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Moondust: in search of the men who fell to Earth
By Andrew Smith. 2005
Smith set out to find and interview the remaining nine astronauts who have walked on the moon, in order to…
learn how their lives, and ours, were changed forever by this surreal adventure. Some strong language. 2005.Mother warriors: a nation of parents healing autism against all odds
By Jenny McCarthy. 2008
When Jenny McCarthy published her story of her successful efforts to save her son from autism, though the reaction was…
tremendous, she hadn't anticipated the overwhelming response from other parents of autistic children who wanted to share their own stories. Here Jenny expands her message to share these stories, showing how each parent fought to find her own child's perfect "remedy of interventions." Along the way, Jenny shares her own journey as an autism advocate and mother, as well as the continuing progress of her son, Evan. 2008.Morgentaler: a difficult hero : a biography
By Catherine Dunphy. 1996
Well-known as one of Canada's most controversial figures, Henry Morgentaler is portrayed as a man of many contradictions. This biography…
of Morgentaler is based on interviews with colleagues, friends, family, and Morgentaler himself, and covers his youth and experiences during the Holocaust, as well as his career in Canada and his legal struggles. 1996.Mountains beyond mountains: The Quest Of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World
By Tracy Kidder. 2003
Cultural biography of Paul Farmer, physician, Harvard professor, anthropologist, and infectious disease specialist with a mission to improve medical conditions…
in remote locations. Recounts his founding of Partners in Health, recognition for creating a public health system in disease-ridden settlements of Haiti, and travels among unserved peoples in Latin America and Russia. 2003.Le génie dédaigné: Einstein et la Suisse
By Alexis Schwarzenbach, Etienne Barilier. 2005
Charles Martel
By Jean Deviosse. 2006
Henri IV: un roi français
By Max Gallo. 2016
Il est le roi de France et de Navarre qui a voulu dépasser les clivages et faire vivre ensemble catholiques…
et protestants. Et il en est mort. Le vendredi 14 mai 1610, Jean-François Ravaillac, catholique exalté originaire d'Angoulême, poignarde le souverain dans son carrosse, rue de la Ferronnerie. Il voulait en finir avec cet hérétique paillard, parjure et renégat dont la conversion n'était que façade. Dans un texte haletant, Max Gallo dresse le portrait d'Henri IV, ce Béarnais vigoureux, grand amateur de chasse, imbattable au jeu de paume, fou de femmes, et qui n'aura de cesse de consolider l'État, d'administrer une saine justice et d'éviter que la France sombre dans la guerre civile. Pour les ligues catholiques, Henri IV sera, jusqu'au bout, un voleur d'âmes . Mais l'Histoire retiendra de ce grand roi qu'il était celui de tous les Français, apôtre infatigable de la tolérance et de la concorde. 2016.Mary Stuart: la reine aux trois couronnes
By Luc Mary. 2009
Metamorphosis: stages in a life
By David T Suzuki. 1987
Biography of the host of CBC's television program, "The Nature of Things". He tells of his childhood on the West…
Coast, especially his detention during World War II in a concentration camp for Japanese-Canadians. He also describes people and events that have changed his life. 1987.Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia
By Gerda Saunders. 2017
Based on the "field notes" the author keeps in her journal, this is a window into a life distorted by…
dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 2017.Meet Chris Hadfield (Scholastic Canada biography)
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space - and make a music video while in orbit!…
When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better! Includes a timeline. Grades 2-4. 2018.Medicine, madams and mounties: stories of a Yukon doctor
By Allan Duncan. 1989
McCurdy and the Silver Dart
By Les Harding. 1998
J.A.D. McCurdy became one of Canada's aviation pioneers for his design of a biplane called the Silver Dart. This book…
recounts his experiments with kites and planes and his 1909 landmark flight above the ice of the Bras d'Or. Although it crashed six months later, the Silver Dart's engine rests in the National Aviation Museum today, a reminder of the first person to fly out of sight of land. Grades 4-7. 1998.Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
By Anne Edwards. 1984
Mauve: how one man invented a color that changed the world
By Simon Garfield. 2001
Biography of William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), the British chemist who discovered the artificial dye mauve. Explains how Perkin at age…
eighteen produced the first aniline dye derived from coal. Discusses his subsequent fame and his importance as an inspiration for chemical advances in medicine, perfumery, food, explosives, and photography. 2001.Mary, Queen of Scots
By Antonia Fraser. 1969
Dame mature: réflexion comico-dramatique d'une périménopausée velue et moite
By Guylaine Guay. 2018
Dans ce récit personnel où se côtoient de savoureuses histoires et une chronologie hormonale du parcours féminin, Guylaine Guay aborde…
un sujet plutôt tabou ou, encore, tourné en dérision : la ménopause ! Quand on naît femme, les étapes de la vie hormonale sont nombreuses : la puberté, la période reproductive, la préménopause et celle dans laquelle l'auteure baigne présentement, la périménopause ou, dans ses mots, l'apocalypse hormonale ! Dame mature est une réflexion tantôt drôle, tantôt profonde, mais toujours tendre, sur ce moment charnière qui apporte son lot de changements physiques, émotifs et climatiques. Ce récit, bien qu'enveloppé d'une bonne couche d'humour, est empreint d'amour et d'anecdotes à la Guylou ! 2018.Découvrir un sens à sa vie avec la logothérapie
By Viktor E Frankl, G Bacon Clifford, Louise Drolet. 2006
Le besoin psychologique le plus profond est de donner un sens à sa vie. Viktor Frankl a mis sa découverte…
à l'épreuve durant ses 3 ans en camp de concentration et l'a confirmé par 60 ans de pratique psychothérapeutique. L'auteur expose les trois voies pour donner un sens à votre existence : la voie de l'accomplissement, la voie de l'amour, la voie de la transcendance. En lisant Viktor E. Frankl, vous redécouvrirez le sens de votre responsabilité et vous prendrez votre vie en mains. 2006. Titre uniforme: Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.Entre le rire et les larmes: une citoyenne du monde raconte
By Élisabeth Carrier. 1996
Infirmière sans frontières, l'auteure raconte avec passion ses expériences dans le Nord canadien avec les Amérindiens et les Inuits, ainsi…
que les nombreuses années qu'elle a consacrées au travail humanitaire en Afrique et en Asie. Pour ceux et celles qui souhaitent aller au-delà des images réductrices des médias, voici une biographie saissante et captivante, un voyage inédit à l'intérieur des pays les plus méconnus de la planète Terre. 1996.Le cancer à onze ans
By Mathieu Froment-Savoie. 1991
Un jeune violoncelliste talentueux raconte l'histoire de sa lutte contre le cancer, qu'il qualifie de "sale maladie, la pire de…
toutes". Avec un brin d'humour, il nous fait partager ses craintes, ses angoisses, mais aussi ses joies, ses espoirs, ses rêves et ses projets. Années 3-6 et plus. 1991.