This program is read by Michael J. Fox. A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly,...
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Auteur:Fox, Michael J.Sommaire: - Auteur:SHEPHERD, JanineSommaire:
Janine Shepherd’s story reads like the plot of a Hollywood movie. A champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics, her life was irrevocably altered during a bike ride to the Blue Mountains when she was hit...
- Auteur:Brennert, AlanSommaire:
Brennert tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of...
- Auteur:Begley, LouisSommaire:
Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
- Auteur:Krauss, NicoleSommaire:
Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to...
- Auteur:Morrow, JudeSommaire:
Loving Your Place on the Spectrum-a book about autism by an autistic author-is a guide for a happy and successful life for both autistic individuals and the neurotypical people in their lives. Combining his own experiences with stories...
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Auteur:Pawagi, ManjushaSommaire:Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be...
- Auteur:Bly, MarySommaire:
On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-...
- Auteur:Peikoff, KiraSommaire:
Performing illegal research in a near-future world where embryonic stem cell work is considered first-degree murder, brilliant doctor Arianna Drake draws the attention of an agent from the Department of Embryo Preservation.
- Auteur:Kloots, Anna, Kloots, AmandaSommaire:
Amanda Kloots reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.
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Auteur:Pierrette DotriceSommaire:Un témoignage sur les manipulations sexuelles et affectives La première édition de ce livre-choc, mystérieusement étouffée en 2006, fit l'objet d'une procédure à la Cour Supérieure du Québec. Sans doute parce qu...
- Auteur:Genova, LisaSommaire:
Genova's novel revolves around Sarah Nickerson, a high-powered consultant whose fast-paced world comes to a screeching halt when a brain injury leaves her with a condition called Left Neglect. Now Sarah must pay attention to things she...
- Auteur:Kember, LorraineSommaire:
Mesothelioma was the furthest thing from Brian Kember's mind when at the age of fifty two he began to experience shortness of breath. Exposed to Asbestos as a child living with his parents in the asbestos mining town of Wittenoom...
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Auteur:Pierrette DotriceSommaire:Avec son livre « L'Opération esthétique », surprenant de romantisme et de poésie mais dont chaque mot est vrai, Pierrette Dotrice a osé, pour la première fois, sonder le sujet des manipulations affectives et sexuelles au sein...
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Auteur:Rapp, AdamSommaire:All Francis Falbo has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants. He becomes increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing.
- Auteur:Tobimatsu, KimikoSommaire:
A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world...
- Auteur:Powley, JenSommaire:
Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs. Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley's life at the time of her diagnosis, and the...
- Auteur:El-Ghadban, YaraSommaire:
Prix de la diversité Métropolis Bleu / Conseil des Arts de Montréal Un roman palestinien Avec Je suis Ariel Sharon, troisième roman d'un triptyque, l'auteure poursuit l'exploration des vies intimes des hommes,...
- Auteur:ANDERSON, ClaireSommaire:
Personal story of a young, brave female, of the physical and emotional journey, the people it has affected and the support shown by all.
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