An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma, using the imagined voices of the...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Anand, MadhurSummary: - Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet and Dogsong shares surprising true stories about his relationship with animals, highlighting their compassion, intellect, intuition, and sense of adventure. Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who...
- Author:Glynn, SteveSummary:
Steve Dangle's incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media star How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve "Dangle" Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto...
- Author:Jewison, NormanSummary:
The memoirs of the celebrated Hollywood director trace his forty years in filmmaking, describing such events as his unlikely appointment as a Christian Canadian director of Fiddler on the Roof, his witness to the impact of various films...
- Author:Karlen, NealSummary:
This program is read by the author. A warm and surprisingly real-life biography of one of rock's greatest talents: Prince. Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
The bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir,...
- Author:Pentland, JennySummary:
Jenny Pentland's childhood was a literal sitcom. Many of the storylines for her mother's smash hit series, Roseanne, were drawn from Pentland's early family life in working-class Denver. By adolescence, Jenny struggled...
- Author:Philipps, BusySummary:
A hilarious, heartfelt, and refreshingly honest memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and Cougar Town who has become "the breakout star of Instagram stories...Imagine I Love Lucy...
- Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
In this memoir, the author recreates the Montreal of his adolescence, of his family, of the friends he hung out with, and reveals their dream of Israel as homeland turned into a reality. Woven throughout are his observations and the...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
In Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aquinas's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
- Author:Bélanger, Damien-ClaudeSummary:
Thomas Chapais is one of the great French-Canadian political and intellectual figures of the beginning of the 20th century. Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1892, then to the Senate of Canada in 1919, he played a...
- Author:Nelson, CraigSummary:
John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that "history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine." Thomas Edison called him "the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible." He was a founder of both the United States...
- Author:Meili, DianneSummary:
The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meili’s faithful re-telling of the interviews she...
- Author:Collier, EricSummary:
In 1930, Collier, his wife and young son reached the Stack Valley in B.C., where they lived in an abandoned cabin. He and his wife had promised her grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area that she knew as a child before the...
- Author:Keith, Anges NewtonSummary:
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately...
- Author:Krakauer, Jon.Summary:
Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools, or his abduction by the Taliban....
- Author:Hoang, Jolie PhuongSummary:
Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone....
- Author:Turner, DawnSummary:
A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship,...
- Author:Rhodes-Courter, AshleySummary:
Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed and in doing so discovers the power of her own voice.
- Author:Rhodes-Courter, AshleySummary:
Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: college, marriage, and having kids--from fostering children and the heartbreak of watching them return to destructive environments, to the miraculous joy of blending biological and...
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