Arab-Canadian writer and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, a gay man who grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Yemen, delivers a courageous, brutally honest, engaging and often funny memoir of family life over six decades. While he...
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Auteur:Béchard, Deni EllisSommaire:Kabul — 10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers were acquaintances — three fellow ex-pats who had formed an...
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Auteur:Dafoe, ChristopherSommaire:This is the story of the formative years of Canada’s most famous newspaper editor, John Wesley Dafoe. Written by his grandson, it is an honest account of the man that his family and his friends knew, from his unpromising beginnings in...
- Auteur:Hilsum, LindseySommaire:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum. ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is...
- Auteur:Mofina, RickSommaire:
The kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl is linked to her mother's past--a painful secret the mother must reveal to her estranged brother, a reporter with a global newswire agency whose help she seeks to find her abducted child before time...
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Auteur:Sutherland, CindySommaire:Reporter Drew Edwards got too close to his story and now finds himself a hunted man. After being kidnapped and then released in Colorado Springs Forest, he has six hours’ headstart on a madman trying to teach his son a lesson. Chance...
- Auteur:Warren, Jean-PhilippeSommaire:
Dans l'esprit de bien des gens, la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle confirme le repli conservateur d'une population canadienne-française engagée dans un combat ardu pour la survivance. Mais que faire d'un homme comme Honoré Beaugrand, qui...
- Auteur:MINIFIE, James M.Sommaire:
Based on his own boyhood experiences and the stories his father told, Minifie recounts the perils and pleasures of growing up on the Canadian prairies prior to and during the "dust bowl" period of the 1930's. He later...
- 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...
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Auteur:Castle, RichardSommaire:An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband...
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Auteur:Newman, Peter CharlesSommaire:Peter C. Newman's autobiography, from his youth as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; to the Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape...
- Auteur:Andrews, Mary Kay.Sommaire:
New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer . It's a new season... Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon ,...
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Auteur:Amos, RobertSommaire:Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoter—he was a man of many parts and the ideal...
- Auteur:Ali, WajahatSommaire:
A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm,...
- Auteur:Shelden, MichaelSommaire:
George Orwell was more than just a writer. He was a political and social sage who valued, above all else, individual freedom. His works aren't just entertainment--they're cautionary tales and red flags of warning. And if we...
- Auteur:Lawson, JennySommaire:
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible...
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Auteur:Foster, CharlesSommaire:Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of...
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Auteur:Thompson, Hunter S.Sommaire:This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of...
- Auteur:Blume, Lesley M.M.Sommaire:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—...
- Auteur:Arthurson, WayneSommaire:
Leo Desroches doesn't look Native, but his mother was Cree, so the Edmonton newspaper he writes for decides he should be their Aboriginal Issues reporter. Leo has his own issues to deal with: compulsive gambling that cost him his...
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