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Par Elie Wiesel. 2011
" De violentes douleurs à la poitrine, un médecin rassurant : "Rien au coeur" Quelques jours après, pourtant, ce dernier…
flanche. Incrédule, récalcitrant, Elie Wiesel est opéré à New York, in extremis. Au bloc, il a toutes les raisons de croire qu'il va s'enfoncer dans un silence définitif. Ce passage de la vie à la mort - tout sauf un vide, découvre-t-il - se peuple d'émotions, de visages, de mémoires, d'interrogations sur lui-même et sur Dieu. Bilan d'une existence et d'une mission. Revenu à la vie, le Prix Nobel de la paix, auteur immortel de La Nuit, inlassable ambassadeur de la tolérance, Juif universel qui n'a, au moment de partir, qu'une seule certitude, sa foi, livre le récit si rare de cette traversée du mur invisible. " -- 4e de couvPar Ryszard Kapuściński. 2010
À travers ce recueil posthume inédit en France, le grand reporter montre le visage du journaliste engagé. Son regard se…
porte sur trois points chauds du globe dans les années 1970 : Moyen-Orient, Amérique du Sud et Afrique. Comme toujours chez Kapuscinski, l'écriture est précise, intelligente, et le propos férocement actuel. Décrivant des mouvements partisans ou révolutionnaires, le reporter s'attache chaque fois à un destin particulier pour dresser un tableau politique plus général. Mais ce qui frappe surtout, c'est l'engagement du journaliste, sa capacité à s'insurger. Le monde qu'il peint est absurde, cynique, la violence y est omniprésente, la démocratie y est un paravent à toutes les hypocrisies favorisant l'esclavage, la répression, le crime... -- 4e de couvPar Cassidy Hutchinson. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history.…
Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House. Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of the most extraordinary and unprecedented calamities in modern political history. Hutchinson was faced with a choice between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election. She bravely came forward to become the pivotal witness in the House January 6 investigations, as her testimony transfixed and stunned the nation. In her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the struggle between the pressures she confronted to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy. Enough reaches far beyond the typical insider political account. It's the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience—one that more senior White House aides tried to evade—and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of historyPar Brad Tolinski. 2021
Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than…
fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen's debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era. Over the course of more than four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained elusive—until now. In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid, compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary 5150 studios at Ed's home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as conversations with family, friends, and colleagues. In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen's masterpiece 1984 , the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward's early struggles as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language, which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar manufacturing. As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie's side of the story when it comes to his extraordinary lifeChronicles the success and social influence of Wikipedia from its origins to its status as a "top ten" most popular…
web site. Also discusses the free online encyclopedia's cultural implications, army of volunteers who create and edit articles, accessibility, neutrality, and controversies regarding credibility and accuracy. 2009Par Margarita Engle. 2008
Recounts the history of Cuba from 1850 to 1899 in free verse. Various voices reveal the troubled lives of slaves,…
rebels, nurses, and soldiers in the unending cycle of war. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré. 2008Par Robin Waterfield. 2009
Examines the myths behind the philosopher Socrates and his prosecution and execution. Analyzes Socrates' relationship with Alcibiades and uses Athenian…
history, wars, culture, and democracy to explain the complex background of the trial. Discusses the written work of Socrates' followers Plato and Xenophon. 2009Par Thomas Childers. 2009
Documents the hardships experienced by U.S. veterans who returned home from World War II. Discusses problems such as unemployment, homelessness,…
alienation, and physical and psychological wounds. Highlights the lives of a former prisoner of war, an infantryman without legs, and the author's father, who suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress. 2009Par Edward Miguel, Deborah Chasman. 2009
Economist Miguel posits that economic and political gains have been made in Africa in the twenty-first century. Nine scholars and…
experts on Africa's economy discuss Miguel's optimistic assertion. They evaluate the stability of Africa's politics, clean-environment technologies, population growth, and more. 2009Biography of Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946), founder of the Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school in America. Chronicles her childhood…
in upper-class Philadelphia, two marriages, and vacations in Switzerland, where she was introduced to dogs assisting blinded German veterans. Describes the 1929 establishment of Eustis's school in New Jersey. 2010Par Clive Gifford. 2009
Brief biographies of legendary rulers ranging from Hatshepsut, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent…
to Elizabeth I, Louis XIV, Frederick the Great, and Catherine the Great. Features "Life Links" that point out connections between the monarchs. For grades 5-8. 2009Par Candice Millard. 2011
Chronicles the life of James A. Garfield (1831-1881), the twentieth American president. Highlights Garfield's rise from poverty to the Oval…
Office. Details the attack by deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau and the medical care that killed Garfield despite the efforts of Alexander Graham Bell. Bestseller. 2011Par Michael L Cooper. 2009
Biography of the twenty-sixth United States president, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). Describes Roosevelt's overcoming severe asthma as a child and becoming…
a man of high spirits with a sense of adventure, who demonstrated courage on the battlefield. Discusses his family life, political career, and conservation efforts. For grades 6-9. 2009Par Peter S. Albert, Victoria Hallerman. 2009
A cautionary tale about prostate cancer from the viewpoint of a wife who says she and her husband of thirty-nine…
years "did everything wrong." Discusses the marital and medical challenges they faced. Provides information on the disease, treatment, and side effects. Offers advice to the newly diagnosed. 2009Par Thomas Buergenthal. 2009
Memoir of an American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague describes childhood years spent on the…
run from Nazis, followed by his imprisonment in Auschwitz. Buergenthal highlights the circumstances that enabled him to survive. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Violence and strong language. 2007Par Elizabeth Letts. 2011
Relates Dutch immigrant Harry de Leyer's 1956 purchase of a gray horse from a slaughterhouse truck for eighty dollars. Recounts…
de Leyer's Long Island boarding-school students riding the horse named Snowman, the discovery of Snowman's jumping feats, and his victory at the 1958 National Horse Show. Bestseller. 2011Par Joan Didion. 2007
"Une soirée ordinaire, fin décembre à New York. Joan Didion s'apprête à dîner avec son mari, l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne…
- quand ce dernier s'écroule sur la table de la salle à manger, victime d'une crise cardiaque foudroyante. Pendant une année entière, elle essaiera de se résoudre à la mort du compagnon de toute sa vie et de s'occuper de leur fille, plongée dans le coma à la suite d'une grave pneumonie. La souffrance, l'incompréhension, l'incrédulité, la méditation obsessionnelle autour de cet événement si commun et pourtant inconcevable : dans un récit impressionnant de sobriété et d'implacable honnêteté, Didion raconte la folie du deuil et dissèque, entre sécheresse clinique et monologue intérieur, la plus indicible expérience - et sa rédemption par la littérature. L'année de la pensée magique a été consacré " livre de l'année 2006 " aux Etats-Unis. Best-seller encensé par la critique, déjà considéré comme un classique de la littérature sur le deuil, ce témoignage bouleversant a été couronné par le National Book Award et vient d'être adapté pour la scène à Broadway, par l'auteur elle-même, dans une mise en scène de David Hare, avec Vanessa Redgrave". -- 4e de couvPar Arnold Schwarzenegger. 2023
The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of…
ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s tool kit for a meaningful life. He shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous; some told here for the first time ever. Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he shares that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you—you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you needPar Alix de Saint-André. 2010
« Alix de Saint-André a pris trois fois la route de Compostelle. La première fois, elle est partie de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port,…
sur le chemin français, avec un sac plein d'idées préconçues, qui se sont envolées une à une, au fil des étapes. La deuxième fois, elle a parcouru le « chemin anglais » depuis La Corogne, lors d'une année sainte mouvementée. L'ultime voyage fut le vrai voyage, celui que l'on doit faire en partant de chez soi. Des bords de Loire à Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, de paysages sublimes en banlieues sinistres, elle a rejoint le peuple des pèlerins qui se retrouvent sur le chemin, libérés de toute identité sociale, pour vivre à quatre kilomètres-heure une aventure humaine pleine de gaieté, d'amitié et de surprises... » -- 4e de couvPar Hervé Vilard. 2006
"Matricule 764, Citoyen, Bâtard, l'Âme seule, Petit Frère, tous ces noms ont été ceux d'Hervé Vilard : tel est le…
sort d'un enfant livré à l'Assistance publique. De placement en placement, il traverse trois France : celle des paysans, celle des prêtres et celle des résistants. Sa place, bien sûr, il ne la trouve nulle part. Adolescent en cavale, il s'échappe du Berry pour le Pigalle des années soixante, il passe des travaux des champs aux vernissages de Klein, des centres de redressement à l'obscurité des Cinéacs, du Dépôt à un appartement pourri de chic, des bras de Fleur de Pâques aux déjeuners avec Malraux... Un jour, pourtant, il lui faudra surmonter cette vie d'arrachements. Se battre, chanter, avec la peur d'aimer. Et c'est ainsi qu'Hervé Vilard est grand!" -- 4e de couv