What do experienced field naturalists discover when they explore the heavily populated Lake Ontario shoreline as if they were surveying a wilderness for the first time? In this beautifully illustrated book, Aleta Karstad takes you on a...
Biographies and autobiographies
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Author:Karstad, AletaSummary: - Author:Frankel, ErinSummary:
José Andrés's love of cooking began as a young boy in Spain as he gathered the wood to make the fire that would cook the paella just right. José loved everything about it: the sizzling olive oil, the mounds of chopped vegetables...
- Author:Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. Andrea Davis Pinkney's powerful and poetic text tells the story of Ezra Jack Keats, who was born in Brooklyn in...
- Author:Manton, JoSummary:
"All music", said Johann Sebastian Bach, "should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no true music." At twenty three, in 1708, he accepted an invitation to...
- Author:Brenner, MarieSummary:
Now a major motion picture starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci, and Jamie Dornan, A Private War is the story of legendary war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. In February 2012, Marie...
- Author:Obama, BarackSummary:
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ; NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES...
- Author:Correy, RyanSummary:
An honest memoir that deconstructs an evolving father-son relationship, uncovers the struggles in becoming one of Canada's most respected adventure cyclists and the dramatic impact of a recent cancer diagnosis. In the summer of...
- Author:Oluseyi, Hakeem, Horwitz, JoshuaSummary:
In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics. "You'll encounter one extraordinary turn of...
- Author:Redl, HeidiSummary:
The devastating diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease does not ordinarily form the starting point of a triumphant story. This, however, is a triumphant story. Heidi Redl was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2004 and...
- Author:De Kay, James T.Summary:
De Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero. He chronicles the exploits of one of 19th-century America's bravest and most celebrated heroes.
- Author:McNally Smith, AdrianSummary:
When Adrian McNally Smith was writing his family memoir Finding Forgiveness, he was struck by the number of times he had had spiritual encounters. The journey of writing the story of his life and his relationships brought home to him...
- Author:Nathan, Amy, Langley, SharonSummary:
When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African-American families were not allowed entry. This interesting tale reveals how in the summer of 1963, due to demonstrations and public...
- Author:Anderson, MonaSummary:
The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand. Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two...
- Author:Chalupa, TanyaSummary:
In this gripping, true crime exposE, Bill Palmini, a rookie detective, hopes to take down the West Coast Mafia by gaining the confidence of notorious mob operative William Ettleman. Set against a backdrop of social turmoil, the book...
- Author:Karnazes, DeanSummary:
The iconic superhuman endurance runner shares the hard-won wisdom and lessons he's learned from thirty years of competition as he embarks on his toughest challenge yet, the Western States 100.
- Author:Esper, Mark T.Summary:
Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration, with events and moments never before told.
- Author:Roberts, JasonSummary:
He was known simply as the "Blind Traveller"--a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon and helped chart the...
- Author:Castaneda, CarlosSummary:
After spending five years with don Juan in the early sixties, Castaneda returned to Mexico in 1968 to continue his exploration of non-ordinary reality and draw ever closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a man of knowledge. Far from...
- Author:Rawson, KerriSummary:
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill), tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long...
- Author:Armstrong, JohnSummary:
Some human lives can be measured in dogs. Writer/musician John Armstrong is such a person, and in A Series of Dogs, he takes the measure of his own, now at nine dogs' lives and counting. A hilarious, perceptive and moving memoir that is...
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