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Biography and Memoir July 2018
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8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the Medal of Honor
by Florent Groberg
A personal account by the first immigrant in four decades to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor describes his childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.
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After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
by Sarah Perry
A searing memoir of the author's efforts to understand her late mother's life and murder describes the traumatic loss of her mother in childhood, the 12-year manhunt for the killer and the author's investigations into her mother's past in the dark corners of a small Maine community.
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Ask me about my uterus : a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain
by Abby Norman
An empowering memoir, which advocates for recognition of women’s health issues, follows the author’s years-long journey to discover why she was in constant pain, which was dismissed by doctors, and puts her trials into a broader historical, sociocultural and political context to put an end to the belief that being a woman is a preexisting condition.
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| Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale HurstonIn 1927, author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis (c. 1841-1935), one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade; the transcript of their conversation was only recently discovered. Lewis' clear account of his capture and enslavement is both graphic and illuminating. |
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Being Prime Minister
by J. D. M. Stewart
Behind the politics, discover the lives of Canada's leaders. "What a life it is to be prime minister!" -- John Diefenbaker Canada has had twenty-three prime ministers, all with views and policies that have differed as widely as the ages in which they lived. But what were they like as people? Being Prime Minister takes you behind the scenes to tell the story of Canada's leaders and the job they do as it has never been told before. From John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau, readers get a glimpse of the prime ministers as they travelled, dealt with invasions of privacy, met with celebrities, and managed the stress of the nation's top job. Humorous and hard working, vain and vulnerable, Canada leaders are revealed as they truly were.
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Double Threat : Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II
by Ellin Bessner
The role played by the Canadian Jewish Community during World War II, particularly the approximately 17,000 individuals who enlisted, representing 10% of the Jewish population in Canada at the time. Interviews with surviving veterans, and family of deceased veterans, about their experiences provide a detailed portrait of the experience. Profiles of military heroes are included. The experience of the Canadian Jews, both men and women, who served in virtually every campaign and every branch of the military is described. The role of the homeland community, community organizations including Jewish newspapers, and the clergy is also covered.
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Goodbye, Sweet Girl : A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
by Kelly Sundberg
Kelly Sundberg's husband, Caleb, was a funny, warm, supportive man and a wonderful father to their little boy Reed. He was also vengeful and violent. But Sundberg did not know that when she fell in love, and for years told herself he would get better. It took a decade for her to ultimately accept that the partnership she desired could not work with such a broken man. In her remarkable book, she offers an intimate record of the joys and terrors that accompanied her long, difficult awakening, and presents a haunting, heartbreaking glimpse into why women remain too long in dangerous relationships.
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Lenin the dictator : an intimate portrait
by Victor Sebestyen
Lenin believed that the 'the political is the personal', and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen's focus will be on Lenin the man - a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. Told through the prism of Lenin's key relationships, Sebestyen casts a new light the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history.
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Somebody I Used to Know : A Memoir
by Wendy Mitchell
Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running and climbing mountains. Then, slowly, a mist settled deep inside the mind she once knew so well, blurring the world around her. She didn't know it then, but dementia was starting to take hold. In 2014, at age fifty-eight, she was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer's.
In this groundbreaking book, Mitchell shares the heartrending story of her cognitive decline and how she has fought to stave it off.
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Tiger Woods
by Jeff Benedict
In Tiger Woods , Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, the team behind the New York Times bestseller The System , look deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to that question. To find out, they conducted hundreds of interviews with people from every facet of Woods''s life--friends, family members, teachers, romantic partners, coaches, business associates, physicians, Tour pros, and members of Woods''s inner circle.
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Tom Thomson : The Silence and the Storm
by David P. Silcox
With over seventy new reproductions of never-before-published paintings and new essays, Tom Thomson is the most comprehensive collection of the artist's work ever published.
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