It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and...
Personal Memoirs
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Auteur:Jean-Yves, SoucySommaire: - Auteur:SHANNON, RobSommaire:
The advent of the town's Power House not only supplied electricity, but, wonder of wonders, ICE! Wheat farming, sheep mustering, learning to fly and coping with city ways are all recounted. Most striking of all is the theme of one...
- Auteur:Thompson, Reginald 'Dutch'Sommaire:
Reginald-better known as 'Dutch'-Thompson is a multi-faceted storyteller with unforgettable voices-those of Roy from Murray Harbour North, Adelaide from Bunbury, Gus from Chepstow, and countless others-to tell the stories of the Bygone...
- Auteur:Ross, StuartSommaire:
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and 'real' in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief...
- Auteur:Luongo, NicoleSommaire:
The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn’t believe in mental illness. A lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates explosively after the author begins a PhD at the University of Oxford...
- Auteur:Campbell, Nicola I.Sommaire:
If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British...
- Auteur:Graham, MonicaSommaire:
Monica Graham got her first inkling that her eighty-nine-year-old mother might not be able to continue living on her own when she coated chicken breasts with dishwashing liquid for dinner. It was an easy mistake—the yellow detergent...
- Auteur:Wangersky, RussellSommaire:
'Read him.' — George Elliott Clarke, author of I & I and George and Rue An award-winning author goes looking for the meaning of family and belonging on a glorious wild-goose-chase road trip across middle America Wangersky's great-...
- Auteur:Queyras, SinaSommaire:
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a...
- Auteur:Saint-Éloi, RodneySommaire:
Dans ce récit admirablement écrit, l'auteur rend hommage à sa mère, Bertha. Cette grande dame noire à l'énergie et à la générosité exemplaires, «amoureuse de l'amour», vient de mourir. Rodney, son fils aîné, raconte l...
- Auteur:Canning, GlenSommaire:
One of Indigo's Best Books of 2021 So FarRehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. But her life was derailed when she went to a friend's house for a sleepover...
- Auteur:Coulter Sanford, JanetSommaire:
In 1960, Roy Boutilier and twenty-five fellow Nova Scotians set sail for Tahiti aboard the newly built replica sailing ship Bounty. The ship stayed in Tahiti for almost a year while MGM Studios filmed the epic historical drama Mutiny on...
- Auteur:Al Kontar, HassanSommaire:
When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. He refused to return to Syria for compulsory military service and lived illegally before being deported to Malaysia...
- Auteur:Homel, DavidSommaire:
In 1970, when he was travelling in Spain as an 18-year-old, David Homel took a false step and ended up in pieces at the foot of a cliff. After a spell in a Spanish hospital, he was gathered up in the arms of a nearby US military...
- Auteur:Pronovost, AndréSommaire:
Kerouac & Presley starts in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in the International Year of the Woman, and from there it moves to Connecticut and the Abbey where one of Elvis's co-stars became...
- Auteur:Macfarlane, JulieSommaire:
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud — the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma...
- Auteur:Besner, NeilSommaire:
A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents — mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion — and the author. Over marriages and remarriages,...
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Auteur:Westover, TaraSommaire:Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance...
- Auteur:Acheson, AlisonSommaire:
Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away.From day one, Alison, Marty's spouse of...
- Auteur:Picard, MadeleineSommaire:
Dans les résidences pour personnes âgées ou dans l'espace public, on croise de nombreux aînés. Un regard rapide voit surtout ce qu'ils ont en commun : la vieillesse. Qui s'attarde à la richesse, à l'épaisseur et à la...
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