The author draws on dozens of interviews conducted in London, New York, Montreal, and Toronto to present a portrait of novelist, essayist, satirist, and iconoclast Mordecai Richler. His public and private lives are documented in a close...
Biography
- Author:Posner, MichaelSummary:
- Author:Ribowsky, MarkSummary:
A biography of the legendary professional football coach and strategist. After playing with the AAFC Yankees and NFL Giants, then as defensive coach of the Giants, Landry spent thirty years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, including...
- Author:Nakazawa, Donna JacksonSummary:
In this book the author, a science journalist explores the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for a decade, curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her, including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture.
- Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:
Traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substance.
- Author:Powers, ThomasSummary:
Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing...
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
Presents a biography of the peerless warrior who defeated the U.S. Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn. To his fellow Lakota Indians, Crazy Horse was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and...
- Author:Equiano, OlaudahSummary:
- Author:Slezkine, YuriSummary:
Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.
- Author:HAMLIN, CatherineSummary:
Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world.
- Author:Drury, Bob.Summary:
Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.
- Author:Do, Anh.Summary:
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of...
- Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Myers offers a portrait of one of the world's greatest boxers chronicles his childhood, his rise as a champion, his politics, and his battle against Parkinsons' disease.
- Author:McCullough, David G.Summary:
Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.
- Author:Goode, BarbSummary:
- Author:Butala, SharonSummary:
In 1961, a country singer named Johnny Cash chose a beautiful young woman named Alexandra Wiwcharuk to be his "Girl in Saskatoon" and sang to her in front of a hometown crowd. A few months later she would be found brutally...
- Author:O'Brien, GeorgeSummary:
Georgetown University professor George O'Brien provides the biographical background of the four masters of Irish literature and an in-depth analysis of their greatest works. O'Brien discusses the very qualities that set these...
- Author:Fry, StephenSummary:
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
- Author:Griffith, VictoriaSummary:
Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
- Author:Costamagna, PhilippeSummary:
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art...
- Author:Hautzig, Esther RudominSummary:
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...