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I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
By Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.Catch a wave: the rise, fall & redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
By Peter Ames Carlin. 2006
Using first-person interviews and unreleased recording-session transcriptions, former People magazine writer analyzes the life of Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson.…
Describes the Wilson brothers' emotional abuse at the hands of their father, Brian's descent into depression, and his comeback with the 2004 album Smile. Some strong language. 2006.Cigar box banjo: notes on music and life
By Paul Quarrington. 2010
Paul Quarrington had a favourite recording as a kid: a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, sets off…
for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way. As a grown-up writer and musician, Quarrington still loved the tale. And after he learned he had stage IV lung cancer, the story took on a whole new meaning for him. Cigar Box Banjo tracks a life lived in music and words. Some people with a terminal illness find mountains to climb; Quarrington decides to go out singing. 2010.Etched in ice: a tribute to hockey's defining moments
By Michael McKinley. 1998
"Etched in Ice" showcases the builders and broadcasters, the dramas and pathos, of a sport that has long made winter…
the hottest season. It includes not only the titans and their achievements, but it also takes us to the men and women who are not household names, yet have affected the game in their own remarkable ways: the first big-time team on the West Coast; a gifted American player cut down early in World War I; a women's team that lost only two games out of 350 during the 1930s. 1998.Ghost rider: travels on the healing road
By Neil Peart. 2002
After the deaths of his daughter and then his common-law wife, musician Neil Peart got on his motorcycle and drove…
for over a year, traveling Canada, the U.S. and Central America. The need to do something, to move, kept Neil going and pushed him toward healing. 2002.From this moment on
By Shania Twain. 2011
Forty-five-year-old Grammy-Award-winning Canadian singer Shania Twain details her impoverished childhood, her mother and stepfather’s tumultuous relationship and their accidental deaths…
when Shania was twenty-two, and the painful betrayal in her own first marriage two decades later. Discusses relishing her career, second marriage, and role as a mother. Strong language. Bestseller. 2011.Getting out of here alive: the ballad of Murray McLauchlan
By Murray McLauchlan. 1998
In this autobiography, Murray McLauchlan writes about growing up in Toronto in the fifties, rising to prominence as a songwriter…
in 1968 with "Child's song", and the three decades of his career as a singer-songwriter in Canada. He tells the story of his return to the working-class town of Paisley in Scotland to visit the very room in which he had been born, and his visits to the ruined McLauchlan castle and the battlefields at Culloden, in an attempt to find his own place within a long and tumultuous clan history. 1998.Hometown heroes: on the road with Canada's national hockey team
By Paul Quarrington. 1988
A behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Olympic team, formed in 1985, through the 1988 Olympics in Calgary. The problems and politics…
of a national hockey team are presented with humour and candor.Glenn Gould (Extraordinary Canadians)
By Mark Kingwell. 2009
The author regards Glenn Gould as an innovative thinker whose ideas about music governed his life. But those ideas were…
contradictory, mischievous, deliberately provocative. Just as Gould played twenty-one “takes” to record the opening aria in his famed 1955 Goldberg Variations, Kingwell offers twenty-one takes on Gould’s life, each offering a different interpretation of the man. 2012, c2009.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.Don Cherry's hockey stories and stuff
By Don Cherry, Al Strachan. 2008
Former hockey player and coach Don Cherry's comments on Hockey Night in Canada's "Coach's Corner" routinely make headlines as they…
entertain, educate, and often upset some fans throughout North America. Now he presents his favourite stories from his career in hockey. And you can imagine the stories he has to tell. c2008.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.Circus
By Linda Granfield. 1997
Child's play: rediscovering the joy of play in our families and communities
By Silken Laumann. 2006
As parents, we are often afraid to let our children out of sight - our streets don't feel safe, and…
neighbours don't rely on each other like they used to. While we recognize the need for our kids to be active, our fears and busy lives have led us to schedule their every activity. We have forgotten just how important unstructured play is for our children's development: it keeps kids healthy, creative, and active - and lets our kids be kids. 2006.Cash: the autobiography
By Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr. 1998
The country-western star relates his life in rural Arkansas as a boy picking cotton, his early career, and his continual…
concert touring. Chronicles his ups and downs with amphetamine addiction and his various rehabilitation attempts, and describes his homes in Tennessee, Florida, and Jamaica. Includes a discography. Some strong language. 1998.Belonging: home away from home
By Isabel Huggan. 2003
In these memoirs, Isabel Huggins describes her various homes in Ontario, and then around the world as her husband was…
relocated for work. Finally settling in France, she ponders the meaning of home and of belonging, deciding that her most valued home is the togetherness she shares with her husband Bob. Added to the book are three short fictional stories, on the same theme. 2003.Anti diva: an autobiography
By Carole Pope. 2000
Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us, and here…
she offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene - on the concert stage, in the recording studio, and in the bedroom. Known for ushering Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s with her band Rough Trade, she candidly shares her thoughts on AIDS, sexuality and sexual politics, and the new breed of music divas that dominate the charts today. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 2000.All the way: a biography of Frank Sinatra
By Michael Freedland. 1997
Alain Lefèvre: [portrait] ((Optiques (Éditions Druide).)
By Georges Nicholson. 2012
"Alain Lefèvre est un pianiste-compositeur que la carrière conduit sur les plus prestigieuses scènes du monde. L'amour indéfectible du public…
rendait aussi naturelle qu'inévitable la parution d'un portrait consacré à l'artiste à la mi-temps de sa vie, alors qu'il atteint le jeune zénith de sa renommée , écrit Georges Nicholson. On aborde dans ce livre les multiples facettes de la carrière d'Alain Lefèvre ici et à l'étranger. On retrace les chemins qui l'ont mené dans le coeur du public et au sommet de sa profession. Formation, interprétation, composition, animation à la radio de Radio-Canada, présence médiatique, enregistrements, rencontres avec les jeunes dans les écoles et avec les plus démunis de notre société, etc. On révèle également les épreuves ayant jalonné la trajectoire de cet homme aussi généreux que secret qui a fait sien ce principe de survie : Sois toujours là où on ne t'attend pas. Ce parcours d'un résilient, Nicholson nous l'offre avec toutes les nuances qui s'imposent dans un portrait étoffé, rigoureux et aimant d'un des plus grands artistes de chez nous. " -- 4e de couv.A romance on three legs: Glenn Gould's obsessive quest for the perfect piano
By Katie Hafner. 2008
This account of the compulsive search for a highly responsive concert piano by Canadian Glenn Gould combines the parallel histories…
of one of the most controversial and brilliant pianists of the last century and the instrument on which he played. Presents a biography of Gould, who was known for his quirks, and a history of the German-bred Steinway piano company. It also features the interaction between Gould and Charles Verne Edquist, his nearly blind piano tuner. 2008.