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By Deborah Ellis. 2005
In the summer of 2003, author Ellis travelled to Malawi and Zambia and met with children and teens whose lives…
have been touched by AIDS. Ellis describes the poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, and the signs and symptoms of the disease, but the children discuss their families, favourite pastimes, fears, and dreams. Some descriptions of sex and violence. Grades 5-8. 2006, c2005.By John Stackhouse. 2000
In a blend of travel writing and analysis, Stackhouse's eight-year journey results in the personal stories of some of the…
world's poorest people. While describing lives and communities destroyed by misplaced aid and government interventions, he also shows how individuals are finding the creativity and means to make their own lives better. Poverty is not an inevitable part of the human condition but a direct result of human actions - and something that can be remedied. Some descriptions of violence. 2000.By Julian Sher. 2007
The Internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common. The men perpetrating these crimes include lawyers, priests, doctors and politicians,…
while the police - from a crack image analyst with the Toronto police to an FBI agent who poses as a thirteen-year-old girl online - work desperately to nab the predators. Investigators are using cutting edge tools, turning the technology of the Internet against the perpetrators, as they race to find and rescue the victims. Descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.By Barack Obama, Danièle Darneau. 2008
Son nom est déjà gravé dans le marbre de l'Histoire. Premier Afro-Américain candidat à la présidence des États-Unis, Barack Obama…
intrigue et fascine. Qui se cache derrière ce phénomène politique? Des terres rouges de Nairobi aux paysages ensoleillés de Djakarta, des ghettos de Chicago aux bancs de l'université Columbia, Barack Obama a poursuivi le même rêve: donner au monde les couleurs du métissage. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2008, c1995. Titre uniforme: Dreams from my father.By Alice Miller, Jeanne Etoré. 1984
Essai d'explication des répercussions, sur le comportement adulte, des mauvais traitements d'une éducation répressive reçus dans la petite enfance. Après…
un survol et une dénonciation de la "pédagogie noire" des deux derniers siècles, l'auteure explicite sa thèse à l'aide de trois cas: Christiane F. (autodestruction par la drogue); Adolf Hitler (la destruction d'autrui); Jrgen Bartsch (un criminel). La drogue, la psychose et la criminalité sont des "expressions codées des expériences de la petite enfance". 1984.By Katherine Boo. 2012
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents…
are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.By Susan Scott. 2007
Though they account for a small portion of the formal homeless statistics, there are many women living on insufficient funds,…
with violent partners, or in unacceptable dwellings that are often overlooked. Scott interviewed more than 60 women facing homelessness across Canada. She recounts their stories while highlighting the many underlying problems they face, including abuse, addiction, a paucity of affordable housing, and a lack of social services sensitive to women's needs. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2007.By Andy Lamey. 2011
An exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis, through such stories as the Yale law students who sued the U.S. government…
on behalf of a group of refugees imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay; a refugee family's journey from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to contemporary Australia via the world's most dangerous ocean crossing; and the case of Ahmed Ressam, the so-called Millennium bomber who filed a refugee claim in Canada before attempting to blow up the Los Angeles airport. Offers an original solution to the international asylum crisis, one which draws upon Canada's unique approach to asylum-seekers. c2011.By Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall. 2005
In November 2001 author Bishop-Stall entered Tent City, a lawless area in downtown Toronto claimed by a group of people…
with nowhere else to go. For 10 months, Bishop-Stall was welcomed, but also subjected to cruel realities: drunken brawls, crackheads, forgotten children, and the repeated broken promises of those who said they were leaving once and for all. Canada Reads 2012. 2005.By Byron Pitts. 2017
Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline co-anchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six…
young people who overcame impossible circumstances - abuse, bullying, war, drug addiction, mental illness and violence - with extraordinary perseverance. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only reality they have ever known. In these dark circumstances, six teens needed someone to "be the one" for them--the hero to help them back into the light. For Tania, Mason, Pappy, Michaela, Ryan, and Tyton, that hero was themselves. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.By Moira Farr. 1999
After Farr's boyfriend committed suicide she decided to write the story of his suicide and its consequences. Her own recovery…
involved examining our society's fascination with suicide, and talking to suicide survivors and the loved ones of people who committed suicide.By Mark Abley, Dominique Fortier. 2005
Les deux ou trois prochaines générations verront la plupart des 6 000 langues de la planète disparaître alors que l'anglais…
poursuivra sa domination. Selon l'auteur, journaliste et poète, quand meurt une langue, meurent en même temps des récits quon a racontés pendants des milliers dannées et qui traduisent une manière unique dappréhender le monde, de résoudre les problèmes de lexistence, grands et petits. Titre uniforme: Spoken here : travels among threatened languages.By Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.By J. D. Vance. 2016
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan…
that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past. Bestseller. 2016.By Jivani. Jamil. 2018
The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men…
responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man’s future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. 2018.By Alexa Conradi. 2019
In response to rapid and unsettling social, economic, and climate changes, fearmongering now features as a main component of public…
life. Right-wing nationalist populism has become a hallmark of politics around the world. No less so in Quebec. Alexa Conradi has made it her life's work to understand and to generate thoughtful debate about this worrisome trend. As the first president of Québec solidaire and the president of Canada's largest feminist organisation, the Fédération des femmes du Québec, Conradi refused to shy away from difficult issues: the Charter of Quebec Values, religion and Islam, sovereignty, rape culture and violence against women, extractive industries and the treatment of Indigenous women, austerity policy and the growing gap between rich and poor. This determination to address uncomfortable subjects has made Conradi - an anglo-Montrealer - a sometimes controversial leader. Conradi invites us to take off our rose-coloured glasses and to examine Quebec's treatment of women with more honesty. Through her personal reflections on Quebec politics and culture, she dispels the myth that gender equality has been achieved and paves the way for a more critical understanding of what remains to be done. 2019.By Philippe Lançon. 2018
Alors que l'auteur s'apprête à rejoindre sa compagne aux Etats-Unis, où il doit donner des cours de littérature, il participe…
à la conférence de rédaction de Charlie Hebdo le 7 janvier 2015. Survient l'attentat dont il réchappera, défiguré. Il raconte sa sidération, sa douleur, les greffes, tout en essayant de se refabriquer un lien à l'existence. Prix du Roman-News 2018By Dominique Fortier. 2019
Cet ouvrage est un répertoire de miracles fragiles et minuscules que nous avons choisi de garder comme on conserve les…
fleurs entre les pages d'un livre pour pouvoir continuer à les admirer en hiver - une manière d'antidote au cynisme, à l'absurde, au découragement qui nous assaillent du dedans comme du dehors. Un tout petit acte de résistanceBy Daphne B., Alex Manley. 2021
A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets…
As Daphné B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephora’s website, she’s increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist and intersectional feminist politics. In this poetic treatise, she rejects the false binaries of traditional beauty standards and delves into the celebrities and influencers, from Kylie to Grimes, and the poets and philosophers, from Anne Boyer to Audre Lorde, who have shaped the reflection she sees in the mirror. At once confessional and essayistic, Made-Up is a meditation on the makeup that colours, that obscures, that highlights who we are and who we wish we could be. The original French-language edition was a cult hit in Quebec. Translated by Alex Manley—like Daphné, a Montreal poet and essayist—the book’s English-language text crackles with life, retaining the flair and verve of the original, and ensuring that a book on beauty is no less beautiful than its subject matter. “The most radical book of 2020 talks about makeup. Radical in the intransigence with which Daphne B hunts down the parts of her imagination that capitalism has phagocytized. Radical also in its rejection of false binaries (the authentic and the fake, the futile and the essential) through the lens of which such a subject is generally considered. With the help of a heady combination of pop cultural criticism and autobiography, a poet scrutinizes her contradictions. They are also ours.” —Dominic Tardif, Le Devoir “[Made-Up] is a delight. I read it in one go. And when, out of necessity, I had to put it down, it was with regret and with the feeling that I was giving up what could save me from a catastrophe.” —Laurence Fournier, Lettres Québécoises, five stars "Made-Up is a radiant, shimmering blend of memoir and cultural criticism that uses beauty culture as an entry point to interrogating the ugly contradictions of late capitalism. In short, urgent chapters laced with humor and wide-ranging references, Daphné B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic that’s typically dismissed as shallow. I imagine her writing it in eye pencil, using makeup to tell the story of her life, as so many women do." —Amy Berkowitz, author of Tender Points "A companion through the thicket of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone whose image exists on a screen." —Rachel Kauder Nalebuff "Made-Up is anything but—committed to the grit of our current realities, Daphné B directs her piercing eye on capitalism in an intimate portrayal of what it means to love, and how to paint ourselves in the process. Alex Manley has gifted English audiences with a nuanced translation of a critical feminist text, exploring love and make-up as a transformative social tool." —Sruti Islam "The book will leave you both laughing in recognition and wincing at the reality of the beauty world’s impact on our collective psyche." —Chatelaine d"[Made-Up] examines the intersection of beauty culture and consumer culture... Aided by the work of writers like Anne Carson, Anne Boyer, Amanda Hess, and Arabelle Sicardi... B. makes sharp observations about the ideologies behind both beauty [...] and consumerism." —Bitch Media "Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism is well worth reading." —Literary Review of Canada "[Made-Up], newly translated by writer/poet Alex Manley from its original French, puts an iBy Alexandra Pierre. 2021
Y a-t-il quelque chose de commun entre la mort de Joyce Echaquan en 2020 et celle de Marie-Joseph Angélique en…
1734? La militante de longue date Alexandra Pierre en aurait long à dire sur le sujet. Dans ce livre, elle s'entretient avec neuf femmes autochtones, noires et racisées afin de connaître leurs traditions de résistance et faire apparaître le fil qui les unit les unes aux autres. Des échanges avec ces femmes engagées, elle en tire un matériau inédit, ancré dans les luttes passées et futures, et détaché des grandes trames du féminisme blanc et du militantisme de gauche. Habilement orchestré, alternant de l'intime au politique, cet essai personnel nous fait découvrir la perspective décoloniale d'une penseuse insoumise