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Jes Baker burst onto the body positivity scene when she created her own ads mocking Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating…
against all body types--a move that landed her on the Today show and garnered a loyal following for her raw, honest, and attitude-filled blog missives. Building on the manifesta power of Things, this memoir goes deeply into Jes' inner life, from growing up a fat girl to dating while fat. With material that will have listeners laughing and crying along with Jes' experience, this new book is a natural fit with her irreverent, open-book style. 2018.Insoumise
Par Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Josie Mijlstra. 2005
Jeune, féministe, en rupture avec l'idéologie islamique, engagée résolument à gauche, dans le camp progressiste, elle se retrouve face à…
une gauche confuse quand il s'agit d'aborder la question de l'égalité des droits et de la lutte contre l'intégrisme. Le réquisitoire est implacable, il s'appuie sur la réalité quotidienne de nombreuses femmes vivant dans des pays islamistes ou même occidentaux: les mariages forcés et les viols déguisés, la réclusion à vie, l'obsession maladive de la virginité, l'excision, tout ceci au nom du respect à la lettre de préceptes liés au Coran "écrit" au septième siècle de notre ère. 2005.Lady's choice: Ethel Waxham's journals & letters, 1905-1910
Par John Love, Barbara Love, Ethel Waxham, Frances Love Froidevaux. 1992
A chronological record of a twenty-three-year old college graduate's pursuit of a teaching career while being courted by a thirty-five-year…
old Wyoming rancher. Compiled from diaries, correspondence, and poems. Material was used in the PBS series "The West." 1992.Autoportrait au radiateur
Par Christian Bobin. 1997
Besoin de mirages
Par Gilles Lapouge. 1999
Among the lions: a lamb in the literary jungle
Par Harold Andrew Horwood. 2000
Following "A walk in the dreamtime", this is the second volume of Harold Horwood's memoirs. From the writing of "The…
foxes of beachy cove" to the founding of the Writers' Union of Canada, the author illuminates a period when the literary cultures of Newfoundland and Canada were just beginning to flourish. Including the author's encounters with writers such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Laurence and Farley Mowat. 2000.Country calls: memories of a small-town doctor
Par Sid Cornish, Judith Cornish. 1998
Kidnapped in Yemen: one woman's amazing escape from captivity
Par Mary Quin. 2005
The author details her experiences as an avid traveler and women's rights advocate. But her vacation in Yemen turned into…
a gripping account of ambush and captivity, violence and imminent death. Her personal journey through militant Islam and clandestine terrorist groups is an unforgettable firsthand account of curiosity, survival, and healing. c2005.Kingfisher days: a memoir
Par Susan Coyne. 2001
One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, 5-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an old stone fireplace, hidden…
beneath the leaves. Her father recalled a story about an elf who ran a boarding house there. Susan tended the fireplace, hoping that she would meet a real fairy and one day she found a letter from Nootsie Tah, a princess. 2001.King of the confessors
Par Thomas Hoving. 1981
The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the cloak-and-dagger story of his quest for an enigmatic medieval…
ivory cross, reputed to be a fake, that turns up in the hands of a shady dealer. Hoving describes the bitter contest among nations and museums for the incomparable cross, his chase through the clandestine world of international dealers, and his own desperate research to establish the authenticity of the artifact. 1981.Journal
Par David Bellos, Helene Berr. 2008
I was abruptly assailed by the feeling that I had to describe reality, writes Bérr midway through this urgent firsthand…
account of the devastation of Paris's Jewish community during WWII. This journal, which begins in 1942 as the record of a young woman's intense and buzzing inner life, becomes over time a record of human suffering. 2008.Journeyman: travels of a writer
Par Timothy Findley, William Whitehead. 2003
A record of some of the voyages, real and imagined, that inspired and informed the author's award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and…
theatrical works. Also includes a selection of his many journal entries, letters, poems, speeches, and articles, creating a unique insight into the mind of one of Canada's most beloved writers. Some strong language. 2003.Jessie's journey: autobiography of a traveller girl
Par Jess Smith. 2008
From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an…
old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. This book describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. 2008.Jedediah days: one woman's island paradise
Par Mary Palmer. 1998
A memoir of forty-five years on Jedediah Island, a remote coastal island in British Columbia, by the woman who owned…
and preserved it in its natural state as a provincial marine park. The author includes the history of the island and describes her adventures while living there. 1998.Imagining Canadian literature: the selected letters of Jack McClelland
Par Sam Solecki, Jack McClelland. 1998
Selections from Jack McClelland's correspondence with many of the authors he brought to fame through his publishing house, McClelland &…
Stewart. His correspondents include Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler, Al Purdy, Gabrielle Roy, and Michael Ondaatje. Some strong language.In the center of the night: journey through a bereavement
Par Jayne Blankenship. 1984
A young Rhode Island widow works through the shattering impact of her loss by recording in her diary the course…
of her "apprenticeship as a person." The journal chronicles the intense catharsis, interpolated with dream sequences, of a woman healing herself and, in the process, others. 1984.I thought my father was God and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project: And Other True Tales From Npr's National Story Project
Par Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler. 2001
When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's 'Weekend All Things Considered' to submit stories about their…
personal experiences, the results were overwhelming, resulting in editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. 2011. Uniform title: Weekend all things considered (Radio program)I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
Par Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.Burnt out and despairing, middle-aged Leah reluctantly agrees to visit 94-year-old Adele once a week in her nursing home, and…
learns that resilient, independent and enthusiastic Adele is, in many ways, younger than she is. She finds the enduring importance of friendship from Adele and her retirement home companions. 1999.Chicken soup for the golden soul: heartwarming stories about people 60 and over
Par Jack Canfield. 2000
Divided into chapters on letting go, giving, learning, the lighter side, across the generations, overcoming obstacles, perspective, believing, living your…
dream, reminiscing and ageless wisdom, this book celebrates the myriad joys of living and the wisdom that comes from having lived. 2000.