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The gambler: how penniless dropout Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest deal maker in capitalist history
By William C Rempel. 2018
Tells the rags-to-riches story of self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian--the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las…
Vegas and Hollywood as one of the top financiers in America. 2018.In 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for…
the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster took place: the largest man-made detonation prior to Hiroshima. 2017.The education of a coach
By David Halberstam. 2006
David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he…
had a special aptitude for football and teaching. During his 31 years in the league, he would parlay a lifetime of experience into one of the most successful careers in NFL history. Bestseller. 2006.The education of Henry Adams
By Henry Adams. 2003
Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but…
also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology. 2003.The diary of Samuel Pepys: Excerpts
By Samuel Pepys. 1991
Covers the nine years (1660-1669) during which the author kept his diary. Describes Pepys’ social and domestic life, the plague…
of 1665, and London’s great fire of 1666. 1991. Uniform title: Diary.The dirty life: on farming, food, and love
By Kristin Kimball. 2010
Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York, Kimball was beginning to feel a sense of longing for family…
and home, and when she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Smitten, she moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start Essex Farm. This chronicle of the first year describes how she and her future husband grew everything needed to feed their community. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2010.The edible man: Dave Nichol, President's Choice & the making of popular taste
By Anne Kingston. 1994
Chronicles the rise of Dave Nichol, whose work with private label products helped revolutionize the supermarket industry. First brought into…
Loblaws by Galen Weston in 1971, Nichol became president in 1976, but was moved to a smaller arm of Loblaws in 1984. Here, he met his great success, developing President's Choice into a retail phenomenon. Kingston discusses Nichol's work at Loblaws, his aggressive and sometimes abusive personality, and his departure from Loblaws in 1993. 1994.The education of Augie Merasty: a residential school memoir (The regina Collection)
By David Carpenter, Joseph Auguste Merasty. 2015
Joseph (Augie) Merasty was one of 150,000 children taken from their families and sent to residential schools. Merasty takes readers…
inside his time at residential school, where he was taught to be ashamed of his family and his culture and where he experienced emotional and physical abuse. But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through. 2015.The Eatons: the rise and fall of Canada's royal family
By Rod McQueen. 1998
A revealing look at how the Eaton dynasty was created over four generations and almost destroyed in one. It discusses…
the private and business lives of a colourful cast of characters who have touched the lives of Canadians from coast to coast. 1998.The disease fighters: the Nobel Prize in medicine ([Nobel Prize winners])
By Nathan Aaseng. 1987
The dream of water: a memoir
By Kyoko Mori. 1995
Mori tells how she fled Japan for America when she was twenty, escaping cruel treatment by her father and harsh…
memories of the place where her mother committed suicide. Thirteen years later, she returns to explore her homeland, reunites with relatives, and comes to terms with her tortured relationship with her father. 1995.The discovery of insulin
By Michael Bliss. 1982
The discovery of insulin in 1922 was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the century and one of…
the most controversial. Bliss examines the research of, and the rivalry within, the team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod.The Dutch discovery of Japan: the true story behind James Clavell's famous novel Shogun
By Dirk J Barreveld. 2001
The Netherlands in the early seventeenth century was struggling for its independence from Spain and seething with economic activities. When…
a fleet of its spice ships tried sailing to the east via the Strait of Magellan instead of through the Cape of Good Hope, only one reached Japan. Its British pilot, William Adams, managed to befriend the Shogun, and only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan for the next 250 years. 2001.The Duchess of Kent
By Helen Cathcart. 1971
The Duke of deception: memories of my father
By Geoffrey Wolff. 1979
The author recaptures the paradox of his brilliant father's turbulent life. Although he found it "fun to be Duke Wolff’s…
son," it was also harrowing to see his father's lies, debts, drinking, and irresponsibility. Some strong language. 1979.The Duchess of Windsor
By Michael Bloch. 1996
This biography of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor, examines her relationship with Edward VIII, her previous unhappy marriages, and their…
life together after they were forced to leave England. Her early life is also examined and questions surrounding her birth and early life are addressed. 1996.The Duke of Windsor's war
By Michael Bloch. 1982
The devils of Loudun (The collected Works Of Aldous Huxley Ser.)
By Aldous Huxley. 1952
A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history
By Katherine Ashenburg. 2007
The apparently routine task of taking up soap and water (or not) is the starting point for an exploration of…
Western culture, which yields insights into our notions of privacy, health, individuality, religion and sexuality. Charts the history of human hygiene, describing those who either didn't wash at all (medieval Europeans) or who did with almost ritualistic fervour (ancient Romans and Greeks). 2008, c2007.The dreadful judgement: the true story of the great fire of London 1666
By Neil Hanson. 2002
In 1666, a ten-month drought had turned London into a tinderbox, and when the spark ignited, there was no stopping…
it. Gales, dry timber and the riverside warehouses full of flammable goods ensured that five days later city was in ruins. This is the human story of that "dreadful judgement". Includes strong language. 2002.