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Avocate irrespectueuse
By Gisèle Halimi. 2002
Avocate tunisienne d'origine israélite, connue pour son engagement en faveur du FLN pendant la guerre d'Algérie et pour son féminisme,…
l'auteure raconte quelques-uns des procès auxquels elle a pris part et, à travers ces récits, l'ardente conception de la justice qui l'habite. 2002.Le roman du Mississippi
By Bernard Pierre. 1983
En suivant les 3,750 km du Mississippi, de sa source à la frontière canadienne jusqu'à son delta dans le golfe…
du Mexique, l'auteur fait vivre et parler le père des eaux comme un être humain. 1983.Le retour de Martin Guerre
By Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Vigne. 1982
L'aventure de Martin Guerre, qui quitta son village du Languedoc, jeune marie, pour réapparaitre une douzaine d'années âpres, alors qu'un…
autre avait pris son identité. Cette aventure donna lieu en 1560, à Toulouse, à un des procès les plus célèbres du 16e siècle. 1982.Derrière la grille: quand la vie gagne malgré tout
By Maude Julien, Ursula Gauthier. 2014
" Plus de cinquante ans après, Maude Julien se souvient encore du bruit du verrou, quand la grille s'est refermée…
sur elle. Son père venait d'acheter une bâtisse lugubre, flanquée d'un parc, dans la région de Saint-Omer. Maude, alors âgée de trois ans, y vivra cloôtrée, sans jamais aller à l'école, sans jamais avoir d'amis. Enfermée mentalement aussi, car le patriarche veut faire de sa fille une supra-humaine. Elle doit apprendre à surmonter la peur, les privations, la douleur, la solitude pour être capable de réaliser la mission à laquelle il la destine. Longtemps plus tard, elle comprendra que son père, haut dignitaire d'une obédience maçonnique ésotérique, avait échafaudé un projet vertigineux dans lequel elle tenait le rôle central. Comment se défaire d'une emprise aussi extrême ? Où trouver la force d'échapper à un tel embrigadement ? À dix-huit ans, Maude a réussi à quitter la prison de son enfance. Puis, au terme d'un long travail, à conquérir sa liberté. " -- 4e de couv.Le Grand roman de Jules Verne, sa vie
By Gilbert Prouteau. 1978
Voici le roman d'un jeune homme qui porte en lui un amour malheureux et le désir immodéré d'un théâtre dont…
Alexandre Dumas lui ouvre les portes. Ce jeune homme, Jules Verne, accomplit ses rêves dans un 19e siècle secoué de problèmes sociaux et donne un siècle d'avance aux découvertes de son temps. 1978.L'axe du loup: de la Sibérie à l'Inde, sur les pas des évadés du goulag
By Sylvain Tesson. 2004
Il y a cinquante ans, quelques hommes innocents, condamnés à une vie de détention, ont refusé le destin d'esclaves que…
leur promettait Staline et se sont évadés. Ils préféraient les dangers de la traque à l'indignité du servage. Pour recouvrer la liberté, ils n'avaient d'autre choix que de faire route vers le sud. Sans vivres, sans cartes, sans assistance, ils devaient franchir à pied les taïgas, les steppes mongoles, le désert de Gobi, le Tibet, l'Himalaya, les jungles du Bengale. 6000 kilomètres d'étendues hostiles. Le plus sublime itinéraire qui puisse se concevoir pour un géographe, le plus cauchemardesque qui puisse se présenter devant les pas d'un voyageur. Mais tous avançaient, aimantés par le plus beau des motifs de voyage: la reconquête de la liberté. 2004.Le corps d'Agnès Le Roux: récit
By Patrick Besson. 2008
Née en 1948, Agnès Le Roux aurait aujourd'hui soixante ans. Ou faut-il dire a ? Elle a disparu : meurtre…
ou exil volontaire loin, très loin de la promenade des Anglais ? L'une des plus fameuses énigmes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle met en scène Mme Le Roux mère, Renée, copropriétaire du Palais de la Méditerranée, le célèbre casino niçois sur lequel Jean-Dominique Fratoni entend mettre la main. L'amant d'Agnès, Maurice Agnelet, va favoriser l'opération en aidant la fille à voter contre sa mère au conseil d'administration, renversant la majorité et chassant Renée Le Roux de son poste de P-DG. Le récit est l'évocation, par un romancier, d'un fait divers mêlant des éléments amplement divulgués par les médias à des aperçus et interprétations propres à l'auteur. 2008.Lazarus and the Hurricane: the untold story of the freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
By Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton. 1991
Lesra Martin was a Brooklyn youth adopted by a group of Canadians, including the authors of this book. Through Lesra,…
the group became involved in the legal battle to free former boxing contender Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Strong language. 1991.Last chance to see
By Douglas Adams. 1990
Popular science fiction humourist Douglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to seek out some of the world's rarest…
and most endangered animals. Part travelogue, part natural history, they relate their unusual and hilarious adventures. 1990.Last man out: the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Melissa Fay Greene. 2003
One October evening in 1958, 174 miners did not come out when the deepest coal mine in North America "bumped".…
For days, rescue workers brought out dead miners while families waited above-ground for their loved ones to appear. Rescuers then miraculously stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave containing survivors. 2003.Breakfast with the devil: the story of a professional jail breaker
By L. Wayne Carlson. 2001
In 1960, 18-year-old Wayne Carlson began his eventual three-decade stay in prisons across Canada and the U.S., managing to escape…
a record 13 times. Since his release he has become a respected activist for prison reform. These memoirs of the man known as "Houdini" are both a wild ride with an outlaw, and a firsthand look at life behind bars in North America. Frequent strong language and violence. 2001.Just another Indian: a serial killer and Canada's indifference
By Warren Goulding. 2001
John Martin Crawford was convicted for brutally murdering three Native Canadian women and is a suspect in the killing of…
at least one other. Crawford has staked his claim as one of the nation's most prolific sex killers, despite the fact that his deeds are virtually forgotten. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.Farthest north: The Quest For The North Pole
By Clive Holland. 1994
The story of man's attempt to reach the North Pole is told using excerpts from sailors' journals, ships' log and…
other primary sources combined with the author's narrative. The adventurers' successes, failures, and the challenges they faced are recounted in these testimonies which cover over 400 years worth of adventure. 1994.Jungle islands: my South Sea adventure (Adventure Travel Books)
By Maria Coffey, Debora Pearson. 2000
Join Maria on her kayaking trip though the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. She paddles to remote villages…
which haven't seem outsiders in years, visits the Skull Island burial ground, confronts a ferocious crocodile, sleeps in a leaf hut, and explores the jungle. Learn what it's like to visit a coral reef 'garden', where the bathrooms are in the jungle, and what kids love about life in the Solomons. Grades 3-6. 2000.Killing Pablo: the hunt for the world's greatest outlaw
By Mark Bowden. 2001
The author of "Black Hawk down" chronicles the crimes of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, his Medellín cocaine cartel, and…
his influence on his country. Describes Escobar's imprisonment, escape, enemies, and the American involvement with death squads that sought revenge. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Justice, not vengeance
By Simon Wiesenthal, Ewald Osers. 1989
A former prisoner in the Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal has spent years searching out and exposing those responsible for the…
murders of millions. He describes the discovery, capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as the search for Dr. Josef Mengele. 1989. Uniform title: Recht, nicht Rache.Journeys of the great explorers: Columbus to Cook (The modern scholar)
By Glyndwr Williams. 2004
In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world…
history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century. 2004.Judging Bertha Wilson: law as large as life (Osgoode Society For Canadian Legal History Ser.)
By Ellen Anderson. 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an influential and controversial figure…
in Canadian legal and political history. Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well-known. Lesser known are her early days in Scotland and her work as a minister's wife, or her post-judicial work on gender equality for the Canadian Bar Association and her contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. 2002.Gentle Johnny Ramensky: the extraordinary true story of the safe blower who became a war hero
By Robert Jeffrey. 2010
“Gentle Johnny Ramensky” is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one…
of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. But he served his country with exceptional bravery and skill in the Second World War. Back in civvy street he could not resist a return to the excitement of roaming darkened rooftops and breaking open the toughest of safes. 2010.Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska
By Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.