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Single, gay, Christian: a personal journey of faith and sexual identity
Par Gregory Coles. 2017
Strangers tend to tell me things: a memoir of love, loss, and coming home
Par Amy Dickinson. 2017
By peeling back the curtain of her syndicated advice column, Amy Dickinson reveals much of the inspiration and motivation that…
has fueled her calling. Through a series of linked essays, this moving narrative picks up where her earlier memoir left off. Exploring central themes of romance, death, parenting, self-care, and spiritual awakening, this touching and heartfelt homage speaks to all who have faced challenges in the wake of life's twists and turns. From finding love in middle-age to her storied experience with stepparenting to overcoming disordered eating to her final moments spent with her late mother, Dickinson's trademark humorous tone delivers punch and wit that will empower, entertain, and heal. Follow up to "The Mighty Queens of Freeville". 2017.Straight from the heart
Par Jean Chrétien. 1985
Stormy weather: the life of Lena Horne
Par James Gavin. 2009
Biography of African American singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917 Brooklyn, who first performed at Harlem's Cotton Club at age…
sixteen. Interprets Horne's multiracial family background in the pre-civil rights era as the reason for emotional conflicts in both her personal and professional lives. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2009.Sit stay heal: how an underachieving labrador won our hearts and brought us peace
Par Mel C Miskimen. 2016
An inspiring memoir about an unruly Labrador who taught a woman and her father to overcome their grief and find…
peace with each other. When Mel Miskimen's mother dies, her tough, retired-cop father withdraws into his sadness, and his broken grief is more than Mel can handle on her own. Enter Seamus: a rowdy, hapless Labrador devoted to chaos. In a spark of inspiration, Mel ropes her father into training the wayward hound for a local contest. As the seasons change, Mel finds herself connecting with her last surviving parent more than she'd ever dreamed. 2016.Stones into schools: promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Par Greg Mortenson. 2009
Author of "Three Cups of Tea" and cofounder of the Central Asia Institute chronicles his school-building efforts and promotion of…
female literacy in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Discusses Mortenson's long-term goals and shares anecdotes about those impacted by his work. Bestseller. 2009.Stein: the way of the river
Par R. Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy C Wickwire. 1988
"Stein" explores the Stein River watershed in British Columbia. Recording its history, and of the Natives who first lived and…
left their ancient art there, it also encompasses the ecological, anthropological, and cultural aspects of the area. The authors discuss the preservation of the Stein from logging, and champion the return to the land by local Natives. 1988.Starting out in the afternoon: a mid-life journey into wild land
Par Jill Frayne. 2002
After Jill Frayne's long-term relationship with her lover ended and her daughter left home, she packed up her life and…
headed for the Yukon. Sleeping in her car or pitching a tent by the road, she became a solitary traveller and lived close to the natural world. What started out as a three-month trip became a personal journey that lasted several years. 2002.St. Paul Island: the story of a little known Nova Scotia island
Par Carle A Rigby. 1979
Spilsbury's coast: pioneer years in the wet West
Par Howard White, Jim Spilsbury. 1987
Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…
of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.So we bought the town: a Los Angeles family's flight from the city into a jade treasure trove
Par Margaret Owen. 1977
A Los Angeles family, weary of city living, found a satisfactory alternative in northern British Columbia. The years in the…
wilderness, highlighted by the discovery of an important jade deposit, are humourously described. c1977.Some desperate glory: the World War I diary of a British officer, 1917
Par Edwin Campion Vaughan. 1988
The journal of eight months in the life of a 19-year-old British officer during 1917. Vaughan's description of the Battle…
of Ypres tells of costly struggles for pillboxes, brief friendships that developed between enemies, and the wounded drowning in shell holes. 1980.Sniffing the coast: an Acadian voyage
Par Silver Donald Cameron. 1993
An account of the cruise which Silver Donald Cameron and his wife and son took in 1992 around the Maritimes…
in their home-built wooden sloop. He talks about the places they visited - from Green Gables to the Magdalen Islands and the people they met, like a man who publishes a newsletter for potato growers. c1993.Something of myself and other autobiographical writings: Something Of Myself And Other Autobiographical Writings
Par Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney. 1990
Kipling's autobiography was his last work and has not received the attention it deserves. Thomas Pinney's edition of the work…
is an attempt to change that. Two of the additional items presented here, Kipling's Indian diary of 1884 and the illustrations he made for his autobiographical writing, reflect upon or complicate the narrative. This edition will shed new light on Kipling. 1990.Six months in Sudan: a young doctor in a war-torn village
Par James Maskalyk. 2009
In 2007 James Maskalyk, a doctor newly recruited by Médecins Sans Frontières, set out for the contested border town of…
Abyei, Sudan. He spent his days treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic and watching for war. Worn thin by the struggle to meet overwhelming needs with few resources, he returned home six months later more affected by the experience, the people, and the place than he had anticipated. Descriptions of sex, explicit strong language, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Shoshanna's story: a mother, a daughter and the shadows of history
Par Elaine Kalman Naves. 2003
At the end of the Second World War, a survivor of Auschwitz, her husband and most of her family dead,…
makes her way home to Hungary. After giving birth to another man's child, her husband returns home, forcing her to make a choice that will cloud her life, and her daughter's, forever. The author is the daughter who grew up with the consequences of that decision, and who was raised on family stories that were both a burden and a gift. Their inescapable message of lost love and lost lives create a resentful divide between mother and daughter, until they finally lead to acceptance and reconciliation. Some descriptions of sex, and descriptions of violence. 2003.Seven-knot summers
Par Beth Hill. 1994
The author, an anthropologist, history buff and boater, has spent many summers combing the coastline of B.C. with her husband.…
Here she fondly looks back on 30 years of living on the coast. 1996.Sea Island yankee (American places of the heart)
Par Clyde Bresee. 1986
Memoir of the author's early years, 1920-1929, on James Island off Charleston, South Carolina. Dwells on boyhood adventures: crabbing in…
the river, exploring the woods, and learning in a two-room school. 1986. (American places of the heart)Sex & temperament in three primitive societies: In Three Primitive Societies
Par Margaret Mead. 2001
This text is an anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing…
on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambul - Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. 2001.Sentimental journey: an oral history of train travel in Canada
Par Ted Ferguson. 1985