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Stephen Leacock (Extraordinary Canadians)
Par John Ralston Saul, Margaret MacMillan. 2009
Macmillan has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian examines Leacock's life as a poor…
but ambitious student who rose to become an economist, celebrated academic, and, most importantly, the beloved humourist who taught Canadians to laugh at themselves. c2009.Still ranting after all these years
Par Dennis Miller. 2004
If you thought Dennis Miller was done ranting, guess again. Here he comments on everything from "War and Terrorism" to…
Enron; from "Obsessed Parents" to the "End of Class;" to "Truth in the Media," and so much more. Throughout, Miller is what we have come to expect from him: smart, cutting, laugh-out-loud funny, and more times than not - right. Strong language. 2002.Judy Conner refers to her former husband simply as "That X," which is perfectly understandable considering some of the antics…
he pulled. Inseparable from the family's brown dog, Conner's X performed naked synchronized swimming at the 1984 World's Fair - with the canine as his partner. And one fine spring day, while buzzing on bourbon, he delivered an especially touching gift to his wife - a .38 revolver. 2005.Sophia Tolstoy: a biography
Par Alexandra Popoff. 2010
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Starting out, 1920-1947
Par Pierre Berton. 1987
Stay me, oh comfort me: journals and stories, 1933-1941
Par M. F. K Fisher. 1993
Shortly before her death in 1992, Fisher decided to publish a memoir about the end of her first marriage and…
her brief, tragic second marriage. She wanted a record of how she felt at the time instead of a version reinterpreted by her older self. Fisher put together unpublished letters, short stories, and excerpts from journals of that period to tell her story. Sequel to "Long Ago in France" .1993.Stars come out within
Par Jean Little. 1990
Renowned author Jean Little describes her childhood with a visual impairment, the early death of her father, the shock of…
losing her remaining sight to glaucoma, and her battle with depression. A talking computer and her guide dog, Zephyr, brought her independence and freedom. Sequel to "Little by Little".Song of Rita Joe: autobiography of Mi'kmaq poet
Par Lynn Henry, Rita Joe. 1996
Mi'kmaq poet Rita Joe reflects on the tumultuous events of her life. Raised in foster homes and educated in an…
Indian residential school, she endured prejudice, sexism, and poverty. She began to write poetry, and soon discovered the voice through which she could reclaim her Aboriginal heritage. 1996.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.Song of Erne
Par Robert Harbinson. 1987
Something cloudy, something clear
Par Tennessee Williams. 1995
Autobiographical play set in 1940 dealing with Tennessee Williams' first love - a young Canadian draft dodger who was dying…
of a brain tumour. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1995, c1981.Social studies: the best of the Globe and Mail's daily miscellany of information
Par Michael Kesterton. 1996
A collection of trivia taken from the "Social studies" section of "The Globe and Mail." Organized according to day and…
month, Kesterton provides strange statistics, anecdotes, and odd bits of history on subjects ranging from Godzilla and attack rabbits to income tax and tabloids headlines. 1996. Uniform title: Globe and mail.Social studies
Par Fran Lebowitz. 1981
Collection of 26 humorous essays on apartment hunting in the city, cigarette smoking, diets, pet owning, and other behaviour of…
the American species near the end of the 20th century. c1981.Smile please: an unfinished autobiography (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
Par Jean Rhys. 1990
"Smile please" was begun when the author was 86 years old, and left unfinished due to her death three years…
later. This book is a collection of autobiographical vignettes. As a novelist she speaks with originality of the plight of the disaffected, but self-aware; here she reveals the influences that shaped her life, and with perfect recall she returns to the tensions of her childhood on the island of Dominica and to the rebellious uncertainties of her later life in London and Paris. 1990.Sixty: a diary of my sixty-first year
Par Ian Brown. 2015
"Sixty" is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon…
to be elderly. Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Ian explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. "What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?" And most importantly, "How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?" Bestseller. 2015.Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas (I know why the caged bird sings. #3)
Par Maya Angelou. 1985
At twenty-one Maya Angelou's life has a double focus - music and her son. Working in a record store at…
the start of this third volume of autobiography, she is on the edge of new worlds: marriage, show business and, in 1954, a triumphant tour of Europe and North Africa as a feature dancer with "Porgy and Bess". Sequel to “Gather together in my name”, followed by “The heart of a woman“. 1985.Sinc, Betty, and the morning man: the story of CFRB
Par Donald Lamont Jack. 1977
Silk parachute: Essays
Par John McPhee. 2010
Sh*t my dad says
Par Justin Halpern. 2010
Expanded version of the Twitter site the screenwriter started after moving back in with his outspoken seventy-three-year-old father, a retired…
nuclear-medicine doctor. Compiles profanity-laden comments and advice the author received from childhood to the present. Basis of a 2010 TV sitcom. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.Shoot low, boys--they're ridin' Shetland ponies: in search of true grit
Par Lewis Grizzard. 1985