Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Would You REALLY Want to Stay Here Another Year? From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene recounts his two years in Kinshasa, Zaire, during the Mobutu era.	Roger Turene	4	2025	$0.40 Add
From Writing Apace and Returning to Social Action From: No Place For A Woman View Breakwater Books	The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life.	Antony Berger	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From xenofobie/xenophobia From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	On Dutch words with no English equivalent, and the impossibilty of some translation.	Sadiqa de Meijer	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Yamnuska From: My Mother, My Translator View Véhicule Press	Follows conversations and experiences between Singh and his sister in the wake of their mother’s death.	Jaspreet Singh	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From Years of Crisis 1929-1939 From: Einstein on Israel and Zionism View Baraka Books	In this chapter, Jerome traces the 1929 to 1939 crisis in British Mandate Palestine, and Albert Einstein’s unwavering advocacy for Jewish-Arab reconciliation.	Fred Jerome	60	2024	$6.00 Add
From Yellow Boots on Queer West From: Any Other Way View Coach House Books	With a pair of yellow rubber boots and a GPS watch, John Greyscon recounts the drawing of an unconventional portrait.	John Greyson	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From yoghurt/yogurt From: Alfabet/Alphabet View Palimpsest Press	On raising a child, and linguistic duality.	Sadiqa de Meijer	4	2020	$0.40 Add
From You Make ’Em, I Amuse ’Em From: The M Word View Goose Lane Editions	Patricia Storms provides an illustrated comic on how she relates to motherhood.	Patricia Storms	2	2014	$0.20 Add
You Only Live Twice Sex, Death and Transition	YOLT explores two artists’ lives before and after transitions: from female to male, and from near-dead to alive. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to …		153		View
From NEW! “You should be in politics” From: The Coutts Diaries View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Graham examines the final weeks of August 1978, as the Trudeau government struggled to craft an anti-inflation and social security package ahead of the 1979 election (as told by …	Ron Graham	6	2025	$0.60 Add
From Young Hannah From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	This chapter describes Hannah Arendt’s birth of a middle-class Jewish family, her parents’ interest in society and politics, and the early loss of her father to syphilis. It also …	Ann Heberlein	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From Young Writer From: The Wheel of Things View Formac Publishing		Mollie Gillen	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From You’re a Celebrity Now From: Man at the Airport View Tidewater Press	In this chapter, Al Kontar writes about his growing fame, and his interactions with people whose interest in him was motivated by selfish reasons.	Hassan Al Kontar	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From Youtube Gender From: Gender Failure View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, Spoon describes how in January 2008, they uploaded a home-recorded video from Weimar, Germany, singing a song about Canada’s colonial history. Viewers fixated on whether …	Rae Spoon	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Yukon Calling From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene recounts a 1987 assessment of French language services in the Yukon, commissioned by Premier Tony Pennikett’s NDP government.	Roger Turene	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Yuri Versions of a Murder From: Ghosts in a Photograph View NeWest Press	Chapter Ten is about Yuri Kosovan, the author’s maternal great uncle. Describing his death, the four varying tales of his death at the hands of either “bandyty” (bandits), UPA, Banderivtsi …	Myrna Kostash	22	2022	$2.20 Add