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By Pauline Dakin. 2017
Pauline Dakin, a CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her…
and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Bestseller. 2017.By Peter Carlson. 1983
Biography of the former cowboy, prospector, and silver miner who became the radical leader of the Industrial Workers of the…
World - the celebrated "Wobblies." He led miners in the bloody "labour wars" in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and textile workers in the famous "bread and roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Prosecuted in two criminal cases, a "guilty" Haywood jumped bail and escaped to exile in Russia. Some strong language. 1983.By Paul Levy. 2006
Lucille Johnstone was a living legend in the BC business world. In 1948, Lucille was working as a "girl Friday"…
for River Towing; forty years later Rivtow was a $250 million corporation, Lucille its president and CEO. This is the story of a brilliant leader known as much for her kindness and social conscience as for her talents in the boardroom. 2006.By Conrad Black. 2014
Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from Canada's first inhabitants and the early explorers, the author vividly recounts the story…
of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. He persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Bestseller. 2014. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.By Antony Thomas. 1997
The life of Cecil Rhodes, who was born in 1853 and sailed to Africa at sixteen because of poor health.…
Describes his modest beginning as a cotton farmer and his transformation into a diamond magnate, who also earned a fortune in gold. Rhodes annexed much of Africa for Great Britain and became one of the most powerful, and mistrusted, men of his time. 1997.By Susan Wener. 2014
Susan Wener survived cancer not once, but twice. The first time, she followed the traditional route of surgery and chemotherapy.…
The second time, she went renegade, stepping out into the field of alternative medicine. This book brings to life a journey of more than thirty years, years filled with joy as well as physical, psychological, and spiritual challenges. As an educator and therapist who helps individuals cope with life threatening illness, Wener brings a unique perspective to this story. c2014.By Robert Brehl, Ted Rogers. 2008
For the fist time, Ted Rogers tells the story of how he built Rogers Communications into one of the largest…
companies in Canadian history, and in just one generation. Rogers is characteristically frank about his successes and his failures. c2008.Tracy reveals how every one of us is engineered for success, and with the right focus, can re-make ourselves and…
put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction we might feel in our careers and lives. 2009.By Dennis Smith. 1999
Recounts the experiences of Fireman First-Grade Dennis Smith and his colleagues in the New York City Fire Department. In the…
South Bronx, the crew not only fights fires but handles drug overdose cases, settles marital spats, breaks up brawls, and waters down the streets on hot summer nights. Bestseller. 1999.By Willard Gaylin. 1986
Psychiatrist Gaylin reinforces his message that one must give love, not merely want to be loved. He argues for responsibility…
and shared love that, he insists, must be extended to include caring for all people and the physical world. Gaylin believes that "our survival depends on rediscovering our need for community and, ultimately, to rediscovering love." 1986.By Jeffrey E Young, Janet S Klosko. 1994
The authors draw on the breakthrough principles of cognitive therapy to help the readers recognise and change negative thought patterns,…
without the aid of drugs or long-term traditional therapy. They describe eleven of the most common lifetraps, provide a diagnostic test for each and offer step-by-step suggestions to help break free of the traps. 1994.By W. Brett Wilson. 2013
The popular co-star of CBC’s award-winning Dragons’ Den recounts how he was forced to redefine his life, making health and…
key relationships his first priorities. Through trial and error, he discovered that these simple virtues are foundations for real, enduring success, both in business and in life. Not just for entrepreneurs and business people, this book outlines how we can change our lives for the better by re-evaluating our personal definitions of success, then reworking them into a life plan that is feasible, lasting, and rewarding. Bestseller. 2013, c2012.By Bill Browder. 2015
A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young…
tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption. Bestseller. 2015.By L. A. C. O Hunt, Barbara Hunt. 1983
Memoirs of a northern trader turned civil servant. Mr. Hunt came to Canada in 1928 with the Hudson's Bay Company…
and travelled all over the North. He describes how the region evolved over time and bemoans the attempts to apply the southern values to northern situations. 1983.By Patrick F McManus. 2000
In this collection of essays, McManus treats his audience to the exploits of his wife Bun, his buddies Retch and…
Eddie, and himself. He recounts the events that led to his dog’s climbing a tree, to the class clown’s finally making the fierce math teacher laugh, and to the garage door’s gobbling up the dog. He tells of the problems in pouring a concrete walk and of fireworks with the potential to bring down a B-29. 2000.By Lyndsay Green. 2016
By looking at retirement from men's perspectives, this book will explore issues that have been given short shrift by the…
mass media and in retirement literature. The interviewees will include the newly retired, those working part-time, and the fully retired, and represent a range of income and education levels and professional and personal circumstances. The author will also be interviewing their wives and partners. By helping women understand why men think about retirement the way they do, the author hopes to separate fiction from fact and free people's minds to reimagine retirement. Bestseller. 2016.By Paul Nison. 2003
This book has been created to give you the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, freer life. It contains information…
you can use to take control of your health, environment, your whole life: mind body and soul. 2003.By Joseph Gold. 1990
The book includes sections on reading for children, adolescents, and the elderly; as well as reading during times of crisis,…
such as bereavement, divorce, and aging; reading for women, for the disabled, and for racial minorities. c1990.By Danièle Henkel. 2013
" Danièle Henkel est connue pour sa réussite en affaires et, plus récemment, pour sa participation à la populaire émission…
Dans lœil du dragon, diffusée sur les ondes de Radio-Canada. Son premier livre met à lavant-scène non pas tant la recette de son succès professionnel que le caractère exceptionnel de son cheminement. Dans ce récit autobiographique aux allures de roman, lauteure partage les moments clés de sa vie qui lui ont permis de devenir la femme daffaires au style bien particulier que lon connaît. Le lecteur la suit de sa naissance au Maroc, dune mère juive et dun père allemand, à son enfance en Algérie, son mariage à un musulman choisi par son frère en passant par ses expériences professionnelles, son départ pour le Québec et sa réalité dimmigrante. " -- 4e de couv.By Jacques Voyer. 2002