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Une fillette miraculée, sa visite au ciel et son incroyable guérison. « On sait que tout commence par un moment de paix et de prière d’un cœur à un autre, mais on ne sait pas vraiment jusqu’où ça va. » Christy et Kevin sont les heureux parents de trois fillettes dont l’une d’elles est malade. La petite Annabel souffre d’une maladie digestive rare et incurable; ses maux de ventre la conduisent régulièrement à l’hôpital. Le spectre de la mort hante cette famille pendant de nombreuses années.

C’est pas un film. C’est pas une série télé. C’est la vérité pure, la vérité dure. C’est la vie. Ex-gardienne de prison, Marie-Renée Côté raconte sans détour ce qui fut son quotidien pendant 20 ans. Ses mots incisifs, son ton mordant, mais aussi son grand sens de l’humour, brasseront les âmes sensibles, les bien-pensants et les autruches chroniques. Au fil de la lecture, un festival d’émotions : on étouffe, on verse une larme, on lâche un juron, on se fâche, on s’esclaffe...

Né au Congo belge, Patrick Beauduin a grandi dans un monde où le petit blanc faisait ce qu’il voulait du petit noir. C’est le début d’une vie construite pour faire de lui un gamin aux poings frustrés, un ado au mot méchant, un publicitaire au verbe vendeur… et éventuellement, un patron aux gestes carrés, vindicatifs et arrogants. Un dur de dur. Un tyran? Puis, au dernier virage d’une carrière jalonnée de trophées, de reconnaissances flatteuses et autres flagorneries douteuses, l’homme se prend une spectaculaire claque sur la gueule. C’est le début d’un chemin de croix indispensable.

Quand on gagne son pain à tenir la main des autres lorsqu’ils traversent des instants d’une rare intensité, comment fait-on pour composer avec les grands défis humains que la vie pose sur son propre chemin? «Danser avec la vie», facile à dire, pas si facile à faire… Rémi Tremblay a subi un fracassant face à face avec sa souffrance au cours de la dernière année: le premier de ses trois garçons, aux prises avec un grave problème de dépendance, a encore rechuté.

It was the summer of ’43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on this nostalgic look back on the joys, frustrations and observations of growing up and discovering where he belongs. Excerpt from Eldon Lee's foreword: “This book by Alan Fry is probably the best book ever written on ranch life in the Cariboo. His account of everyday events is so perceptive and so true to the mark that all we country types yearn to re-experience its joys, and its miseries.

A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century. At a time when well-bred women wore tight corsets and entertained each other at tea, Nellie Cashman (1845–1925) was trekking for hundreds of miles through blizzard conditions to deliver food and supplies to trapped miners in northern BC. An Irish immigrant, Cashman travelled from Boston to San Francisco in search of opportunity.

The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life in a story that combines the lure of gold, the thrill of wilderness exploration and comic tales about life on a southern Alberta ranch. With access to Patterson’s diaries, letters and photographs, as well as numerous interviews with Patterson and members of his family, Finch recounts the adventurous life of this well-loved outdoorsman, writer and rancher and sheds light on some of what Patterson left unsaid. PRAISE FOR R.M.

Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America and set out on his first expedition.

Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in which the Earth governs the events in our lives. Haig-Brown observes salmon, blue grouse, blacktail deer and robins, with a soft eye and gentle appreciation for their trials. He discerns how the weather interacts with the land, and how the land interacts with our attempts at civilization.

Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbringing in England, Frances found herself boarding the Imperial Eagle in 1786 to set sail on an adventurous, round-the-world voyage with her husband, Captain Charles William Barkley.