When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
20th century
- Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:
- Author:Diamant, AnitaSummary:
Diamant pens the tale of four women who flee Nazi Europe. Landing in a postwar British camp in Palestine, the women make extraordinary discoveries about themselves, humanity, and each other.
- Author:Mazower, MarkSummary:
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- Author:Kang, ZhengguoSummary:
- Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:
- Author:Chamoiseau, PatrickSummary:
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Roald Dahl's life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover and a whole new end section of fascinating...
- Author:Evans, M. StantonSummary:
This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the US government.
- Author:Wright, RichardSummary:
This version of the autobiography is presented in two parts, as authorized by the author's estate. Part one tells of his painful early years in the Jim Crow South. Part two follows his journey North.
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"Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of...
- Author:Dadié, Bernard BinlinSummary:
- Author:Duder, CameronSummary:
The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
- Author:Loyie, Oskiniko LarrySummary:
Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada, who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
- Author:De Ruyter, KittySummary:
- Author:Hitchens, ChristopherSummary:
- Author:MacDonald, Betty BardSummary:
Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how “the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family” brightened their weathering of The Great Depression.
- Author:Sexton, AnneSummary:
- Author:Batistich, AmeliaSummary:
A collection of stories centred on Dalmatian families in New Zealand.