Human rights activist Lisa Shannon weaves together the stories of one family's tragic encounters with Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in the Congo with tales from the family's rich and vibrant history. These...
Biography
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Author:Shannon, LisaSummary: -
Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At nineteen, he was...
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Author:Mulcahy, Patricia, Eaton, RebeccaSummary:For more than twenty-five years, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS's Masterpiece Theatre, the longest-running weekly prime-time drama series in American history. Here she interviews many of the writers, directors, producers, and...
- Author:MAINWARING, ChrisSummary:
Humorous autobiography of the West Coast Eagles player and now media personality.
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Author:Ball, HeatherSummary:This book features a selection of politically-active, inspiring women who have made important contributions to music history. Their stories begin in the mid-18th Century with Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, a gifted German composer whose...
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Author:Shapiro, J. H.Summary:A picture book biography of urban environmental artist Tyree Guyton, discussing his childhood in 1950s Detroit and the way he used art to transform his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an internationally-recognized exhibit.
- Author:Maddox, BrendaSummary:
"Who is Margaret Thatcher? Her influence on politics is well documented - not least by Lady Thatcher herself. What kind of person was she that she could overcome her background, the snobbery of Oxford University and then of the...
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Author:Tippett, MariaSummary:Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? The eight creative figures profiled in Made in British Columbia are not just distinguished artists who made an enduring mark on Canadian...
- Author:LANE, ElizabethSummary:
An idyllic and rollickingly humorous story of a girl growing up in a large family on a farm in the Victorian Wimmera.
- Author:Régis LachanceSummary:
J'ose me mettre à nu pour vous raconter mon expérience de vie personnelle. A travers tous les coups durs que j'ai reçus, c'est grâce à ma résilience et ma ténacité que j'ai pu me rendre où j'en suis...
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Author:Shearing, GeorgeSummary:"Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique...
- Author:Hemphill, PaulSummary:
A sickly and awkward boy who turned into a country music legend, Hiram Williams had reinvented himself as Hank Williams and taken to alcohol by the age of 14. He was dead by the age of 29. Here, Paul Hemphill recounts the tortured life...
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Author:Jetté Knox, AmandaSummary:All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly,...
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Author:Pawagi, ManjushaSummary:Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be...
- Author:Shaw, R. C.Summary:
"This crazy beautiful quest narrative puts Don Quixote on a bicycle and sends him out to face history with a surfboard. Half hilarious dream-adventure, half marathon nightmare, the end result is a madcap love letter to Nova Scotia."-...
- Author:Rustad, HarleySummary:
In 2016, after quitting his job to explore the world, Justin Alexander Shetler made his way into India's Parvati Valley. Setting off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake, Justin was never seen again.
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Author:Greenaway, LorneSummary: -
Author:McLAREN, DuncanSummary:If you are willing to acknowledge that Enid Blyton once mattered enormously to you, you are warmly invited to accompany the author on an adventure that will investigate what made Enid Enid and endeavour to reach the source of her...
- Author:MANDELA, NelsonSummary:
Memoirs of the President of the African National Congress and leader of the anti-Apartheid movement.
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Author:Maupin, ArmisteadSummary:Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Maupin reflects on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, sharing his candid search for his "logical family," the people...
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