In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband brought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Richardson, Evelyn M.Summary: - Author:Jockel, HelenaSummary:
When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel could only think about how to save "her" children. She accompanied them all the way to Auschwitz only to see them taken to the gas chamber. Her...
- Author:Moser, BarrySummary:
Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community where they slept in the same bedroom and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their...
- Author:Liu, SimuSummary:
An immigrant who battles everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Liu is determined to carve out a path for himself that leads him to not only succeed as an actor but also to opening the door to reconciling with...
- Author:Morris, KathiSummary:
From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn't bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only...
- Author:Dale, Jim, Cummings, ElijahSummary:
Congressman Elijah Cummings details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office. Cummings powerfully weaves together the urgent drama of modern-day...
- Author:Union, GabrielleSummary:
In the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence...
- Author:Dionne, EvetteSummary:
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding...
- Author:Romolini, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media, and became a boss-an editor-in-chief, an editorial director, and a vice president, all within little more than a...
- Author:Redmond, ChristopherSummary:
Christopher Redmond’s fascinating account of Doyle’s first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, and Toronto. Despite the gruelling...
- Author:Braverman, BlairSummary:
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska. Determined to carve out a life as a "tough...
- Author:Murphy, WendySummary:
Wendy Murphy was rendered with incomplete paraplegia following a motor vehicle accident in 1984. She has carried on with tenacious spirit, and her life and career choices have been anything but conventional. Determined to make a...
- Author:Gibson, William C.Summary:
Here is the story of a pioneer educator whose life encompassed service to medicine in Minnesota (1895-1913) and to the building of the University of British Columbia (1913-1918). Dr. Frank Wesbrook's education at the University of...
- Author:Schutz, FredSummary:
A collection of articles from Fred Schultz’s weekly column which appeared in the Rimby Record between 1954 and 1997. Filled with enchanting observations of both natural and human history, West of the Blindman reminds us of the beauty...
- Author:Le Bel, PaulineSummary:
An exhilarating mix of natural history and personal exploration Whale in the Door is a passionate account of a woman’s transformative experience of her adopted home.
For thousands of years, Howe Sound, an inlet in the Salish Sea...
- Author:Fonda, JaneSummary:
A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest "This is the last...
- Author:Clinton, Hillary RodhamSummary:
A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 2018 Audie Award Finalist "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net....
- Author:Steele, GrahamSummary:
On October 8, 2013, Nova Scotia’s NDP government went down to a devastating election defeat. Premier Darrell Dexter lost his own seat, and the party held the dubious distinction of being the first one-term majority government in over...
- Author:Audlaluk, LarrySummary:
Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
This rich and revelatory memoir offers a cornucopia of memories and insights about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on the author's life as he prepares for the 2005 New York City Marathon.
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