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In the center of the night: journey through a bereavement
By Jayne Blankenship. 1984
A young Rhode Island widow works through the shattering impact of her loss by recording in her diary the course…
of her "apprenticeship as a person." The journal chronicles the intense catharsis, interpolated with dream sequences, of a woman healing herself and, in the process, others. 1984.I thought my father was God and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project: And Other True Tales From Npr's National Story Project
By Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler. 2001
When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's 'Weekend All Things Considered' to submit stories about their…
personal experiences, the results were overwhelming, resulting in editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. 2011. Uniform title: Weekend all things considered (Radio program)I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
By Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.Heron Hill chronicle
By George Reiger. 1994
In 1970 shortly after their wedding, George and Barbara Reiger purchased an old farmhouse on the coastal shores of Virginia…
as a second home. Then, when their lives in Washington, D.C., and New York proved to be too hectic, they forsook their metropolitan lifestyles and moved to the farm permanently. Reiger, a conservation editor for Field and Stream, describes their life at Heron Hill, where they have learned to live off the land. 1994.Elusive subject: a biographer's life
By Phyllis Grosskurth. 1999
When Phyllis Grosskurth was a girl, she imagined herself growing up to be a detective, a sleuth on the trail…
of the wicked, the dangerous, the ones who didn’t want to be found out. Some time later her ambition changed to that of writer. Her destiny combined both; today she is the tireless discoverer of secret lives, whose international reputation for daring scholarship has made her, in the words of one critic, "Canada’s premier biographer." This is her autobiography. c1999.Dear Sad Goat: a roundup of truly Canadian tales and letters
By Bill Richardson, Ed Richardson Bill. 2002
At the heart of Richardson's CBC Radio show is a variety of domestic tales that listeners relate through letters and…
phone calls. Their stories are sometimes comic and sometimes achingly sad. This is a collection of 163 of the most memorable of these letters - everyday stories of everyday Canadians reflecting life in every part of Canada. 2002.Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
By Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.How Linda died
By Frank Davey. 2002
Linda Davey was a lawyer, wife and mother, gourmet cook and wine connoisseur, and show-dog owner. In May of 1999…
she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. While caring for her with their two children, Linda's husband Frank chronicled her life, family, illness, and ultimately, her death. 2002.Dearest Émilie: the love-letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Madame Emilie Lavergne
By Wilfrid Laurier, Emilie Lavergne, Charles Fisher. 1989
Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada for 15 years. It was Emilie, the wife of his law partner in a…
small Quebec town, who planned his transformation from talented bumpkin to influential statesman. Their affection is displayed in these 40 letters from Wilfrid to Emilie.Hello sweetheart, get me rewrite: remembering the great newspaper wars
By Val Sears. 1988
In their competition to build readership during the 1950s, Canadian newspapers resorted to extreme measures, even hiding crime victims, for…
the sake of an exclusive story. Sears' account of the behind-the-scenes skirmishes among reporters battling for a scoop is often humourous, sometimes surprising and occasionally tragic. c1988.Georges Vanier, soldier: the wartime letters and diaries, 1915-1919
By Deborah Cowley, Georges P Vanier. 2000
The wartime letters and diaries of Georges Vanier, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967. He…
was twenty-six when he became one of the first men to join the newly established Royal 22nd Regiment. His service in the First World War shaped his character, and he often described the four years spent on the battlefields of Europe as the most rewarding of his life. 2000.Fail until you don't: fight grind repeat
By Bobby Bones. 2018
Dust to dust: a memoir
By Benjamin Busch. 2018
Benjamin Busch is a veteran who has served two combat tours in Iraq. He is an actor on the hit…
HBO series The Wire and is the son of the acclaimed novelist Frederick Busch. In this memoir, Busch reflects upon life and loss, the longing for the elemental and the call of the wild, and how the curious children we were remain alive in us all. 2018.Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
By Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.Canada
By Mike Myers. 2016
The book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what…
makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian—and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. Bestseller. 2016.H is for hawk
By Helen Macdonald. 2015
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since…
childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of "The Sword and the Stone" author T. H. White's chronicle "The Goshawk" to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity. Bestseller. 2015.Fragments: memoirs of a wartime childhood
By Binjamin Wilkomirski. 1995
A man's memoir of his early boyhood experiences in Nazi death camps. Recounts his father's cruel death, his separation from…
family, the terror and suffering of his internment, and his deliverance to a Swiss orphanage. Descriptions of violence. 1995. Uniform title: Bruchstucke.Hope & despair: my struggle to free my husband, Maher Arar
By Monia Mazigh. 2008
September 2002. Maher Arar, Canadian citizen, engineer and entrepreneur, boarded a plane in Tunisia bound for New York. Pulled aside…
by Immigration officials at JFK airport, he was questioned, held without access to a lawyer, and ultimately deported to Syria on the suspicion that he had terrorist links. He would remain there, tortured and imprisoned, while his wife Monia worked tirelessly to bring public attention and government action to her husband's plight. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.Hostage in Peking
By Anthony Grey. 1970
The author, a journalist in China, was taken as a hostage by the Chinese communist regime, and this account of…
his two years' solitary confinement is based on the secret diaries he managed to keep during this time. 1970.Fairy tale interrupted: a memoir of life, love, and loss
By RoseMarie Terenzio. 2012
A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing…
how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death. 2012.