Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he began filming President Kennedy's motorcade that his home movie would change not only his family's life but also American culture and history. Now his granddaughter tells the whole story for the...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Zapruder, AlexandraSummary: - Author:Heal, JamieSummary:
In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their...
- Author:Bacher, John, Armson, Kenneth A.Summary:
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s Book Award Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing...
- Author:Backhouse, ConstanceSummary:
Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and...
- Author:Lee, Jessica J.Summary:
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan... - Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship....
- Author:Stadelmann, MarcusSummary:
43 Americans have held the job of President of the United States. Each has a story, be it one of vision, accomplishment, conflict, scandal, triumph or tragedy. And each story is at the center of the national story, a part of what we all...
- Author:Karnazes, DeanSummary:
Karnazes reveals the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the hell of Death Valley, the incomprehensible frigidity of the South Pole, and the breathtaking beauty of the mountains and canyons of the Sierra Nevada.
- Author:Pasquier, Christiane, Dion, Marie-Lou, Portal, LouiseSummary:
Trois grandes amies – Louise Portal, Christiane Pasquier et Marie-Lou Dion – se remémorent l'année 1975, où elles jouèrent ensemble dans Madeleine de Verchères au Théâtre La Marjolaine, en plus de cohabiter dans le même chalet. Un...
- Author:Dorais, François-OlivierSummary:
À la fois témoin et acteur des grandes transformations socio-identitaires qui ont marqué l'Ontario français depuis la fin des années 1960, Gaétan Gervais est aussi connu à titre de créateur du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Les...
- Author:Ormesson, Jean d'Summary:
"Détective métaphysique, Jean d'Ormesson apporte, avec Un hosanna sans fin, la dernière pierre à sa trilogie - Comme un chant d'espérance, Guide des égarés - et tente de trouver la réponse à l'inépuisable...
- Author:Langlois, RichardSummary:
Les prévisions de l’Organisation Mondiale pour la Santé s’avèrent fort pessimistes en ce qui concerne les problèmes de santé mentale sur notre planète pour les prochaines décennies. Dépressions, troubles bipolaires, troubles anxieux,...
- Author:Roads, Michael J.Summary:
« Portant mon regard sur le fauteuil placé en face de moi, je fus aussi surpris que ravi d’y voir Pan. C’était le Pan que j’avais connu jadis (voir Un retour à l’unité et autres précédents livres, Éd. Ariane). Son énergie m’avait déjà...
- Author:Burke, TaranaSummary:
"Tarana Burke, I just finished Unbound . Searing. Powerful. Needed!! Thank you." —Oprah This program is read by the author. From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first...
- Author:Maathai, WangariSummary:
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Wangari Maathai has been fighting for environmental responsibility and democracy in her native Kenya for over 35 years. Unbowed recounts the incredible journey that culminated in her appointment...
- Author:Tomlinson, Sarah, Glazer, JaySummary:
Jay Glazer shares insights gleaned from his fight through depression and anxiety, providing a relentless, unapologetic, and no-nonsense approach to overcoming your self-doubts, fears, and excuses.
- Author:Sterritt, AngelaSummary:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Author:Dummitt, ChrisSummary:
A history of the afterlife of Mackenzie King in print and in Canadian culture. When King died in 1950 little was known publicly about his eccentric private life; King's final will declared that his voluminous diary should be...
- Author:Wiener, AnnaSummary:
"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation...
- Author:McDowell, JimSummary:
Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest Coast. Narváez was the first European to...
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