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My name escapes me: the diary of a retiring actor
By Alec Guinness. 1996
The diary of Alec Guinness spans eighteen months to June 1996. Certain interests recur: theatre and film; books and paintings;…
the church; food and drink; and the delights of being at home with his wife. He also brings memories and anecdotes from his long and distinguished acting career. 1996.Mozart: l'itinéraire libertin (Parenthèse : biographie ; #12)
By Eve Ruggieri. 2006
De Mozart on connaît bien sur l'enfant prodige, l'adolescent rebelle, le génie foudroyé à trente-cinq ans. Mais il en est…
un autre, plus proche de nous, qu'Eve Ruggieri accompagne tout au long d'un itinéraire sentimental et libertin où l'on découvre son insatiable soif d'amour et de plaisirs. Des premiers émois de l'adolescence, des palpitations de Chérubin, aux jeux érotiques chez la Cousinette : d'une folle passion abusée aux conquêtes musiciennes transposées de l'alcôve aux scènes d'opéra, il n'est de note chez Mozart qui ne chante les feux du coeur et des sens. 2006.Mozart retrouvé
By Alain Gueullette. 1982
Murder in Brentwood
By Mark Fuhrman. 1997
A former Los Angeles Police Department detective chronicles his June 13, 1994 investigation of the murders of Nicole Simpson and…
Ron Goldman. He recounts his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial, as well as his own subsequent trial for perjury. The author maintains he was targeted as a scapegoat in the Simpson case. Descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1997.Music cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia (Prentice-Hall history of music series)
By William P Malm. 1977
This comprehensive survey of music and musical instruments found in the major Asian civilizations and in the island cultures of…
the Eastern Hemisphere also provides an introduction to the attitudes and techniques of ethno-musicology. (Prentice-Hall history of music series)Music and the mind
By Anthony Storr. 1992
Music is the most mysterious and least tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is…
a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. 1992.Missing men: a memoir
By Joyce Johnson. 2004
Author Johnson recounts three life-defining relationships with the men who mattered most to her. She begins with her grandfather, for…
whom she was named, but who committed suicide before she was born. Following a career as a child actress, complete with an overbearing stage mother who ruined her relationship with her father, she describes her two difficult marriages to painters. A self-portrait that examines - from a woman's perspective - the far-reaching reverberations of being fatherless. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Moments of reprieve
By Primo Levi. 1986
These stories recount the rare moments during Primo Levi's stark existence in Auschwitz when he came across an act of…
sheer beauty, an instant of light in the grey monotone, mostly when someone, even in these conditions of ultimate servitude, could and did behave with human decency: an old Jew retelling the stories of Lilith, a stolen radish to prove an honest man could steal, and a barracks chief who appreciated the meaning of Yom Kippur. 1986.Douces colères: journal
By Gil Courtemanche. 1989
Avec une verve piquante et souvent corrosive, l'auteur exprime ses opinions sur la société, sur la politique et les hommes…
politiques, sur le journalisme et les médias d'information, sur le syndicalisme, sur la langue, sur l'éducation, etc. Malgré certains jugements excessifs, cet ouvrage comporte beaucoup d'éléments intéressants qui plairont à certains et en irriteront d'autres, selon les idéologies personelles de chacun.Maurice Chevalier: itinéraire d'un inconnu célèbre (Collection Mémoire d'autres)
By Claudine Kirgener. 1988
Chanteur, vedette du café-concert et du music-hall, comédien, Maurice Chevalier a été pendant plus d'un demi-siècle l'incarnation des jours heureux…
de la Belle Époque, des années folles et, jusqu'à sa mort en 1972, comme un garant de notre joie de vivre. 1988.Journaliste, essayiste, Jules Roy est à la fois cela et plus que tout cela : un homme au destin singulier…
et mêlé à l'histoire du siècle. Pied-noir, pétainiste en 1940, pilote dans la R.A.F. après 1942, cet officier d'active disciple de Camus rompt avec l'armée à cause de ce qu'il a vu en Indochine. La guerre d'Algérie achèvera la mutation et fera un anticolonialiste de cet enfant de la Mitidja. De Gaulle, Malraux, Mitterrand, Sartre, cent autres figures traversent ces passionnants Mémoires, salués comme un événement lors de leur parution. 1989.Mel Bay's deluxe encyclopedia of guitar chords (Encyclopedia Ser.)
By William Bay. 1971
A comprehensive guide to guitar chords, denoted in a series of chord windows. The chords are presented by key and…
then subdivided according to melody chords, inside chords, rhythm chords and bottom 4 string chords. 1971.Cher Fidel
By Marita Lorenz, Wilfred Huismann, Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Ole Hansen-Löve. 2001
Récit autobiographique de Marita Lorenz. Enrôlée par la CIA dans les années 1960, elle devra, entre autres missions, retourner à…
Cuba afin de tenter d'empoisonner le leader cubain Fidel Castro. 2001.L'empereur, c'est moi
By Hugo Horiot. 2013
" Ce livre est une histoire vraie. L'autoportrait d'un enfant qui mène une guerre sans merci contre lui-même et les…
autres. Un enfant autiste Asperger. Aujourd'hui, le petit guerrier est devenu un adulte serein qui a décidé de replonger en enfance. Il a quatre ans, huit ans, douze ans. Il se cogne à l'absurdité de la vie comme un papillon contre une lampe. C'est net, juste, parfois cruel. Les larmes sont silencieuses et la tendresse jaillit comme l'éclair. Un texte fascinant, dans la lignée des grands récits sur l'autisme. " -- 4e de couv.Locked rooms and open doors: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1974
Covers the years when Mrs. Lindbergh was copilot, navigator, photographer, log keeper, and radio operator for her famous husband on…
their legendary flights to Greenland, Ireland, Atlantic Island, and Africa. Sequel to "Hour of gold, hour of lead", followed by "The flower and the nettle" (DC16035). 1974.Listen to this
By Alex Ross. 2010
Music critic and author of "The Rest Is Noise" offers a selection of his articles from the New Yorker. Surveys…
the musical landscape--classical and pop--and portrays the composers, conductors, string quartets, and rock bands responsible for shaping it, including Bob Dylan, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Johannes Brahms. 2010.Lettres á un jeune poete
By Rainer Maria Rilke. 1937
Dix lettres adressées a un jeune homme que l'auteur ne connaissait pas et dans les quelles il revient inlassablement sur…
les questions essentielles qui se posent au poéte et au créateur. Ces lettres de Rilke sont à la fois un moyen d'acces priviligie à son univers et un manuel de la vie créatrice de portée universelle. 1984, c1937.Lettres à maman: par-delà l'enfer
By Ingrid Betancourt, Mélanie Delloye-Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Bettancourt. 2008
Letters from a lady rancher
By Monica Hopkins. 1981
Monica Hopkins arrived in Alberta in 1909 with little knowledge of the roughneck society of cowboy country. She wrote this…
series of essay-like monthly letters to her friends and relatives. c1981.Letters, 1928-1946: Letters, 1928-1946
By Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy. 2004
This correspondence takes the Baltic-born philosopher from his adopted homeland of England, where he wholeheartedly assimilated himself in the scholarly…
world, to diplomatic postings in wartime Washington, D.C., and Soviet Russia on the eve of the Cold War. He also reports from holidays and tours in Austria, Italy and Palestine during the mounting tensions in the 1930s, and converses with philosophers, Zionists, literary critics and his parents. 2004. Uniform title: Correspondence.