This story has everything: a love triangle, a handsome rogue, a major crime and a piece of genuine RCMP history, all played out against a backdrop of a world war, an apocalyptic flu epidemic, the settling of the west and a wave of...
Biography
- Author:Simmie, LoisSummary:
- Author:Cutler, A.Summary:
The story of enigmantic scientist-turned-priest, Nicholas Steno, who first proposed that the shell-shaped rocks commonly found on Italian mountaintops actually were fossils--a notion completely antithetical to the 17th century...
- Author:Stewart, Shelley, Turner, Nathan HaleSummary:
Spirited and striking, this is the story of a man who struggled against a society divided by color. Stewart recalls the death of his mother at his father's hands and the damage of abuse from other relatives. Shelley Stewart's...
- Author:BARRY, PaulSummary:
A remarkable biography of a remarkable man. A "warts 'n' all" expose of the public, business and private affairs of one of Western Australia's most controversial entrepreneurs.
- Author:Sharpton, Al.Summary:
Reverend Al Sharpton will take you behind the scenes of some unexpected places--from officiating Michael Jackson's funeral, hanging out with Jay-Z and President Barack Obama at the White House, to taking charge of the Trayvon...
- Author:Kinew, WabSummary:
A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist. When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year...
- Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:
Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us...
- Author:Bishop-Gwyn, CarolSummary:
Born into a working-class family in 1921, Celia Franca, though a capable dancer, was an unlikely candidate for ballet greatness. But Celia possessed a drive that was almost unrivalled, and went on to become one of the most important...
- Author:Gardner, ChrisSummary:
At the age of twenty, African American Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner...
- Author:Wolfe, Margie, Bat-Zvi, PninaSummary:
A true story about two brave sisters whose promise to "always, stay together" helped them survive Auschwitz. The night that Rachel and Toby's parents are taken away by the Nazis, they give their young daughters three gold coins with the...
- Author:Walmsley, Ann.Summary:
For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of...
- Author:Macdonald, Betty BardSummary:
Thanks to vaccines, tuberculosis is rare in North America today and, thanks to antibiotics, relatively treatable. This wasn't the case in 1938, when Betty MacDonald was diagnosed. It was more common and often deadly. The only hope...
- Author:Grant, Ulysses S.Summary:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Author:Grant, Ulysses S.Summary:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Author:Grant, Ulysses S.Summary:
In his own words, Ulysses Grant leads us from his early years to that day of decision in 1865.
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
- Author:Peacock, MollySummary:
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into...
- Author:Ambrose, HughSummary:
In this companion book to the HBO series on the war in the Pacific, historian Hugh Ambrose focuses on five American soldiers who each took an active role in the difficult and costly--in terms of lives--campaign to reach the Japanese...
- Author:Moore, WesSummary:
In this memoir, Moore tells the story of his life as a child of Baltimore and the Bronx, an army officer in Afghanistan, a Rhodes Scholar, and a former White House Fellow. In detailing his journey from troubled adolescence to successful...
- Author:Bergen, Peter L.Summary:
The Osama bin Laden I Know is the definitive history of the world's most wanted man. Author Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst, and an acclaimed journalist who actually spent time with bin Laden prior to the events of...