In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, if she promised to write her memoirs. After...
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Author:Singh, JaspreetSummary: -
Author:Clarkson, Stephen, McCall, ChristinaSummary:In February 1956, a remarkable young woman named Christina McCall began her working life as an editorial secretary at Maclean's magazine. It was a legendary time there, when the likes of Pierre Berton, Robert Fulford, June Callwood,...
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Author:Taussig, Michael T.Summary:In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
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The second in the series of three autobiographies penned by Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom picks up where Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass left off. This volume recounts more gripping details of Douglass'...
- Author:Chin, Ava.Summary:
"Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history-and the American present." -Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San...
- Author:Linnell, GarrySummary:
Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins...
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Author:Ellis, DeborahSummary:Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that continues to this day. Fifteen-year-old...
- Author:Ling, JustinSummary:
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men—the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur—from Toronto's queer community. In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men—...
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Author:King, CharlesSummary:At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul, people were looking toward...
- Author:Fagell, Phyllis L.Summary:
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades six through eight as a distinct developmental phase, and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.
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Author:Wickham, ChrisSummary:Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises and moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne's reforms, the feudal...
- Author:Saunders, DougSummary:
Globe and Mail feature columnist Doug Saunders argues we need 100 million Canadians if we're to outgrow our colonial past and build a safer, greener, more prosperous future. It would shock most Canadians to learn that before 1967, more...
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Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically...
- Author:Thomas, Paul G.Summary:
Manitoba Politics and Government is a rich and fascinating account of a province that strives for the centre, for the delicate middle ground where individualism and collectivism overlap, and where a multitude of different cultures and...
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Author:Millward, LizSummary:In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to...
- Author:Juma, Liliane LeilaSummary:
Liliane Leila Juma was 16 years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart...
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Author:Barr, DamianSummary:Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year.
"This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning... - Author:Heron, CraigSummary:
Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton's working people from the 1890s to the 1930s. It ambles along city streets, peers through kitchen doors and factory windows, marches up the steps...
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Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere.
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Living the Changes explores the nature and extent of women's changing realities. The contributors include writers, artists, academics, street kids and social workers, and range in age from nine to seventy-three. Their topics...
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