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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.New Europe
Par Michael Palin. 2007
Palin's New Europe takes the form of a journey through countries which have rich and complex cultures. Few have survived…
intact, as the ebb and flow of warring armies has continually changed the map of Europe. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. 2007.Negotiating with the dead: a writer on writing (The empson Lectures)
Par Margaret Atwood. 2002
Margaret Atwood looks back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career and examines the metaphors which…
writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain their activities. Her wide and eclectic reference to other writers, living and dead, is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer, both in Canada and on the international scene. 2002.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 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.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.Muddling through in Madagascar
Par Dervla Murphy. 1985
Dervla Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, make their most accident-prone journey amongst "the most lovable people". The travellers set…
out on foot to Antsirable through the Ankaratra Mountains, then on by bush taxi and truck to discover that in Madagascar motoring is much more gruelling than walking. 1985.Mon coeur s'appelle Amazonie (Collection "Vécu")
Par Anne-Sophie Tiberghien. 1983
Mornings in Mexico
Par D. H Lawrence. 2009
In the 1920s, Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality,…
purity and darkness that he observed there. The diverse and evocative essays that make up "Mornings in Mexico" - "Market Day", "Dance of the Sprouting Corn", "The Hopi Snake Dance" - bring to life the elemental simplicity of the Zapotec Indians in Mexico. The intense, dark rhythms of the Indians in the American South West are brightly adorned with simple and evocative details sharply observed: piles of fruit in a village market, strolls in a courtyard filled with hibiscus and roses, the play of light on an adobe wall. 2009.Mountain year
Par Michael Joseph Murphy. 1964
The account of the year in an Irish mountain district, divided into twelve essays, describes the attitudes and characters of…
some of the people who live there. All his life Michael J. Murphy has lived within sight of Slieve Gullion. To him it does not represent just a large outcrop of rock, but a way of life. In his opening essay he shows how the personality of a mountain can dominate and influence the lives and living of everyone within its shadow, even the very fields. 1964.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.Douces colères: journal
Par Gil Courtemanche. 1989
Avec une verve piquante et souvent corrosive, l'auteur exprime ses opinions sur la société, sur la politique et les hommes…
politiques, sur le journalisme et les médias d'information, sur le syndicalisme, sur la langue, sur l'éducation, etc. Malgré certains jugements excessifs, cet ouvrage comporte beaucoup d'éléments intéressants qui plairont à certains et en irriteront d'autres, selon les idéologies personelles de chacun.Le journaliste et l'assassin (Washington Square)
Par Janet Malcolm, Lazare Bitoun. 2013
Histoire d'une trahison entre un homme soupçonné d'avoir assassiné sa femme et ses deux filles, et le journaliste qui couvre…
l'affaire. Quelques années après le procès, en dépit des liens d'amitié qui l'unissent au condamné, lequel continue de clamer son innocence, le journaliste fera paraître un ouvrage dans lequel il décrit le prisonnier sous les traits d'un psychopathe. 2013. Titre uniforme: The journalist and the murderer.Au pied du mur: au coeur de la Terre sainte en guerre : Paris, Jérusalem, Ramallah : petit guide à usage politico-spirituel
Par Marie-Pierre Samitier. 2010
Mai 2009, Marie-Pierre Samitier part pour un voyage en Terre sainte. Nous la suivons avec un groupe de pèlerins américains…
sur cette terre chargée d'histoire et revendiquée par deux peuples et trois religions monothéistes. À Jérusalem, Hébron ou Ramallah, nous visitons avec elle les lieux saints. Mais, surtout, nous découvrons un monde en guerre, où règne la peur, matérialisée par un gigantesque mur de béton. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2010.L'enfant des neiges: récit
Par Nicolas Vanier. 2004
Conquérant de l'impossible
Par Mike Horn, Jean-Philippe Chatrier. 2005
Journaliste, essayiste, Jules Roy est à la fois cela et plus que tout cela : un homme au destin singulier…
et mêlé à l'histoire du siècle. Pied-noir, pétainiste en 1940, pilote dans la R.A.F. après 1942, cet officier d'active disciple de Camus rompt avec l'armée à cause de ce qu'il a vu en Indochine. La guerre d'Algérie achèvera la mutation et fera un anticolonialiste de cet enfant de la Mitidja. De Gaulle, Malraux, Mitterrand, Sartre, cent autres figures traversent ces passionnants Mémoires, salués comme un événement lors de leur parution. 1989.Cher Fidel
Par Marita Lorenz, Wilfred Huismann, Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Ole Hansen-Löve. 2001
Récit autobiographique de Marita Lorenz. Enrôlée par la CIA dans les années 1960, elle devra, entre autres missions, retourner à…
Cuba afin de tenter d'empoisonner le leader cubain Fidel Castro. 2001.