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By Andrew Morton. 2018
Meghan Markle is far more than just the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. Her parents divorced when she…
was six, she attended a posh Catholic school but felt like an outcast because of her biracial heritage, she struggled in Hollywood, and more. Now she is a UN ambassador and is invested in humanitarian causes. Bestseller. 2018.By Anthony Bourdain. 2010
Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood,…
Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Bestseller. 2010.By Raymond A Moody, Alessia Weil. 2016
Selon Raymond Moody, la civilisation occidentale est entrée dans une ère du non-sens, nous contraignant à adhérer à des idées…
et à des événements qui sont aussi Inintelligibles que dénués de sens... La notion de vie après la mort est-elle intelligible ? Quelle est la probabilité que l'esprit survive au corps physique ? Comme vous le découvrirez dans ce livre fascinant, la question de l'après-vie ne cesse de stimuler les enquêtes et les débats rationnels, mais comme s'attache à le démontrer l'auteur, le vrai non-sens consisterait à penser que la vie après la vie n'existe pas. 2016. Titre uniforme: Unintelligible afterlife.By Jean-Jacques Charbonier. 2016
Dans cet ouvrage, le Dr Jean-Jacques Charbonier s'adresse aux enfants de tous âges pour leur expliquer la mort, la vie…
et la vision qu'il en a. Son propos vise également à aider les adultes à parler de la mort aux enfants, mais aussi à leur proposer une façon de comprendre ce qu'est la mort et à envisager la vie - leur vie différemment. Années 3-6 et plus. 2016.By John Grogan. 2005
A columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer reminisces about the untrainable Labrador retriever that he and his wife acquired as Florida…
newlyweds. Recalls Marley's hilarious escapades and his capacity for love as the Grogans become the parents of three kids. Bestseller. 2005.The author of "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" offers suggestions on opening one's self to love after…
the death of a mate or after a divorce. Describes the healing process common to both men and women. Explains the differences in the ways males and females resolve loss. c1998.By David Fisher, Dan Abrams. 2018
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois.…
Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office. Bestseller. 2018.By Conor Grennan. 2011
In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey…
that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil war--for a huge fee--by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with their families, but this would be no small task. He would risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu, and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and share his life's work. Little Princes is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. Bestseller. 2011.By A. Scott Berg. 1998
The authorized biography of the pilot who became a symbol of the aviation age. Describes Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight as…
the defining moment of his life. Discusses his role in the development of aviation for use in war and peacetime. Explores facets of Lindbergh's public and private images. Pulitzer Prize winner. c1998.By Nicholas Jennings. 2017
Takes us deep inside Gordon Lightfoot’s world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips…
into Canada’s North to his heady times atop the music world. Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal life - including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiences - and the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all. Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfoot’s family and the singer’s own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known love songs, including “Beautiful” and “Song for a Winter’s Night,” as well as the infidelity and divorce that resulted in classics like “Sundown” and “If You Could Read My Mind.” Bestseller. 2017.By James Maskalyk. 2017
Humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of "Six Months in Sudan", draws upon his experience treating patients in the…
world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 2017.By James Fox, Keith Richards. 2010
Autobiography of the Rolling Stones guitarist (b. 1943). Recounts his wartime London childhood, his education, and the beginnings of the…
group in 1962. Discusses bandmates including Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, and Brian Jones as well as his lover Anita Pallenberg and wife Patti Hansen. Bestseller. 2010.By Paul Okalik, Louis McComber. 2018
Paul Okalik was raised in a community that has survived starvation, epidemics, eradication of their spiritual heritage, relocation, schooling in…
a foreign language and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. He made the decision to improve the living conditions of his fellow Inuit. After ten years in Ottawa universities, he was called to the Northwest Territories Bar and then was elected the first Premier of Nunavut, the new Canadian territory, all in the year 1999. The new government was challenged on all fronts. Education and training was crucial if Inuit wanted to play a determining role in decision-making. While Paul Okalik was premier, Nunavut developed a civil service decentralized over ten distant communities, built much-needed infrastructures and provided more affordable housing. 2018.By David T Suzuki. 2015
In these inspiring letters to his grandchildren, Mr. Suzuki challenges them to speak out and act on their beliefs, explains…
why sports are important, decries the lack of elders and grandparents in the lives of many people (especially immigrants), and champions the importance of heroes. Bestseller. 2015.By G. Kingsley Ward. 1989
Ward's letters to his daughter provide straightforward advice on such topics as the importance of setting goals, delegating responsibility, balancing…
work and family, and how, as a woman, to ensure equal treatment in the workplace. Companion volume to "Letters of a businessman to his son". Bestseller . 1989.By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 1991
Pastor uses scripture and anecdotes from his own ministry to answer questions about Jesus’s life and message. Discusses heaven and…
hell and argues that the Bible promotes love and forgiveness, not hatred. Rejects the idea that all non-Christians go to hell. Bestseller. 2011.By Padma Lakshmi. 2016
Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how people eat is an extension of…
how they love, how they comfort, how they forge a sense of home, and how they taste the world as they navigate their way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favourite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother's kitchen in South India. This is the extraordinary account of her journey from that humble kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. Bestseller. 2016.By Elaine Storkey. 1989
By Marc Gellman, Thomas Hartman. 1999