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Né en 1928 à Sighet en Transylvanie, Elie Wiesel était adolescent lorsqu'en 1944 il fut déporté avec sa famille à Auschwitz puis à Birkenau. La Nuit est le récit de ses souvenirs : la séparation d'avec sa mère et sa petite sœur qu'il ne reverra plus jamais, le camp où avec son père il partage la faim, le froid, les coups, les tortures... et la honte de perdre sa dignité d'homme quand il ne répondra pas à son père mourant.

Now in paperback, this poignant, funny, and brutally honest memoir by one of the world's most beloved storytellers – the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book Thief – tells the story of his family's adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs. A charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of dogs, family. There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us... It's love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things.

An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller. From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life, always encouraging them to be true to themselves. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010—and then her older brother, Clyde, five years later—she felt deeply alone; the only people who truly knew her were gone.

A Notable Book of the Year: Time – New Yorker – Pitchfork – LitHub – and New York Times Book Review. From New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City. "The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"–Emily Gould, The Cut. In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise.

Icône de la scène punk-rock, Didier Wampas fonde le groupe des Wampas en 1983. Pendant 30 ans, il partage sa vie entre la scène et son travail d'électricien à la RATP. Rebelle, proche de son public et légèrement déjanté, Didier Wampas se lance dans une carrière solo à partir de 2013. Il revient pour la première fois dans un livre sur sa vie, les coulisses de la création de ses morceaux, les icônes de la musique qu'il a côtoyé et sur la scène punk-rock depuis ses débuts.

En 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy a dix-huit ans. À la recherche d'un boulot d'été, il soumet sa candidature au bureau du ministère des Terres et Forêts pour un emploi comme garde-feu, comptant bien se retrouver dans une tour d'observation. Mais, comme il a quelques rudiments d'anglais, il est plutôt affecté à Waswanipi, dans un dépôt de matériel destiné à combattre les feux de forêt.

New York Times Bestseller – Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature – Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction – Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times. "A triumph. Fedarko doesn't describe awe; he induces it." – The New York Times Book Review – "Passionate...memorable...life-affirming." – The Wall Street Journal.

En France, on s'avoue rarement alcoolique. Quand on boit on est festif, irrévérent, drôle. Français. Un jour pourtant, Claire arrête de boire. Elle prend conscience que cet alcool, prétendument bon-vivant, est en vérité en train de ronger sa vie. Il noyaute ses journées, altère sa pensée, abîme ses relations. En retraçant son passé, elle découvre à quel point l'alcool a été le pilier de sa construction et de son personnage de femme. Sans alcool est le journal de son sevrage. Un chemin tortueux, parfois rocambolesque, à travers son intimité.

The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own.

An incisive and insightful celebrity memoir by Jaleel White, one of the most beloved icons of nineties pop culture and TV history, renowned for his portrayal of Steven Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters. At the tender age of twelve, Jaleel White auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel, the socially inept genius who was in love with his next-door neighbor, Laura. Though Steven Urkel was intended to be in only one episode, Jaleel's indelible performance as a child actor catapulted Urkel into the pantheon of American pop culture. But success can cost as much as it pays.