Memoir & BIOGRAPHY
Memoir and biography titles from Thomas Allen Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Black Dog & Leventhal, Workman Publishing, and Skyhorse Publishing.
A Quiet Courage
Based on Paula Todd's widely viewed television program Person to Person, an intimate biography show about human behaviour, "A Quiet Courage" shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. Todd explores the ...

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Born Again

The search for meaning in our time of change and upheaval continues unabated. Tom Harpur, the bestselling author of The Pagan Christ and Water Into Wine, has been at the forefront of this modern challenge to humankind's spiritual ...


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Burning Down the House

Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare. Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience ...


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Burning Down the House

Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters. Some get the chance, and for some of those, the dream becomes a nightmare. Burning Down the House is the story of Wangersky’s eight-year career as a volunteer firefighter, an experience ...


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Einstein Wrote Back

John W. Moffat was a poor student of math and science. That is, until he read Einstein's famous paper on general relativity. Realizing instantly that he had an unusual and unexplained aptitude for understanding the complex physics described in ...


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Flight of the Patriot
A gripping account of an Iranian fighter pilot’s daring escape to Canada from Iran.
 

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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack
A charming, touching and humourous autobiography by the author of "The Polished Hoe"

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Home Free
From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone, comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her twenty-something over-adventurous son.

Home Free is about the last secret lap of parenting: getting ...


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Human Happiness
So begins Brian Fawcett's compelling new book about happiness and a new way of looking at family.

A public intellectual who will shame the devil in the interests of truth, Brian Fawcett has staunchly refused to buy into the prevailing ...

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I've Got a Home in Glory Land
An archeological discovery unearths a remarkable new story of the Underground Railroad.

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The Courage of the Early Morning
The story of the Royal Military College drop-out who went on to become Canada's greatest war-time hero.
 

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The Film Club
From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the spare elegant ...

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The Film Club
From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the spare elegant ...

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The Stone Thrower

A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father's legendary past in football.


At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson travelled with her father--former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey--for the first time to a small ...


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