Memoir & Biography

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

At a time when aspiring journalists have few choices beyond joining the characterless world of the modern mass media, the voice of a rare journalistic gadfly should serve as a welcome antidote. For over 50 ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

By Ann Vanderhoof

An Embarrassment of Mangoes is an odd mixture of a book – part travel journal, part culinary tour, part Cruising for Dummies (“cruising” is a term habitués use to describe life aboard a pleasure boat). ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

By Joe Keithley

Still ringing hell’s bells after all these years, punk, provocateur, and regular guy Joe Shithead won’t be leaving the stage any time soon. In 1977 he formed the now-legendary Vancouver band D.O.A., at which point ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

By Vesselin Nedkov and Paul Wilson

This book has all the tell-tale signs of being a knock-off meant to cash in on a news story still fresh in the public’s mind. There’s the relatively quick turnaround time, two authors (although no ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Nasty Business: One Biker Gang’s Bloody War Against the Hells Angels

By Peter Paradis

In the early 1990s, 28-year-old coke dealer Peter Paradis staked out sales territory in Montreal’s Verdun district and proceeded to make a small fortune. Paradis eventually got heavily into his own merchandise, and started living ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All in Good Time

By Brian Tobin with John Lawrence Reynolds

Brian Tobin is a rarity in Canada: an ex-politician who many people wish would return to the political arena. Indeed, since his departure from the legislative arena, the man many people called “the Tobinator” has ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

By Andrea Curtis

Living at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then considered to be Ontario’s up-and-coming community of Wiarton, James Crawford was a prominent community figure and captain of a local steamship, the J.H. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

By Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, eds.

The first Dropped Threads anthology, the brainchild of Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, was a Canadian publishing phenomenon. Book clubs across the country seized on the collection of true stories about what women aren’t told ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Crete on the Half-shell

By Byron Ayanoglu

Stage Irishmen – that’s what they’re called – those ones you see in theatre and on screen. They lard their lilting speeches with begoshes and begorras and cross themselves while traversing the peat bog because ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoir

By Pierre Berton

Having Canadian author and journalistic icon Pierre Berton explain the secret to making a living as a writer – and, to no writer’s surprise, the secret is military-like self-discipline, exhaustive research, grim determination, and hard ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Memoirs of a Media Maverick

An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

I, Shithead: A Life in Punk

57 Hours: A Survivor’s Account of the Moscow Hostage Drama

Nasty Business: One Biker Gang’s Bloody War Against the Hells Angels

All in Good Time

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

★ Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren’t Told

Crete on the Half-shell

The Joy of Writing: A Guide for Writers, Disguised as a Literary Memoir

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