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Twenty-three-year old Cleo Koff, a forensic anthropologist, was one of sixteen scientists chosen to go to Rwanda in 1996 to…
find evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity. Her job was to discover who the victims were and how they had been killed. Koff also describes similar missions to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Some violence. 2004.The Bride of the wind: the life and times of Alma Mahler-Werfel
Par Susanne Keegan. 1991
The art world was a natural home to Alma Mahler-Werfel, songwriting daughter of Viennese landscape artist Emil Schindler. The author…
discusses Werfel's life as the wife of three men -- the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the novelist Franz Werfel -- and the mistress of many more. Keegan portrays Werfel as a talented woman against the cultural and political background of early twentieth-century Europe. 1991.Tes blessures sont plus douces que leurs caresses: vie de Renée Vivien
Par Jean-Paul Goujon. 1986
Biographie de Renée Vivien. Morte à Paris en 1909, à peine âgée de trente-deux ans, Renée Vivien a écrit pendant…
sa trop brève vie une oeuvre toute imprégnée de sa passion pour les femmes. Affrontant la désapprobation, elle chantera ses amours homosexuelles à travers toute son oeuvre poétique et romanesque. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.Sonia Benezra: je ne regrette presque rien
Par Lise Ravary. 2014
" Sonia Benezra est dans le paysage culturel québécois depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans. Née à Montréal au sein d'une…
famille d'immigrants juifs marocains, la reine de TQS, couronnée par quatre MetroStar et trois Gémeaux, a emprunté divers chemins : des études de théâtre à la chanson, en passant par des milliers de rencontres et d'interviews, certaines routes se sont fermées et d'autres se sont ouvertes, faisant grandir celle qu'on croit connaître. À travers ses amours, ses blessures et son clan familial tissé serré, la femme se révèle un peu plus. Dans Sonia Benezra - Je ne regrette presque rien, on découvre une personne sensible qui a parfois été déçue par la tournure des événements, mais qui adhère totalement à ce qu'a dit Maya Angelou : "J'ai appris que les gens oublieront ce que vous avez dit, ils oublieront ce que vous avez fait, mais ils n'oublieront jamais ce que vous leur avez fait ressentir. " -- 4e de couv.The blessings of a good thick skirt: women travellers and their world
Par Mary Russell. 1988
Some of the most remarkable journeys ever made have been undertaken by women. These include Alexandra David-Neel and her explorations…
of Tibet, and Naomi James and her solo voyage around the world. A gallery of female adventurers is presented, as well as insights into their motives for leaving the traditional women's roles behind.Simone de Beauvoir
Par Claude Francis, Fernande Gontier. 1985
Voici la première biographie consacrée a Simone de Beauvoir. Elle révèle une femme très différente de l'image qu'en ont donnée…
les medias. C'est une femme douée pour le bonheur, gourmande, sensuelle, sportive; une voyageuse, une séductrice. On y découvre une femme qui a l'intelligence d'une Germaine de Staël et les passions d'une George Sand. 1985.Suivez mon regard
Par Anjelica Huston. 2015
Nous sommes à St Clerans, dans le comté de Galway, en Irlande. Une petite fille attend son père pour fêter…
Noël. Lui, c'est John Huston : un aventurier, un grand cinéaste, un géant. Elle, c'est Anjelica. Elle n'a que six ans mais elle sait déjà que cet homme la marquera à jamais. Cinquante ans plus tard, Anjelica Huston est devenue une star. Elle nous livre le récit de sa vie dans ces Mémoires à la fraîcheur romanesque. Après une enfance magique dans le manoir de ses parents et une adolescence en plein coeur du swinging London, Anjelica part pour New York. À 18 ans, elle est mannequin pour Vogue. Mais le cinéma la rattrape, et Stephen Frears, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson vont lui offrir des rôles qui la conduiront au sommet d'Hollywood. C'est là qu'elle rencontre Jack Nicholson, avec qui elle va former un couple de légende. Dans Suivez mon regard, Anjelica Huston revient sans détour sur ses amours et sa carrière. Derrière la star, on découvre une femme émouvante, non conformiste, douée d'un vrai sens de l'observation. Illustré de nombreuses photos personnelles, cet autoportrait sensible est une peinture passionnante du nouvel Hollywood... et de ses coulisses. 2015.The bite of the mango
Par Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland. 2008
Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…
cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.The big red train ride
Par Eric Newby. 1978
The author made the 6,000 mile journey from Moscow to the Pacific, on the Trans-Siberian railway in 1977. He was…
accompanied by a Slovene (his wife), a German (photographer) and the official Russian guide. The result is a very individual travel book. 1978.Suzanne Valadon, ou, La recherche de la vérité
Par Jeanne Champion. 1984
Tête haute
Par Mémona Hintermann. 2006
Née à l'île de la Réunion d'un père musulman et d'une mère créole d'origine bretonne et catholique, Memona Hintermann, grand…
reporter sur France 3, doit à l'école républicaine son ascension sociale. Elle fait le récit du combat qu'elle a mené pour réussir.The art of waiting: on fertility, medicine, and motherhood
Par Belle Boggs. 2016
The author recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around…
her -- the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo -- for signs that she is not alone. She also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film "Raising Arizona"; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from "Macbeth" to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. 2016.The best of friends: Martha and me
Par Mariana Pasternak. 2010
A meditation on the dynamics of female friendship describes the author's life-defining relationship with Martha Stewart, relating the common experiences…
that bonded them and the factors that resulted in their estrangement. 2010.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 bedwetter: stories of courage, redemption, and pee
Par Sarah Silverman. 2010
Comedian Silverman's memoir that mixes showbiz moments with the more serious subject of her teenage bout with depression as well…
as stories of her childhood and adolescence. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.The Appalachian Trail reader
Par David Emblidge. 1996
A collection of travel diaries and registers, historical accounts, and other writings that portray the 2,140-mile recreational footpath running from…
Georgia to Maine. Traces the wilderness trail northward, depicting its history, geology, scenery, wildlife, and lore. 1996.Ten girls from history
Par Kate Dickinson Sweetser, Amy Puetz. 2017
Whether facing a band of Indians with Madeleine; saving lives at sea with Ida Lewis; experiencing the battlefields of the…
Civil War with Clara Barton, or learning the life story of Louisa May Alcott, you will be inspired by the faith, courage, and devotion of these ten girls from history. Grades 4-7. 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 actual one: how I tried, and failed, to avoid adulthood forever
Par Isy Suttie. 2017
Isy Suttie wakes up one day in her late twenties to discover that the deal she'd struck with her friends,…
to put off growing up for as long as possible, had been entirely in her head. Everyone around her is suddenly into mortgages, farmers' markets, and going off the Pill, rather than running naked into the sea or getting hammered in a country pub with eighty-year-old men. After a particularly crushing breakup precipitated by Isy's gifting of a human-size papier-mache penguin to her boyfriend, her dearest friend advises Isy not to worry: the next guy she meets will be The Actual One. Heartened by this promise, Isy decides to keep delaying the onset of adulthood, whether that means standing on the side of a highway in nothing but an old fur coat and sneakers, dating a man who speaks only in rhyme, or conquering her fears of Alpine skiing by wildly overestimating her athletic ability. An ode to the confusing wilderness of your late twenties, alongside a quest for a genuinely good relationship... or at the very least, a good story to tell. 2017.That mean old yesterday (Griot audio)
Par Stacey Patton. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stacey Patton penned this memoir describing her tumultuous childhood growing up first in a state institution and…
then in a fractured foster family. She makes a strong case to illustrate how the brutal legacy of slavery continues to affect African-American families today. 2008.