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Notre histoire: Pingru et Meitang
By Pingru Rao, François Dubois. 2016
En 2008, à la mort de sa femme Meitang, Rao Pingru entreprend de conjurer le deuil par l'encre et l'aquarelle…
en retraçant, in memoriam et en dessin, le destin de sa famille. Dans son appartement shanghaïen, le vieil homme se souvient du sel des jours qu'il a partagés avec Meitang et de leur vie rythmée par les battements d'une Chine en ébullition. De sa petite enfance à son mariage avec celle qui porte aux lèvres une touche d'écarlate, de son engagement militaire lors de la guerre contre le Japon à son internement dans un camp de rééducation où il resta vingt ans, de l'établissement de sa famille à Shanghai à la maladie de son épouse. Rao Pingru restitue dans cette histoire les jours de fête comme les jours difficiles et livre une oeuvre qui ne ressemble à aucune autre, une vie dessinée à l'échelle de la Chine. À chaque page d'un récit à la fois tendre, grave et poétique, la petite et la grande histoire, la voix unique de Rao Pingru et la marche des évolutions politiques du pays se rejoignent, donnant à lire un témoignage fort sur la vie des héros ordinaires de la Chine du siècle passé ainsi qu'une magnifique histoire d'amour. 2016.Set against the backdrop of two revolutions and two world wars, and crossing three continents, this is the true saga…
of one woman's remarkable courage and resilience in the face of some of the twentieth century's gravest human tragedies. 2005.Jos Montferrand, le magnifique
By Jean Côté. 1980
Jos Montferrand, gaillard à la force surhumaine, le grand Jos, comme on l'appelait familièrement, s'illustra par son intelligence, son gout…
de l'aventure, son mépris du danger et surtout son patriotisme. Il fut une figure dominante de la résistance des Canadiens français au début du 19e siècle. 1980.Missing, porté disparu
By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.Marie Gérin-Lajoie: De Mere En Fille, La Cause Des Femmes
By Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon. 1985
Marie Gérin-Lajoie est sans doute l'une des plus belles figures du 20e siècle québécois. Première bachelière canadienne-française, elle a été…
une militante exemplaire dans la cause de l'éducation des femmes et une véritable pionnière dans le domaine du service social. 1985.Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
By Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.Noah Webster: weaver of words
By Pegi Deitz Shea, Monica Vachula. 2011
Presents the life and accomplishments of the American lexicographer, who wrote the first American dictionary, published the first daily newspaper,…
created the first American insurance company, and was responsible for the first copyright law. Grades 4-7. 2011.Nelson Mandela: "non à l'apartheid"
By Véronique Tadjo. 2010
Ce titre transporte le lecteur en 1941, dans une Afrique du Sud ravagée par l'Apartheid. Au fil des pages, le…
lecteur marche dans les traces de Nelson Mandela, qui prend la parole pour raconter l'injustice vécue par son peuple, sa lutte pour offrir à ce dernier des droits égaux à ceux des Blancs, sa condamnation à la réclusion à perpétuité, les conditions d'emprisonnement inhumaines dans lesquelles il fut maintenu pendant 27 ans, la manière dont les gens se sont mobilisés à un niveau international afin de le libérer, puis sa libération et la tenue de premières élections démocratiques. Quelques descriptions de violence. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2010.At six years old Charles Mulli woke up one morning in his hut to find he had been completely abandoned…
by both parents. All alone, he fell into a life of abject poverty, forcing Mulli to wander from hut to hut begging for food for his very survival, unable even to attend school. As a teenager Mulli started a small taxi company, which grew to be very successful. Eventually he expanded his business ventures to include real estate, insurance, and oil and gas distribution, becoming a highly successful businessman. But despite all his success, the growing struggle in his heart over the plight of thousands of Kenyan street children remained strong, until one day he surrendered to the call of God on his life to sell everything he owned and begin rescuing street children from the slums of Kenya. 2016.Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
By Frederick Douglass. 1991
Napoleon, 1812
By Nigel Nicolson. 1985
In the six months between June and December 1812, nearly half a million men died. As Napoleon commenced his invasion…
of Russia, he was at the height of his powers; by the end, he faced the destruction of his empire. Why did he invade Russia, and why did he fail? The author goes back to the original documents to try to find an answer to these and other questions. 1985.Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life
By Alan Schom. 1997
A critical portrait of the legendary ruler of France, whose empire controlled much of Europe. Covers "all aspects of his…
life," tracing his obscure Corsican youth, his rise to power, his military campaigns, his defeat at Waterloo, and his death in exile in 1821. Descriptions of violence. 1997.My famous evening: Nova Scotia sojourns, diaries & preoccupations (National Geographic directions)
By Howard A Norman. 2004
Canadian author Norman has travelled to Nova Scotia over the decades, collecting stories, myths, and memories. He recounts the story…
of Marlais Quire, who travelled to New York in the 1920's to hear Joseph Conrad, talks about forerunners (eerie omens of tragedy well known to seafaring communities), and relates a folktale about a protective mythic creature. He also retraces the steps of poet Elizabeth Bishop, who lived in Nova Scotia as a child, with historian, poet, and scholar Sandra Barry. 2004.My name is number 4: a true story
By Ting-Xing Ye. 2007
After the death of both her parents, Ting-xing and her four siblings endured the brutality of Red Guard attacks on…
their schools and even their house as they struggled against poverty and hunger. Then at sixteen, she was exiled to a prison farm far from home. This is the story of Ting-xing's tumultuous life, turned upside down by China's Cultural Revolution. Some strong language. 2007.Mrs. Fitzherbert and sons
By Jim Foord-Kelcey, Philippa Foord-Kelcey. 1991
King George IV is best remembered for his extravagant lifestyle and his efforts to divorce his wife, Caroline of Brunswick.…
But many are unaware that, in 1784, when he was still the Prince of Wales, George secretly married a Roman Catholic widow named Maria Fitzherbert. However, without the consent of his father, the marriage was considered invalid under the Royal Marriages Act. 1991.Mrs. King: the life and times of Isabel Mackenzie King
By Charlotte Gray. 1997
Isabel Mackenzie King was the daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie and the mother of Canada's longest serving prime minister, William…
Lyon Mackenzie King. While her son attempted to portray her as the ideal woman, his biographers insisted that she was manipulative and ambitious, forcing her son into politics so that he could support the family. Gray attempts to bring her story to light and reveal the real Mrs. King, a woman who witnessed some of the most important events of Canadian history. Canada Reads 2012. c1997.Mrs. L: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
By Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague. 1981
Murder of a Medici princess
By Caroline Murphy. 2008
Because Isabella de' Medici was close to her father, Cosimo, she was allowed to live an autonomous life apart from…
her abusive husband. After Cosimo's death, his spiteful eldest son, Francesco, reneged on the inheritance Cosimo left Isabella and her children, and then sanctioned the murder of both Isabella and her sister-in-law Leonora. This account of a lesser-known Medici daughter also describes an extraordinary woman who paid the ultimate price for flouting her era's traditional gender roles. 2008.Monet
By Pascal Bonafoux. 2007
"Au jour le jour de sa correspondance - car Monet ne cesse d'écrire, de compter et surtout de douter -…
voici le récit d'une vie magnifique obsédée par l'accomplissement d'une oeuvre sublime". Par un écrivain et historien de l'art qui a déjà consacré plusieurs ouvrages à des peintres, notamment Van Gogh et Cézanne. 2007.