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Frida Kahlo: la beauté terrible (Documents)
By Gérard De Cortanze. 2011
Bouquet de bohème (Bibliothèque Albin Michel #24)
By Roland Dorgelès. 1989
Je danserai pour toi (Le Temps d'une vie)
By Michel Cool, Mireille Nègre. 1984
À vingt-huit ans, en pleine gloire, Mireille Nègre, danseuse à l'opéra de Paris, découvre Dieu. Conversion radicale. Elle entre au…
Carmel. Elle y restera 10 ans. Dans ce livre elle raconte son combat spirituel. 1984.Gauguin, le rêveur de Tahiti
By Bernard Genies. 2003
En mars 1891, Paul Gauguin s'embarque pour Tahiti. Il va rejoindre cette terre lointaine afin d'y côtoyer, comme il l'affirme,…
«le sauvage, le primitif ». Il a quarante-trois ans et a décidé de tout sacrifier à son art. Lui qui a commencé par être agent remisier à la Bourse, gagnant bien sa vie, père de cinq enfants, il abandonne sa famille, ses amis. Ce premier séjour va durer deux ans. De retour en France, Gauguin espère que les soixante-dix toiles qu'il a peintes en Polynésie vont séduire les marchands et les critiques. C'est un échec total. Blessé, Gauguin décide de reprendre le chemin de Tahiti, où il passera les huit dernières années de sa vie. Pourquoi a-t-il résolu de s'enfuir, si loin du monde ? Qui sont les êtres, quelles sont les circonstances qui l'ont incité à prendre une décision qui le condamne à l'oubli ? Mystère d'un départ, énigme aussi que les plus extraordinaires chefs-d'oeuvre de Gauguin soient contemporains du cauchemar et de la désillusion. Seul, pauvre, rongé par la maladie, Gauguin dit en effet dans ses toiles la beauté du monde, ses fastes et ses secrets. Ce livre raconte une histoire. Celle d'un homme dont la vie peu à peu se consume sous le soleil brûlant des tropiques. Celle aussi d'un artiste qui revendiquait «le droit de tout oser». Oser l'audace, oser la beauté.Delacroix (Folio. Biographies ; #135)
By Frédéric Martinez. 2016
Une biographie du peintre dont la personnalité reste moins connue que ses oeuvres. Peintre officiel du second Empire, il fut…
tantôt encensé, tantôt méprisé pour ses choix artistiques. À la fois mondain et misanthrope, romantique et sauvage, il influença de nombreux artistes. 2016.Grasping heaven: Tami L. Fisk, a young doctor's journey to China and beyond
By Annelies Wilder-Smith, Einar P Wilder-Smith. 2010
Hope for the hopeless: the Charles Mulli mission
By Paul H Boge, Marina H Hofman Willard. 2012
Charles Mulli was abused by his father and abandoned by his family. Forced to beg from hut to hut in…
Kenya to survive, Mulli worked his way out of poverty and became a wealthy businessman, but never forgot the struggle of street children. Hearing the call of God, Mulli sold everything he owned and began rescuing street children from the slums of Kenya and gave them a home at Mully Children's Family. His journey of faith challenged him to trust Christ in desperate times, confront evil forces and believe in God for even greater miracles of healing and deliverance. And in the wake of the postelection violence that recently shook Kenya to its core, Mulli risked everything to follow the call of Christ and to bring hope to the hopeless. Sequel to "Father to the Fatherless". 2012.Chanel: her life, her world, the woman behind the legend
By Edmonde Charles-Roux, Nancy Amphoux. 1975
She revolutionized how women looked: she banned corsets, shortened skirts, and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel…
was an icon, but how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth? Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - Gabrielle Chanel fought constantly to escape the mundane. She rose from back-street milliner to become the head of a vast business empire, and socialised with Picasso, Stravinsky and Cocteau. The author also reveals one of Chanel's best-kept secrets - her love affair with a prodigal German spy. 2009, c1975. Uniform title: Irreguliere, ou, mon itineraire Chanel.Bent hope: a street journal
By Tim Huff. 2008
Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's unique and extensive twenty-year ministry among homeless and street-involved youth and adults…
in Toronto. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty that unexpectedly and supernaturally transform into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation. c2008.Klee Wyck
By Emily Carr. 1941
Emily Carr was called Klee Wyck, or Laughing One, by the Indians of British Columbia. In the late 1930's, she…
went among their coastal villages to paint their totems and record visual evidence of native culture. She also recorded her observations of the people and their way of life. First published in 1941. Winner of the 1941 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Keep on standing
By Darlene Polachic. 2002
The 1989 student massacre in Lubumbashi, Zaire under the brutal rule of dictator/president Mobutu Sese Seko was almost the end…
for brothers Michel, Fabian and Aliston Lwamba. Escaping with only their lives, that day was a grim and deadly reality marking the beginning of an incredible saga that changed their lives forever. During the chaos, the Lwambas were separated from each other, living in refugee camps for over five years, and leaving many of their relatives for dead. They survived violence, disease, depression and starvation before they met God and found in Him both the reason and the will to keep on standing. 2002.Jonathan Edwards, the great awakener: The Great Awakener (Hereos of the faith ; #5)
By Helen Kooiman Hosier. 1999
Known mostly for his sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Jonathan Edwards was a man of towering…
intellect, responsible in large part for America's first "Great Awakening." 1999.It's not what you think
By Chris Evans. 2009
Chris Evans' autobiography is a story of how a boy from a Warrington council estate who started work at 13…
and held down 20 different jobs by the time he left school; became the most widely acclaimed broadcaster of his generation. From the early death of his father that literally set him to work, to his meteoric rise in TV and radio, he will talk openly about the highs and lows of his, at times, turbulent career and how his drive to succeed impacted his personal life. Includes strong language. 2009.Isadora: portrait of the artist as a woman
By Fredrika Blair. 1986
I will love you forever: a true story about finding life, hope, and healing while caring for hospice babies
By Cori Salchert, Marianne Hering. 2018
In a sun scorched land: an African experience compiled from letters home
By Leona Lane. 2009
Yielding to the yearning for Africa, Leona and Cyril Lane left the comfort of family and friends in the Canadian…
North and took up the challenge of a volunteer assignment with C.PP.S. Mission Projects in Central Tanzania. It was not an easy time for them. They often felt isolated and unappreciated, suffered from Malaria and various, often violent stomach ailments, were tormented by mosquitoes, driver ants and flies, and faced injury every time they drove on the horrendous roads. Yet, in spite of those difficulties, it was, for them, one of life's most affirming experiences. 2009.Arthur Erickson: an architect's life
By David Stouck. 2013
Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher-architect, was renowned for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition and his…
epic vision of architecture for people. This first full biography traces his life from its modest origins to his emergence on the world stage. Grounded in interviews with Erickson and his family, friends and clients, "Arthur Erickson" is both an intimate portrait of the man and a stirring account of how he made his buildings work. 2013.Facing terror
By Carrie McDonnall. 2005
George Whitefield: pioneering evangelist (Heroes of the faith. #4.)
By Bruce Fish, Becky Durost Fish. 2000
Amy Carmichael: a life abandoned to God (Heroes Of The Faith Ser.)
By Sam Wellman. 1998
In 1895 Amy Carmichael embraced a mission that would last for the remaining 56 years of her life. The Dohnavur…
Fellowship in India would become, under her loving guidance, a place of sanctuary for more than a thousand orphans. This is her story. 1998.