Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! TwoFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add | |
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From  Two FacesFrom: Man at the Airport |
This chapter details the author’s experiences in Abu Dhabi and Dubai as he tried to make friends and find work. He was in the UAE when the conflict in Syria began. | Hassan Al Kontar | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Two HeartsPart 5: Surfacing From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 14 explores Brunet’s return to the Maritimes to see her family. Topics discussed include her marriage to Luke, healing from trauma, and leaving sex work behind. | Cid V Brunet | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Two LinesFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the constrained lives of Palestinian Bedouin women in a village shaped by the Nakba of 1948 and the Six-Day War of 1967. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Two: Sailing the South PacificFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey interviews Fiona … | Laura Trethewey | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Two Writers Named KostashchukPart One From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Two is about a writer named Vasyl (Andriovych) Kostashchuk, a writer and relative who remained in Galicia. Discussing his books Volodar dum selians’kykh (Ruler of Peasant Dreams) and Tam, … | Myrna Kostash | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Two Writers Named KostashchukPart Two From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Four focuses on the second Vasyl (Mykolaiovych) Kostashchuk, another relative unknown to them. Discussing his time as a sharpshooter in the post-Second-World-War underground army known as … | Myrna Kostash | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  uier/udderFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On being Dutch and mixed race, and the reactions this can produce. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
 Ukrainian ScorpionsA Tale of Larceny and Greed |
Award-winning author Grand Chief Ron Derrickson tells the story of his personal fight against Ukrainian political and economic forces alongside the larger story of the wider struggle for Ukraine … | Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 236 | 2023 | View |
 UmingmakStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic |
In 1967, Stuart Hodgson, a pugnacious British Columbia labour leader, was the newly-appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, responsible for establishing a fledgling government in the … | Jake Ootes | 326 | 2020 | View |
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From  Uncle Harry Flips His WigFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Talks about his Great Uncle Henry who was wealthy and like his mother | Tom Douglas | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Undead DiscoVariations on a Theme |
In this chapter, the author discusses gay music, music claimed by gay people, and music that, sometimes retrospectively, narrates the gay experience. | Patrick Milian | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Under a Queer Blue SkyFrom: Any Other Way |
Sly Sarkisova discusses the possibilities for sexual exploration that are present in various corners of Toronto. | Sly Sarkisova | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Under the Pear TreeFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter talks about the history and experiences of Black Americans and Canadians in sports dealing with systemic racism and discrimination. Canada’s history of white supremacy and … | Ian Kennedy | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Undercover in CalgaryFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add | |
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From  NEW! UnfinishedFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Reveals that Singh’s mother passed away before finishing her memoir, prompting him to undertake a new project. | Jaspreet Singh | 1 | 2021 | $0.10 Add |
