Investigates the enigmatic Native American figure, assessing critical battles attributed to his leadership within the context of the Great Sioux Wars, exploring the relationships between the Lakota Sioux and other tribes, and analyzing...
Biography
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Author:Sadlier, RosemarySummary:Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.
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Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:Presents a biography of the peerless warrior who defeated the U.S. Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn. To his fellow Lakota Indians, Crazy Horse was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and...
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Author:Slezkine, YuriSummary:Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.
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Author:HAMLIN, CatherineSummary:Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world.
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Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.
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Author:Do, Anh.Summary:Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of...
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Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:Myers offers a portrait of one of the world's greatest boxers chronicles his childhood, his rise as a champion, his politics, and his battle against Parkinsons' disease.
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Author:McCullough, David G.Summary:Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.
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The inspiring story of one of Canada's most remarkable and humble citizens who, in her mission of supporting equality and giving voice to those who had no voice, travelled much of the globe and met some of the greatest leaders of our...
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Author:Butala, SharonSummary:In 1961, a country singer named Johnny Cash chose a beautiful young woman named Alexandra Wiwcharuk to be his "Girl in Saskatoon" and sang to her in front of a hometown crowd. A few months later she would be found brutally...
- Author:O'Brien, GeorgeSummary:
Georgetown University professor George O'Brien provides the biographical background of the four masters of Irish literature and an in-depth analysis of their greatest works. O'Brien discusses the very qualities that set these works...
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Author:Fry, StephenSummary:The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Author:Wizenberg, MollySummary:At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew...
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Author:Griffith, VictoriaSummary:Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
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Author:Renaud, AnneSummary:Anna Swan grew to an astonishing size -- nearly 2.5 metres (almost 8 feet) tall. She was billed as ?The Nova Scotia Giant Girl? at P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York. But despite her unusual and challenging physical attributes,...
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Author:Laveau-Harvie, VickiSummary:"...A searing, brilliantly-written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel..." --Margaret Atwood via Twitter. In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the decline and death of their outlandishly...
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Author:Hautzig, Esther RudominSummary:During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...
- Author:Adams, HenrySummary:
Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology.
- Author:Halberstam, DavidSummary:
David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he had a special aptitude for football and teaching. During his 31 years in the league, he would parlay a...
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