Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It's a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life - going through the motions at college and stacking supermarket shelves part-time, whilst fighting a battle with the ever-darkening thoughts in his head. He has his pet Labrador for companionship and his best friend-turned-mentor, a pseudo-intellectual who works as a greenskeeper at the local municipal golf course, both of which help keep the worst of...

"In this searing and seriously funny memoir Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate it. Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, she was adopted as a toddler by a wounded 1950s family who had no idea how to handle the tangled complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, mom,...

Livre s'insérant dans une collection documentaire amusante voulant initier le lecteur à un personnage historique, tout en agrémentant la leçon de commentaires humoristiques situés dans des phylactères. Une collection qui fait écho à la très populaire série documentaire "Savais-tu?" publiée chez le même éditeur. Les textes documentaires sont réduits à l'essentiel et ils jalonnent le bas des pages, principalement illustrées de mises...

An inspirational and heartrending biography of Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012.

Kim Phuc Phan Thi reveals the horror she experienced during the napalm bombing in the Vietnam War, which destroyed her world and almost took her life. This story tells of her journey from hellish fire to healing.

"An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10,...

"A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James--ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America. When Jennifer Lunden became chronically ill after moving from Canada to Maine, her case was a medical mystery. Just 21, unable...