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By Michel Jasmin. 1994
La plupart des gens savent que le populaire animateur de télévision, Michel Jasmin, ne marche pas normalement à la suite…
d'un terrible accident de voiture. Mais tous ne savent pas que des médecins lui avaient dit qu'il ne marcherait jamais. Il s'est relevé et c'est ce combat de l'homme contre le destin, contre la drogue, contre le fisc, mais surtout son courage et sa ténacité pour réapprendre à marcher qui constituent l'intérêt de ce livre. [SDMBy Jamling Tenzing Norgay. 2002
Le fils du célèbre Sherpa Tenzing, qui fut le premier homme à atteindre le sommet de l'Everest, au côté de…
sir Edmund Hillary, tente de se mesurer à son tour au sommet mythique. Cet ouvrage raconte cette périlleuse ascension "à la recherche de l'âme de son père"By Jacques Hébert dit Larose. 2005
Mal parti dès l'enfance, orphelin de mère à l'âge de douze ans et de père à dix-sept, prostitué à 13…
ans, Jacques Hébert sombre très tôt dans l'alcool et la drogue. Il erre durant de nombreuses années, accumulant au hasard les expériences et les rencontres, pour finalement émerger de son existence sombre et sans issues grâce à son ouverture à l'autre et à sa générosité. Au terme d'une longue bataille contre lui-même et contre son passé, il triomphe finalement de toutes ses dépendances et peut désormais s'affirmer, à cinquante ans, en homme libre, en amoureux de la vie, simple et authentique. Un témoignage de survie et de transformation de soiBy Karen Molson. 2001
By Marcelle Ferron. 1996
By Thomas Cahill. 2002
Portrait of the legendary and beloved Italian pope John XXIII (1881-1963), who was concerned not only for Catholics but for…
all of humankind. Cahill retraces the "labyrinthine history of the papacy, which gave him his platform," and covers the pontiff's career and impact on the Vatican. 2002By Marshall Frady. 2002
Veteran journalist and biographer profiles the American civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Portrays the…
events that fixed King in the public's attention, from bus boycotts to the March on Washington to his murder. Also reflects on the minister's private spiritual conflicts. 2002By Gena K Gorrell. 2000
Biography of the nineteenth-century British nurse. Although born into a wealthy family, Nightingale elected to dedicate herself to relieving suffering.…
Discusses her privileged childhood, choice of profession, field work during the Crimean War, and contributions to medical care. For grades 5-8. 2000By James Herriot. 1998
Following World War II, James Herriot returns home to Yorkshire and his work treating the diseases and injuries of the…
area's farm animals. Postwar life is normal except for his trip to Russia with a load of pedigreed sheep. Sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful (BR 05779). 1981By Dominick Pisano. 2002
Celebrates the twenty-five-year-old American pilot who made the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris across the Atlantic…
in 1927. Discusses his aviation career, his flying skills, his political ineptitude, and his environmental concerns. For senior high and older readers. 2002By Lisa Beamer. 2002
The widow of Todd Beamer, who led his fellow passengers against the terrorists on September 11, 2001, on Flight 93…
that crashed in Pennsylvania, describes her late husband's life. Todd, a devout Christian family man, was raised with some traditional values that enabled him to risk his life for others. Bestseller. 2002By Yvo Pérez Barreto. 1998
Ce livre présente le savoir-faire de Don José Carmen, agriculteur mexicain, qui fait pousser des choux de 45 kilos, des…
pieds de maïs de 5 mètres de haut, etc., en appliquant des formules biocompatibles, respectueuses de l'environnement. [SDMBy Ben Macintyre. 2001
At the beginning of World War I a group of British soldiers is forced to hide behind enemy lines in…
a small French village. With the help of the townspeople, the soldiers attempt to pass themselves off as locals. Love, betrayal, and sacrifice abound as ordinary villagers become heroes and villains. 2001By Roland Merullo. 2002
Depicts Roland Merullo's youth in an Italian American home in the working-class neighborhood of Revere, Massachusetts. Class and family figure…
prominently in Merullo's life as he follows his fate to the Ivy League, the Peace Corps, and beyond. Merullo endures poverty and familial disapproval while struggling as a writer. 2002By Colette Braeckman. 1992
By Marie-Chantal Toupin. 2009
"[...] Née dans le quartier Rosemont à Montréal en 1971, c'est à l'âge de 6 ans que Marie-Chantal Toupin décida…
qu'elle serait chanteuse. En 1997, soit 20 ans plus tard, elle lance son premier album. Mais sa carrière prend véritablement son envol avec la sortie de son deuxième album : Maudit Bordel. De succès en succès, elle est devenue avec son plus récent album, A distance, la chanteuse numéro un du palmarès québécois". -- 4e de couvBy Jacques Lamarche. 1998
By Paula Fox. 1999
Born in 1923, the author describes her chaotic childhood after her bohemian parents abandon her first in a foundling home,…
then with a clergyman, and later with an assortment of strange relatives and drinking buddies. Fox, in turn, relinquishes her newborn daughter for adoption. Some strong language. 1999By Susan Altman. 2001
Biographical profiles of more than one hundred African Americans from colonial times through the twentieth century. Includes portraits of eighteenth-century…
poet Lucy Terry Prince, slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, scientist George Washington Carver, blues singer Bessie Smith, writer James Baldwin, and golfer Tiger Woods, among many others. For grades 6-9. 2001By Pierre Huth. 1999