Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson’s Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Anderson, Nancy MargueriteSummary: - Author:Petersen, Myrna L.Summary:
Dr. McGill was one of Canada's first female pathologist and served as Director of the Saskatchewan Laboratories for many years. Noted for her work in forensic medicine, she lectured at Regina's RCMP Training Depot and in 1946 was named...
- Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:
Back in 2000, Jane Christmas was, like millions of others, an exhausted single working mother with a punishing agenda of work, domestic, and parenting duties. Weekdays were an urban triathlon, weekends evaporated into mile-long to-do...
- Author:Devine, HeatherSummary:
The search for a Métis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. The People Who Own Themselves reconstructs 250 years of Desjarlais family history across a substantial...
- Author:Levinson, CynthiaSummary:
A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn"The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew."As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn...
- Author:Hongo, GarrettSummary:
Garrett Hongo's passion for audio dates back to the Empire 98 turntable his father paired with a tube amplifier in their modest tract home in L.A. in the early 60s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out...
- Author:Brennan, Katharine Taylor, Kirchner, Elizabeth ParsonsSummary:
An ordinary person, Katharine Brennan calls herself. An ordinary person perhaps, but with an extraordinary gift for turning the prosaic into poetry, and for distilling the moments of joy in he often painful days. I write from the...
- 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:Hughes-Hallett, LucySummary:
In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention-to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals...
- Author:Zacks, RichardSummary:
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong....
- Author:Lawrence, R.D.Summary:
A number of years ago, R.D. Lawrence acquired a patch of Ontario wilderness, soon known as "The Place." Here Lawrence and his wife built a cabin and became immersed in studying the ways of the wild. "The Place" was...
- Author:Macdonald, Betty BardSummary:
Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And...
- Author:Mayor, AdrienneSummary:
Mayor delivers an account of Mithradates, the ruthless visionary who began to challenge Rome's power in 120 B.C. Machiavelli praised his military genius. Kings coveted his secret elixir against poison. Poets celebrated his victories,...
- Author:Kafarowski, JoannaSummary:
The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made...
- Author:Wilson, Leslie, LeBaron, AnnaSummary:
Anna LeBaron's father was wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his radical polygamist cult. Anna escaped when she was thirteen, but the nightmare was not over. This true story of murder, fear, and betrayal is...
- Author:Mason, DavidSummary:
From his drug-hazy, book-happy years near the Beat Hotel in Paris and throughout his career as antiquarian book dealer, David Mason brings us a storied life. He discovers his love of literature in a bathtub at age eleven, thumbing...
- Author:Charleson, SusannahSummary:
This uniquely personal, moving, and inspiring journey delves into the rapidly emerging world of psychiatric service dogs, as Susannah Charleson works as an evaluator in shelters, plucking unwanted dogs, training them for service, and...
- Author:Charleson, SusannahSummary:
"Reading The Possibility Dogs is like taking an amazing literary journey with a dear friend by your side. The characters you meet will enchant you, but the storyteller will capture your heart. If you love dogs, this is a can't...
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