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By Al Franken. 2017
The Harvard-educated comedian, talk-show host, and U.S. Senator chronicles the story of his unlikely senatorial campaign, detailing the ensuing months-long…
recount and what his service has taught him about America's deeply polarized political culture. Bestseller. 2017.By Joseph R. Biden. 2017
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating…
for the past forty years. But this year felt different. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain. "Promise me, Dad," Beau had told his father. "Give me your word that no matter what happens, you're going to be all right." Joe Biden gave him his word. The year that followed would be the most momentous and challenging in Joe Biden's extraordinary life and career. Vice President Biden traveled more than a hundred thousand miles that year, across the world, dealing with crises in Ukraine, Central America, and Iraq. For twelve months, while Beau fought for and then lost his life, the vice president balanced the twin imperatives of living up to his responsibilities to his country and his responsibilities to his family. Bestseller. 2017.By Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Angela Y Davis. 2018
A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice,…
challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Bestseller. 2018." Personne n'en doute, Jean-François Lisée est un homme d'idées. Mais est-il un homme d'action ? La question est importante,…
car il y aura bientôt un choix à faire. Celui d'un nouveau chef pour le Parti québécois. Doit-il se lancer ? C'est la question qu'il se pose et le dialogue qu'il veut lancer avec les lecteurs et électeurs dans ce livre étonnant. Jean-François Lisée y fait un retour sur son engagement en politique, relate ses combats, raconte ses passions, ses réalisations et ses erreurs. Il rend publiques des notes qu'il a produites avant et pendant les 18 mois de pouvoir du gouvernement Marois. Sur la langue, sur la charte de la laïcité, sur la souveraineté, sur les raisons de la défaite du 7 avril et sur quelques pistes à envisager pour remonter la pente, Lisée a des analyses, des anecdotes, des stratégies. Il les livre, sans fard, au bon jugement du lecteur, qu'il appelle à évaluer si cela suffit, ou non, à faire de lui un bon candidat... " -- 4e de couv.By Elinor Batezat Sisulu. 2003
This is a moving love story against all odds. The Sisulus endured persecution, hardship and many years of separation, borne…
with patience, hope and enduring love. This book is their unforgattable biography, packed with intimate glimpses and thought-provoking insights. 2003.By AnnMarie Wolpe. 1994
The author was a young Johannesburg mother of 34 when, in 1963, her lawyer husband Harold was arrested, certain to…
be called to stand trial along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu in the now-famous Rivonia treason case. In this book she describes Harold's prison break-out, his escape across the border into Swaziland, and his final dash for freedom disguised as a clergyman. 1994.By Ed Willes. 2004
The WHA began as the scheme of two California lawyers, and it introduced 27 new hockey franchises, a trail of…
bounced cheques, fractious lawsuits, folded teams, and the crackpots, goons, and crazies that are so well remembered as the league's bizarre legacy. But the WHA also drove hockey into the modern age, ended the NHL's monopoly, freed players from the reserve clause, ushered in the 18-year-old draft, moved the game into the Sun Belt, and put European players on the ice in numbers previously unimagined. Some strong language. 2005, c2004.By William Sampson. 2005
On Sunday, December 17, 2000, Canadian engineer William Sampson stepped out of his house in Riyadh only to be hauled…
into a car and beaten. Within an hour, he was incarcerated; within two months, he was tortured into a confession of responsibility for a wave of car bombings he did not commit. This is his account of how he survived two and a half years of torture, beatings, and inept diplomacy until he was finally released. Descriptions of sex, strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 2005.By John Milton Cooper. 2009
Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed…
efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nations. 2009.By Preston Manning. 2002
Preston Manning was one of the principal founders and the subsequent leader of the Reform Party, and became Leader of…
the Opposition in 1997. He tells the story of the Reform Party's rise, and its eventual transformation into a truly national party - the Canadian Alliance. He writes movingly of the role played by both family and faith in the evolution of his career. 2002.By James Giblin. 2002
Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and…
career from his birth in Austria in 1889 to his death in Berlin in 1945. Briefly discusses this tyrant's legacy. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Siebert Award. 2002.By Mary S Lovell. 2002
The lives and times of six aristocratic British sisters, exploring family relationships, artistic successes, scandals, and tragedies. Traces their involvements…
in clashing political ideologies between the World Wars. One of them, Diana, married British fascist Oswald Mosley and became "the most hated woman in England," spending most of World War II in prison. Bestseller. 2002. Uniform title: Mitford girlsBy Nelson Mandela. 2010
South African statesman opens his personal archive to reveal private correspondence and meditations. Discusses his 1941-1962 antiapartheid activities, 1962-1990 imprisonment…
and separation from his family, doubts and triumphs, and rise to world prominence, including winning the 1994 presidential election. Companion to “Long Walk to Freedom”. 2010.By John Gray. 2011
For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death, but in the late 19th and…
early 20th centuries new ideas - from psychiatry to evolution to Communism - seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands. Gray investigates the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a non-religious form of life after death. c2011.By D'Arcy Jenish. 2008
The Habs were the NHL gold standard for years, with 24 Stanley Cups and an almost unbroken line of stars,…
from Georges Vézina and Newsy Lalonde to Ken Dryden, Guy Lafleur, and Patrick Roy. Jenish traces not just the century-old équipe des habitants, but the events of the day that affected hockey and the world away from it, including two world wars, the flu outbreak of 1918, and the Quiet Revolution of Quebec nationalism. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008.By Kim Campbell. 1996
Canada's first woman prime minister reflects on her political career up to the fateful election of 1993. She discusses her…
experience in municipal and provincial politics, her election to federal Parliament, her involvement in the Mulroney government, and her election as leader of the Progressive Conservatives. 1996.By Bill Clinton. 2004
Myriad names, dates, and details abound in this "big puffy plum cake of an autobiography". "My Life" is described as…
"part policy primer, part 12-step confessional, part stump speech, and part presidential archive." Covers Clinton's Arkansas childhood, his family, and his career. 2004.By Marjorie Mowlam. 2002
Mo Mowlam tells the story of her time in government. She writes about the months leading up to the 1997…
General Election, Labour's landslide victory and what had gone on as she underwent treatment for a brain tumour while working towards that victory. Before the second landslide victory of 2001, Mo Mowlam decided to leave Westminister politics - this text tells readers why, and also tells of her hopes and plans for the future. 2002.By Robin Denniston. 1999
An Anglican monk and an outspoken and charismatic leader of the anti-apartheid movement, Trevor Huddleston was a friend of Nelson…
Mandela and many others who struggled to overcome the racist policies of the nationalist government in South Africa. 2000, c1999.By Anthony Seldon, Lewis Baston. 1997
John Major granted Anthony Seldon full access for this biography, published to coincide with the October 1996 Conservative Party Conference.…
Seldon was able to interview the Prime Minister, his family, colleagues and friends, as well as civil servants who have worked with John Major.