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Terrain d'entente
Par Justin Trudeau. 2014
Depuis sa naissance, Justin Trudeau a passé sa vie sous le regard du public, mais à l'exception de ses proches,…
peu de gens connaissent sa version de ce parcours unique. Dans Terrain d'entente, il révèle comment sa personnalité et ses idéaux ont été façonnés par les moments marquants de sa vie. Les difficultés maritales de ses parents et les liens profonds qui l'unissaient à son père sont décrits avec franchise et empathie. Il raconte sa maturation politique et ses années d'enseignement, brusquement interrompues par la mort tragique de son frère cadet et par celle de son père. Et nous découvrons dans quelles circonstances il a rencontré sa femme, Sophie Grégoire. 2014.Terre Québec suivi de L'afficheur hurle, de L'inavouable et de Autres poèmes: poésie
Par Paul Chamberland. 1985
The black presidency: Barack Obama and the politics of race in America
Par Michael Eric Dyson. 2016
Dyson offers a provocative exploration into the meaning of America's first black presidency, and an analysis of how race and…
blackness shape our understanding of Barack Obama's achievements and failures, and America's racial future. 2016.The Bill Schroeder story
Par Martha Barnette. 1987
The family of the second artificial heart recipient tells the dramatic story of their participation in an extraordinary medical experiment.…
Details the day-to-day events, including post-operative setbacks, unrelenting scrutiny by the press, confrontations with the surgeon, and their own struggle to cope. 1987.Talleyrand et l'invention de la diplomatie française
Par Charles Zorgbibe. 2012
Soulever les montagnes: l'œuvre du docteur Paul Farmer
Par Tracy Kidder, Daniel Poliquin. 2011
C'est à l'école de médecine que Paul Farmer a découvert sa vocation: soigner les maladies infectieuses et apporter les fabuleuses…
ressources de la médecine moderne à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin. Son histoire nous amène de Harvard jusqu'en Haïti, en passant par le Pérou, Cuba, la Russie. On y voit Paul Farmer transformer les mentalités pour les plier à son intime conviction selon laquelle l'humanité est la seule nation. 2011, c2003. Titre uniforme: Mountains beyond mountains.Stephen Harper: un portrait
Par John Ibbitson, Serge Rivest, Marie-Josée Chrétien. 2015
L'un des premiers ministres les plus importants de notre histoire, Stephen Harper, a transformé le Canada pour en faire un…
pays plus conservateur. Il a réduit la taille du gouvernement, a rendu le système de justice plus sévère et les provinces plus autonomes. Mais qu'en est-il de l'homme? Dans cette nouvelle biographie complète, John Ibbitson explore la vie du Canadien le plus influent de notre époque: sa jeunesse en banlieue de Toronto; la crise existentielle qui l'a poussé à quitter l'université pendant trois ans; les forces qui ont façonné sa relation tumultueuse avec le chef du Parti réformiste Preston Manning; l'influence de sa femme, Laureen Harper; son dévouement envers ses enfants. Grâce à un accès inégalé à des sources, à des années de recherche et à une perspicacité qui a fait de lui l'une des voix les plus respectées du journalisme canadien, John Ibbitson présente un portrait intime et détaillé d'un homme qui demeure une énigme pour ses partisans aussi bien que pour ses ennemis. 2015. Titre uniforme: Stephen Harper.Sir Wilfrid Laurier: portrait intime
Par Laurier L LaPierre. 1997
La vie privée et publique de Laurier, premier Canadien-français à diriger les destinées du Canada à titre de Premier ministre.…
1997. Titre uniforme: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the romance of Canada.Taschereau (Bibliothèque d'histoire)
Par Antonin Dupont. 1997
The audacity of Inez Burns: dreams, desire, treachery, and ruin in the city of gold
Par Stephen G Bloom. 2018
Inez Burns was adored by the desperate women who sought her out--and loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to…
destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse's uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. 2018.The bees
Par Carol Ann Duffy. 2011
'The Bees' is a collection of poetry from the pen of Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Weaving through the book…
is its presiding spirit, the bee, symbolizing what we have left of grace in the world and what is most precious for us to protect. 2011.The battlefield of Ontario politics: an autobiography
Par Gregory Sorbara. 2014
Greg Sorbara has enjoyed one of the most successful careers of any Ontario politician, and in two different Liberal administrations.…
He was appointed minister of finance by Premier Dalton McGuinty in 2003, and served as campaign chair for the Liberals’ three consecutive election victories. Here he brings you into the back rooms of the Ontario Liberal Party as some of the most significant changes in Ontario’s political history are made. He also gives readers an insider’s view of his party’s election strategies, and discusses the controversy surrounding the now infamous gas plant cancellations. 2014.The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Par Benjamin Franklin. 1986
Industry, honesty, and an eye for the ladies are ever apparent in this candid self-portrait, from his humble birth in…
1706 to the beginnings of his greatness in 1757. 1986. Uniform title: AutobiographyThe antagonist: Lucien Bouchard and the politics of delusion
Par Lawrence Martin. 1997
Martin presents a biography of Lucien Bouchard, drawing on interviews with friends, adversaries, and family members, as well as the…
controversial psychiatric report prepared by Dr. Vivian Rakoff. Martin also discusses Bouchard's shifting political loyalties, and charts 50 occasions on which Bouchard has contradicted himself. 1997.The arrogance of power: the secret world of Richard Nixon
Par Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan. 2000
Scathing exposé of the thirty-seventh American president based on interviews with his psychiatrist and contemporaries. Suggests that Nixon's flawed character,…
love of intrigue, and money led to criminal behaviour which began in California and continued through Watergate. Strong language. 2000.The adoption papers
Par Jackie Kay. 1991
Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the…
mother, the birth mother and the daughter. Also included in the book are new poems reflecting issues of sexuality, Scottishness and being working-class. Strong language. 1991.Testament
Par Dennis Lee. 2012
A poetic summation of Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking past works and featuring…
many new poems, this collection reminds us of the reality we’ve made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2012.Thanks, Obama: my hopey, changey White House years : a speechwriter's memoir
Par David Litt. 2017
With a humorist's eye for detail and a convert's zeal, Litt takes us inside his eight years on the front…
lines of Obamaworld. In his political coming-of-age story, he goes from starry-eyed college student to nervous junior speechwriter to White House senior staff. In between lighthearted observations, he addresses one of today's most important issues: the legacy and future of the Obama movement in the age of Trump. 2017.Tell me everything you don't remember: the stroke that changed my life
Par Christine Hyung-Oak Lee. 2017
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Year's Eve 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world--quite…
literally--upside down. By New Year's Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours in the ER, days in the hospital, and multiple questions and tests, she learned that she had had a stroke. For months, Lee outsourced her memories to her notebook. In a precise and captivating narrative, Lee navigates fearlessly between chronologies, weaving her childhood humiliations and joys together with the story of the early days of her marriage; and then later, in painstaking, painful, and unflinching detail, her stroke and every upset, temporary or permanent, that it causes. Lee processes her stroke and illuminates the connection between memory and identity in an honest, meditative, and truly funny manner, utterly devoid of self-pity. And as she recovers, she begins to realize that this unexpected and devastating event provides a catalyst for coming to terms with her true self. 2017.The alchemy of survival: one woman's journey (Radcliffe biography series)
Par John E Mack, Rita S Rogers. 1988
Internationally known child psychologist Rita Rogers grew up in Romania, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family. Her idyllic childhood…
came to an abrupt end with the arrival of Nazi troops. 1988.