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No foreign bones in China: memoirs of imperialism and its ending
By Peter Stursberg. 2002
British Captain Samuel Lewis, a merchant seaman and the author's grandfather, arrived in China in the 1930s. He married a…
Japanese woman and started a family in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. Describes how Lewis and his family, later forced to leave the country, viewed events of the 19th century. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.No, he's not a monkey, he's an ape and he's my son
By Hester Mundis. 1976
No end in sight: my life as a blind Iditarod racer
By Rachael Scdoris, Rick Steber. 2006
Twenty-one-year-old author discusses her Oregon childhood, her experience with low vision, and her determination to become a professional sled dog…
racer. Describes being introduced to the sport by her father, becoming the youngest athlete to win a five-hundred-mile race, and the obstacles she overcame to qualify for the Iditarod. 2006.Night song of the last tram: a Glasgow memoir
By Robert Douglas. 2005
This is a colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a…
Glasgow tenement- during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. Strong language. 2005.My world: the extraordinary life of Gail Taylor : an autobiography
By Gail Taylor. 1997
Gail Taylor was born with cerebral palsy, she is blind, will never walk, and was unable to talk until the…
age of nine. However she can now converse in seven languages, Gail has perfect pitch, loves music and takes an interest in all sports. Gail swims and rides, and since passing her Radio Amateurs' Examination, she talks to people all over the world. Her extraordinary story of achievement against the odds is courageous and inspiring. 1997.Nagasaki: life after nuclear war
By Susan Southard. 2015
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand…
experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. 2015.Naked
By David Sedaris. 1997
A humorous memoir of bizarre and absurd experiences with family, friends, and strangers. The title essay recounts the author's visit…
to a nudist colony, where he painfully faces coming to terms with his naked self. Strong language. 1997.Nancy: a portrait of my years with Nancy Reagan
By Michael K Deaver. 2004
The author recounts her journey to Tibet, where she opened a school for blind children to teach them the Tibetan…
braille system she devised while a University of Bonn student. Tenberken describes losing her sight at age twelve, her education, establishing her school, and founding the organization Braille without Borders. 2003.My father came from Italy: A Daughter's Memoir Of Reunion
By Maria Coletta McLean. 2000
A retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory returned to Supino, his native Italian village, after sixty-four years. Together…
with his youngest daughter and her husband, they retrace history and pray to the Saint of Special Favours for a final and miraculous gift. 2000.My girls: a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
By Lindsay Harrison, Todd Fisher. 2018
My mother's daughter: a memoir
By Rona Maynard. 2007
A woman's identify is forged in her relationship with her mother, whether close and tender or fraught with conflict. This…
book will ring true for every reader who has struggled to be her own woman while still being her mother's daughter. 2007.My childhood and yours: happy memories of growing up
By Robert Thomas Allen. 1977
My family and other animals
By Gerald Durrell. 1980
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family…
would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. 1980.My life with Martin Luther King, Jr
By Coretta Scott King. 1969
Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing…
appalling human rights abuse by the US funded regime of the President of Islam Karimov. In this memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. 2007.Mon petit coeur de beurre
By Natasha St-Pier. 2017
En 2015, après l'échographie du quatrième mois de grossesse, Natasha St-Pier attend de son médecin la réponse habituelle : "…
Tout va bien ". Au lieu de cela, celui-ci s'écrie fermement : " On va le sauver, votre bébé ! " Et pour Natasha, l'enfer commence... Son fils Bixente est atteint d'une malformation cardiaque à hauts risques, avec la possibilité de la trisomie 21. Seule l'amniocentèse éclaircira ce point. Natasha risque d'être confrontée au choix entre mettre au monde un enfant handicapé ou interrompre la grossesse, à un moment où il ne sera plus un foetus, mais un bébé... Elle échappera à ce dilemme, mais pas à l'opération à coeur ouvert que Bixente devra subir à quatre mois, et qui n'est pas sans danger. " Mon beau petit garçon, on allait le couper en deux... Pendant les mois qui précèdent l'opération, j'ai l'impression de vivre en sursis... " Et le jour J arrive. " Peut-être est-ce ma dernière nuit avec lui. Peut-être qu'il ne reviendra pas... Peut-être qu'il reviendra, mais aura besoin d'un pacemaker. Si c'est ma dernière nuit avec lui, je veux le garder dans mes bras... " L'opération a réussi. Mais Natasha nous décrit ce parcours affolant où il faut pourtant maîtriser l'angoisse, soulignant le soutien sans faille du corps médical, et nous livrant les confidences d'autres parents dans sa situation. 2017.Mon frère le Che
By Juan Martin Guevara, Armelle Vincent. 2016
" Quand les Guevara apprirent la mort du Che, à la une des journaux, ils décidèrent de garder le silence.…
Cinquante ans plus tard, il est temps pour son frère cadet, Juan Martin, de partager ses souvenirs, de dévoiler qui était le Che dans l'intimité. Juan Martin fait revivre ainsi ce frère aîné attentif et protecteur, complice des canulars et des escapades. Il raconte les deux mois extraordinaires qu'il a passés à La Havane aux côtés du Comandante, en 1959, au coeur de la révolution cubaine. Il se souvient de l'aventurier idéaliste qu'il a adulé, de l'intellectuel engagé dont les parents, excentriques, cultivés et bohèmes, mais aussi les frères et soeurs, ont participé à l'éveil politique. Dans ce récit autobiographique, Juan Martin Guevara oeuvre enfin pour que les valeurs du Che deviennent une source d'inspiration pour les plus jeunes. " -- 4e de couv.Mon petit garçon des rizières (Collection Vécu)
By Reine Schiller. 1980
En avril 1975, alors que Saigon va tomber, une journaliste française fuit avec un jeune orphelin vietnamien de quatre ans.…
Ce récit, c'est celui de l'odyssée qui les amènera à Londres, c'est aussi celui d'une "maternité" pas comme les autres. 1980.Mon frère
By Herman Melville, Daniel Pennac. 2018
Je ne sais rien de mon frère mort si ce n'est que je l'ai aimé. Il me manque comme personne…
mais je ne sais pas qui j'ai perdu. J'ai perdu le bonheur de sa compagnie, la gratuité de son affection, la sérénité de ses jugements, la complicité de son humour, la paix. J'ai perdu ce qui restait de douceur au monde. Mais qui ai-je perdu ? 2018.