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By Patrick Besson. 2008
Née en 1948, Agnès Le Roux aurait aujourd'hui soixante ans. Ou faut-il dire a ? Elle a disparu : meurtre…
ou exil volontaire loin, très loin de la promenade des Anglais ? L'une des plus fameuses énigmes de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle met en scène Mme Le Roux mère, Renée, copropriétaire du Palais de la Méditerranée, le célèbre casino niçois sur lequel Jean-Dominique Fratoni entend mettre la main. L'amant d'Agnès, Maurice Agnelet, va favoriser l'opération en aidant la fille à voter contre sa mère au conseil d'administration, renversant la majorité et chassant Renée Le Roux de son poste de P-DG. Le récit est l'évocation, par un romancier, d'un fait divers mêlant des éléments amplement divulgués par les médias à des aperçus et interprétations propres à l'auteur. 2008.By Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton. 1991
Lesra Martin was a Brooklyn youth adopted by a group of Canadians, including the authors of this book. Through Lesra,…
the group became involved in the legal battle to free former boxing contender Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who served 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Strong language. 1991.By Hugues De Montalembert. 1982
By Margaret Davidson, Noël Chassériau. 1999
Nous sommes en 1880, aux États-Unis. À la suite d'une scarlatine, la petite Helen Keller devient aveugle, sourde et muette.…
Plus elle grandit, plus elle s'enferme dans la solitude et la colère. Désespérés, ses parents font appel à Annie Sullivan. Cette fragile jeune femme, elle-même presque aveugle, accomplit le miracle : transformer Helen, violente petite rebelle, en brillante étudiante connue du monde entier. Le récit d'un incroyable défi, une leçon de courage et d'espoir. Années 2-4 et plus. 1999. Titre uniforme: Helen Keller.By Jill Allen-King. 2010
Jill's autobiography charts her journey from partially sighted child to totally blind adult and beyond, culminating in her being awarded…
the MBE for her many achievements. Just Jill is an important book that raises questions about what it means to have a disability in our society and how we can all learn from the work of Jill Allen-King. 2010.By L. Wayne Carlson. 2001
In 1960, 18-year-old Wayne Carlson began his eventual three-decade stay in prisons across Canada and the U.S., managing to escape…
a record 13 times. Since his release he has become a respected activist for prison reform. These memoirs of the man known as "Houdini" are both a wild ride with an outlaw, and a firsthand look at life behind bars in North America. Frequent strong language and violence. 2001.By Warren Goulding. 2001
John Martin Crawford was convicted for brutally murdering three Native Canadian women and is a suspect in the killing of…
at least one other. Crawford has staked his claim as one of the nation's most prolific sex killers, despite the fact that his deeds are virtually forgotten. Some descriptions of violence. 2001.By Gib Twyman, Craig MacFarlane. 1997
Athlete Craig MacFarlane was blinded in an accident at age 2, and grew up to become a champion sprinter, internationally…
acclaimed wrestler, downhill skier, and a regular in the water skiing spectacular at Florida's Cypress Gardens. Craig now makes over 200 appearances a year - everything from children in a classroom setting to 3-time speaker at the Republican National Convention. 1997.By Grace Halloran. 1993
Recounts the life of Californian Grace Halloran, who was diagnosed at age twenty-three with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disorder…
leading to blindness. Learning that her newborn son could also become blind, Halloran dedicated her life to discovering ways to preserve and strengthen sight. 1993.By Andrew Whitehouse. 1990
Carolyn James is a talented painter, especially of landscapes. She is completely blind. In a full and varied life she…
was constantly frustrated by failing sight. Only when her blindness became total did her imagination and her daughter's paint-box free her to make pictures. Within a year her work was exhibited, and soon she appeared on television and radio. She began writing poems, which became song lyrics, and now in her 40s is a creative artist in both media. 1990.A fictionalized biography of William Moon. Unable to enter the Ministry after he became completely blind at the age of…
twenty, he determined that he would devote his life to blind care and welfare. In the course of teaching, he developed the embossed script for which he is famous, and which he used to print books, magazines and pictures. 1992.By Mark Bowden. 2001
The author of "Black Hawk down" chronicles the crimes of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, his Medellín cocaine cartel, and…
his influence on his country. Describes Escobar's imprisonment, escape, enemies, and the American involvement with death squads that sought revenge. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2001.By Simon Wiesenthal, Ewald Osers. 1989
A former prisoner in the Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal has spent years searching out and exposing those responsible for the…
murders of millions. He describes the discovery, capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann as well as the search for Dr. Josef Mengele. 1989. Uniform title: Recht, nicht Rache.By Ellen Anderson. 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an influential and controversial figure…
in Canadian legal and political history. Wilson's contributions to the areas of human rights law and equality jurisprudence are many and well-known. Lesser known are her early days in Scotland and her work as a minister's wife, or her post-judicial work on gender equality for the Canadian Bar Association and her contributions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. 2002.By Robert Jeffrey. 2010
“Gentle Johnny Ramensky” is the astonishing tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one…
of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. But he served his country with exceptional bravery and skill in the Second World War. Back in civvy street he could not resist a return to the excitement of roaming darkened rooftops and breaking open the toughest of safes. 2010.By Victoria Nolan. 2014
Victoria Nolan is a motivational speaker, advocate for people with disabilities, Paralympian and special education teacher. Having wanted to teach…
since she was a young child, her dreams were shattered when she went blind; not because of her disability but because of other people’s preconceived ideas about what she could and could not do. Victoria took up rowing to counter her depression over losing her sight, and made it onto Canada’s National Rowing Team. This is her personal story of triumph over adversity. 2014.By Susan McNicoll. 2005
In the 1880s, the East End of London became the staging place for a series of bloodcurdling murders that caused…
outrage and widespread panic throughout the nation. Although many criminologists have speculated as to the identity of the killer, to this day the murderer is known only as Jack the Ripper. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.By Ruth Silver. 2012
Ruth Silver was a silent, frightened child with undiagnosed vision loss, which she later learned was retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a…
progressive eye disease. Even after losing her hearing, she refused to surrender to the darkness and silence. Ruth founded the Center for Deaf-Blind Persons in Milwaukee, a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping others living with the double disability of deaf-blindness. Includes sex and violence. c2012.By Hugues De Montalembert. 2010
Blinded in an attack in his New York home in 1978, de Montalembert, then a filmmaker and painter, was violently…
forced out of his intensely visual world. In this raw memoir, he navigates the environs of Manhattan and, not much later, Bali and Greenland, with new confidence and ability. He's also painfully honest about the affects of his blindness, refusing the comfort of standard tropes about spirituality but finding wonder in the kindness of absolute strangers and isolation from those closest to him. Some descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2010.By Adam Ockelford. 2008
Music professor Ockelford, who specializes in working with children with disabilities, offers a biography of British pianist Derek Paravicini. Discusses…
Paravicini--who was born prematurely, autistic, and blind--teaching himself to play the keyboard at age two and developing his musical talents, first at home and then in public. 2008.