Dans ces « récits d'enfance et de cuisine » où l'on connaîtra les secrets des gourganes à l'ail, au citron et au cumin, de la kémia et du gâteau à deux œufs, Pascale Navarro rend hommage à sa grande famille dispersée, l...
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Auteur:Navarro, PascaleSommaire: - Auteur:Gagnon, RachelSommaire:
À l'achat de ce livre, en version papier ou numérique, nous remettrons 1 $ à l'Association des bénévoles du CHSLD Sainte-Rose à Laval. Lorsque, au détour d'un bazar, elle met la main sur le journal intime d'une...
- Auteur:Stevenson, RobinSommaire:
Every activist started out as a kid—and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems—often in the middle of extraordinary...
- Auteur:Pronovost, AndréSommaire:
Kerouac & Presley starts in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in the International Year of the Woman, and from there it moves to Connecticut and the Abbey where one of Elvis's co-stars became...
- Auteur:Fraser, Greg N.Sommaire:
An intriguing look at the accomplishments and contradictions of Joseph William McKay, best known as the founder of Nanaimo, BC, and one of the most successful Métis men to rise through the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company in the...
- Auteur:Neary, Peter, Baker, MelvinSommaire:
No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood. During his long career in Newfoundland politics, Smallwood used the literary, rhetorical, and theatrical skills...
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Auteur:Demerson, VelmaSommaire:On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a "crime" that was compounded by her...
- Auteur:Savoie, Donald J.Sommaire:
In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie...
- Auteur:Buttigieg, ChastenSommaire:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with...
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Auteur:Cooper, GwenSommaire:Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. Then Gwen's veterinarian called...
- Auteur:Lundy, SusanSommaire:
For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was...
- Auteur:Jollett, MikelSommaire:
This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most...
- Auteur:Selvin, JoelSommaire:
'Hollywood Edenbrings the lost humanity of the record business vividly back to life ... [Selvin's] style is blunt, unpretentious and brisk; he knows how to move things along entertainingly ... Songs about surfboards and...
- Auteur:Bond, MartynSommaire:
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a...
- Auteur:Macfarlane, JulieSommaire:
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud — the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma...
- Auteur:Browder, BillSommaire:
Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of...
- Auteur:Faulkner, MarcelSommaire:
Cinquante ans après les évènements d'octobre 1970, une profonde ambivalence entoure encore aujourd'hui la perception du FLQ dans la mémoire collective, comme si, au-delà des bavures commises, plusieurs se reconnaissent...
- Auteur:Peacock, MollySommaire:
'Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock's insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and...
- Auteur:Besner, NeilSommaire:
A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages,...
- Auteur:Jordan-Fenton, Christy, Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret-OlemaunSommaire:
The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the...
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