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What the mouth wants: a memoir of food, love and belonging
By Monica Meneghetti. 2017
This memoir traces Meneghetti's unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love. As the youngest child of…
a traditional Italian-Catholic immigrant family, Monica learns the intimacy of the dinner table and the ritual of meals, along with the requirements of conformity both at the table and in life. Monica is thirteen when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoes a mastectomy. When her mother dies three years later, Monica considers the existence of her own breasts and her emerging sexuality in the context of grief and the disintegration of her sense of family. As Monica becomes an adult, she discovers a part of her self that rebels against the rigours of her traditional upbringing. And as the layers of her sexuality are revealed she begins to understand that like herbs infusing a sauce with flavor, her differences add a delicious complexity to her life. Through risk, courage and heartbreak, she ultimately redefines and recreates family and identity according to her own alternative vision. 2017.I'm your man: the life of Leonard Cohen
By Sylvie Simmons. 2013
Exploring the many facets of Cohen's life, an intimate portrait of the influential songwriter draws upon his private archives and…
interviews with many of his closest associates, colleagues, and other artists whose work he has inspired. 2013.Live long and: what I learned along the way
By William Shatner, David Fisher. 2018
"I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who…
lived to 100, I couldn't die as long as I was booked." And Shatner is always booked. Still, a brief health scare in 2016 forced him to take stock. After mulling over the lessons he's learned, the places he's been, and all the miracles and strange occurrences he's witnessed over the course of an enduring career in Hollywood and on the stage, he arrived at one simple rule for living a long and good life: don't die. It's the only one-size-fits-all advice, Shatner argues, because everyone has a unique life, but, to help us all out, he's more than willing to share stories from his unique life. With a combination of pithy humor and thoughtful vulnerability, Shatner lays out his journey from childhood to peak stardom and all the bumps in the road. 2018.Beyond vision: going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self
By Allan Jones. 2018
The author was Canada's first blind diplomat, and his vivid account of life and work in Tokyo, New Delhi and…
Ottawa is a testament to the blind person's native capacity for innovation and practical adjustment. But the deeper message of Beyond Vision is more radical and consequential: the self - the real self that is normally veiled - does not go blind. The deep self stands entirely apart from the experience of sightedness or blindness, as a centre of stable equanimity. This is what the author discovered through his study and assimilation of Indian Vedantic philosophy. Jones briefly describes the basic features of Advaita Vedanta, and identifies startling findings of contemporary science that are consonant with the Advaitic view of world and self. He then outlines practical applications of Advaita, for example the mindfulness practice that allowed him to retain his white cane mobility skills despite chronic and untreatable spinal and muscular pain. 2018.Me Guy Bertrand: "tu seras toujours un mal aimé, mon fils"
By Guy Bertrand, Pierrot Métrailler. 2018
Avocat, libre-penseur, auteur et activiste politique, Me Guy Bertrand pratique le droit depuis plus de 54 ans. Il a lutté…
toute sa vie et avec une passion hors du commun pour que le Québec devienne autre chose qu'un pays inachevé. La multiplicité de ses actions juridiques et politiques, souvent spectaculaires, feront de lui un homme à abattre, particulièrement dans les milieux judiciaire et politique. Il réalisera pourquoi son père lui avait dit : Tu seras toujours un mal aimé, mon fils. Dans ce premier tome de trois qui s'ouvre avec ses années de pensionnat en Beauce et qui se termine avec le projet d'un Bloc québécois à Ottawa déposé en 1972, on découvrira la vie de Me Bertrand à travers l'histoire du Québec. 2018.Être face à la rue
By Jean-Marie Lapointe. 2017
Après avoir animé la série Face à la rue, diffusée à la chaîne Moi & Cie, Jean-Marie Lapointe a ressenti…
le besoin de poursuivre sa réflexion sur l'itinérance. Les sans-abri dérangent. Et, comme nous, il a déjà détourné le regard. Ce n'est plus le cas. Avec toute l'empathie qu'on lui connaît, il se livre dans Être face à la rue sur de nombreux thèmes concernant l'itinérance, ainsi que sur le parcours de certains protagonistes de la série. En parallèle, il se souvient de moments où il aurait pu, lui aussi, glisser et se retrouver de ce côté. Il se sait chanceux. Un livre nécessaire, écrit avec compassion et humanisme. 2017.Dame mature: réflexion comico-dramatique d'une périménopausée velue et moite
By Guylaine Guay. 2018
Dans ce récit personnel où se côtoient de savoureuses histoires et une chronologie hormonale du parcours féminin, Guylaine Guay aborde…
un sujet plutôt tabou ou, encore, tourné en dérision : la ménopause ! Quand on naît femme, les étapes de la vie hormonale sont nombreuses : la puberté, la période reproductive, la préménopause et celle dans laquelle l'auteure baigne présentement, la périménopause ou, dans ses mots, l'apocalypse hormonale ! Dame mature est une réflexion tantôt drôle, tantôt profonde, mais toujours tendre, sur ce moment charnière qui apporte son lot de changements physiques, émotifs et climatiques. Ce récit, bien qu'enveloppé d'une bonne couche d'humour, est empreint d'amour et d'anecdotes à la Guylou ! 2018.Bent hope: a street journal
By Tim Huff. 2008
Bent Hope was born out of Tim Huff's unique and extensive twenty-year ministry among homeless and street-involved youth and adults…
in Toronto. These gripping true-life stories surface quietly from unforgiving corridors of fear, hurt and uncertainty that unexpectedly and supernaturally transform into fascinating places of intimacy and godly anticipation. c2008.Heart berries: a memoir
By Sherman Alexie, Terese Marie Mailhot, Joan Naviyuk Kane. 2018
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in…
the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father--an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist--who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts us to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, re-establishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Bestseller. 2018.Dear current occupant: a memoir (Essais Ser. #5)
By Chelene Knight. 2018
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of…
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home. 2018.J.P. Bickell: the life, the Leafs, and the legacy
By Jason Wilson, Kevin Shea, Graham MacLachlan. 2017
A self-made mining magnate and the man who kept the Maple Leafs in Toronto and financed Maple Leaf Gardens, J.P.…
Bickell lived an extraordinary and purposeful life. As one of the most important industrialists in Canadian history, Bickell left his mark on communities across the nation. He was a cornerstone of the Toronto Maple Leafs, which awards the J.P. Bickell Memorial Award in his honour to recognize outstanding service to the organization. He was also a giant of Canadian industry, and one of C.D. Howe's WWII-era "dollar-a-year" men leading war efforts on the home front. Though he avoided public attention for much of his life, his story is tied up not only with the Maple Leafs, but with some of the most famous Canadians of his day, including Mitchell Hepburn, Roy Thomson, and Conn Smythe. Through his charitable foundation, he has been a key benefactor of Sick Kids Hospital, and his legacy continues to transform the city of Toronto. Yet, though Bickell was so important both to Toronto and the Maple Leafs, the story of his incredible life is today largely obscure. 2017.Bay of hope: five years in Newfoundland
By David Ward. 2018
Part memoir, part nature writing, part love story, "Bay of Hope" is an occasionally comical, often adversarial, and always emotional…
story about the five years ecologist David Ward lived in an isolated Newfoundland community; of how he ended up there, worked, survived the elements, and coped with loneliness and a lack of intimacy. But this book is also a story about David’s 78 McCallum, Newfoundland, neighbours, the unforgiving mountain and wilderness culture they call home, and why their government wishes they were dead. 2018.The never-ending present: the story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
By Michael Barclay. 2018
In the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in to watch what was likely the Tragically…
Hip’s final performance, broadcast from their hometown of Kingston, Ontario. Why? Because these five men were always more than just a band. They sold millions of records and defined a generation of Canadian rock music. But they were also a tabula rasa onto which fans could project their own ideas: of performance, of poetry, of history, of Canada itself. Barclay talks to dozens of the band’s peers and friends about not just the Hip’s music but about the opening bands, the American albatross, the band’s role in Canadian culture, and Gord Downie’s role in reconciliation with Indigenous people. When Downie announced he had terminal cancer and decided to take the Hip on the road one more time, the tour became another Terry Fox moment; this time, Canadians got to witness an embattled hero reach the finish line. Bestseller. 2018.Joey Jacobson's war: a Jewish Canadian airman in the Second World War
By Peter J Usher. 2018
Joey Jacobson, a young Jewish man from Westmount on the Island of Montreal, trained as a navigator and bomb-aimer in…
Western Canada. On arriving in England he was assigned to No. 106 Squadron, a British unit tasked with the bombing of Germany. Tells, in his own words, why he enlisted, his understanding of strategy, tactics, and the effectiveness of the air war at its lowest point, how he responded to the inevitable battle stress, and how he became both a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman. Jacobson's written legacy as a serviceman is impressive in scope and depth and provides a lively and intimate account of a Jewish Canadian's life in the air and on the ground, written in the intensity of the moment, unfiltered by the memoirist's reflection, revision, or hindsight. Accompanying excerpts from his father's diary show the maturation of the relationship between father and son in a dangerous time. 2018.The road to dawn: Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
By Jared Brock. 2018
This book tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson--a dynamic, driven man with exceptional intelligence and unyielding principles, who overcame…
incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and catapulted to international fame, though, until now, his story has been lost to history. 2018.A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home
By Alan Doyle. 2017
Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle describes leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. He turns his…
perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island. Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between, Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Bestseller. 2017.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.The man who carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the making of an American icon
By Julie Chadwick. 2017
Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. Chronicles a relationship that was both volatile and affectionate…
between Johnny Cash and his manager, Saul Holiff. From roadside taverns to the roaring crowds at Madison Square Garden, from wrecked cars and jail cells all the way to the White House, the story of Johnny and Saul is a portrait of two men from different worlds who were more alike than either cared to admit. Saul handled the bookings and the no-shows, the divorce and the record deals, drugs, overdoses, and arrests. He was there for the absolute worst of times, but also for the best: Carnegie Hall, Folsom Prison, “A Boy Named Sue,” and Cash’s hit television series. But in 1973, at the zenith of Cash’s career, Saul quit. Until now, no one knew why. 2017.Foglia l'insolent
By Marc-François Bernier. 2015
" Pierre Foglia est le journaliste le plus marquant des 50 dernières années. Ses écrits tantôt insolents, décapants, indignés et…
dévastateurs, tantôt tendres, poétiques ou lyriques sont uniques, aussi bien par le style que par la diversité. Dans cet essai, l'auteur dresse un bilan de cette oeuvre gigantesque riche de 4300 chroniques publiées dans le quotidien La Presse de 1978 à 2015. Il retrace le parcours biographique de Foglia et révèle la complexité de ce personnage à la fois moraliste, indépendantiste, épris de justice sociale, libertaire, cycliste, olympien, littéraire, hypocondriaque, amoureux de sa fiancée et des chats. Il ordonne une oeuvre dispersée et en dévoile le sens... Voilà Foglia à son tour rapaillé. " -- 4e de couv.Antarctique solo: la fantastique aventure de Frédéric Dion : récit biographique
By Bryan Perro. 2015
" Après avoir traversé des centaines d'épreuves, le corps fatigué et l'esprit déstabilisé par le Soleil qui ne se couche…
jamais, alors même que sa traversée de l'Antarctique en solitaire est avancée, Frédéric Dion est victime d'une mauvaise bourrasque et perd son traîneau. Commence alors son combat contre le vent, la poudrerie naissante et le froid mordant afin de retrouver au plus vite son matériel de survie. D'expérience, Frédéric sait qu'il ne lui reste qu'une vingtaine de minutes, car, passé ce seuil, son traîneau sera recouvert de neige et impossible à repérer. Ce sont précisément ces vingt minutes qui sont racontées dans ce livre. Minute par minute, tout y passe... ses doutes, ses certitudes, ses exploits, sa famille, mais surtout son incroyable capacité à danser corps à corps avec la mort en lui imposant son rythme. Antarctique solo est le récit fabuleux d'un aventurier du XXIe siècle qui n'a pas froid aux yeux, mais demeure malgré tout d'une désarmante fragilité. " -- 4e de couv.