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Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar
By Simon Sebag-Montefiore. 2004
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.Social studies
By Fran Lebowitz. 1981
Collection of 26 humorous essays on apartment hunting in the city, cigarette smoking, diets, pet owning, and other behaviour of…
the American species near the end of the 20th century. c1981.Snakecharmers in Texas: essays 1980-87
By Clive James. 1988
Clive James has produced a collection of essays on subjects which he claims to have a great interest in. James'…
obvious intelligence, imagination and irreverence known to many millions across the world is used to great effect in comprehending and aiding the reader to understand what makes human beings tick. His Australian patriotism comes through in his naming of the first part "Australian sons". Includes strong language. 1988.Slouching towards Bethlehem
By Joan Didion. 1990
A collection of essays which captures the mood of late 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. Keynoted…
by a report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, they all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." 1990.Six memos for the next millennium (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; #1985-86)
By Italo Calvino. 1988
This work contains the 1985-86 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures that Italo Calvino was to have delivered at Harvard. The day…
before he was to leave Italy for Cambridge, he died. His widow, Esther, prepared the lectures for publication. Calvino here deals with values of literature most dear to him: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity; consistency was to be the sixth. 1988. Uniform title: Essays.Shrewed: a wry and closely observed look at the lives of women and girls
By Elizabeth Renzetti. 2018
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still…
so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's playground? These are some of the questions that author and journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of essays. Drawing upon Renzetti's decades of reporting on feminist issues, "Shrewed" is a book about feminism's crossroads. From Hillary Clinton's failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we've come - and how far we have to go. If Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. Bestseller. 2018.Sightlines
By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Self-reliance (Recorded Books classics library)
By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1986
Seasons at Eagle Pond
By Donald Hall. 1987
Setting it right
By Michael Coren. 1996
This collection of Coren's essays and columns includes his thoughts on politics, the arts, and morality. His interview subjects include…
personalities as diverse as Conor Cruise O'Brien, comedian Mike Myers, Robertson Davies, and dominatrix Jacqueline Premiere. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. c1996.Seven nights
By Jorge Luis Borges. 1986
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.Selected columns from Canadian living
By Peter Gzowski. 1993
Selected from his popular column with "Canadian Living" magazine, Gzowski's comments range from food, family, and friends to peculiarly Canadian…
pastimes, like kissing the cod in Newfoundland and playing golf in the Arctic. 1993.Saveur du temps: chroniques
By Jean D' Ormesson. 2009
During the pioneering years of the Canadian West, Mountie Sam Steele took an active role in virtually every significant historical…
event. Steele kept the peace in the Yukon during the Gold rush, quelled rebellions, stood down violent strikers, faced Cree, Blackfoot, and Kootenay warriors, and also fought in the Boer War and the First World War. 2003.Salt of the earth: the story of homesteaders in Western Canada
By Heather Robertson. 1974
The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…
back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan
By Giles Milton. 2002
In the spring of 1611, London's merchants received an intriguing and wholly unexpected letter. Written by a marooned English mariner…
named William Adams, it revealed that he had been living in the unknown land of Japan for more than a decade. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams. It was believed he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. 2002.Révolutions
By Nicolas Dickner, Dominique Fortier. 2014
Les révolutionnaires français ne se contentèrent pas de guillotiner le roi, de prendre la Bastille et de raccourcir bonne quantité…
d'aristocrates : ils renversèrent aussi le calendrier, créant douze nouveaux mois dont les noms étaient censés évoquer les divers moments de l'année. Deux siècles plus tard, Dominique Fortier et Nicolas Dickner, ont chargé un certain Reginald Jeeves, ingénieux majordome informatique, de leur envoyer quotidiennement le mot du jour qu'ils revisiteraient jusqu'à combler les 366 cases du calendrier. c2014.Rêves à vendre ou Troisième calepin du même flâneur
By Félix Leclerc. 1984
Sainte Marguerite Bourgeoys, de Montréal et de Troyes
By Moïse Blatrix. 1982
Roosevelt and Churchill: men of secrets
By David Stafford. 1999
Explores the relationship between the United States president Franklin Roosevelt and the British prime minister Winston Churchill before and during…
the Second World War. Explains how the two leaders shared intelligence secrets, bribed Spain to remain neutral, and trusted each other despite conflicting postwar national interests. 1999.