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Journalist examines the life of Sally Ride (1951-2012), the first American woman astronaut to go to space. Details Ride's childhood…
and early life in California, her selection as an astronaut, and post-mission endeavors to encourage girls' interest in science fields. Discusses Ride's private life and relationships. 2014
Award-winning journalist examines the twenty-first-century social landscape of America, reflects on its past, and ponders its future. Provides profiles of…
Americans he calls "unconventional thinkers and doers," including the wife of a seriously wounded soldier, an inner-city school principal, a major league baseball pitcher, and others. Bestseller. 2011
Autobiography of sailor and sports journalist Jobson relates his promotion of yacht racing, particularly the America's Cup. Discusses his childhood…
love of the water, his time at SUNY Maritime College, and the innovations he introduced to the sport. Describes his 2003 diagnosis of lymphoma and subsequent treatments and remission. 2011
Chronicles the discovery of gold in 1890s Alaska and the Canadian Klondike through the lives of three of the participants:…
cowboy-turned-Pinkerton-detective Charlie Siringo; George Carmack, who lived with a local tribe and became rich from mining; and con man Jefferson "Soapy" Smith. 2011
Twenty essays by popular authors on the reasons behind their pursuit of writing. Sue Grafton, author of A is for…
Alibi (DB 35069), ruminates on the source of "writer's block" and David Baldacci discusses his compulsion for writing. Also includes Isabel Allende, Jodi Picoult, and others. 2013
Author of Madness, Betrayal, and the Lash (DB 72284) and Scurvy (DB 59013) profiles the life of Norwegian adventurer Roald…
Amundsen (1872-1928). Examines Amundsen's explorations and navigation of the Northwest and Northeast Passages and details his trips to the North and South Poles. 2012
À un Québec qui change, voici un récit d'histoire au scénario changé. Qui pense la condition québécoise en la sortant…
de sa mémoire tragique et de sa culture de la séparation. Qui met l'emphase sur les adaptations et actualisations d'une société plutôt que sur ses détournements et empêchements. Qui voit les oscillations québécoises non pas à l'origine d'une succession d'inhibitions nationales, mais comme un mode d'évolution par lequel une collectivité n'a cessé de passer à l'avenir. On lira cet ouvrage comme une tentative de cadrer le parcours historique du Québec en dehors des mythistoires et du schéma narratif qui accueillent et charpentent habituellement son déroulement. On le considérera aussi comme un essai visant à poser les bases d'une nouvelle référence historiale, si ce n'est mémorielle, pour les Québécois d'aujourd'hui, vecteurs de leur revitalisation identitaire en cours
Selections from Benjamin Franklin's almanacs, which were published for a quarter-century beginning in 1732 and included agricultural predictions, meteorological data,…
and maxims. This edition focuses on observations and aphorisms such as "eat to live, not live to eat." Introduction by humorist Dave Barry. 2000
Author of The Wild Places (DB 69068) examines the sport of mountain climbing from its earliest days in the late…
1700s to the early 2000s. Discusses the dangerous draw for explorers like George Mallory, whose attempt to summit Everest led to his death in 1924. Includes Macfarlane's personal experiences. 2003
Une réflexion vivante sur le roman québécois d'hier et d'aujourd'hui qui étonne par l'éventail des auteurs et des oeuvres convoqués.…
Une correspondance aussi sérieuse qu'amicale entre deux enseignants, critiques et penseurs québécois issus de générations distinctes. Une nouvelle vision de l'évolution du roman québécois à travers le prisme de l'ironie
Le collectif "L'état nomade" rassemble les textes de 16 autrices et auteurs, dont les réflexions portent sur ce moment indescriptible…
qui s'ouvre au moment où surgit l'inconnu. Si les participant·e·s s'intéressent surtout aux liens qui unissent voyage et création (écriture, mais également fabrication du pain, œuvres picturales, matériel pédagogique, musique, danse, etc.), ils n'en permettent pas moins une réflexion sur tous ces moments du quotidien où, l'espace dun instant, l'univers des possibles est ébranlé. Cet état de suspension, cet "état nomade", nous le connaissons tous, et c'est une des grandes qualités de ce livre que de nous aider à l'apprécier, le nommer, voire le rechercher. Sur les routes de l'Asie et d'Amérique, dans l'arrière-pays français ou l'Inde contemporaine, les voyageurs de "L'état nomade" nous entraînent dans le sillon avec intelligence et générosité, sous la direction d'Isabelle Miron
Onze écrivain.es nous convient sur les terres qu’ielles ont choisi de fouler à cœur nu. Onze lettres pour défier la…
distance inhérente à l’exil, pour sentir la présence, bien que muette, de l’autre à qui l’on adresse un dernier mot d’amour, une déclaration d’ennui ou la promesse d’un retour au pays. Onze lettres pour habiter son territoire. Y cohabitent les thèmes de l’exil, de la rupture amoureuse, de la colonisation du corps, du sentiment d’étrangeté au monde, de la maternité, de la mort.
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media.…
Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship
A collection of previously published essays covering a wide variety of topics. Discusses Vladimir Nabokov, the Republican party, Iris Murdoch,…
the Windsor family, journalism, the porn industry, A Clockwork Orange (DB 15213), terrorism, Philip Roth, Christopher Hitchens, and more. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over…
the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publication where authors have been made, and where readers first encountered the classics that have enriched their lives. Now the editors have curated the Book Review &’s dynamic 125-year history, which is essentially the story of modern American letters. Brimming with remarkable reportage, this book collects interesting reviews, never-before-heard anecdotes about famous writers, and spicy letter exchanges. Here are the first takes on novels we now consider masterpieces, including a long-forgotten pan of Anne of Green Gables and a rave of Mrs. Dalloway , along with reviews and essays by Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, Nora Ephron, and more. Listeners will discover how literary tastes have shifted through the years—and how the Book Review &’s coverage has shaped so much of what we read today
Woman chronicles a three-week trip through Europe and Turkey with a man she had met on a dating site only…
a few weeks earlier. They traveled with no luggage and no set agenda or reservations. Discusses their adventures, the philosophy of minimalism, and the development of their relationship. 2016
Author of 33 Men (DB 73380) recounts the journey of Salvador Alvarenga and Ezequiel Córdoba, lost at sea off the…
coast of Mexico during a storm in 2012. Describes conditions aboard their small fishing vessel, shark attacks, Córdoba's death, and Alvarenga's eventual return to land in 2014. Strong language. 2015
Essays about life in the American South by the author of popular memoirs like All Over but the Shoutin' (DB…
46142). The seventy-two essays, many of which originally appeared in Southern Living magazine, are broken down into categories of "Home," "Table," "Place," "Craft," and "Spirit."2015
Examination of those who choose a career in the field of archaeology--the study of the material remains of culture. Discusses…
the ways in which people are drawn into the field--such as a love of Indiana Jones--challenges archaeologists face in the twenty-first century, and day-to-day lives of practitioners. 2014
Rankine contemplates the state of racial identity and racism as it affects citizenship in America in the twentieth and twenty-first…
centuries. Explores the author's personal experiences as well as those witnessed in greater society. Some violence and some strong language. 2014