ3989.3.M535 H5713 2018




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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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Collected poems / St.-John Perse ; with translations by W.H. Auden [and seven others]

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Waiting for Bojangles: a novel / Olivier Bourdeaut ; translated by Regan Kramer

Dewey Library - PQ2702.O967 E513 2019




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The milk bowl of feathers: essential surrealist writings / edited, with an introduction, by Mary Ann Caws

Dewey Library - PQ1145.S8 M55 2018




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The Lais of Marie de France: text and translation / edited and translated by Claire M. Waters

Dewey Library - PQ1494.L3 E5 2018




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Me & other writing / Marguerite Duras ; translated by Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan; with an introduction by Dan Gunn

Dewey Library - PQ2607.U8245 A2 2019




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Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

Dewey Library - PQ2668.O77 S4813 2019




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Patron Services: History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust. Participatory Research Sprint.

Help us examine historic newspapers on microfilm in order to find out what Americans could have known about the Holocaust through reading their local newspapers.  Articles found during the sprint will be added to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded Project.

When: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 4-7 pm (drop-in hours)

Where: Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, James Madison Building, Room 133

Please RSVP through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/Nov2019Sprint

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Please contact Erin Sidwell with any questions about the sprint: esid@loc.gov

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov

 

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Patron Services: Conversations with African Poets and Writers, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah

The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: Law Library Classes – March 2020

The Law Library of Congress offers free webinars and in-person classes in Washington, D.C. The in-person classes are held in Madison Building, Room LM-201.

 “Orientation to Law Library Collections" (10am-11am) – Thursday March 5.  This session is designed for patrons who are familiar with legal research, and would instead prefer an introduction to the collections and services specific to the Law Library of Congress.

WEBINAR "Orientation to Legal Research (OLR): Statutes” (11am-12pm) – Thursday March 19. This entry in the OLR series provides an overview of U.S. statutory and legislative research, including information about how to find and use the U.S. Code, the U.S. Statutes at Large, and U.S. federal bills and resolutions.

"Orientation to Legal Research (OLR): Tracing Federal Regulations” (10am-11am) – Tuesday March 24. This entry in the OLR series provides an overview of U.S. federal regulations, including information about the notice and comment rulemaking process, the publication and citation of regulations, and the tracing of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, to the proposed rule in the Federal Register, to the regulation’s docket.

WEBINAR "Congress.gov"  (2pm-3pm) - Thursday March 26. This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the Congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will be highlighted.

To register, visit the Law Library’s “Webinars and In-Person Orientations” webpage, http://www.loc.gov/law/opportunities/seminar-orient.php .

For maps of the Madison and Jefferson Building see, https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/.

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov

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Patron Services: Women Photojournalists: an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Library staff will collaborate with the public at this event to expand and improve information in Wikipedia, the world’s most-used reference source. While we will initially focus on women whose work is represented in Library collections, this event is designed to improve articles about any women photojournalists. Anyone with an interest in learning to use Wikipedia, or in researching women in the arts, is encouraged to attend.

Date: Sat, March 21, 2020, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT

Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Building, Programs Lab, Room LJ-G25 & LJ-G27

Click here for more information and to register.

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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Meet Our Summer Fellows!

Every summer, we welcome doctoral students as they develop independent research projects on their journey from inquiry to insight. Meet this year’s fellows and find out more about our fellowship program.




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How Learning Collaboratives Can Help Address Today’s Pressing Policy Challenges

Researchers and policymakers across a number of fields have long understood the power of peer-to-peer learning.




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To Address the Social Determinants of Health, Start with the Data

Social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—have gained increasing interest among policymakers and practitioners as they struggle to improve the value and quality of U.S. health care.




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Siloed, Incomplete, and Neglected: The Trouble with State Administrative Data and What to Do About It

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Mathematica’s Beth Weigensberg talks about an article she co-authored describing findings from a 2013 needs assessment on the challenges state agencies faced in using their data to inform their programs.




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What’s in Our Water? New Research on Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water and Their Public Health Implications

In this episode of On the Evidence, Cindy Hu, a Mathematica data scientist, discusses the prevalence of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in our drinking water, as well as their health implications and ways to address them through public policy.




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The Power of a Data-Informed Partnership: Working with Community-Based Organizations to Address Social Determinants of Health

With their multi-faceted understanding of the communities in which they operate, community-based organizations bring a valuable lens that could help health systems learn how certain social services received in the community affect health, and how other factors may dampen an intervention’s effect.




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Children’s Health Influenced by Parents’ Work Schedules and Child Care Transitions

A strong economy requires a dynamic workforce that can adapt to the labor market’s demands. This often means workers will have schedules outside the traditional 9 to 5.




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Exclusionary Discipline Is “Free”: How Federal Policymakers Can Promote Positive Approaches to School Discipline

The topic of exclusionary discipline is not only of professional interest to me—it’s personal. Helping my son navigate the middle grades was taxing. He attended a school that suspended him for defending himself when a classmate broke his iPad and then punched him during recess to instigate a fight.




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What Doctors Need to Fulfill the Promise of Electronic Health Records

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.




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Partnering with States to Help Navigate Medicaid Solutions

Paul Messino offers insights on challenges states face as they implement health payment and delivery system reforms and the ways that Mathematica applies methods expertise, deep policy knowledge, and understanding of state contexts to help navigate to better outcomes.




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Going Back to School with Mathematica’s Former Teachers

Right now, more than 3.6 million public school teachers are preparing their classrooms, meeting with parents, reviewing lesson plans, and getting to know rooms full of students whose lives they will touch in countless ways.




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Supporting Learning in the Classroom: Back-to-School with REL Mid-Atlantic

Educators hold the keys to unlocking a brighter future for their students, whether engaging with parents, creating a supportive environment that values equity and inclusion, or improving instruction.




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How Can We Help Workers with Medical Conditions Stay Employed?

In this episode of On the Evidence, University of Rhode Island's Annette Bourbonniere, Webility Corporation's Jennifer Christian, and Mathematica's Yonatan Ben-Shalom discuss research on workers who miss work because of an injury or illness and how to help them remain in the labor force.