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Biography & Memoir

Real people, real lives.

Biography and memoir overview

Biographies and memoirs allow us to enter other people's worlds and lives. They inform and entice us to learn about the era when the person lived and allow us to walk in their shoes. Sometimes they make us laugh and sometimes they make us cry. They always allow us insight into another person's point of view and they always entertain us!

Never : The Autobiography. Author: Astley, Rick
Mad sisters : memoir Author: Grundy, Susan
Fi : a memoir Author: Fuller, Alexandra

Award Winners

Stay true : a memoir Author: Hsu, Hua, 1977-
Liliana's invincible summer : a sister's search for justice Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-
King : a life Author: Eig, Jonathan

Popular titles

The survivor : how I survived six concentration camps and became a Nazi hunter by Josef Lewkowicz
Talking to Canadians : a memoir by Rick Mercer
Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age by Darrel McLeod

Be a sport

Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati
Forward : a memoir by Abby Wambach
At home with Muhammad Ali : a memoir of love, loss, and forgivenes by Hana Ali

On with the show

Chopping wood : thoughts & stories of a legendary American folksinger Author: Seeger, Pete
Happiness becomes you: a guide to changing your life for good by Tina Turner
The never-ending present : the story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip by Michael Barclay

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