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By Alma Mahler, Alexis Tautou. 2010
By Paul Auster. 2013
Cet autoportrait méditatif donne à voir les émotions, les rencontres et les lieux ayant marqué l'itinéraire de l'homme et de…
l'écrivain, et invite à une réflexion sur la fuite du temps. Titre uniforme: Winter journal.By Ishmael Beah, Jacques Martinache. 2008
Il s'appelle Ishmael Beah. Hier encore, c'était un enfant qui jouait à la guerre. Aujourd'hui, il la fait. Un jour…
de 1992, sa vie bascule brusquement dans le chaos. Faute de troupes, les deux camps - armée gouvernementale et groupes rebelles - enrôlent de force les enfants des villages capturés et leur apprennent à égorger, à torturer, à mutiler. Drogué, privé de tout repère moral, Ishmael devient insensible, incapable de réfléchir, transformé en machine à tuer. Une mission humanitaire va lui permettre de quitter l'armée et, lentement, de se réhabiliter. Descriptions explicites de violence. 2008. Titre uniforme: A long way gone.By Arlette Farge. 2016
1775, Paris est en colère. Mme Montjean, femme d’artisan, aussi : les heures passées à coudre, à s’occuper de son…
foyer, des enfants... Elle veut vivre comme les aristocrates, être belle et désirable, connaître l’ivresse des sens. Mme Montjean vient de découvrir certains plaisirs libertins : pinceries, fouet et culottes déboutonnées… d’où son effervescence. Pendant deux ans, elle va faire tourner les têtes et va conduire son mari au bord de la ruine. C’est lui qui a tenu le journal sans équivalent de cette crise de conscience, prélude à la Révolution. 2016.By Zarqa Nawaz. 2014
Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will "pimp…
out" her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. 'Little Mosque on the Prairie' brought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, and always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society. c2014.Jes Baker burst onto the body positivity scene when she created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating…
against all body types--a move that landed her on the Today show and garnered a loyal following for her raw, honest, and attitude-filled blog missives. Building on the manifesta power of Things, this memoir goes deeply into Jes' inner life, from growing up a fat girl to dating while fat. With material that will have listeners laughing and crying along with Jes' experience, this new book is a natural fit with her irreverent, open-book style. 2018.By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Josie Mijlstra. 2005
Jeune, féministe, en rupture avec l'idéologie islamique, engagée résolument à gauche, dans le camp progressiste, elle se retrouve face à…
une gauche confuse quand il s'agit d'aborder la question de l'égalité des droits et de la lutte contre l'intégrisme. Le réquisitoire est implacable, il s'appuie sur la réalité quotidienne de nombreuses femmes vivant dans des pays islamistes ou même occidentaux: les mariages forcés et les viols déguisés, la réclusion à vie, l'obsession maladive de la virginité, l'excision, tout ceci au nom du respect à la lettre de préceptes liés au Coran "écrit" au septième siècle de notre ère. 2005.By John Love, Barbara Love, Ethel Waxham, Frances Love Froidevaux. 1992
A chronological record of a twenty-three-year old college graduate's pursuit of a teaching career while being courted by a thirty-five-year…
old Wyoming rancher. Compiled from diaries, correspondence, and poems. Material was used in the PBS series "The West." 1992.By Christian Bobin. 1997
By Gilles Lapouge. 1999
By Harold Andrew Horwood. 2000
Following "A walk in the dreamtime", this is the second volume of Harold Horwood's memoirs. From the writing of "The…
foxes of beachy cove" to the founding of the Writers' Union of Canada, the author illuminates a period when the literary cultures of Newfoundland and Canada were just beginning to flourish. Including the author's encounters with writers such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Laurence and Farley Mowat. 2000.By Sid Cornish, Judith Cornish. 1998
By Mary Quin. 2005
The author details her experiences as an avid traveler and women's rights advocate. But her vacation in Yemen turned into…
a gripping account of ambush and captivity, violence and imminent death. Her personal journey through militant Islam and clandestine terrorist groups is an unforgettable firsthand account of curiosity, survival, and healing. c2005.By Susan Coyne. 2001
One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, 5-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an old stone fireplace, hidden…
beneath the leaves. Her father recalled a story about an elf who ran a boarding house there. Susan tended the fireplace, hoping that she would meet a real fairy and one day she found a letter from Nootsie Tah, a princess. 2001.By Thomas Hoving. 1981
The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the cloak-and-dagger story of his quest for an enigmatic medieval…
ivory cross, reputed to be a fake, that turns up in the hands of a shady dealer. Hoving describes the bitter contest among nations and museums for the incomparable cross, his chase through the clandestine world of international dealers, and his own desperate research to establish the authenticity of the artifact. 1981.By David Bellos, Helene Berr. 2008
I was abruptly assailed by the feeling that I had to describe reality, writes Bérr midway through this urgent firsthand…
account of the devastation of Paris's Jewish community during WWII. This journal, which begins in 1942 as the record of a young woman's intense and buzzing inner life, becomes over time a record of human suffering. 2008.By Timothy Findley, William Whitehead. 2003
A record of some of the voyages, real and imagined, that inspired and informed the author's award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and…
theatrical works. Also includes a selection of his many journal entries, letters, poems, speeches, and articles, creating a unique insight into the mind of one of Canada's most beloved writers. Some strong language. 2003.By Jess Smith. 2008
From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an…
old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. This book describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. 2008.By Mary Palmer. 1998
A memoir of forty-five years on Jedediah Island, a remote coastal island in British Columbia, by the woman who owned…
and preserved it in its natural state as a provincial marine park. The author includes the history of the island and describes her adventures while living there. 1998.By Sam Solecki, Jack McClelland. 1998
Selections from Jack McClelland's correspondence with many of the authors he brought to fame through his publishing house, McClelland &…
Stewart. His correspondents include Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler, Al Purdy, Gabrielle Roy, and Michael Ondaatje. Some strong language.