Canada’s Prime Ministers, Governors General and Fathers of
Confederation by Irma Coucill
This
book tells the stories of 21 Canadian Prime Ministers, from Sir John A.
Macdonald through Paul Martin. It also includes 26 Governors General, and all
36 Fathers of Confederation. The 83 portraits are accompanied by concise
biographies that provide a unique look at the people who led our nation through
its most important events. –Summary.
Journey To
God’s House by Brock
Talon
“A naive
young man named Brock Talon journeys to the World Headquarters of Jehovah's
Witnesses in New York City, seeking a spiritual paradise. But things are not at
all what he expects. Join Brock as he rubs shoulders with the powerful leaders
of the faith, explores the mysteries of Armageddon, investigates the secrets of
paradise and wrestles with the conundrum of sex, romance, drinking and sin.”
–Publisher.
Millions
of Souls: A Holocaust Memoir by
Philip Riteman
Philip
Riteman is a Holocaust survivor who educates today’s youth on the atrocities
committed against millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. From
the Pruzhany Ghetto in Poland, Philip and his family were deported to
Auschwitz-Birkenau where Philip’s entire family was exterminated. As the
lone survivor, Philip was used as a forced labourer in five concentration
camps. At these camps he witnessed the cruelest treatments that can be
inflicted on human beings. This is his story. –Summary.
My Journey
by Olivia Chow
Olivia Chow,
Member of Parliament, seasoned politician and widow of former New Democratic
Party leader Jack Layton, tells her story in this candid memoir. –Summary.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon
Northup
”Solomon
Northup was an entrepreneur and dedicated family man, father to three young
children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo. What little free time he had after
long days of manual and farm labor, he spent reading books and playing the
violin. Though his father was born into slavery, Solomon was born and lived
free. In March 1841, two strangers approached Northup, offering him employment
as a violinist in a town hundreds of miles away from his home in Saratoga
Springs, New York. Solomon bid his wife farewell until his return. Only after
he was drugged and bound, did he realize the strangers were kidnappers—that
nefarious brand of criminals in the business of capturing runaway and free
blacks for profit. Thus began Northup's life as a slave” –Jacket.