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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.Home winemaking for dummies
By Tim Patterson. 2011
Making high-quality wines is fun and easy. This must-have guide gives you easy-to-follow instructions in everything from selecting the right…
grapes and the proper equipment, to the crush and fermentation, to aging and bottling your wine. Award-winning home winemaker Tim Patterson provides tips on how to make every style of wine — red, white, dry, sweet, and bubbly. 2011.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.Fat girl: a true story
By Judith Moore. 2005
Award-winning author’s candid memoir of growing up overweight. Relates her struggles at school and home throughout an unhappy childhood and…
adolescence that were shaped by an absent, food-obsessed father, an abusive mother, a spiteful grandmother, and a kind, homosexual uncle. 2005.Emergency sex and other desperate measures: a true story from Hell on Earth
By Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thomson. 2004
In the early 1990s, authors Kenneth Cain and Heidi Postlewait, two American U.N. employees, along with Andrew Thomson, a New…
Zealand doctor, were sent to Cambodia. Motivated by idealism, financial need, adventure, and wanting to be part of history, the three move from Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti, to Bosnia, Rwanda and Liberia, finding death, bureaucratic betrayal, liberation from their pasts and seamy, regret-tainted sex amid the body parts and rotting flesh. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2004.Encyclopedia of an ordinary life: volume one
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 2005
Professed "ordinary" person Rosenthal has challenged a Chicago parking ticket on grounds of karma (and won), and had a professional…
police artist draw sketches of her based on descriptions from her father and husband. In this encyclopedia-cum-memoir, she alphabetically explores her life with vignettes, lists, and charts, documenting experiences we all have but never think twice about. 2005.Falls memories
By Gerry Adams. 1994
Personal reminiscences, Irish history, and local colour are interwoven in this book of Belfast memories by the president of Sinn…
Féin. The author recounts events of his youth and tells tales of faeries and in-house wakes. He also makes observations on politics and the Irish labour movement. 1994.Escape: in search of the natural soul of Canada
By Roy MacGregor. 2002
A look into the history of Roy MacGregor's family and its ties to the Ontario wilderness, showing an attachment between…
humans and nature. This is further reflected by the development of "cottage country" in the nineteenth century as a way to escape back to nature. 2002.Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream (Fear And Loathing Ser.)
By Hunter S Thompson. 1993
In this savage dissection of the American dream, the narrator enters Las Vegas armed with an arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'.…
His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror. 1993.