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Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography
By Andrea Warner. 2018
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and…
only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting). Bestseller. 2018.All things consoled: a daughter's memoir
By Elizabeth Hay. 2018
Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and…
well-mannered schoolteacher with a temper that could be explosive. Elizabeth, their oldest daughter, was said to be a difficult and selfish child. Elizabeth always suspected she would end up caring for her parents in their final years, a way of making up for the sins of her childhood, proving herself to be a good daughter after all. But as her parents, who had been ferociously independent people, became increasingly dependent on her, their lives changed utterly and so did hers. Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre." This book takes you inside the massacre. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. 2018.Just let me look at you: on fatherhood
By Bill Gaston. 2018
Sons clash with fathers, particularly with towering, authoritarian figures like Gaston Senior. Fairly or unfairly, sons look for reasons to…
rebel, particularly against boring suburban fathers who seem to prize conformity above all else. And fairly or unfairly, sons judge their fathers when they can't handle their booze. But even a father and son as doomed to clash as Gaston and his father could fish together. When Gaston's father dies, this is the memory of his father that he keeps alive. In the years that follow, however, he learns more about his father's realtionship with his father. It too was marked by heavy drinking, though it took a much darker turn. What Gaston comes to realize is that the man his younger self had been so eager to judge was in fact capable of near-heroic feats of self-mastery. And as a father of grown sons himself, he acutely feels the wounds he must have inflicted years before by withholding so much he now knows that fathers long for. 2018.I'm afraid of men
By Vivek Shraya. 2018
Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand…
experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek exhibited "feminine" qualities. The men in her life immediately and violently disapproved. They taught her to fear the word girl by turning it into a weapon used to hurt her. They taught her to hate her femininity, to destroy the best parts of herself. In order to survive, Vivek had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As a girl, she's still afraid. Having spent years undoing the damage and salvaging her lost girlhood, she is haunted by the violence of men, seldom dressing the way she wants in public. As a result she is often still perceived as male, stirring feelings of guilt and self-doubt: Am I not feminine enough? Is this my fault for striving to be the perfect man and excelling at it? I'm Afraid of Men is a culmination of the years Vivek spent observing men and creating her own version of manhood. Through deeply personal reflection, she offers a rare and multifaceted perspective on gender and a hopeful reimagining of masculinity at a time when it's needed more than ever. Bestseller. 2018.Desmarais: la dépossession tranquille
By Richard Le Hir. 2012
Paul Desmarais est un personnage de légende au Québec depuis bientôt cinquante ans. Admiré ou détesté, il ne laisse personne…
indifférent. Originaire de Sudbury en Ontario, il est parvenu à bâtir un empire financier de classe mondiale, Power Corporation, à partir dune petite entreprise familiale de transport par autobus. Très tôt, il a compris comment il pouvait développer ses affaires en tissant un solide réseau dinfluence aux plus hauts échelons politiques. Paul Desmarais nest pas un entrepreneur. Cest un prédateur, un loup qui a compris quil est beaucoup plus facile de convaincre le berger de lui ouvrir toutes grandes les portes de la bergerie que de chercher continuellement à déjouer sa surveillance. Son modèle daffaires présente toutefois une faille majeure : il repose essentiellement sur lopposition systématique entre ses propres intérêts et lintérêt collectif, ce qui en fait un archétype du capitalisme le plus détestable. Cet ouvrage, rédigé à partir dune cinquantaine de chroniques de lauteur pour le site Vigile.net sur une période de deux ans, décrit, en s'appuyant sur des dossiers dactualité, comment lempire Desmarais est en train de déposséder les Québécois de leur patrimoine collectif. 2012.L'orphelinat: [récit]
By Richard Bergeron. 2012
Voici le récit vrai d'une enfance, de celles qu'on ne pense voir qu'au cinéma. Le narrateur est nul autre que…
Richard Bergeron, spécialiste du développement urbain et candidat à la mairie de Montréal. 2012.Meet Chris Hadfield (Scholastic Canada biography)
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space - and make a music video while in orbit!…
When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better! Includes a timeline. Grades 2-4. 2018.Pierre Laporte: Parcours D'un Homme D'action
By Jean-Charles Panneton. 2012
" Pierre Laporte reste, paradoxalement, un homme mal connu. Audacieux journaliste, il s'est distingué dans sa démarche d'enquête, particulièrement dans…
ses éditoriaux au Devoir et ses Lettres de Québec. Farouche opposant de Duplessis, il a mis à jour le scandale du gaz naturel. Son parcours politique est essoufflant: en moins d'une décennie, Pierre Laporte a cumulé les fonctions de président du caucus des députés, de whip, de leader parlementaire et les postes de ministre des Affaires municipales, des Affaires culturelles, du Travail et de l'Immigration ainsi que celui de vice-premier ministre aux côtés de Robert Bourassa. Sa fin tragique a éclipsé sa carrière et c'est tout le mérite de Jean-Charles Panneton de dresser, sans complaisance, un portrait juste de l'un des personnages marquants de notre histoire. " -- 4e de couv. 2012.De l'autre côté du mur: récit-témoignage ((Calmann-Lévy crime).)
By Louise Tremblay-D'Essiambre. 2001
Beau jeune, Gilles Morin avait tout pour lui. A 19 ans, alors qu'il revenait en moto, il frappe un mur…
de roc qui le laisse paraplégique. Ce livre dit sa révolte mais avant tout, Morin réussit à nous faire vivre le drame de ses proches. On pourrait s'apitoyer sur son sort, mais c'est surtout eux qui nous touchent: leur douleur et leur immense détresse de voir celui qu'ils aimaient, disparu, pour faire place à un homme en fauteuil roulant, amer et revanchard. C'est ce regard sans indulgence sur son cheminement qui fait tout l'intérêt du livre et qui peut redonner espoir à ceux qui atteignent le fond du baril. C'est ce regard qui nous fait aussi comprendre, qu'au bout du compte, son accident a fait de lui un homme meilleur. [SDM]. 2001.D'hier à demain: ma vie
By Shania Twain, Jocelyne Roy. 2011
La vie de Shania Twain a été marquée d'une série de moments pivots peu communs. Née dans la pauvreté dans…
un Canada rural autochtone, et au sein d'une famille qui n'avait pas toujours suffisamment de nourriture pour apaiser sa faim, elle parle avec une profonde émotion de sa famille, des tragédies personnelles, de la façon de trouver un sens à sa vie, et du processus de guérison. 2011. Titre uniforme: From this moment on.Matters of vital interest: a forty-year friendship with Leonard Cohen
By Eric Lerner. 2018
J'écris comme je vis: entretien avec Bernard Magnier
By Dany Laferrière, Bernard Magnier. 2000
L’ouvrage se présente sous forme de questions et réponses, et chaque thème est identifié en tête de page, de manière…
à facilement nous retrouver. Si vous avez envie de lire ce que raconte Laferrière sur la mort (“ La mort, je ne veux pas la voir ”, “ La mort haïtienne ”), sur ses rapports avec les mots (“L’ivresse des mots”) ou ses lectures d’enfance (“ Les premières lectures ”), le vaudou ou le féminisme, il n’y a qu’à butiner au fil de ces conversations – qui prennent parfois le ton de la confrontation amicale, pour notre plus grand bénéfice. Ceux qui connaissent l’œuvre de Dany Laferrière retrouveront avec bonheur les thèmes et les personnages du “cycle américain” et apprécieront cet ouvrage plein de verve, formidable compagnon de lecture. 2000.The unceasing storm: memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
By Katherine Luo. 2018
Just over fifty years ago, China's Cultural Revolution began. The movement was intended to bring about a return to revolutionary…
Maoist beliefs and resulted in attacks on intellectuals and those believed to be counter-revolutionaries, capitalists and rightists; a large-scale purge in government posts; the appearance of a personality cult around Mao Zedong; and an estimated death count of between one and three million. When Katherine Luo moved from Hong Kong to mainland China in 1955 to study drama and opera, she hoped her ideals and patriotism might help to build her country. Like many citizens, she loved the motherland and admired its revolutionary leaders. After years of completely trusting the regime, rationalizing its decisions and betrayals, and criticizing herself for doubting the Party, she realized that no matter how much she loved China, it would never love her back because she had the wrong background--capitalist class origins and overseas connections. Describes Luo's personal struggles--among other things, she was expelled from university, forbidden to marry her first love, and accused of being a spy--but it is also the memoir of a generation, representative of similar incidents occurring all over China. 2018.Mes tempêtes intérieures: 25 témoignages porteurs d'espoir sur la santé mentale
By Vanessa Beaulieu. 2018
Sournoise, difficile à percevoir à l'oeil nu, la maladie mentale prend souvent la forme de tache au dossier dans une…
société axée sur l'image et la performance. Mes tempêtes intérieures met en scène des hommes et des femmes qui ont souffert, se sont relevés et ont choisi de témoigner afin de lever les tabous entourant cette réalité complexe. Biz, Ingrid Falaise, Patrice Godin, Florence K, P-A Méthot, Karine Champagne, Jean-Marie Lapointe, Marianne St-Gelais, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Claudia Larochelle, Kevin Bazinet, Manon Massé, Carolane Stratis, Saskia Thuot, Andee, Véronique Bannon, Eliane Gagnon, Larry Beattie et Linda, Véronique, François Imbault-Dulac, Gabrielle Marion, Leah Parson et Same Ravenelle nous ont confié avec authenticité, générosité et humilité des épisodes difficiles de leur vie. Patrick Lagacé et Sonia Lupien complètent ce tableau intimiste en évoquant différents enjeux liés à la santé mentale. 2018.Ailleurs
By Sophie Chiasson. 2017
Sophie Chiasson prend elle-même la plume pour nous offrir un ouvrage pleinement assumé. Elle raconte son parcours atypique, d'où émerge…
l'espoir au coeur de la détresse. Dans un style qui lui est propre, elle se dévoile sans pudeur. Du procès hautement médiatisé, il en est à peine question. Nous sommes plutôt témoins d'un parcours essoufflant duquel il lui a fallu courageusement se relever. De l'enfant qui a appris à extirper le meilleur, jusqu'à la femme forte, mais aussi fragile qu'elle est, Sophie Chiasson s'ouvre avec vérité et transparence. 2017.Robert Bond: the greatest Newfoundlander
By Ted Rowe. 2017
The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often…
tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman, and over a period of 30 years never suffered a defeat at the polls. During his remarkable career, he built a reputation as a statesman, negotiating two trade agreements with the United States and reclaiming Newfoundland's rights to the French Shore. In the dark days following the bank crash of 1894, he personally intervened to save the country from bankruptcy. As prime minister he led a scrupulous and scandal-free administration. In private life, he was a recluse. He idolized his mother, never married, agonized over his health, and suffered a tortured relationship with his mentor William Whiteway. His place of solace was Whitbourne, where he built a magnificent country estate, complete with an elegant manor house, beautiful gardens and a working farm. This carefully researched and engaging biography delves into Bond's life and times, following him from his school days in St. John's and England to his rapid rise in politics in the 1880s and '90s and his time as prime minister in the first decade of the twentieth century. Along the way it reveals Bond's relationship with the unforgettable characters in this formative and turbulent time in Newfoundland politics. 2017.Let's move on: Paul Okalik speaks out
By Paul Okalik, Louis McComber. 2018
Paul Okalik was raised in a community that has survived starvation, epidemics, eradication of their spiritual heritage, relocation, schooling in…
a foreign language and confrontation with the Canadian justice system. He made the decision to improve the living conditions of his fellow Inuit. After ten years in Ottawa universities, he was called to the Northwest Territories Bar and then was elected the first Premier of Nunavut, the new Canadian territory, all in the year 1999. The new government was challenged on all fronts. Education and training was crucial if Inuit wanted to play a determining role in decision-making. While Paul Okalik was premier, Nunavut developed a civil service decentralized over ten distant communities, built much-needed infrastructures and provided more affordable housing. 2018.I've been meaning to tell you: a letter to my daughter
By David John Chariandy. 2018
Canadian author David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter to share with her the story of his life and…
to talk to her about the politics of race in her world. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future. Bestseller. 2018.La musique de l'âme
By Rachel Martinez, Daniel Lanois, Keisha Kalfin. 2011
Daniel Lanois est né à Hull. Il a grandi en Ontario. Il a aménagé son premier studio denregistrement dans le…
sous-sol de la maison de sa mère. Aujourdhui, il est un des producteurs de disques les plus recherchés au monde. Il a accompagné les plus grands artistes dans la création de quelques-uns des albums qui ont changé le visage de la musique, en plus de poursuivre lui-même une carrière dauteur-compositeur-interprète. Cest sur le ton de la confidence que Daniel Lanois nous raconte sa vie. Il nous dit comment sa passion et sa curiosité insatiable lont lancé sur les routes de lAmérique, de Hamilton à Oaxaca, à la recherche de la musique qui toucherait son âme. Il nous ouvre les portes des maisons où il a choisi de vivre, à Los Angeles, à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Surtout, il nous fait pénétrer dans les studios non conventionnels où il aime travailler, maison hantée du French Quarter ou cinéma désaffecté de L.A., lieux secrets où il exerce ses sortilèges. 2011. Titre uniforme: Soul mining.Heroes in my head: a memoir
By Judy Rebick. 2018
In this memoir, Rebick, one of Canada's best-known feminists, lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her…
life. She documents two major decades in her life: the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion; and the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Here, for the first time, she also reveals the very private battles she waged during these important decades. The result is a fascinating, heartbreaking, but ultimately empowering story. Bestseller. 2018.