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Le grand Charles
Par Stéphane Hoffmann. 1998
Georges Brassens (Littérature étrangère)
Par Louis-Jean Calvet. 1991
L'énigmatique Céline Dion: essai
Par Denise Bombardier. 2009
"Céline Dion a des millions de fans à travers le monde, elle a vendu plus de 200 millions de disques,…
et pourtant elle reste mystérieuse. C'est ce mystère qu'a entrepris de percer Denise Bombardier, l'une des rares personnes à avoir gagné une proximité avec la star. Auteure de l'une de ses chansons, elle l'a accompagnée pendant près d'un an dans sa tournée mondiale : "Je l'ai vue triompher dans les stades, perdre la voix en Australie, j'ai partagé des moments intimes avec elle et sa famille, je l'ai observée avec les grands de ce monde, toujours entourée et pourtant si seule". Dans les avions, les hôtels, les loges de sa tournée triomphale, Denise Bombardier a recueilli les confidences de Céline Dion, parlé avec sa mère, son mari, son fils, ses nombreux frères et soeurs... Avec finesse et recul, elle nous livre ici son regard sur cette face inconnue de la star, à qui s'applique si bien la phrase de Mme de Staël : "La gloire est le deuil éclatant du bonheur". -- 4e de couvNothing is impossible: reflections on a new life
Par Christopher Reeve. 2002
Christopher Reeve, quadriplegic since an equestrian accident in 1995, contemplates what a successful life comprises. Offers his thoughts on parenting,…
religion, advocacy, faith, recovery, and keeping a sense of humor along with hope. 2002The question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex, and the meaning of life
Par Armand M Nicholi. 2002
Although confirmed atheist Freud (1856-1939) and converted Christian Lewis (1898-1963) did not debate each other while alive, the author (himself…
a psychiatrist and professor) examines their beliefs and behaviors through their published work, autobiographies, and private correspondence to determine how they arrived at conflicting conclusions. Some descriptions of sex. 2002The road less traveled: a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth
Par M. Scott Peck. 1978
Stevie Wonder
Par Tenley Williams. 2002
Biography of the composer, pianist, and singer whose musical talent was evident from childhood. Discusses Stevie Wonder's recording success despite…
being "blind, black, and broke" when he started. For grades 6-9. 2002What time is it? you mean now?: advice for life from the Zennest master of them all
Par Yogi Berra. 2002
Retired baseball champion expands on the advice he first offered in When You Come to a Fork in the Road,…
Take It! (RC 52360, BR 13542) by using anecdotes relating to baseball. Suggests cultivating a positive attitude, exercising, setting goals, and taking advantage of opportunities. 2002The operagoer's guide: one hundred stories and commentaries
Par M. Owen Lee. 2001
Battling the inner dummy: the craziness of apparently normal people
Par David L Weiner. 1999
Employing imaginary conversations with Sigmund Freud, the author (assisted by a psychiatrist) explains why people behave in an irrational and…
compulsive manner at times--even against their own better judgment. Asserts that everyone has some type of personality disorder, managed or concealed with different degrees of success. Examines possible treatments. Some strong language. 1999Shake, rattle & roll: the founders of rock & roll
Par Holly George-Warren. 2001
Biographical sketches of fourteen rock and roll stars: Bill Haley, Fats Domino, LaVern Baker, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley,…
Bo Diddley, Carl Perkins, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Wanda Jackson, Ritchie Valens, and James Brown. Uncontracted braille. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2001Du bonheur d'être fragile (Essais Ser. #Vol. 6128979)
Par Jean-Claude Liaudet. 2007
"Aujourd'hui, on prétend que le bonheur est un droit. La meilleure méthode pour y accéder est la "maîtrise" : de…
soi, des autres, des événements, de l'inconnu, à l'image des modèles issus de l'économie et du management d'entreprise qui ont envahi notre champ de conscience. Pour être heureux, il faudrait dominer ses sentiments et ses désirs, au risque de renier cette part fondamentale de nous-mêmes : la fragilité. Reconnaître et admettre sa vulnérabilité est pourtant au coeur de la construction de notre identité. C'est savoir s'accepter tel que l'on est - un être libre et non une mécanique qui obéit à des règles - et évoluer en accord avec soi." -- 4e de couvElvis Presley
Par Bobbie Ann Mason. 2003
Award-winning novelist explores the mystique of America's first rock-and-roll superstar, Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Explains Presley's musical roots and his close…
family ties, asserting that the entertainer's achievement of the American dream was his undoing. 2003What should I do with my life?
Par Po Bronson. 2002
Bronson presents about fifty accounts of individuals who "dared to be honest with themselves" and risk major change in this…
book that grew out of a transition point in his own life. Traveling across the U.S., he collected material from ordinary people of all ages and professions. Bestseller. 2002A contributor to FOX News and the author of The Female Stress Syndrome Survival Guide (DB 51828) and other books…
offers solutions for coping with natural disasters and personal traumas. Also suggests methods for helping children. 2002Le jazz, orphelin de l'Afrique
Par René Langel. 2001
L'auteur, à travers le récit dramatique de la déportation des peuples noirs d'Afrique, cherche à expliquer comment les musiques comme…
le jazz et ses variantes ne peuvent se réclamer de quelque référence originelle à l'Afrique. Cette réflexion à contre-courant repose sur le fait que ces peuples appartenaient rarement à une même ethnie et ont donc créé de toutes pièces une musique originale en Amérique: on y explique les mécanismes ayant donné naissance au ragtime, negro spiritual, gospel, blues et jazz. [SDMChants de consolation: à celui qui va partir-- et pour ceux qui restent
Par Lise Thouin. 2007
"Chants de consolation n'est pas un livre ordinaire dont on tourne les pages rapidement. C'est un texte pour aider les…
personnes qui se préparent à mourir et celles qui doivent apprendre à leur survivre ; un texte à vivre petit à petit et infiniment. Avec lui, on ressentira l'action du temps qui s'étire et se dilate. N'est-ce pas justement ce temps élargi jusqu'à l'infini qu'expérimente la personne que l'on aime et qui se prépare à entreprendre le plus grand des voyages ? Si la mort ne vient pas, si elle tarde, comme c'est souvent le cas pour les grandes maladies, on pourra recommencer sa lecture doucement. Une fois de plus, on apprivoisera encore mieux les phrases du texte, on leur permettra de devenir siennes et d'accomplir en soi - et pour le malade - leur travail d'amour et d'espérance". -- 4e de couvA memoir of my former self: A life in writing
Par Hilary Mantel. 2023
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel…
contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a generative fluid," she explains. "If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay "Royal Bodies," on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through "messages from people I used to be." Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writersNirvana: The amplifications
Par Michael Azerrad. 2023
An audiobook reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical…
and cultural contexts in the '90s. It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael Azerrad published what stands as the definitive biography of this revolutionary band and its star-crossed leader Kurt Cobain. Written with the band's complete cooperation—the only book to feature interviews with Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl—it became a massive bestseller and, in the words of Cobain, "the best rock book I've ever read." Seven months after the book's original publication, Cobain was dead by suicide, making Come as You Are the only book-length record of the inner life and creative mind of one the most significant songwriters and musicians in rock history—a haunting and haunted artist whose influence continues powerfully to the present day. In this new work, a compelling narrative formed out of the annotations from The Amplified Come as You Are, Azerrad deepens our understanding of this legendary band. He solves former mysteries, reinterprets the key players and the time, investigates depression and other psychic traumas, debunks myths and legends, and offers celebrations of that pivotal moment in the mid '90s as he searches for the answer to the question: Why was this music so extraordinarily powerful? Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, this is essential not just for Nirvana fans but for anyone interested in the cultural legacy of the '90s. [Note: This is a unique narrative work created from the essay-like annotations for The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, excluding the underlying 1993 bookFrida, a biography of Frida Kahlo: A Biography Of Frida Kahlo
Par Hayden Herrera. 1983
Portrait of the twentieth-century Mexican artist often identified with the surrealists. Discusses the bus accident that brought her chronic pain…
from age eighteen until her death at forty-seven. Covers her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. Explores the relation between her paintings and her physical and mental anguish. Some strong language. 1983