In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the...
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Author:Bird, Will R.Summary: -
Author:Raab, Elisabeth M.Summary:“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang...
- Author:McKinnon Crook, MarionSummary:
The true story of an adventurous young nurse who provided much-needed health care to the rural communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the 1960s. In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon arrived in the small community...
- Author:Doyle, AlanSummary:
National Bestseller One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for...
- Author:Kimber, StephenSummary:
Alexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she helped transform Nova Scotian and Canadian...
- 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: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: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:Somers, SuzanneSummary:
At seventy-three years young, #1 New York Times bestselling author and health guru Suzanne Somers has established herself as a leading voice on antiaging. With A New Way to Age , she "is at the forefront again, bringing seminal...
- 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:Thiboutot, HuguetteSummary:
Il fait soleil. La cigale chante. Maman Julianna et papa Paul relaxent sur leur galerie du 114, rue Saint-Louis. L'autre côté de la rue, ma tante Thérèse étendue dans sa chaise longue envoie la main. En face, chez mon oncle Edmond...
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