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Hard Times
By Charles Dickens.
Father and Son
By Edmund Gosse.
The Bridge-Builders
By Rudyard Kipling.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society
By George Borrow.
Edward William Bok (born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930) was a Dutch-born…
American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was editor of the Ladies' Home Journal for 30 years (1889-1919). Pulitzer Prize WinnerThe Life of George Borrow
By Herbert Jenkins.
Chaucer
By Adolphus William Ward.
Boyhood
By Leo Tolstoy, C. J. Hogarth.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 1
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
By heart: Elizabeth Smart, a life
By Rosemary Sullivan. 1990
Elizabeth Smart fell in love with George Barker, a married man, through his poetry. Their intense and scandalous love affair…
inspired Elizabeth to write a critically-acclaimed work of poetic prose, "By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept". Her lack of confidence and her struggle to raise the four children she had with George kept her from publishing another novel for 32 years. Nominated for the 1993 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.Stars come out within
By Jean Little. 1990
Renowned author Jean Little describes her childhood with a visual impairment, the early death of her father, the shock of…
losing her remaining sight to glaucoma, and her battle with depression. A talking computer and her guide dog, Zephyr, brought her independence and freedom. Sequel to "Little by Little".Paula
By Isabel Allende. 1996
In December 1991, Isabel Allende's daughter Paula fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. Sharing her personal tragedy and…
most intimate feelings, this book is a tender, moving and vivid record of a mother's agony at the bedside of her daughter. It begins with a long letter as a way of giving her back the life that is ebbing away.A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
By Bill Bryson. 1997
Bryson relates the adventures and misadventures of two totally unfit hikers, as he and longtime friend Stephen Katz traverse the…
2,100-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Returning from more than twenty years in Britain, he set out to rediscover his homeland, but the two men find themselves awed by the terrain and stymied by the unfamiliar local culture. His gruelling yet fascinating trek gave him a rare perspective on American life. Some strong language. Bestseller.Aphrodite: a memoir of the senses
By Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Paden. 1998
In this memoir written during her fiftieth year, Allende reflects on her relationship with food and eroticism. Combines research with…
personal experience. Focuses on food as an aphrodisiac and its effects on lovemaking. Includes recipes. Descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1998.Paddling her own canoe: the times and texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Studies in gender and history)
By Carole Gerson, Veronica Jane Strong-Boag. 2000
Pauline Johnson, who read her works under the name Tekahionwake, was a poet, feminist, performer, First Nations champion, nationalist, and…
political activist. She alternately chronicled her times while questioning its prejudices. An unmarried, independent woman at the turn of the century, she "talked back" to the Euro-Canadian culture of the day, demanding rights for women and native peoples, and challenging the stereotypes attributed to both those groups.If I could turn and meet myself: the life of Alden Nowlan
By Patrick Toner. 2000
Patrick Toner recounts the life of Canadian poet Alden Nowlan, from his birth to a 14-year-old mother in 1933, through…
his impoverished childhood and troubled teen years, into his career as a newspaperman, struggle with cancer and tenure at the University of New Brunswick. Nowlan authored 12 books of poetry, two novels, a book of stories and 15 years of weekly columns. Despite this, and his winning the Governor General's Award in 1967, he continually fictionalized his life while hiding his background from those closest to him. 2000.The selected journals of L.M. Montgomery: volume I: 1889-1910
By L. M Montgomery, Mary Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston. 1985
These journals provide a unique social history of the times. Lucy Montgomery recounts her schooldays, a year spent in Saskatchewan,…
her training as a teacher, her infatuation for a man, and the publication of "Anne of Green Gables."An interview with Anne Fine
By Anne Fine. 1999
This year in Jerusalem
By Mordecai Richler. 1994
Richler's memoir and travelogue explores the question of what it means to be a Jew living outside of Israel. It…
focuses on two of his journeys to his homeland: one as a teenage Zionist in the years leading up to the creation of Israel in 1948; the other as a Diaspora Jew in his 60s comparing himself to the Israelis who were once his teenage friends in Montreal. Some strong language.Stephen Leacock: the sage of Orillia (Canadian biography series ; #3)
By James Doyle. 1992
In this exploration of Stephen Leacock's life, Doyle discusses the private and public lives of Leacock. He covers his childhood…
on an Ontario farm and his education, culminating in a PhD in economics and political science. He also considers Leacock's family life, career on the international lecture circuit, and commitment to both social commentary and comic writing.