Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() We’re All NorthernersStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Four of this title, entitled "Turf Wars" discuss the challenges and conflicts faced by communities in the Northwest Territories during Stuart Hodgson’s career. … | Jake Ootes | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() We’re Not Taking Care of Our Mothers |
This chapter focuses on a woman whose husband has frequented sex workers. She believes that far from being "bored at home," men turn to sex workers because their wives are exhausted … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() What Can’t Be Packed AwayFrom: The M Word |
Marita Dachsel reflects on moving, death, SIDS, superstition, names, nostalgia, child safety and freedom. | Marita Dachsel | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() What could possibly go wrong?PART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE From: Nerve |
This chapter talks about conflict, hardships, and challenges that may arise during a leaders career and how to handle these situations successfully as women leaders. | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() What If |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It follows the aftermath of his sending his children away to escape the country. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() What Is It with the Media!From: Man at the Airport |
In this chapter, Al Kontar discusses the media’s reaction to his social media campaign, and how the Western and Arab media organizations differed in their coverage. | Hassan Al Kontar | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() What I’ve Become |
In this chapter, the author interviews a man who has bought sex for two decades. He can’t live without the thrill of his clandestine “other” life, and the thrill caused by his … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() What Survival Means |
In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS. | Keiko Lane | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
![]() NEW! What You Won’t Do For LoveA Conversation |
What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another? "Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder … | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 106 | 2022 | View |
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From ![]() WheelsFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Cars | Jim Bennet | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! When Change is Your Only OptionPart 2. You are Formidable: Your Superpower From: Women Winning Office |
In When Change is Your Only Option Nash provides a brief history of her own life and how she first became involved in activism and labour politics. Nash describes her time working with the … | Peggy Nash | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! When Is Your Time?Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In When Is Your Time? Nash explores the issues with waiting for the ‘right time’ to run for office. This chapter primarily focuses on advice for women running for office. | Peggy Nash | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … | Tamara Cherry | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
![]() NEW! When the Pine Needles FallIndigenous Acts of Resistance |
There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of … | Audra Simpson; Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; Pamela Palmater; Sean Carleton | 280 | 2024 | View |
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From ![]() Where Does Hope Come From?From: From Bombs to Books |
Ziad Abo Nofel writes a brief account of growing up in Iraq, the American invasion and moving to a refugee camp between Iraq and Syria for six years before finally moving to Canada. | Ziad Abo Nofel | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?From: To Wawa with Love |
Discusses a new student who was from a foreign country and how he ruined his first christmas in his new home | Tom Douglas | 4 | 2012 | $0.40 Add |

















