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Sold: a story of modern day slavery
By Andrew Crofts, Zana Muhsen. 1994
Fifteen year old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia, born and raised in Birmingham, travelled to visit relatives in…
North Yemen for a holiday, to discover their father had sold them into marriage. They were helpless prisoners, forced to adapt to a primitive way of life, rape and frequent beatings. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana escaped. This book tells of her experience and her fight to bring her sister home. 1994.Spirit of survival
By Gail Sheehy. 1986
The author tells the story of Phat Mohm, an 11-year-old Cambodian refugee adopted by Sheehy. She describes the process that…
the two undertook to accommodate their different lives and backgrounds. Descriptions of violence. c1986.Slipstream: a daughter remembers
By Rachel Manley. 2000
Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.SportScience: physical laws and optimum performance
By Peter J Brancazio. 1984
Sisters first: stories from our wild and wonderful life
By Barbara Bush, Jenna Bush, Laura Welch Bush. 2017
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. In this book they take…
listeners on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, with never-before-told stories about their family, their adventures, their loves and losses, and the special sisterly bond that fulfills them. Bestseller. 2017.Skating on skis
By Dick Mansfield. 1988
Sisters: the story of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine
By Charles Higham. 1984
Shards of glass
By C. W Seymore. 2013
"Were you ever raped?" That question was the catalyst to what you are now about to experience in revisiting my…
most vivid memories of childhood abuse. How I endured, coped, survived and healed from my past. This journey is one of pain, terror and an emotional roller coaster, but it is also a story of faith, resilience, hope, forgiveness and the magnificent blessing of healing and thriving. 2013.Shoshanna's story: a mother, a daughter and the shadows of history
By Elaine Kalman Naves. 2003
At the end of the Second World War, a survivor of Auschwitz, her husband and most of her family dead,…
makes her way home to Hungary. After giving birth to another man's child, her husband returns home, forcing her to make a choice that will cloud her life, and her daughter's, forever. The author is the daughter who grew up with the consequences of that decision, and who was raised on family stories that were both a burden and a gift. Their inescapable message of lost love and lost lives create a resentful divide between mother and daughter, until they finally lead to acceptance and reconciliation. Some descriptions of sex, and descriptions of violence. 2003.Short circuit: Inside The World Of Professional Tennis
By Michael Mewshaw. 1983
Shocking account of six months on the men's professional tennis tour, by a tennis-playing author who deeply cares about sport.…
His outlook quickly changes when he encounters fixed matches, prize splitting, dumped matches, drugs, and conflicts of interest. Strong language. 1983.Seasons at Eagle Pond
By Donald Hall. 1987
Shadows of the buffalo: a family odyssey among the Indians
By Adolf Hungry Wolf, Beverly Hungry Wolf. 1983
The true story of a man and his Indian wife who are determined to cross cultural barriers and return to…
the old ways of the Blackfoot Indian tribe. Presents vivid portraits of elder Indians, traditional ceremonies, and life among people who are holding on to their past. 1983.Seven summits
By Dick Bass, Frank Wells, Rick Ridgeway. 1986
Serious: The Autobiography
By James Kaplan, John McEnroe. 2002
This autobiography chronicles the tennis career of John McEnroe. From his first Wimbledon in 1977, when he stunned the tennis…
world by reaching the semi-finals, and shocked it with his on-court behaviour. What followed was a double act of technique and temperament that set the sport alight. The book also covers his life outside tennis from his friendship with Keith Richards and Jack Nicholson, his stormy marriage to Tatum O'Neal, his forays into the worlds of art and rock music, and his arrival as one of the most astute sports commentators around. 2002.Seldom
By Dawn Rae Downton. 2002
Sidney Wiseman, a prosperous skipper, and Ethel Wellon, a former teacher, were married on the Newfoundland outport of Seldom in…
1922 and had six children; Marion was their third. When Sidney was home from the sea, he would lie on the daybed, waiting for a chance to strike out at the family, and no one in the community seemed to know. 2002.Schooner: Bluenose and Bluenose II (A Seal book)
By Silver Donald Cameron. 1984
Details the history of the schooner Bluenose, the most fabled ship in Canadian history, and its exact replica, Bluenose II,…
which was launched in 1963 and carries on the legend. 1984.Selected to live
By Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner. 1971
Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner tells of a Jewish childhood ravaged by Nazis, and of her own shocked witness to the total destruction…
of her family - even as she miraculously escaped the same fate. The story of a girl who was picked out from thousands of condemned people and selected to live. 1971.Rosina, the midwife
By Jessica Kluthe, Linda Goyette. 2013
Between 1870 and 1970, millions of Italians left their homeland and traveled to places like Canada, Australia and the United…
States, in search of work. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina Russo. She was the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Rosina had to say farewell, one by one, to the persons she loved the most. c2013.Run, hide, repeat: a memoir of a fugitive childhood
By Pauline Dakin. 2017
Pauline Dakin, a CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her…
and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Bestseller. 2017.Royal secrets: the view from downstairs
By Stephen P Barry. 1985
Prince Charles' ex-valet describes the household of Buckingham Palace and the other Royal residences, as well as the duties of…
the various servants. Sequel to "Royal service: my twelve years as valet to Prince Charles" (DC04351). 1985.