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Milarepa
By Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 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.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.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.La foi des gens d'ici: en marge du Synode du diocèse de Québec
By Lucien Robitaille. 1994
La trahison de la foi: le parcours tragique d'un converti autochtone à l'époque coloniale
By Emma Anderson. 2009
Se fondant sur le récit éloquent de la vie d'un homme, Emma Anderson explore le choc entre le christianisme et…
la religon autochtone traditonnelle à l'époque coloniale en Amérique du Nord. Pierre-Anthoine Pastedechouan est né au sein d'une communauté indigène nomade d'Innus le long du fleuve Saint-Laurent dans ce qui est aujourd'hui le Québec. A onze ans, il fut envoyé en France par des missionnaires catholiques pour y être éduqué pendant cinq ans, puis ramené dans son pays afin de prendre part à la christianisation de son peuple. Le contact de Pastedechouan avec le catholicisme français pendant son enfance suscita en lui une ambivalence religieuse fatale. Dépouillé à la fois de son identité religieuse traditionnelle et de ses aptitudes critiques à la survie, il éprouvera de la difficulté à se faire accepter par sa communauté à son retour. Simultanément, ses tentatives de se faire valoir aux yeux des siens amèneront les Jésuites à le considérer avec une suspicion croissante. En suspension entre deux univers, Pastedechouan finira par devenir déconnecté - avec des résultats dramatiques - aussi bien de sa communauté autochtone que de ses mentors missionnaires [...] . -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The betrayal of faith : the tragic journey of a colonial native convert.Jeanne d'Arc, vérités et légendes
By Colette Beaune. 2008
" Jeanne, la petite bergère de Domrémy... Une putain doublée d'une sorcière... Fille cachée du roi, elle ne serait pas…
morte sur le bûcher à Rouen en 1431... La médiéviste Colette Beaune est en colère ! Peut-on laisser tout écrire au prétexte que la grande histoire serait parfois trop complexe, ou pas assez folklorique ? Dans un livre court, incisif, et avec beaucoup d'humour, l'historienne bat en brèche les nombreuses légendes qui circulent encore aujourd'hui sur la plus célèbre de nos grandes figures françaises. " -- 4e de couv.Jeanne d'Arc
By Colette Beaune. 2004
Jeanne se proclame chef de guerre pour bouter les Anglais hors de France. Elle rêve d'une nouvelle croisade afin de…
reconquérir Jérusalem et créer un monde nouveau. Ses voix, que le procès identifiera à celles de sainte Catherine, sainte Marguerite et saint Michel, la guident dans sa mission. Dans cette biographie passionnante et originale, Colette Beaune, déjà remarquée il y a quelques années pour sa Naissance de la nation France, a fait un travail magnifique d'érudition en retraçant les mentalités d'une époque qu'on croit révolue. Sa parfaite connaissance du monde médiéval offre un tableau saisissant de la vie de Jeanne, loin de l'icône politique et patriotique habituelle. -- 4e de couv.Option B: facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
By Sheryl Sandberg, Adam M Grant. 2017
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure…
joy again. Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build. Combines Sheryl's personal insights with Adam's research on finding strength in the face of adversity. "Option B" goes beyond Sheryl's loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere. and to rediscover joy. Bestseller. 2017.In the slender margin: the intimate strangeness of death and dying
By Eve Joseph. 2014
Part memoir, part meditation on death itself, this book is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view.…
Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years of work at a hospice, the author utilizes history, religion, philosophy, literature, personal anecdote, mythology, poetry and pop culture to discern the unknowable mystery that awaits us all. 2014.I am Hutterite: the fascinating true story of a young woman's journey to reclaim her heritage
By Mary-Ann Kirkby. 2007
In 1969, Ann-Marie Dornn's parents did the unthinkable - they left a Hutterite colony in Manitoba to start a new…
life, and were thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little about their culture. Desperate to be accepted, ten-year-old Ann-Marie denied her heritage to fit in. She chronicles her quest to reinvent herself as she comes to terms with the painful circumstances that led her family to leave community life. 2007.The immortalization commission: science and the strange quest to cheat death
By John Gray. 2011
For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death, but in the late 19th and…
early 20th centuries new ideas - from psychiatry to evolution to Communism - seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands. Gray investigates the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a non-religious form of life after death. c2011.Mère d'Youville, vénérable Marie-Marguerite du Frost de Lajemmerais, Veuve d'Youville, 1701-1771
By Albertine Ferland-Angers. 1977
Comme un veilleur attend l'aurore (Signatures.)
By Joseph-Marie Perrin, Bénédicte Dubois. 1998
After life: ways we think about death
By Merrie-Ellen Wilcox. 2019
Moving between science and culture, Wilcox takes a straightforward look at the fascinating, diverse ways in which we understand death,…
both today and throughout our history. Each chapter includes a brief telling of a death legend, myth or history from a dNobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir
By Liz Levine. 2020
A genuinely moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, from film and TV producer…
Liz Levine (Story of a Girl), written in the aftermath of the deaths of her sister and best friend.I feel like I might be a terrible person to be laughing in these moments. But it turns out, I’m not alone. In November of 2016, Liz Levine’s younger sister, Tamara, reached a breaking point after years of living with mental illness. In the dark hours before dawn, she sent a final message to her family then killed herself. In Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End, Liz weaves the story of what happened to Tamara with another significant death—that of Liz’s childhood love, Judson, to cancer. She writes about her relationship with Judson, Tamara’s struggles, the conflicts that arise in a family of challenging personalities, and how death casts a long shadow. This memorable account of life and loss is haunting yet filled with dark humor—Tamara emails her family when Trump is elected to check if she’s imagining things again, Liz discovers a banana has been indicted as a whistleblower in an alleged family conspiracy, and a little niece declares Tamara’s funeral the “most fun ever!” With honesty, Liz exposes the raw truths about grief and mourning that we often shy away from—and almost never share with others. And she reveals how, in the midst of death, life—with all its messy complications—must also be celebrated.How to Die: A Book About Being Alive
By Ray Robertson. 2020
“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to…
Die: A Book on Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
By Rachel Matlow. 2020
"A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures." --Toronto Star"How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't…
laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers and their suffering . . . and we can't, but we can. And there's so much relief in that. I laughed, I cried, I laughed and laughed and laughed." --Carolyn Taylor, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOWA traumedy about life and death (and every cosmic joke in between)When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's Stage 1, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal. Elaine, an alternative school teacher and self-help junkie, was never a capital M "Mommy"--she spent more time meditating than packing lunches--and Rachel, who played hockey with the boys and refused to ever wear a dress, was no ordinary daughter.When Elaine decides to forgo conventional treatment and heal herself naturally, Rachel is forced to ponder whether the very things that made her mom so special--her independent spirit, her belief in being the author of her own story--are what will ultimately kill her. As the cancer progresses, so does Elaine's conviction in doing things her way. She assembles a dream team of alternative healers, gulps down herbal tinctures with every meal, and talks (with respect) to her cancer cells. Anxious and confused, Rachel is torn between indulging her pie-in-the-sky pursuits (ayahuasca and all) and pleading with the person who's taking her mother away.With irreverence and honesty--and a little help from Elaine's journals and self-published dating guide, plus hours of conversations recorded in her dying days--Matlow brings her inimitable mother to life on the page. Dead Mom Walking is the hilarious and heartfelt story of what happens when two people who've always written their own script go head to head with each other, and with life's least forgiving plot device.Say a little prayer
By Tonya Bolden, Dionne Warwick, David Freeman Wooley, Soud. 2008
American icon and international superstar Dionne Warwick presents an inspiring and entertaining children's picture book that encourages kids to find…
their best talent in life and embrace it. "Little D" is ambling through childhood like any other little kid - enjoying her family and neighbours, her pet dog, her hobbies, and school - when one day she discovers that she has a special talent. In her first-ever singing performance in front of an audience, Little D brings the house down! And she discovers, with her grandfather's encouragement, that everyone has a special talent and it's up to each person to find it, embrace it, perfect it, and enjoy it! Grades K-3. 2008.Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood
By Emma Hansen. 2020
“Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage,…
and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.” —Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth.Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still.Hansen gives birth to her son, Reid, amidst an avalanche of grief. Nine days later, she publishes a candid essay on her website sharing photos from the delivery room. Much to her surprise, her essay goes viral, sparking positive reactions around the world. Still shares what comes next: a struggle with grief and confusion alongside a desire to better understand stillbirth, which is experienced by more than two million women annually, but rarely talked about in public.At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.