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This boy's life

a memoir
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, betrayal, and America in the fifties.
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Roberta Bondar

Canada's first woman in space
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Stitches

a memoir--
A graphic novel that chronicles the life of American author and illustrator David Small, detailing his sickly childhood and teenage years, relationship with his parents, his cancer, and more.

Robert Munsch

Profiles the life and career of children's author Robert Munsch.

Rodrigo Duterte

fire and fury in the Philippines
Looks at how and why Rodrigo Duterte, a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, became president of the Philippines in 2016 and beloved by the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him.

A serial killer's daughter

my story of faith, love, and overcoming
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture, kill. As news of his capture spread, Wichita celebrated the end of a thirty-one-year nightmare.
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Provenance

how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
Recounts the activities of John Drewe, who manipulated struggling artist John Myatt and other unwitting accomplices to become prolific art forgers whose works Drewe successfully passed off as legitimate pieces.
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The Hajj

One American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
1997
Michael Wolfe, an American Muslim, describes the experience of his hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca.

Abstraction at work

drawings by Valerie Jaudon, 1973-1999
1999

Henry Winkler, born actor

1978
A biography of Henry Winkler whose rise to television stardom fulfilled a childhood dream to become an actor.

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