A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died. Numb with grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much joy: a tiny single-seat biplane called...
Biography
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Author:Rotondo, JonathanSummary: -
Author:BACKHOUSE, ElizabethSummary:An imaginative recreation of the history of two families, commencing in Yorkshire and extending to Australia. Covering pre and First World War periods, the goldrushes, Great Depression, and the Second World War and its aftermath.
- Author:SCOTLAND, Laurel, SCOTLAND, TomSummary:
This book tells the stories of Tom and Laurel Scotland, a West Australian couple. The book deals with their meeting, marriage and twenty-two years work as missionaries with WEC International, and subsequent chaplaincy and counselling...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
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Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary: - Author:Tilley, GeoffSummary:
By thirty Geoff Tilley had attained his Foreign-Going Master Certificate, the highest qualification in the merchant marine. Not long after he took a job with the Fremantle Stevedoring Company. Soon he was the youngest and highest paid...
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Author:Greenberg, JanSummary:Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.
- Author:Hoskyns, BarneySummary:
Starting out as a backing band for rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins before being propelled on to the world stage by no less than Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums. Retreating from...
- Author:McPherson, James M.Summary:
McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House.
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Author:Maher, SanamSummary:In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Maher reconstructs the story of her life to restore the humanity of the woman at its center.
- Author:Albatta, Madeeha Hafez, Bill, Barbara, Ageel, Ghada, Abu Sitta, SalmanSummary:
Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation bear witness to life in...
- Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their...
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Author:Ayed, NahlahSummary:CBC Middle East correspondent and Palestinian-Canadian Nahlah Ayed writes with insight and first-hand knowledge of the myriad ways in which the Arab people have fought against oppression and loss. Ayed was born to Palestinian refugee...
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Author:BLASI, Marlena deSummary:A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, Marlena de Blasi thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet, within a few months she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up children goodbye and moves to Venice to...
- Author:Caldwell, GailSummary:
Caldwell was born in Texas in 1951; in a land of plains so vast they frightened her. Caldwell's mother was a clandestine lover of books; her father was a master sergeant in World War II. These personalities shaped Caldwell; during the...
- Author:Dugard, Jaycee LeeSummary:
This memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard chronicles her kidnapping and the 18 years she was kept prisoner, then sexually and mentally abused. Jaycee was taken when she was 11 years old.
- Author:LEES, RichardSummary:
An inspiring story of a man who was brought up in Rochdale in the fifties, and who battled with the trauma of losing his sight as a teenager.
- 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...
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Author:Lightman, Alan P.Summary:In a series of essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth...
- 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...
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