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Aladdin, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly So enthusiastically does Goodall relate the first 28 years of her life in the jungles of Tanzania that her odyssey appears to have just begun. The story of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe has long been available to adults; in this book she brings that world to young readers and may very well inspire them to follow in her footsteps.The book begins with tales of her childhood in England and her earliest awareness of the needs of animals, he... more information

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Warner Books Inc, 1995. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Part humor book, part autobiography, and an explanation of why men are different from women--this is Tim Allen at his funniest.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Quill, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. ABOUT THE BOOK What Kind of a God Would Allow a Thing like This to Happen?!! ANNOTATION Join the Callahan explosion! Here's the fifth collection of his enormously popular, bitterly funny, twisted, and politically incorrect cartoons. Callahan has appeared on 60 Minutes and the Today show, and his cartoon can be seen in newspapers across the nation. Actor Robin Williams and Tri-Star are currently working on a film based on Callahan's autobiography.--- Toronto St... more information

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HarperCollins, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. In this somewhat desultory but affecting autobiography, Yep ( Dragonwings ) describes himself as a collection of disparate puzzle pieces: a Chinese-American raised in a black neighborhood, a child too American to fit into Chinatown and too Chinese to fit in anywhere else. Writing, he explains, has conferred on him the role of puzzle-solver, allowing him imaginatively to join and even reinvent the pieces. Among the most notable figures in Yep's unassuming narr... more information

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Fontana/ Collin, 1979. Paperback. Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Signet, 1961. Used - Good. --- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Bantam, 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Good. He's an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Vintage Books, 1989. Trade Paperback. Good. First published in 1966 and now acknowledged as a classic of modern America autobiography, this book tells the story of a boy coming of age in in the parched hill country of east Texas in the early years of last century--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Pocket Books, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. ABOUT THE BOOK The Naked Truth FROM THE CRITICS AudioFile - Diane W. Kazlauskas In this spurious autobiography, puns and malapropisms replace the visual gags that popularized Leslie Nielsen in such movies as Airplane! and Naked Gun. Clearly, the presentation is a spoof, not an autobiography. It's a delightful diversion akin to the comedy records of the 1970's though the content is not ribald by today's standards. Nielsen has a rich, compelling voic... more information

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Viking Adult, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly After eight years in the minors, Pallone became a National League umpire during the arbiters' strike in 1979; as a "scab," he had to contend with the ill will of his colleagues, few of whom relented during his 10 years in the majors. But he had an even more pressing problem: a homosexual, he dreaded public exposure. Yet when his lover was killed in an auto crash, he began frequenting gay bars and associating with other gay men... more information

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Bantam, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Clean, tight. Minor shelf wear. Original price stamp inside front cover. In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships s... more information

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St. Martin's Press, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. From soldier to Washington insider; from a prisoner who preferred the walls of a prison rather than the betrayal of his principles; to a writer and top radio personality, G. Gordon Liddy is a hero to some, a villain to others, but always an enigma. A number one national bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Will has stood the test of time like few other books. With over 1,000,000 copies in print, it is nothing less than a quintessential... more information

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Mcclelland and Stewart Limited, 1975. Trade Paperback. Good. In the first rank of Canadian Autobigraphies, Postscripts to Adventure is the personal account of the life of Ralph Connor, a Canadian novelist whose works sold in the millions at a time when success was measured in thousands. Some shelf wear--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Penguin Classics, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. The first book of an autobiographical trilogy by Maksim Gorky, published in Russian in 1913-14 as Detstvo. It was also translated into English as Childhood. Like the volumes of autobiography that were to follow, My Childhood examines the author's experiences by means of individual portraits and descriptions of events. He reveals that his mother was mostly absent after the death of his father and that his upbringing was in the hands of his brutal grandfathe... more information

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Arrow, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Synopsis In this book the author recreates his life in a series of interconnected episodes: his thirties' childhood in Southampton, his first sexual experience, his schooldays in Pangbourne, early careers in the Merchant Marine and the RAF, dancing class in Shepherd's Bush, and his career as film-maker.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. The 3rd Battalion has a veteran sniper, Staff Sergeant Jack Coughlin, for whom the war in Iraq was only the latest of many wars; he fought in Mogadishu, too. On the first day of battle at the Diyala Bridge, he had eleven kills. He is one of the best snipers in the Marine Corps, perhaps the very best. When I asked one of his commanders about his skills, the commander smiled and said, 'I'm just glad he's on our side.--- Toronto... more information

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MacMillan Pub Ltd, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. SYNOPSIS: BBC news correspondent, analyst and political editor John Simpson, author of nine books on current affairs and literature, provides us with an extraordinary autobiography covering such events as his escape from summary execution in Beirut, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the fall of the Berlin wall, the release of Nelson Mandela and scores of other events he witnessed first hand.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Picador, 1996. Paper Back. Very Good. Synopsis: Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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Routledge, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Synopsis The appraisals here of a broad range of women's writing suggests a different direction for feminist criticism, combining as it does intellectual debate and textual analysis with fictional example and autobiographical detail. In addressing the need for the critic to say "I" and to own judgements and statements instead of attributing these to an apparently impersonal third person, the author points up some of the shortcomings of much prevailing &... more information

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Plume, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Light shelf wear. "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity," writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing, compelling novel set on the island of Dominica.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available. ... more information

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