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Misfit: autistic. gay. immigrant. changemaker.
Par Andreas Souvaliotis. 2019
Updated and expanded: A new edition of the inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious…
businesspeople."I am different. I have always been different. I grew up scared of being found out, scared of my natural inability to fit in, to conform, to look and sound and dress and behave 'normal.' I was always drawn to the different ones and I observed them with fascination--but the thought of being even a little bit like them mortified me. I was desperate to fit in. . . ." --From MisfitAndreas Souvaliotis was raised at a time when being on the autism spectrum wasn't easily diagnosed or even discussed. Minds like his were simply considered odd. He also knew from an early age he was gay, and it terrified him as he was growing up with openly homophobic parents in one of Europe's least tolerant societies.Andreas's differences made him an outsider, right through to his mid-forties. And then suddenly, everything changed. Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good. "It all happened in a flash. On a beautiful spring morning in 2007, sitting in my backyard and licking my wounds from a spectacular career derailment, I came up with a big idea--and I found myself contemplating the most daring and unconventional pursuit of my life." The weird kid from Greece was on his way to making his world, and everyone's world, a better place.Andreas Souvaliotis's inspiring story shows us that everyone has what it takes to trigger positive change, and that none of us should see our differences and quirks as handicaps.• The author is donating all of his proceeds from this book to 6 Degrees, a global charitable initiative that promotes inclusion, diversity, belonging and citizenhip. 6degreesto.comThe lover ; Wartime notebooks ; Practicalities (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Par Marguerite Duras. 2018
A collection of three works of fiction and nonfiction. The Lover, translated in 1985, explores a forbidden love affair of…
a teenage girl. Wartime Notebooks, translated in 2008, recounts Duras' experiences during World War II. Practicalities, translated in 1990, includes meditations on challenges and joys found in daily life. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2018El amor de mi vida
Par Rosa Montero. 2011
En esta colección de ensayos publicados en el diario madrileño El País, Montero imparte su amor constante de la lectura…
y la cultura libresca. Ella ofrece una apreciación de diversas obras literarias de alrededor del mundo mediante una exploración de la historia y contexto de cada libroThe music of silence: New Edition (Amadeus Ser.)
Par Andrea Bocelli. 2011
Using a third-person narrative, opera singer Bocelli, who as a young boy lost his vision to congenital bilateral glaucoma, describes…
his childhood in Italy and his interest, education, and career in music. Relates challenges he faced and overcame. Originally published in Italian. 2011The firehouse light
Par Janet Nolan, Marie Lafrance. 2010
Piano starts here: the young Art Tatum
Par Robert Andrew Parker, Robert A. Parker. 2008
Todo está iluminado (21 Ser.)
Par Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Saffran Foer. 2005
Esta historia cuenta el viaje de un joven norteamericano a Ucrania en busca de los origenes de su familia, una…
inquietante y divertida odisea a traves de los claroscuros de la memoria en la que poco a poco se iran iluminando los desertados escenarios de un pasado turbador: la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el holocausto o la fundacion, en el siglo XVIII, de Trachimbrod, el pueblo del que es originaria la familia del protagonistaThe invisible wall: a love story that broke barriers
Par Harry Bernstein. 2008
In a small English town on the eve of WWI, Harry's family struggles to make ends meet. His father spends…
his low wages on drinking on gambling. His mother, devoted to her children survives on her dreams. His older sister does the unthinkable; she falls in love with a Christian. They are separated by an "invisible wall". When Harry discovers the affair, he must choose what he knows to be true in his heartWeeds in bloom: autobiography of an ordinary man
Par Robert Newton Peck. 2007
The author of more than sixty books for young people, including A Day No Pigs Would Die (DB 37104), discusses…
the folks he met--while growing up on a small Vermont farm and later in life--to show, he says, "how plain people can sparkle." For junior and senior high readers. 2005Retellings of Greek and Roman myths with explanations of vocabulary and setting. Includes tales such as "Jason and the Golden…
Fleece," "The Riddle of the Sphinx," and "Baucis and Philemon," which is about an elderly couple who were favored by the gods for being hospitable. For grades 3-6. 1989The fifth book of peace
Par Maxine Hong Kingston. 2003
Award-winning author of The Woman Warrior (DB 50624) opens her four-part memoir by lamenting the destruction of a manuscript that…
burned up with her California home. She recreates that novel-in-progress here, gives a history of the lost Chinese Books of Peace, and reflects on her years running a writing workshop for veterans. 2003The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Par Ramesh Menon. 2003
Ancient Indian epic rendered in modern prose. Recreates the legend of Prince Rama, his banishment to the forest, his wife…
Sita's abduction by the demon emperor, and Rama's rescue of her. The hero's journey, one of physical and spiritual devotion, embodies traditional Hindu cultural beliefs. Includes Menon's introduction. 2001Songs in the whirlwind
Par June Masters Bacher, June M. Bacher. 1992
Poverty continues, and, regardless of their faith, a better life on their barren Texas land seems doubtful for Marvel Harrington…
and her family. The winds blow, the water becomes contaminated, and folks get typhoid. Yet in the midst of all this affliction, Marvel hears from Titus, and hope for a future with him becomes real--until her family decides to move to Oregon. Sequel to No Time for Tears (DB 36077)Deux sœurs nées à huit ans d'écart dans un petit village de la Gaspésie se retrouvent à Montréal au tournant…
des années 1970 : l'aînée, pionnière du journalisme moderne et future conseillère politique du premier ministre René Lévesque, vit les années d'or d'une brillante carrière, tandis que la cadette met résolument le pied dans l'autonomie. Ni l'une ni l'autre ne se doute qu'au fil de leur engagement respectif dans la société en marche, leurs destins seront soudés par la maladie mentale durant les quarante prochaines annéesL'amant en culottes courtes: roman (Fiction & cie)
Par Alain Fleischer. 2006
"Si ce livre peut être considéré comme un roman, c'est dans la mesure où toute initiation, toute expérience formatrice, entre…
en dialogue avec l'imagination dès le moment vécu, puis dans le souvenir et tout au long de l'existence. Dans ce récit strictement autobiographique, tout l'effort consiste à retrouver et à restituer avec leurs composantes contradictoires les circonstances, l'état d'esprit, les états de corps, les sentiments, les sensations, les pulsions, d'une aventure amoureuse et sexuelle qui est celle de la première fois. Cela se passe à Londres en juillet 1957, alors que l'auteur, âgé de treize ans, séjourne dans une famille pour apprendre la langue anglaise. Pendant quelques jours, cohabitent violemment dans le même être le désir érotique pour une jeune fille de sept ans son aînée, et la volonté farouche de rester un petit garçon en culottes courtes, attaché à son univers d'enfance." -- 4e de couvCanterbury tales
Par Barbara Cohen, Trina Schart Hyman. 1988
Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales retold in modern English. The nun's priest recounts the barnyard adventures of prideful rooster Chauntecleer,…
the pardoner teaches a lesson about greed, the wife of Bath relates a baffled knight's dilemma, and the franklin celebrates courtly love. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1988Forteresses et autres refuges (Collection III)
Par Rafaële Germain. 2023
Il y a les souvenirs dont elle a hérité, ces histoires qui lui ont été tellement racontées qu'elles ont fini…
par faire partie intégrante de sa mémoire. Il y a les images floues qu'elle garde de son enfance et les récits à partir desquels elle s'est construite. Il y a aussi les souhaits qu'elle porte, des projections dans le futur qui prennent racine dans son passé. À travers l'histoire des premières années de sa mère et celle de ses dernières semaines, en passant par le souvenir des petits chaperons de toutes les couleurs que son père a imaginés pour elle enfant, Rafaële Germain tente de trouver des réponses à la question : que veut-on garder de ce que le monde a déposé en nous?Réunit une sélection de cinq textes érotiques écrits sous le règne de Napoléon III et qui ont fait scandale lors…
de leur parution : Les folies amoureuses d'une impératrice (baron de C...), L'art priapique (anonyme), Lettres à la présidente (Théophile Gautier), H.B. (Prosper Mérimée) et La Badinguette (Henri Rochefort). Précédé d'un commentaire sur la censure de l'époque.The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits For An Autobiography
Par Gregor Von Rezzori, H. F. Broch De Rothermann. 1989
Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be…
absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine--a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear.The book is a series of portraits--amused, fond, sometimes appalling--of Rezzori's family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children's health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance.Allotted Views
Par K. D. Grace, John Lachatte. 2011