Biographies & Memoirs

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

At the heart of the men’s tennis game for some years have been the Big Four: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal. Since 2006, onl...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think furt...

A star was born on March 25, 1920 in the quiet rural community of Plowden in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. Arthur Stanley Wint is perhaps best known as...

Two men in England photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines. An armed man successfully robbed a pharmacy and was capture...

This heartfelt book is the result of a need of Iniesta himself: to be able to explain himself as a soccer player, but more importantly, as a human being. To...

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to b...

Book by Rogers, Ted, Brehl, RobertCategories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

EducatedCategories: Parenting & RelationshipsReference

Broadcasting Icon Don Cherry Is Back To Give Fans More Of What They Want: Behind-the-scenes Access To Hockey's Greatest Heroes. For The Last Sixty Years, Do...

Captain Robert Semrau’s military trial made international headlines—a Canadian soldier serving in Afghanistan arrested for allegedly killing a grievous...

After dozens ofbooks and articles by anonymous sources, here, finally, is a history of theTrump White House, with the President and his staff talking openl...

"I invite you to look into the eyes of the homeless... they tell a story."Homelessness is a serious problem throughout North America-even in Canada and the ...

Stories Are All We Have -- His Beautiful Eyes And My New Shoes -- In Rwanda, We Danced -- Searching For Humanitarian Space: Msf In Somalia -- Afghanistan: N...

Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit is a closely argued, lively, and readable biography of the central figure in the American Progressive movemen...

Michael Chettleburgh. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [262]-265) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeGeneral

A Gripping, Inspiring, And Eye-opening Memoir Of Fortitude And Survival--of A Twelve-year-old Boy's Traumatic Flight From Afghanistan To The West--that Puts...

The classic two-volume study of Trudeau and his impact upon Canadian society and politics Volume 1: The Magnificent Obsession Winner of the Governor Gener...

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder o...

“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it...

Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how the author battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Stage 3 Multiple Myel...

Dust jacket notes: "'The plantation was a battlefield where slaves fought masters for physical and psychological survival. Although unlettered, unarmed, a...

Are you feeling discouraged in your efforts to reflect Christ each day in our broken world? Does it feel lonely? Too difficult? Too overwhelming? The sain...

The award-winning authors of The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada bring us a definitive, up-to-the-minute account of the Hells Angels...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Re...

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured un...

National bestsellerPaul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working ...

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” ― STEPHEN FRYFrom England’s working...

Donald Smith, known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona, was an adventurer who made his fortune building railroads. He joined the Hudson’s Bay Company a...

The fascinating new book by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in t...

What do you care what other people think further adventures of a curious character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific...

'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than fro...

Isaiah Berlin ; Edited By Henry Hardy. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.Categories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceLette...

A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family.On December ...

"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Ho...

A New York Times Bestseller In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man's Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to tho...

NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon es...

Physical description: viii,165p., [48]p. of plates : ports.(some col.) ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Diana Princess of Wales 1961-1997. Princess...

Tough Crimes Is A Collection Of Court Cases That Had Surprising Turns Or Persented Personal And Ethical Challenges, Including The Walkerton Water Treatment ...

For the first time in his own words, the legendary musical genius of The Beach Boys reflects on his tumultuous life and astonishing 21st-century comeback t...

A celebration of free speech and democracy and a rousing call to action from the widely acclaimed author of Infidel, this #1 national bestseller is now avai...

A Pioneering And Beloved Canadian Legend Comes To Life. Father David Bauer Changed Lives - At The Rink, In The Classroom, And At The Pulpit. Bauer's Dream C...

Meticulously Researched By A Senior Private Banker Now Turned Historian, No More Champagne Reveals For The First Time The Full Extent Of The Iconic British ...

Fred Bruemmer.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

From bestselling author Mark Spector comes the behind-the-scenes story of the Canadian World Junior program’s journey from obscurity to the international...

Recounts the experiences of Marie Ragghianti--former beauty queen, devout Catholic, and divorced working mother--and her courageous fight, in the face of di...

Compiled by Regina Leader-Post crime and court reporters Barb Pacholik and Jana Pruden, this volume contains accounts of 40 unique crime stories that have t...

In 1989, Assistant Commissioner Rod Stamler quit the RCMP in dismay at what had happened to the integrity of the police force he’d joined as a young man....