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The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow
Par Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…
Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.Sun in winter: a Toronto wartime journal, 1942 to 1945
Par Gunda Lambton. 2003
In 1942 Gunda Lambton was a "war guest," a single mother sent from England to Toronto to avoid the war.…
While insanity raged throughout Europe she struggled to keep herself and her two small children going in a strange new home. While many people then were engaged in dramatic, heroic war work, her diary is a tribute to the quiet areas of endurance and pleasures of discovery that also distinguished those years. 2003.Smart medicine for your eyes: a guide to natural, effective, and safe relief of common eye disorders
Par Jeffrey Anshel. 2011
Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.Glaucoma: the complete guide : a patient handbook
Par Tina T Wong. 2011
One of the world's leading experts helps you navigate through glaucoma from diagnosis to the many treatment options. This landmark…
patient handbook stands out as both authoritative and readable, providing the critical information necessary to help patients. 2011.Les disparus
Par Daniel Mendelsohn, Pierre Guglielmina. 2007
Ce livre est le récit d'une enquête personnelle sur le drame familial inséparable de la plus grande tragédie du XXe…
siècle : l'extermination des juifs par les nazis. L'auteur raconte comment une partie de sa famille a disparu dans l'est de la Pologne au début des années 1940, sans laisser d'autres traces que quelques lettres, des photos et surtout un souvenir vivace chez les membres survivants. Il décrit aussi comment il s'est emparé des rares indices à sa disposition pour tenter de découvrir ce qu'ils étaient exactement devenus et les conclusions auxquelles il est finalement parvenu après avoir compulsé quantité d'ouvrages, traversé quatre continents, rencontré de multiples témoins et soulevé de réels tabous, y compris au sein de sa propre famille. 2007. Titre uniforme: Lost.Hiding Edith: a true story (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers #7)
Par Kathy Kacer. 2006
The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi…
invasion of France. Edith's courage was remarkable, as was the bravery of those who helped her: an entire village, including its mayor, that heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2006.Blind vision: the neuroscience of visual impairment
Par Zaira Cattaneo, Tomaso Vecchi. 2011
Italian researchers examine the effects of blindness on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system. They demonstrate the…
ways other senses evolve to help compensate for the absence of sight. 2011.A change of heart
Par Alice Walsh. 2016
A young African American and the son of sharecroppers, Lanier Phillips escapes the violence, racism, and segregation of his Georgia…
home by joining the navy during the Second World War. But tragedy strikes the USS Truxtun one February night off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland, and Lanier is the lone Black survivor of the terrible shipwreck. Covered in oil when he arrives onshore, the community's kindness and humanity brings him back to health and changes his outlook on life. Grades K-3. 2016.Wolsey: the life of King Henry VIII's cardinal
Par John Matusiak. 2014
Explores the many contrasting layers of Thomas Wolsey's life and career, and represents the first genuinely popular biography of the…
much-maligned cardinal to appear in over 30 years. Making no assumptions, it looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes whose meteoric rise was marked by an equally inexorable descent into desperation, as he attempted in vain to satisfy the tempestuous master whose ambition ultimately broke him. 2014.I am potential: eight lessons on living, loving, and reaching your dreams
Par Patrick Henry Hughes, Patrick John Hughes, Bryant A Stamford. 2008
Patrick Henry Hughes was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him without eyes and physically disabled, but he…
was also blessed with exceptional musical talent, able to play the piano at the age of two. Now, at age nineteen, he is a nationally known pianist, singer, and trumpeter who has performed at the Kennedy Center. But he's best known for playing in the University of Louisville marching band, while his devoted father pushes him in formation in his wheelchair. With determined optimism and courage, Hughes has made "I am potential" his mantra and defied the impossible at every turn. 2008.The uncrowned king: the sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst
Par Kenneth Whyte. 2008
More than a century ago, William Randolph Hearst stormed the Manhattan publishing establishment and usurped Joseph Pulitzer as the dominant…
force in the most hotly contested newspaper market the world has ever seen. In three years, Hearst built the foundation of one of America's greatest media empires, yet his reputation as a journalist has always been haunted by allegations of sensationalism, self-promotion, warmongering, and outright fakery. Some descriptions of violence. c2008.True patriot love: four generations in search of Canada
Par Michael Ignatieff. 2009
Ignatieff chronicles his mother's family, the Grants, including his great-grandfather George Monro Grant, who, with Sandford Fleming, would map out…
Canada's national railway line, and his grandfather William, who fought at the Somme in World War I. Ignatieff retells the history of his ancestors as a story of one family's search for Canada. 2009.Roughing it in the bush: or, life in Canada
Par Susanna Moodie. 2006
"Moi, Hannibal--"
Par Yann Le Bohec, Giovanni Brizzi. 2007
"En écrivant à la première personne du singulier, l'auteur nous invite à nous glisser dans la peau d'Hannibal Barca (247-183…
av. J.-C.), le plus grand stratège de tous les temps. Enfance à Carthage, adolescence en Espagne, traversée des Alpes, victoire de Cannes, défaite de Zama, exil..., rien n'échappe à la plume experte du Professeur Brizzi, qui réussit, ici, le pari de nous instruire sans jamais nous lasser. Le " héros " malheureux de la deuxième guerre punique (218-202 av. J.-C.), acteur d'une destinée unique par son intensité, et son époque n'auront bientôt plus de secret pour vous." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Anibale, come un'autobiographia.La perle: la véritable histoire d'un amour interdit dans la Russie de Catherine la Grande ((Littératures (Autrement (Firme))).)
Par Douglas Smith, Geneviève Brzustowski. 2010
L'histoire d'un amour clandestin entre un richissime aristocrate, Nikolaï Cheremetiev, et une jeune serve, Praskovia, unis par une passion commune…
pour l'opéra dans la Russie de Catherine la Grande. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia.Le chevalier d'Éon: ["une vie sans queue ni tête"]
Par Maurice Lever, Évelyne Lever. 2009
"Est-ce un homme, une femme, un hermaphrodite ? L'énigme de son sexe aura sûrement beaucoup plus fait pour sa réputation…
que tout ce qu'il entreprit dans sa longue existence. Les aventures du chevalier d'Éon dépassent de loin par l'extravagance tout ce qu'un romancier peut imaginer, mais leur intérêt ne s'épuise pas dans les péripéties d'une vie "sans queue ni tête", comme il le dit un jour. Tout à la fois agent secret de Louis XV et diplomate officiel, il est mêlé à la grande politique, mais aussi à d'innombrables intrigues : il rencontre des souverains, des ministres, court de Saint-Pétersbourg à Londres, détient des secrets d'État jusqu'au jour où un tribunal britannique déclare, sans preuve, qu'il appartient au sexe féminin [...]". -- 4e de couv.With hope in their eyes: compelling stories of the Windrush generation (Unseen history)
Par Vivienne Francis. 1998
The stories of the Windrush generation - Britain's first post-war immigrants from the Caribbean. These early pioneers, who came to…
Britain with high expectations, tell it like it really was, covering over fifty years of black presence in Britain.The man who loved libraries: the story of Andrew Carnegie
Par Andrew Larsen. 2017
When he was a child in the 1840s, Andrew Carnegie and his family immigrated to America in search of a…
new beginning. His working-class Scottish family arrived at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Carnegie worked hard, in factories and telegraphy. He invested in railroads, eventually becoming the richest man in the world during his time. Carnegie believed strongly in sharing his wealth, and one of the ways he did this was by funding the construction of over 2,500 public libraries around the world. His philanthropy completely revolutionized public libraries, which weren’t widespread at the time. Grades K-3. 2017.The two-in-one: walking with Smokie, walking with blindness (Animals, culture, and society)
Par Rod Michalko. 1999
In this meditation on his relationship with his guide dog Smokie, Michalko probes into what it means to be at…
home with blindness. Smokie makes no judgment about Michalko's lack of sight; it simply is the condition within which they work together. Their partnership thus allows Michalko to step outside of the conventional - and even 'enlightened' - understanding of blindness; he becomes not simply resigned to it but able to embrace it as an essential part of his being in the world. 1999.Stanford professor Krieger describes adapting to life with progressively limited vision caused by birdshot retinochoroidopathy. She writes of embarking upon…
local and long-distance trips and exploring the southwest desert with her guide dog Teela and her lover Hannah. c2010.