In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was one of the first journalists on the ground in the...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Porter, CatherineSummary: - Author:Kilfara, DarrenSummary:
A Golfer's Education is the true story of a young man, once a member of Harvard's golf team and a former writer for Golf Digest, who began his year in St. Andrews as an intense, uptight golfer willing to do anything to play a great...
- Author:Katz, Jon.Summary:
From the very beginning, Orson was a misfit. Like all border collies, he needed to work. But since there weren't any sheep available for herding in the New Jersey suburbs, Orson instead tried to corral school buses, garbage trucks, and...
- Author:Feinstein, JohnSummary:
In the highly acclaimed bestseller A Good Walk Spoiled, John Feinstein captures the world of professional golf as it has never been captured before. Traveling with the golfers on the PGA Tour, Feinstein gets inside the heads of the game...
- Author:Masters, Meg, Zafar, SamraSummary:
"At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to...
- Author:Ingstad, BenedicteSummary:
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand...
- Author:Mason, Roger BurfordSummary:
Winner of the 1999 International Gallery of Superb Printing Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship in Production Franz Johnston is the missing man of Canadian painting. The most prolific and financially successful of the original Group of...
- Author:Johnston, FaithSummary:
Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada's House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about...
- Author:Curtis, SkySummary:
A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much...
- Author:Hankins, Gerald W.Summary:
Dr. Helen I. Huston is an inspiring Canadian who has received international recognition as a medical missionary. Her story is one of fortitude and faith. Dr. Huston devoted 39 years of her life to the people of India and Nepal. For 32...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
A compelling voice for Generation X, Eggers here recounts his early 20s, caring for his younger brother after their parents' unexpected deaths and his endeavors in a variety of media.
- Author:McFarlane, BrianSummary:
A captivating memoir from Canada's foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It's been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be . Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories...
- Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:
A Hunter's Confession tells the story of hunting--both its history and the role it has played in David Carpenter's own life, including the reasons he once loved it and the dramatic hunting incident that made him give up hunting for good...
- Author:Richardson, PamelaSummary:
How do we begin to describe our love for our children? Pamela Richardson shows us with her passionate memoir of life with and without her estranged son, Dash. From age five Dash suffered Parental Alienation Syndrome at the hands of his...
- Author:Constantine, Steven Matthew, Burgess, Ann WolbertSummary:
Here is a look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.
- Author:Gillis, AlexSummary:
In 1938, Tae Kwon Do began at the end of a wicked poker game in a tiny village in a remote corner of what is now North Korea. Today, the martial art is likely the most popular on the planet, an Olympic sport practised by an estimated 50...
- Author:Gillis, AlexSummary:
The eagerly anticipated updated return of a bestselling martial arts classic
The leaders of Tae Kwon Do, an Olympic sport and one of the world’s most popular martial arts, are fond of saying that their art is...
- Author:Fowler, CarolynSummary:
- Author:Lapointe, JasonSummary:
Au cœur de la jungle urbaine, un simple employé de bureau voit sa vie basculer quand la belle améridienne qu’il aimait passionnément le quitte soudain. Pourtant, un étrange rêve évocateur d’un passé glorieux vient de lui révéler qu’il a...
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