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Leaving the farm: memories of another life
By Ross Klatte. 2007
A haunting elegy for a way of life that is fast disappearing with the loss of the family farm. It…
is also a beautiful memoir about the universal experience of growing up as Klatte describes his childhood on a Minnesota farm. 2007.Des gens très bien
By Alexandre Jardin. 2011
Après une première incursion dans l’histoire familiale avec Le Roman des Jardin, l’auteur s’attache cette fois-ci à la personnalité de…
son grand-père paternel, figure aimée à propos duquel le petit-fils commença à comprendre à l’adolescence le rôle important joué par le Nain jaune durant le régime de Vichy.Camille et Paul: la passion Claudel
By Dominique Bona. 2006
Fièvre, passion, génie. C'est sous les signes de feu de la création et de la destruction qu'ont vécu les Claudel,…
soeur et frère - Camille le sculpteur, Paul le poète. Cette biographie raconte pour la première foi leurs rapports fusionnels. Deux tempéraments exaltés mais sensibles jusqu'à l'extrême fragilité Camille, intransigeante, affronte les incertitudes de l'art et de la vie de bohème ; Paul trompe son mal de vivre dans le voyage et l'exotisme, en Chine, au Brésil, au Japon. Ces destins qu'on pouvait croire séparés se sont nourris l'un de l'autre. La soeur et le frère vont connaître les mêmes passions funestes. Paul tombe amoureux de Rosalie Vetch, une femme mariée qui l'abandonnera ; Camille subit l'envoutement de Rodin jusqu'à la folie. Dominique Bona retrace les épisodes de leurs vies tourmentées. Elle révèle les liens profond de ces deux artistes lumineux et déchirés : unis au-delà de l'adversité, par une fraternité indestructible. 2006.La servante du Seigneur
By Jean-Louis Fournier. 2013
'' Ma fille était belle, ma fille était intelligente, ma fille était drôle... Mais elle a rencontré Monseigneur. Il a…
des bottines qui brillent et des oreilles pointues comme Belzébuth. Il lui a fait rencontrer Jésus. Depuis, ma fille n'est plus la même. Elle veut être sainte. Rose comme un bonbon, bleue comme le ciel. " -- 4e de couv.Ces extravagantes soeurs Mitford
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.Into the wild, l'histoire de mon frère
By Carine McCandless, Anne Guitton. 2016
En avril 1992, le corps de Christopher McCandless a été retrouvé dans un bus désaffecté, au coeur de l'Alaska. Son…
histoire et sa volonté d'isolement au plus près de la nature ont été racontées dans l'ouvrage "Into the wild" qui avait inspiré le film éponyme. Sa soeur explique les raisons de son départ, notamment l'instabilité familiale et l'ombre d'un père destructeur et violent. 2016. Titre uniforme: Wild truth.La reine du silence
By Marie Nimier. 2004
Marie Nimier, auteur de huit romans, ose avec ce nouveau livre s'attacher à la figure de son père, Roger Nimier.…
Elle explore l'amas de tôles froissées, interrogeant avec gravité le destin de cet écrivain que ses amis décrivent tour à tour, et parfois simultanément, comme un être désinvolte, sérieux, menteur, loyal, tendre, indifférent et malhabile de ses sentiments comme on est maladroit de ses mains. 2004.Around the rowan tree
By Margaret Gillies Brown. 1999
The Gillies family immigrated to Canada in the 1950s. This book takes up the story of their return to Scotland,…
to live on a farm on the Carse of Gowrie. The text describes the ebb and flow of life as a farmer's wife with eventually seven children. 1999.Dog Creek: a place in the Cariboo
By Hilary Place. 1999
In the 1880's, J.S. Place came to Dog Creek, where he amassed a frontier empire that included land, cattle, horses,…
hotels, a store, a flourmill and a sawmill; but soon after his grandson Hilary was born, J.S. lost it all. In this memoir, Hilary tells of his family's hard times as they worked to regain their heritage and of the changes in the Cariboo as the 20th century progressed. He profiles unforgettable characters and events from this long-gone but once thriving community. 1999.Destination Cortez Island: a sailor's life along the BC coast
By June Cameron. 1999
As a child in the 1930's, the author began taking part in an annual voyage with her family, from Vancouver…
to Cortez Island, in a 36-foot wooden boat. This went on for almost two decades. In this memoir, she recalls the trips and the history and folklore of Cortez Island and the BC coast. 1999.Five pennies: a prairie boy's story
By Irene Morck. 1999
A memoir of growing up in Alberta early in the 1900's. These stories, about trips to the general store, school,…
working a farm, and the occasional falling cow, were told to the author by her father. Filled with details about pioneer life, each story is tinged with the perception and wonder of a young boy. 1999.Hellfire and herring: a childhood remembered
By Christopher Rush. 2008
Christopher Rush grew up in a small fishing village on the east coast of Scotland in the 1940s and 50s.…
In this memoir he brings back to life a world now vanished, creating a tale of folklore and fishing, fathers and sons, motherly love, church and school. 2007.Knowing Jesse: a mother's story of grief, grace, and everyday bliss
By Marianne Leone. 2010
Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and…
was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her transformation by the remarkable life and untimely death of her child. 2010.Knock wood
By Candice Bergen. 1984
Daughter of the famed Edgar Bergen, chronicles her fairy-tale life, along with its dark sides, from her childhood to the…
present. She tells about always living in the limelight and her childhood rivalry with Charlie McCarthy, her wooden "brother." 1984.Know the night: a memoir of survival in the small hours
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.Kathleen and Frank
By Christopher Isherwood. 1971
A portrait of the author's parents and their late Victorian romance, based on Kathleen's diary and Frank's letters. This story…
of a happy marriage is interspersed with the author's comments, which reveal not only his parents' characters and times but also much of his own personality. 1971.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.Journey to my father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
By Barbara Harshav, Israel Zamir. 1995
Profile of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer by his son, Israel Zamir. Abandoned by his father in 1935, Zamir initiates…
contact with Singer twenty years later in New York. Slowly and with much difficulty, father and son forge a relationship despite profound differences in philosophy, spirituality, and politics. Zamir eventually agrees to translate his father's works from Yiddish to Hebrew. 1995. Uniform title: Avi, Yitsḥaḳ Bashevis-Zinger.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.In search of kinship: modern pioneering on the western landscape
By Page Lambert. 1996
A woman chronicles her family's harsh, yet fulfilling, life on a Wyoming ranch. Celebrates their connection with the land and…
nature, while lamenting the passing of family traditions in the modern world. 1996.