Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Winter shut-ins |
Discusses winter in the camp including Christmas and the new year | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! With High HeartFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Fourteen focuses on Louise’s book Lovely, a new approach to her writing. | Merilyn Simonds | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
Within the Barbed Wire FenceA Japanese Man's Account of his Internment in Canada |
Takeo Nakano immigrated to Canada from Japan in 1920, later marrying and starting a family in his adopted homeland. Takeo’s passion was poetry, and he cultivated the exquisite form known as … | 144 | View | ||
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From  "Without a Place to Call My Own"From: On Love and Tyranny |
In this chapter, Heberlein discusses Hannah and Heinrich’s arrival in New York, and Arendt’s thoughts and feelings about being a refugee. | Ann Heberlein | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Wolf-Boy SaturdayFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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NEW! Woman, WatchingLouise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay |
Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her … | Merilyn Simonds | 416 | 2022 | View |
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From  NEW! Women at the Table-Space InvadersPart 1. Who Gets to Lead? From: Women Winning Office |
In Women at the Table-Space Invaders Nash explores the many ways women can lead. She examines what leading can look like, how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed leadership, and how new … | Peggy Nash | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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NEW! Women Winning OfficeAn Activist's Guide to Getting Elected |
When Peggy Nash first decided to run for elected office, she had no idea where to start, who to contact, or what the rules were. For those who are underrepresented in political life, politics can … | Peggy Nash | 282 | 2022 | View |
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From  NEW! Women’s Rights |
In Chapter Six Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel reflects on the broader spectrum of her activism, particulary in the fight for women’s rights. | Audra Simpson; Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel; Pamela Palmater; Sean Carleton | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Women’s WorkFrom: At Home |
Chapter 7 features interviews with Susan Shantz, Mary Kavanagh, and Aganetha Dyck. This chapter focuses on artists who work is inspired by the home-based work of their female ancestors. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Women’s WorkFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Nine focuses on women’s work, food orders, defending the camp and children from bears when the men are away, the authors stash of nanaimo bars attracting bears, laundry and the … | Kathryn Willcock | 37 | 2022 | $3.70 Add |
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From  Wood-Wellesley and the ‘Mystery Block’From: Any Other Way |
Mark Obaldeston describes how the pressure of new building developments is reshaping and erasing historically queer spaces in Toronto. | Mark Osbaldeston | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Woody PointFrom: No Place For A Woman |
Getting My Bearings Again – Building My House on the Hill – The Electricity Kerfuffle – Jinny-Down-by-the-Bow – Spring: Back Home Again – A Summer of Wonders – … | Antony Berger | 60 | 2020 | $6.00 Add |
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From  Work AloneA New App That Helps Sex Workers |
This short chapter describes an app that helps protect workers and clients at Blue Door. | Kerri Cull | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Work & Play & FoodPart Five From: Earthkeeping |
Part Five contains the sections: Down to Earth, A Salmon for Supper, Of Seals and Cod and Us, Oatmeal Shenanigans, Part Surgeon, Part Seamstress: A Fly-Tying Memoir, Dike-Land Rambles, Chaga … | Gary Saunders | 51 | 2022 | $5.10 Add |
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From  Work, Travel, StudyFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
deals with our careers, travel and the lifelong learning in which we engaged, eachin our own way. | Jim Lotz | 38 | 2013 | $3.80 Add |
