Who doesn’t rush to the window when a fire truck rushes by? Bryan Ratushniak, has spent a thirty-two-year career working on the busiest fire trucks in Canada and has detailed his adventures in this witty memoir. The book details the...
Biographies and autobiographies
-
Author:Ratushniak, BryanSummary: - Author:Converse, CathySummary:
The first book on Agnes Deans Cameron, BC's first female principal, itinerant traveller, and journalist. Agnes Deans Cameron was an extraordinary woman who was ahead by a century. Born in Victoria in 1863, she was the first female...
- Author:Berger, Thomas R., Dorough, Dalee Sambo, Teillet, Jean, Wake, Drew AnnSummary:
Against the Odds documents the remarkable achievements of Thomas R. Berger in the legal field, including his pioneering work in advocating for Indigenous rights that courts in Canada and the US had previously overlooked. Mid-career,...
- Author:Mukbil, HudaSummary:
In Agent of Change, Huda Mukbil, a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim, chronicles her life as an intelligence officer in Canada's lead spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Mukbil was at forefront of the fight against...
- Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into...
- Author:Howe, SeanSummary:
The life and times of High Times' enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who--between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts--battled both the US government and...
- Author:Thormaehlen, KarstenSummary:
Fall in love with 52 wise, healthy, and joyful 100-year-olds in this celebratory and uplifting art book. A beautiful and fascinating exploration of what it is like to be over 100 years old, Aging Gracefully invites readers to look into...
- Author:Borins Ash, Irene, Ash, IrvSummary:
Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and...
- Author:Quinn, Shawna M.Summary:
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing...
- Author:Southon, EmmaSummary:
The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty-and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith. In her own time, she was...
- Author:Djian, Jean-MichelSummary:
À l’occasion du cinquantenaire des Indépendances africaines, célébré durant toute cette année en France comme dans 14 pays d’Afrique, et du quarantième anniversaire de l’avènement de la notion même de francophonie, paraît la première...
- Author:Fonkoua, Romuald-BlaiseSummary:
Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) figure au Panthéon des personnalités qui ont fait le XXe siècle.
Ecrivain, poète, dramaturge, militant politique, il est l'un des acteurs prépondérants de la révolution noire qui s'est jouée alors sur... - Author:Nelson, AdibaSummary:
With a new baby with medical needs and a slew of hardships, Adiba Nelson set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, she never loses her heart or her humor.
- Author:Rotondo, JonathanSummary:
A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died. Numb with grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much joy: a tiny single-seat biplane called...
- Author:Davey, FrankSummary:
Written by one of his friends and confidants, a close reading of bpNichol’s poetry
aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, who was a practising lay psychoanalyst and vice–president of...
- Author:Gutman, Dan.Summary:
Did you know that Albert Einstein was a high-school dropout and that he failed his physics class when he finally made it to college? Or that when he died, his brain and eyeballs were removed from his body? Have you ever wondered why his...
- Author:Hoffmann, BaneshSummary:
Written by a friend and scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein, this remarkable study is a model of what a biography of a scientist should be. On these pages, we come to know Albert Einstein as the 'backward' child; the...
- Author:Mitchell, JimSummary:
Step into the boots of Jim Mitchell, a dedicated game warden with 38 years of experience protecting and conserving the fish and wildlife resources of Alberta, Canada. In this captivating collection of short stories, Mitchell invites...
- Author:Szedlecki, AnnSummary:
Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood-film-loving fourteen-year-old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and she fled to the Soviet Union with her older brother, hoping to return for the rest of her family later. Instead, she ended up spending...
- Author:Pepperberg, Irene M.Summary:
This story of Alex, a famous African Grey parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought.
Pages
