Michael Farquhar ransacked the archives to rescue 30 almost-famous Americans from the dust bin of obscurity. These colorful figures range from Mayflower Murderer John Billington (1624) to Dick Fosbury, father of the "Flop" (1968).
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary: - Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their...
- Author:Walsh, KirbySummary:
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and professor at Harvard University, Moore...
- Author:Chacaby, Ma-Nee, Plummer, Mary LouisaSummary:
A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories...
- Author:Jost, ColinSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ; In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. “I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick...
- Author:Goodwin, DebiSummary:
Ever since her childhood on a Niagara farm, Debi has dug in the dirt to find resilience. But when her husband, Peter, was diagnosed with cancer in November, it was too late in the season to seek solace in her garden. With idle hands and...
- Author:Gibson, MorrisSummary:
The Gibson family, of One Man's Medicine, emigrates to the Canadian West. Readers will recall that Gibson and his wife, both Scottish physicians, were established in family practice near the English port city of Hull. In time,...
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
- Author:Albatta, Madeeha Hafez, Bill, Barbara, Ageel, Ghada, Abu Sitta, SalmanSummary:
Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation bear witness to life in...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a...
- Author:Maher, SanamSummary:
In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Maher reconstructs the story of her life to restore the humanity of the woman at its center.
- Author:Ernaux, AnnieSummary:
Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town,...
- Author:Dunham, Cyrus GraceSummary:
For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Rather than looking back on gender transition from a settled distance, Cyrus invites us into the process as it unfolds, honoring the messiness,...
- Author:Henry, DarynSummary:
A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the...
- Author:Larsen, WayneSummary:
Alexander Young Jackson (1882-1974) is a name that instantly conjures up images of our rugged northern landscape and the controversial Group of Seven. This is the first-ever full-length biography of one of Canada’s most beloved...
- Author:Pocock, JoannaSummary:
Traduit de l'anglais par Véronique Lessard et Marc Charron Résumé Alliant chronique, récit de soi et de la nature, Abandon raconte l'Amérique indomptée et ses paysages sauvages. À l'aube de la cinquantaine, Joanna Pocock...
- Author:Barman, JeanSummary:
An Abenaki born in St Francis, Quebec, Noel Annance (1792–1869), by virtue of two of his great-grandparents having been early white captives, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Determined to apply his privileged education, he...
- Author:Isitt, Benjamin, Malhotra, RaviSummary:
Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York, in 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that...
- Author:Barlow, KateSummary:
When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion. They were not alone on the once-grand estate, surrounded as they were by twenty eccentric, elderly women, one of whom...
- Author:Yasuda, AnitaSummary:
Each book in the Aboriginal Biographies series provides a look at an individual well known in their field, providing a glimpse into the inspiration, achievements, and successes that define these great Canadians.
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