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Mariage gai: les coulisses d'une révolution sociale
Par Sylvain Larocque. 2005
Certains l'ont vu comme le plus important débat social de notre époque, c'est en tout cas une question déchirante, sur…
laquelle ont d se pencher la plupart des pays occidentaux. Ce livre raconte l'histoire inédite du mariage gai au Canada : la bataille des arguments juridiques et politiques, les stratégies secrètes et surtout les jeux de coulisses qui ont conduit à cette nouvelle avancée des droits de la personne. 2006.Dans ce recueil, la parole coule comme la pensée et les larmes. André Roy part audacieusement à la recherche de…
l'intensité, jusque dans le bleu, jusque dans la douleur, jusque dans le sel du premier jour. 1987.Notice rouge: comment je suis devenu l'ennemi no 1 de Poutine
Par Bill Browder, Renaud Bombard. 2015
B. Browder est le cofondateur d'Hermitage, le plus grand fonds d'investissement étranger de Russie. Diplômé de Stanford, il fait fortune…
à Moscou auprès des nouveaux oligarques, avant d'en être soudainement chassé par V. Poutine en 2005. Cet ouvrage retrace à la manière d'un polar les circonstances douteuses de la mort de son fiscaliste dans les prisons russes en 2009. 2015. Titre uniforme: Red notice.Nomad's land: poésie
Par Georges Amsellem. 2014
Georges Amsellem est né au Maroc. En 1968, il immigre à Montréal en passant par Israël et la France. Il…
s'occupe d'écriture et de production de films. Son propre itinéraire le sensibilise à la condition des immigrants, au département des minorités, écartelées entre l'exil et l'espoir. Il poétise, sans nostalgie ni complaisance sur l'espace, le temps et les sables du désert qu'il fait éclater pour ensuite nous en restituer la quintessence. 2014.No angel: the secret life of Bernie Ecclestone
Par Tom Bower. 2011
Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the…
major player he is today. He has finally decided to reveal his secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on race tracks, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yachts and in the air. Includes strong language. 2011.Night errands: how poets use dreams
Par Rod Townley. 1998
Twenty-six poets reflect on the "generative relationship" between dreams and poetry. Most quote complete works or fragments of poems in…
their essays. Writers include Laurel Blossom, Edward Hirsch, David Ignatow, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Paul Mariani, Joyce Carol Oates, and Richard Wilbur, among others. 1998.Night field: poems
Par Don McKay. 1991
Night
Par David Harsent. 2011
Poems in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape…
our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart. Culminates in 'Elsewhere', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory. Includes sex, strong language and violence. c2011.My shoes are killing me: poems
Par Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.New selected poems, 1966-1987
Par Seamus Heaney. 1990
Selections from Heaney's first 25 years of published translations and poems. He writes of the myths that are part of…
his culture and of the political turmoil, exposing his Irish humour and his sense of guilt. 1990. Uniform title: Poems.My Ariel
Par Sylvia Plath, Sina Queyras. 2017
A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel' and the towering mythology surrounding it. Where were you when you first read…
Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In 'My Ariel', Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women. Winner of the 2018 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.My father's business: the small-town values that built Dollar General into a billion-dollar company
Par Cal Turner, Rob Simbeck. 2018
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father,…
Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. 2018.My life in leadership: the journey and lessons learned along the way (Your coach in a box)
Par Frances Hesselbein. 2010
Frances Hesselbein has built a career in leadership, serving as a top executive in numerous charitable organizations. Here she recounts…
her own story, in her own words, while detailing the many leadership lessons she learned from people like Presidents Reagan, H.W. Bush and Clinton, Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and more. 2010.My discovery of America
Par Farley Mowat. 1985
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the…
McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban. 1985.My dog may be a genius: selected poems
Par Jack Prelutsky. 2008
Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch…
in a hardware store? You will have, once you read "My dog may be a genius". Grades K-3. 2008. Uniform title: My dog may be a genius.Murdoch's World: the last of the old media empires
Par David Folkenflik. 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. In a stretch spanning six decades,…
he built News Corp from a small paper in Adelaide, Australia into a multimedia empire. Then, over two years, a series of scandals threatened to unravel his entire creation. In “Murdoch’s World”, Folkenflik tells the story of how News Corp survived this tumultuous chapter, and of the man. c2013.Murder in the dark: short fictions and prose poems
Par Margaret Atwood. 1983
Mrs P's journey: the remarkable story of the woman who created the A-Z map
Par Sarah Hartley. 2001
The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the…
unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z. 2001.Morgan: American financier
Par Jean Strouse. 1999
After more than a decade's research in previously unexamined archives, award-winning biographer Jean Strouse offers a landmark profile of America's…
greatest financier - J.P. Morgan. This magisterial work, brilliantly crafted and epic in scope, gives a vivid portrait of our country's greatest banker. 1999.Mother: a cradle to hold me
Par Maya Angelou. 2006
Poet Maya Angelou celebrates the first woman she ever knew: her mother. From the beginning of their relationship, through teenage…
rebellion and adulthood, Angelou praises her patience, knowledge, and compassion. 2006.