Haunted narratives life writing in an age of trauma

Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across...

Environmentalists from our first nations

Like the other books in the First Nations Series for Young Readers, this books offers ten short and engaging biographies...

The life of samuel johnson introduction by claude rawson

One of the greatest and most compelling of all biographies in literature had its beginnings on a fateful day in...

The roosevelts an intimate history

New York Times Bestseller A vivid and personal portrait of America’s greatest political family and its enormous impact on our...

Leonardo da vinci

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography...

Genius of place the life of frederick law olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered...

That's what i am

Al Waxman, star of television, radio, movies and theatre, can now add author to his credits. King of Kensington, Jack...

Drifting home a family's voyage of discovery down the wild yukon

Drifting Home is an account of a journey by Pierre Berton and his family as they raft down the Yukon...

The hundred greatest men portraits of the one hundred greatest men of history; reproduced from fine and rare steel engravings

Excerpt from The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History; Reproduced From Fine and Rare...

Here with you a memoir of love

The powerful story of a mother’s struggle to save her son from addiction—and the strength and hope for change that...

The home stretch a father

A moving, honest memoir about a man who returns to his rural hometown to take care of his cranky elderly...

My life

A very large soul selected letters of margaret laurence

This collection of letters from Margaret Laurence to thirty-three Canadian writers is an intensely personal articulation of her development as...

Killing time the autobiography of paul feyerabend

Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the...

Me & issy a four seasons romance

The rags to riches tale of a larger-than-life romance of over seven decades Me & Issy is a love story...

Reluctant accomplice a wehrmacht soldier's letters from the eastern front

An ordinary German soldier’s letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of...

The women founders of the social sciences

Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and...

London was ours diaries and memoirs of the london blitz

For the nine months of the Blitz, London was subjected to a brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign, aimed for the...

Digressions of a naked party girl

Hilarious, provocative poems by one of Canada’s most notorious artists. Digressions of a Naked Party Girl is a wild collection...

You'll never eat lunch in this town again

Oscar-winning producer Julia Phillps's work on Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and The Sting, made her famous....

The rivers north of the future the testament of ivan illich

In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate...

Thunder through my veins memories of a métis childhood

From Amazon Thunder Through My Veins will be particularly resonant for those who have struggled to trace their roots or...

Clive bell and the making of modernism a biography

This landmark biography brings art critic Clive Bell, member of the Bloomsbury Group, back into prominence. Clive Bell is perhaps...

On a grander scale the outstanding life and tumultuous times of sir christopher wren

Everything Sir Christopher Wren undertook, he envisaged on a grander scale -- bigger, better, more enduring than anything that had...