Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:MacDonald, CherylSummary: - Author:Dow, Leslie SmithSummary:
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman...
- Author:Smith Dow, LeslieSummary:
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman...
- Author:Hughes, Thomas AlexanderSummary:
William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder at the Battle of Leyte Gulf made him the "Patton of the...
- Author:Grenfell, Sir WilfredSummary:
On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier. The young man needed immediate attention to save not only his leg but his life, so the doctor set...
- Author:Zbyszko, LarrySummary:
Wrestling’s self-proclaimed “Living Legend” may never wear a championship belt again, but he’s definitely not down for the count. Adventures in Larryland! is the entertaining, often hilarious story of Larry Zbyszko’s remarkable ascent...
- Author:Flanders, CaitSummary:
Flanders offers a trail map to letting go of stories that are no longer serving you, and creating an intentional life that emphasizes the beauty of the natural world, the importance of gaining new perspectives, the joys of real human...
- Author:Elliott, David R.Summary:
This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada’s native peoples, was thrice employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and became an Indian agent (18851901)....
- Author:Lombard, Rosalie M.Summary:
Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . .
It was many years later...
- Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary:
Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
Afflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person...
- Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary:
- Author:Goodall, JaneSummary:
The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals to her years in the bush observing primates, often sacrificing life's more stable pleasures.
- Author:Pivato, JosephSummary:
This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrumental in promoting the writing of Canadian writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the...
- Author:Didion, JoanSummary:
Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West. In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC;...
- Author:Gaye, Jan.Summary:
On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier....
- Author:Perry, SarahSummary:
"Stunning." -Entertainment Weekly | "Raw and perfect." -Laura Miller, Slate"Heartbreaking yet hopeful." -Samantha Irby, Marie Claire A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-...
- Author:Gildiner, CatherineSummary:
In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh...
- Author:Gates, Lilian F.Summary:
This comprehensive book on William Lyon Mackenzie's later life focuses first on the period 1838-1849, Mackenzie's years in exile in the United States. It examines his contribution to the American political scene, including his...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
- Author:Myles, EileenSummary:
In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and art. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being,...
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