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When my ghost sings: A memoir of stroke, recovery, and transformation
Par Tara Fraser. 2023
A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is…
thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes-the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship. She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhoodDeux grandes dames: Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé à la Cour suprême du Canada (Biographies et mémoires)
Par Constance Backhouse. 2021
Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L'une représentait le…
Canada anglais, l'autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l'establishment juridiqueOn my own: the journey continues
Par Sally Alexander. 1997
After going blind at twenty-four as told in Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness (RC 40247 and BR 10223), Alexander…
describes also losing part of her hearing. Determined to be independent and self-sufficient, she recounts her fears and difficulties adjusting to a new apartment, finding a job, and meeting the right man. For grades 6-9 and older readersMichelle Obama, first lady
Par Liza Mundy. 2009
"L'histoire de la nouvelle First lady est celle d'une battante, remportant toutes les victoires sur ses origines. Michelle Robinson est…
issue d'une famille afro-américaine modeste installée à Chicago à la suite de la Dépression des années 30. Fille d'un père employé municipal et d'une mère femme au foyer, elle a grandi dans un quartier en proie à la ségrégation raciale. Reçue à la prestigieuse université de Princeton, elle a ensuite fait des études de droit à Harvard. Devenue, à force de travail, une brillante avocate d'affaires, elle a toujours voulu mettre ses compétences au service du plus grand nombre. C'est dans le premier cabinet d'avocats où elle a travaillé qu'elle a rencontré Barack Obama, venu faire un stage d'été. Ils sont mariés depuis 1992. Femme moderne, mère de famille attentive pour leurs deux filles Malia et Sasha, conseillère précieuse et moteur de son mari, elle le stimule, l'accompagne, n'hésite pas à le critiquer et à exister à ses côtés [...]". -- 4e de couvThe view from down here: Life as a young disabled woman
Par Lucy Webster. 2023
Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of…
expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules? This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection; the struggles, the joys, and the unseen realities of being a disabled woman. From navigating the worlds of education and work, dating and friendship; to managing care; contemplating motherhood; and learning to accept your body against a pervasive narrative that it is somehow broken and in need of fixing, The View from Down Here shines a light on what it really means to move through the world as a disabled woman. © 2023 Lucy Webster © 2023 DK AudioLouis Braille: the boy who invented books for the blind
Par Margaret Davidson. 1971
Taking hold: my journey into blindness
Par Sally Alexander. 1994
Sally Hobart was twenty-four when she began to lose her sight. At first she saw a thin black line that…
disappeared after a few minutes. But the line returned, and Sally realized after visits to many specialists that she would soon be totally blind. She tells of her frustrations, the loss of her fiance, the support of family and friends, and the help she got in adjusting to her new world. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 1994Dare to dream: the Rose Resnick story
Par Rose Resnick. 1988
Resnick lost her sight in 1918 at the age of two--the result of measles. As a child growing up in…
New York City she attended public schools. Her musical talent was discovered at the New York Association for the Blind. Her love of music has aided her throughout her life in her careers in education and social work, and has brought her many awardsThe ledge between the streams
Par Ved Mehta. 1984
Continues the author's life as a blind boy growing up in India during the 1940s. He recalls his loving and…
cultured family, the political violence of partition, and his attempts, fired by a thirst for learning, to overcome his handicap. Sequel to "Vedi."Losing music: A memoir
Par John Cotter. 2023
"I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp." John…
Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. At a stage of life when he expected to be emerging fully into adulthood, teaching, and writing books, he found himself "crippled and dependent" and in search of care. When he is first told that his debilitating condition is likely Ménière's Disease but that there is "no reliable test, no reliable treatment, and no consensus on its cause," Cotter quits teaching, stops writing, and commences upon a series of visits to doctors and treatment centers. What begins as an expedition across the country navigating and battling the limits of the American health-care system quickly becomes something else entirely: a journey through hopelessness and adaptation to disability. Along the way, hearing aids become inseparable from his sense of self, as does a growing understanding that the possibilities in his life are narrowing rather than expanding. And with this understanding of his own travails comes reflection on age-old questions around fate, coincidence, and making meaning of inexplicable misfortune. A devastating memoir that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science, Losing Music is refreshingly vulnerable and singularly illuminating?a story that will make listeners see their own lives anewCanadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case
Par Kent Roach. 2019
In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan…
farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case including misunderstandings over crime when Treaty 6 was negotiated, the 1885 hanging of eight Indigenous men at Fort Battleford, the role of the RCMP, prior litigation over Indigenous underrepresentation on juries, and the racially charged debate about defence of property and rural crime. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach looks at jury selection, the controversial “hang fire” defence, how the credibility and beliefs of Indigenous witnesses were challenged on the stand, and Gerald Stanley's implicit appeals to self-defence and defence of property, as well as the decision not to appeal the acquittal. Concluding his study, Roach asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial call to “do better” is possible, given similar cases since Stanley's, the difficulty of reforming the jury or the RCMP, and the combination of Indigenous underrepresentation on juries and overrepresentation among those victimized and accused of crimes. Informed and timely, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice is a searing account of one case that provides valuable insight into criminal justice, racism, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.Racial emotion at work: Dismantling discrimination and building racial justice in the workplace
Par Tristin Green. 2023
This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations…
and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the taskLoger à la même adresse (Réparation)
Par Gabrielle Anctil. 2023
Dans la perspective de la crise écologique, ainsi que des crises sociales multiples liées à l'appauvrissement de la classe moyenne,…
à l'inversion de la pyramide d'âge, à l'isolement des personnes vivant seules, on ne résoudra pas la crise du logement uniquement en bâtissant de nouvelles habitations, parce que l'enjeu est plus complexe qu'un simple manque de pieds carrés. Il faut l'aborder aussi en imaginant un mieux-vivre ensemble, une façon d'enrichir notre mode de vie par la force du groupe, par l'incroyable richesse de la vie en communautéRecollections, wrecks, and reflections: my journey from daylight through darkness and beyond
Par Edward Legge. 2022
A revealing chronicle of how a West Virginia youth managed to navigate his way through obstacles posed by life with…
limited vision and eventual total blindness to become successful, both personally and professionally. Describes the importance of a supportive family and special services in his journey, and relates how he transformed from an introvert to an extrovert, thanks to success in higher education and athletics. AdultLoaded: a disarming history of the Second Amendment (City Lights Open Media Ser.)
Par Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2018
A celebration of family: stories of parents with disabilities
Par Dave Matheis. 2021
Collected by the Louisville Center for Accessible Living, these 30 short narratives are personal accounts of the triumphs and challenges…
of parenthood by people who happen to have a disability, whether sensory, physical, or cognitive. Some chapters include comments from spouses or children. Introduction by Jason Jones. 2021 AdultVision in the dark: how living in the dark taught me to see the light
Par Andre Watson. 2017
30 years ago, Andre Watson's life changed drastically. Growing up, he was told to "shoot for the stars" and that…
he could be whatever he wanted to be. He was told that he could become a distinguished doctor, an amazing athlete, a profound professor, a fantastic father, a limitless leader, a sensational success. "Just believe it and then you will see it," his encouragers cheered, "You can be whatever you want to be." But what happens when you literally can't See it? At the age of 9 years old, Andre was diagnosed as legally blind. After over a dozen surgeries to save his eyesight, his family and he had to face the inevitable. Andre was going blind. But the story does not stop there. Actually, that is precisely where this interesting and inspiring saga begins. Vision in The Dark is Dr. Andre Watson's story of becoming a Blind Visionary. He is blind, yet he decided to use his life to develop new ways of seeing himself, others, and the world. Andre braved and overcame countless odds. Today he is a licensed clinical psychologist, a world traveler, an award-winning athlete, and a beloved husband, father, and friend. He offers a challenging and awe-inspiring glimpse of life through the eyes of a blind man. With refreshing clarity, unmistakable charm and humor that will make you laugh out loud, Vision in The Dark redefines for us all what it really means to be able to see. 2016. AdultOut of denial: piecing together a fractured life
Par Robert K Anderson. 2008
The memoir of a closeted gay married man who grew up in the conformist Fifties and got stuck in a…
maze of denial. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Strong languageThe criminal law handbook: know your rights, survive the system
Par Paul Bergman. 2000
"The criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights. This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of…
criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. It also provides critical information on working with a lawyer. In plain English, The Criminal Law Handbook covers: search and seizure; arrest, booking, and bail; Miranda rights; arraignment; plea bargains; trials; sentencing; common defenses; working with defense attorneys; constitutional rights; juvenile court; legal terms and definitions; appeals; public defenders; victims' rights. The 17th edition is completely updated, covering the latest in criminal law, including U.S. Supreme Court cases." -- Provided by publisherSupreme power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Par Jeff Shesol. 2010
Beginning in 1935, a series of devastating decisions by a conservative majority Supreme Court left much of FDR's agenda in…
ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession and democracy itself stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices and to "pack" the new seats with people who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution. Adult