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Peanuts: a golden celebration : the art and the story of the world's best-loved comic strip
By Charles M Schulz, David Larkin. 1999
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip, Schulz offers an autobiographical sketch and tells how his…
own life experiences and those of people around him provided inspiration for the daily strips. Contains text of more than one thousand Peanuts cartoons. Bestseller. 1999.Parce que parfois, la pluie doit tomber (Biographie (Éditions Québec Amérique))
By Chantal Lanthier. 2017
Le ciel est clair et lumineux : Chantal est l'une des premières agentes de correction au Service correctionnel du Canada.…
Elle se hisse rapidement au sommet, jusqu'à devenir directrice d'un pénitencier. De gros nuages menacent toutefois son ciel bleu. À 46 ans, elle apprend de son neurologue qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie neurodégénérative, incurable et mortelle : la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. Le tonnerre gronde : il ne lui reste que deux à cinq ans à vivre. Nous sommes en janvier 2013. Comment parvient-on à demeurer positif alors que l'orage éclate et que la tempête s'abat sur nous? Face à une telle annonce, comment préserver sa sérénité? Quel sens donner à sa vie quand notre corps s'érige en barrière devant nos rêves, nos projets et nos amours? C'est dans les gouttes de pluie que Chantal nous fait découvrir l'espoir. 2017.Paul McCartney: the life
By Philip Norman. 2016
An official biography approved by the former Beatle covers the whole span of his life, from losing his mother in…
childhood to his often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after The Beatles' breakup, his time with Wings, and the death of his wife, Linda. Bestseller. 2016.Paris to the moon
By Adam Gopnik. 2000
In 1995 an American writer moved with his wife and young son to Paris, fulfilling a childhood dream. He recorded…
his expatriate family experience and views on French culture and society during their five-year stay. Bestseller. 2000.Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
By Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersAt the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong's world came crashing down - a story she wrote on…
a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. When her newspaper failed to stand by her, she spiraled into clinical depression and found herself unable to write. The paper's management thought she was feigning illness and fired her, her insurer rejected her claim of depression, and her publisher refused to publish this book. Includes strong language. c2012.Papal sin: structures of deceit
By Garry Wills. 2000
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author--for "Lincoln at Gettysburg"--and practicing Catholic indicts the Church's hierarchy for the papal sin of deception. Calls…
for internal reform regarding teachings on birth control and abortion, priests' celibacy, and the ordainment of women. Challenges the Vatican's attitude towards the Holocaust. Bestseller. 2000.Our turn
By Kirstine Stewart. 2015
Kirstine Stewart got her first job when she applied for a position as a "girl Friday" at a film distribution…
house. Having worked her way up from the bottom--under women and men, leaders good and bad--she believes it's time we leaped past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way. The digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the work force with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created a new reality that demands a new style of leader with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners. The opportunity is there. The question Stewart tackles is, how do we seize it? Bestseller. 2015.Pain: the gift nobody wants
By Philip Yancey, Paul W Brand. 1993
In a work that is part biography and part medical history, the author recalls how his work treating leprosy in…
India forced him to confront his own notion of pain. 1993.Edmond L. Landry-- et la vie continue
By Edmond-L Landry. 2008
Dans la Péninsule acadienne, l’hiver de 1927 ne mourut qu’en juin. C’est ce que me racontèrent mes parents en parlant…
de cet hiver qui sembla s’éterniser. Pour ma mère, Elisabeth, née Mallet de Shippagan, cette saison prolongée et froide avait été encore plus difficile puisqu’elle portait un enfant qui devait naître en juin. La sage-femme avait été prévenue que j’arrivais. Et je suis arrivé. Précisément un vendredi 13, ce qui, selon la croyance populaire, n’était pas de bon augure. Pourtant, la chance m’a souri tout au long de ma vie. 2008.Les grands z'inventeurs (Ma petite vache a mal aux pattes ; #112)
By Alain Raimbault. 2012
Amusant recueil de poésie imaginé autour des grandes figures de l'Histoire des inventions. Une trentaine de savants passent ainsi dans…
le collimateur humoristique de l'auteur qui raconte, brièvement et en quelques lignes rimées, leur vie, leurs passions et leurs créations. Le tout est illustré de joyeux portraits réalistes réalisés à la plume. Années 1-3. 2012.Marie Curie (Connais-tu? ; #10)
By Johanne Ménard. 2012
Connais-tu Marie Curie? Cette célèbre scientifique qui a remporté deux prix Nobel, l'un en physique et l'autre en chimie; celle…
qui a consacré sa vie à faire avancer la recherche sur la radioactivité; cette grande dame pour qui faire progresser l'humanité était plus important que la célébrité et la richesse; la première femme à avoir enseigné à la Sorbonne, prestigieuse université de Paris. Années 3-6. 2012.Johan Beetz, le petit grand Européen: Le Petit Grand Européen (Les grandes figures. 42)
By Sylviane Soulaine. 2004
Aristocrate d'origine belge, Johan Beetz est un des piliers de la Côte-Nord. Non seulement il a réussi à briser le…
monopole de la Compagnie de la baie d'Hudson, mais il s'est révélé aussi un scientifique de grande réputation : ornithologue estimé, il a en outre mis sur pied un programme unique d'élevage des renards. En témoignage de reconnaissance pour les avoir préservés du fléau de la grippe espagnole, les citoyens ont décidé de rebaptiser leur village du nom de " Baie-Johan-Beetz ". Tout un honneur! 2004.Berceuse pour mon fils: récit
By Lise Dolbec, Melvin B Wise. 1988
Orr: my story
By Bobby Orr. 2013
Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. No defenseman had ever…
played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bestseller. 2013.Fernand Seguin: le savant imaginaire
By Jean Marc Carpentier, Danielle Ouellet. 1994
Une reconstitution fidèle de l'impressionnante carrière et du cheminement personnel de cet humaniste et communicateur scientifique au Québec à qui…
l'on a décerné, en 1977, la plus haute distinction internationale dans le domaine de la vulgarisation scientifique. Pendant plus de quarante ans, il aura initié tous les publics à la joie de connaître. Véritable homme-orchestre: il était à la fois un chercheur passionné, un humoriste incomparable, un animateur talentueux et un producteur. 1994.Opium eater: the new confessions
By Carlyn Zwarenstein. 2016
North Americans are the world's most compulsive and prolific users of legal opioids. Carlyn Zwarenstein, diagnosed with an inflammatory spine…
disease as a young mother, eventually turned to them to manage her pain. In this update of De Quincey’s "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", she recounts her search for relief and release - with its euphoric ups, hallucinatory lows and desperate pharmacy visits. Along the way she traces the long tradition of opium’s influence on culture and imagination, from De Quincey to Frida Kahlo. Part love letter to Romanticism, part critique of modern medicine, Zwarenstein’s memoir offers a distinctly different riff on pain, creativity and mind-altering drugs. 2016.Only the eyes say yes: a love story
By Philippe Vigand, Stéphane Vigand. 1999
Chronicles the struggles of a young French couple after Philippe develops a condition known as locked-in syndrome as a result…
of a ruptured brain artery. Describes their rehabilitation efforts, including the use of a blinking alphabet and a computer. Stéphane reflects on her decision to remain married and on the birth of their child. 1999. Uniform title: Putain de silence.Open heart, open mind
By Clara Hughes. 2015
From one of Canada’s most decorated Olympians comes a raw but life-affirming story of one woman’s struggle with mental illness.…
After more than a decade in the gruelling world of professional sports that stripped away her confidence and bruised her body, Clara Hughes began to realize that her physical extremes, her emotional setbacks, and her partying habits were masking a severe depression. After winning bronze in the last speed skating race of her career, she decided to retire from that sport, determined to repair herself. She has emerged as one of our most committed humanitarians, advocating for a variety of social causes in Canada and around the world. Bestseller. 2015.One soldier's story: a memoir
By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.