Here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling." From the moment she and her husband Paul, who worked for the USIS, arrived in the fall of 1948, Julia...
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- Author:HUMPHRIES, BarrySummary:
Australia's most famous comedian reflects on his long journey from childhood to adolescence, and his love-hate relationship with Australia.
- Author:Frey, JamesSummary:
James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with My Friend Leonard. After a stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab,...
- Author:Berry, Mary FrancesSummary:
Born into slavery, Callie House helped create the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899 as a freedwoman. The organization, one of the first of its kind, campaigned for the reparations promised to African...
- Author:Quealey, Michael, Haberman, Arthur, Rehner, JanSummary:
My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in reforming the mass and in...
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A collection of writings by disabled women, in which they share, sometimes with humour, the everyday reality of their lives, and seek to challenge the cliches and misconceptions commonly held about disabled people.
- Author:Neville, PeterSummary:
- Author:BALLENTINE, JackSummary:
Jack Ballentine became a police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to the top of his field as the US most successful undercover operative. Assuming the identity of a biker and hitman, he developed a network of sources that included...
- Author:McCullough, David G.Summary:
This spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886, when he returns from the west a "real life cowboy" to puck up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
- Author:BROCK, JoanSummary:
The true story of a teacher of blind children - who suddenly lost her own sight.
- Author:Louttit, ErnieSummary:
Retired Police Sergeant Ernie Louttit takes you back to the streets of Saskatoon in his second book, a street cop's view of the realities of dealing with prostitutes, street gangs, drunk drivers, and other offenders. He gives people who...
- Author:Foran, CharlesSummary:
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian,...
- Author:Smith, Daniel B.Summary:
We all think we know what being anxious feels like, but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. In this uplifting and very funny memoir, Daniel Smith articulates what it is like to...
- Author:Gilles LaporteSummary:
A l'été 2009, l'acquisition du club de hockey Canadien par les frères Molson était accueillie par un concert d'éloges. On assiste ainsi au retour d'une grande tradition, et on ramène à la mémoire des gens le...
- Author:Rubenstein, LorneSummary:
Rubenstein offers a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course--and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it.
- Author:Novesky, Amy.Summary:
Discusses American Jazz singer Billie Holiday and her dogs, especially her pet boxer, Mister.
- Author:De Vries, MaggieSummary:
On April 14, 1998, Sarah de Vries disappeared from her usual spot on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver. She became one of the many women who had vanished from the Downtown Eastside—women, most of them sex workers and drug...
- Author:Fleming, Brandon P.Summary:
Brandon P. Fleming shares the story of his transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate, all by the age of twenty-seven.
- Author:Kallio, WayneSummary:
Tells the true story of this middle-class couple's face-to-face battle with schizophrenia.
- Author:Corrigan, FlorenceSummary:
A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback. An inspiring memoir from Florence Corrigan, who spent her childhood in bough shelters and makeshift camps, looking after her younger siblings, while her parents eked out a...