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By Frank Davey. 2002
Linda Davey was a lawyer, wife and mother, gourmet cook and wine connoisseur, and show-dog owner. In May of 1999…
she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. While caring for her with their two children, Linda's husband Frank chronicled her life, family, illness, and ultimately, her death. 2002.By Wilfrid Laurier, Emilie Lavergne, Charles Fisher. 1989
Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada for 15 years. It was Emilie, the wife of his law partner in a…
small Quebec town, who planned his transformation from talented bumpkin to influential statesman. Their affection is displayed in these 40 letters from Wilfrid to Emilie.By Val Sears. 1988
In their competition to build readership during the 1950s, Canadian newspapers resorted to extreme measures, even hiding crime victims, for…
the sake of an exclusive story. Sears' account of the behind-the-scenes skirmishes among reporters battling for a scoop is often humourous, sometimes surprising and occasionally tragic. c1988.By Deborah Cowley, Georges P Vanier. 2000
The wartime letters and diaries of Georges Vanier, who served as Governor General of Canada from 1959 to 1967. He…
was twenty-six when he became one of the first men to join the newly established Royal 22nd Regiment. His service in the First World War shaped his character, and he often described the four years spent on the battlefields of Europe as the most rewarding of his life. 2000.By Bobby Bones. 2018
By Benjamin Busch. 2018
Benjamin Busch is a veteran who has served two combat tours in Iraq. He is an actor on the hit…
HBO series The Wire and is the son of the acclaimed novelist Frederick Busch. In this memoir, Busch reflects upon life and loss, the longing for the elemental and the call of the wild, and how the curious children we were remain alive in us all. 2018.By Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.By Mike Myers. 2016
The book is part memoir, part history and pure entertainment. It is Mike Myers' funny and thoughtful analysis of what…
makes Canada Canada, Canadians Canadians and what being Canadian has always meant to him. His relationship with his home and native land continues to deepen and grow, he says. In fact, American friends have actually accused him of enjoying being Canadian—and he's happy to plead guilty as charged. Bestseller. 2016.By Helen Macdonald. 2015
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since…
childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel and turned to the guidance of "The Sword and the Stone" author T. H. White's chronicle "The Goshawk" to begin her journey into Mabel's world. Projecting herself "in the hawk's wild mind to tame her" tested the limits of Macdonald's humanity. Bestseller. 2015.Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played.…
The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not prepare them for what happened when the skies finally cleared. 2009.By Binjamin Wilkomirski. 1995
A man's memoir of his early boyhood experiences in Nazi death camps. Recounts his father's cruel death, his separation from…
family, the terror and suffering of his internment, and his deliverance to a Swiss orphanage. Descriptions of violence. 1995. Uniform title: Bruchstucke.By Monia Mazigh. 2008
September 2002. Maher Arar, Canadian citizen, engineer and entrepreneur, boarded a plane in Tunisia bound for New York. Pulled aside…
by Immigration officials at JFK airport, he was questioned, held without access to a lawyer, and ultimately deported to Syria on the suspicion that he had terrorist links. He would remain there, tortured and imprisoned, while his wife Monia worked tirelessly to bring public attention and government action to her husband's plight. Some descriptions of violence. 2008.By Anthony Grey. 1970
The author, a journalist in China, was taken as a hostage by the Chinese communist regime, and this account of…
his two years' solitary confinement is based on the secret diaries he managed to keep during this time. 1970.By Thomas Boswell. 1982
A baseball writer for the "Washington Post" reports on the new statistic, the Total Average, and analyzes such figures as…
Bill Veeck, Earl Weaver, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Reggie Jackson. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1982.By Philippe Van Rjndt, Patrick Blednick. 1985
By Martin O'Malley, Sean O'Malley. 1994
The authors take us for a behind-the-scenes look at the Blue Jays and Skydome. They include a tour of the…
clubhouse, umpire's room, batting cage, press box. They talk to everyone involved with the game, from Skydome executives to ticket vendors, as well as the media who cover the team. Some strong language. 1994.By RoseMarie Terenzio. 2012
A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing…
how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death. 2012.By Judith Moore. 2005
Award-winning author’s candid memoir of growing up overweight. Relates her struggles at school and home throughout an unhappy childhood and…
adolescence that were shaped by an absent, food-obsessed father, an abusive mother, a spiteful grandmother, and a kind, homosexual uncle. 2005.By Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, Andrew Thomson. 2004
In the early 1990s, authors Kenneth Cain and Heidi Postlewait, two American U.N. employees, along with Andrew Thomson, a New…
Zealand doctor, were sent to Cambodia. Motivated by idealism, financial need, adventure, and wanting to be part of history, the three move from Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti, to Bosnia, Rwanda and Liberia, finding death, bureaucratic betrayal, liberation from their pasts and seamy, regret-tainted sex amid the body parts and rotting flesh. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence, and strong language. 2004.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.