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...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Braverman, BlairSummary: - 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.
- Author:Moser, Elise, Ritchie, ScotSummary:
Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she...
- Author:Foo, StephanieSummary:
By age 30, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk...
- Author:Von Hahn, KarenSummary:
Being left with a strand of even the highest quality milky-white pearls isn’t quite the same thing as pearls of wisdom to live by, as Karen von Hahn reveals in her memoir about her stylish and captivating mother, Susan — a mercurial,...
- Author:Shapiro, LauraSummary:
A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking-what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. "Establishes Laura Shapiro...
- Author:Meneghetti, MonicaSummary:
This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic immigrant family, Monica learns...
- Author:Boon, SonjaSummary:
Author Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon's family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa,...
- Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:
To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas...
- Author:Conrad, John, Blatchford, ChristieSummary:
By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada’s Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than...
- Author:Peter, Ruby Sti'tum'atul'wutSummary:
A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about...
- Author:Lang, Maya ShanbhagSummary:
“A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken.”—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk If our family stories shape us, what happens when we learn those...
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