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In the 1960s, Lynn Povich was one of the lucky women, like Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and…
Susan Brownmiller, to land a job at Newsweek, but it was a dead end - women researchers sometimes became reporters, rarely writers, and never editors. On March 16, 1970, the day Newsweek published a cover story on the fledgling feminist movement, forty-six Newsweek women charged the magazine with discrimination. It was the first female class action lawsuit - the first by women journalists - and it inspired other women in the media to quickly follow suit. Includes strong language. 2012.The best of enemies: race and redemption in the new South
Par Osha Davidson. 2017
C. P. Ellis joined the KKK as a youth. Ann Atwater quit her job as a maid to fight for…
civil rights. They met on opposite sides of the school segregation issue, yet forged a friendship. 2017.Runaway: diary of a street kid
Par Evelyn Lau. 1989
In 1986, at the age of 14, Evelyn Lau ran away from her strict and traditional parents who refused to…
accept her passion for writing. This book is based on the journal she kept during her two years on the streets of Vancouver. She explores the physical and emotional struggles of a young girl coping in a world of drugs, prostitution and attempted suicide. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1989.Requiem pour le rêve américain: les dix principes de concentration de la richesse et du pouvoir
Par Noam Chomsky, Kelly Nyks, Jared P Scott, Peter Peter D. Hutchison, Dennis Collins. 2017
Le rêve américain est mort. Ce qui était possible autrefois aux États-Unis - partir de rien et gravir l'échelle sociale…
grâce à son travail, son mérite, ses efforts, quel que soit son milieu d'origine - ne l'est plus aujourd'hui. Pourquoi ? Parce que les inégalités n'ont jamais été aussi fortes, et la mobilité sociale jamais aussi réduite. Un cercle infernal voit la richesse et le pouvoir se concentrer dans les mains d'une infime minorité, qui applique la vile maxime d'Adam Smith : Tout pour nous, rien pour les autres. Noam Chomsky appelle au réveil de la majorité, aux innombrables petits actes de personnes anonymes. Ce sont ces derniers qui pourront faire basculer notre avenir. 2017. Titre uniforme: Requiem for the American dream (Film)Requiem for the American dream: the 10 principles of concentration wealth and power
Par Noam Chomsky, Kelly Nyks, Peter Hutchison, Jared P Scott. 2017
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and…
casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. 2017.Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée
Par Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.Lady's choice: Ethel Waxham's journals & letters, 1905-1910
Par John Love, Barbara Love, Ethel Waxham, Frances Love Froidevaux. 1992
A chronological record of a twenty-three-year old college graduate's pursuit of a teaching career while being courted by a thirty-five-year…
old Wyoming rancher. Compiled from diaries, correspondence, and poems. Material was used in the PBS series "The West." 1992.How clean is your house?
Par Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie. 2004
In this book the authors continue the mission of their popular Channel 4 television series - to educate, inform and…
generally browbeat us all into cleaning properly. Sweeping through the house room by room, they tackle all manner of cleaning challenges, from streaky windows to smelly fridges. Each chapter is packed with tools of the trade, star tips, 'don't do that's', step-by-steps and 'before's and after's'. There's even a 'filth questionnaire' to determine your cleanly status - and Aggie's famous rotas for the cleaning-impaired! 2004.Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream (Fear And Loathing Ser.)
Par Hunter S Thompson. 1993
In this savage dissection of the American dream, the narrator enters Las Vegas armed with an arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'.…
His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror. 1993.84, Charing Cross Road
Par Helene Hanff, Marie-Anne de Kisch, Thomas Simonnet. 2001
Échanges épistolaires entre une Américaine bibliophile et un libraire londonien. Une passionnée, un peu fauchée, réclame à un libraire des…
livres introuvables pour assouvir son insatiable soif de découverte. Cette correspondance entamée depuis plus de 20 ans qui se poursuit toujours rappelle avec une délicatesse infinie toute la place que prennent, dans nos vies, les livres et les librairies. Roman porté au grand écran. 2001.84, Charing Cross Road
Par Helene Hanff, Frank Doel. 1993
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the…
time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world. 2017, c1993.Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
Par J. D. Vance. 2016
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan…
that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past. Bestseller. 2016.The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
Par Steve Lopez. 2008
Los Angeles Times columnist describes his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, a former student at Juilliard, who became homeless after succumbing…
to paranoid schizophrenia. Lopez discusses his and his readers' efforts to expose callous treatment of Ayers and relates Ayers's attempts at recovery. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project Ser.)
Par Ernesto Guevara. 2004
The story of a road journey, in the words of a 23-year-old medical student known as "Che". There are fights,…
parties, and serious drinking, and moving examples of Guevara's idealism and solidarity with the oppressed. A record of Guevara's thoughts as he journeyed around South America in the early 1950's. 2004. Uniform title: Notas de viaje.The life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
Par Marie Kondō. 2015
Presents a guide to cleaning and organizing a living space, discussing best methods for decluttering and the impact that an…
organized home can have on mood and physical and mental health. 2015. Uniform title: Jinsei ga tokimeku katazuke no mahō.Journal d'Anne Frank
Par Anne Frank. 1991
Anne Frank commence à se confier à son journal le 12 juin 1942, le jour de ses treize ans, et…
y écrit pour la dernière fois le 1er aot 1944. En mars 1945, Anne meurt dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen, deux mois avant la libération de la Hollande. 1991.Sybil
Par Flora Rheta Schreiber. 1974
En 1954, Sybil appelait à son secours un psychiatre new-yorkais. Depuis son enfance, elle est sujette à des "passages à…
vide" pendant lesquels d'autres personnalités se substituaient à elle. Après 11 ans de thérapie, l'héroïne de ce récit authentique devint une jeune femme libre et harmonieuse. 1974.The Screwtape letters
Par C. S Lewis. 1998
Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is just at the start of his demonic career, and has been…
assigned to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. 1998.Degrassi talks: abuse
Par Degrassi. 1992
The kids from Degrassi Street interview other kids about date rape, other sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Based on the…
CBC television documentary. For junior and senior high readers. 1992. (Degrassi talks)This boy's life: a memoir
Par Tobias Wolff. 1989