Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles' breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Goodman, FredSummary: - Author:McMechan, RobertSummary:
Allison, a retired music teacher and lifelong musician, was advised in 2011 that she had a "giant" brain aneurysm, after experiencing olfactory hallucinations. In a twelve hour operation the aneurysm was "clipped". Following surgery...
- Author:Trafford, TylerSummary:
Winner, W.O. Mitchell Award, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and Alberta Reader’s Choice Award. Following his mother’s death in 2004, Tyler Trafford discovers an album of old letters and creased photographs that reveal a mother...
- Author:Rose, ArdenSummary:
By the end of this book, you will have learned not only how to dress yourself, how to travel alone, how to talk to strangers online, and how to date strangers in person, but how to pass as a real, functioning, appropriately socialized...
- Author:Hickey, GemmaSummary:
On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. Almost Feral celebrates the community of...
- Author:Gillespie, CurtisSummary:
We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter month in Europe, four days in Disneyland. The variations may be endless, but the common...
- Author:Fink-Jensen, Christian, Eustace-Walden, RandolphSummary:
In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to...
- Author:Shoalts, AdamSummary:
Canada's real-life Indiana Jones reminds us that the age of exploration is not over. When Adam Shoalts ventured into the largest unexplored wilderness on the planet, he hoped to set foot where no one had ever gone before. What he...
- Author:Vertes, LeslieSummary:
In 1944, twenty-year-old Leslie Vertes escapes from a forced labour detail in Budapest and miraculously survives by assuming a false identity. About to taste freedom as the end of the war nears, his liberation is shortlived when he is...
- Author:Roberts, DavidSummary:
On January 17, 1913, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was alone and near starvation--and one hundred miles from base camp. This thrilling account of his journey back establishes Mawson as one of history...
- Author:Roberts, David, Honnold, AlexSummary:
A thirty-year-old climbing phenomenon, Alex Honnold pushes the limits of free soloing beyond anything previously attempted. If he falls, he dies. Honnold recounts the seven most astonishing achievements thus far in his meteoric career...
- Author:Bice, RalphSummary:
Along the Trail in Algonquin Park has delighted thousands of readers across Canada and the United States from the time of its first publication in the summer of 1980. This is the fourth reprint of the classic work by the late legendary...
- Author:Dale, James M.Summary:
It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition for training fellowship spots is intense. Hundreds of applicants from all over the world compete to be accepted into the...
- Author:Idle, EricSummary:
From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candor We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python'from the...
- Author:McKinnon Crook, MarionSummary:
In the long-awaited sequel to Always Pack a Candle, intrepid public health nurse Marion Crook juggles marriage, children, and a vast array of patients and cases in rural British Columbia in the 1970s. It has been over a decade since...
- Author:McKinnon Crook, MarionSummary:
The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community...
- Author:Bucci, Tatiana, Bucci, AndraSummary:
In 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. An unforgettable narrative of the power of sisterhood in the most extreme circumstances, and of how a mother's love can overcome the...
- Author:Scully, JohnSummary:
Mental illness doesn’t have to be a prison sentence. International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with...
- Author:McBee, Thomas PageSummary:
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction - *Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award - *Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize - One of The Times UK 's Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed's Best Nonfiction of...
- Author:Darling, IanSummary:
Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so — dodging bullets and German troops, escaping...
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