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A captivating and inspiring memoir by Canada's first man in space. On October 5th, 1984, Marc Garneau made history. Blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle and reaching a speed of 28,000 km/hour, he became the first Canadian to fly to outer space. That monumental achievement, now etched in Canadian history as one of our country's proudest moments, inspired a nation and ushered in a new era of space exploration for Canada. Twenty-four years later, Garneau made history yet again, becoming the first astronaut to be elected as a Member of Parliament.

Alors qu'elle souffre depuis plusieurs années des séquelles d'une commotion cérébrale, Sarah Polley rencontre un médecin spécialiste qui lui recommande, pour guérir, de pratiquer les activités mêmes qui déclenchent ses symptômes. « Si vous ne devez retenir qu'une seule chose de notre entretien, c'est ceci : il faut courir vers le danger. » Ce conseil, la comédienne et réalisatrice en fera rapidement un mantra qui la guidera dans toutes les sphères de sa vie, au point de l'inciter à plonger dans son histoire personnelle pour l'examiner sous un nouveau jour.

A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place. "Writing this memoir is a betrayal." So begins this electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he'd rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.

Après De préférence la nuit, Stanley Péan revient avec autant d'entrain, de savoir historique et de ferveur pour défendre et illustrer le monde du jazz. Cette fois-ci, rien que des femmes : une galerie de seize musiciennes qui ont connu la gloire avant de tomber dans l'oubli, autant de destins d'artistes qui ont été injustement négligées, mésestimées, cancellées par les historiens patentés du jazz, des hommes en grande majorité.

A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture. Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of "best" friendships and their growing sexuality. Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Emelia returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record... Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career.

In the long-awaited sequel to Always Pack a Candle, intrepid public health nurse Marion Crook juggles marriage, children, and a vast array of patients and cases in rural British Columbia in the 1970s. It has been over a decade since Marion Crook arrived in the Cariboo for her first job out of nursing school. The vast rural territory that once left her awestruck now feels like home, as she embraces life on the ranch with her husband, Carl, three young children, and numerous farm animals. But things are far from idyllic.

Dr. Bonnie Henry has been called "one of the most effective public health figures in the world" by The New York Times. She has been called "a calming voice in a sea of coronavirus madness," and "our hero" in national newspapers. But in the waning days of 2019, when the first rumours of a strange respiratory ailment in Wuhan, China began to trickle into her office in British Columbia, these accolades lay in a barely imaginable future. Only weeks later, the whole world would look back on the previous year with the kind of nostalgia usually reserved for the distant past.

Déjà toute petite, Emily Carr désirait devenir artiste, afin de pouvoir capturer et reproduire le mystère et la beauté des forêts anciennes de la Colombie-Britannique. Ce rêve l'a amenée à voyager, à vivre chez les autochtones et à explorer la forêt humide de la côte ouest. De nos jours, Emily Carr est considérée comme l'une des plus grandes peintres canadiennes. Cette biographie vous invite à la suivre dans ses aventures.

The companion to Chelsea Clinton & Alexandra Boiger's #1 New York Times bestseller, She Persisted. Perfect for tiny activists, mini feminists and little kids who are ready to take on the world. Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for what's right, even when they've been told to be quiet. Whether in science, the arts, sports or activism, women and girls throughout history have been determined to break barriers and change the status quo.