Biographies are Reality Reading
From Don Cherry to Anne Murray, these stories take you beyond the gloss to discover the people who have shaped our lives and culture.
From Don Cherry to Anne Murray, these stories take you beyond the gloss to discover the people who have shaped our lives and culture.
A Journey
Hardcover | 720 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-39820-8 (0-307-39820-X)
September 2, 2010 | $40.00
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...
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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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
Hardcover | 480 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-385-66991-7 (0-385-66991-7)
October 12, 2010 | $37.00
"[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...
Hardcover | 480 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-385-66991-7 (0-385-66991-7)
October 12, 2010 | $37.00
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"[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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eBook.
Northern Light
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
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...
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
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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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eBook.
The Long Trail
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
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...
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
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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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eBook.
Mordecai
Hardcover | 800 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97963-3 (0-676-97963-7)
October 19, 2010 | $39.95
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...
Hardcover | 800 pages | Knopf Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-676-97963-3 (0-676-97963-7)
October 19, 2010 | $39.95
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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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eBook.
Just Watch Me
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
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...
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
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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...
Storyteller
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
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...
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
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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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eBook.
Pierre Berton
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
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...
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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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...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Fab
Hardcover | 640 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-385-66703-6 (0-385-66703-5)
October 26, 2010 | $34.95
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...
Hardcover | 640 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-385-66703-6 (0-385-66703-5)
October 26, 2010 | $34.95
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Paper Garden
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
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...
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
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Frank
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
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...
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
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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...
Patti LuPone
Hardcover | 336 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-46073-8 (0-307-46073-8)
September 14, 2010 | $29.99
Hardcover | 336 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-46073-8 (0-307-46073-8)
September 14, 2010 | $29.99
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“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...
Half Empty
Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67030-2 (0-385-67030-3)
September 21, 2010 | $29.95
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...
Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-67030-2 (0-385-67030-3)
September 21, 2010 | $29.95
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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...
Growing Up Jung
Hardcover | 272 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66606-0 (0-385-66606-3)
September 28, 2010 | $29.95
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...
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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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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eBook.
When My World Was Very Small
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
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...
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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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Not Yet
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66311-3 (0-385-66311-0)
October 5, 2010 | $19.95
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...
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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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...
Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Hardcover | 352 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-58787-9 (0-307-58787-8)
October 12, 2010 | $31.00
Hardcover | 352 pages | Crown Archetype | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-58787-9 (0-307-58787-8)
October 12, 2010 | $31.00
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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...
Eastern Passage
Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6491-3 (0-7710-6491-8)
October 12, 2010 | $32.99
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...
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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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
All of Me
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
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...
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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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...
Call Me Russell
Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Humor
978-0-385-66963-4 (0-385-66963-1)
October 26, 2010 | $29.95
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...
Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Humor
978-0-385-66963-4 (0-385-66963-1)
October 26, 2010 | $29.95
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
My Reading Life
Hardcover | 352 pages | Nan A. Talese | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-53357-7 (0-385-53357-8)
November 2, 2010 | $28.95
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...
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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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...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
Must You Go?
Hardcover | 336 pages | Bond Street Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66837-8 (0-385-66837-6)
November 2, 2010 | $32.95
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...
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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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Badass
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
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...
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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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...
