"Intelligent, politically bold, and beautiful to browse [...] Every bookshelf needs a copy." — Disability Arts Online
In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 34 artists, thinkers, athletes and activists with...
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Auteur:Burnell, CerrieSommaire:
- Auteur:Rosenberg, Liz.Sommaire:
An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time,...
- 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:Fox, DarrellSommaire:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Terry Fox defined perseverance and hope for a generation of Canadians. Forty years after Terry's run ended, Forever Terry reflects what Terry's legacy means to us now, and in the future. To mark the...
- 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:Bartlett, Steve, Morrow, HildaSommaire:
First in Line: The Incredible Life of Leonard Stick documents the life of Leonard Stick, a distinguished war veteran, lawman and federal politician who was the 'first' in many historically significant events throughout his lifetime....
- Auteur:French, BobbiSommaire:
it's never too late to find the life you've always wanted. Bobbi French is just an ordinary person seeking an extraordinary life. For her, that means taking the boldest leap of faith in her life: moving to France to fulfill a lifelong...
- Auteur:Rossiter, T. P.Sommaire:
Despite his potential, extraordinary skating skills, and unmatched dedication and endurance, George Faulkner never made the Montreal Canadiens’ roster. But he was trying to break into a famous hockey dynasty never before seen in...
- 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...
- Auteur:Perro, BryanSommaire:
Eul'blond est l'expression préférée du grand gnou pour nommer son fils, son gaou. Ce surnom étant un savant mélange d'avertissements et de recadrage, il est aussi le cri hiérarchique du géniteur envers sa progéniture. Et...
- Auteur:Sonia, NazarioSommaire:
An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the...
- Auteur:Westover, TaraSommaire:
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance...