Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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 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  When Things Fall Apart (with Gratitude to Pema Chödron)From: Committed |
In this chapter, Sprickerhoff examines the mental health challenges and resilience required when a startup founder at eSentire faces crisis. | Eldon Sprickerhoff | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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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 |
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From  Who is Meng Wanzhou?From: The Two Michaels |
In this chapter, Blanchfield and Osler Hampson traces the December 2018 detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the bail hearings … | Fen Osler Hampson; Mike Blanchfield | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Who Was Uncle Nick?From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Seven focuses on Uncle Nick, the author’s maternal great uncle Mykola Kosovan. Discussing his time in Lethbridge, his communist leanings, poverty and radicalization back in … | Myrna Kostash | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  ‘Why Do You go There?’ Struggle, Faith, and Love at the Metropolitan Community Church of TorontoFrom: Any Other Way |
David K. Seitz describes his connection to the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, a protestant church with a primarily LGBT cogregation. | David K. Seitz | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Why Me? Why You?Part 1. Who Gets to Lead? From: Women Winning Office |
In <Why Me? Why You? Nash explores the the challenges surrounding turning ones’ activism and passion into concrete change. The chapter explores why ambition, competition and … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Why Open the Wound if You Can’t Heal It?From: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences at Soroka Hospital in Israel, where Bedouin children stayed months or years due to a lack of basic resources at home. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  WickedFrom: The M Word |
Susuan Olding reflects on meeting her stepdaughter, the experiences of stepmothers, and the relationship between the two of them. Includes elements of fairytales interspersed throughout. | Susan Olding | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From Steps to GentrificationFrom: Any Other Way |
Allison Bergess recounts the story of The Steps, which were constructed in 1984 and became a victim of gentrification twenty years later. | Allison Burgess | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
