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The girl with nine wigs: a memoir

By Sophie Van der Stap. 2015

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Sophie is twenty-one when she is diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. A striking, fun-loving student, her world…

is reduced overnight to the sterile confines of a hospital. But within these walls Sophie discovers a whole new world of white coats, gossiping nurses, and sexy doctors; of shared rooms, hair loss, and eyebrow pencils. As wigs become a crucial part of Sophie's new life, she reclaims a sense of self-expression. Each of Sophie's nine wigs makes her feel stronger and gives her a distinct personality, and that is why each has its own name: Stella, Sue, Daisy, Blondie, Platina, Uma, Pam, Lydia, and Bebé. There's a bit of Sophie in all of them, and they reveal as much as they hide. Sophie is determined to be much more than a cancer patient. 2015.

The futilitarians: our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading

By Anne Gisleson. 2017

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Biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

The Futilitarians is a guide to living curiously and fully and ultimately asks us, "How do we keep moving forward…

amid all this loss and threat?" Anne tells us: "One answer is, we do it together." 2017.

The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II

By Denise Kiernan. 2013

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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), History, United States history
Human-narrated audio

At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents. But to most of the…

world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians—many of them young women from small towns across the South—were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war—when Oak Ridge’s fateful secret was revealed. Bestseller. 2013.

The glitter girls: charity & vanity : chronicles of an era of excess

By Rosemary Sexton. 1993

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Biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio

Portrayal of Toronto's wealthy women who organize lavish charity balls. Sexton, who was the society columnist for the "Globe and…

Mail" from 1988 to 1993, describes the women's organizational skills for the balls and their talent for gossip and backbiting. 1993.

The girl from Leam Lane: the life and writing of Catherine Cookson

By Piers Dudgeon. 1997

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Biography, Literature biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Catherine Cookson's first novel, "Kate Hannigan", was published in 1950. The novel represented the author's triumph over unhappiness - within…

its pages she was exorcising her own demons. Piers Dudgeon unlocks her complex character using her many books as a key and explores with Catherine herself the tortured drama of her personal life and its resolution. 1997.

The girl in the painted caravan: memories of a Romany childhood

By Eva Petulengro. 2011

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Biography, Family biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, Eva Petulengro's childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in every way.…

She would travel the country with her family in their painted caravan and spend evenings by the fire as they sang and told stories of their past. She didn't go to school or visit a doctor when she was unwell. Instead her family would gather wild herbs to make traditional remedies, hunt game and rabbits, and while the men tended horses to make a living, the young girls would join the women in reading palms. But Eva's perfect world would be turned upside down as the countryside became increasingly hostile to all travellers. 2011.

The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow

By Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…

Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.

The girl in Saskatoon: a meditation on friendship, memory and murder

By Sharon Butala. 2008

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Law and crime biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, True crime
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In 1962, Alexandra Wiwcharuk was found murdered on the banks of the Saskatchewan River. Nearly 50 years later, her murder…

still haunts Saskatoon residents, especially those who, like Butala, were Alexandra's friends. Compelled by her memories of Alex, Butala returns to that still-unsolved murder, writing an in-depth investigation of the tragic death, a nostalgic coming-of-age story, and an exploration of the nature of good and evil. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2008.

The galleys at Lepanto

By Jack Beeching. 1982

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Adventure and exploration, History, European history, War
Human-narrated audio
Popular history focuses on the events leading up to the battle of Lepanto in 1571 when galleys from Christian Europe defeated the Turkish grand fleet. 1983, c1982.

The genius of China: 3,000 years of science, discovery, and invention

By Robert K. G Temple, Joseph Needham. 1986

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History, Asian history
Human-narrated audio

Reveals the Chinese origins of such "modern" inventions as paper and printing, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass. Temple's eleven topics--including…

astronomy, engineering, medicine, and warfare--provide historical context and show that more than half of the basic discoveries considered "Western" were developed earlier in China. 1998, c1986.

The gifts of the Jews: how a tribe of desert nomads changed the way everyone thinks and feels (Hinges of history. #2.)

By Thomas Cahill. 1998

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History, Lifestyle, Judaism
Human-narrated audio

Cahill continues his study of civilizations, begun in "How the Irish Saved Civilization" (DC15036), with an extended look at the…

Torah. He shows how events therein, especially the Jews' belief in one God and their ability to look at reality in a whole new way, influenced civilization. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1998.

The genius and the goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe

By Jeffrey Meyers. 2009

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Biography, Actors biography, Literature biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Dual biographies of playwright Arthur Miller (1915-2005) and actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). Traces the couple's disparate family backgrounds and 1956…

marriage. Describes Monroe's role as Miller's muse but posits that her psychological problems and feelings of inadequacy led to their divorce after five years. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.

The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church

By Margaret Visser. 2000

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, History, European history
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

This book features the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome as its subject. The author takes readers on…

a journey through time and space, beginning with the modern church and the community that uses it. She discusses the history, theology, art history and technology, hagiography, folklore and iconography expressed in this 7th century building. 2000.

The firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice

By Patricia Bell-Scott. 2016

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Politics and government biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and…

a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom. 2016.

The flu of 1918: millions dead worldwide! (Nightmare Plagues Ser.)

By Jessica Rudolph. 2011

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History
Human-narrated audio
Describes the 1918 influenza (sometimes called the Spanish influenza), explaining the causes of the disease, how it affects the body, and how it became a pandemic.Grades 5-8. 2011.

The fourth part of the world: the race to the ends of the Earth, and the epic story of the map that gave America its name

By Toby Lester. 2009

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, United States history
Human-narrated audio

Discusses the 1507 Waldseemüller map - the first to designate America - which is in the collections of and displayed…

by the Library of Congress. Traces the overlapping voyages, some geographical and some intellectual, that brought about the map’s revolutionary depiction of the world. 2009.

The first Stampede of Flores LaDue: based on the true love story of Florence and Guy Wedick in celebration of the centenary of the Calgary Stampede, 1912-2012

By Wendy Bryden. 2011

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio

The love story of rodeo promoter Guy Weadick and trick roper Flores LaDue began among the rough-and-tumble vaudevillians who preserved…

the frontier way of life in the first Wild West shows. Their love endured through North American performances in the small-time and big-time circuits, to the audiences of Europe, and culminated in 1912 with the most spectacular of accomplishments - the establishment of the greatest outdoor show on earth, the Calgary Stampede. c2011.

The first Vietnam war

By Peter M Dunn. 1985

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
History, Asian history
Human-narrated audio

Immediately after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, Saigon was occupied by British forces directed…

from Mountbatten's South East Asia Command. These forces became the first of a Western nation to clash with a Communist-led revolution in Asia, and by thwarting the Viet Minh's desperate attempts to seize power, made it impossible for South Vietnam to hold out when North Vietnam fell to the Communists in 1954. 1985.

The flight of the patriot: escape from revolutionary Iran

By Yadi Sharifirad. 2010

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Politics and government biography, War and military biography, History
Human-narrated audio

Sharifirad was shot down in the Iraqi-Iranian war in the early 1990s, saved by a group of local Kurds, and…

eventually returned to Iran where he became a national hero. The Ayatollah sent him to Pakistan as military attaché, but when he returned to Teheran, he was accused of being a CIA spy and was imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured. Upon his release, despite constant surveillance, he resolved to smuggle his family out of the country. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.

The flying carpet of small miracles: a woman's fight to save two orphans

By Hala Jaber. 2009

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Literature biography, Women biography, War
Human-narrated audio

Jaber, a Lebanese-British foreign correspondent, describes covering the Gulf War and her personal engagement with an Iraqi family caught in…

the crossfire. Reporting on the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Jaber took up the cause of hospitalized children wounded in the bombing, and helped start a fund to provide them with better medical attention and supplies. In particular, she learned the extraordinary story of two orphans and decided to adopt them. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.

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