NATIONAL BESTSELLER Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near the foothills of the remote Mealy Mountains in central...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Shoalts, AdamSummary: - Author:Didion, JoanSummary:
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own...
- Author:Ernst, ThomSummary:
"An inspiring story of resilience, told with a vivid sense of character and humour." —RICHARD CROUSE, CTV host and film critic Film critic, writer, and broadcaster Thom Ernst chronicles his life growing up with an abusive...
- Author:Fadiman, AnneSummary:
A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines-with all her characteristic wit and feeling-her relationship with her father,...
- Author:Tallant, NicolaSummary:
Joey O'Callaghan was just 18 years old when he became a ghost - the youngest ever person to be signed up to the Witness Protection Programme. Groomed into a drug gang from the age of 10, a cold-blooded assassination sickened him to...
- Author:Cook, M. Bridget, Musser, RebeccaSummary:
Rebecca Musser's shares the story of her struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the...
- The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions of tomorrow's worldAuthor:Mann, Charles C.Summary:
In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann...
- Author:Rothschild, IngeloreSummary:
Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A...
- Author:Whyatt, SabrinaSummary:
From a shy small-town girl singing for family and friends at community concerts, to the bright lights of country music fame, from the wheelhouse of her very own fishing vessel hundreds of miles offshore, to the summit of Mount...
- Author:Spears, BritneySummary:
Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! "In Britney Spears's memoir, she's stronger than ever." - The New York Times Over 2 million...
- Author:Moore, KateSummary:
From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for...
- Author:Moore, KateSummary:
Committed to an insane asylum in 1860 to keep her in line, Elizabeth Packard refused to be silenced and challenged the medical science of the day.
- Author:Kingston, Maxine HongSummary:
- Author:Price, JillSummary:
Jill Price cannot forget anything. Ask her what she had for breakfast on any given day in 1970, and she'll tell you. She'll even tell you the major news events for that day. In this astonishing memoir, she shares what it's like to...
- Author:Arrowsmith-Young, BarbaraSummary:
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn-or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually...
- Author:Herwig, MalteSummary:
Pablo Picasso called Françoise Gilot “The Woman Who Says No.” Tiny, talented, and feisty, and an accomplished artist in her own right, Gilot left Picasso after a ten-year relationship, the only woman to escape his intense attentions...
- Author:Fagone, JasonSummary:
The true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked...
- Author:Walters, EvelynSummary:
Ten women artists, counterparts of the Group of Seven, are finally being given their due. Long overlooked by critics and historians, they are today amongst the most sought-after Canadian painters. The Beaver Hall Group ventured into a...
- Author:Bream, ShannonSummary:
The women of the Bible lived timeless stories--by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith. People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. But in fact,...
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the real-life characters behind her Wars of the Roses novels. Gregory and her team describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War series: Jacquetta, Duchess of...
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