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The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow
By Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…
Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.Sun in winter: a Toronto wartime journal, 1942 to 1945
By Gunda Lambton. 2003
In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war.…
While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. While many people then were engaged in dramatic, heroic war work, her diary is a tribute to the quiet areas of endurance and pleasures of discovery that also distinguished those years. 2003.Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Greg Mortenson. 2009
Author of "Three Cups of Tea" and cofounder of the Central Asia Institute chronicles his school-building efforts and promotion of…
female literacy in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Discusses Mortenson's long-term goals and shares anecdotes about those impacted by his work. Bestseller. 2009.SEND: the essential guide to email for office and home
By David Shipley, Will Schwalbe. 2007
When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial - and…
most often overlooked - line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell? This guide shows how to write the perfect email, and also points out the numerous times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water (or even jail!). 2007.Ride the rising wind: one woman's journey across Canada
By Barbara Bradbury Kingscote. 2006
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for…
the Pacific Ocean on horseback. Barbara and her equine companion Zazy reached the West Coast just over a year later. After travelling 4,000 miles, she discovered both herself and her country on the journey of a lifetime. 2006.Rethinking normal: a memoir in transition
By Ariel Schrag, Katie Rain Hill. 2014
Katie never felt comfortable in her own skin. She realized very young that a serious mistake had been made; she…
was a girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be “normal,” Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally understood that “Katie” - the girl trapped within her - was determined to live. She reflects on her pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak. For senior high readers and older. 2014.Ma saison en enfer: 130 jours de captivité aux mains d'Al-Qaïda ((Dossiers et documents).)
By Robert R Fowler, Émile Martel, Nicole Perron-Martel. 2013
'' Le 14 décembre 2008, Robert Fowler, envoyé spécial du Secrétaire des Nations Unies au Niger, est enlevé par des…
membres d'Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique (AQMI). Un véritable cauchemar commence alors. Accompagné dans sa captivité par son collègue Louis Guay, Robert Fowler a vécu, dormi et mangé avec ses ravisseurs pendant plus de quatre mois, ce qui lui a permis d'acquérir une connaissance de première main du mouvement terroriste le plus craint à l'échelle mondiale. Pendant ces 130 jours infernaux, Robert Fowler a dû survivre aux conditions extrêmes caractéristiques du désert, entièrement à la merci du bon vouloir de ses ravisseurs à l'humeur changeante, en proie à la peur constante de mourir. Son enlèvement, sa libération et ses interventions dans les médias par la suite ont contribué à jeter un éclairage nouveau sur la confrontation entre les démocraties occidentales et le fondamentalisme islamiste violent. '' -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: A season in hell.I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
By Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.Boys: what it means to become a man
By Rachel Giese. 2018
What does it mean to be growing up male right now, when ideas about masculinity are in flux and power…
differences between the sexes are shifting? Award-winning Canadian journalist Rachel Giese connects with readers on both sides of the gender divide as she investigates how we can support boys to become their fullest and most honest selves. With empathy and insight, she tells stories of how boys from different races, classes and backgrounds are navigating the transition into manhood. Winner of the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2018.Common ground
By Justin Trudeau. 2014
Justin Trudeau's candid memoir reveals the experiences that shaped him over the course of his life and shows how his…
passion for Canada and its people took root. Covering the years from his childhood at 24 Sussex to his McGill days during the tumultuous time of the Charlottetown Accord to his first campaign in Papineau to his role as Liberal leader today, the book captures the foundational moments that have formed the man we have come to know and informed his vision for the future of Canada. c2014.A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home
By Alan Doyle. 2017
Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle describes leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. He turns his…
perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between, Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Bestseller. 2017.Under pressure: how the epidemic of hyper-parenting is endangering childhood
By Carl Honoré. 2008
When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces…
to create over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. Rather than micromanaging every moment of children's lives, Honoré describes an emerging new movement that tries to find the balance between too much and too little. c2008.Toutes celles que j'étais
By Abla Farhoud. 2015
" Abla a six ans lorsqu'elle quitte le Liban avec sa famille pour s'établir au Québec. Le français, la religion…
catholique, la neige ne lui font pas peur ; elle est farouchement déterminée à ne pas rester en marge. Mais c'est grâce au théâtre qu'elle arrive enfin à prendre racine. Jusqu'à ce que, quatorze ans après leur arrivée, son père décide qu'il est temps de repartir. Dans ce récit par petites touches, l'auteure plonge dans son passé pour aller à la rencontre de celles qu'elle fut. " -- 4e de couv.Mémoires d'un esclave (Mémoire des Amériques)
By Frederick Douglass, Normand Baillargeon, Chantal Santerre. 2006
"Être d'exception au parcours d'une adversité extrême, noir américain le plus célèbre de son temps, Frederick Douglass nous livre ses…
mémoires, un texte qui s'impose comme l'un des plus beaux hymnes à la liberté qui soit. Dans cet ouvrage écrit en 1845, et dont Lux Éditeur a offert la première traduction vers le français en 2005, Douglass fait le récit de la vie d'esclave qui fut la sienne, de sa naissance, en 1818, dans une plantation du Maryland, jusqu'à son évasion en 1838, qui lui permit de se réfugier dans le Nord des États-Unis. S'imposant par des qualités intellectuelles et morales hors du commun, il y devint rapidement une figure éminente et respectée du mouvement pour l'abolition de l'esclavage, auquel il consacra toutes ses énergies. Dans ses mémoires, Douglass y raconte sa vie d'esclave, son émancipation, physique et intellectuelle, mais aussi comment, ayant appris à lire, il s'engagea avec ces puissantes armes que sont la lecture et l'écriture sur la route de la liberté. [...]" -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an american slave, written by himself.Un rayon de lumière: l'histoire de Nick Traina, mon fils
By Danielle Steel. 1998
Témoignage émouvant de l'écrivaine Danielle Steel sur son fils Nick mort, mort à l'âge de 19 ans. Documentaire aussi sur…
cette maladie qu'est la "psychose maniaco-dépressive" dont a souffert Nick. Un mal qui va l'emporter.The staircase letters: an extraordinary friendship at the end of life
By Carol Shields, Arthur Motyer, Elma Gerwin. 2007
When Elma Gerwin found out in 2001 at the age of 61 that she had cancer, she reached out to…
two old friends: Arthur Motyer, novelist, teacher, and Elma's university professor forty years ago, and novelist Carol Shields, who was facing her own battle with cancer. Years later, Arthur is the only survivor, and contemplating how Elma's and Carol's correspondence affected him, he brought the letters together and interspersed them with literary references and poetry. 2007.The wild oats project: one woman's midlife quest for passion at any cost
By Robin Rinaldi. 2015
What if for just one year you explored everything you’d wondered about sex but hadn’t tried? The project was simple:…
a successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she’d been in love with for eighteen years. What followed—a year of sex, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation—is the topic of this provocative memoir. 2015.Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
By Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.Hands-on parenting: a resource guide for parents who are blind or partially sighted
By Debbie Bacon. 2006
Provides a wide range of practical information and resources for parents who are blind or partially sighted, including successful adaptations…
and strategies so that new parents don't have to re-invent the wheel. Developed by blind parent specialist Debbie Bacon, who is also a blind mother of three, from discussions with like parents from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include newborns, when your child is sick, feeding, toilet training, transportation, monitoring your child, child safety, toys and games, and working with professionals. c2006.Ox bells and fireflies: a memoir
By Ernest Buckler. 1968