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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.Chinese New Year: a celebration for everyone (Orca origins.)
By Jen Sookfong Lee. 2017
From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party…
featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, 'Chinese New Year' is a snapshot of Chinese culture. Award-winning author and broadcaster Jen Sookfong Lee recalls her childhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and weaves family stories into the history, traditions and evolution of Chinese New Year. Grades 3-6. 2017.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.Essential Thoreau: excerpts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau (Caedmon essentials)
By Henry David Thoreau, Archibald MacLeish. 2009
This audio focuses on the detailed journal Thoreau kept from 1837 to 1862. His diary entries range from eclectic short…
stories to his continual attempts to improve his writing style. 2009. Uniform title: Journal.Drunk mom: a memoir
By Jowita Bydlowska. 2013
Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the…
stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle stored in the diaper bag. She's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts. Includes strong language. 2013.Down the Nile: alone in a fisherman's skiff
By Rosemary Mahoney. 2007
Rower and award-winning author recounts her 120-mile solo journey along the Nile between the Egyptian cities of Aswan and Qena.…
Describes her search for a boat, her excitement in finding ancient ruins, and the obstacles she faced as she confronted searing heat and cultural differences. 2007.Dispatches from the edge: a memoir of war, disasters, and survival
By Anderson Cooper. 2006
CNN correspondent and anchor discusses the events he covered in 2005, the Asian tsunami, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in…
New Orleans, famine in Africa, and the war in Iraq. He reflects on the connections these crises evoked between his professional and personal life. 2006.Diaries and journals of literary women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf
By Judy Simons. 1990
Draws on current feminist criticism to explore the significance of diaries in the development of an individual literary voice, and…
their potential for providing information on the authors' public works. The eight writers discussed include Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and Katherine Mansfield. 1990.Diaries 1969-1979: the Python years
By Michael Palin. 2006
Michael Palin's diaries reveals how the Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys -…
Jones and Gilliam - and Eric Idle, came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palin's story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, his solo efforts as an actor and his writing. 2006.Dear Mrs. Kennedy: the world shares its grief : letters, November 1963
By Paul De Angelis, Jay Mulvaney. 2010
After the assassination of her husband, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy received more than one million letters. People from every station…
in life wrote, as well as political luminaries, Hollywood stars and foreign dignitaries. Their letters tell the story of those fateful days in November of 1963, and of the months that followed, as a nation - and a family - attempted to rebuild. 2010.Common ground
By Justin Trudeau. 2014
Justin Trudeau's candid memoir reveals the experiences that shaped him over the course of his life and shows how his…
passion for Canada and its people took root. Covering the years from his childhood at 24 Sussex to his McGill days during the tumultuous time of the Charlottetown Accord to his first campaign in Papineau to his role as Liberal leader today, the book captures the foundational moments that have formed the man we have come to know and informed his vision for the future of Canada. c2014.Dancing from the heart: a memoir
By Frank Augustyn, Barbara Sears. 2000
Frank Augustyn, the first male graduate of the National Ballet School to become an international dance star, reflects on his…
life as a dance, teacher, father, artistic director and TV producer. Stories about the companies, famous dancers and choreographers he has known and worked with, including Karen Kain and Rudolf Nureyev, and his perspective on Canadian ballet in the 1970's and 1980's. 2000.Black puddings with slim: a Downpatrick boyhood
By Maurice Hayes. 1996