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Biography and Memoir March 2021
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Burnt Snow: My years living and working with the Dene of the Northwest Territories
by Kieran Moore
In northern Canada, there is a way of life that has been vanishing before our very eyes--and is continuing to disappear at an alarming pace. Life in the North is undergoing incredible changes, and yet the people of the North, cling onto every vestige of that old life that they can. The author, an Irish Immigrant, who for five years was partially raised by a Metis family in Winnipeg, heads North in a sole searching mission to find himself and his place in life. The reflections of his encounters with some of the leading figures of the North are quite humorous and consequential in the later development of the North. He describes the Indigenous Elders who would influence him in countless ways, and how there teachings are later, the source of northern survival in otherwise seemingly impossible situations. This book reflects the people of that time, and there lifestyle of living off the land in total independence and there incredible life-skills of survival.
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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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Paul Frey : A Story Never Predicted: from Trucking to the World Opera Stage
by Nancy Silcox
A more unlikely world opera star than Paul Frey could not be found. Born into a conservative order Mennonite farming family in rural Ontario, Canada in 1941, he was a high school dropout. His first career was as a truck driver, transporting livestock to market. But he was a young man with a powerful and true tenor voice, and a desire to sing opera. Entering opera school unable to read musical notes or count beats, Frey was offered primarily chorus roles during training and after graduation. Frustrated, he moved to Switzerland in 1977, signing a contract with the Theater Basel as house tenor.
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The last days of John Lennon
by James Patterson
Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lennon’s assassination and based on insider interviews, a chronicle of the iconic music artist’s final days includes coverage of his last album and the life of Mark David Chapman.
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Permanent record : how one man exposed the truth about government spying and digital security
by Edward J. Snowden
"In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance reveals to a new generation how he helped build that system, what motivated him to try to bring it down, and how kids can protect their privacy in this digital age of indiscriminate data collection."
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| The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death... by Sarah KrasnosteinWhat it is: a riveting biography of Sandra Pankhurst, a larger-than-life trans woman who runs a trauma cleaning business in Australia.
Topics include: Pankhurst's rough childhood as an adoptee living in an abusive household; her complicated relationship with her own children; addiction battles; her brief foray into sex work.
Awards buzz: The Trauma Cleaner won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction in 2018. |
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In the frame : my life in words and pictures
by Helen Mirren
An illustrated first-person account of the life and career of the esteemed actress most recently honored for her Academy Award-winning title role in The Queen traces her Russian ancestry and early life through her numerous achievements in a variety of performance venues.
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| Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life by Louis Zamperini & David RensinWhat it is: a spirited, life-affirming collection of anecdotes and advice written by Olympian, World War II POW, and Unbroken subject Louis Zamperini.
Featuring: Zamperini's quirky disaster preparedness tips, like to always keep a hard hat and boots nearby in case of an earthquake.
Reviewers say: This New York Times bestseller is "[an] inspirational odyssey of an American hero" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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