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Journaux personnels et mémoires, Hockey, Affaires et économie, Sports (biographies)
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For the first time, the legendary Hall of Fame hockey player and six-time Stanley Cup champion tells the impressive story…
of his life and career, and shares the lessons he's learned about leadership. Mark Messier is one of the most accomplished athletes and dynamic leaders in the history of professional sports. He won the Stanley Cup five times with the Edmonton Oilers during their dynasty years, and once more with the New York Rangers, ending the team's fifty-four-year championship drought. He is second on the all-time career lists for playoff points, and third for regular season games played and for regular season points. Notably, he is the only player to have captained two different NHL franchises to championships. The amazing records are there for anyone to see, but few people know the real Mark Messier. This is his story. Messier reveals the astonishing journey he took to making NHL history, and the leadership philosophy he learned along the way. He recounts never-before-told tales from his childhood as the son of a hockey player, coach, and special education teacher; his years as a teammate and friend of Wayne Gretzky; and his evolution from a brash eighteen-year-old rookie to a distinctive captain and champion. Though bruising on the ice, he led teams with a deep understanding of what inspires and motivates people. He shares the advice he got from the inspirational leaders who had the greatest influence on him, and the lessons he gleaned from the pivotal successes—and sometimes failures—of his career. More than a book about hockey, No One Wins Alone demonstrates what it means to build a life, achieve dreams, and support the people around you. "My real wish," Messier says, "is to inspire people to reach their full potential."
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Crime véritable , Biographies, Affaires et économie, Loi et crime (biographies)
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Drawing from interviews she had with the imprisoned Wall Street financier, New York Times reporter Henriques explains how Bernie Madoff…
executed the decades-long Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of more than $65 billion until his 2008 arrest. Also provides details from various lawsuits and government investigations. 2011
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Crime véritable , Sociologie, Physique, Loi et crime (biographies), Sciences et technologies, Loi et justice , Sciences et médecine (biographies), Loi et crime
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Detailed account of college intern Thad Roberts's theft of moon rocks from NASA in 2002 and the FBI sting that…
snared him. Describes Roberts's sheltered upbringing, his estrangement from his parents, and his romance with a coworker that motivated the heist. Some strong language. 2011
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Aventure et exploration, Biographies, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Espionnage, Loi et crime (biographies), Famille et relations familiales , Politique et gouvernement (biographies)
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The author of See No Evil (DB 53770), the basis for the movie Syriana, and his wife Dayna share their…
anecdotes of working for the CIA. They describe their first meeting while on assignment in the Balkans and recount falling in love years later. Some strong language. 2011
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Crime véritable , Succès de librairie (documentaires), Espionnage, Loi et crime (biographies)
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Author of Wildflower (DB 70537) investigates the case of Christian Gerhartsreiter, who came to America from Germany in 1978 and…
adopted a series of blue-blood identities. Details Gerhartsreiter's schemes, including his last and biggest, when he posed as "Clark Rockefeller" and kidnapped his own daughter. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2011
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Biographies, Loi et crime, Histoire (biographies), Loi et crime (biographies)
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Chronicles the personal and professional life of Darrow (1857-1938), the Chicago railroad lawyer who at age thirty-six became a defender…
of progressive causes. Highlights Darrow's role as defense attorney in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 1924 Leopold and Loeb child-murder case, and the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Some strong language. 2011
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Biographies, Succès de librairie (documentaires), Loi et crime, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Loi et crime (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Politique et gouvernement, Coutumes et cultures
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Memoir of United States Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954). Recalls growing up with her Puerto Rican family in…
the Bronx and being diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Discusses her family life, education at Princeton and Yale, and becoming a district court judge in 1992. Bestseller. 2013
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Politique et gouvernement (biographies), Etats-Unis (histoire), Histoire (biographies), Politique et gouvernement, Loi et justice , Loi et crime (biographies)
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Biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the only son of Abraham Lincoln to reach adulthood. Discusses the political career of…
the Harvard-educated Chicago lawyer and businessman as a diplomat and U.S. secretary of war. Analyzes his relationship with his mother and covers the management of his father's legacy. 2012
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Politique et gouvernement, Loi et crime, Loi et justice , Loi et crime (biographies), Politique et gouvernement (biographies)
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Legal analyst and author of The Nine (DB 64971) assesses the ideological differences between Chief Justice John Roberts and President…
Barack Obama. Details the politics and procedural strategies behind court decisions--including the 2012 ruling that narrowly upheld the Affordable Care Act--and their implications. Some strong language. 2012
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Crime véritable , Loi et crime (biographies), Loi et crime, Etats-Unis (histoire)
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Award-winning reporters chronicle the South Boston crime boss's life, including his involvement in gang wars, bank robberies, and murders from…
the 1950s into the 1990s; secret work as an FBI informant; and sixteen-year flight from authorities. Details the investigation that led to Bulger's 2011 capture in California. Strong language. 2013
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Seconde Guerre mondiale, Loi et crime (biographies), Crime véritable
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The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery…
of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was-he didn't have a bank account, never paid tax, never received social security. He simply did not exist. He had been hard-wired into a life of shadows and secrecy by his own father long before he had inherited his art collection built on the spoliation of museums and Jews during Hitler's Third Reich. The ensuing media frenzy unleashed international calls for restitution, unsettled international relations, and rocked the art world. Susan Ronald reveals in this stranger-than-fiction-tale how Hildebrand Gurlitt succeeded in looting in the name of the Third Reich, duping the Monuments Men and the Nazis alike. As an "official dealer" for Hitler and Goebbels, Hildebrand Gurlitt became one of the Third Reich's most prolific art looters. Yet he stole from Hitler too, allegedly to save modern art. Hitler's Art Thief is the untold story of Hildebrand Gurlitt, who stole more than art-he stole lives, too
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Loi et crime (biographies), Sciences et médecine (biographies), Crime véritable
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography…
of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor
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Sports et jeux, Hockey, Histoire
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A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers.Canadian hockey is approaching a…
state of crisis. It's become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it's for so long been an integral part. These signs worried Sean Fitz-Gerald. As a lifelong hockey fan and father of a young mixed-race son falling headlong in love with the game, he wanted to get to the roots of these issues. His entry point: a season with the Peterborough Petes, a storied OHL team far from its former glory in a once-emblematic Canadian city that is finding itself on the wrong side of the country's changing demographics. Fitz-Gerald profiles the players, coaches and front office staff, a mix of world-class talents with NHL aspirations and Peterborough natives happy with more modest dreams. Through their experiences, their widely varied motivations and expectations, we get a rich, colourful understanding of who ends up playing hockey in Canada and why. Fitz-Gerald interweaves the action of the season with portraits of public figures who've shaped and been shaped by the game: authors who captured its spirit, politicians who exploited it, and broadcasters who try to embody and sell it. He finds his way into community meetings full of angry season ticket holders, as well as into sterile boardrooms full of the sport's institutional brain trust, unable to break away from the inertia of tradition and hopelessly at war with itself. Before the Lights Go Out is a moving, funny, yet unsettling picture of a sport at a crossroads. Fitz-Gerald's warm but rigorous journalistic approach reads, in the end, like a letter to a troubled friend: it's not too late to save hockey in this country, but who has the will to do it?
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Femmes (biographies), Loi et crime (biographies)
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Connais-tu Rosa Parks... - la courageuse femme noire qui a refusé de céder son siège à un homme blanc dans…
un bus en 1955? - celle qui est ainsi devenue un symbole légendaire de la lutte pour l'égalité des droits des Noirs aux États-Unis? - la militante qui s'est battue toute sa vie aux côtés de leaders comme Martin Luther King, contre le racisme et la discrimination envers les Noirs? - la première Afro-Américaine à avoir sa statue au Capitole, à Washington?
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Biographies, Crime véritable , Loi et crime (biographies), Policiers et militaires, Toxicomanies
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Former FBI agent recounts his career working on cases of kidnapped and murdered children. Discusses investigative techniques, the ways the…
FBI interacts with other agencies, and sensational crimes such as the 1999 Yosemite National Park murders. Relates the psychological effects on him, including suicide attempts, and his family. Violence. 2018
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Crime véritable , Loi et crime (biographies), Essais et documents généraux, Loi et justice , Biographies
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Prosecutor's account of the events surrounding the 2011 trial of a young former prostitute who attempted to have her husband…
killed. Describes how a Florida policeman posed as the hitman and how a television show filmed Dalia Dippolito's reaction to the fake murder scene. Some strong language. 2014
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Biographies, Histoire, Sociologie, Loi et crime (biographies), Guerre et militaire (biographies), Politique et gouvernement
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Warlord president of Liberia Charles Taylor once lived as a student in Boston and fathered a son. Raised in Florida,…
Chucky reunited with Charles in 1992, becoming head of a murderous militia unit. Dwyer recounts Chucky's time in Liberia and subsequent arrest upon returning to America. Violence and strong language. 2015
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Crime véritable , Biographies, Loi et crime (biographies), Loi et crime, Essais et documents généraux
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An intimate portrait of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria (1949-1993), written by his son, revealing the side that…
his father presented to his family, while exploring the violence that he engendered in his country and the world. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2014
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Loi et crime, Biographies, Succès de librairie (documentaires), Femmes (biographies), Loi et crime (biographies), Art de vivre, Politique et gouvernement, Loi et justice , Arts et divertissement, Sociologie
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Profile of the life of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) and popular culture representations of her. Discusses…
her early life growing up in Brooklyn, her legal and judicial career, family life, commitment to and fight for women's rights, and relationships with her fellow justices. Bestseller. 2015
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Biographies, Nourriture et boissons , Essais et documents généraux, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Loi et crime (biographies), Sociologie
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Memoir by Chinese-American restaurateur Huang. Relates growing up first in the Washington, D.C., area and later in Florida as the…
son of immigrants. Describes challenges he faced due to his heritage and ways he adapted to American culture. Inspiration for 2015 television show. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2013