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This “fascinating autobiography” from an award-winning Asian-American female author “reads like a novel” (The Washington Post Book World). With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, she is often caught between the stifling traditions of the old world and the harsh challenges of the new.

Ce n'est pas la montagne que l'on conquiert, mais soi-même. Edmund Hillary—seule Québécoise ayant atteint le sommet du K2, Marie-Pier Desharnais est également la première femme des Amériques à avoir gravi le plus haut volcan de chacun des sept continents. Rien ne la prédestinait toutefois à devenir cette aventurière chevronnée. Ayant survécu par miracle au tragique tsunami de 2004, qui a touché l'Asie du Sud-Est, la jeune femme de 19 ans, victime d'un choc post-traumatique, trouve son salut dans l'étude de la gestion des catastrophes naturelles.

Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2019 - "Strong, powerful, and a valuable resource" - Fox Fisher. This is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s to the present day. Caspar Baldwin grew up in a time when being trans was not widely accepted by society, and though progress has been made since then, trans men are still underrepresented and misunderstood.

Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and a study of 150 previously published works. The paperback includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory.

A stolen sign, "No Jews Live Here," kept John Lorinc's Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust. From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the Holocaust, the 1956 Revolution, and finally exodus from a country that can't rid itself of its antisemitic demons. This braided saga centers on the writer's eccentric and defiant grandmother, a consummate survivor who, with her love of flashy jewelry and her vicious tongue, was best appreciated from afar.

Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black, before wowing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin, and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was at school, her undocumented immigrant parents were taken from their home, detained, and deported. Guerrero's life, which had been full of the support of a loving family, was turned upside down.

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds' lives that she eventually became one of the Warren Commission's most important witnesses. Mrs. Paine's Garage is the tragic story of a well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job that put him six floors above Dealey Plaza-into which, on November 22, he fired a rifle he'd kept hidden inside Mrs.

Il existe dans chaque famille des histoires qui laissent des traces pour des générations. Des micromythes qui ne sortent pas de la microcellule familiale. Qu’on entretient un peu comme... comme le feu d’un poêle à combustion lente : une bûche de temps en temps. Mononk Jules reconstitue le parcours de Jules Sioui, un Wendat qui a bousculé l’Histoire canadienne avant de sombrer dans un énorme trou de mémoire familial et historique.

À sa parution en 1989, cinq ans après la mort de Foucault, cette biographie fut internationalement saluée comme un événement. Explorant les archives inédites, Didier Éribon y restituait magistralement les mille visages, connus et inconnus, d'un philosophe dont toute l'œuvre peut se lire comme une insurrection contre la violence des normes et de la normalité. Captant la singularité d'un homme énigmatique et d'une pensée passionnément critique, il la réinscrivait dans ses différentes époques et dans ses multiples dimensions – philosophique, politique, sexuelle...

Un nouveau regard sur Le Pen : le sien. « Mes grands-parents ne savaient pas lire mais surent donner une vie décente à leurs enfants. Ma paysanne de mère était élégante et fière, mon père, patron pêcheur taciturne, avait navigué pendant la Grande guerre, à treize ans, mousse sur un cap-hornier, ces cathédrales de toile et de bois qui affrontaient les quarantièmes rugissants. À la maison, il n’y avait pas l’eau courante mais on aimait sa famille, son pays et Dieu – et la Bretagne aussi, avec ses îles, ses navires. L’instituteur et le curé nous apprenaient à les chanter ensemble.