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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.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.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.By Michael J Novacek. 1996
A paleontologist's account of a gruelling 1993 field expedition to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which resulted in one of…
the most extensive dinosaur fossil discoveries in history. Describes the specimens that were found and discusses their meaning and scientific importance. 1996.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.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.By John R Horner, Edwin Dobb. 1997
Companion to Digging Dinosaurs. A paleontologist explores how these creatures evolved, lived, and adapted to the environment. Draws upon extensive…
fieldwork to depict the dinosaur's pattern of living and survival methods. Ventures theories on key controversies, such as what caused its extinction. c1997.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.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.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.By Maurice Hayes. 1996
By Bill Johnstone. 1980
The author began mining in England in 1921, at age thirteen. After moving to Canada, he farmed on the Prairies,…
enduring the Depression, and later mastered mining, even studying engineering and becoming a coal mine Superintendent near Cumberland, B.C. The book presents a unique picture of the life of coal miners. 1980. (Heritage record; 9)By Paul Chambers. 2002
Since its discovery the Archaeopteryx - half bird, half reptile - has caused more trouble than any other scientific icon.…
It has been used not just to support dozens of different views on evolution but to start feuds, destroy reputations, further personal ambition and promote nationalism. This book investigates the life and times of Archaeopteryx and also at the chaotic scientific world into which it emerged. 2002.By Dave Moore, Neal Cassady. 2004
Neal Cassady was that happening, hard-living, hard-loving hero of the Beat culture, part raw sexuality, part inspiration for Kerouac and…
Ginsberg, part arrogant con man, and part insecure drifter. Cassady's letters reveal a sometimes manic yet insightful and electric mind, and a man so charged with emotion for life and open to his urges that he seemed unable to settle anywhere (including within his various selves) for very long. 2004.By Mike Wallace, Gary Paul Gates. 1984
Autobiography of one of America's most visible television journalists. Gives the real stories behind his interviews with such people as…
Ronald Reagan, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Richard Nixon, and Menachem Begin. c1984.By Lydia Flem. 1997
A psychoanalyst examines the life and memoirs of the self-professed great lover. Describes Giacomo Casanova's pleasure in reliving his experiences…
as he wrote twelve volumes of his reflections. Analyzes his amorous pursuit of women. Some descriptions of sex. c1997. Uniform title: Casanova, ou, L'exercise du bonheur.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.By Charlotte Gray. 2003
200 years of Canadian letters, including Sara Riel, writing to her brother Louis in 1871, expressing her belief in his…
divine destiny; Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1907 letter, sharing news of her literary breakthrough; and a young French-Canadian soldier describing the horror of watching his comrades die in the 1916 battle at the Somme. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003.By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. 1972
Diary entries and letters from 1922-1928 when the author was a schoolgirl and later a student at Smith College. She…
recounts her emotional involvement with her famous husband-to-be and her struggles to become a writer. 1972.