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Dance on the earth: a memoir
Par Margaret Laurence. 1989
Causeway: a passage from innocence
Par Linden MacIntyre. 2006
Linden MacIntyre remembers the day construction started on the Canso Causeway, which would link his Cape Breton village with the…
mainland. With its grand promises of jobs and riches and progress, the building of the causeway also became a personal icon for MacIntyre, the road that would bring him closer to the father who was always away. His memoir is a coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life, and a reflection on fathers and sons. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.Blessed: the autobiography
Par George Best, Roy Collins. 2001
George Best is a legend in his own lifetime, and at his peak he brought glamour and grace to the…
game, second only in the world to Pele. But with success and fame came excess and foolhardiness, and Best's fabled story is littered with tales of his involvement with women and sex and, of course, the drink. 2001.Black berry, sweet juice: on being black and white in Canada
Par Lawrence Hill. 2001
The son of a black father and a white mother, Lawrence Hill begins this book with personal stories about how…
his parents met and married, what it was like growing up in an otherwise entirely white Toronto suburb, and how his own children are beginning to forge a sense of racial identity. Includes his coast-to-coast interviews with Canadians of black and white parentage. 2001.An aesthetic underground: a literary memoir
Par John Metcalf. 2003
The memoirs of John Metcalf, Canadian writer and literary editor, who always looks for elegance, sophistication, and invention, and who…
believes in promoting the shockingly new. Since the 1960's, he has helped get Canadian writing into schools, organized readings and conferences, helped found the Writer's Union of Canada, and documented the history of Canadian publishing. Metcalf has also nurtured many writers, among them Leonard Rooke, Alice Munro, Matt Cohen, and Rohinton Mistry. Some strong language. 2003.Alice Munro: a double life (Canadian biography series)
Par Catherine Sheldrick Ross. 1992
Biography of Canadian Alice Munro, one of the world's best contemporary short story authors. Examines her development as a writer…
and her struggle to balance the demands of her personal life with those of being a writer. 1992. (Canadian biography series)Adam Copeland on Edge
Par Adam Copeland. 2005
Orangeville, Ontario's Adam Copeland turned to wrestling to deal with a family tragedy, first with friend Jason Reso as an…
indie tag team, then as the WWE's Edge. He describes wrestling throughout Canada and the Midwestern United States, winning the Intercontinental title, his brief Tag Team title reign with idol Hulk Hogan, the pain of a broken marriage and two ruptured discs in his neck, and the nervous energy of returning to Raw in March 2004 and setting his sights on the championship. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence and strong language. 2005.1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear
Par James Shapiro. 2015
1606 is an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony…
and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, was a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life. By immersing us in Shakespeare's England, 1606 profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays, works that continue to speak to us with such immediacy. 2015.1599: a year in the life of William Shakespeare
Par James Shapiro. 2006
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever…
lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw and who he worked with as he invests in the new Globe theatre and creates four of his most famous plays - Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet. Here is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature as we know it. 2006.Game change: The Life And Death Of Steve Montador And The Future Of Hockey
Par Ken Dryden. 2017
The story of NHL defenceman Steve Montador, who was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after his death in 2015;…
of the remarkable evolution of hockey itself; of science and sport; and a passionate prescriptive to counter the greatest risk to the game in the future: head injuries. Bestseller. 2017.Zero tollerance: an intimate memoir by the man who revolutionized figure skating
Par Toller Cranston, Martha Lowder Kimball. 1997
Autobiography of one of Canada's most famous figure skaters, covering the years after his appearance in the 1976 Olympics. Cranston…
became an international celebrity, living a life of luxury. He recounts his triumphs and disasters, and tells anecdotes about his friendships with the rich and famous. 1997.I've been meaning to tell you: a letter to my daughter
Par David John Chariandy. 2018
Canadian author David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter to share with her the story of his life and…
to talk to her about the politics of race in her world. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth. In sharing with his daughter his own story, he hopes to help cultivate within her a sense of identity and responsibility that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for the future. Bestseller. 2018.The way forward is with a broken heart
Par Alice Walker. 2000
This collection opens with a passionate account of Alice Walker's early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in…
racist Mississippi, giving voice to idealism, lost love and hope. This is followed by tales of sisters, of family, of love for men and for women. These stories consider issues of racism and slavery, politics and sex.Typing: a life in 26 keys
Par Matt Cohen. 2000
Matt Cohen's last book, a memoir, describes his life as a writer. Also dealing with the Canadian literary scene of…
his time, he includes portraits of such figures as Margaret Laurence and Morley Callaghan. He charts his progress as a writer, and the inspiration he received by moving from Toronto to a farm near Kingston.The life of Margaret Laurence
Par James King. 1997
King investigates the life and character of one of Canada's greatest novelists. He finds a woman who rivalled her greatest…
creation, Hagar Shipley, in strength and determination, yet also a woman fraught with uncertainty and insecurity. 1997.Charles Dickens: a life
Par Claire Tomalin. 2011
Mr. Hockey: my story
Par Gordie Howe. 2014
Big, skilled, mean, and nearly indestructible, Gordie Howe dominated the game and the record books for decades. Today he is…
still known as “Mr. Hockey”. Going back to his Depression-era roots, and following him through his Hall of Fame career, his enduring marriage to Colleen, his extraordinary relationship with his children, and into the present, this is the definitive account of an amazing life and legacy. Bestseller. 2014.Great football moments of the century
Par Rab MacWilliam. 1999
"Great Football Moments of the Century" brings all the greatest players, teams, managers, games and moments together in one book.…
Fifty of the world's best-ever players, the supreme national and club teams - such as Brazil 1970 - and the most successful managers of all time (including the 20th century's last great manager, Alex Ferguson) are all profiled in-depth, together with their complete statistics. 1999.Yvon Deschamps, "j'en peux plus de parler de moi-même" ((Biographie (Éditions Contreforts)).)
Par Claude Paquette. 2013
" À 77 ans et après plus de 50 années de carrière, Yvon Deschamps est l'un des artistes les plus…
respectés et les plus populaires au Québec, même s'il a pris sa retraite dans une certaine controverse en 2010, depuis, il n'a pas donné d'entrevues et il s'est éloigné du monde des humoristes et du spectacle. Mais il demeure engagé dans plusieurs causes. Sa vie est sans véritables bifurcations biographiques malgré des périodes difficiles qu'il qualifie lui-même de passages à vide, de moments où l'élan vital est absent. Il est un phénomène, une légende vivante et une personnalité exceptionnelle. Cette biographie relate les échecs, les réussites, les cohérences et les incohérences d'un homme qui n'a jamais hésité à s'aventurer dans des projets jugés insensés par plusieurs... " -- 4e de couv.Aimé Césaire: le nègre inconsolé : biographie
Par Roger Toumson, Simonne Henry-Valmore. 2004
"Récit d'une traversée du XXe siècle, cette biographie humaine, intellectuelle, littéraire et politique trace le portrait d'Aimé Césaire avec, à…
l'arrière plan, un tableau des réalités du monde noir des lendemains de la Première Guerre mondiale à l'ère des indépendances. [...] Poète et homme politique, il appartient à la véritable histoire, celle qui nous fait connaître, à travers les particularités d'une existence d'homme, un peuple tout entier." -- 4e de couv.