Fraîchement diplômée et armée d'un optimisme démesuré, Marie Samson part à la recherche de son premier emploi de journaliste. Après une courte et désastreuse expérience dans un...
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Author: Roy, AlexandraSummary:
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Author: Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:
Mary Pickford’s ambition, passion, innate talent, and savvy business acumen sent her career into the stratosphere and set the blueprint for the modern movie star. Born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892...
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Author: Moutier, Maxime-OlivierSummary:
Je mets mes souliers. Je n'ai pas le temps de les attacher. Je cours jusqu'aux toilettes et je vomis. Je pleure aussi. Comme un enfant. En criant. Exténué. Il n'y a pas de nausée. Mais je ne peux...
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Author: Pion, MarylèneSummary:
1962. A 22 ans, Claire Lemay vient tout juste de recevoir son diplôme de secrétariat. La jeune femme décroche aussitôt un emploi au sein de la Banque Royale, sise à la toute nouvelle Place...
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Author: INNES, HammondSummary:
Crew of the 'Sea Witch' board a steamer bearing down on them to find a solitary man aboard. A series of events follow, culminating in a struggle for survival.
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Author: Myers, MuguetteSummary:
From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they sought refuge from the...
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Author: Filiatrault, JohaneSummary:
Il fallait bien du courage pour tout quitter et fonder une ville en pleine nature sauvage ! 1642. Bien qu'à ses débuts, la colonie française en Amérique prend tranquillement de l'...
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Author: Pettit, Mary, Corbett, Gail H., Kohli, Marjorie, Bagnell, KennethSummary:
In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished...
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Author: Hilsum, LindseySummary:
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...
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Author: Oliveira, RobinSummary:
The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, her...
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Author: Whyte, MarySummary:
In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and...
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Author: Gordon, Irene TernierSummary:
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with. Her honeymoon was a four-month journey from Quebec to Pembina with a brigade of tough voyageurs, and she criss-crossed Canada with her fur...
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Author: Freedman, BenedictSummary:
Katherine Mary O'Fallon was 16 when she went from Boston to a ranch in Canada. Soon she met Mike Flanningan of the Canadian Mounted Police and they went to live in the far north. Their story is a...
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Author: Franz, MargaretSummary:
The courageous life and tragic death of a brave and passionate young social worker and prison justice advocate, caught up in the terror of a hostage-taking at the B.C. Penitentiary in June 1975....
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Author: Siggins, MaggieSummary:
In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She...