The true life exploits of a zoo veterinarian called all over the world to attend his exotic animal patients.
Biography
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Author:Taylor, DavidSummary: - Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun--a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four--chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he...
- Author:Gurwitch, AnnabelleSummary:
Actress, producer, and acclaimed writer Annabelle Gurwitch--once fired from a play by Woody Allen--can find humor in any situation. Here she teams with her husband Jeff Kahn for a funny look at the ups and downs of marriage.
- Author:Love, LauraSummary:
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Laura Love is known for her "folk-funk" style of music. In this, her writing debut, she focuses her talents on a poignant memoir of growing up in an extremely dysfunctional family in racially troubled...
- Author:White, GeoffSummary:
An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990-2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of creating and enacting international...
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Author:Charron, Suzanne F.Summary: - Author:Olsen, KeithSummary:
One winter in the 1960's Keith Olsen, his brother and parents went out to a trapline on Little Mahigan Lake in Northern Saskatchwan. Olsen recounts how his family made a success of this way of life with 2 young boys.
- Author:Sledge, E. B.Summary:
A personal account of the vitality and bravery of the U.S. Marines at the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
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Author:Oates, Stephen B.Summary:Award-winning historian uses primary and secondary sources to illuminate the personal and professional life of Abraham Lincoln. Depicts Lincoln's struggle to succeed in the legal and business fields, his disappointing early...
- Author:Ramsden, JohnSummary:
In this course, Queen Mary University of London history professor John Ramsden discusses Churchill's extraordinary life and his remarkable range of skills including his achievements in a sixty-year-long public life. He seeks to answer...
- Author:Holden, AnthonySummary:
Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.
- Author:Abramson, Ann.Summary:
In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding. Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Anne's life...
- Author:Papalia, NicSummary:
Nic Papalia works as a carer for people with disabilities. In this book he describes situations and characters he has come into contact with, as well as the struggles and personal hardships both carers and their clients must face on a...
- Author:Cassidy, CodySummary:
Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire - and most critically, who was the first to brave the...
- Author:Cullen, KevinSummary:
Chronicles the criminal career of the gangster who provided a protection racket against drug lords, ran illegal gambling, robbed banks, and served as an informant for the FBI until going into hiding for sixteen years.
- Author:Grof, StanislavSummary:
Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye. But Dr. Stanislav Grof-the...
- Author:Stynes, JimSummary:
The switch to Aussie rules by the Irish Gaelic football player. How he left his country and his move to the Melbourne Football Club and also his Brownlow Medal win.
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Author:Greenwood, ThereseSummary:Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was devastated by one of the worst wildfires in Canadian history. As the flames approached, they had only minutes to pack, narrowly...
- Author:Schutz, FredSummary:
A collection of articles from Fred Schultz’s weekly column which appeared in the Rimby Record between 1954 and 1997. Filled with enchanting observations of both natural and human history, West of the Blindman reminds us of the beauty...
- Author:Cooper, BeckySummary:
Forty years after the fact, Becky Cooper, a curious Harvard undergrad, first heard whispers of a murdered student, one bludgeoned to death by a professor to cover up an affair. Though that motive proved false, the story that unfolded,...
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