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By Mira Ptacin. 2016
At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became…
engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate her pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is woven together with the story of her mother, who emigrated from Poland, also at the age of twenty-eight, and adopted a son, Julian. Julian would die tragically, bringing her an unimaginable grief. 2016.By Maurice Mierau. 2014
Mierau probes not only the process of adoption but what comes after - the challenges of becoming a family, the…
strain on his marriage. While one of his sons acts out and gets in trouble at school, Maurice feels removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Maurice’s father has a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Maurice can come to understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new sons. Winner of the 2015 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2014.By Najwa Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden, Jean P Sasson. 2009
A true story that few ever believed would come to light, "Growing Up bin Laden" uncovers startling revelations and hidden…
secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden. 2009.By Alexandra Fuller. 2015
By Rachel Cusk. 2012
The author offers an intimate exploration of divorce and its tremendous impact on the lives of women - and discovers…
opportunity as well as pain. She presents an unflinching chronicle of the upheaval of her recent separation as well as a vivid study of divorce’s complex place in society. 2013, c2012.By Richard Foot. 2013
In the early hours of January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team and their coach's wife…
died instantly when their school van collided with a tractor trailer. The accident forever shattered the lives of eight families and their community. In the weeks that followed two women who lost their sons forged a bond. Ana Acevedo and Isabelle Hains were transformed by their grief into unlikely agents of courage and change. This book follows Isabelle and Ana’s long journey through the legal system that made it safer for children to travel to extracurricular activities in New Brunswick and across the country. c2013.By Cea Sunrise Person. 2014
From nature child to international model by the age of thirteen, Person’s astonishing saga is one of long-held family secrets…
and extreme family dysfunction, all in an incredibly unusual setting. It is also the story of one girl’s deep-seated desire for normality - a desire that enabled her to risk everything, overcome adversity and achieve her dreams. Bestseller. c2014.By Plum Johnson. 2014
After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings…
of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Award. Winner of the 2016 Evergreen Award. Bestseller. 2014.By Mark Sakamoto. 2014
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War, and a moving tribute to…
the nature of forgiveness. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2018. 2014.By Margaret Forster. 1996
By Bachir Hadjadj. 2007
Ce livre-là, nous étions nombreux à rêver qu'on l'écrive, depuis bientôt un demi-siècle, sitôt qu'a pris fin le Sanglant corps…
à corps franco-algérien, le 19 mars 1962. Et la voilà enfin, l'autobiographie d'une famille depuis l'époque antérieure à la conquête, à travers trois périodes : la turque, la française, l'algérienne proprement dite, manifestant la continuité profonde d'un peuple, assurée par l'islam au travers des immenses bouleversements provoqués par les guerres et cent trente ans de colonisation impérieuse.By Agnès Desarthe. 2009
Une radiographie de son imaginaire personnel et familial, centrée sur la figure de B.B.B., avec qui sa grand-mère a refait…
sa vie après la mort de son mari à Auschwitz en 1942. Occupant la place laissée vacante par le grand-père disparu, ce vieux monsieur excentrique a permis à l'auteure de saisir une part de son identité longtemps occultée. Prix Version Fémina-Virgin Megastore 2009.By Carine McCandless. 2014
The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and…
starved to death in 1992. Chris was the subject of Jon Krakauer’s bestselling "Into the Wild" and a movie directed by Sean Penn. Now his sister describes the dysfunctional family dynamics behind Chris’s rejection of conventional life and ill-fated Alaskan journey. 2014.By Patrick Poivre D'Arvor. 2011
By Annick Le Floc'Hmoan. 2002
Au début du XXe siècle, dans la noblesse anglaise encore flamboyante, naissent les célèbres surs Mitford. Leur destin sera hors…
du commun. Nancy, amoureuse de la France et de Gaston Palewski, gaulliste historique, devient une romancière célèbre. Diana brûle pour le fascisme anglais naissant et se compromet auprès de son chef de file ; Unity devient une proche amie de Hitler ; tandis que Jessica, l'avant-dernière de la fratrie, s'engage auprès des jeunes républicains espagnols avant de rejoindre le parti communiste. Seules Pamela et Déborah suivent la voie rêvée par leurs parents, et se marient dans le luxe et le conservatisme. A travers le portrait étonnant de ces femmes passionnées, prises dans les tourments de la crise économique et des deux guerres mondiales, ce document présente une vibrante traversée du siècle.By Alexandra Fuller. 2015
By Maria Mutch. 2014
As a baby, Gabriel’s first words and affinity for sign language enthralled his adoring parents. When these words fell away,…
and his medical diagnoses multiplied, Maria Mutch committed herself entirely to her son’s care. Then, for about two years, Gabriel slept very little, drawing mother and son into a nocturnal existence of almost constant wakefulness. Here Maria shares the intensely personal challenges and revelations brought about by this period. As Gabriel’s sleeping hours dwindled, care took place within an isolated, often frightening world, in which Maria’s desire for connection and meaning expanded. Maria illuminates a search for love, understanding and comfort against the terrors of the unknown that will resonate with anyone who has lain awake in the dark, or longed to protect a loved one. 2014.By Jeannette Walls. 2006
Reporter for MSNBC.com looks back on her unsettled life. Describes growing up in a dysfunctional family, which was always on…
the move. She recalls her father's dream of building a "glass castle," and relates how she and her siblings escaped to make lives of their own. Bestseller. 2006.By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeBy Gilbert Montagné. 2011