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Helen Keller (In their own words)
By George Sullivan. 2000
Biography of the gifted woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other…
deaf and blind people. Uses excerpts from Helen Keller's writings. For grades 3-6. 2000.Biography of the blind: including the lives of all who have distinguished themselves as poets, philosophers, artists, &c., &c
By James Wilson, Kenneth A Stuckey. 1995
Collected and edited by Kenneth Stuckey from the four original editions of 1821 through 1838. "Offers insights into the lives…
of blind people before the great emancipators of the blind," says Stuckey. Subjects include Homer, Milton, Handel, and many others. 1995.Surpassing expectations: my life without sight
By Lawrence Scadden. 2008
Autobiography of California-born (1939) Scadden, who was blinded at age five. Describes his career as a research psychologist with a…
doctorate degree. Discusses his work in developing assistive technology for visually impaired people and promoting science education. Examines the effects of blindness, Scadden's personal development, and his experiences abroad. 2008.Helen Keller: from tragedy to triumph (The Childhood of famous Americans series)
By Katharine Elliott Wilkie. 1969
This biography focuses on the childhood years of the deaf and blind woman who learned to read, write, and speak…
with the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Grades 3-6. 1986, c1969.A sense of the world: how a blind man became history's greatest traveler
By Jason Roberts. 2006
He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller" - a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in…
Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored". 2006.Millennium girls: today's girls around the world
By Sherrie A Inness. 1998
Girls get to voice their concerns and tell what life is like for them in this collection. From coming-of-age rituals…
in South Africa to the impact of computers and popular magazines on girls in Japan and Germany, this book offers a look at girl culture and girlhood from around the world. 1998.Until we have no tomorrows: "Dottie"
By Patricia Brudenell. 1999
Family fallout: young women talk about family break up
By Ed Hines Helen. 2000
In this text, young women talk about their experiences when their parents separate. Subjects covered include the initial distress at…
finding out but also the relief at the end of years of arguments. These stories are sometimes angry, heartbreaking and moving. Junior and senior high readers.Through thick and thin: young women talk about relationships
By Jane Wagnorn. 1996
Relationships: with boyfriends, parents, sisters, brothers, friends and strangers. Relationships that work, are hard to handle, make you happy or…
drive you nuts. Better than your best friend's diary, "Through thick and thin" reveals what young women today really think about the relationships in their lives.A mind spread out on the ground
By Alicia Elliott. 2019
In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America while drawing on intimate…
details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding to the ongoing legacy of colonialism. What are the links between depression, colonialism and loss of language--both figurative and literal? How does white privilege operate in different contexts? How do we navigate the painful contours of mental illness in loved ones without turning them into their sickness? How does colonialism operate on the level of literary criticism? A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is Alicia Elliott's attempt to answer these questions and more. In the process, she engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, sexuality, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, writing and representation. Elliott makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political--from overcoming a years-long history with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft dinner to how systematic oppression is linked to depression in Native communities. With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott extends far beyond her own experiences to provide a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future. Bestseller. Winner of the 2020 Evergreen Award. 2019.Onions in the washing machine
By Jane Readfern-Gray. 2016
What happens when you wake up one morning to find you can no longer see? How do you deal with…
the stark reality of realising that all the things you could do yesterday, you can no longer do today? From the poignant to the humorous, this is Jane Readfern-Gray's story. 2016.What my mother and I don't talk about: fifteen writers break the silence /
By Michele Filgate. 2019
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than…
a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer's hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn't interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, 'Our mothers are our first homes, and that's why we're always trying to return to them.' There's relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn't say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. 2019.Vous croyez tout savoir sur le sexe?: essai
By Janette Bertrand. 2018
Devant la désinformation et la mal-information sur la sexualité, souvent véhiculées par les réseaux sociaux, Janette Bertrand, fine observatrice de…
la nature humaine et grande communicatrice, et Michel Dorais, chercheur épris d'esprit critique et de vulgarisation scientifique, ont écrit cet ouvrage qui est, avant tout, un dialogue ouvert entre deux personnes qui s'interrogent sur la sexualité, en particulier sur les tabous et préjugés tenaces qui constituent une nouvelle forme d'ignorance. On y trouve plus de 450 questions et réponses sur le désir, la diversité sexuelle, la sexualité des jeunes, des célibataires, des couples, des personnes séparées ou divorcées et des gens de plus de soixante ans, ainsi qu'une conclusion prônant une éducation sexuelle pour tousLe boys' club
By Martine Delvaux. 2019
Ils sont tournés les uns vers les autres. Ils s'observent et s'écoutent. Ils s'échangent des idées, des armes, de l'argent…
ou des femmes. Dans cet univers clos réservé aux hommes, le pouvoir se relaie et se perpétue à la façon d'une chorégraphie mortifère. Le boys club n'est pas une institution du passé. Il est bien vivant, tentaculaire: État, Église, armée, université, fraternités, firmes et la liste s'allonge. À la manière dune chasse à limage, c'est dans les représentations au cinéma et à la télévision que Martine Delvaux le traque. Véritable plongée en eaux noires, ce livre nous invite à considérer l'entre-soi des hommes comme un phénomène régressif. Un dispositif à profaner, déconstruire, refuser, parce que nos vies comptentL'allume-cigarette de la Chrysler noire (Collection Papiers collés)
By Serge Bouchard. 2019
Soixante-quatre textes brefs de l'inimitable Serge Bouchard, d'abord écrits pour être lus au micro de son émission C'est fou... (Ici…
Radio-Canada Première). La suite de C'était au temps des mammouths laineux et des Yeux tristes de mon camion. Un regard singulier sur le monde contemporain où la marginalisation des peuples autochtones côtoie la nostalgie de l'enfance et les mystères de l'écriture. Une prose où s'entendent les inflexions d'une voix unique, absolument singulière, qui nous parle de près, de tout près, comme à des prochesAlone: A Love Story
By Michelle Parise. 2020
A memoir of falling in love, the fallout of infidelity, and everything messy in between — and the inspiration behind…
the hit CBC podcast. “Beautifully and powerfully written, Alone: A Love Story left me heartbroken and inspired at the same time.” — Terry Fallis “A lyrical tribute to the intoxicating, dramatic, destructive and ultimately empowering nature of love.” — Anna Maria Tremonti “Michelle Parise is the best company. Her passion and humour leap off the page.” — Camilla Gibb The church wedding, the new house, a beautiful baby … Michelle was sold a dream and bought into it. But one day, nine years in, she wakes up in an empty bed, and The Husband isn't there. Then, he drops The Bomb — he was having an affair with a woman at work. Adrift and on the edge of forty — fuelled by grief, booze, and one-night stands — Michelle battles the monster she calls Loneliness, juggling being a part-time parent and part-time partier. Though dangerously close to rock bottom, Michelle takes a chance on love again with a dashing but complicated man — The Man with the White Shirt. Michelle, an expert in "emotional forensics," dives into the wreckage with candour and humour, uncovering a story about falling in and out of love, divorce, single parenthood, and the messy world of dating. What she finds, beneath it all, is life and the courage to face it alone. “Michelle Parise knows how to shape and deliver a story that will keep you coming back for more.” — The AtlanticThey Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
By Eternity Martis. 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.A…
booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour.Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.La maison brûle: plaidoyer pour un New Deal vert
By Naomi Klein. 2019
La maison brûle. De menace lointaine, la crise du climat est devenue une urgence absolue. Pourquoi n'agit-on pas? Que faut-il…
faire pour éteindre le feu une fois pour toutes? Naomi Klein défend depuis longtemps le projet d'un New Deal vert, une profonde transformation de l'économie pour combattre de front les bouleversements climatiques et les inégalités sociales. À l'heure où montent les eaux et la haine, Klein démontre que seul un programme audacieux et radical pourrait inciter les gens à se battre pour leur vie pendant qu'il est encore tempsCures for Hunger
By Deni Béchard. 2012
Almost unbelievable. You'll swear it's fiction."You haven't read a story like this one, even if your father was the kind…
of magnificent scoundrel you only find in Russian novels. Béchard is the rare writer who knows the secret to telling the true story." — Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsGrowing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard worships his father, believing that he can do no wrong. Although his charismatic father is prone to racing trains and brawling, Deni has no idea how unusual his family is.But when Deni discovers his father's true identity (and his other life as a bank robber), his imagination is set on fire. Before long, he begins to see himself as a character in one of his father's stories. He can't escape the sense that his father's life holds the key to understanding his own passions, aversions, and motivations.Eventually Deni finds himself ensnared in the controlling impulses of his mysterious father and increasingly obsessed by his father's own muted recollections: the impoverished childhood in the Gaspé he'd fled long ago, the hunger for excitement and a better life, and a trail of crimes leading from Québec to the American west.At once an extraordinary family story and an unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man, Cures for Hunger is a singular, deeply affecting memoir by an acclaimed writer.