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Ramon
By Dominique Fernandez. 2008
Enquête de l'écrivain sur la personnalité et le parcours intellectuel et politique de son père, Ramon Fernandez, qui écrivait dans…
la Nouvelle Revue française et a été l'intime des nombreux écrivains de l'entre-deux-guerres. Prix essai France Télévisions 2009.Raisin wine: a boyhood in a different Muskoka
By James Bartleman. 2007
Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal…
oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Native mother's fight with depression flowed from that dilemma, while his father, a white, working class, guy who never had any money, made the best home brew in the village - and his specialty was raisin wine. 2007.Ranch of dreams: the heartwarming story of America's most unusual animal sanctuary
By Cleveland Amory. 1997
A noted animal lover recounts the childhood influences that formed his anticruelty outlook and led him to found the Black…
Beauty Ranch, a refuge for abused and abandoned animals. Tells the stories of the cats, dogs, goats, horses, and other creatures that have found sanctuary with the author. 1997.Racialized policing: aboriginal people's encounters with the police
By Elizabeth Comack. 2012
Draws on historical records and contemporary cases of Aboriginal–police relations, such as the “Starlight Tours” in Saskatoon, as well as…
interviews conducted with Aboriginal people in Winnipeg’s inner-city communities. Examines how race and racism inform the routine practices of police officers and how they affect their encounters with Aboriginal people, and argues that resolution requires a fundamental transformation in the structure and organization of policing. Includes violence. 2012.Quelques pas dans l'éternité: calepins de l'année 2012
By Jean-François Beauchemin. 2013
" Voici loccasion pour le lecteur de sapprocher dune pensée, dune imagination et dune sensibilité happées par le processus de…
création littéraire. Ces calepins aux allures de roman renferment en effet lessentiel des notes prises durant lannée 2012 par Jean-François Beauchemin en marge de son travail décrivain. Lensemble forme le portrait sans complaisance dun être toujours à laffût de ce destin que les faits, les songes, les sentiments et les idées semblent patiemment aménager pour lui. Chacune de ces brèves incursions dans la méditation de lhomme constitue une borne, marquant non seulement le passage du temps, mais aussi la voie dun esprit sans cesse en mouvement, hanté, ému, indigné, traversé par le doute et, surtout, imprégné de lintense joie quéprouve le créateur penché sur son ouvrage... " -- 4e de couv.Qu'ai-je donc fait
By Jean D' Ormesson. 2008
J. d'Ormesson reprend ici les thèmes qui lui sont familiers : la littérature, la paresse, l'ambition, les femmes, les voyages...…
Il livre ainsi sur lui et les siens des pans d'existence qu'il avait longtemps gommés, et jette sur notre condition une lumière où le bonheur et le tragique se mêlent inextricablement.Pulitzer: a life in politics, print, and power
By James McGrath Morris. 2010
Biography of Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) chronicles his rise from Jewish Hungarian immigrant to a major force in American politics. Discusses…
his management of the New York newspaper the World, his competition with William Randolph Hearst, his feud with Theodore Roosevelt, and the blindness and isolation of his later years. 2010.Prisonnière de sa propre vie: [récit biographique]
By Jacinthe Bélanger. 2015
" Mimi, c'est une vie entière dans un corps qui ne répond pas. C'est une vie à dépendre des autres,…
sans caresses, sans regards tendres. C'est une vie de préjugés, de rejets et de pitié. Et pourtant, Mimi, c'est aussi du bonheur, de l'amour et du positif à l'état pur... Coincée dans un corps dont l'amyotrophie spinale s'est emparée, Mireille entame un long périple dans l'amour, l'espoir et la persévérance avec une force extraordinaire. Elle dévoile a sa famille, qui se bat à ses côtés, de précieuses leçons de vie. Une oeuvre à la fois déroutante et inspirante. " -- 4e de couv.Profession femme
By Victor Eliane. 2008
Prendre acte: [mémoires]
By Andrée Yanacopoulo. 2013
" Ces poignants mémoires d'Andrée Yanacopoulo rendent compte du parcours de toute une vie, parcours intellectuel autant que personnel. Ils…
proposent un regard toujours étonnant sur un Québec en profonde transformation, et présentent son engagement constant pour la cause des femmes. Ils témoignent enfin, dans des termes dont la pudeur n'a d'égale que l'émotion qu'ils suscitent, d'un grand amour, exaltant, déchirant, qui a le sombre éclat des tragédies. " -- 4e de couv.Pour faire une longue histoire courte: entretien
By Roger Lemelin, Victor Lévy Beaulieu. 1991
Le but de ce livre est de parler de soi. Sa règle du jeu est le JE. Le meneur de…
ce jeu-je vivifiant est l'écrivain Victor-Levy Beaulieu, qui a atteint dans cet échange le sommet de l'art de son ancien métier de journaliste. 1991.Pour saluer Giono (Folio. 2448 #Vol. 38589)
By Pierre Magnan. 1990
Pour ceux et celles qui avaient trouvé des traces de Giono dans "La maison assassinée", voici une justification. Ce livre-hommage…
raconte les multiples rencontres entre l'auteur et l'écrivain de 1937 à 1944. Double éclairage donc sur Magnan lui-même en sa vocation et sur Giono vu de près dans le quotidien. c1990, 1993.Prairie fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Caroline Fraser. 2017
Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived…
blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser - the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series - masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 2017.Barbara Feinman Todd has spent a lifetime helping other people tell their stories. In 1982, fresh out of college, she…
began her career as a copy aide at the Washington Post and was instantly hooked on the smell (cigarettes, newsprint), the noise (yelling editors, the clacking of typewriter keys), and the energy of the newsroom. At the Post, she worked for Bob Woodward, first as his research assistant in the paper's investigative unit and, later, as his personal researcher for "Veil", his bestselling book on the CIA. A recommendation from Woodward led her to help his Watergate partner Carl Bernstein, who was struggling to finish his memoir, "Loyalties". She then assisted legendary editor Ben Bradlee on his autobiography "A Good Life", and Hillary Clinton on her bestselling "It Takes a Village". Revealing what it's like to get into the heads and hearts of some of our most compelling and powerful figures, Feinman offers authentic portraits that go beyond the carefully polished public personas she helped them create. 2017.Portuguese: the complete course II; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1999
Portuguese: the complete course I; Part B (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Portuguese: The short course (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 2000
Portuguese: the complete course II; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1999
Portuguese: the complete course I; Part A (Pimsleur language programs)
By Paul Pimsleur. 1998
Price paid: the fight for First Nations survival
By Bill Wilson, Bev Sellars. 2016
The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed for worldwide benefit.…
It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of a culture's fight for their rights and survival. It is Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view. Bestseller. 2016.