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Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self
Par Claire Tomalin. 2002
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful.…
Covers his childhood and young adulthood, moving through the famous diary years and beyond, to the death of his wife and the setting up of a new household. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.Savage beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Par Nancy Milford. 2001
Biography of the twentieth-century American poet - the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize - whose life mirrored her…
verses: "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light!" Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Sagan
Par Jean Claude Lamy. 1988
Biographie de Françoise Sagan. En 1954, une jeune fille timide devient brusquement célèbre avec la parution de "Bonjeur Tristesse." Pendant…
plus de trente ans, Francoise Sagan n'a cessé d'être un mythe, une légende vivante, sans jamais oublier son métier d'écrivain. 1988.Sagan à toute allure
Par Marie-Dominique Lelièvre. 2008
Saint-Simon, ou, L'encre de la subversion (L'infini)
Par Cécile Guilbert. 1994
Bien plus qu'un historien, Saint-Simon a été un écrivain qui a fait l'histoire. C'est ce qu'affirme l'auteure dans cet essai…
inspiré d'un de ses écrits intitulé "Mémoires." Elle montre que Saint-Simon convoquait la littérature comme stratégie de subversion. 1994.Sable mouvant: fragments de ma vie
Par Henning Mankell. 2015
En janvier 2014, j'ai appris que j'étais atteint d'un cancer grave. Cependant, ce n'est pas un livre crépusculaire, mais une…
réflexion sur ce que c'est que vivre. Je me suis promené dans ma propre histoire, de l'enfant que j'étais à l'homme que je suis aujourd'hui. Je parle d'événements qui m'ont marqué à jamais et d'hommes et de femmes qui m'ont ouvert des perspectives insoupçonnées. Je parle d'amour et de jalousie, de courage et de peur, de la cohabitation avec une maladie potentiellement mortelle. Je parle des artistes qui vivaient il y a 40 000 ans, des images fascinantes qu'ils nous ont laissées dans les recoins profonds et obscurs des grottes. Je parle du troll maléfique que nous avons engendré et que nous essayons à présent d'enfermer dans la montagne afin qu'il ne s'en échappe pas pendant les cent mille ans à venir. Je parle de la manière dont a vécu et dont vit l'humanité, et dont j'ai moi-même vécu. Je parle de la joie de vivre. Elle m'est revenue après que j'ai échappé au sable mouvant, qui menaçait de m'entraîner dans l'abîme. 2015.Runaway wives and rogue feminists: the origins of the women's shelter movement in Canada
Par Margo Goodhand. 2017
In the supposedly enlightened 60s and 70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn't talked about, and women had few,…
if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973, with no statistics, no money and little public support, five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada's first battered women's shelters. Today, there are well over 600. Goodhand tracks down the rogue feminists whose work forged an underground railway for women and children, weaving their stories into an until now untold history. As they lobbied for funding, scrounged for furniture and fended off outraged husbands, these women marked a defining moment in Canadian history, triggering monumental changes in government, schools, courts and law enforcement. But was it enough to stop the cycle of violence? Forty years later, these pioneers describe how and why Canada has lost its ground in the battle for women's rights. Winner of the 2018 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction and the 2018 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. 2017.Royal murder: the deadly intrigue of ten sovereigns
Par Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Pulling, Heather Sangster. 2008
What would you do for absolute power? Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading…
death... or causing it. While Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses, other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. Read the stories of ten sovereigns, including Vlad the Impaler, "Bloody Mary", and The Romanovs of Russia. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2009 Red Maple Non-fiction Award. 2008.Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
Par Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.Sailor on snowshoes: tracking Jack London's northern trail
Par Dick North. 2006
Though Jack London set sail for the north to accumulate gold, in the back of his mind lurked a resolve…
to become a writer. He absorbed the experiences and observations he later organized into mesmerizing stories. This book is the story of the search for the Yukon bush cabin in which London wrote his name. 2006.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
Par Stephen Kimber. 2002
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.Robertson Davies: man of myth
Par Judith Skelton Grant. 1994
A full-scale biography on the life of one of Canada's greatest novelists. Davies' interests included theatre, a passion that began…
at the age of four, Jungian psychology, and Victorian melodrama, all of which influenced his creative work and his life. His popularity as a national icon was established at the age of 57, with the release of "Fifth business." c1994.Roald Dahl: a biography
Par Chris Powling. 1994
No other writer for children was as bold, as exciting, as rude or as funny as Roald Dahl. His characters,…
Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG have become household names, but their creator was himself a fascinating, larger-than-life character: a fighter pilot, a spy, a life-saving inventor, as well as a screenwriter and best-selling author. This is an entertaining account of a truly exceptional man. 1994.Rita will: memoir of a literary rabble-rouser
Par Rita Mae Brown. 1997
Autobiography of the openly lesbian novelist who has co-authored mysteries with her cat, Sneaky Pie. Describes her illegitimate birth, adoption…
by relatives, and southern childhood; how she became an advocate for women's rights; and her relationships with tennis star Martina Navratilova and author Fannie Flagg. Some strong language. c1997.Rilke: une existence vagabonde
Par Catherine Sauvat. 2016
Icône absolue de la poésie de langue allemande aux traces pourtant si parisiennes, Rilke est cet homme toujours en partance.…
De Prague à Paris, en passant par Munich, Capri ou Venise, il parcourt l'Europe en quête d'un havre d'inspiration. Catherine Sauvat suit le poète dans ces éternelles errances à travers des lieux tantôt aimés tantôt haïs. Mais elle brosse aussi le portrait d'un personnage distant et dépressif dont les départs soudains ont déjoué toutes les relations. Car ce mondain et grand amoureux n'a rien autant chéri que sa solitude, moteur indispensable à sa création. Nombreuses sont celles qui souffrirent de ce séducteur impénitent, de Clara Westhoff, Paula Modersohn-Becker à Baladine Klossowska, quand la liaison ne pouvait se vivre qu'à distance et dans des lettres exaltées. Catherine Sauvat nous plonge dans l'intimité de l'homme qui, par ces constantes lignes de fuite, cet acharnement à la distance, se révèle tel qu'en lui-même. 2016.Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm
Par Maggie Siggins. 1991
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.Reporter in disguise: the intrepid Vic Steinberg
Par Christine Welldon. 2012
Who was Vic Stein? A man who enjoyed a pint of beer at the rugby match? A young woman who…
worked behind the counter at a local department store? A seamstress in a sweatshop? Yes - she could be any and all of these characters, depending on the story she was chasing for her popular column in the Toronto News. Over 100 years ago, Vic Stein was one of the New Women, a Bachelor Girl who pursued a career in investigative journalism - hardly the type of lifestyle for an upper-middle class young lady. But she had to be stealthy, secretive, and cunning if she wanted her scoop. There are many details we do not know about this secretive and feisty journalist - we don't even know her real name! - but one thing we know for sure: Vic Steinberg would be laughing if she knew that decades after her death, people are still wondering about her and trying to solve the puzzle that was her life. Grades 3-6. 2012.Rescuing Patty Hearst: memories from a decade gone mad
Par Virginia Holman. 2017
This memoir is Virginia Holman's stunning debut and winner of the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Virginia delves into the often…
painful, occasionally joyful, moments of her childhood with a schizophrenic mother. Through touching honesty and self-reflection, Virginia confronts memories of a life in which reality and fantasy gradually became difficult to separate. 2017.Reporting live
Par Lesley Stahl. 1999
Autobiography of the television journalist. Describes how Stahl began her career in 1972, her emergence into the public eye during…
the Watergate scandal, her appearances on Face the Nation and 60 Minutes, and her White House reporting during three presidencies. Discusses the evolution of the media; provides glimpses into her personal life. Bestseller. c1999.Remembering Leacock: an oral history
Par Allan Anderson. 1983