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Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée
Par Léa Marcou, Kai Hermann, Horst Rieck. 1981
Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Christiane, une jeune fille sensible et intelligente, qui, moins de deux ans après avoir fumé…
son premier "joint", se prostitue à la sortie de l'école afin de trouver l'argent nécessaire à l'achat de sa dose quotidienne d'héroïne. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1981.Ma chère petite soeur: lettres à Bernadette, 1943-1970
Par Gabrielle Roy, François Ricard. 1988
Ce volume rassemble 138 lettres inédites que Gabrielle Roy a écrites à sa soeur aînée Bernadette, qui était religieuse, entre…
1943, alors que la romancière en était encore à la préparation de "Bonheur d'occasion", et 1970, année de la mort de Bernadette. 1988.Notes from the rainforest
Par György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.Le neveu (Dossiers, documents)
Par Michel Vastel, Réal Simard. 1987
Plutôt que de continuer à risquer de mourir pour Frank Cotroni, Réal Simard, le "neveu", a décidé de vivre pour…
lui-même. Mais avant de disparaitre, il a pensé que vous aviez droit à la vérité : sur lui, sur les prisonniers, sur les policiers et surtout sur cette face cachée de "l'honorable société." 1987.No one to tell: breaking my silence on life in the RCMP
Par Janet Merlo, Leslie Vryenhoek. 2013
Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination…
while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. Janet recalls how her love of policing was soured by covert and overt sexism within the ranks and by an institutional culture that valued toughness and silence over ethics and accountability. Tracing her twenty years in uniform, Merlo’s story details the highs and lows of her career in the RCMP – while her mental health and personal life disintegrated. 2013.Naissance de la vieillesse
Par Claude Olievenstein. 1999
Longue méditation sur le sens du vieillissement "Heureux ceux qui au lieu de se recroqueviller, savent, veulent, profiter de la…
vieillesse. Si on perd des capacités, on en gagne d'autres." 1998, c1999.Nasty business: one biker gang's bloody war against the Hells Angels
Par Peter Paradis. 2002
The 1990s biker war on the streets of Montreal pitted the established Hells Angels against upstarts the Rock Machine in…
a battle for the drug trade. After being shot by a Hells hit squad, Rock Machine boss Peter Paradis watched as the police closed in and the Hells begin winning the war, spurring a penniless and ostracized Paradis to turn informant. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2002.My father and Atticus Finch: a lawyer's fight for justice in 1930s Alabama (ITK audio)
Par Joseph Madison Beck. 2016
A memoir about the author's father, whose courageous defense in a 1938 Alabama trial of a black man accused of…
raping a white woman calls to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird". 2016.My spirit took you in: the romance that sparked an epidemic of fear : a memoir of the life and death of Thomas Eric Duncan, America's first Ebola victim
Par Christine Wicker, Louise Troh. 2015
Louise Troh--fiancée of Thomas Eric Dunca, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America--breaks her silence about her…
experience in this deeply moving memoir, chronicling the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas. 2015.My fair junkie: a memoir of getting dirty and staying clean
Par Amy Dresner. 2017
In 2011 Amy Dresner was high on OxyContin, stupidly pulled a knife on her then-husband, and was promptly arrested. Within…
months, she found herself in a psych ward, penniless, and looking at 240 hours of community service. For the next two years she would sweep up syringes on Hollywood Boulevard as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety and starting life over in her forties. 2017.My friend Leonard
Par James Frey. 2005
James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with "My Friend Leonard". After a…
stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab, Leonard. A larger-than-life mobster, Leonard becomes James' loyal and generous adoptive father, teaching him to "live boldly." 2005.My name escapes me: the diary of a retiring actor
Par Alec Guinness. 1996
The diary of Alec Guinness spans eighteen months to June 1996. Certain interests recur: theatre and film; books and paintings;…
the church; food and drink; and the delights of being at home with his wife. He also brings memories and anecdotes from his long and distinguished acting career. 1996.Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those…
professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. 2018.Murder in Brentwood
Par Mark Fuhrman. 1997
A former Los Angeles Police Department detective chronicles his June 13, 1994 investigation of the murders of Nicole Simpson and…
Ron Goldman. He recounts his testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial, as well as his own subsequent trial for perjury. The author maintains he was targeted as a scapegoat in the Simpson case. Descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1997.Murder without borders: dying for the story in the world's most dangerous places
Par Terry Gould. 2009
Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq - the countries in which…
journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job. Through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death, and discovers the complex reasons for their bravery. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Mon dernier cheveu noir: avec quelques conseils aux anciens jeunes
Par Jean-Louis Fournier. 2007
La vieillesse, le corps et l'esprit qui fatiguent, la mort qui approche sont autant de sujets difficiles à traiter, surtout…
quand l'on est directement concerné. Pourtant, Jean-Louis Fournier parvient à en parler d'une façon incroyable : il mise tout sur l'humour. Ce n'est pas qu'il se détache de son sujet mais qu'il le traite d'une façon inédite qui nous séduit. L'auteur ne cherche pas à embellir la réalité, il la décrit telle qu'il la voit, telle qu'il la vit. 2007.Mort ou vif: les chasses à l'homme les plus extraordinaires
Par Pierre Bellemare, Jean-François Nahmias. 2007
Missing men: a memoir
Par Joyce Johnson. 2004
Author Johnson recounts three life-defining relationships with the men who mattered most to her. She begins with her grandfather, for…
whom she was named, but who committed suicide before she was born. Following a career as a child actress, complete with an overbearing stage mother who ruined her relationship with her father, she describes her two difficult marriages to painters. A self-portrait that examines - from a woman's perspective - the far-reaching reverberations of being fatherless. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.Moments of reprieve
Par Primo Levi. 1986
These stories recount the rare moments during Primo Levi's stark existence in Auschwitz when he came across an act of…
sheer beauty, an instant of light in the grey monotone, mostly when someone, even in these conditions of ultimate servitude, could and did behave with human decency: an old Jew retelling the stories of Lilith, a stolen radish to prove an honest man could steal, and a barracks chief who appreciated the meaning of Yom Kippur. 1986.Missing Sarah: a Vancouver woman remembers her vanished sister
Par Maggie De Vries. 2003
Sarah de Vries disappeared in April of 1998. Her sister Maggie searches for clues and answers by reading Sarah's poetry…
and piecing together the collective memory of everyone who knew her. 2003.