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Learning to talk : stories / by Mantel, Hilary,1952-author.;
"In the wake of Hilary Mantel's ... conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood"--
Subjects: Short stories.; Autobiographical fiction.; Mantel, Hilary, 1952-; Children;
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Run, hide, repeat : a memoir of a fugitive childhood / by Dakin, Pauline,author.;
"The unforgettable memoir of a family betrayed by a cruel deception. Pauline Dakin, a well-known CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Complete with hit men, body doubles, and undercover agents, Run, hide, repeat is a memoir of a childhood steeped in unexplained fear and menace. Dakin's story stretches credulity but it was all too real. Gripping and suspenseful, it moves from Dakin's uneasy acceptance of her family's dire situation to bewildered anger at a cruel charade. As she revisits her past, Run, hide, repeat becomes a redemptive story of the power of love to overcome betrayal and deception"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Dakin, Pauline; Journalists;
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Mac saves the world / by Barnett, Mac.; Lowery, Mike,1980-;
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Subjects: Code and cipher stories.; Spy stories.; Adventure fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Barnett, Mac; Computers;
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Tea, scones, and malaria : a memoir of growing up in Africa / by Brooke, Katlynn,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Brooke, Katlynn; Authors;
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Paper trails : from the backwoods to the front page : a life in stories / by MacGregor, Roy,1948-author.;
"One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories. From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people--what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since. From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves--never entirely untethered from the land and its history. When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation. This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable Paper Trails is a must-read account of a life lived in stories."--
Subjects: Biographies.; MacGregor, Roy, 1948-; MacGregor, Roy, 1948-; Journalists;
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Born naked / by Mowat, Farley,1921-;
Subjects: Mowat, Farley, 1921- ; Authors, Canadian (English);
© c1993., Key Porter Books,
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The wild boy of Waubamik : a memoir / by Ernst, Thom,author.;
"Film critic, writer, and broadcaster Thom Ernst chronicles his life growing up with an abusive father in rural Ontario. The residents of Waubamik know about the Wild Boy, a somewhat feral child, standing near-naked in a rusty playground of weeds and discarded metal, clutching a headless doll. They know the boy has been plucked from poverty and resettled into a middle-class family. But they don't know that something worse awaits him there. This is a story of a system that failed, a community that looked the other way, and a family that kept silent. It is also a document of the popular culture of the 1960s, a powerful set of myths that kept a boy comforted. But ultimately, The Wild Boy of Waubamik is a story of triumph, the story of the abusive childhood of a man who grew up to become a film critic and broadcaster. It reminds us that life, even at its darkest, can surprise us with moments of joy, hope, and dreams."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Ernst, Thom; Adult child abuse victims;
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Like family : growing up in other people's houses : a memoir / by McLain, Paula,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; McLain, Paula; Foster children; Women poets, American;
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Margaret Atwood starting out / by Sullivan, Rosemary,author.; Sullivan, Rosemary.Red shoes.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Novelists, Canadian;
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Parker grows a garden / by Curry, Parker.; Curry, Jessica.; Jackson, Bea,1986-; Keith, Tajae.;
Parker is growing her own backyard garden! She plants tulips with Nana and herbs and vegetables with Mom Mom. After patiently waiting all winter long, Parker sees her garden bloom! This story celebrates Parker's relationships with her two grandmothers and the joy of nurturing plants in the garden, and the backmatter features Parker's love of taking nature walks in her neighborhood.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Curry, Parker; African Americans; Gardening;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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