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Supreme city: how jazz age Manhattan gave birth to modern America
By Donald L Miller. 2014
Tales of two cities: a Persian memoir
By Abbas Milani. 1996
A college professor in California reminisces about his childhood in a strictly religious Muslim home in Iran. At fifteen he…
was sent to the U.S. for a Western education. He returned to Tehran with a Ph.D. in political science, was imprisoned for ideological reasons, and eventually chose exile. His reflections offer insights into two strongly contrasting cultures. c1996.Strength of conviction
By Tom Mulcair. 2015
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair's rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the…
headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced - from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the NDP to a historic breakthrough in Quebec. Bestseller. 2015.Seduction: sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
By Karina Longworth. 2018
Long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes-the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur…
was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer. In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood's glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul's obsessions with sex, power, and publicity trapped, abused, or benefited women who dreamed of screen stardom. 2018.Scots-Irish in the hills of Tennessee
By Billy Kennedy. 1995
This is the story about a race of people who created a civilization in a wilderness and helped lay the…
solid foundations for what today is the greatest nation on Earth. 1995.Jean Lumb, a recipient of the Order of Canada, shares the story of her immigration to Canada, her contribution to…
the changing of Canada's immigration laws, and her efforts in saving Chinatown communities across Canada. Grades 5-8. 1997.Something fierce: memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
By Carmen Aguirre. 2011
Covering the decade from 1979 to 1989, Aguirre takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's…
Chile. She captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the resistance movement with the desires of her youth and her budding sexuality. Winner of Canada Reads 2012. Some descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.Smoketown: the untold story of the other great black renaissance
By Mark Whitaker. 2018
Provides a portrait of Pittsburgh's black community and its vital additions to the story of black America. It depicts how…
Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how they were shaped by its schools and Gilded Age spirit of commerce; and how their world was destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. 2018.Straight from the heart
By Jean Chrétien. 1985
Stanton: Lincoln's war secretary
By Walter Stahr. 2017
Stalin: Volume II; Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
By Stephen Kotkin. 2017
As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition…
of Nazi Germany becomes the predominant geopolitical reality he faces when Hitler claims that communism is a global "Judeo-Bolshevik" conspiracy to bring the Slavic race to power. Stalin's paranoia is increasingly one of the most horrible facts of life for his entire country. Stalin's obsessions drive him to violently purge almost a million people, including military leadership, diplomatic corps and intelligence apparatus, to say nothing of a generation of artistic talent. And then came the pact that shocked the world, and demoralized leftists everywhere: Stalin's pact with Hitler in 1939, the carve-up of Poland, and Stalin's utter inability to see Hitler's build-up to the invasion of the USSR. Yet for all that, in just 12 years of total power, Stalin has taken this country from a peasant economy to a formidable modern war machine that rivaled anything else in the world. When the invasion came, Stalin wasn't ready, but his country would prove to be prepared. Sequel to "Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928". 2017. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Stalin: Volume I ; Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
By Stephen Kotkin. 2014
In this biography of Stalin, the author rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's…
near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, he posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia. 2014.Storm signals: more undiplomatic diaries, 1962-1971
By Charles Ritchie. 1983
The author describes the wide variety of events and people that formed his everyday life while serving as Canadian ambassador…
to Washington during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Sequel to "Diplomatic Passport" (DC03281). c1983.Stephen Harper
By John Ibbitson. 2015
Stephen Harper has made government smaller, justice tougher, and provinces more independent. Those who praise Harper point to the Conservatives'…
skillful economic management, the reformed immigration system, the uncompromising defence of Israel and Ukraine, and the fight against terrorism, while critics accuse the Harper government of being autocratic, secretive and cruel. Ibbitson explores Harper’s suburban youth, the forces that shaped his tempestuous relationship with Reform Leader Preston Manning, how Laureen Harper influences her husband, his devotion to his children--and his cats. Ibbitson explains how this shy, closed, introverted loner united a fractured conservative movement, defeated a Liberal hegemony, and set out to reshape the nation. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2015.Stephen Harper and the future of Canada
By William Johnson. 2005
Chronicles Harper's political beginnings, his stint with the Mulroney Progressive Conservatives, the events that led to him becoming a key…
architect of the Reform party, and his rescue of the Canadian Alliance, which led to the merger with the Progressive Conservatives to create the new Conservative Party. Author Johnson attempts to dispel the myths and set out the facts about the (then) leader of the opposition. Bestseller 2005.In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in…
the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation. Junior and Senior High. 2011.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.SOG: the secret wars of America's commandos in Vietnam
By John L Plaster. 1997
Recounts covert operations by American special forces codenamed the Studies and Operations Group in the Vietnam War. The SOG rescued…
downed pilots, sabotaged targeted installations, and sapped enemy troop strength. The author depicts the valour and sacrifices of these secret warriors. Descriptions of violence. c1997.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.