Author: John Carreyrou
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Company
Language: English

New York Times best seller. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech startup company, founded by Elizabeth Holmes — now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor — by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end.

ISBN: 9781524731656
Price: 27.19$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: John Carreyrou
Publisher: Larousse
Language: French

Bad Blood raconte l'histoire captivante du plus gros scandale industriel depuis Enron. En 2015, la fondatrice de Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, promettait de révolutionner le secteur médical, grâce à une machine qui permettrait de réaliser des analyses de sang plus facilement et plus rapidement. Theranos était évaluée à 9 milliards de dollars lors de son ultime levée de fonds, à l'issue de laquelle Holmes elle-même pesait quelque 4,5 milliards de dollars. Un seul petit détail venait assombrir le tableau : la technologie Theranos ne fonctionnait pas...

ISBN: 9782035969095
Price: 25.99$ (CAD) (Electronic version only)

Author: Michel Roy
Publisher: Libre expression
Language: French

Patrick Roy a tout d'un guerrier : la combativité, le courage et la fierté. Son indomptable désir de gagner n'a d'égal que sa passion et son intelligence du jeu. Il a acquis très tôt la dimension d'un héros mythique, soumis à de nombreuses épreuves déchirantes, dont son départ de Montréal. Le guerrier raconte, à la manière d'un roman, le cheminement hors du commun de celui que certains considèrent comme le plus grand gardien de but de l'histoire du hockey.

ISBN: 9782764810668
Price: 34.95$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Mick Foley
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Language: English

The #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography gives an inside look into the reckless and vengeful life of a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame inductee.

In the rich history of the WWE, no superstar has been more deranged or maniacal than Mankind, one of three personalities (along with Dude Love and Cactus Jack) of the unstable Mick Foley.

From the very beginning, Mankind loved pain. From his outcast days growing up, where he was smacked in the lip while playing a game, he vowed vengeance on his enemies and became one of the hottest rising stars in the then WWE.

ISBN: 9780061031014
Price: 12.99$ (CAD)

Author: The Rock, WWF
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Language: English

The Rock is layin' the smack down! With unapologetic honesty, and inimitable style, The Rock tells his story from his boyhood days traveling around the world with his father (professional wrestler Rocky Johnson) to his years as a football player at the University of Miami and his less than glamorous professional days in Canada, to his meteoric rise through the ranks of the Federation. The Rock also takes fans on a guided tour of big-time wrestling, and provides a breathtaking, minute-by-minute account of WrestleMania, the Super Bowl of pro wrestling, including an intimate backstage look at rehearsals with his opponent, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and discusses in heartfelt detail the loss of his friend and coworker, Owen Hart.

ISBN: 9780061031168
Price: 13.34$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Jerry Lawler
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Language: English

This book is a no-holds-barred personal account from the "puppies-pantin'" King, who steps out from behind the announcer's desk of WWE Raw to hold court about everything. His passion for the ring that first drew him out of a rundown West Memphis movie theater over thirty years ago. The comic adventures and tragic bumps with the National Wrestling Alliance. Earning his royal personage against his own mentor, "Fabulous" Jackie Fargo. Grappling with mat legends Ric Flair, Lou Thesz, Jesse Ventura, Andre the Giant, Terry Funk, and Bret "Hitman" Hart. And his crowning achievements as co-owner of the United States Wrestling Association, which contributed to the rise of future WWE Superstars: Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and The Rock.

ISBN: 9780743457682
Price: 6.24$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
Publisher: Crown
Language: English

The uproarious, best-selling true story of the world's most sought-after con man. Frank W. Abagnale was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. Now recognized as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit.

ISBN: 9780767905381
Price: 23.98$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Stephen Williams
Publisher: Trait d'union
Language: French

Karla Homolka veut offrir sa petite sœur en cadeau de Noël à son ami de cœur Paul Bernardo, dont elle sait qu'il a déjà commis une quarantaine de viols. Le couple drogue la jeune fille, puis la torture, la viole et l'assassine dans le sous-sol de la maison familiale de Karla. Les amants enregistrent ce premier crime sur vidéo. D'autres crimes suivent... Puis ce sont l'arrestation et les tribunaux. En échange de son témoignage contre son mari, elle écope une peine allégée de douze ans de prison. À la veille d'être mise en liberté, elle correspond avec l'auteur de ce livre.

ISBN: 9782895880158
Price: 24.21$ (CAD)

Author: Stephen Williams
Publisher: Seal Books
Language: English

After testifying against her ex-husband in 1995, Karla's life in prison was soon going to take a very different, dramatic turn. With a thriller's pace, this book charts the inner life of the world's most notorious female prisoner.

Williams lets Karla and the other key players speak for themselves. And what they have to say will surprise, horrify and enlighten.

ISBN: 9782895880158
Price: 23.99$ (CAD)

Author: Heyden Herrera, Philippe Beaudoin
Publisher: Flammarion
Language: French

La vie mouvementée de cette femme, artiste majeure du vingtième siècle dont la vie a basculé à 18 ans après un grave accident d’autobus. Ses amours tumultueux et ses amitiés avec des célébrités, ainsi que ses engagements politiques au sein du mouvement communiste, font une femme au magnétisme légendaire.

ISBN: 9782080273963
Price: 49.95$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Anne Frank
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic — a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

In her diary, Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences in hiding. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.

ISBN: 9780553577129
Price: 10.99$ (CAD)

Authors: Anne Frank, Otto H. Franck, Mirjam Pressler, Nicolette Oomes, Philippe Noble
Publisher: Le livre de poche
Language: French

Édition publiée à l'occasion du 75e anniversaire de l'oeuvre. Le texte est restitué dans son intégralité.

Journal tenu par Anne Frank alors qu'elle-même, sa famille et des amis s'étaient installés clandestinement dans l'annexe d'un immeuble pour échapper au régime Nazi, du 6 juillet 1942 au 4 août 1944, date de leur arrestation sur dénonciation.

ISBN: 9782253937432
Price: 13.95$ (CAD)

Author: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Publisher: Crown
Language: English

She’s Not There was one of the first works to present trans experience from the perspective of a literary novelist, opening a door to new understanding of love, sex, gender, and identity.  Boylan inspired readers to ask the same questions she asked herself:  What is it that makes us---ourselves?  What does it mean to be a man, or a woman?  How much could my husband, or wife, change—and still be recognizable as the one I love?

ISBN: 9780385346979
Price: 24.55$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Temple Grandin, Gilbert Lelord
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Language: French

« J'avais six mois quand ma mère s'est rendu compte que je me raidissais dès qu'elle me prenait dans ses bras. Quelques semaines plus tard, alors qu'elle me câlinait, je la griffais, comme un animal pris au piège, pour échapper à son emprise. » Le diagnostic tombe comme un couperet : Temple est autiste. Pourtant, des années plus tard, se jouant du verdict des experts, elle entreprenait des études supérieures et menait à bien une carrière internationale comme conceptrice d'équipements agro-alimentaires.

ISBN: 978273810265
Price: 18.95$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism —because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world.

ISBN: 978273810265
Price: 23.50$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)

Author: Anne Rule
Publisher: WW Norton
Language: English

A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America’s most fascinating serial killer, “perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published” (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker). 

In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. But she had no idea that the “Ted” the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. Bundy eventually confessed to killing at least thirty-six women across the country.

ISBN: 9780393050295
Price: 39.95$ (CAD)

Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Language: English

Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir is "A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." — New York Times.

Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation. Her famous memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of the 90's.

ISBN: 9780544960091
Price: 9.76$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel
Publisher: DeNoël
Language: French

Une jeune New-Yorkaise du milieu branché, dépressive et suicidaire dès son plus jeune âge, à qui son psychiatre avait prescrit du Prozac, raconte comment cet antidépresseur lui a permis de rester vivante et d'écrire ce livre. Le récit d'une « accro » doublé d'un essai sur le monde moderne.

ISBN: 9782207255803
Price: 42.50$ (CAD)

Author: Rebecca Skloot
Publisher: Crown
Language: English

On page xiii, Rebecca Skloot states: “This is a work of nonfiction. No names have been changed, no characters invented, no events fabricated.”

As much as this book is about Henrietta Lacks, it is also about Deborah learning of the mother she barely knew, while also finding out the truth about her sister, Elsie.

ISBN: 9781400052189
Price: 24.00$ (CAD)

Author: Helen Keller
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English

This is Helen Keller’s account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. It portrays the wild child who is locked in the dark and silent prison of her own body. With an extraordinary immediacy, Keller reveals her frustrations and rage, and takes the reader on the unforgettable journey of her education and breakthroughs into the world of communication.

An unparalleled chronicle of courage, The Story of My Life remains startlingly fresh and vital more than a century after its first publication, a timeless testament to an indomitable will.

ISBN: 9780553213874
Price: 7.95$ (CAD)

Author: Helen Keller
Publisher: Payot
Language: French

Comment Helen Keller, une jeune fille sourde, muette, aveugle, donc privée des sens qui mettent le plus en rapport avec le monde extérieur, parvient-elle, par un effort continu, acharné, à un degré de culture que n'atteignent pas tous les êtres qui ont le privilège de voir, d'entendre, de parler ? Ces pages reflètent un véritable drame dans les ténèbres. Elles nous font assister à l'éveil, puis au développement progressif de ce qu'il y a de meilleur en l'individu : l'intelligence et le cœur.

ISBN: 9782228894135
Price: 17.95$ (CAD)

Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English

The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.

This is the story of four young boys who play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street in Hell's Kitchen. They never get caught... Until one disastrous summer afternoon. What begins as a harmless scheme goes horribly wrong, and the four find themselves facing a year’s imprisonment, where what happens to them — brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation — will change their lives forever.

ISBN: 9780593158159
Price: 23.00$ (CAD)

Author: Steve Murphy, Javier F. Peña
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Language: English

For the first time, legendary Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world’s most infamous narco-terrorists, Pablo Escobar.

Manhunters presents Steve and Javier’s history in law enforcement from their rigorous physical training and their early DEA assignments in Miami and Austin to the Escobar mission in Medellí­n.

ISBN: 9781250202895
Price: 28.00$ (CAD) (Electronic version also available)

Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest.

ISBN: 9780374533403
Price: 21.23$ (CAD) (Other formats also available)