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Of thee I sing: a letter to my daughters
By Barack Obama. 2010
President Obama praises thirteen American citizens - including Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez - whose contributions…
shaped our country. Expresses hope that these heroes will inspire his daughters and all children to pursue their own unique gifts and build up our nation. Grades K-3. 2010.Old Patagonian Express: by train through the Americas
By Paul Theroux. 1979
The way from Boston to Patagonia, Paul Theroux discovered, was one of great contrasts - contrasts in people, in temperature,…
in scenery, in altitude, in attitude. Some of the trains were superb, most were deplorable. Parochialism and xenophobia were coupled with some of the most staggeringly beautiful sights in the world, and some of the most squalid. Throughout, he observed and experienced with a sharp eye, an unbiased mind, and ultimately, a vivid pen. 1979.Missing, porté disparu
By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée
By Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.Notes from a big country
By Bill Bryson. 1998
This book contains eighteen months worth of the author's popular columns about the strangest of phenomena - the American way…
of life. The text discusses the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slacking direness of American TV, and the smug pleasure of being able to eat beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall. 1998.North to danger
By Walt Morey, Virgil Burford. 1969
North star to freedom: the story of the underground railroad
By Gena K Gorrell. 1996
The story of the Underground Railroad, an extraordinary network of farm houses, country lanes, and city streets in the United…
States and Canada which had one purpose - to transport slaves from the terrors of the plantation to the freedom of another country. Grades 5-8. c1996.North to Alaska: Fifty Years On The World's Most Remarkable Highway
By Kenneth Coates. 1992
"North to Alaska" commemorates the work of those men and women, soldiers and civilians, who endured the bitter cold, the…
blackflies, the mud, and the murderous mosquitoes to build the Alaska Highway. It also celebrates the survival of the highway, the vitality of the community that lives along it, and the spirit of the people who travel its length. 1992.Le neveu (Dossiers, documents)
By Michel Vastel, Réal Simard. 1987
Plutôt que de continuer à risquer de mourir pour Frank Cotroni, Réal Simard, le "neveu", a décidé de vivre pour…
lui-même. Mais avant de disparaitre, il a pensé que vous aviez droit à la vérité : sur lui, sur les prisonniers, sur les policiers et surtout sur cette face cachée de "l'honorable société." 1987.No one to tell: breaking my silence on life in the RCMP
By Janet Merlo, Leslie Vryenhoek. 2013
Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination…
while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. Janet recalls how her love of policing was soured by covert and overt sexism within the ranks and by an institutional culture that valued toughness and silence over ethics and accountability. Tracing her twenty years in uniform, Merlo’s story details the highs and lows of her career in the RCMP – while her mental health and personal life disintegrated. 2013.No ordinary time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt
By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2017
This New York Times best-seller is the compelling chronicle of a nation during a time of incredible change. With detail…
and drama, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author expertly reveals the importance of the Roosevelt White House in the great destiny of the United States. Ultimately, she creates an intimate portrait of the Roosevelts, fusing their human vitality with the monumental scale of domestic and foreign affairs during the Second World War. 2017.Nine lives: death and life in New Orleans
By Dan Baum. 2009
A multivoiced biography of a dazzling, imperiled city, told through the lives of nine characters and bracketed by two epic…
storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Baum shows us what was lost in the storm and what remains to be saved. Explicit strong language, descriptions of violence and explicit descriptions of sex. c2009.Night comes to the Cumberlands: a biography of a depressed area (Southern voices audio)
By Harry M Caudill. 2012
Caudill explores the southern Appalachian Mountains area's history, from its first settlement to the Civil War, and from the rise…
of coal barons to the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. 2012.Traces the Civil War from Fredericksburg in 1862 through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to Lee's surrender at Appomattox…
Courthouse and Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Sequel to "Terrible swift sword". 1965. (Centennial history of the Civil War ; v. 3)Nasty business: one biker gang's bloody war against the Hells Angels
By Peter Paradis. 2002
The 1990s biker war on the streets of Montreal pitted the established Hells Angels against upstarts the Rock Machine in…
a battle for the drug trade. After being shot by a Hells hit squad, Rock Machine boss Peter Paradis watched as the police closed in and the Hells begin winning the war, spurring a penniless and ostracized Paradis to turn informant. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2002.My father and Atticus Finch: a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama (ITK audio)
By Joseph Madison Beck. 2016
A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of…
raping a white woman calls to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2016.My fair junkie: a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
By Amy Dresner. 2017
In 2011 Amy Dresner was high on OxyContin, stupidly pulled a knife on her then-husband, and was promptly arrested. Within…
months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, and looking at 240 hours of community service. For the next two years she would sweep up syringes on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety and starting life over in her forties. 2017.Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those…
professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. 2018.Murder without borders: dying for the story in the world's most dangerous places
By Terry Gould. 2009
Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq - the countries in which…
journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job. Through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death, and discovers the complex reasons for their bravery. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Mort ou vif: les chasses à l'homme les plus extraordinaires
By Pierre Bellemare, Jean-François Nahmias. 2007