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Home farm: one family's life on the land
Par Michael Webster. 1989
Gang Ranch: the real story (Opis Ser.)
Par Judy Alsager. 1994
Historic and isolated, the Gang Ranch was one of the oldest and largest cattle ranches in the world. In 1978,…
it came into Canadian ownership headed by the Alsager family. This is a story of the hard work, humour and stress faced by the Alsagers - stress that led to financial struggles and legal turmoil between family members. 1994.Hilmar and Odette: two stories from the Nazi era
Par Eric Koch. 1995
Eric Koch, a German Jew who was interned in Canada in the early years of World War II, discovered late…
in life that he had two relatives of whom his family never spoke. Both illegitimate, they were Koch's half-sister, Odette, and his step-cousin, Hilmar. Neither was able to leave Germany, and Koch tells of their disturbing and divergent paths through World War II. c1995.From Harvey River: a memoir of my mother and her people
Par Lorna Goodison. 2007
When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet…
of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's Jamaican home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the "fabulous Harvey girls". Her daughter Lorna honours Doris and her family in this memoir going back to the 1800's. 2007.Holding on
Par Sunnie Mann. 1990
The author and her husband had lived in Beirut since 1946. He was a former British fighter pilot who later…
worked for Middle East Airlines, and she ran a riding school in the city. The author tells of how her husband was taken hostage by Arab terrorists in 1989, and how she campaigned for his release, which finally came in 1991. 1990.Hollyhocks, lambs, and other passions: a memoir of Thornhill Farm
Par Dee Hardie. 1985
Hamlet's dresser: a memoir
Par Bob Smith. 2002
At age ten, Smith stumbled onto a line from "The Merchant of Venice" and found a window through the language…
of Shakespeare to view the world. When he was a teenager, the American Shakespeare Festival moved into Stratford, Smith's hometown, and Smith became Hamlet's dresser. A few years later, he left home to travel with the Shakespeare Festival, and in the decades since, he has taught the plays in universities, acting schools, prisons, and senior centres. 2002.Honeymoon with my brother: a memoir
Par Franz Wisner. 2005
Franz Wisner thought he had it all - until, days before they were to be married, his fiancée called it…
off. His family and friends decided he should have a big party and a honeymoon anyway, with his brother Kurt as his travel companion. Then he lost his dream job, so the brothers decided to leave their old lives behind them. They quit their jobs, sold all their possessions, and traveled around the world, visiting fifty-three countries for the next two years. Franz turned his heartbreak into an opportunity to learn about himself, the world, and the brother he hardly knew. 2005.Honey and ashes: a story of family
Par Janice Kulyk Keefer. 1998
Author Kulyk Keefer's feeling of never fitting in, of being of two cultures - Canadian and Polish-Ukrainian - led to…
a quest to belong and find her roots. Collecting her family's memories, uncovering secrets, and researching the histories of both her family and the places they were from eventually led her to her mother's village in the Ukraine. 1998.Hidden lives: a family memoir
Par Margaret Forster. 1996
Follow the rabbit-proof fence (Nungar Ser.)
Par Doris Pilkington. 2002
This story is based on the true account of the author's mother, who, as a young girl led her two…
sisters on an extraordinary 1600 kilometre walk across remote Western Australia. Aged eight, eleven and fourteen, they escaped a government institution for Aboriginal children removed from their families. Barefoot, without provisions, tracked by police and planes, the girls followed the fence home. 2002.Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…
one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness
Par Alexandra Fuller. 2011
Following her memoir about her African childhood, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”, Fuller describes her Scottish mother and…
English father’s origins and farm life in Kenya, Rhodesia, and finally Zambia. Covers multiple civil wars and highlights struggles with racism and personal tragedies. 2011.Famine's harvest
Par Mary McKay. 2008
This is a saga of one family's flight from their native famine stricken homeland. To avoid dying of starvation and…
poverty the band of Irish travellers fled across the Irish Sea. Their journeying took them from the fields of rotten, black, stinking and useless potatoes through the green and rolling hills of Scotland's Highlands and the coastal towns of Aberdeenshire and Fife until they finally settled in Dundee. 2008.Eighty acres: elegy for a family farm (Concord Library)
Par Ronald Jager. 1990
Eighty acres is a small farm, but the author's memoirs of his experiences in this miniature world depict a life…
rich with contrasts. He details his view of rural America in the 1940s, recovering from the Depression and now deep in wartime economy; honours his close-knit family; reflects on the never-ending chores; and takes a knowing look at the erosion of the small family farm. c1990.Family secrets
Par Jean Yves Soucy, Annette Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Yvonne Dionne. 1996
Based on the recollections of the three remaining Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, and Yvonne - this book relates the…
hidden scandals surrounding the quintuplets, including the trust fund set up for the quints, emotional abuse from their mother, and sexual advances from their father. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1996. Uniform title: Secrets de famille.Fillets of plaice
Par Gerald Durrell. 1971
Fathers, sons, and brothers: the men in my family
Par Bret Lott. 1997
A memoir on the lives and relationships of men and boys across three family generations: Lott's father and two uncles,…
his own two brothers, and his two sons. Recounts their times together at work and at play, their ties and differences, and their triumphs and setbacks. Depicts the sense of loyalty and kinship that sustained them through the years. c1997.Einstein in love: a scientific romance
Par Dennis Overbye. 2000
A biographical portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, focusing on his productive, youthful years in the first two decades of…
the 1900s. Provides a detailed treatment of Einstein's romantic and family affairs while discussing his scientific theories. Based on correspondence and documents that became available in the 1990s. 2000.Driven: how the Bathurst tragedy ignited a crusade for change
Par Richard Foot. 2013
In the early hours of January 12, 2008, seven members of a high school basketball team and their coach's wife…
died instantly when their school van collided with a tractor trailer. The accident forever shattered the lives of eight families and their community. In the weeks that followed two women who lost their sons forged a bond. Ana Acevedo and Isabelle Hains were transformed by their grief into unlikely agents of courage and change. This book follows Isabelle and Ana’s long journey through the legal system that made it safer for children to travel to extracurricular activities in New Brunswick and across the country. c2013.