Biographies
Some of the most inspirational and controversial public figures have made our list of this year's most enthralling Fall memoirs and biographies. These authors bare all - the most intimate truths of the past - sharing moments of happiness, love and adversity.

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A Journey
Written by Tony Blair

Hardcover | 720 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39820-8 (0-307-39820-X)

September 2, 2010 | $40.00

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A Journey
Written by Tony Blair

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307398208
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In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative government. Prime Minister Tony Blair — young, charismatic and complex — shaped the nation profoundly in the ten years that followed. From his work in Northern Ireland to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, few of...


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Conversations with Myself
Written by Nelson Mandela
Foreword by Barack Obama

Hardcover | 480 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-385-66991-7 (0-385-66991-7)

October 12, 2010 | $37.00

(Available October 12, 2010)

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Conversations with Myself
Written by Nelson Mandela, Foreword by Barack Obama

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385669917
Our Price: $37.00
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(Available October 12, 2010)


"[These] archives contain traces of my life and those who have lived it with me. Anyone who has explored the world of archives will know that it is a treasure house, one that is full of surprises, crossing paths, dead ends, painful reminders and unanswered questions." --Nelson R. Mandela

Nelson Mandela has...

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Northern Light
Written by Roy Macgregor

Hardcover | 416 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer
978-0-307-35739-7 (0-307-35739-2)

October 5, 2010 | $34.95

(Available October 5, 2010)

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Northern Light
Written by Roy Macgregor

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307357397
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(Available October 5, 2010)


Roy MacGregor's lifelong fascination with Tom Thomson first led him to write Canoe Lake, a novel inspired by a distant relative's affair with one of Canada's greatest painters. Now, MacGregor breaks new ground, re-examining the mysteries of Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does a...

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The Long Trail
Written by Ian Tyson

Hardcover | 208 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-35935-3 (0-307-35935-2)

October 19, 2010 | $29.95

(Available October 19, 2010)

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The Long Trail
Written by Ian Tyson

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307359353
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(Available October 19, 2010)


A Canadian icon on his longstanding love of the West and his life in "one of the last true cowboy countries on either side of the border."

"I live on a ranch about six miles east of the town of Longview and the old Cowboy Trail in the foothills of the Rockies...

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Mordecai
Written by Charles Foran

Hardcover | 800 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97963-3 (0-676-97963-7)

October 19, 2010 | $39.95

(Available October 19, 2010)

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Mordecai
Written by Charles Foran

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676979633
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(Available October 19, 2010)


Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century.

The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an...

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Just Watch Me
Written by John English

Trade Paperback | 832 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-676-97524-6 (0-676-97524-0)

September 7, 2010 | $24.95

(Available September 7, 2010)

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Just Watch Me
Written by John English

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676975246
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(Available September 7, 2010)


This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.

His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories...

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Storyteller
Written by Donald Sturrock

Hardcover | 672 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-7710-8332-7 (0-7710-8332-7)

September 21, 2010 | $36.99

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Storyteller
Written by Donald Sturrock

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771083327
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(Available September 21, 2010)


Anyone who ever wished as a child to meet Willy Wonka or hang out with the BFG will be fascinated to learn in this engrossing, authorized biography of the late Roald Dahl that his own life was far, far more strange than even his fiction.

Twenty years after his death, Roald Dahl's...

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Pierre Berton
Written by Brian Mckillop

Trade Paperback | 808 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-5756-4 (0-7710-5756-3)

September 7, 2010 | $23.99

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Pierre Berton
Written by Brian Mckillop

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771057564
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(Available September 7, 2010)


The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.

From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his...

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Fab
Written by Howard Sounes

Hardcover | 640 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-385-66703-6 (0-385-66703-5)

October 26, 2010 | $34.95

(Available October 26, 2010)

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Fab
Written by Howard Sounes

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385667036
Our Price: $34.95
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(Available October 26, 2010)


He is one of the most famous, most wealthy people on the planet, and yet he remains little-known and understood as a personality. At long last, Paul McCartney is the subject of a major, deeply researched, psychologically acute biography. It tells a story that will illuminate and surprise.

The publication finds McCartney &mdash...

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The Paper Garden
Written by Molly Peacock

Hardcover | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-7710-7033-4 (0-7710-7033-0)

October 12, 2010 | $32.99

(Available October 12, 2010)

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The Paper Garden
Written by Molly Peacock

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771070334
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(Available October 12, 2010)


The Paper Garden is unlike anything else you have ever read. At once a biography of an extraordinary 18th century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity, it is a beautifully written tour de force from an acclaimed poet. Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was the witty, beautiful and talented daughter...

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Frank
Written by James Kaplan

Hardcover | 800 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts
978-0-385-51804-8 (0-385-51804-8)

November 2, 2010 | $40.00

(Available November 2, 2010)

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Frank
Written by James Kaplan

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385518048
Our Price: $40.00
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(Available November 2, 2010)


Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs.

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti­eth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori­ous in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. As Bob Spitz...


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Patti LuPone
Written by Patti LuPone

Hardcover | 336 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-46073-8 (0-307-46073-8)

September 14, 2010 | $29.99

(Available September 14, 2010)

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Patti LuPone
Written by Patti LuPone

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307460738
Our Price: $29.99
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(Available September 14, 2010)


“I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters. Looking back, I can find gifts and life lessons in every one.”

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved...




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Half Empty
Written by David Rakoff

Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67030-2 (0-385-67030-3)

September 21, 2010 | $29.95

(Available September 21, 2010)

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Half Empty
Written by David Rakoff

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385670302
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(Available September 21, 2010)


The inimitably witty David Rakoff, This American Life stalwart and bestselling author, looks at the modern world and his own life in defense of the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst.

In this deeply funny memoir, David Rakoff examines his own life and the realities of our sunny, gosh-everyone-can-be-a-star...


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Growing Up Jung
Written by Micah Toub

Hardcover | 272 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66606-0 (0-385-66606-3)

September 28, 2010 | $29.95

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Growing Up Jung
Written by Micah Toub

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385666060
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(Available September 28, 2010)


Micah Toub faced quite a few psychological challenges when he was growing up. And two of his best guides through them – as well as the biggest causes of them – were his parents.

Part memoir, part introduction to famous and infamous psychological concepts past and present, Growing Up Jung tells the...

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When My World Was Very Small
Written by Ruth Rakoff

Hardcover | 224 pages | Random House Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Health & Fitness - Diseases - Cancer; Biography & Autobiography - Medical
978-0-307-35817-2 (0-307-35817-8)

September 28, 2010 | $29.95

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When My World Was Very Small
Written by Ruth Rakoff

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307358172
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(Available September 28, 2010)


In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast. 
           
And so begins the journey of...

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66311-3 (0-385-66311-0)

October 5, 2010 | $19.95

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Not Yet
Written by Wayson Choy

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780385663113
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Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living.

In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of...

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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Written by Condoleezza Rice

Hardcover | 352 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-58787-9 (0-307-58787-8)

October 12, 2010 | $31.00

(Available October 12, 2010)

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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Written by Condoleezza Rice

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307587879
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(Available October 12, 2010)


Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist.  Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman...




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Eastern Passage
Written by Farley Mowat

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6491-3 (0-7710-6491-8)

October 12, 2010 | $32.99

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Eastern Passage
Written by Farley Mowat

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771064913
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To the delight of Mowat fans, the literary lion returns with an unexpected triumph.

Eastern Passage marks a return to the feisty Mowat of old. In it, he throws down the gauntlet and answers the doubters and naysayers who have dogged his writing life, breaking the stubborn silence he has kept since...

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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Music - Country
978-0-307-39845-1 (0-307-39845-5)

October 26, 2010 | $22.00

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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307398451
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(Available October 26, 2010)


In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.

“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy...

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Call Me Russell
Written by Russell Peters

Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Humor
978-0-385-66963-4 (0-385-66963-1)

October 26, 2010 | $29.95

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Call Me Russell
Written by Russell Peters

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385669634
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(Available October 26, 2010)


Up-close, personal, and yes, funny — this is the must-have celebrity memoir of the year.

This candid, first-person memoir chronicles Russell's life from his humble beginnings in suburbia as a scrawny, brown, bullied kid with ADD all the way to his remarkable rise as one of the world's top-earning comics. This is a...

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My Reading Life
Written by Pat Conroy

Hardcover | 352 pages | Nan A. Talese | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-53357-7 (0-385-53357-8)

November 2, 2010 | $28.95

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My Reading Life
Written by Pat Conroy

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385533577
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Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.

Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is also a vora­cious reader. He has for years kept a notebook in which he notes words or phrases, just from a...


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Must You Go?
Written by Antonia Fraser

Hardcover | 336 pages | Bond Street Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66837-8 (0-385-66837-6)

November 2, 2010 | $32.95

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Must You Go?
Written by Antonia Fraser

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385668378
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(Available November 2, 2010)


A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer, Antonia Fraser.

In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist. In essence, it is a love story and...

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Badass
Written by Shannen Doherty

Hardcover | 256 pages | Clarkson Potter | Self-Help - Personal Growth; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-59152-4 (0-307-59152-2)

November 2, 2010 | $29.99

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Badass
Written by Shannen Doherty

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307591524
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(Available November 2, 2010)


For fans of Shannen Doherty, best known for her roles as Jenny Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210, and Prue Halliwell in Charmed,  and for women who are fed up with coming in second and being treated like a doormat, or who just want...


                         
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