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The Gospel of Thomas: the hidden sayings of Jesus
By Harold Bloom, Marvin W Meyer. 1992
An English translation of 114 wise sayings attributed to Jesus as collected in the Coptic text found near Nag Hammadi…
in Upper Egypt. Discusses the history of the writings. Explanatory notes follow. Includes an interpretive essay by Harold Bloom. c1992.The circus at the edge of the earth: travels with the Great Wallenda Circus
By Charles Wilkins. 1998
The author travelled over three-thousand kilometres in Canada in order to get the inside story on life with a travelling…
circus. He vividly describes the seductive freedoms and horrific risks of traditional circus life. He also shares the lives of the circus performers and their motivations for becoming a member of a travelling troupe. 1998.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Saints preserve us!: everything you need to know about every saint you'll ever need
By Rosemary Rogers, Sean Kelly. 1993
Designed to help you determine your patron saints, this book provides a biographical listing of saints arranged alphabetically, a calendar…
of saints by day of the year, and a list of patron saints for such categories as ethnicity, occupation, illness, and lifestyle. 1993.L'homme qui marche
By Jean Béliveau, Géraldine Woessner. 2013
Après la faillite de son entreprise d'enseignes lumineuses, Jean Béliveau est parti sur un coup de têtele jour de ses…
quarante-cinq ans, le 18 août 2000, de Montréal. Il est rentré chez lui le 16 octobre 2011 après avoir parcouru 75 543 km à travers 64 pays. Il a réussi sans préparation à effectuer la plus longue marche ininterrompue autour du monde et celle-ci a été reconnue par l'Unesco dans le cadre de la décennie internationale dédiée à la paix pour les enfants. Durant ces onze années, le marcheur porte turban et grande barbe au Soudan, mange des insectes en Afrique, du chien en Corée et du serpent en Chine. Il dort sous les ponts, dans des foyers pour sans-abri, voire dans des prisons, mais la plupart du temps chez des gens séduits par son aventure. 2013.Milarepa
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 1997
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665 (McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion)
By Patricia Simpson. 1997
Marguerite Bourgeoys is one of the most important figures in Quebec's religious and social history. In 1658 she founded the…
first school in the city of Montreal. From there she went on to establish a community of uncloistered women to assist in the education of women and children in New France. Bourgeoys was beatified in 1950 and canonized in 1982. She is still revered by many today. 1997.La vie est plus forte que la mort
By Marie-Paul Ross. 2013
Comment une petite fille fragile et condamnée par les médecins a-t-elle pu mener une vie de sœur missionnaire aux quatre…
coins du monde ? Comment une religieuse en est-elle arrivée à faire un doctorat de sexologie pour lutter contre les abus dont sont victimes les jeunes garçons et filles un peu partout sur la planète ? Comment a-t-elle affronté la misère, la souffrance et le terrorisme sans jamais perdre la foi ? La vie de Marie-Paul Ross est un pari gagné contre l’adversité. 2013.Au-delà des pyramides
By Douglas Kennedy, Bernard Cohen. 2010
Douglas Kennedy au pays des pharaons, ou comment un jeune auteur encore inconnu débarque en Égypte, il y a plus…
de vingt ans, bien décidé à éviter les pyramides, la croisière sur le Nil et autres classiques du voyage en Orient. D'Alexandrie à Assouan en auto-stop, de l'oasis de Siwa aux bidonvilles du Caire, une fascinante plongée dans l'envers du décor, où l'apprenti écrivain va multiplier les rencontres. Des confrontations hilarantes, des scènes cocasses pour les errances de cet Américain en terre musulmane. 2010. Titre uniforme: Beyond the pyramids.Fresh-air fiend: travel writings 1985-2000
By Paul Theroux. 2000
A collection of essays and articles written over a fifteen year period about the author's various experiences on five continents.…
In addition to the travel pieces, Theroux also includes his reminiscences, experiences as a kayaker and cyclist, readings from books of travel, profiles and appreciations of other writers, and works on the practices of other cultures. 2000.Abel's outback: explorations and misadventures on six continents, 1990-2000
By Allen J Abel. 2001
For many years, as a news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has travelled to some of the world's…
most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories. This is a collection of travel pieces about his adventures on all six continents over a ten-year period. 2001.Saints and angels
By Claire Llewellyn. 2003
Leaving the Saints: one child's story of survival and hope
By Martha Nibley Beck. 2005
As "Mormon royalty" within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented…
by the Church's high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them. But when she was hired to teach at Brigham Young University, Martha was troubled by the way the Church's elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church's most prominent authorities. 2005.The full Montezuma: around Central America and the Caribbean with the girl next door
By Peter Moore. 2001
Travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him…
on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters. Over the next six months they battled hurricanes, mosquitoes, uncooperative border officials and over-sexed Mexican commuters, and along the way they learnt rather more about each other than they really wanted to. 2001.Baptism of fire
By Frank Collins. 1997
Following a life of gang-led petty crime and poverty in Newcastle, Frank Collins finally joined the SAS. After spending time…
in America and Northern Ireland there was nothing he didn't know about guns and killing. Then, out of the blue, he experienced an extraordinary religious conversion, so powerful that he was compelled to change his life. He is now ordained as a Church of England minister.In 2006 singer-songwriter Flip Grater went on an epic tour of New Zealand to promote her debut album. Traveling the…
length and breadth of the country she sang for her supper in small towns and big cities, blagging accommodation, food and most importantly recipes along the way. With a cast of unusual characters, this book is the ultimate cookbook/tour diary, and a snapshot of Kiwi subculture punctuated by 48 delicious recipes. c2007.François, le pape des pauvres
By Andrea Tornielli, Jean-Pierre Prévost. 2013
" Cet ouvrage montre, à travers les textes, les idées, les mots du pape François, comment ce fils d'immigrés, à…
la fois simple et érudit, fait de l'exigence évangélique et de la non-violence, les piliers de sa pastorale.Une biographie complète, qui donne les clefs pour comprendre cette personnalité plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît et révèle un pasteur qui incarne le renouvellement et la purification de l'Église. " -- 4e de couv.A faith that challenges: the life of Jim McSheffrey (Out of the ordinary)
By Maura Hanrahan. 2002
Written by a friend, who knew firsthand his many strengths as well as his faults, this is a portrait of…
Jim McSheffrey, a complex yet humble man who pursued religious life as a Jesuit brother. Shy and awkward, McSheffrey became passionate about justice in his young adult years. While working in Ontario with the Children's Aid Society and a half-way house, and then with unemployed people in Newfoundland, he developed a profound respect for the poor. Never a mere do-gooder, McSheffrey acquired a strong, lifelong commitment to social reform and community-building in every region of Canada in which he lived and worked. 2002.Gem: the life of Sister Mac, Geraldine MacNamara (Out of the ordinary)
By Rosemary Radford Ruether, Eleanor Joyce Stebner. 2001
A petite Winnipeg nun founded a drop-in centre that soon became a beacon of hope for Native youth in the…
city's poorest neighbourhood; 25 years later, Rossbrook House remains a thriving school, training centre and a place for young people to socialize safely. This "social-spiritual" biography explores how MacNamara - a privileged, well-educated religious sister - was changed by the experience of living with and serving the poor, especially Native young people. Her personal journals, her speeches and writings, and interviews with people who knew her reveal both the internal and external person. 2001. (Out of the ordinary ; 1)La foi des gens d'ici: en marge du Synode du diocèse de Québec
By Lucien Robitaille. 1994