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Les Filles du Roy pionnières des seigneuries de Varennes et de Verchères
Par Société d'histoire des Filles du Roy. 2022
Qui sont ces jeunes femmes majoritairement pauvres et orphelines qui, entre 1663 et 1673, ont quitté la France et bravé…
la mer sur de frêles navires à voile pour venir se faire une vie dans cette lointaine Nouvelle-France ? Parmi ces femmes, certaines ont osé remonter le fleuve pour venir s'établir un jour à Varennes et à Verchères. Arrivées dans le cadre du seul programme mis en place par la France pour peuple le Canada, elles font ici l'objet d'un recueil qui expose ce qu'a été leur vie en ce pays. Ce livre lève le voile sur ces "mères de la nation", femmes invisibles dans l'histoire, qui, avec d'autres pionnières, ont contribué à peuple et à développer l'Amérique françaiseTon kaki qui t'adore: lettres d'amour en temps de guerre
Par Denys Lessard. 2008
"Jeannine et Gérard se rencontrent en mars 1942. Elle a 19 ans, lui 21. Deux mois plus tard, ils échangent…
leur premier baiser. Mais en août, la conscription sépare nos deux amoureux. Gérard est enrôlé dans l'armée canadienne, où il restera trois ans sans jamais être envoyé au front. Ils s'écriront plus d'un millier de lettres (une par jour), entretenant une relation amoureuse passionnée qui trouvera son accomplissement à leur mariage à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, en juillet 1945. Les quelques lettres présentées ici, tirées de cette monumentale correspondance, témoignent de la ferveur de cet amour de jeunesse, des difficultés soulevées par l'absence et l'éloignement, traçant un portrait touchant de cette génération d'amoureux contrariés par la guerre, mais animés par l'espoir, la foi et le désir. [...]" -- 4e de couvWhen 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 selfhoodPlaisirs partagés
Par Francine Ruel. 2002
Moi, mes souliers (Bibliothèque québécoise)
Par Félix Leclerc. 1994
Félix raconte ses divers métiers (embaumeur, annonceur radiophonique, acteur, chansonnier) et son voyage en Europe (France, Espagne) au début des…
années 1950. Le sous-titre de l'édition originale (1955) était explicite: "Journal d'un lièvre à deux pattes". Cinq pages de chronologie. [SDMSur mon chemin j'ai rencontré: Journal 1951-1959
Par Jean-Paul Filion. 2008
"Au Québec, on connait tous la chanson La parenté est arrivée pour l'avoir entendue et réentendue à l'occasion du temps…
des Fêtes. On connait moins l'auteur qui l'a écrite et lancée en 1958... Peintre, poète, chansonnier, violoneux et romancier, [...] Jean-Paul Filion a tenu avec grande passion, entre 1951 et 1959, un journal intime dont on ouvre aujourd'hui les pages toujours aussi frissonnantes de vie, porteuse de lumières et de ravissements inattendus. [...] 4e de couvBrown boy: A memoir
Par Omer Aziz. 2023
An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that "cuts to the bone" ( Publishers Weekly , starred…
review) told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn't have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy , Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to beSaveurs vagabondes: une année dans le monde
Par Frances Mayes. 2006
"L'Espagne, le Portugal, le Maroc, puis la Bourgogne, les îles Britanniques, l'Ecosse, et de nouveau l'Italie, la Grèce. Une année…
de vagabondages au cours de laquelle Frances Mayes s'accorde le temps de découvrir le métissage des cultures en Andalousie, la cuisine du Portugal, les jardins à l'anglaise, d'effectuer un pèlerinage littéraire dans le pays de Colette en Bourgogne, d'errer au hasard des ruelles de Fez. Partout elle s'immerge, se mêle, flâne au marché, pousse les portes des cuisines de restaurant, entraînant le lecteur avec elle. Elle met ses pas dans ceux d'Homère, se repose de la mer Egée à l'ombre des oliviers en Crète, mais c'est à Mantoue qu'elle rêve de s'installer, en attendant que l'appel de la route la reprenne. Le livre savoureux d'une épicurienne." -- 4e de couvOlivar Asselin, le pamphlétaire maudit
Par Claude-Henri Grignon. 2007
"[...] La biographie de Grignon sur Asselin est suivie de la correspondance que se sont échangée les deux grand pamphlétaires…
et fourmille de fascinantes informations sur la vie sociale, politique et culturelle du Québec. Un autre Grignon occulté par son oeuvre télévisuelle apparaît et nous séduit. [...]" -- 4e de couvJ'attends de toi une œuvre de bataille: correspondance 1942-1996
Par Pierre Vadeboncoeur. 2021
Pierre Vadeboncoeur et Pierre Elliott Trudeau ont été d'inséparables copains de l'école primaire jusqu'à leur collaboration à Cité libre et…
leur lutte contre le duplessisme. Cette bonne entente a duré jusqu'à ce qu'ils s'affrontent dans les années 1960 sur l'avenir de la nation québécoise. Pourtant, l'affection qui les liait ne s'est jamais démentie, la véritable amitié s'éprouvant bien plus dans la possibilité d'un désaccord que dans le confort des affinités faciles. La correspondance rassemblée dans ce livre, dont plusieurs lettres couvrent la période des années 1940 et 1950, donne à voir une grande amitié tout en documentant un pan entier de notre histoireLe voyage en pot: chroniques 1998-1999 (Collection Papiers Colles)
Par Louis Hamelin. 1999
"Des textes qui se promènent entre la Gaspésie et la Mauricie, lieux des souvenirs d'enfance et de la vérité première,…
et entre Montréal et Paris, là où, parfois brutalement, j'ai été éjecté de l'univers". C'est ce que partage avec son lecteur l'auteur de Betsi LarousseLa petite amie imaginaire: récit
Par John Irving. 1996
Mémoires embryonnaires dans lesquels l'auteur parle de ses amitiés de collège, de ses débuts de lutteur, de sa carrière d'entraîneur.…
Il propose aussi quelques commentaires de lectures récentes (R. Davies, G. Grass, etc.), quelques propos sur l'écriture mise en parallèle avec la lutte, etc. [SDMMon évasion: autobiographie
Par Benoîte Groult. 2008
"Tant que je saurai où demeurer, tant que je serai accueillie en arrivant par le sourire de mes jardins, tant…
que j'éprouverai si fort le goût de revenir et non celui de fuir ; tant que la terre n'aura perdu aucune de ses couleurs, ni la mer de sa chère amertume, ni les hommes de leur étrangeté, ni l'écriture et la lecture de leurs attraits ; tant que mes enfants me ramèneront aux racines de l'amour, la mort ne pourra que se taire. Moi vivante, elle ne parviendra pas à m'atteindre". -- 4e de couvOnce 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.My name is barbra
Par Barbra Streisand. 2023
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television PLEASE NOTE The audiobook edition is read by…
Barbra Streisand. Features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name is Barbra audiobook. Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra , she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl ; her direction of The Prince of Tides ; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin. No entertainer’s memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand’s, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fansClass: A memoir
Par Stephanie Land. 2023
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." — People "Land is not just exploring her own story,…
but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." — The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid . When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all oddsWhat the taliban told me
Par Ian Fritz. 2023
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz…
joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a brilliant, intimate coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in AfghanistanLiving the beatles legend: The untold story of mal evans
Par Kenneth Womack. 2023
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved friend, confidant, and roadie. Malcolm Evans, the Beatles' long-time roadie,…
personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band's inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles' story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved "boys." He was there for the whole of the group's remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the famous Let It Be rooftop concert. Leaving a stable job as telecommunications engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start—older, married with children, and without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making himself indispensable. In the years after the Beatles' disbandment, Big Mal continued in their employ as each embarked upon solo careers. By 1974, he was determined to make his name as a songwriter and record producer, setting off for a new life in Los Angeles, where he penned his memoirs. But in January 1976, on the verge of sharing his book with the world, Evans's story came to a tragic end during a domestic standoff with the LAPD. For Beatles devotes, Mal's life and untimely death have always been shrouded in mystery. For decades, his diaries, manuscripts, and vast collection of memorabilia was missing, seemingly lost forever...until now. Working with full access to Mal's unpublished archives and having conducted hundreds of new interviews, Beatles' scholar and author Kenneth Womack affords readers with a full telling of Mal's unknown story at the heart of the Beatles' legend. Living the Beatles' Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans is the missing puzzle piece in the Fab Four's incredible storyThe best minds: A story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions
Par Jonathan Rosen. 2023
"Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph." — The New York Times "Immensely emotional and unforgettably…
haunting." — Wall Street Journal One of The Washington Post ’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still in the hospital when he learned he'd been accepted to Yale Law School, and still battling delusions when he decided to trade his halfway house for the top law school in the country. He not only managed to graduate, but after his extraordinary story was featured in The New York Times , sold a memoir for a large sum. Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widelyHijab butch blues: A memoir
Par Lamya H. 2023
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in a…
memoir that’s "as funny as it is original" ( The New York Times ). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart."—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE • A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya? From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant. This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own life