William C. Van Horne was one of North America's most accomplished men. Born in Illinois in 1843, Van Horne started working in the railway business at a young age. In 1881 he was lured north to Canada to become general manager of...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Knowles, ValerieSummary: - Author:Goodall, lianSummary:
Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was Canada’s tenth and longest serving prime minister and an important figure on the international scene, especially during the Second World War. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of...
- Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:
McGuffey Readers were bestsellers only surpassed in America by the Bible and Websters Dictionary. In 2008, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader was ranked with Thomas Paines's Common Sense and Alexander Hamilton's The Federalist Papers as books...
- Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:
William McKinley was the first U.S. president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that...
- Author:Holden, AnthonySummary:
Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.
- Author:McLean, Scott A., Vance, Michael E.Summary:
Many writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized the virtues of early rural pioneers and life on the land as a general criticism of what they perceived to be the negative, alienating influence of Ontario’s...
- Author:O'Ree, WillieSummary:
An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the...
- Author:Nelson, WillieSummary:
Following his bestselling memoir, It's a Long Story,? Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in?Willie Nelson's Letters to America. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller!...
- Author:Mortillaro, NicoleSummary:
Documents the life of Willie O'Ree, the first Black player to skate in the NHL.
- Author:James, VictoriaSummary:
An affecting memoir from the country's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world. At just twenty-one, the age when most people are starting to drink (well, legally at least),...
- Author:Hubbert, Mildred YoungSummary:
The northern community known as Peawanuck (Cree for Flint) is located approximately 32 kilometres up river from the former village of Winisk on the shore of Hudson Bay. There, prior to a devastating flood on May 16, 1986, the First...
- Author:Martindale, WinkSummary:
Mr. Game Show, Wink Martindale, tells about his secret for success in Hollywood's fast lane. He takes us on a journey from Jackson, Tennessee to Tinseltown and lets us peek behind curtains of game shows, radio programs, concerts,...
- Author:Ramsden, JohnSummary:
In this course, Queen Mary University of London history professor John Ramsden discusses Churchill's extraordinary life and his remarkable range of skills including his achievements in a sixty-year-long public life. He seeks to answer...
- Author:Read, SimonSummary:
Based on Winston's private letters and war reportage, Winston Churchill Reporting intertwines his daring exploits in combat, adventures in distant corners of the globe, and rise as a major literary talent - experiences that shaped the...
- Author:Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you...
- Author:Cacioppo, StephanieSummary:
From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an old truth: better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. At thirty-...
- Author:O'Neill, Heather, Dobson, KitSummary:
I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’...
- Author:Duffy, KarenSummary:
From becoming an iconic MTV VJ to starring in Dumb and Dumber to being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Karen Duffy has been through a lot. But it was only when she became a mother that she realized she had some pretty solid ...
- Author:Dobson, KathySummary:
A gutsy, no-holds-barred, coming-of-age story. In the Point St. Charles of the author’s childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares...
- Author:Wilson, GretchenSummary:
Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and, when her sister moved to London in 1912, Harding went with her. One day, from the top...
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