Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur L. Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Savoie, Donald J.Summary: - Author:Clarke, AustinSummary:
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Longlisted). 2016 RBC Taylor Prize (Longlisted). The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "Canada's first multicultural writer....
- Author:Greenside, MarkSummary:
Despite the two decades that have passed since Mark Greenside's snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. This book details Greenside's...
- Author:Forster, MernaSummary:
100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women; from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. You'll meet heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and...
- Author:Forster, Merna, Payette, JulieSummary:
Following the bestselling 100 Canadian Heroines, Merna Forster presents 100 more stories of amazing women who changed our country. In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings...
- Author:Ai, WeiweiSummary:
"In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei-one of the world's most famous artists and activists-tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing,...
- Author:Singh, RinaSummary:
A boy grows up to bring positive change to his village in India. This story is true, and it started with a boy named Sundar. After the deaths of his mother, and later his daughter, Sundar Paliwal knows what he has to do. He is...
- Author:Thiboutot, HuguetteSummary:
Il fait soleil. La cigale chante. Maman Julianna et papa Paul relaxent sur leur galerie du 114, rue Saint-Louis. L'autre côté de la rue, ma tante Thérèse étendue dans sa chaise longue envoie la main. En face, chez mon oncle Edmond...
- Author:Northup ,SolomonSummary:
12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth,...
- Author:DesAbysses, ArielleSummary:
Mars 20xx. Arielle, 14 ans, se rebelle contre l'autorité de son père. Elle ne voit qu'une solution pour faire bouger les choses : fuguer. Sa fuite la conduira droit en enfer... 8h : Arielle fait semblant de partir pour l...
- Author:Brown, CraigSummary:
A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time "If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book." —Alan Johnson, The...
- Author:Englishman, MichaelSummary:
"163256 : A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman's story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his...
- Author:McCullough, DavidSummary:
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the...
- Author:Bach, SebastianSummary:
Sebastian Bach, who has sold over twenty million records both as the lead singer of Skid Row and as a solo artist and has also appeared on Broadway and television, here tells the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams only to...
- Author:Range, Peter RossSummary:
Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup...
- Author:Mombourquette, AngelaSummary:
The final chaotic season of Codco had just wrapped when Mary Walsh sat down at a Toronto bistro with George Anthony, then creative head of CBC TV's arts programming. She'd been thinking about a news-based comedy show--did he think that...
- Author:Keflezighi, Meb.Summary:
Four-time Olympic marathoner Meb Keflezighi shares his lessons on life, family, faith, and running through a reflection on each of the 26 marathons he's run in his storied career. When four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi ran his...
- Author:Greenburg, Zack O'MalleySummary:
Tells the story of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars and their rise to fame: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z and examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons that largely helped to create a global multibillion-...
- Author:Steigerwald, BillSummary:
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and...
- Author:Ripert, EricSummary:
Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York...
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