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On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)
By Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996
The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.Ma carrière et ma vie (Collection Témoignage)
By Alys Robi. 1980
Comédie française: ça a débuté comme ça
By Fabrice Luchini. 2016
Fabrice Luchini est un kaléidoscope, un feu d'artifice, du costaud qui aspire à la légèreté. Comment cet autodidacte, apprenti coiffeur,…
qui a arrêté l'école à quatorze ans, peut-il maintenant incarner l'esprit et le panache de la langue française? Plus qu'un simple autoportrait littéraire, Comédie française est le récit d'une obsession, "la recherche frénétique et pathétique d'une note qui se voudrait être la note parfaite musicale". Depuis quarante ans, il rumine, reprend, raffine et reprend encore les textes de Céline, La Fontaine et Rimbaud afin de nous les donner à entendre. Son amour des oeuvres est contagieux. Après avoir refermé sa Comédie française, le lecteur, ébloui, n'aura qu'une seule envie : courir relire les maîtres qu'il sert et a si bien servis. 2016.Amour et lumière (Super sellers)
By Shirley MacLaine. 1988
Shirley MacLaine nous livre ici un remarquable journal de sa vie et de ses méditations. Elle nous parle de sa…
carrière, de son mariage et de ses mystérieux voyages initiatiques à travers le monde entier. 1988. Titre uniforme: Don't fall off the mountain.Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.Mémoires intimes
By Michelle Tisseyre. 1998
À travers une série de courts chapitres, tous coiffés d'un titre de circonstance, Michelle Tisseyre relate ses souvenirs. Ceux-ci gravitent…
en grande partie autour du monde de l'enfance, des années d'apprentissage (elle a été la première Canadienne-française à l'Université McGill), des multiples rebondissements de sa carrière, de ses entrevues les plus marquantes, mais aussi de sa vie familiale et amoureuse. Des mémoires intimes qui parlent très peu de sa vie politique.Notes from a feminist killjoy: essays on everyday life (Essais ; #no. 2)
By Erin Wunker. 2016
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara…
Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. She attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism, and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices of being a mother and a feminist, to building friendship amongst women as a community-building and -sustaining project, to writing that addresses rape culture from the Canadian context and beyond, Wunker invites the reader into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world. Winner of the 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. 2016.Notes from the rainforest
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.Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
By Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.Notorious: the life of Ingrid Bergman
By Donald Spoto. 1997
An informative account of the life and career of Ingrid Bergman, who has appeared in 49 feature films and nine…
plays over a period of five decades. The book tells of her controversial affairs and how her relationship with the Italian director Roberto Rossellini scandalized America. 1997.Northrop Frye: a biography
By John Ayre. 1989
Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…
In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.Norma Jean: my secret life with Marilyn Monroe
By Ted Jordan. 1989
The author met Marilyn Monroe when she was 17-years-old and married to merchant mariner Jim Daugherty. He describes their love…
affair, as well as her sexual escapades with others, including Montgomery Clift and Bugsy Siegel. 1989.Norma: the story of Norma Shearer
By Lawrence J Quirk. 1988
Biography of the quintessential Hollywood star of the golden age. Canadian-born, Norma went first to New York to be an…
actress, but a Hollywood contract soon took her to the West Coast where she met and married Irving Thalberg, the mogul in charge of production at the MGM studios. 1988.Nobody's fool: the lives of Danny Kaye
By Martin Gottfried. 1994
This is the fascinating story of an energetic, athletic, curious kid from Brooklyn who became an utterly original star, parleying…
his multiple talents into a career as one of the most popular and adored entertainers in American history. But while he was fostering this image, Kaye is revealed as a man of paradox and contradiction. 1994.No shelter here: making the world a kinder place for dogs
By Rob Laidlaw. 2011
Dogs have been loyal to humankind for thousands of years, but today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished, and…
millions of other dogs are used in scientific research and for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions. Laidlaw explores the world of homeless, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face, but he also focuses on the people he calls "dog champions" – people around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Winner of the 2013-14 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2011.No axe too small to grind
By Joey Slinger. 1985
Night field: poems
By Don McKay. 1991
My word is my bond: The Autobiography
By Roger Moore, Gareth Owen. 2009
Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of…
Hollywood and on to international superstardom. It features myriad stories from his personal life - from his childhood in London and experiences during the Second World War, to the happy and turbulent times in his later life. Bestseller. 2009.My shoes are killing me: poems
By Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.Nevertheless: a memoir
By Alec Baldwin. 2017