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By György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.By Christine Wicker, Louise Troh. 2015
Louise Troh--fiancée of Thomas Eric Dunca, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America--breaks her silence about her…
experience in this deeply moving memoir, chronicling the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. 2015.By James Frey. 2005
James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with "My Friend Leonard". After a…
stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab, Leonard. A larger-than-life mobster, Leonard becomes James' loyal and generous adoptive father, teaching him to "live boldly." 2005.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 Mark Fuhrman. 1997
A former Los Angeles Police Department detective chronicles his June 13, 1994 investigation of the murders of Nicole Simpson and…
Ron Goldman. He recounts his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial, as well as his own subsequent trial for perjury. The author maintains he was targeted as a scapegoat in the Simpson case. Descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1997.By Joyce Johnson. 2004
Author Johnson recounts three life-defining relationships with the men who mattered most to her. She begins with her grandfather, for…
whom she was named, but who committed suicide before she was born. Following a career as a child actress, complete with an overbearing stage mother who ruined her relationship with her father, she describes her two difficult marriages to painters. A self-portrait that examines - from a woman's perspective - the far-reaching reverberations of being fatherless. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.By Primo Levi. 1986
These stories recount the rare moments during Primo Levi's stark existence in Auschwitz when he came across an act of…
sheer beauty, an instant of light in the grey monotone, mostly when someone, even in these conditions of ultimate servitude, could and did behave with human decency: an old Jew retelling the stories of Lilith, a stolen radish to prove an honest man could steal, and a barracks chief who appreciated the meaning of Yom Kippur. 1986.By Gil Courtemanche. 1989
Avec une verve piquante et souvent corrosive, l'auteur exprime ses opinions sur la société, sur la politique et les hommes…
politiques, sur le journalisme et les médias d'information, sur le syndicalisme, sur la langue, sur l'éducation, etc. Malgré certains jugements excessifs, cet ouvrage comporte beaucoup d'éléments intéressants qui plairont à certains et en irriteront d'autres, selon les idéologies personelles de chacun.By Roger Faligot. 2008
Cette enquête menée sur plusieurs années sur les services de renseignements chinois et les coulisses de la politique internationale de…
Pékin est issue des archives américaines, françaises, russes et chinoises. L'auteur a interviewé des spécialistes de la diplomatie, des responsables de la défense, et met à jour les performances du renseignement chinois fondées sur l'art de la guerre secrète. 2008.By Keith Jeffery. 2010
This book is an examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world. Essential reading for anyone…
interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century. 2010.By Anne Bragance. 1995
Journaliste, essayiste, Jules Roy est à la fois cela et plus que tout cela : un homme au destin singulier…
et mêlé à l'histoire du siècle. Pied-noir, pétainiste en 1940, pilote dans la R.A.F. après 1942, cet officier d'active disciple de Camus rompt avec l'armée à cause de ce qu'il a vu en Indochine. La guerre d'Algérie achèvera la mutation et fera un anticolonialiste de cet enfant de la Mitidja. De Gaulle, Malraux, Mitterrand, Sartre, cent autres figures traversent ces passionnants Mémoires, salués comme un événement lors de leur parution. 1989.By Marita Lorenz, Wilfred Huismann, Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Ole Hansen-Löve. 2001
Récit autobiographique de Marita Lorenz. Enrôlée par la CIA dans les années 1960, elle devra, entre autres missions, retourner à…
Cuba afin de tenter d'empoisonner le leader cubain Fidel Castro. 2001.By Hugo Horiot. 2013
" Ce livre est une histoire vraie. L'autoportrait d'un enfant qui mène une guerre sans merci contre lui-même et les…
autres. Un enfant autiste Asperger. Aujourd'hui, le petit guerrier est devenu un adulte serein qui a décidé de replonger en enfance. Il a quatre ans, huit ans, douze ans. Il se cogne à l'absurdité de la vie comme un papillon contre une lampe. C'est net, juste, parfois cruel. Les larmes sont silencieuses et la tendresse jaillit comme l'éclair. Un texte fascinant, dans la lignée des grands récits sur l'autisme. " -- 4e de couv.By Normand Lester. 1998
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1974
Covers the years when Mrs. Lindbergh was copilot, navigator, photographer, log keeper, and radio operator for her famous husband on…
their legendary flights to Greenland, Ireland, Atlantic Island, and Africa. Sequel to "Hour of gold, hour of lead", followed by "The flower and the nettle" (DC16035). 1974.By Rainer Maria Rilke. 1937
Dix lettres adressées a un jeune homme que l'auteur ne connaissait pas et dans les quelles il revient inlassablement sur…
les questions essentielles qui se posent au poéte et au créateur. Ces lettres de Rilke sont à la fois un moyen d'acces priviligie à son univers et un manuel de la vie créatrice de portée universelle. 1984, c1937.By Ingrid Betancourt, Mélanie Delloye-Betancourt, Lorenzo Delloye-Bettancourt. 2008
By Monica Hopkins. 1981
Monica Hopkins arrived in Alberta in 1909 with little knowledge of the roughneck society of cowboy country. She wrote this…
series of essay-like monthly letters to her friends and relatives. c1981.By Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy. 2004
This correspondence takes the Baltic-born philosopher from his adopted homeland of England, where he wholeheartedly assimilated himself in the scholarly…
world, to diplomatic postings in wartime Washington, D.C., and Soviet Russia on the eve of the Cold War. He also reports from holidays and tours in Austria, Italy and Palestine during the mounting tensions in the 1930s, and converses with philosophers, Zionists, literary critics and his parents. 2004. Uniform title: Correspondence.