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Go ask Ali: half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
Par Alexandra Wentworth. 2018
At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers…
tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life's conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view. Bestseller. 2018.Don't worry, it gets worse: one twentysomething's (mostly failed) attempts at adulthood
Par Alida Nugent. 2017
Alida Nugent shares what it takes to make the awkward leap from wide-eyed undergrad to "mature and responsible adult that…
definitely never eats peanut butter straight from the jar and considers it a meal." From trying to find an apartment on the black hole otherwise known as Craigslist to the imaginative financial finagling required to pay off student loans and still enjoy happy hour, Nugent documents the formative moments of being a twentysomething with a little bit of snark and a lot of heart. 2017.How to be a dictator: an irreverent guide
Par Mikal Hem, Kerri A Pierce. 2017
Featuring examples from the most successful leaders and regimes in the business, including Kim Jong Il, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi,…
Nicolae Ceauşescu, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and many others, this handy guide offers ten easy lessons on becoming and acting like a dictator: from how to rig an election and create your own personality cult to the dos and don'ts of dictator fashion and palace architecture; how to become wealthy and spend your fortune the right way; expressing your literary genius; and how to avoid being toppled, exiled, and/or meeting any other dismal end. 2017. Uniform title: Kanskje jeg kan bli diktator.Far and wide: bring that horizon to me
Par Neil Peart. 2016
In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. It was a celebration…
and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it's an opportunity to explore backroads near and far on his BMW motorcycle. In an intimate voice that has won the hearts of many readers, Peart carries the reader across North America and through memories of fifty years of playing drums. 2016.As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping…
to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. As he revisits the wisdom he relished in his youth, each extract is annotated with Klein's inimitable charm and insights. He tackles life's biggest questions-- and leaves us chuckling and enlightened. 2015.How to be a husband
Par Tim Dowling. 2015
A personal memoir of Tim Dowling, a columnist for The Guardian, about falling in love, moving to another country, having…
children, and staying together through money troubles and times of grief—that also just so happens to be devastatingly funny. 2015.How I got this way
Par Patrick F McManus. 1995
Heart of the raincoast: A Life Story
Par Alexandra Morton. 1998
When whale researcher Alex Morton's husband drowned, she and her young son stayed on in the tiny community of Echo…
Bay, B.C. To earn a living, she worked for Billy Proctor as a seasick, greenhorn deckhand. In the process, she learned about his 50 years as a fisherman, and about the B.C. coastline. c1998.Grizzly Bear Mountain
Par Jack Boudreau. 2000
Sequel to Crazy Man's Creek (DC23589), which was 2 years on the BC Bestsellers' list. Jack Boudreau grew up in…
a small town in the McGregor Mountains in B.C. Children did many things to amuse themselves and we follow Jack through his early encounters with grizzly bears, first as a hunter and later as a photographer. 2000.Hard light
Par Michael Crummey. 1998
Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking…
through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. Some descriptions of violence. 1998.Hello Halifax (Canada rainbow series)
Par Elma Schemenauer. 1986
Houseboat chronicles: notes from a life in Shield country
Par Jake MacDonald. 2002
Part memoir, part reportage, MacDonald's book reflects on his lifelong fascination with the Canadian Shield. MacDonald spent years working in…
and exploring this area. He writes of his travels, the people who make their living there, his interest in Native culture, and the Shield's wildlife. 2002.How to be a woman
Par Caitlin Moran. 2011
Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? Do men secretly hate us? What should you call…
your vagina? Why does your bra hurt? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin Moran answers these questions and more in "How To Be A Woman" - following her from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am 13 stone, have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me') through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, Topshop, motherhood and beyond. Includes sex and strong language. 2011.Funny letters from famous people
Par Charles Osgood, Ed Osgood Charles. 2003
Osgood introduces a collection of humorous correspondence from some of the best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and…
screen. We glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier. 2003.Heller, a psychologist, has collected hundreds of brief responses from children ages four to ten to queries about "Marriage and…
the Other Mushy Things That Grown-ups Do," "Work and Other Occupational Hazards of Being Grown Up," and similar topics. Consider Carlos on the perils of growing up: "You aren't born with a set of directions the way a computer is." 1991.F.U.B.A.R: America's right-wing nightmare
Par Sam Seder, Stephen Sherrill. 2006
The United States has survived clueless presidential administrations before. But no matter how enormous the crisis - the Great Depression,…
Vietnam, Watergate, Monica Lewinsky, America's always come out looking like, well, America. This time, however, something's different. Things aren't just messed up; they're messed up beyond all recognition. 2006.Cabin pressure: one man's futile attempt to recapture his youth at summer camp
Par Josh Wolk. 2007
Faced with the ultimate step into adulthood – marriage - 34-year-old Wolk returns to the summer camp of his youth…
before walking down the aisle. His beloved campgrounds have remained remarkably the same, but Wolk finds that he has grown bafflingly out of touch - and is as intimidated as a shy camper in the face of super macho co-counsellor Mitch. 2007.Famous dead Canadians
Par Joanne Stanbridge. 2003
Let well-known but somewhat disgraced historian Plumley Q. Norris take you on a tour of Canada, while introducing you to…
some of our greatest famous dead Canadians. Did you know that Laura Secord, heroine that she was, never made chocolates, or that explorer Samuel de Champlain shot the Lachine Rapids in his underwear? Humorously describes many famous dead sports heroes, explorers, Native Canadians, scientists and authors. Grades 4-7. 2003.Farewell to the twentieth century: a compendium of the absurd
Par Pierre Berton. 1996
In almost fifty vignettes, Berton lampoons some of the stranger features of twentieth-century customs. His pet peeves include top-fifty radio…
stations, instant coffee, and perfumed magazine ads. He also speculates on how supersonic airliners will show full-length movies on short flights and wine critics who actually swallow the wine. 1996.Enough to make a cat laugh
Par Deric Longden. 1996
Throughout the 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby…
old Arthur. Ever since Thermal came in from the cold to enter his life, Deric has seen his world increasingly taken over by cats. What with planning their menus, entertaining their friends, listening to their worries and observing their adventures, he has little time left over for his professional life as a writer. But there are rich rewards. One way or another, the cats that Deric and Aileen share their lives with are an endless source of interest and laughter. 1996.