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Diana: in pursuit of love
By Andrew Morton. 2004
When Andrew Morton's biography, "Diana: her true story", was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the Royal…
Family and the Palace hierarchy, and shook the British Establishment to its foundations. Later revealed as having been written with the Princess's full cooperation, this world bestseller is now seen as the nearest thing to her official biography. Yet it was not the full story, nor could it have been, given the circumstances at the time. Friends, advisers and colleagues, more than six years after her death, feel a far greater freedom in speaking of her than once they did.Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography
By Andrea Warner. 2018
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and…
only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting). Bestseller. 2018.The pursuit of perfection: a life of Celia Franca
By Carol Bishop-Gwyn. 2011
Born into a working-class family in 1921 in London, England, Celia Franca, though a capable dancer, was an unlikely candidate…
for ballet greatness. But Celia possessed a drive that was almost unrivalled, and went on to become one of the most important figures in Canadian ballet in the twentieth century. When a group from Toronto was hopeful of establishing a major ballet, they brought Celia across the Atlantic to be the founder, and she went on to build the company, the National Ballet of Canada, into a major cultural force. c2011.Where the heart is: a writer in Provence
By Marita Van der Vyver, Annelize Visser. 2006
Van der Vyver, a Capetonian writer, married a Frenchman and moved to the south of France. She continues to write…
her novels there in her home language, therefore valuing her one or two trips a year back to South Africa. But her enjoyment of her adopted home - though its bureaucracy can bring tears - shines through, even as she describes renovations, strikes, and the quest for food colouring. 2006.Close the door softly behind you
By Emmaleen Kriel. 2005
How does a woman who has only ever been a mother to seven children find out who she is? She…
takes her caring to London, where she looks after various well-heeled English people (or their children). She helps nervous first-time mothers; a feisty old woman with Alzheimer's; a professor with Parkinson's who just wants to "cuddle"; and cooks and cleans for minor aristocrats at their villa in France, an old Lady's two overweight Corgis, and ex Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Through these experiences: some painful, some joyful, all holding hope and laughter, she discovers more about herself and even meets a new love. 2005.Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world (Women in Science)
By Rachel Ignotofsky. 2016
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,…
from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. Grades 4-7. 2016.Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed
By Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For…
more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. Bestseller. 2014.To the left of inspiration: adventures in living with disabilities
By Katherine Schneider. 2006
Millions of North Americans have chronic illnesses or disabilities requiring them to make accommodations in their lives. The author, a…
psychologist who has been blind since birth, hopes to help this adjustment with her own humorous life stories, as well as provide understanding of what life is really like for those with disabilities. 2006.Not fade away: a memoir of senses lost and found
By Rebecca Alexander, Sascha Alper. 2014
Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight…
and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered. None of us know what we would do in the face of such devastation. What Rebecca did was rise to every challenge she faced. Now, at 35, with only a sliver of sight and significantly deteriorated hearing, she is a psychotherapist with degrees from Columbia University, and an athlete who regularly competes in extreme endurance races. She greets every day as if it were a gift, with boundless energy and a strength of spirit that have led her to places we can only imagine. 2014.Stanford professor Krieger describes adapting to life with progressively limited vision caused by birdshot retinochoroidopathy. She writes of embarking upon…
local and long-distance trips and exploring the southwest desert with her guide dog Teela and her lover Hannah. c2010.Under an Afghan sky: a memoir of captivity
By Mellissa Fung. 2011
October, 2008. Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when…
she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Bestseller. 2011.Travels with Farley: a memoir
By Claire Mowat. 2005
After the stillborn death of their first and only child, Farley Mowat persuaded his wife Claire to go with him…
to the Magdalen Islands to make a film. Falling in love with the area, they bought a house there, which became an exotic destination for friends and luminaries of the period. Claire Mowat provides an intimate portrait of a marriage and a window on Farley Mowat's writing life during this time. Some strong language. 2005.Auto da Fay: an autobiography
By Fay Weldon. 2002
A telling look into Fay Weldon's busy life. She was brought up in a household of women, survived the Second…
World War in England, attended university at St. Andrews, worked as a copywriter in London, had many relationships, and a family. It is this full life experience that prepared her for writing. 2002.Rebel women: achievements beyond the ordinary (Amazing stories)
By Linda Kupecek. 2003
Many famous women of the west are celebrated elsewhere. In this book, we meet lesser known rebels, those who lived…
with passion, individuality, and courage. These are women who dared to follow their own path through life; women who dared to be different. 2003.Intimate journal, or, Here's a manuscript
By Nicole Brossard, Barbara Godard. 2004
Quebec poet Nicole Brossard, asked to produce a diary for Radio-Canada, wrote more of an anti-journal. It moves all over…
the world, from Victoria to Tokyo to Rome to Athens to Montreal, jumping back and forth through time. It became a fully formed meditation on the nature of biography, self-reflection, anger, art, friendship and lesbian life. 2004. Uniform title: Journal intime, ou, Voilà donc un manuscrit.Wit's end
By Sandra Shamas. 2002
The author faces life's next hurdle after marriage - divorce - and moves from the city to a farm. Urban…
angst meets the real darkness of nature in this story of healing and creating a new life. 2002.Her story II: women from Canada's past (Her Story Ser. #No. Ii)
By Susan E Merritt. 1995
A second selection of 16 notable Canadian women. Their biographies describe people all born before 1900, who in some way…
helped to change society's attitudes about the abilities and rights of women. Merritt also introduces little-known but fascinating aspects of Canada's past through their stories. Sequel to "Her Story : women from Canada's past". For junior and senior high school readers.Lucy Maud Montgomery: a writer's life (Snapshots: Images Of People And Places In History Ser.)
By Valerie Wyatt, Elizabeth MacLeod. 2001
Touching the earth
By Roberta Lynn Bondar. 1994
Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to travel in space. The book provides an inside look at her experiences…
as an astronaut, from the training at NASA to the actual take-off aboard the space shuttle "Discovery" in January 1992. Details of her journey in space are presented with a message of hope for harmony with our surroundings. c1994.Make trouble: standing up, speaking out, and finding the courage to lead
By Cecile Richards, Lauren Peterson. 2018
Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an…
armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. From the time Richards was a girl, she had a front-row seat to observe the rise of women in American politics. She watched her mother, Ann, transform from a housewife to an electrifying force in the Democratic party who made a name for herself as the straight-talking, truth-telling governor of Texas. But Richards also witnessed the pitfalls of public life that are unique to women. Her experiences paint a powerful portrait of the misogyny, sexism, fake news, and even the threat of violence confronting those who challenge authority. As a young woman, Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning minimum wage and learned that those in power don't give it up without a fight. Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her story - from the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids, having a life, and making change, all at the same time. She shines a light on the people and lessons that have gotten her through good times and bad, and encourages readers to take risks, make mistakes, and make trouble along the way. 2018.