Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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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 |
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From  NEW! Where the Fuck Are We in Your Dystopia? |
In “Where the Fuck Are We in Your Dystopia?” the author explores their love and issues with the genre of feminist dystopian fiction. Discussing gender roles, the #MeToo movement, … | Lori Fox | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! White |
The chapter recounts further adjustments to highschool, an ill fated winter camping trip with Suz, the kindness and generosity of the man who saved them, and the end of the friendship between the … | Margaret Macpherson | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From White Birds and Machine GunsFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a woman from Kabul who’s first memories are of war, first with the Russian and then the Mujahedeen before escaping to a refugee camp in Pakistan. She was … | David Starr | 16 | 2016 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! White Paper to Red PaperDrawing the Battle Lines From: Unsettling Canada |
White Paper to Red Paper focuses on the White Papers created by Indian Affairs Minister Jean Chrétien in 1969, which was an attempt to abolish the Indian Act and Indian Status in Canada. The … | Arthur Manuel | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  White Plague, Red Victims1932-1954 |
The third chapter of George Manuel’s biography begins with his diagnosis of tuberculosis and his stay at the Coqualeetza Preventoria for treatment. It also explores the impact of the … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
