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By Rachel Martinez, Anna McGarrigle, Jane McGarrigle. 2016
" Anna et Jane McGarrigle, les sœurs de Kate, tantes de Rufus et de Martha Wainwright, racontent l'histoire de la…
famille de musiciens la plus talentueuse qui soit : un clan qui rythme nos vies depuis cinquante ans. Évoquant les aventures de leurs ancêtres entre Saint John (N.-B.) et Montréal, elles se remémorent leur enfance à Saint-Sauveur et leur adolescence tumultueuse dans le Québec des années 1950. Elles nous entraînent à Montréal, New York, San Francisco, sur les scènes bigarrées de la musique folk des années 1960 ; pour aboutir à l'inoubliable duo formé par Kate et Anna. Aussi hommage à Kate, décédée en 2010, l'ouvrage permet de cerner la personnalité de cette artiste exceptionnelle. Émaillé de chansons et de photos, ce récit prolonge l'œuvre de ces femmes libres. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Mountain city girls.By Jacques Bertin. 1987
Biographie de Félix Leclerc: sa vie, sa carrière. Pionnier chez nous, il fut avec Charles Trenet le premier auteur-compositeur-interprète en…
France. Premier écrivain québécois à vivre de sa plume, il fut le héraut de l'indépendance, le père de la nation pour un pays qui n'est pas né. 1987.By Debbie Travis. 2008
Debbie Travis, the home decorating icon, launched her career when she had two kids at home under two. She describes…
the rollercoaster ride of raising two feisty little boys at the same time as working with her husband to create two TV production companies and three TV series. Full of laughter, tears, survival strategies and reality checks from other moms who've also had their meltdown moments, Debbie's book will help you lose the guilt and enjoy the ride. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.By Roy MacGregor. 2010
The author re-examines the mysteries of Tom Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does…
a man who died almost a century ago and painted relatively little still have such a grip on our imagination? 2010.By Adrienne Clarkson. 2011
Reviled as a communist by some, revered as a humanitarian by others, Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and…
political activist who deployed his skills on the battlefields of Spain and China in the 1930s. His prodigious talents included inventing surgical instruments, mobile blood-transfusion units, teaching, and advocating for social justice at home and abroad. Includes violence. 2011.By Deborah Grey. 2004
Starting as a teacher in rural Alberta, Deborah Grey eventually became the first elected MP of the Reform party, with…
a no-nonsense style, a willingness to praise or criticize her parliamentary colleagues as she saw fit, and a taste for one-liners. In looking back, she discusses her family and faith, while remaining unapologetic in her criticisms of Stockwell Day as Alliance leader and defending the party against accusations of racism. 2004.By Charlotte Gray. 2008
Feminist, politician, and social activist, Nellie McClung altered Canada's political landscape, leaving a legacy that has long survived her. She…
had a wicked wit, and her convictions and campaigns helped shape the Canada we live in today. 2008.By Richard Gwyn. 2011
From Confederation Day in 1867, John A. Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada…
into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States. Macdonald faced constant crises, from Louis Riel's two rebellions through to the Pacific Scandal that almost undid his government. Gwyn paints a portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also shows us Macdonald the man, as he wrestles with whether Riel should hang, marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to “John A: the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald” (DC31710). Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. c2011.By Olivia Chow. 2014
By R. Murray Schafer. 2012
A memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth…
as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada. 2012.By Scott Griffin. 2006
In 1996, Scott Griffin joined the Flying Doctors Service, which flies doctors to remote areas of Africa - by flying…
to Kenya himself. Griffin's two-year adventure included storms, equipment problems, and fuel shortages while flying to Africa, and upon arrival he circumnavigated the continent, flying over deserts, mountains and jungles both as a medical volunteer and tourist. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.By Jean Chrétien. 2007
By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years. Through the decade 1993 to…
2003 he won three majority elections as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Finding the country dangerously in debt and bitterly divided, he describes how his government wiped out the deficit in just four years, helped to defeat the separatists in the cliffhanger Quebec referendum, passed the Clarity Act, and set out to fulfill the economic and social promises his party made in its famous Red Books. 2007.By René Homier-Roy, Marc-André Lussier. 2018
Personne n'a accompagné le développement de la culture québécoise comme lui. Depuis cinquante ans, René Homier-Roy en a été le…
témoin privilégié, le critique implacable, le défenseur enthousiaste. Personne n'a comme lui conquis les sommets de la presse écrite, de la télévision et de la radio, où il nous a accompagnés, conseillés, mis en garde et divertis. Pendant toutes ces années, nous l'avons suivi avec passion et il nous a vus grandir. Pour la première fois, il a accepté de parler, de se raconter, mais surtout de raconter le monde de la culture et des médias, où il a tout vu, tout connu. Il a choisi d'ouvrir sa mémoire au critique de cinéma Marc-André Lussier, mais c'est sa voix et son regard que nous retrouvons, toujours aussi justes, francs, colorés. Au fil des pages, nous découvrons le visage d'un homme discret malgré les apparences, chez qui l'humour et l'autodérision sont au fond des signes de politesse d'un cœur qui a beaucoup aimé. 2018.By Charles Foran. 2010
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life…
in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. 2010.By M. G Vassanji. 2012
Both Richler and Vassanji are award-winning novelists who regarded themselves as outsiders in their respective societies - one a Jew…
in Quebec, the other an Indian in Tanzania who emigrated to Canada. Their experiences were vastly different, but their perspective as outsiders allows each a unique viewpoint. Vassanji explores the life and artistic quest of the prolific Montreal satirist who died in 2001. 2012.By Carmen Aguirre. 2016
A follow-up to the author's first memoir: Something Fierce. Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives. At age six she was…
a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn't fully love. In her early twenties she fought to find her voice as an actress and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her. As she grew in her career, Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actress, and then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape; that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life. 2016.By Austin Clarke. 2015
The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer". Clarke shares his own…
experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the '60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers. 2015.By Charles Foran. 2011
Born in 1921 into a working-class family, Maurice Richard came of age as a French Canadian and athlete during an…
era when the majority population of Quebec slumbered. Richard aspired only to score goals and win championships for the Montreal Canadiens, but he represented far more. Beginning with his 50-goal, 50-game season in 1944-45 and through his battles with the league over bigotry toward French-Canadian players, Richard's on-ice ferocity and off-ice dignity echoed the change in Quebec. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2011. (Extraordinary Canadians)By Patrice Coquereau. 2014
" Homme de théâtre et figure familière du petit écran, Patrice Coquereau a souffert pendant de longues années de troubles…
anxieux, qui touchent environ 12% des Canadiens. Aujourd'hui serein, il dresse le bilan du chemin parcouru et, de crises de panique en fous rires, fait voler en éclats les tabous liés à la santé mentale. Avec émotion, il nous présente son histoire, pimentée de coups de gueule et de coups de coeur, les facteurs qui l'ont mené aux antichambres de la folie ainsi que les balises qui l'ont aidé à se réapproprier sa vie. Plongée en apnée dans l'univers torturé d'un des comédiens les plus appréciés de sa génération, Guérir à gorge déployée est également le témoignage sincère d'un homme porté par un appel fondamental: nommer, éclairer, alléger, aider. Un ouvrage parfois sombre comme la nuit, parfois traversé d'éclairs lumineux – comme au théâtre, quand s'ouvre le rideau! " -- 4e de couv.By Aline Apostolska. 2014
" Je suis fatigué. Je vous aime et je ne vous oublierai jamais. Mais je m'en vais. Ces paroles, les…
dernières que Jacques Languirand a prononcées au micro de Par 4 chemins le 1er février 2014, marquent le terme d'une étape entamée 43 ans plus tôt. Loin de préfigurer une fin triste et solitaire, elles témoignent plutôt d'un désir de recueillement, d'un besoin de faire le point sur l'expérience de toute une vie. Du fond de la caverne d'Ali Baba qui lui tient lieu de bureau, de janvier 2013 à juillet 2014, Jacques Languirand a choisi de se confier à Aline Apostolska. Au fil de leurs rencontres hebdomadaires, l'écrivaine a vu s'ouvrir des lucarnes ensoleillées et radieuses dans un esprit parfois embrumé par la maladie. Reposant sur une profonde introspection et un méticuleux travail de journaliste, ce livre est le fruit de leurs échanges. Loin des clichés du personnage public flamboyant, on y découvre l'envers de l'image, la vérité d'un créateur habité par la mission que les hasards de la vie lui ont confiée: transmettre, éclairer, élever. Voyage dans le temps et la mémoire d'un être d'exception, cet ouvrage emprunte un chemin difficile mais pourtant essentiel: celui qui mène au cœur même de l'homme. " -- 4e de couv.