Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by… (Show full summary)

Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who… (Show full summary)

For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place… (Show full summary)

Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto… (Show full summary)

Un ouvrage qui s'adresse aux historiens, universitaires, chercheurs et professeurs. Un autre ouvrage sur Groulx me direz-vous? Je répondrais :… (Show full summary)

L'intolérance et l'oppression peuvent prendre des visages multiples. On n'avait pas encore tente jusqu'ici de dresser un tableau d'ensemble qui… (Show full summary)

Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.… (Show full summary)

Molière n'a pas laissé de confidences. Pas une lettre, pas un mot. Il a près de quarante ans quand il… (Show full summary)

Paris, 1919 : après la " guerre qui devait mettre fin à toutes les guerres ", des hommes et des… (Show full summary)

Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism… (Show full summary)

Writer reflects on her emotional response to the unexpected death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, after a visit to… (Show full summary)

During the 1960s, Manguel, then a teenager, spent many evenings reading to Jorge Luis Borges, a giant of modern literature,… (Show full summary)

Salverson's autobiography describes the struggles of a young Icelandic woman to rise above an early life of poverty, isolation and… (Show full summary)

Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and… (Show full summary)

An examination of writer Maugham's homosexuality and unhappy marriage, his Victorian sense of propriety, his wanderlust, his verbal and financial… (Show full summary)

In 1917, the Canadian Corps seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a feat thought impossible… (Show full summary)

Ferguson has crafted a delightfully idiosyncratic account of growing up in the North, where Fort Vermilion Alberta seemed as exotic… (Show full summary)

Karen Connelly, 17 years old and bored with her life, was accepted by an exchange program which took her from… (Show full summary)

This autobiography by a novelist and short story writer follows him from a working class childhood in Washington State to his fraudulent admission to an Eastern prep school. c1989.

Through the use of his grandparents' diaries, the author recreates his family history. The Ignatieffs, firmly entrenched in the Russian… (Show full summary)