Biography & Autobiography

Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that ma...

Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
Advance man, press agent, and publicist extraordinaire, John M. Burke (1842–1917) was instrumental in turning William F...

A Bundle From Britain
This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during World War II. Alistair...

The Portable Malcolm X Reader
A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything...

The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul...

Backstage
Stories from My Life in Public Television...

Called to Justice
The Life of a Federal Trial Judge...

Brothers Under The Skin
Travels in Tyranny...

Idiots in Paris
Diaries of Elizabeth and JG Bennett, 1949...

Intercepted
The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley...

Deep France
A Writer's Year in the Bearn...

A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree
Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season...

Maggie
Margaret Thatcher: Her Fatal Legacy...

Spanner in the Works
Pat Fahrenfort knows about hard work. Her background meant factory floors from age fifteen in a country where jobs were ...

If Not Now, When?
One man's extraordinary quest for Olympic glory, twenty years after his first gold medal...

Extraordinary Canadians: Norman Bethune
Honoured as a hero in China, Ontario-born Norman Bethune was a surgeon, medical innovator, and charismatic political act...

Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau has marked us all. The man whose motto was "reason over passion" managed to arouse ...

Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man...

Kazantzakis, Volume 2
Politics of the Spirit...

The Diary of a Nose
A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur...

Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccent...

My Father's War
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II...

Georges Laraque
The Story Of The NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy...

The Lady in Red
An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce...

Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir...

The Last Line of Defense
The New Fight for American Liberty...

Without Fear
The Greatest Goalies of All Time...

The Psychology of B F Skinner
Behaviorists, or more precisely Skinnerians, commonly consider Skinner's work to have been misrepresented, misunderstood...

Resistance and Betrayal
The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance...

George Clooney: An Actor Looking for a Role
It can be said that George Clooney has crafted his artistic brand through a mixture of smart career choices of roles, ca...