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Planet of the blind
By Stephen Kuusisto. 1998
The author, legally blind since birth, has written an eloquent memoir about his struggles to overcome his shame of his…
"blind self" and succeed as a writer and academic. Kuusisto is currently director of student services at Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a preeminent guide-dog school in New York. 1998.Philomena: the true story of a mother and the son she had to give away
By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeAu nom de l'amour: à ces femmes avant moi
By Clodine Desrochers. 2015
" C'est à un voyage dans le Québec rural autour des années 1950 que nous convie l'animatrice vedette Clodine Desrochers.…
Un récit inspiré de l'histoire de sa mère et d'autres femmes de sa famille, dont les confidences l'ont bouleversée. Elles s'appellent Marie-Laure, Thérèse, Jeanne, Diane, Liliane. Un passé où bien des Québécois de la génération des baby-boomers se reconnaîtront, et qui parlera aussi à leurs enfants. Images cruelles de la Grande Noirceur, du manque d'amour, de la mainmise de l'Église, de peur, de violences, d'hommes perdus, incapables de communiquer, de femmes souvent frustrées, asservies, qui ne pouvaient choisir ni leur destin ni leur maternité. Des anecdotes aussi, savoureuses et touchantes... " -- 4e de couv.People's China: a brief history
By Craig Dietrich. 1986
Parcours de femme ; de l'adoption aux retrouvailles: De L'adoption Aux Retrouvailles
By Henriette Labarre. 1996
Patrimoine: une histoire vraie
By Philip Roth. 1992
Ce récit, écrit à la première personne, raconte la lente maladie du père de l'auteur âgé de quatre-vingt-six ans, sa…
lutte obstinée pour vaincre la tumeur au cerveau qui finira par l'emporter. Dans ce combat contre le drame de la vieillesse, le fils guide et assiste le père jusqu'à s'identifier à lui. 1992. Titre uniforme: Patrimony : a true story.Out of the whirlpool: a memoir of remorse and reconciliation
By Sue Wiygul Martin. 2013
The author has written a moving account of the rebuilding of her life after a desperate, impetuous act in her…
youth ended in blindness. Since that day, she has greeted the world with her trademark determination and humour, accepting each new day of challenge while squarely facing the issues attending her post-traumatic adjustment. Now, after more than thirty years of recovery and reconciliation with the past, Martin shares the simple truths of her journey. 2013.Out of darkness: the Jeff Healey story
By Cindy Watson. 2010
Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff Healey. Out…
of darkness he created music, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award. Grades 5-8. 2010.Out of darkness: the story of Louis Braille
By Russell Freedman. 1998
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop…
a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. Grades 4-7. 1998.Out of sight
By Linda Tennent. 2012
An account of the author’s journey into blindness over six decades from a progressive eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (also…
known as tunnel vision). Focusses on the many challenges faced and the coping tools used, and can be read as a resource for both those facing vision loss and those who support them. 2012.Our harsh logic: Israeli soldiers' testimonies from the occupied territories, 2000-2010
By Breaking the Silence Group Staff. 2012
The very name of the Israel Defense Forces suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory,…
and support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive and responsive. But Israeli soldiers reveal how the key planks of the army's ostensibly protective program - "prevention of terror," "separation of populations," "preservation of the fabric of life," and "law enforcement" - have in fact served to accelerate acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, and ultimately thwart the possibility of independence. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.Outside passage: a memoir of an Alaskan childhood
By Julia Scully. 1998
A woman's coming-of-age memoir recalls the two years she and her sister spent in an orphanage, her impoverished youth in…
a remote Alaskan town, and her teenage years during World War II, working in her widowed mother's roadhouse that served a rough trade of gold miners. 1998.Harmonie: l’inoubliable
By Lucie Malenfant. 2012
Perdre la vue est une des choses les plus terribles qui puisse arriver. Mais grâce à l’amour et au soutien…
de mon mari et de ma fille, j’ai appris à vivre avec mon handicap. Et grâce à Mira, j’ai eu la chance de rencontrer ma belle Harmonie. Plus qu’une compagne, Harmonie a été pour moi une véritable amie durant toutes ces années. 2012.La chaise rouge devant le fleuve: apprivoiser sa souffrance : apprendre à danser avec la vie
By Rémi Tremblay, Diane Bérard. 2015
" Quand on gagne son pain à tenir la main des autres lorsqu'ils traversent des instants d'une rare intensité, comment…
fait-on pour composer avec les grands défis humains que la vie pose sur son propre chemin? "Danser avec la vie", facile à dire, pas si facile à faire... Rémi Tremblay a subi un fracassant face à face avec sa souffrance au cours de la dernière année: le premier de ses trois garçons, aux prises avec un grave problème de dépendance, a encore rechuté. Frappé de plein fouet, l'homme amorce, assis devant le fleuve Saint-Laurent, une réflexion inédite qui se révélera déterminante pour toute personne secouée par un épisode difficile. Un ouvrage apaisant et libérateur qui fait la preuve par mille que souffrance et bonheur peuvent cohabiter. "Origines
By Amin Maalouf. 2004
Maalouf brasse l'histoire des siens, revisite leur mémoire et ressuscite le destin de cette " tribu " qui, à partir…
du Liban, essaimera de par le monde - jusqu'aux Amériques, jusqu'à Cuba... Dans cette aventure qui court sur plus d'un siècle, le romancier convoque les morts, les vivants, les ancêtres, les fantômes ; il explore leur légende ; il les suit à travers les convulsions de l'Empire ottoman ; il observe cette diaspora de mystiques, de francs-maçons, de professeurs, de commerçants, de rêveurs polyglottes et cosmopolites. Il sait que leur sang fiévreux bat dans ses veines. Et il sait que son propre parcours serait vain s'il n'était lui même, par l'écriture et le cur, fidèle à cette généalogie tumultueuse. Un chant d'amour à l'endroit d'une famille qui reste l'unique patrie de cet écrivain de l'exil. 2004.Operation Nemesis: the assassination plot that avenged the Armenian genocide
By Eric Bogosian. 2015
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of…
the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper editor, an engineering student, and a diplomat. Together they formed one of the most effective assassination squads in history. They named their operation Nemesis, after the Greek goddess of retribution. The assassins were survivors, men defined by the massive tragedy that had devastated their people. With operatives on three continents, the Nemesis team killed six major Turkish leaders in Berlin, Constantinople, Tiflis, and Rome, only to disband and suddenly disappear. 2015.Orientalism: Western Conceptions Of The Orient (Penguin classics)
By Edward W Said. 2003
The author surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological…
creation. He traces his view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experience as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, the author examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. 2003, c1978.One and one make five
By Mary Evans. 1996
This remarkable story charts a lifetime of working with visually impaired and deafblind people. From adverse beginnings, without bitterness or…
regret, through childhood illness and war, Miss Evans recounts her training and subsequent work. Great emphasis is laid on working with noncommunicating, deafblind children, with help and guidance for parents and carers in achieving that exclusive first breakthrough and alleviating the problems of the elderly with acquired handicaps. 1996.Once we were sisters: a memoir
By Sheila Kohler. 2017
When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed…
when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood--one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. 2017.One more border: the true story of one family's escape from war-torn Europe
By Shelley Tanaka, William Kaplan. 1998
During World War II, as Nazi troops took over Europe, thousands of Jews tried to flee Hitler's advance. This is…
the true story of one family's harrowing escape to Canada, by train and ship, travelling three-quarters of the way around the world. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 1998.