Dans sa cellule du pénitencier à sécurité maximale de Florence au Colorado, où il a été détenu durant plus de cinq ans de l'été 2007 à octobre 2012, l'ancien parrain de la mafia montréalaise Vito Rizzuto ruminait...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Renaud, DanielSummary: - Author:Bastien, JudithSummary:
Ce livre raconte mon histoire, celle d'une fille atteinte d'Ostéogénèse Imparfaite. On dit que j'ai écrit une histoire de détermination et de persévérance empreinte d'humour et de dignité. Si me raconter aide une...
- Author:Drabek, JanSummary:
In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those...
- Author:Pottle, AdamSummary:
In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like...
- Author:Sarkadi, LaurieSummary:
After plans to live in Africa shatter, young journalist Laurie Sarkadi moves to the Subarctic city of Yellowknife seeking wilderness and adventure. She covers the changing socio-political worlds of Dene and Inuit in the late ‘80s—...
- Author:Staley, RobertaSummary:
Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women's rights. This book charts her incredible journey - from arriving in Canada...
- Author:Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, HowardSummary:
Here are selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems, songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. New voices featured in this tenth...
- Author:Northup, SolomonSummary:
Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume. Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their...
- Author:Vachon, GilbertSummary:
Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'une mère bienveillante qui, une fois placée en CHSLD, est décédée à la suite de négligence dont elle a été victime, mais aussi d'un fils aimant qui, en plus de l'avoir soutenu jusqu...
- Author:Ney, ArthurSummary:
Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and...
- Author:Whiteson, Leon, Layton, Aviva, Thibodeau, DavidSummary:
A survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside story of Branch Davidians, David Koresh, and what really happened at the religious compound in Texas. Thibodeau explores why so many people believed Koresh was divinely inspired, and...
- Author:Armstrong, JohnSummary:
John Armstrong has worked as a paperboy, a caddy, and a Bible camp counsellor; as a janitor at the Regal Theatre, a shipper of video porn, and a real live punk rock star. As if those jobs weren't punishment enough, at the tender age of...
- Author:Young, NeilSummary:
The perfect gift for music lovers and Neil Young fans, telling the story behind Neil Young's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs.
"I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to... - Author:Dallaire, RoméoSummary:
At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in...
- Author:Ethari, Lamees AlSummary:
In this memoir, Lamees Al Ethari traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family to the relative stability of family exilic life in Canada. Through memory fragments, clips of poetry, diary entries, and...
- Author:Izgil, Tahir HamutSummary:
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON POST - THE ECONOMIST - TIME A poet's account...
- Author:Strahan, MichaelSummary:
America's favorite football player turned morning talk show host Michael Strahan reads his book of motivational advice on how to turn up the heat and go from good to great in pursuit of your personal ambition. Michael Strahan spent...
- Author:Poling, Sr., JimSummary:
A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother? Why did she take a lifelong secret to her...
- Author:Thoreau, Henry DavidSummary:
Walden is a classic of American philosophy that describes Thoreau's concepts of self-reliance and individualism. In "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," he develops the philosophy of nonviolent political protest.
- Author:Eversmann, Matt, Mooney, Chris, Patterson, JamesSummary:
A powerful collection of never-before-told war stories crafted from hundreds of interviews by James Patterson and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann.
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