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My friend Leonard
By James Frey. 2005
James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with "My Friend Leonard". After a…
stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab, Leonard. A larger-than-life mobster, Leonard becomes James' loyal and generous adoptive father, teaching him to "live boldly." 2005.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.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.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.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.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.Mars et Vénus en amour: pour que la passion résiste au temps
By John Gray. 1999
De l'auteur de "Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes de Vénus" (FD02739). Un guide des techniques amoureuses qui met…
l'accent sur les différences de réactions selon les sexes pour améliorer les communications et l'intimité dans le couple.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.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.Letters to a spiritual seeker
By Henry David Thoreau, Bradley P Dean, Harrison G Blake. 2004
Thoreau's writings on nature, liberty, justice, and solitude are infused with spirituality, as was his quest to live an honourable…
life. He addressed these matters in letters to Harrison Blake, an ex-Unitarian minister who initiated their 13-year correspondence in 1848. Thoreau, with his attentiveness to nature and deep study of both Eastern and Western religious traditions, mused on work, contemplation, and responsibility. 2004.Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
By Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson. 1981
Selection of the author’s letters written during the seventeen years chronicled in "Out of Africa". Reveals a woman who loved…
life and the beauty of Africa and had the strength to survive her harsh experiences there, including chronic disease, divorce, and the loss of her beloved farm. 1981. Uniform title: Breve fra Afrika.Letters of Marshall McLuhan
By Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corrine McLuhan, William Toye. 1987
This collection of selected letters reveals the background to McLuhan's life and intellectual growth, and provides an informal gloss of…
the ideas which made him famous. The letters are divided into three periods in his life -- 1931-1936, covering his undergraduate years; 1936-1946, covering his graduate work and early teaching career; and from 1946, when he began teaching at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, to his stroke in 1979. His correspondents included such figures as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Pierre Trudeau. 1987.Letters from the field, 1925-1975 (World perspectives ; #52)
By Margaret Mead. 1977
Ma saison en enfer: 130 jours de captivité aux mains d'Al-Qaïda ((Dossiers et documents).)
By Robert R Fowler, Émile Martel, Nicole Perron-Martel. 2013
'' Le 14 décembre 2008, Robert Fowler, envoyé spécial du Secrétaire des Nations Unies au Niger, est enlevé par des…
membres d'Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique (AQMI). Un véritable cauchemar commence alors. Accompagné dans sa captivité par son collègue Louis Guay, Robert Fowler a vécu, dormi et mangé avec ses ravisseurs pendant plus de quatre mois, ce qui lui a permis d'acquérir une connaissance de première main du mouvement terroriste le plus craint à l'échelle mondiale. Pendant ces 130 jours infernaux, Robert Fowler a dû survivre aux conditions extrêmes caractéristiques du désert, entièrement à la merci du bon vouloir de ses ravisseurs à l'humeur changeante, en proie à la peur constante de mourir. Son enlèvement, sa libération et ses interventions dans les médias par la suite ont contribué à jeter un éclairage nouveau sur la confrontation entre les démocraties occidentales et le fondamentalisme islamiste violent. '' -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: A season in hell.