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By Vincent T. Bugliosi. 1974
By Carol Drinkwater. 2000
Young women talk about what led them to cross the line, and how they both coped with, and learned from,…
their experiences. The collection also includes young women who have had friends or family in jail, and what it has meant for them. 2000.By Paul Muldoon. 1994
By Arthur Schaller. 1998
Arthur Schaller was eleven years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a time when the reward for turning in…
a Jew was 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka. Separated from his family in the Warsaw Ghetto, Arthur managed to escape to the other side of the Ghetto wall, and posed until the end of the war as a Catholic orphan. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.By Charles Ritchie. 1974
A volume from the author's published diaries which takes the reader through the diplomatic corridors and drawing rooms of prewar…
Washington, wartime England, and Europe. Ritchie's observations of world events include insights into the ins and outs of the diplomatic world, portraits of politicians, socialites, and literary lions, and candour about his own enthusiasms. Winner of the 1974 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.By Dionne Brand. 1997
Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.By Rachel Manley. 1996
Poet Rachel Manley, granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant, artistic Manley…
family, and the house that nurtured them: Drumblair. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1996.By Bruce Kirkby. 2000
In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…
attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.By Emily Carr. 1941
Emily Carr was called Klee Wyck, or Laughing One, by the Indians of British Columbia. In the late 1930's, she…
went among their coastal villages to paint their totems and record visual evidence of native culture. She also recorded her observations of the people and their way of life. First published in 1941. Winner of the 1941 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.By Violet Jessop. 1998
Violet Jessop was a stewardess for first-class passengers on the "Titanic" when it sank on its maiden voyage in April…
1912. These memoirs give us a unique glimpse of life below decks, aboard a great ocean liner. We learn what life was like for those who worked on the ships: hilarious fellow stewardesses, cramped quarters, wartime alerts, impossible passengers, philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths.By Karen Connelly. 1992
Karen Connelly, 17 years old and bored with her life, was accepted by an exchange program which took her from…
Calgary to a small town in Thailand. She describes her assimilation into the Thai language and culture and her despair at leaving when the year came to an end. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1992.By Evelyn M Richardson. 1945
The author describes the life of her family as keepers of a lighthouse on the little island of Bon Portage…
off the coast of Nova Scotia. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.By György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.By Witold Rybczynski. 1989
Rybczynski's project to build a workshed gradually evolved into a full-fledged house. As he recounts his tale, he considers the…
theories and work of such architects as Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright, the elements of classical architecture, and the structural descendants of the humble barn. 1989.By Sandra Gwyn. 1984
A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.By John Ralston Saul. 1995
Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist, claims that 20th century ideologies have promoted truisms that undermine the acquisition of knowledge…
and reason and the quest for the public good. Instead, managers and technocrats are seen as gods, passive and conformist politics abound, and only salesmanship, style and fashion are seen as meaningful. Saul argues that the average citizen must rise above a smothering bureaucracy and today's mindless devotion to "corporatism" to pursue knowledge and active, publicly interested civic engagement. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.By Gitta Sereny. 1998
In 1968, at the age of eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of manslaughter following the death of two…
small boys, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Twenty-seven years after her conviction and her sentence of detention for life, and after her mother's death, Mary Bell agreed to talk about her harrowing childhood, her two terrible acts, nine weeks apart, her public trial and her twelve years of detention. 1998.By Paul W Britton. 1997
Forensic psychologist, Paul Britton, has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction because of his ability to…
detect the psychological characteristics of those who stalk, torture, rape, abduct and kill other human beings. In recent years he has been at the centre of more than a hundred headline-making investigations, from the murder of Jamie Bulger to the slaying of Rachel Nickell.By Mikaela Sitford, Steve Panter. 2000
Written by two investigative journalists who have covered the case from the start, this book tells the story of the…
trial of Dr Harold Shipman, who has been found guilty of killing 15 women in his care.By Michael Harris. 1995
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.