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Robert E. Lee: a Penguin life
Par Roy Blount. 2003
Cultural journalist and humourist with southern upbringing offers character insights on Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). Discusses…
Lee's background, the strengths and weaknesses of his military tactics, and his sense of honor. Appendixes explore Lee's sexuality, quirky humor, and attitude toward slavery. 2003Magill Family Egyptian Adventure
Par John Magill, Judith Ann Magill Cathcard. 2016
The Magill Family Egyptian Adventure tells the story of Canadian, Arthur Napier Magill, who lost his sight as a young…
man, as he and his young family embark on a years’ long adventure to Egypt, where he was seconded by the UN from his role at CNIB in 1953 to head a team of experts to establish a CNIB like demonstration school for the blind to serve that country and to provide training for others to replicate the school in neighbouring Arab states. Using newspaper articles, family photographs, letters home, and written project reports, readers gain insight into expatriate life and the enormous difference this UN mission made to the many blind people in the Middle East who would otherwise have been unable to live productive and independent lives. Arthur Napier Magill later became the second Managing Director of CNIB, succeeding Colonel E. A. Baker.The Hemingway book club of Kosovo
Par Paula Huntley. 2003
A journal of the author's experiences in Prishtina, Kosovo, where she taught English to returned Albanian students during an eight-month…
period in 2000. She describes the aftermath of the NATO-forced Serb retreat and her students' hopes for a better life in the depressed province. 2003Biographical sketches of all the American presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush. Provides interesting facts for each presidency,…
such as prominent contemporaries, political happenings, and notable events. For grades 5-8. 2000Four seasons in five senses: things worth savoring
Par David Mas Masumoto. 2003
Japanese American organic farmer reflects on what can be seen, touched, heard, smelled, and tasted on his family's California farm.…
Observing cycles of renewal and harvest and recognizing realities of small-scale farming in the age of agribusiness, Masumoto, Harvest Son (BR 12668), groups his essays in five clusters, each identified with one of the senses. 2003The gift of Jazzy
Par Cindy Heller Adams. 2003
New York Post columnist Cindy Adams recalls the loneliness she felt after the death of her husband, comedian Joey Adams,…
in 1999--until a friend sent her a Yorkshire terrier. Adams describes her first year with Jazzy and how the puppy helped her love and laugh again. 2003Lettres à une jeune espionne: 1, La diagonale du double
Par Constantin Melnik. 1997
A travers ces Lettres à une jeune espionne, l'auteur, responsable des services secrets sous de Gaulle et maître incontesté du…
Renseignement, nous dévoile les mécanismes, "la psychologie et les techniques du plus obscur des mondes", celui des services secrets. [SDMIl était un piano noir: mémoires interrompus (Azimuts. Récits)
Par Barbara. 1998
As always, Jack: a wartime love story
Par Emma Sweeney. 2002
Following her mother's death in 1985, Emma Sweeney found a packet of letters her father had written as a navy…
pilot in the 1940s and 1950s. Through reading the letters, Emma came to know her father, who died before she was born, and to understand his love for her mother. 2002World Shakers: Inspiring Women Activists (Do You Know My Name? #2)
Par Helen Wolfe. 2023
What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj…
Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe Earley to lose their official Indigenous status when they married white men, these women made change happen.Unchained memories: readings from the slave narratives
Par Henry Louis Gates, Spencer Crew, Cynthia Goodman, Ohio) National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati. 2002
Accounts of former slaves based on interviews conducted in the late 1930s by the U.S. government's Works Progress Administration for…
the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project. Companion to 2003 documentary film produced by HBO. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Violence and strong language. 2002John Paul Jones: sailor, hero, father of the American Navy
Par Evan Thomas. 2003
Biography of the "great sea warrior," born in Scotland in 1747, who went to sea at age thirteen. Describes his…
career in the fledgling American Continental Navy, his later exploits in Europe and Russia, and his burial in an obscure Paris grave in 1792. 2003The teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
Par David Halberstam. 2003
The saga of four Boston Red Sox players from the 1940s--Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, and Bobby Doerr--who remain…
friends for over sixty years. In 2001 DiMaggio and Pesky begin a long car trip to visit the dying Williams and reminisce about the past. Bestseller. 2003Entre la boussole et l'étoile: livre de bord, 1984-2005 : journal (Documents)
Par Noël Audet. 2006
[...] Dans ce livre de bord, Noël Audet s'interroge sur l'art, la littérature, l'écriture de romans au XXIe siècle, Dieu,…
la face cachée des religions, le nationalisme, la langue française québécoise, l'avenir de l'être humain, celui de la planète... et quelques autres questions qui lui paraissaient essentielles. -- 4e de couvThe life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself
Par Teresa. 1957
Autobiography of St. Teresa (1515-1582), written at the request of her confessors. The devout Spanish Carmelite nun and mystic founded…
seventeen convents in Spain. A classic spiritual work translated and with an introduction by J.M. Cohen. 1957Phillis Wheatley
Par Susan R Gregson. 2002
Biography of the African American poet Phillis Wheatley who was brought to colonial Boston in 1761 as a young slave.…
Describes Wheatley's education and family life and her success in the publishing world. For grades 4-7. 2002Elvis, mon amour (Ramsay poche/biographie #30)
Par Priscilla Beaulieu. 2007
"Priscilla raconte ses quatorze années avec le King : leur rencontre en Allemagne quand elle avait 14 ans, son émerveillement…
quand il lui fait découvrir Las Vegas et sa propriété de Graceland, les nuits passées à faire de la musique avec la bande qui, jamais, ne quittait l'idole, son étrange apprentissage sexuel, le mariage rêvé, la naissance de la petite Lisa Marie... Entre une Lolita et le monstre du rock, l'histoire d'un amour hors du commun". -- 4e de couvThe autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux: the story of a soul
Par Thérèse. 2001
A spiritual life account written by a devout French Carmelite nun a few years before her death in 1897 at…
the age of twenty-four. St. Thérése, known as the "Little Flower," was canonized in 1925. Includes an introduction by John Beevers, translator of the work. 2001Du sommet d'un arbre: journal
Par Yves Beauchemin. 2001
L'auteur évoque son enfance en Abitibi (Clova) entre 1945 et 1953, p. 11-34, puis son adolescence à Joliette et Montréal,…
p. 37-46. Dans son journal (1983, 1985) au ton toujours juste, l'auteur de Le matou se décrit en homme ordinaire avec sa vie familiale, ses options politiques (nationalisme éclairé) et, en écrivain qui réfléchit à son métier, participe aux activités de ses pairs et se tient proche du publicLa dame de Bagdad: Gertrude Bell, 1868-1926 (Best-sellers)
Par Marie-José Simpson. 1992