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Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad : her life in the United States and Canada
Par Rosemary Sadlier. 1997
A biography of Harriet Tubman, who helped slaves escape to freedom. It tells her story and describes what life was…
like in St. Catharines during the eight years she lived in Canada. The author also illustrates the importance of family history by tracing Harriet's descendants to the present day. Grades 5-8. 1997.This and that: the lost stories of Emily Carr
Par Emily Carr, Ann-Lee Switzer. 2007
Carr began to write these stories in the last two years of her life. Enter Emily's world with stories like…
"Father's Temper," "The First Snow" and "Smoking with the Cow," stories in which she reveals details of her family life, school days, her fascination with nature, animals she loved and how she learned to smoke. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2007.If I knew, don't you think I'd tell you?: Selected Journals Of Jann Arden
Par Jann Arden. 2002
From cat food to death, bra size to spirituality, family to music, these are selections from the journals of Canadian…
singer Jann Arden. The entries are culled from the electronic diaries that first appeared on Arden's Web site in early 2000. Perfect for "Jann fans" as well as readers looking for some insights into life from the perspective of a successful woman. 2002.Venus & Serena Williams (Champion sport biographies)
Par Ken Sparling. 2000
Serena and Venus Williams have become a major force in woman's tennis. Their great success has inspired many young girls…
to take up the sport. This is a fascinating and inspiring story of how the Williams family has shaken up the world of professional tennis. For senior high readers. 2000.Desert flower: the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad
Par Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller. 2001
Autobiography of a Somali woman's journey from nomadic tribal life to a career as a fashion model in London and…
to the post of special ambassador at the United Nations. Dirie recounts her personal experience with female genital mutilation that began with circumcision at age five. Some strong language. 2001.Posh & Becks
Par Andrew Morton. 2000
Young, good-looking, famous and rich, there is no better-known celebrity couple than Posh and Becks. In this biography, Andrew Morton…
reveals the truth behind the headlines. He examines Victoria's relationship with the other Spice Girls and David's relationship with Manchester United. Through tell-all interviews with those who inhabit the Beckhams' circle, the author unfolds a story of two young people struggling to lead ordinary lives and obsessed with guarding their privacy. Yet, he argues, the Beckhams are also a couple prepared to do whatever it takes to keep themselves in the spotlight. 2000.Catherine Booth: a biography of the co-founder of the Salvation Army
Par Roger Joseph Green. 1997
An up-to-date and insightful examination of the life of Catherine Booth, the "Army mother". Although Catherine was diminutive and frail,…
her preaching was likened to that of a lawyer, arguing her case, mastering her facts and pressing home her claims. She moved people deeply with her verbal skills, commitment and passion.Victorian girls: Lord Lyttelton's daughters
Par Sheila Fletcher. 1997
The four daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of the Prime Minister William Gladstone. Their letters and…
diaries enable us to know them and share their feelings in extraordinary detail; at home in Hagley Hall in Worcestershire; in fashionable London society; at country houses and on continental tours; in the schoolroom and embarking on courtship and marriage, and in happiness and adversity. The girls emerge in their own right as strong characters. 1997.I didn't see that coming: I Didn't See That Coming
Par Andrea Begley. 2013
Andrea Begley stunned the nation with her unique voice and was the winner of series two of The Voice UK.…
This is the exclusive story of her journey to the top. From her childhood in Ireland, coming to terms with the loss of 90% of her vision, to her university days and her passion for politics and above all, music. The Voice was the opportunity Andrea had been waiting for, and she made sure nothing would hold her back. Andrea reveals the moments of terror and triumph, the pressure and euphoria, what it's really like to work with Danny O'Donoghue, and what it feels like to have finally achieved her dream against all odds. 2013.Elizabeth Jane Howard: a dangerous innocence
Par Artemis Cooper. 2016
Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting…
relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Artemis Cooper's biography explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her writing, as well as illuminating the literary world in which she lived. 2016.The bigamist: the true story of a husband's ultimate betrayal
Par Mary Turner Thomson. 2007
In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart: the woman on the other end…
of the line told her that Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married to her for fourteen years and they had five children together. It's a story we all think could never happen to us, but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years, spinning a tangled web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks. 2007.Abducted: the fourteen-year fight to find my children
Par Jacqueline Pascarl. 2008
At seventeen, Jacqueline Pascarl married a royal prince and embarked on what she believed would be a fairy-tale existence. But…
it soon became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Jacqueline escaped with her children, hoping to leave her past behind. But what followed would haunt her for the next fourteen years. 2008.The veiled kingdom
Par Carmen Bin Ladin. 2004
On September 11th 2001, Carmen Bin Ladin heard the news on the radio that the Twin Towers had been struck.…
She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her family would never be the same again. In 1974 Carmen, half Swiss and half Persian, married into the Bin Laden family and found herself inside a complex and vast clan, part of a society that at that point she neither knew nor understood. Determined to protect her daughters from the inevitable restrictions within a society riddled with hypocrisy and contradiction, in 1985 Carmen moved back to her home country, Switzerland. Carmen's story takes us inside one of the most powerful, secretive and repressive kingdoms in the world and the Bin Laden family's role within it. 2004. Uniform title: Voile déchiré.Diana: in pursuit of love
Par Andrew Morton. 2004
When Andrew Morton's biography, "Diana: her true story", was first published, it caused a media frenzy, severely jolted the Royal…
Family and the Palace hierarchy, and shook the British Establishment to its foundations. Later revealed as having been written with the Princess's full cooperation, this world bestseller is now seen as the nearest thing to her official biography. Yet it was not the full story, nor could it have been, given the circumstances at the time. Friends, advisers and colleagues, more than six years after her death, feel a far greater freedom in speaking of her than once they did.Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography
Par Andrea Warner. 2018
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and…
only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting). Bestseller. 2018.The pursuit of perfection: a life of Celia Franca
Par Carol Bishop-Gwyn. 2011
Born into a working-class family in 1921 in London, England, Celia Franca, though a capable dancer, was an unlikely candidate…
for ballet greatness. But Celia possessed a drive that was almost unrivalled, and went on to become one of the most important figures in Canadian ballet in the twentieth century. When a group from Toronto was hopeful of establishing a major ballet, they brought Celia across the Atlantic to be the founder, and she went on to build the company, the National Ballet of Canada, into a major cultural force. c2011.Where the heart is: a writer in Provence
Par Marita Van der Vyver, Annelize Visser. 2006
Van der Vyver, a Capetonian writer, married a Frenchman and moved to the south of France. She continues to write…
her novels there in her home language, therefore valuing her one or two trips a year back to South Africa. But her enjoyment of her adopted home - though its bureaucracy can bring tears - shines through, even as she describes renovations, strikes, and the quest for food colouring. 2006.Close the door softly behind you
Par Emmaleen Kriel. 2005
How does a woman who has only ever been a mother to seven children find out who she is? She…
takes her caring to London, where she looks after various well-heeled English people (or their children). She helps nervous first-time mothers; a feisty old woman with Alzheimer's; a professor with Parkinson's who just wants to "cuddle"; and cooks and cleans for minor aristocrats at their villa in France, an old Lady's two overweight Corgis, and ex Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath. Through these experiences: some painful, some joyful, all holding hope and laughter, she discovers more about herself and even meets a new love. 2005.Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world (Women in Science)
Par Rachel Ignotofsky. 2016
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,…
from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. Grades 4-7. 2016.Finding me: a decade of darkness, a life reclaimed
Par Michelle Knight, Michelle Burford. 2014
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For…
more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken. Bestseller. 2014.