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By Anne Sebba. 2008
Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage,…
Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces 200 or more paramours - including the Prince of Wales. 2008.By Doris French. 1988
In 1893, Lady Ishbel arrived in Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, Canada's newly appointed Governor General. Her initial…
resentment to this posting changed as she became involved in political and social causes. She is remembered as the founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses and the National Council of Women. 1988.By Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2007
In 1985, archeologists in downtown Toronto discovered the remains of a house belonging to former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn,…
who were key figures in the Underground Railroad. Fleeing Louisville, Ky., in 1831, shortly before Lucie was to be sold, the Blackburns settled in Detroit until they were recognized and arrested. Before they could be convicted and returned to slavery, the first racial uprising in Detroit - a crowd of friends and abolitionists who marched on the jail - gave them the opportunity to escape. Fleeing to Toronto, they founded the city's first taxi business while working with prominent abolitionists. Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.By Richard Poplak. 2007
Like most 70's era children, Richard Poplak was obsessed with pop culture, like The Cosby Show, Guns N'Roses, and Mad…
Max movies. But in his country of South Africa, censorship in the newspapers, military training at school, and different rules for different races were also a part of everyday life. Poplak describes living through Apartheid as a white, Jewish boy in suburban Johannesburg, and his gradual understanding of the differences between his country and the rest of the world. 2007.By Verna Thomas. 2001
When Verna Thomas moved from the mostly white community of Mount Denson to the mostly black community of East Preston,…
she discovered that to be black in Nova Scotia could mean being disadvantaged and scorned, not just different. She describes her growing consciousness of her history, of the limits placed on the Black community, and of race, in the wake of the changes that swept across North America in the second half of he twentieth century. Thomas' writings of her early experiences trying to find work and raise a family in the late 1950s and early 1960s is a journey into racially segregated Nova Scotia. 2001.By William Stevenson. 1983
Howard Blum illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the…
true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War." 2018.By Velma Demerson. 2004
In 1939, young Velma Demerson was taken away by the police; her "crime", loving a Chinese man, was compounded by…
her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. She was sent to Toronto's Reformatory for Females where she was locked in a cell for 12 hours a day and subjected to abusive medical treatments. It is the story of survival. 2004.By Ruth Earnshaw Lo, Katharine S Kinderman. 1980
By Rosa Parks, James Haskins. 2001
Famous activist describes her role in the civil rights movement. In 1955, fed up with unequal treatment, Parks refused to…
give up her bus seat to a white man. Her arrest led to a yearlong boycott by blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, buses. Grades 2-4. 2001.By Jennifer Worth. 2013
When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of…
postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humour of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. Sequel to "Call the Midwife", followed by "Farewell to the East End". 2013.By Ronald A Reis. 2010
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a bullwhacker, cattle driver, and American Indian fighter on the Great Plains of the 1850's,…
all before becoming a teenager. He claimed to have killed 5,000 buffalo and to have ridden with the Pony Express. Later, he started his Wild West Show - part circus, part rodeo, part history - that played across the United Stares and Europe for three decades. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2011 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction. 2010. (Legends of the Wild West)By Clarence Ashley. 2004
George Kisevalter, born in Tsarist Russia, was a top case officer for the CIA, best known for working with two…
highly placed Soviet moles, Popov and Penkovsky. Popov provided the first serious look at the inner workings of Soviet Military Intelligence, while Penkovsky delivered reams of documents - information that was later used in America's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2004.By Susan E Merritt. 1999
The third instalment of biographies of 14 notable Canadian women. Mostly born before the 1900s, they helped change society's attitudes…
about women. Included are athlete Bobbie Rosenfeld, ambulance driver Grace Livingston and investigative reporter Faith Fenton. Sequel to "Her story II : women from Canada's past". For junior and senior high readers. 1999.By Susan E Merritt. 1993
This collection of brief biographies celebrates the courage, strength and determination of the women of Canada's past. Included are biographies…
of Laura Secord, Emily Carr, Lucy Maud Montgomery and others. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1993.By Pam Chamberlain. 2010
For some, the country was a place of happiness and belonging; for others, it was a source of hardship and…
sorrow; for many, it was both. From Victoria to St. John's, three generations of Canadians, including Pamela Wallin, Brent Sutter, Sharon Butala and Rudy Wiebe, tell their stories of growing up in rural communities. 2010.By Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G Plant. 2018
The true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade--abducted from Africa on the last…
"Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Bestseller. 2018.By James Baldwin. 2018
Here is an engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.…
Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details. Grades 3-6. 2018.By Nancy Woloch, Eleanor Roosevelt. 2017
This book collects the most fascinating writing from Eleanor Roosevelt's life, much of which is just as relevant today as…
it was decades ago. She gives advice to women in politics, explains why she is a Democrat, and crusades against intolerance. Also included is political commentary on the New Deal, World War II, and the UN; memos to FDR; and intimate letters to Lorena Hickok. 2017. Uniform title: Works.