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Missing men: a memoir
By Joyce Johnson. 2004
Author Johnson recounts three life-defining relationships with the men who mattered most to her. She begins with her grandfather, for…
whom she was named, but who committed suicide before she was born. Following a career as a child actress, complete with an overbearing stage mother who ruined her relationship with her father, she describes her two difficult marriages to painters. A self-portrait that examines - from a woman's perspective - the far-reaching reverberations of being fatherless. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game
By Michael Lewis. 2003
Author of "The New New Thing" describes how Billy Beane, general manager of baseball's Oakland Athletics, came in first place…
in the American League West in 2002. Examines Beane's use of computers, statistics, and scouting to achieve success despite a minor league budget. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003.Moments of reprieve
By Primo Levi. 1986
These stories recount the rare moments during Primo Levi's stark existence in Auschwitz when he came across an act of…
sheer beauty, an instant of light in the grey monotone, mostly when someone, even in these conditions of ultimate servitude, could and did behave with human decency: an old Jew retelling the stories of Lilith, a stolen radish to prove an honest man could steal, and a barracks chief who appreciated the meaning of Yom Kippur. 1986.Douces colères: journal
By Gil Courtemanche. 1989
Avec une verve piquante et souvent corrosive, l'auteur exprime ses opinions sur la société, sur la politique et les hommes…
politiques, sur le journalisme et les médias d'information, sur le syndicalisme, sur la langue, sur l'éducation, etc. Malgré certains jugements excessifs, cet ouvrage comporte beaucoup d'éléments intéressants qui plairont à certains et en irriteront d'autres, selon les idéologies personelles de chacun.La saga des casinos
By Pierre Delannoy, Michel Pichol. 1986
Voici pour la première fois raconté le roman vrai des casinos. Dans leurs salons, se croisent puissants et magnifiques, aventuriers…
et fripouilles, grands mondains et femmes fatales, gangsters, poètes et rois. Des fortunes s'y font, des réputations s'y défont, des vies s'abiment dans la ruine, la déchéance. 1986.L'art de la paix: enseignements du fondateur de l'aïkido
By Morihei Ueshiba. 2000
Ouvrage dans lequel John Stevens retranscrit les enseignements du fondateur de l’aïkido, Morihei Ueshiba. L’aïkido y est défini comme Art…
de la paix. Plutôt qu’un ouvrage technique, il s’agit d’un recueil des pensées du fondateur, qui permet de comprendre la pratique mentale et spirituelle de l’aïkido. 2000.Journaliste, essayiste, Jules Roy est à la fois cela et plus que tout cela : un homme au destin singulier…
et mêlé à l'histoire du siècle. Pied-noir, pétainiste en 1940, pilote dans la R.A.F. après 1942, cet officier d'active disciple de Camus rompt avec l'armée à cause de ce qu'il a vu en Indochine. La guerre d'Algérie achèvera la mutation et fera un anticolonialiste de cet enfant de la Mitidja. De Gaulle, Malraux, Mitterrand, Sartre, cent autres figures traversent ces passionnants Mémoires, salués comme un événement lors de leur parution. 1989.Memories of summer: when baseball was an art and writing about it a game
By Roger Kahn. 1997
A sportswriter's memoir of "the gilded era of baseball," the postwar years before million-dollar salaries, television networks, and player strikes.…
Recounts his experiences covering the Brooklyn Dodgers and offers observations on Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, and other stars. 1997.McCown's law: the 100 greatest hockey arguments
By David Naylor, Bob McCown. 2007
Sports talk-radio personality Bob McCown isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. His hockey opinions include: The Leafs haven't…
won the Stanley Cup in 40 years for a perfectly logical reason: they have the crappiest players; it's time the law put hockey's most violent offenders in something more restrictive than the penalty box; and Slovakia, not Canada, just may be the greatest hockey nation on Earth. 2007.Cher Fidel
By Marita Lorenz, Wilfred Huismann, Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Ole Hansen-Löve. 2001
Récit autobiographique de Marita Lorenz. Enrôlée par la CIA dans les années 1960, elle devra, entre autres missions, retourner à…
Cuba afin de tenter d'empoisonner le leader cubain Fidel Castro. 2001.L'empereur, c'est moi
By Hugo Horiot. 2013
" Ce livre est une histoire vraie. L'autoportrait d'un enfant qui mène une guerre sans merci contre lui-même et les…
autres. Un enfant autiste Asperger. Aujourd'hui, le petit guerrier est devenu un adulte serein qui a décidé de replonger en enfance. Il a quatre ans, huit ans, douze ans. Il se cogne à l'absurdité de la vie comme un papillon contre une lampe. C'est net, juste, parfois cruel. Les larmes sont silencieuses et la tendresse jaillit comme l'éclair. Un texte fascinant, dans la lignée des grands récits sur l'autisme. " -- 4e de couv.Locked rooms and open doors: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1974
Covers the years when Mrs. Lindbergh was copilot, navigator, photographer, log keeper, and radio operator for her famous husband on…
their legendary flights to Greenland, Ireland, Atlantic Island, and Africa. Sequel to "Hour of gold, hour of lead", followed by "The flower and the nettle" (DC16035). 1974.Lines on the water: a fisherman's life on the Miramichi
By David Adams Richards. 1998
Richards reflects on the art of fishing the Miramichi River, from landing his first trout to the endless search for…
the next great fishing pool. He writes about perseverance and respecting nature, and relates the lore, wisdom, humour, and passion of fishing. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1998.Lettres á un jeune poete
By Rainer Maria Rilke. 1937
Dix lettres adressées a un jeune homme que l'auteur ne connaissait pas et dans les quelles il revient inlassablement sur…
les questions essentielles qui se posent au poéte et au créateur. Ces lettres de Rilke sont à la fois un moyen d'acces priviligie à son univers et un manuel de la vie créatrice de portée universelle. 1984, c1937.Lettres à maman: par-delà l'enfer
By Ingrid Betancourt, Mélanie Delloye-Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Bettancourt. 2008
Level the playing field: the past, present, and future of women's pro sports
By Kristina Rutherford. 2016
Takes readers through the history of women's pro sports, exploring how far we have come in a relatively short time…
and exposing what ground is left to gain. The book provides first-person insight through interviews with professional female athletes, including Canadian hockey player Cassie Campbell, American MMA fighter Miesha Tate, and WNBA star Elena Delle Donne. Along the way, author and sports journalist Kristina Rutherford covers important topics like opportunity, female role models, and stereotypes. Grades 4-7. 2016.Letters from a lady rancher
By Monica Hopkins. 1981
Monica Hopkins arrived in Alberta in 1909 with little knowledge of the roughneck society of cowboy country. She wrote this…
series of essay-like monthly letters to her friends and relatives. c1981.Letters, 1928-1946: Letters, 1928-1946
By Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy. 2004
This correspondence takes the Baltic-born philosopher from his adopted homeland of England, where he wholeheartedly assimilated himself in the scholarly…
world, to diplomatic postings in wartime Washington, D.C., and Soviet Russia on the eve of the Cold War. He also reports from holidays and tours in Austria, Italy and Palestine during the mounting tensions in the 1930s, and converses with philosophers, Zionists, literary critics and his parents. 2004. Uniform title: Correspondence.Letters to a spiritual seeker
By Henry David Thoreau, Bradley P Dean, Harrison G Blake. 2004
Thoreau's writings on nature, liberty, justice, and solitude are infused with spirituality, as was his quest to live an honourable…
life. He addressed these matters in letters to Harrison Blake, an ex-Unitarian minister who initiated their 13-year correspondence in 1848. Thoreau, with his attentiveness to nature and deep study of both Eastern and Western religious traditions, mused on work, contemplation, and responsibility. 2004.Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
By Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson. 1981
Selection of the author’s letters written during the seventeen years chronicled in "Out of Africa". Reveals a woman who loved…
life and the beauty of Africa and had the strength to survive her harsh experiences there, including chronic disease, divorce, and the loss of her beloved farm. 1981. Uniform title: Breve fra Afrika.