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Biography of New Zealand theologian Lloyd Geering [1918-]

Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation.

Part memoir, part observation. As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from Australia, where she had grown up.

Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.

The last woman executed in this country went to the gallows despite severe doubts about what part she played in the murder of 73-year-old SP bookmaker Pop Kent at Carlton in 1949.

Part love story, part wine-splattered cookbook, a delicious fish-out-of-water story for any woman who has ever suspected that lunch in Paris could change her life.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amaz

Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met.

Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness?

When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life.

Born and raised in Fort McMurray, Damian Asher was a fifteen year veteran and captain in the city's fire department.

When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel could only think about how to save "her" children.

Helpers and heroes shine brightest in darkness.

Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family.

You may have heard of David Hartman: Temple University held a press conference when he entered medical school there, the first blind student accepted into such a program.