"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Wilson, FrancesSummary: - Author:Kawatski, Deanna BarnhardtSummary:
“Burning Man, Slaying Dragon is an exciting, high stakes, spiritual adventure that spans decades, continents, cultures and generations. As a young, headstrong hippie, Deanna Barnhardt Kawatski leaves her home at her beloved Shuswap Lake...
- Author:Jones, BurnleySummary:
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley "Rocky" Jones is one of Canada's most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada's Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly dedicated to student movements, peace...
- Author:Arcan, NellySummary:
Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and...
- Author:Forscutt, KenSummary:
Ken Forscutt flew a Cessna for 17 years into various places in Northwestern Canada, and this is the true life adventure, based on the logbook entries and the recollections of fellow pilots.
- Author:Boer, PeterSummary:
It takes a special recipe-one part courage, one part skill, a big dash of crazy-to make a bush pilot. These unique aviators, flying over the vast wildernesses of the United States, Canada and Australia, often reach the status of legends...
- Author:Bourrie, MarkSummary:
A biography of eccentric French fur trader Pierre Radisson, a man who helped shape the events of his time. Radisson spent his life trying to be an important part of the rather bizarre European beaver hat trade, but was stymied all his...
- Author:Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.Summary:
At fourteen he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding eleven on the rough American frontier. By thirty-nine he had established himself as a successful plantation owner worth over $1 million. And at forty...
- Author:George, Isabel, Barrow, WillSummary:
Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has saved thousands of lives. This is the story of his partnership with RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, told by Will himself,...
- Author:Levine, TamaraSummary:
When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them. That letter was the first of thirteen communications she calls her healing journey. As...
- Author:Kwapis, KenSummary:
For over three decades, director Ken Kwapis has charted a career full of exceptional movies and television, from seminal shows like The Office to beloved films like He's Just Not That Into You.He is among the most respected directors in...
- Author:Gorani, HalaSummary:
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no...
- Author:Gilmour, WalterSummary:
The horrific true story of serial kidnapper, rapist, and killer Robert Hansen's reign of terror in Anchorage, Alaska. As oil boom money poured into Anchorage, the city quickly became a prime destination for the seedier elements of...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
What happens when a 56-year-old fiction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year? In writing that brings to mind the work of journalist/chef Michael Ruhlman, Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal...
- Author:Brown, PatrickSummary:
Fascinating, revelatory, and powerful, Butterfly MindM is a memorable work from a renowned reporter on the front line of history. In this memoir, award-winning journalist Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is Brown's...
- Author:Das, BrittaSummary:
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by...
- Author:Radke, HeatherSummary:
*ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage* "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction--the kind that forces you to see something ordinary through completely new eyes...
- Author:Schuster, TaraSummary:
By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a sought-after TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and launched Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a...
- Author:Eisen, MaxSummary:
This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a...
- Author:Thomson, R.H.Summary:
From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations. Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s...
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