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Nos chères amies
Par Denise Bombardier. 2008
"L'auteure, journaliste et écrivain québecoise, livre ici son témoignage et ses expériences d'amitié avec les femmes. Pour elle, l'amie est…
l'indispensable reflet, la confidente, celle qui conseille dans les choix importants. Avec drôlerie, émotion et simplicité, elle raconte ces relations entre femmes qui sont à la fois complexes et enrichissantes." -- 4e de couvEntre les marges: conversations sur le plaisir de lire et d'écrire
Par Elena Ferrante. 2023
Quatre courts textes dans lesquels Elena Ferrante se confie sur sa vision de l'écriture et du roman. Revisitant l'écrivaine en…
devenir qu'elle était sur les bancs de l'école jusqu'à la parution des oeuvres qui ont fait sa renommée internationale, elle interroge sa pratique en profondeur, enrichissant sa réflexion de citations d'auteurs qui ont compté pour elle.Pierres de touche: essai
Par Roland Bourneuf. 2007
"La littérature, ce que nous lisons comme ce que nous écrivons, nous met en contact avec nos propres symboles, nous…
aide à les dégager; nous comprenons que notre histoire se relie aux grands mythes par lesquels les hommes ont donné un sens à leur vie. Un jour, après combien de détours, de refus, d'aveuglement, nous découvrons que notre propre histoire n'est pas unique. [...] À la succession de commentaires sur les auteurs et les livres qu'il a aimés, de son enfance à aujourd'hui, l'auteur a préféré un parcours en chassé-croisé, tel livre appelant tel épisode de sa vie, la lecture se présentant comme exercice d'intimité: de même qu'on apprend à lire, avec ou sans théories, on doit apprendre à être soi, on le devient. Ainsi referme-t-on Pierres de touche avec le sentiment d'avoir eu une bibliothèque comme demeure. Une immense bibliothèque." -- 4e de couvLe régal des chacals (Carnets)
Par Françoise Sagan. 2008
"Comme tous les Français, je contemple mon image et celle de mon ennemi dans ce miroir fabuleux, le sondage, qui…
cliquette et s'anime en permanence, un peu de la même façon que ces tableaux d'arrivage et de départ que l'on trouve dans les aéroports. Le sondage est devenu l'indispensable compagnon de notre solitude. Il pense avant nous, pour nous et sans nous. Il est cette cuisinière dernier cri, ce grand four fraternel admirablement programmé qui nous laisse dormir ou batifoler tout notre saoul". -- 4e de couvLa vie secrète des arbres: découvertes d'un monde caché
Par Peter Wohlleben. 2017
Il y a un Wood Wide Web comme il y a un World Wide Web ! Par leurs racines, mais…
aussi par leurs feuilles et par le pollen qu'ils émettent, bouleaux, épinettes, sapins, érables, pins ou trembles communiquent entre eux. C'est du moins l'une des étonnantes constatations du garde forestier Peter Wohlleben, dont le livre sensible et plein d'intuition nous révèle un monde bien caché. Étant donné que l'évolution nous a très tôt coupés du monde végétal, il nous est aujourd'hui plus difficile de comprendre les plantes que les animaux. L'auteur nous invite à renouer avec nos forêts anciennes où pullule une vie très mal connue. Il nous apprend que les arbres possèdent un sens du goût, s'entraident, respirent, réussissent à vivre des centaines, voire des milliers d'années... La vie secrète des arbres change notre façon de voir les forêts. On ne peut plus les abattre sans réfléchir et ravager leur environnement en lançant des bulldozers à l'assaut des sous-bois , soutient Peter WohllebenNothing Could Stop Her: The Courageous Life of Ruth Gruber
Par Rona Arato, Isabel Muñoz. 2023
Ruth Gruber didn't want to live an ordinary life, and she wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Born to a…
Jewish American family in 1911, she grew up to become a renowned journalist and activist. Her career spanned seven decades and led her to places that other reporters wouldn't or couldn't go, from Nazi Germany to the remote Arctic regions of the Soviet Union. At a time when women were expected to stay at home and raise families, Ruth told the stories of people in need and fought for their rights to live in safety and freedom.Class: A memoir
Par Stephanie Land. 2023
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." — People "Land is not just exploring her own story,…
but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." — The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid . When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all oddsÉcrire pour que tout devienne possible (Essai)
Par Dominique Demers. 2023
Véritable déclaration d'amour à l'écriture, cet ouvrage nous convie à la fête : tout comme la musique, cet art est…
accessible à tous! Riche de cinquante années d'expérience dans le domaine, Dominique Demers entrelace habilement les conseils, confidences, réflexions et anecdotes rigolotes afin de nous donner envie de nous évader grâce à nos claviers. Le bonheur d'écrire est un secret trop bien gardé qu'il est temps de démystifier!This volume covers Wright's prose through 1940. The editor restores Wright's original manuscripts, which had been extensively changed for publication.…
Includes Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, How "Bigger" Was Born, a literary chronology, and notes by Arnold Rampersad. Prequel to Richard Wright: Later Works (DB 41553, BR 10300). Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sexPresents Wright's complete autobiography for the first time, combining his childhood in the South (Black Boy) with his life as…
an adult in the North (American Hunger). Also contains his 1953 novel (The Outsider), a literary chronology, and extensive notes. Sequel to Richard Wright: Early Works (DB 41552, BR 10299). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexWomen in science (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
Par Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. 2023
Meet three inspirational women from the world of science: Ada Lovelace, Amelia Earhart, and Marie Curie! Little People, Big Dreams…
is a bestselling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists.Up home: One girl's journey
Par Ruth Simmons. 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the…
youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity."— The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) "A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words, because of it—Simmons would become the first Black president of an Ivy League university. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history. In Up Home, Simmons takes us back to Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are young shape who we become. We meet her caring, tireless mother who managed to feed her large family with an often empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and economic injustice crush his youngest daughter’s dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her to a future she could hardly imagine as a child. From the farmland of East Texas to Houston’s Fifth Ward to New Orleans at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Simmons depicts an era long gone but whose legacies of inequality we still live with today. Written in clear and timeless prose, Up Home is both an origin story set in the segregated South and the uplifting chronicle of a girl whose intellect, grace, and curiosity guide her as she creates a place for herself in the worldHijab butch blues: A memoir
Par Lamya H. 2023
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in a…
memoir that’s "as funny as it is original" ( The New York Times ). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart."—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE • A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya? From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant. This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own lifeA living remedy: A memoir
Par Nicole Chung. 2023
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper's Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today *…
Elle * Good Housekeeping * Time From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. Nicole Chung couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in – where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations – looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens – less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descends upon the world. Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another – and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and grievous inequalities in American societyLiliana's invincible summer: A sister's search for justice
Par Cristina Garza. 2023
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • "A searing account of grief and the…
quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact" ( The Boston Globe ) , from "one of Mexico’s greatest living writers" (Jonathan Lethem). "Cristina Rivera Garza wanted to shed light on the life of her sister, killed 30 years ago. . . . The record of a woman who, against the odds, refuses to be forgotten." —The New York Times A WASHINGTON POST AND TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR October 18, 2019. Cristina Rivera Garza travels from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old, unresolved criminal file. "My name is Cristina Rivera Garza," she writes in her request to the attorney general, "and I am writing to you as a relative of Liliana Rivera Garza, who was murdered on July 16, 1990." It’s been twenty-nine years. Twenty-nine years, three months, and two days since Liliana was murdered by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Inspired by feminist movements across the world and enraged by the global epidemic of femicide and intimate partner violence, Cristina embarks on a path toward justice . Liliana’s Invincible Summer is the account—and the outcome—of that quest . In luminous, poetic prose, Rivera Garza tells a singular yet universally resonant story: Liliana is a spirited, wondrously hopeful young woman who tried to survive in a world of increasingly normalized gendered violence. Rivera Garza traces her sister’s history, depicting everything from Liliana’s early romance with a handsome but possessive and short-tempered man to that exhilarating final summer of 1990 when she loved, thought, and traveled more widely and freely than she ever had before. Using her skills as an acclaimed scholar, novelist, and poet, Rivera Garza collected and curated evidence—handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, interviews with Liliana’s loved ones—to document her sister’s life. Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, she confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines how this tragedy continues to shape who she is—and what she fights for—todayLes exportés (Écoutez lire)
Par Sonia Devillers. 2023
"Ma famille maternelle a quitté la Roumanie communiste en 1961, sans savoir la vérité. Elle connaissait le nom du passeur…
à contacter, la somme à rassembler. Mais rien sur le bétail, rien sur les machines-outils, rien sur les centaines de milliers de dollars qui ont transité. Ma mère, ma tante, mes grands-parents et mon arrière-grand-mère ont fait l'objet d'un troc agricole et financier, un trafic d'êtres humains en plein cœur de l'Europe. Il était temps que s'ouvrent les archives et que soit révélé l'innommable : la situation de ceux que le régime communiste ne nommait pas et que, chez les miens, on ne nommait plus, les juifs. Moi qui suis née en France, j'ai voulu retourner de l'autre côté du Rideau de fer. Combler les blancs laissés par mes grands-parents et par un pays tout entier face à son passé." Sonia Devillers offre une lecture bouleversante de son récit, vertigineuse enquête familiale enchevêtrée dans les remous tragiques de l'histoireThe best american short stories 2023 (Best American)
Par Min Lee. 2023
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor…
Heidi Pitlor. "Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home. Enlightening, poignant, and undeniably human, the stories in this anthology bravely confront societal darkness and offer, in Lee's words, "our emotional truths, restoring our sanity and providing comfort for the days ahead." The Best American Short Stories 2023 includes Cherline Bazile Maya Binyam Tom Bissell Taryn Bowe Da-Lin Benjamin Ehrlich Sara Freeman Lauren Groff Nathan Harris Jared Jackson Sana Krasikov Danica Li Ling Ma Manuel Muñoz Joanna Pearson Souvankham Thammavongsa Kosiso Ugwueze Corinna Vallianatos Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi Esther YiStash: My life in hiding
Par Laura Robbins. 2023
"An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience." — The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Memoir of…
2023 by Elle In the vein of Somebody's Daughter , this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room "will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers" (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) with a journey to sobriety and self-love amidst privilege and racism. After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide. She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can't protect her from the pain she's keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take. Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is "emotionally riveting...usher[ing] in a new way for us to talk and read about the paradoxes of addiction, race, family, class, and gender." (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy )Queer little nightmares
Par David Ly. 2023
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror…
gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons. In Queer Little Nightmares , creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems — the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past — relish their new sparkle in the spotlight. Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster? Contributors include Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, Matthew J. Trafford, and Kai Cheng ThomDk life stories: Anne frank (DK Life Stories)
Par Stephen Krensky. 2020
Learn all about Anne Frank and her world-famous diary in this children's biography. In this biography, discover the incredible story…
of Anne Frank, the courageous young writer who hid from the Nazis during World War II. Anne Frank's diary is read by children and adults worldwide. It tells two stories: one of an extraordinary young girl living in hiding during one of the most fearsome times in history, and one of a relatable young girl facing the same questions and troubles that kids come up against today. Learn how both sides of this puzzle made up the person who is Anne Frank. Meet her family and friends, explore "The Annex" where they hid, and see her story put in historical context alongside information about World War II and the Holocaust, and Hitler and Nazi Germany. This new biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. An age-appropriate text to create an engaging audiobook children will enjoy listening to. This is the one biography series everyone will want to collect. © 2019 Stephen Krensky © 2020 DK Audio