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Biography and Memoirs
"Until You Are Dead" (Softcover) by Julian Sher The investigation that helped Truscott get a new appeal.
In 1959, a popular schoolboy, just 14 years old, was convicted and sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of his 12-year-old classmate. That summer, Canada lost its innocence and the shocking story of Steven Truscott became imprinted on the nation’s memory. First published in 2001, “Until You Are Dead” revealed new witnesses, leads and evidence never presented to the courts. Now this national bestseller is fully revised and updated, and takes readers from that fateful night in 1959 up to the new appeal granted to Truscott in 2006. Julian Sher’s award-winning and insightful chronicle details Steven Truscott’s dramatic final battle – with the help of his family, investigative journalists and lawyers – to clear his name once and for all.
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A Brother's Journey (Softcover) by Richard B Pelzer In A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer shocked the world with the horrifying tale of the abuse and neglect he suffered at the hands of his mother and his brother, Richard. Fortunately for Dave, he was removed from the household at 12. Richard was not so lucky. Needing a new scapegoat for her alcoholic rages, Richard became Mrs. Pelzers new It. He began receiving nocturnal beatings and the denial of clothing and food. He had Tabasco sauce poured down his throat, and was kicked, slapped, and punched to the point of hospitalization. By now shed learned how to hit so his wounds didnt showshe wasnt about to let Richard leave, too. This is the story of how one little boy found the courage to survive years of physical abuseand how the human spirit can triumph over even the most severe circumstances. Suggested price $17.95. Our price $11.67. Save 35%.
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A Life in Film (Softcover) by Denys Arcand Oscar Award winner Denys Arcand's films such as The Barbarian Invasions and The Decline of the American Empire have garnered both praise and criticism over the years. In this critically acclaimed biography, Réal La Rochelle traces the portrait of an artist-intellectual, revealing the passion of a creator for his craft, as well as the setbacks Arcand has encountered. In the background is the history of Quebec, the birthplace of Arcand's filmic oeuvre, and of course Montreal - the city where all his films have been shot. Suggested price $18.95. Our price $3.95. Save 79%.
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A Life, Wordsworth (Hardcover) by Juliet Barker William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style, and subject, and earning him the universal derision and contempt of critics. Only the unfailing encouragement of a tightly knit group of supporters, his family, and, above all, Coleridge kept him true to his poetic vocation. In the half-century that followed his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of the importance of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly and widely felt in every sphere of life. In the last decade of his life, Rydal Mount, his home for thirty-seven years, became a place of pilgrimage, not just for the great and powerful in Church and state, but also, more touchingly, for the hundreds of ordinary people who came to pay their respects to his genius. New hardcover, remaider mark. First American Edition. 2005.
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A Man Worth Knowing (Softcover-Used) by Cal R. Bombay From the poverty of a dirt farm in Northern Ontario where he went barefoot to school until after the first few snowfalls, to becoming the assistant General Superintendent of the fastest growing Protestant denomination in Canada-a story that must be told... Original. Used book in very good condition. Slight edgewear, cover wrinkled. 2000.
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A Parent Contradiction (Hardcover-Used) by Don Harron Don Harron's daughter Martha says anyone who claims to know her father intimately is a liar. She doesn't know if A Parent Contidiction is an authorized biography, it's been years since she asked his permission for anything. He wanted her to call it "Litter from Three Wives" but that's only part of the story. Original. Used hardcover in good condition. Dust jacket has light markings. 1988.
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A Royal Duty (MM Paperback-Used) by Paul Burrell He was the Queen's favorite footman and the Princess of Wales's trusted butler. Now Paul Burrell reveals intimate details and shocking revelations of a life spent smong the Royal family. He is the one man who can separate myth from the truth of the Diana years-and fulfill his duty to one of the most remarkable women of the house of Windsor. Original. Used book in very good condition. Slight edgewear, cover wrinkled. Pen on title page. 2004.
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Aaronsohn's Maps (Hardcover) by Patricia Goldstone Aaronsohn's Maps: The untold story of the man who might have created peace in the middle east. Scientist, diplomat and spy, Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the jews. Born to jewish settlers in Palestine, he ran a network of spies during World War 1 with his sister Sarah that enabled the British to capture Jerusalem and made Aaron T. E. Lawrence's rival in an astonishing triangle; There is evidence that beautiful rebellious Sarah who died tragically in 1917 was the only woman Lawrence ever loved. A rugged adventurer, Aaronsohn became convinced during his explorations of the Middle East that water would govern the region's fate.....Aaron's plan for equitable water rights in palestine might have led to peace today. Original. New First Edition Hardcover. 2007.
