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Laurent le Magnifique
Par Ivan Cloulas. 1982
Biographie de Laurent le Magnifique, prince modèle de la Renaissance et qui donna le ton à l'Europe civilisée de la…
fin du 15e siècle. Homme politique, banquier, protecteur des arts et des lettres, il encouragea la magnifique floraison de l'humanisme et de la Renaissance. 1982.Anne Frank, les secrets d'une vie (Vécu)
Par Carol Ann Lee, Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, Denis Trierweiler. 1999
Jamais je ne t'oublierai: document
Par Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel, Marie-Thérèse Cuny. 2000
Récit touchant d'une femme juive d'origine hongroise, qui raconte comment elle fut brutalement séparée de son amoureux à l'adolescence, pendant…
l'Holocauste. Elle témoigne ici de ce qu'elle a subi (déportation, etc.), de son exil aux États-Unis après la Seconde Guerre, pour retrouver finalement son amour de jeunesse en 1975, à Budapest. 2000.Cosima la sublime
Par Françoise Giroud. 1996
Éprise de Richard Wagner, Cosima von Bulow va traverser d'énormes obstacles : la société, son père, Franz Liszt, son mari…
qui lui refusait le divorce, pour triompher et épouser son amant Richard Wagner. 1996.Dumas, le comte noir
Par Tom Reiss, Isabelle D Taudière, Lucile Débrosse. 2013
"Qui a inspiré à Dumas les personnages du Comte de Monte-Cristo et des Trois Mousquetaires ? Son père. Un père…
né en 1762 d'un marquis désargenté et d'une esclave de Saint-Domingue. Il est bâtard et brun de peau, cela ne l'empêche pas de devenir sous la Révolution le premier général d'origine antillaise, d'affirmer un républicanisme à toute épreuve et de multiplier les exploits militaires... Mais les risques que Dumas prend sont à la hauteur des trahisons qu'il subit : ayant mené de grandes batailles en Égypte, il désapprouve ouvertement la politique impérialiste du général Bonaparte. Son entièreté ne lui fut pas pardonnée. Quand il tombe entre les mains des Italiens, il est jeté en prison à Tarente, où tout le monde l'oublie, le Premier Consul puis Empereur ayant refusé de l'aider. Libéré mais banni de l'armée, sans un sou de pension, il meurt à Villers-Cotterêts en 1806, de mauvais traitements et d'humiliations. Si le romancier a donné une seconde vie à son père dans ses chefs-d'oeuvre, le Général fut un symbole pour la France de cette époque si contrastée : il est héros de l'armée révolutionnaire, alors que l'esclavage était tout juste aboli. Dix ans plus tard, Napoléon rétablit des lois esclavagistes, Dumas, lui, est un damné. Grâce à de colossales recherches, l'historien américain Tom Reiss livre ici une brillante mise en perspective d'une décennie dont nous sommes toujours les héritiers aujourd'hui. Le livre a reçu les très prestigieux prix Pulitzer et Pen en 2013. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Black count.Finding home: a war child's journey to peace
Par Frank Oberle. 2004
The author survived amid the disillusioned populace of Germany and, with his sweetheart at his side, also dreamed of a…
new life in a new land. With her blessing, he set off alone for Canada, promising to send for his beloved when he was able to provide for her. Their life together has encompassed tragedy and pure joy. An inspirational saga. 2004.Katherine Swynford: the story of John of Gaunt and his scandalous duchess
Par Alison Weir. 2007
Recounts one of the love stories of medieval England. This is a tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who…
became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. 2007.John Jay: founding father
Par Walter Stahr. 2017
J.B. McLachlan: a biography
Par David Frank. 1999
Agitator, organizer, and educator, J. B. McLachlan fought for union recognition and defended the miners all his life. This book…
is the product of over 20 years of deeply committed research into the life of one of the most influential people in Cape Breton's story, James Bryson McLachlan, the voice that still rings down to us from Labour's Wars of the 1920s. 1999.Jennie Churchill: Winston Churchill's mother
Par Anne Sebba. 2008
Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage,…
Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces 200 or more paramours - including the Prince of Wales. 2008.Ishbel and the empire: a biography of Lady Aberdeen
Par Doris French. 1988
In 1893, Lady Ishbel arrived in Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, Canada's newly appointed Governor General. Her initial…
resentment to this posting changed as she became involved in political and social causes. She is remembered as the founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Council of Women. 1988.I've got a home in glory land: a lost tale of the underground railroad (Griot audio)
Par Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2007
In 1985, archeologists in downtown Toronto discovered the remains of a house belonging to former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn,…
who were key figures in the Underground Railroad. Fleeing Louisville, Ky., in 1831, shortly before Lucie was to be sold, the Blackburns settled in Detroit until they were recognized and arrested. Before they could be convicted and returned to slavery, the first racial uprising in Detroit - a crowd of friends and abolitionists who marched on the jail - gave them the opportunity to escape. Fleeing to Toronto, they founded the city's first taxi business while working with prominent abolitionists. Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.Ja, no, man: growing up white in apartheid-era South Africa
Par Richard Poplak. 2007
Like most 70's era children, Richard Poplak was obsessed with pop culture, like The Cosby Show, Guns N'Roses, and Mad…
Max movies. But in his country of South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also a part of everyday life. Poplak describes living through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg, and his gradual understanding of the differences between his country and the rest of the world. 2007.The right to remain silent is one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture, yet…
there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. Dershowitz reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being reshaped, limited, and in some cases revoked in the wake of 9/11. 2008.Invisible shadows: a Black woman's life in Nova Scotia
Par Verna Thomas. 2001
When Verna Thomas moved from the mostly white community of Mount Denson to the mostly black community of East Preston,…
she discovered that to be black in Nova Scotia could mean being disadvantaged and scorned, not just different. She describes her growing consciousness of her history, of the limits placed on the Black community, and of race, in the wake of the changes that swept across North America in the second half of he twentieth century. Thomas' writings of her early experiences trying to find work and raise a family in the late 1950s and early 1960s is a journey into racially segregated Nova Scotia. 2001.Incorrigible
Par Velma Demerson. 2004
In 1939, young Velma Demerson was taken away by the police; her "crime", loving a Chinese man, was compounded by…
her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. She was sent to Toronto's Reformatory for Females where she was locked in a cell for 12 hours a day and subjected to abusive medical treatments. It is the story of survival. 2004.In the eye of the typhoon
Par Ruth Earnshaw Lo, Katharine S Kinderman. 1980
Call the midwife: shadows of the workhouse (Call the Midwife. #2.)
Par Jennifer Worth. 2013
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of…
postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humour of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. Sequel to "Call the Midwife", followed by "Farewell to the East End". 2013.Country roads: memoirs from rural Canada
Par Pam Chamberlain. 2010
For some, the country was a place of happiness and belonging; for others, it was a source of hardship and…
sorrow; for many, it was both. From Victoria to St. John's, three generations of Canadians, including Pamela Wallin, Brent Sutter, Sharon Butala and Rudy Wiebe, tell their stories of growing up in rural communities. 2010.Everyday law: a survival guide for Canadians
Par Jack Batten, Marjorie Harris. 1987
Easy-to-follow handbook that outlines the common legal problems which every Canadian faces. Discusses such subjects as choosing a lawyer, preparing…
a will, getting married, going to court, and buying a house. c1987.