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Jamais je ne t'oublierai: document
By Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel, Marie-Thérèse Cuny. 2000
Récit touchant d'une femme juive d'origine hongroise, qui raconte comment elle fut brutalement séparée de son amoureux à l'adolescence, pendant…
l'Holocauste. Elle témoigne ici de ce qu'elle a subi (déportation, etc.), de son exil aux États-Unis après la Seconde Guerre, pour retrouver finalement son amour de jeunesse en 1975, à Budapest. 2000.Cosima la sublime
By Françoise Giroud. 1996
Éprise de Richard Wagner, Cosima von Bulow va traverser d'énormes obstacles : la société, son père, Franz Liszt, son mari…
qui lui refusait le divorce, pour triompher et épouser son amant Richard Wagner. 1996.Bayard
By Jean Jacquart. 1987
Personnage légendaire, Bayard, modeste gentilhomme provincial, est d'abord un témoin de son époque. Contemporain de Léonard de Vinci, de Luther…
et de Christophe Colomb, Il a vécu dans une Europe en pleine transformation à l'heure où se mettent en place les organes de l'Etat moderne et où la vieille gentilhommerie voit s'amenuiser les bases de son pouvoir. Bayard et ses compagnons sont ainsi au contact de deux mondes. Par sa naissance, par son éducation, par ses premières campagnes, le bon chevalier est encore tout pénétré d'un idéal humain fait de bravoure individuelle, du respect des règles du combat, de vertus chrétiennes. En même temps, bon gré mal gré, Il participe au nouvel art de la guerre qui s'esquisse: il accepte de se mettre à la tête de gens de pied, sait utiliser l'artillerie et il lui arrive de ruser pour tromper l'ennemi. Et, symboliquement, c'est une balle d'arquebuse tirée par un simple soldat qui l'abat, chevalier terrassé par l'arme de l'avenir. Car Bayard est en son temps un personnage anachronique. C'est ce qui le rend si attachant et parfois si émouvant. Le génie de ses premiers biographes qui ont fait de lui l'exemple du " gentil chevalier ", conforme en tous points à un idéal nobiliaire, A permis à tout un groupe social de se reconnaître en lui au moment même où son destin historique s'achevait. Et sans doute est-ce parce qu'il apparaissait comme le héros d'un monde révolu que sa mémoire a traversé les siècles.Dumas, le comte noir
By Tom Reiss, Isabelle D Taudière, Lucile Débrosse. 2013
"Qui a inspiré à Dumas les personnages du Comte de Monte-Cristo et des Trois Mousquetaires ? Son père. Un père…
né en 1762 d'un marquis désargenté et d'une esclave de Saint-Domingue. Il est bâtard et brun de peau, cela ne l'empêche pas de devenir sous la Révolution le premier général d'origine antillaise, d'affirmer un républicanisme à toute épreuve et de multiplier les exploits militaires... Mais les risques que Dumas prend sont à la hauteur des trahisons qu'il subit : ayant mené de grandes batailles en Égypte, il désapprouve ouvertement la politique impérialiste du général Bonaparte. Son entièreté ne lui fut pas pardonnée. Quand il tombe entre les mains des Italiens, il est jeté en prison à Tarente, où tout le monde l'oublie, le Premier Consul puis Empereur ayant refusé de l'aider. Libéré mais banni de l'armée, sans un sou de pension, il meurt à Villers-Cotterêts en 1806, de mauvais traitements et d'humiliations. Si le romancier a donné une seconde vie à son père dans ses chefs-d'oeuvre, le Général fut un symbole pour la France de cette époque si contrastée : il est héros de l'armée révolutionnaire, alors que l'esclavage était tout juste aboli. Dix ans plus tard, Napoléon rétablit des lois esclavagistes, Dumas, lui, est un damné. Grâce à de colossales recherches, l'historien américain Tom Reiss livre ici une brillante mise en perspective d'une décennie dont nous sommes toujours les héritiers aujourd'hui. Le livre a reçu les très prestigieux prix Pulitzer et Pen en 2013. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Black count.Harriet Tubman: conductor on the Underground Railroad
By Ann Petry. 2018
Harriet Tubman was born a slave and dreamed of being free. She was willing to risk everything including her own…
life to see that dream come true. After her daring escape, Harriet became a conductor on the secret Underground Railroad, helping more than three hundred other slaves make the dangerous journey to freedom. Grades 3-6. 2018.Hiding Edith: a true story (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers #7)
By Kathy Kacer. 2006
The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi…
invasion of France. Edith's courage was remarkable, as was the bravery of those who helped her: an entire village, including its mayor, that heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2006.Finding home: a war child's journey to peace
By Frank Oberle. 2004
The author survived amid the disillusioned populace of Germany and, with his sweetheart at his side, also dreamed of a…
new life in a new land. With her blessing, he set off alone for Canada, promising to send for his beloved when he was able to provide for her. Their life together has encompassed tragedy and pure joy. An inspirational saga. 2004.Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his scandalous duchess
By Alison Weir. 2007
Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who…
became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. 2007.John Jay: founding father
By Walter Stahr. 2017
J.B. McLachlan: a biography
By David Frank. 1999
Agitator, organizer, and educator, J. B. McLachlan fought for union recognition and defended the miners all his life. This book…
is the product of over 20 years of deeply committed research into the life of one of the most influential people in Cape Breton's story, James Bryson McLachlan, the voice that still rings down to us from Labour's Wars of the 1920s. 1999.Jennie Churchill: Winston Churchill's mother
By Anne Sebba. 2008
Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage,…
Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces 200 or more paramours - including the Prince of Wales. 2008.Ishbel and the empire: a biography of Lady Aberdeen
By Doris French. 1988
In 1893, Lady Ishbel arrived in Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, Canada's newly appointed Governor General. Her initial…
resentment to this posting changed as she became involved in political and social causes. She is remembered as the founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Council of Women. 1988.I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad (Griot audio)
By Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2007
In 1985, archeologists in downtown Toronto discovered the remains of a house belonging to former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn,…
who were key figures in the Underground Railroad. Fleeing Louisville, Ky., in 1831, shortly before Lucie was to be sold, the Blackburns settled in Detroit until they were recognized and arrested. Before they could be convicted and returned to slavery, the first racial uprising in Detroit - a crowd of friends and abolitionists who marched on the jail - gave them the opportunity to escape. Fleeing to Toronto, they founded the city's first taxi business while working with prominent abolitionists. Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.Ja, no, man: growing up white in apartheid-era South Africa
By Richard Poplak. 2007
Like most 70's era children, Richard Poplak was obsessed with pop culture, like The Cosby Show, Guns N'Roses, and Mad…
Max movies. But in his country of South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also a part of everyday life. Poplak describes living through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg, and his gradual understanding of the differences between his country and the rest of the world. 2007.Invisible shadows: a Black woman's life in Nova Scotia
By Verna Thomas. 2001
When Verna Thomas moved from the mostly white community of Mount Denson to the mostly black community of East Preston,…
she discovered that to be black in Nova Scotia could mean being disadvantaged and scorned, not just different. She describes her growing consciousness of her history, of the limits placed on the Black community, and of race, in the wake of the changes that swept across North America in the second half of he twentieth century. Thomas' writings of her early experiences trying to find work and raise a family in the late 1950s and early 1960s is a journey into racially segregated Nova Scotia. 2001."I give you my body--": how I write sex scenes (ITK audio)
By Diana Gabaldon. 2016
For writers looking to make sure their next physical interlude on the page inspires readers to share the moment rather…
than to laugh at it, bestselling author Diana Gabaldon divulges the writing secrets behind the sex scenes in her wildly popular Outlander novels. 2016.Incorrigible
By Velma Demerson. 2004
In 1939, young Velma Demerson was taken away by the police; her "crime", loving a Chinese man, was compounded by…
her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. She was sent to Toronto's Reformatory for Females where she was locked in a cell for 12 hours a day and subjected to abusive medical treatments. It is the story of survival. 2004.In the eye of the typhoon
By Ruth Earnshaw Lo, Katharine S Kinderman. 1980
I am Rosa Parks
By Rosa Parks, James Haskins. 2001
Famous activist describes her role in the civil rights movement. In 1955, fed up with unequal treatment, Parks refused to…
give up her bus seat to a white man. Her arrest led to a yearlong boycott by blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, buses. Grades 2-4. 2001.Call the midwife: shadows of the workhouse (Call the Midwife. #2.)
By Jennifer Worth. 2013
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of…
postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humour of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. Sequel to "Call the Midwife", followed by "Farewell to the East End". 2013.