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Educated: a memoir
By Tara Westover. 2018
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of…
Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Bestseller. 2018.Born Trump: inside America's first family
By Emily Jane Fox. 2018
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a…
deep dive into the lives of the President's children. This book explores what it was like to grow up Trump and what this reveals about living in Trump's America, in turn painting an intimate portrait of the forty-fifth president of the United States from the perspective of his most inner circle. 2018.The last cowboys: a pioneer family in the new West
By John Branch. 2018
John Branch takes listeners to southern Utah, where the Wright family raise cattle and are rodeo world-champions. This book follows…
three generations of Wrights as they are battered by drought, the price of beef, federal land-use regulation, and serious injury. 2018.My girls: a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
By Lindsay Harrison, Todd Fisher. 2018
The boy on the beach: my family’s escape from Syria and our hope for a new home
By Tima Kurdi. 2018
Alan Kurdi's body washed up on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea on September 2, 2015, and overnight, the political…
became personal, as the world awoke to the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis. Tima Kurdi first saw the shocking photo of her nephew in her home in Vancouver, Canada. Tima recounts her idyllic childhood in Syria, where she grew up with her brother Abdullah and other siblings in a tight knit family. A strong willed, independent woman, Tima studied to be a hairdresser and had dreams of seeing the world. At twenty two, she emigrated to Canada, but much of her family remained in Damascus. As Tima struggled to adapt to life in a new land, war overtook her homeland. Caught in the crosshairs of civil war, her family risked everything and fled their homes. Tima worked tirelessly to help them find safety, but their journey was far from easy. Although thwarted by politics, hounded by violence, and separated by vast distances, the Kurdis never gave up hope. And when tragedy struck, Tima suddenly found herself thrust onto the world stage as an advocate for refugees everywhere, a role for which she had never prepared but that allowed her to give voice to those who didn't have an opportunity to speak for themselves. Bestseller. 2018.Wisdom in nonsense: invaluable lessons from my father (CLC Kreisel lecture series)
By Heather O'Neill. 2018
"I broke all the rules that my dad gave me". Novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in…
childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends--ex-bank robbers and homeless men--taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life. 2018.Pierre Jean Jacques et les autres
By Marie-Élaine Proulx. 2017
La petite fille en haut de l'escalier: récit
By François Gravel. 2018
À l'automne 1920, Martine a quatre ans et s'apprête à passer sa première nuit chez son oncle, curé. Sa mère…
vient de mourir. Son père l'a abandonnée. Ses frères et soeurs ont été dispersés aux quatre vents. La petite aurait besoin d'être consolée, mais son oncle refuse de la gâter. Du haut de l'escalier qui mène à sa chambre, Martine se dit qu'elle devra s'habituer, que ce sera toujours comme ça. Ce soir-là, elle se construit un blindage que personne ne réussira jamais à percer. Dans ce récit doux-amer où jaillit néanmoins l'humour qu'on lui connaît, François Gravel raconte la vie de sa mère, cette femme complexe qui laissera à son tour ses enfants en haut de l'escalier. 2018.Extended families: a memoir of India
By Ven Begamudré. 2017
The work begins with the story of the author's grandfather and from there tells the story of much of his…
extended family on both sides of his family, though the focus is primarily on his father's side. The story continually comes back to the author's relationship with his parents: their fights and separation (first in India and then in Canada and the United States), his father's anger and constant need to move to new places, and his mother's depression, which culminates in her eventual suicide in India. Interspersed in this personal history are stories of Hindu gods - many of whom the extended family (and Ven's immediate family) are named after, and fictional accounts of family stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. 2017.An odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic
By Daniel Adam Mendelsohn. 2017
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two…
find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. 2017.White like her: my family's story of race and racial passing
By Gail Lukasik, Kenyatta D Berry. 2018
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, the author explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid…
her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Lukasik embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. 2018.The unfinished dollhouse
By Michelle Alfano. 2017
No parent is prepared for the moment when her daughter comes out to her--not as a lesbian, but as a…
person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate memoir, she recounts the entire story of her experience of the mother of a transgendered child. The central metaphor tells the story: when her perfect daughter was a child, Michelle and her husband bought a kit to make a beautiful dollhouse. Michelle imagined making the curtains, buying the furniture, and the time she and her daughter would spend together constructing the perfect fantasy house. But that, it turned out, was just what this was: a fantasy. Her daughter expressed no interest in such a girlish pursuit. Over the following years, Michelle and Rob had an education in the subject of parenting a transitioning child--what pronouns to use, how to disclose the information to friends, family, school. How to deal with the reactions--some of them surprising in a good way, some of them disappointing. 2017.Run, hide, repeat: a memoir of a fugitive childhood
By Pauline Dakin. 2017
Pauline Dakin, a CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her…
and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Bestseller. 2017.Marley et moi: mon histoire d'amour avec le pire chien du monde
By John Grogan, Carole Delporte. 2007
Si le chien est le meilleur ami de l'homme, il peut parfois être le pire. C'est ce que vont découvrir…
John et Jenny Grogan, quand ils décident d'acheter un labrador peu de temps après leur mariage, afin de tester leurs capacités parentales. D'adorable petite boule de poils, Marley se transforme en un mastodonte de quarante-cinq kilos, qui détruit tout sur son passage, dévore quantité de nourriture et d'objets en tout genre, et témoigne d'une affection aussi débordante qu'envahissante envers ses maîtres. 2007. Titre uniforme: Marley & me.Je vous aimais, terriblement: enquête sur la disparition de ma mère
By Jeremy Gavron, Heloise Esquié. 2017
Le portrait de la mère de l'écrivain, Hannah Gavron, qui, alors qu'elle semblait heureuse et épanouie sur le plan personnel…
et professionnel, se suicide quelques jours avant Noël 1965, à l'âge de 29 ans. J. Gavron découvre la vérité à l'âge adulte et tente alors de comprendre son geste en retraçant son itinéraire. 2017. Titre uniforme: A woman on the edge of time.Les rêves de mon père: [l'histoire d'un héritage en noir et blanc] : document (Document)
By Barack Obama, Danièle Darneau. 2008
Son nom est déjà gravé dans le marbre de l'Histoire. Premier Afro-Américain candidat à la présidence des États-Unis, Barack Obama…
intrigue et fascine. Qui se cache derrière ce phénomène politique? Des terres rouges de Nairobi aux paysages ensoleillés de Djakarta, des ghettos de Chicago aux bancs de l'université Columbia, Barack Obama a poursuivi le même rêve: donner au monde les couleurs du métissage. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2008, c1995. Titre uniforme: Dreams from my father.Mes quatre femmes: récit
By Gisèle Pineau. 2007
Qui parle en vous? Qui vous raconte les histoires qu'à votre tour vous transmettrez? Pour répondre à ces interrogations, Gisèle…
Pineau a choisi de remonter le cours des vies de quatre femmes. Celles qui l'ont construite. Angélique, l'ancêtre esclave, qui connut les temps perturbés de l'abolition puis du rétablissement de l'esclavage, gagna sa liberté et finit par épouser le Sieur Pineau. Julia, la grand-mère, profondément attachée à son pays Guadeloupe, mais contrainte à l'exil pour fuir un mari trop violent. Gisèle, la grand-tante, qui se laissa mourir de chagrin à vingt-sept ans, après avoir perdu son jeune époux. Et puis Daisy, la mère, qui, au plus gris de l'exil et de ses malheurs, se tint toujours debout pour ses enfants et rêva sa vie dans les romans d'amour. Avec son livre le plus personnel - et peut-être le plus émouvant -, Gisèle Pineau fait revivre ses quatre femmes dans la "geôle noire" de la mémoire. Quatre femmes, quatre époques de l'histoire antillaise, quatre inoubliables destins.L'étrangère
By Malika Oufkir. 2006
Qui ne se souvient du destin incroyable de Malika Oufkir? Dans La Prisonnière, écrit avec Michèle Fitoussi, Malika racontait le…
sort d'une enfant élevée comme une princesse à la cour du monarque Hassan II. À la suite d'un coup d'État en 1972 où son père biologique, le général Oufkir, tenta de renverser son père adoptif, le roi du Maroc, on l'emprisonna avec toute sa famille, mère, frères, soeurs, pendant près de vingt ans. Malika a survécu. Mais quel fut le prix à payer? [...] L'Étrangère est le récit vrai d'une Martienne revenue sur terre. Malika Oufkir a beaucoup d'humour, le sens de l'observation, la rage au coeur, et ce grain de folie qui lui donne définitivement une place à part. -- 4e de couv.Les disparus
By Daniel Mendelsohn, Pierre Guglielmina. 2007
Ce livre est le récit d'une enquête personnelle sur le drame familial inséparable de la plus grande tragédie du XXe…
siècle : l'extermination des juifs par les nazis. L'auteur raconte comment une partie de sa famille a disparu dans l'est de la Pologne au début des années 1940, sans laisser d'autres traces que quelques lettres, des photos et surtout un souvenir vivace chez les membres survivants. Il décrit aussi comment il s'est emparé des rares indices à sa disposition pour tenter de découvrir ce qu'ils étaient exactement devenus et les conclusions auxquelles il est finalement parvenu après avoir compulsé quantité d'ouvrages, traversé quatre continents, rencontré de multiples témoins et soulevé de réels tabous, y compris au sein de sa propre famille. 2007. Titre uniforme: Lost.Telle mère, quelle fille?
By Jean Couture, Sophie Thibault, Monique Larouche-Thibault. 2009
Voici le face à face étonnant d'une femme plus grande que nature et de sa fille qui veulent voir un…
peu plus clair dans leurs obscurités! Sous forme de journal à deux voix, elles nous dévoilent leurs bonheurs, leurs rêves sacrifiés et leurs vérités inavouées. Leurs vies en deux temps se recoupent, se tressent, comme en écho. Celle d'une femme confinée à l'antichambre de la liberté par plus de 50 ans de sclérose en plaques. Et celle d'une fille qui se dégage enfin d'une culpabilité paralysante. Un coeur à coeur touchant, authentique et plein d'humour, à l'image de deux femmes résilientes qui auront mis toute une vie pour se découvrir. -- 4e de couv.