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By Penny Petrone. 1988
The Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral historic tradition in their own language and a more recent tradition…
of written English. This collection includes legends, poetry, interviews, letters, essays, speeches and fiction. 1988.By Paulette Jiles. 1995
Paulette Jiles first went to northern Ontario as a journalist for the CBC in 1974. Living and working with the…
Cree and Ojibway people of the north, she writes about the introduction of new technologies and communications systems, and their clash with traditional native culture, during her seven years there. 1995.By Ted Jordan. 1989
The author met Marilyn Monroe when she was 17-years-old and married to merchant mariner Jim Daugherty. He describes their love…
affair, as well as her sexual escapades with others, including Montgomery Clift and Bugsy Siegel. 1989.By Lawrence J Quirk. 1988
Biography of the quintessential Hollywood star of the golden age. Canadian-born, Norma went first to New York to be an…
actress, but a Hollywood contract soon took her to the West Coast where she met and married Irving Thalberg, the mogul in charge of production at the MGM studios. 1988.By Martin Gottfried. 1994
This is the fascinating story of an energetic, athletic, curious kid from Brooklyn who became an utterly original star, parleying…
his multiple talents into a career as one of the most popular and adored entertainers in American history. But while he was fostering this image, Kaye is revealed as a man of paradox and contradiction. 1994.By Roger Moore, Gareth Owen. 2009
Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of…
Hollywood and on to international superstardom. It features myriad stories from his personal life - from his childhood in London and experiences during the Second World War, to the happy and turbulent times in his later life. Bestseller. 2009.By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.By Alec Baldwin. 2017
By Alan Alda. 2005
Alda, the son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, spent his early childhood backstage and…
went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. This is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a man, the turning points in his life, and the events that would make him what he is today. 2005.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.By Rue McClanahan. 2007
Rue McClanahan, perhaps best known for her Golden Girls role, shares her personal story. From her arrival in New York…
with little money to her name, to her time studying with theater legend Uta Hagen, to her first television role on All in the Family, to The Golden Girls years and beyond, Rue chronicles her life in Hollywood--and all the men (five big ones) and adventures that happened along the way. Now happily married to her soul mate, Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with age--and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big. 2007.By Russell Brand. 2007
In 2006 Russell Brand exploded onto the international comedy scene. Before the fame, however, Russell's life was anything but glamorous.…
In 2003 Russell was told that he would be in prison, a mental hospital, or dead within six months unless he went into rehab. He has now been clean for three years, and hasn't looked back since. This is Russell's story. Strong language. 2007.By Alec Guinness. 1996
The diary of Alec Guinness spans eighteen months to June 1996. Certain interests recur: theatre and film; books and paintings;…
the church; food and drink; and the delights of being at home with his wife. He also brings memories and anecdotes from his long and distinguished acting career. 1996.By Margot Peters. 1984
By Christiane F., Sonja Vukovic, Christiane V Felscherinow, Richard Couffère, Rose Labourie. 2013
" 34 ans après Moi, Christiane F., 13 ans, droguée, prostituée, l'auteur revient sur les années qui ont suivi la…
publication du livre et les étapes de son existence jusqu'à aujourd'hui : son séjour forcé à la campagne, son quotidien de jeune adulte en colocation à Hambourg où elle fréquente les milieux artistiques et devient de nouveau dépendante à l'héroïne puis la naissance de son fils. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Christiane F., mein zweites Leben.By Christina Crawford. 1980
By Patricia Bosworth. 1978
The author recreates Monty's childhood in Europe and Chicago, his years on Broadway and in Hollywood, and his last years…
as a semi-recluse in New York. Explores the inner life and tragic strivings of the actor who remained an enigmatic figure even to his friends. Based on interviews with directors, actors, and playwrights. Some strong language. 1978.By Stephen Fry. 1997
Sent to boarding school at the age of seven, Stephen Fry survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violence, expulsion, imprisonment,…
criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen years of age, ready to try and face a world in which he had always felt a stranger. In this book the man, whose public face has been seen on TV and cinema screens the world over, reveals his private face in an autobiography that is in turns funny, shocking, tender, sad and frank. Some strong language. 1997.By June Havoc. 1980
A memoir that offers an unvarnished look at stage-mother Rose, sister gypsy Rose Lee, and the author herself. The actress…
describes her years on Broadway, and the films she made in Hollywood. Some strong language. 1980.By Jonathan Coe, Béatrice Pley. 2004
James Stewart est sans doute un des acteurs les plus célèbres du monde, par son charme légendaire et sa filmographie…
exceptionnelle. Il incarne à merveille l’archétype de l’Américain et écrire sa biographie, revient, en quelque sorte, à faire celle de l’Amérique. 2004. Titre uniforme: James Stewart.