Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! The NishDish Journey TRANSFORMING THE CITY From: Indigenous Toronto View Coach House Books	On Nishdish, a successful catering business in the process of expansion. The chapter discusses food, culture, Indigenous survivance and education, and the development of this business.	Johl Whiteduck Ringuette	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From The Noble Warrior From: Imagined Truths View Tidewater Press	The author talks more about his family history and muses on the example of his "warrior father," exploring military history and nationalism. He recounts the process of his conscientious …	Richard Lemm	30	2021	$3.00 Add
From The Noose Tightens From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Heberlein describes the situation in Germany as the Nazis took power. Arendt was separated from her husband when he fled Germany, and also had to confront the growing …	Ann Heberlein	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From The Northwest Arm From: South End Boy View Formac Publishing	1930s and 1940s Halifax. The northwest arm	Jim Bennet	7	2015	$0.70 Add
From The Nuclear Family From: Imagined Truths View Tidewater Press	The author explores more of his family’s history, his early life, and his relationship with his grandparents.	Richard Lemm	28	2021	$2.80 Add
From The Oil Lamp From: Three Funerals for my Father View Tidewater Press	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He and his wife discuss the future and critique the communist government.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From The Olive Farm From: Man at the Airport View Tidewater Press	In the opening chapter, Al Kontar reflects on the Syrian Civil War and his childhood on an olive farm in Sweida.	Hassan Al Kontar	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From The Only Time Gay Asians Led the Pride Parade From: Any Other Way Coach House Books	Alan Li reflects on when, on June 27, 1982, over twenty gay Asians led the Toronto Pride parade through Chinatown.	Alan Li	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From NEW! "A Devil in His Own Home Town" From: Len & Cub View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter follows the period after WW1 and Len & Cub’s return to Havelock. They eventually grew apart and took different paths.	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From The Pale Horse of Smallpox (August–October) From: Sir John A. MacDonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885 View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Dutil traces the devastating 1885 smallpox epidemic in Montreal, revealing how the disease tore through francophone and anglophone communities and killed over 5,800 people across …	Patrice Dutil	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The Parking Lot From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	In this chapter, Cherry reflects on the concept of moral injury,the lack of emotional training and support for crime reporters, and how her life has been impacted by years of exposure to violence …	Tamara Cherry	16	2023	$1.60 Add
From NEW! “The party situation is deteriorating” From: The Coutts Diaries View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Graham examines how the Liberal Party of Canada faced strategic uncertainty in October 1975, as captured in the diaries of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s secretary, Jim …	Ron Graham	3	2025	$0.30 Add
From The Peoples’ Movement 1977-1979 From: Brotherhood to Nationhood View Between The Lines	Chapter seventeen of George Manuel’s biography covers his work in British Columbia in the late 1970s on Indian fishing rights.	Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The place before body From: On Wholeness View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Christie-Peters examines the Anishinaabe concept of the "great beyond," a formless realm where ancestors exist as living smoke before taking physical shape.	Quill Christie-Peters	11	2025	$1.10 Add
The Point is To Change the World Selected Writings of Andaiye Between The Lines	Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. …	Alissa Trotz; Andaiye	320	2020	View
From The Post-Maia World From: The M Word View Goose Lane Editions	Heidi Reimer reflects on her daughters– one biological and the other adopted from her brother– motherhood, mothering, and more.	Heidi Reimer	13	2014	$1.30 Add