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By Amélie De Maupeou, Monika Siedentopf. 2008
1942 : Winston Churchill autorise le recrutement de femmes, plus adaptées à certaines missions délicates que lance le Special Operations…
Executive (SOE), une organisation secrète destinée à soutenir la résistance européenne à l'ennemi nazi. On les veut vives, intelligentes, courageuses, audacieuses, et séduisantes si possible ! C'est ainsi que les trente-neuf candidates de la section F viennent d'horizons multiples à l'image même de leurs motivations. Leur histoire pleine de rebondissements et, pour treize d'entre elles, terriblement dramatique est étrangement méconnue en France. 2008.By Ron Ellis, Kevin Shea. 2002
By David Rosner, Linda Carroll. 2018
This book tells the inspiring story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought…
the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time. 2018.By Orel Hershiser, Jerry B Jenkins. 1989
By Dick Beddoes. 1989
Written when Harold Ballard was 86 and in fragile health, Beddoes captures the essence of the man who became a…
Canadian hockey legend. In turn rude, crude, generous, bombastic, charming, outrageous, sentimental, and comic, Ballard lived his personal life in public, providing his fans and foes with a continuing soap opera of sex, power, and greed at Maple Leaf Gardens. Some strong language. 1989.By Sheila Fischman, Roch Carrier. 2001
Maurice Richard, The Rocket, was one of the greatest hockey players of his era and he remains an enduring icon…
of hockey excellence. This book captures a world in which a brooding, taciturn athlete became a powerful, enduring symbol for French Canadians. It also follows the story of a young boy, the author himself, whose youthful worship of Richard was tempered by politics and personal life, and evolved into an entirely different sort of appreciation for an extraordinary man. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.By Barbara Best, Lindy McDowell. 2009
This biography reveals for the first time the real story of George Best - as told by those who knew…
him best and loved him most. It's the inside story of the ordinary Belfast family whose love for, and contact with, their famous son and brother never wavered through the years. It's the story of a family desperately helping him as he battled the illness that also claimed the life of their beloved wife and mother. 2009.By Georges-Hébert Germain. 1990
The author gives an insider's view of life in the NHL by telling the story of Guy Lafleur. He describes…
the personal and professional sacrifices needed to stay at the top, the disappointment that drove Lafleur from the team he loved, and his return to the world of hockey at a time when younger players were dominating the league. 1990.By Michel Brûlé. 2015
" Il y a eu Maurice Richard, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur et Wayne Gretzky, mais il y a…
un seul Michel-Ange du hockey et c'est Mario Lemieux. Mario Lemieux ne mérite pas seulement le titre du meilleur joueur de hockey de tous les temps, mais il a prouvé en devenant propriétaire des Penguins de Pittsburgh et en sauvant ainsi la concession, qu'il était un homme loyal, passionné, extrêmement intelligent et un excellent homme d'affaires. " -- 4e de couv.By Danielle Roy, Gilles-Philippe Delorme. 1993
Une romancière et un journaliste ont repris, pour leur compte, l'enquête sur le comportement de Pierre Sévigny dans l'affaire Munsinger.…
Sévigny, ex-ministre associé à la Défense, a été accusé d'avoir trahi son pays en livrant des secrets militaires à une supposée espionne venue d'Allemagne, Gerda Munsinger. 1993.By John Carlin, Emmanuelle Aronson, Philippe Aronson. 2014
" Il est 3h du matin dans une banlieue riche de Pretoria lorsqu'on entend des coups de feu. Des cris.…
La police arrive devant une maison blanche et découvre le corps ensanglanté d'une femme splendide. A ses côtés, plein de sang lui aussi, un homme que les policiers reconnaissent instantanément. Il est une légende. Un des athlètes les plus connus au monde. Oscar Pistorius, vient de tuer sa compagne, le mannequin Reeva Steenkamp. Il déclare aux policiers : " je l'ai prise pour un cambrioleur. " Cinq jours plus tard, un procureur général dévoile un passé jusque là soigneusement occulté où Pistorius aurait déjà agressé des femmes et déclare qu'il a tué sa petite amie volontairement. Oscar Pistorius, c'est l'histoire de la compétitivité forcenée qui règne aux jeux Olympiques, c'est l'histoire d'une ascension fulgurante, l'histoire du rôle controversé des médias. C'est l'histoire, aussi, d'une jeune démocratie, l'Afrique du Sud. C'est l'histoire d'un meurtre, et une histoire d'amour. Et enfin c'est l'histoire d'Oscar Pistorius lui-même, cet enfant amputé des deux jambes à l'âge de 11 mois, qui court aux côtés des hommes les plus rapides du monde, dont la vie est tragique, shakespearienne, quelle que soit l'issue de son procès. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Chase your shadow : the trials of Oscar Pistorius.By Steve Milton, Brian Orser. 1988
Orser, world champion figure skater, describes the hard work and dedication that is required to "reach the top" of this…
sport. He also explains the intense pressure that is faced by young athletes when they compete in international competitions, such as the Olympics. For junior and senior high and adult readers. c1988.By Bobby Orr. 2013
Bobby Orr is often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game of hockey. No defenseman had ever…
played the way he did, or received so many trophies, or set so many records, several of which still stand today. He has never written a memoir, authorized a biography, or talked to journalists about his past, but now he is finally ready to tell his story. Bestseller. 2013.By Georges-Hébert Germain, Allan Turowetz, Jean Béliveau, Chrys Goyens. 1994
By Clara Hughes. 2015
From one of Canada’s most decorated Olympians comes a raw but life-affirming story of one woman’s struggle with mental illness.…
After more than a decade in the gruelling world of professional sports that stripped away her confidence and bruised her body, Clara Hughes began to realize that her physical extremes, her emotional setbacks, and her partying habits were masking a severe depression. After winning bronze in the last speed skating race of her career, she decided to retire from that sport, determined to repair herself. She has emerged as one of our most committed humanitarians, advocating for a variety of social causes in Canada and around the world. Bestseller. 2015.By George Plimpton. 1985
By Andre Agassi. 2009
Agassi recalls for the first time a childhood without choices. Forced to embrace tennis, banished to a brutal tennis camp…
while still in grade school, catapulted to fame while still in his teens, Agassi grew up feeling isolated, alienated, detached. In his autobiography he tells how he reconnected, how he overcame his fears, fought through his loneliness, found strength and purpose in the decision to devote his life to others - and in the love of one extraordinary woman. 2009.By Ben Weider. 1993
By Laurent Fignon, Jean-Emmanuel Ducoin. 2009
By Linda Jacobs Altman. 1974