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Ball of fire: the tumultuous life and comic art of Lucille Ball
Par Stefan Kanfer. 2003
Details the life and times of comedienne and sit-com star Lucille Ball (1911-1989), beginning with her difficult childhood in upstate…
New York. Covers her unhappy marriage to Desi Arnaz and the evolution of her career until she became "the first woman with major economic power in postwar Hollywood." Bestseller. 2003Bob Hope: my life in jokes
Par Bob Hope. 2003
The late comedian, who died in 2003 at one hundred years of age, tells his life through jokes--organized by decade--revealing…
his family, experiences, interests, and personal and political thoughts. Reminisces about his long career in show business on the radio, screen, and television--and in the war theater entertaining American troops. Introduction by daughter Linda. 2003Scout's honor: a father's unlikely foray into the woods
Par Peter Applebome. 2003
New York Times writer and editor recounts three years of countless hikes, canoe trips, and campouts with his son Ben's…
Boy Scout troop. A "committed indoorsman," Applebome blends amusing descriptions of latrines and gourmet fireside meals with commentary on the history and cultural legacy of this conservative institution. 200350 règles que les jeunes n'apprendront pas à l'école: de réels antidotes à une éducation permissive
Par Charles J Sykes. 2017
"Dans ce livre, l'auteur nous offre cinquante leçons de vie qui n'apparaissent pas au programme - très axé sur l'estime…
de soi et peu sur la réalité - de la plupart des écoles. [...] Voici quelques-unes des règles de Sykes, qui sont à la fois franches, amusantes et dures: La vie n'est pas juste. fais-toi à cette idée. - Si tu crois que ton prof est dur, attends d'avoir un patron [...]. Faire des hamburgers n'est pas indigne de toi. Tes grands-parents avaient un mot différent pour décrire cette tâche. Dans leur vocabulaire, il s'agissait d'une opportunité. Regarde les gens dans les yeux lorsque tu fais leur connaissance. Ne laisse pas la réussite des autres te déprimer. Sykes explore chaque règle en fournissant des exemples sages et très pertinents dont les parents, les grands-parents et les enseignants peuvent s'inspirer pour aider les jeunes à se donner une chance de réussir, à l'école et en dehors". -- 4e de couvLes chroniques d'une mère indigne: 2], Décapons le quotidien, une couche à la fois (Hamac-carnets)
Par Caroline Allard. 2009
"Une fois qu'on est dans l'indignité, on ne peut plus s'en sortir. On y sombre. Et le fond semble étrangement…
lointain. On regarde les livres sur nos tablettes : La première année de bébé, Comment nourrir sainement votre progéniture ou Aider votre enfant à bâtir son estime de soi. On les regarde, ces bouquins, et on ricane. La première année de bébé nous semble noyée dans le brouillard du manque de sommeil. Côté nourriture, aucune inquiétude, puisque c'est avec notre équilibre mental que notre progéniture casse la croûte. Quant à l'estime de soi, c'est plutôt celle des parents qu'il faut rebâtir brique par brique, roman policier par roman policier, gin tonic par gin tonic [...]". -- 4e de couv"[...] Les chroniques rassemblées dans ce livre forment deux catégories. Premièrement, il y a les situations dans lesquelles nous pouvons…
rire de nos enfants en général. Et deuxièmement, il y a les situations lors desquelles l'auteure a elle-même ri de ses enfants. Du vécu ! Des tripes ! De la réalité authentique ! L'auteure rit aussi beaucoup des papas dans ce livre et elle espère que la lecture de cet ouvrage encouragera autant les pères et les mères à développer leur indignité. C'est à cette seule condition que nous survivrons." -- 4e de couvKate remembered
Par A. Scott Berg. 2003
Berg's memoir of his twenty-year personal dialog with Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003). He recalls her reminiscences about her…
family, her acting career, and her relationship with Spencer Tracy, along with his own memories of his time spent with her. Bestseller. 2003La discipline familiale: une volonté à négocier (Education)
Par Raoul Côté. 1990
Ces parents à bout de souffle (Famille)
Par Suzanne Lavigueur. 2009
"Votre enfant manifeste-t-il un déficit d'attention accompagné d'une hyperactivité? Fait-il partie de "ces enfants qui bougent trop et qui n'écoutent…
pas assez "? Manquez-vous parfois de moyens pour laider à faire face aux difficultés quil vit à lécole, à la maison, avec ses amis? Vous sentez-vous frustré, inquiet et impuissant? Voici enfin un livre conçu spécialement pour venir à la rescousse des parents à bout de souffle et parfois même à bout despoir [...]". -- 4e de couvL'enfant unique: les pièges qu'il faut éviter pour mieux l'éduquer (Parents Aujourd'hui Ser.)
Par Carolyn White. 2017
"Parent d'un enfant unique, vous sentez-vous souvent contraint de gâter outre mesure votre petit prodige ? Traitez-vous votre enfant en…
adulte, le complimentez-vous ou le protégez-vous exagérément ? Attendez-vous de lui ou d'elle la perfection ? Auquel cas, avez-vous réussi à fi xer les règles du jeu et à les respecter ? Probablement pas. Vous culpabilisez de ne pas être le parent parfait, mais rassurez-vous : cette espèce est bien rare ! Dans ce livre, vous découvrirez les joies de la vie avec un enfant unique, ainsi qu'une série de conseils pratiques et souvent amusants pour éviter les pièges les plus courants qui attendent les parents". -- 4e de couvIf you would have told me: A memoir
Par John Stamos. 2023
This program is read by the author. " ...I love him, and I respect him, and I need him. We…
all do. " —from the foreword, written and read by Jamie Lee Curtis If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital , propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that's often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the odds and over the past four decades has proved himself to be one of his generation's most successful and beloved actors. Whether showing off his comedic chops on Full House or his dramatic skills on ER , pushing the boundaries on Broadway or living out his youthful dreams as an honorary Beach Boy, John has surprised everyone, most of all himself. A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos's memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & CompanyOpposable thumbs: How siskel & ebert changed movies forever
Par Matt Singer. 2023
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten…
Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.” On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune . Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awarded to a film critic—for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times. To say they despised each other was an understatement. When they reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. No decision—from which films to cover to who would read the lead review to how to pronounce foreign titles—was made without conflict, but their often-antagonistic partnership (which later transformed into genuine friendship) made for great television. In the years that followed, their signature “Two thumbs up!” would become the most trusted critical brand in Hollywood. In Opposable Thumbs , award-winning editor and film critic Matt Singer eavesdrops on their iconic balcony set, detailing their rise from making a few hundred dollars a week on local Chicago PBS to securing multimillion-dollar contracts for a syndicated series (a move that convinced a young local host named Oprah Winfrey to do the same). Their partnership was cut short when Gene Siskel passed away in February of 1999 after a battle with brain cancer that he’d kept secret from everyone outside his immediate family—including Roger Ebert, who never got to say goodbye to his longtime partner. But their influence on in the way we talk about (and think about) movies continues to this day. Photographer/© ABC/Getty ImagesTupac shakur: The authorized biography
Par Staci Robinson. 2023
The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful…
legacy, including mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legend Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated, and prolific figures in modern history. Drawing on exclusive access to Tupac’s private notebooks, letters, and uncensored conversations with those who loved and knew him best, this estate-authorized biography paints the fullest and most intimate picture to date of the young man who became a legend for generations to come. In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America. It is a story of a mother and son bound together by a love for each other and for their people, and the relationship that endured through their darkest times. It is a political story that begins in the whirlwind of the 1960s civil rights movement, and through a young artist’s awakening to rage and purpose in the ’90s era of Rodney King. It is a story of dizzying success and its devastating consequences. And, of course, it is the story of Tupac’s music, his timeless message that will never die as it continues to touch and inspire us todayThe secret life of john le carre
Par Adam Sisman. 2023
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy…
came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy - cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work. In trying to manage his biography, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes with his biographer. While he could control what Sisman wrote about him in his lifetime, he accepted that the truth would eventually become known. Following his death in 2020, what had been withheld can now be revealed. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject. "Now that he is dead," Sisman writes, "we can know him better."Parent responsable, enfant équilibré (Pocket #10318)
Par François Dumesnil. 1998
Dans sa pratique, l'auteur, psychologue, reçoit régulièrement des parents qui se retrouvent avec des enfants à problèmes, fugueurs, violents, décrocheurs…
ou toxicomanes. Or tous les parents sont convaincus d'avoir donné une éducation adéquate à leur enfant. Tous manifestent une incompréhension et un certain fatalisme devant la situation. D'après l'auteur, la réalité parentale est plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît de prime abord, et ne peut être réduite à une simple question de soins et d'affection. Dumesnil heurte au passage bien des idées reçues sur l'éducation des enfants. Il prend le contre-pied des théories qui ont contribué à placer l'enfant sur un piédestal, pourvu de tous les droits, sauf celui de devenir adulte. Un livre que tous les parents devraient lire. [SDMJe serai toujours là pour toi: des parents d'enfants handicapés témoignent (Collection Univers parents)
Par Carolyne Lavoie. 2008
"[...] Etre parent d'un enfant qui vit avec un handicap ou une déficience signifie être partie prenante d'une aventure où…
les défis semblent parfois insurmontables et où la magie de l'enfant nous entraîne vers des sommets jusque-là insoupçonnés. Est-ce du courage, de la force, de l'amour, de la détermination ? Peu importe le nom qu'on lui donne. Les parents qui ont croisé ma route sont de bons parents qui font tout en leur pouvoir afin que leur enfant atteigne le bonheur. Voilà ce qui est réellement important". -- 4e d ecouvThe storyteller: Expanded: ...because there's more to the story
Par Dave Grohl. 2023
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's…
Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 * 2 Million Copies Sold Worldwide The Remastered Edition...Because There's Always More to the Story Dave Grohl's The Storyteller created a sensation when it was initially published, becoming a global bestseller and thrilling fans and critics alike. Readers came to the book for Dave's heartfelt voice, his love of family and music, and the energy that pours from every page. Dave's is an extraordinary life made of up ordinary moments, and he tells stories just like he writes songs—from his soul. Whether recounting his time as kid in Toughskins in the Virginia suburbs, as a skinny teenager drumming his heart out for punk band Scream, living through the explosion and implosion of Nirvana, or hustling all the way around the world to escort his daughters to the Father/Daughter dance (only to be ignored as soon as his girls found their friends) The Storyteller is just like its author, as real as it gets. To show his appreciation for his fans, and to celebrate his love of writing, this edition offers a wide variety of extra content, including: An essay on how Dave approaches creativity (Here's a hint: you don't have to think outside of the box. Just ignore it.) A series of prompts to jump start your creativity The story of when Dave first met Paul McCartney A collection of Dave's curated playlists, giving a glimpse into some of the music he loves The Storyteller has challenged what a music memoir can be. With this edition, the legacy continuesBeing henry: The fonz . . . and beyond
Par Henry Winkler. 2023
This program is read by the author. From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply…
thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as "The Fonz" in the beloved Happy Days , has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Since the glorious era of Happy Days fame, Henry has endeared himself to a new generation with roles in such adored shows as Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, and Barry , where he's been revealed as an actor with immense depth and pathos, a departure from the period of his life when he was so distinctly typecast as The Fonz, he could hardly find work. Filled with profound heart, charm, and self-deprecating humor, Being Henry is a memoir about so much more than a life in Hollywood and the curse of stardom. It is a meaningful testament to the power of sharing truth and kindness and of finding fulfillment within yourself. A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon BooksOnce a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
Par Jo Ivester. 2020
In his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy’s…
and his family’s coming out story, told from multiple perspectives—a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.Dalida: une oeuvre en soi (Alias poche #2)
Par Michel Rheault. 2017
Dalida, c'est Andromaque et Blanche Dubois, Cléopâtre et Dalila, Rita Hayworth et Mistinguett. La rencontre en une seule femme de…
plusieurs personnalités mythiques, réelles ou fictives, qui ont toutes aujourd'hui valeur d'archétype. Chanteuse avant tout, actrice à ses heures, celle qui aura été l'un des plus grands monstres sacrés du music-hall d'après-guerre occupe désormais une place de choix dans la mémoire collective. Publié d'abord quinze ans après sa disparition, ce livre est le tout premier essai consacré à la créatrice de Gigi L'Amoroso. Un texte singulier, un regard lucide sur une artiste célèbre, mais néanmoins méconnue. Au-delà de l'anecdote, est mise en lumière ici l'extraordinaire complexité du personnage Dalida, un être dont l'existence et let travail s'enchevêtrent jusqu'à former une œuvre apparemment éclatée, mais forte pourtant d'une implacable cohérence