The author draws on dozens of interviews conducted in London, New York, Montreal, and Toronto to present a portrait of novelist, essayist, satirist, and iconoclast Mordecai Richler. His public and private lives are documented in a close...
Biography
- Author:Posner, MichaelSummary:
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. But Chapman achieved the notoriety he craved, and wounded the spirit of a generation.
- Author:Ribowsky, MarkSummary:
A biography of the legendary professional football coach and strategist. After playing with the AAFC Yankees and NFL Giants, then as defensive coach of the Giants, Landry spent thirty years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, including...
- Author:Pitts, GordonSummary:
From a small-town law office in Nova Scotia to the pressure-cooker boardrooms of London, England, where he was Margaret Thatcher's "privatization ace," lawyer and businessman Sir Graham Day has earned an international reputation as a...
- Author:Nakazawa, Donna JacksonSummary:
In this book the author, a science journalist explores the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for a decade, curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her, including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture.
- Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:
Traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substance.
- Author:Powers, ThomasSummary:
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...
- Author:Sadlier, RosemarySummary:
Learn the important role Black Canadian's have played, and will continue to play, in the development of Canada.
- 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...
- Author:Equiano, OlaudahSummary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Author:Drury, Bob, Clavin, TomSummary:
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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Author:Goode, BarbSummary:
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...
- 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...
- 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.