Memoir & Biography

Where War Lives

Author and former Toronto Star photo journalist Paul Watson inadvertently caught the world’s attention in October 1993, with his infamous photograph of the corpse of an American helicopter crew member being dragged through a dusty ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family

By Leilah Nadir

The Orange Trees of Baghdad is a found memoir, a record of partial memories and secondhand observations of world events. In it, Canadian-Iraqi author and journalist Leilah Nadir strikes out to learn about the lives ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

By Autumn Stringam

In 1996, an unlikely pair from northern Alberta – Tony Stephan, an engineer with a bipolar wife and two severely bipolar children, and David Hardy, an animal feed salesman – took a nutritional supplement for ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Other Men’s Sons

By Michael Rowe

Careful study of the lives of others leads to a greater understanding of the self, a fact amply demonstrated by Other Men’s Sons, a collection of essays by Toronto-based author and editor Michael Rowe that ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh

By Maria Tippett

When Maria Tippett, author of a GG-winning bio of Emily Carr, asked Yousuf Karsh for permission to write his biography, he graciously declined. It was only after Karsh’s death in 2002 that his estate decided ... Read More »

August 27, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder’s Life

By Richard Cannings; Donald Gunn, illus.

Richard Cannings is one of those rare birds – a down-to-earth expert. Birders both experienced and novice are in good company with this inveterate and humorous naturalist, who shares his experiences and knowledge engagingly.The book’s ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Me, Chi and Bruce Lee

By Brian Preston

Brian Preston is a writer, not a fighter. So when he was asked to do a book about martial arts, he blanched. But not for long.A self-declared “wimpy, forty-something wuss,” Preston decided to spend a ... Read More »

July 23, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups reveals the connections between food, memory, and life. Drawing on Bociurkiw’s Ukrainian upbringing in Alberta, Comfort Food is more than a simple memoir/travelogue filled with food, love, and loss. ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick

By Kevin Bazzana

B.C. writer Kevin Bazzana follows up Wondrous Strange, his sterling and very nearly definitive biography of Glenn Gould, with a winning account of the strange life and times of one Ervin Nyiregyhazi. Nyiregyhazi, for those ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers

By Sandra Martin, ed.

In her introduction to this excellent collection of short essays by prominent Canadian women about their fathers, editor Sandra Martin admits that finding a title that “didn’t imply incest as an overarching theme was an ... Read More »

May 14, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Where War Lives

The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family

A Promise of Hope: The Astonishing True Story of a Woman Afflicted with Bipolar Disorder and the Miraculous Treatment That Cured Her

Other Men’s Sons

Portrait in Light and Shadow: The Life of Yousuf Karsh

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder’s Life

Me, Chi and Bruce Lee

Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick

★ The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write About Their Fathers

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