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Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over: My Guide to Life
by Michael Caine
"The Hollywood screen legend brings his wit, insight, entertaining stories and wisdom to answer questions about every aspect of his long life--inspiring us all to Be More Michael Caine. 'I'm always asked questions--by fans, by other actors and friends, by my grandchildren. They want to know how I've lasted so long, how I handle fame, why I chose to do some of my films, which films and actors I like best and so forth.' They also want to know what makes me tick, what makes me get up in the morning in my 90s, and whether I'll ever retire.
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All You'll See is Sky: Resetting a Marriage on an Adventure Through Africa
by J. A. Wilson
Despite having everything she could ask for, Janet Wilson couldn’t shake a sense of emptiness in her life or ignore her desire to return to the continent of her birth. After much indecision, she and her husband reach an agreement to embark on a daring adventure to drive 25,000 miles across Africa. What they couldn’t anticipate then was how this trip would challenge almost every belief, opinion, and value they held.
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The Drive Across Canada : The Fight for the Trans-canada Highway
by Mark Richardson
The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the longest highways in the world – 7,700 kilometres from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, with almost the same distance again on secondary routes. It’s ironically Canadian, but its story is a long and winding journey. In The Drive Across Canada, automotive journalist Mark Richardson tells the stories of the pioneers who first drove across the country in the early days of cars and motorcycles, even before any roads existed, and of the political fight to create a physical link that would connect Canadians to every province of their vast country.
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I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You
by Miranda Hart
Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade. There have been surprising joys, but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures. Treasures, practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists and sociologists that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery.
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Focus on: National Poetry Month
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Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
by Mary Rubio
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery’s life and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon. Extensive interviews with people who knew Montgomery, her son, maids, friends, relatives, are only part of the material gathered in a journey to understand Montgomery that took Rubio to Poland and the highlands of Scotland.
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A Good Cry: What we Learn from Tears and Laughter
by Nikki Giovanni
A celebrated American poet offers an intimate, affecting and revealing look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart, taking us into her confidence as she ruminates on her life and the people who have helped shape her into the woman she has become.
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Margaret Atwood: Starting Out
by Rosemary Sullivan
More than thirty years after the publication of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, international award-winning and bestselling author, continues to be a household name. Now, the TV adaptation of the novel has turned Atwood’s handmaids into a symbol around the globe. But who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning biographer and poet, has penned the first portrait of Canada’s most famous novelist.
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| Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha TretheweyYears after her mother's murder, Pulitzer Prize winner and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway returned to the scene of the crime, where she found long-buried answers to questions lingering from childhood. Readers stirred by this lyrical and unflinching portrait of family violence will want to check out Blood by Allison Moorer. |
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Poetry will save your life : a memoir
by Jill Bialosky
The critically acclaimed author of The Prize presents a coming-of-age memoir organized around poems by such classic writers as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, pairing each poem with key events that shaped her life, from the first time she fell in love and her sister's suicide to September 11 and the birth of a child.
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