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By Fabrice Luchini. 2016
Fabrice Luchini est un kaléidoscope, un feu d'artifice, du costaud qui aspire à la légèreté. Comment cet autodidacte, apprenti coiffeur,…
qui a arrêté l'école à quatorze ans, peut-il maintenant incarner l'esprit et le panache de la langue française? Plus qu'un simple autoportrait littéraire, Comédie française est le récit d'une obsession, "la recherche frénétique et pathétique d'une note qui se voudrait être la note parfaite musicale". Depuis quarante ans, il rumine, reprend, raffine et reprend encore les textes de Céline, La Fontaine et Rimbaud afin de nous les donner à entendre. Son amour des oeuvres est contagieux. Après avoir refermé sa Comédie française, le lecteur, ébloui, n'aura qu'une seule envie : courir relire les maîtres qu'il sert et a si bien servis. 2016.By Shirley MacLaine. 1988
Shirley MacLaine nous livre ici un remarquable journal de sa vie et de ses méditations. Elle nous parle de sa…
carrière, de son mariage et de ses mystérieux voyages initiatiques à travers le monde entier. 1988. Titre uniforme: Don't fall off the mountain.Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.By Michelle Tisseyre. 1998
À travers une série de courts chapitres, tous coiffés d'un titre de circonstance, Michelle Tisseyre relate ses souvenirs. Ceux-ci gravitent…
en grande partie autour du monde de l'enfance, des années d'apprentissage (elle a été la première Canadienne-française à l'Université McGill), des multiples rebondissements de sa carrière, de ses entrevues les plus marquantes, mais aussi de sa vie familiale et amoureuse. Des mémoires intimes qui parlent très peu de sa vie politique.By Donald Spoto. 1997
An informative account of the life and career of Ingrid Bergman, who has appeared in 49 feature films and nine…
plays over a period of five decades. The book tells of her controversial affairs and how her relationship with the Italian director Roberto Rossellini scandalized America. 1997.By Penny Petrone. 1988
The Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral historic tradition in their own language and a more recent tradition…
of written English. This collection includes legends, poetry, interviews, letters, essays, speeches and fiction. 1988.By Paulette Jiles. 1995
Paulette Jiles first went to northern Ontario as a journalist for the CBC in 1974. Living and working with the…
Cree and Ojibway people of the north, she writes about the introduction of new technologies and communications systems, and their clash with traditional native culture, during her seven years there. 1995.By Ted Jordan. 1989
The author met Marilyn Monroe when she was 17-years-old and married to merchant mariner Jim Daugherty. He describes their love…
affair, as well as her sexual escapades with others, including Montgomery Clift and Bugsy Siegel. 1989.By Lawrence J Quirk. 1988
Biography of the quintessential Hollywood star of the golden age. Canadian-born, Norma went first to New York to be an…
actress, but a Hollywood contract soon took her to the West Coast where she met and married Irving Thalberg, the mogul in charge of production at the MGM studios. 1988.By Martin Gottfried. 1994
This is the fascinating story of an energetic, athletic, curious kid from Brooklyn who became an utterly original star, parleying…
his multiple talents into a career as one of the most popular and adored entertainers in American history. But while he was fostering this image, Kaye is revealed as a man of paradox and contradiction. 1994.By Murray Howe. 2017
Unlike his two brothers, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional…
athlete. Yet, his failure brought him to the realization that in truth, his dream wasn't to be a pro hockey player. His dream was to be his father, Gordie Howe. To be amazing at something, but humble and gracious. To be courageous, and stand up for the little guy. To be a hero. You don't need to be a hockey player to do that. What he learned was that it is a waste of time wishing you were like someone else. We need to identify and embrace our gifts. Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice. Bestseller. 2017.By Roger Moore, Gareth Owen. 2009
Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of…
Hollywood and on to international superstardom. It features myriad stories from his personal life - from his childhood in London and experiences during the Second World War, to the happy and turbulent times in his later life. Bestseller. 2009.By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.By Alec Baldwin. 2017
By Alan Alda. 2005
Alda, the son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, spent his early childhood backstage and…
went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. This is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man, the turning points in his life, and the events that would make him what he is today. 2005.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.By Rue McClanahan. 2007
Rue McClanahan, perhaps best known for her Golden Girls role, shares her personal story. From her arrival in New York…
with little money to her name, to her time studying with theater legend Uta Hagen, to her first television role on All in the Family, to The Golden Girls years and beyond, Rue chronicles her life in Hollywood--and all the men (five big ones) and adventures that happened along the way. Now happily married to her soul mate, Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with age--and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big. 2007.By Russell Brand. 2007
In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. Before the fame, however, Russell's life was anything but glamorous.…
In 2003 Russell was told that he would be in prison, a mental hospital, or dead within six months unless he went into rehab. He has now been clean for three years, and hasn't looked back since. This is Russell's story. Strong language. 2007.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.By Margot Peters. 1984