Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  BeginningsFrom: From Bombs to Books |
A profile of Elaha Anwary, an Afghan refugee, who won the Grade 7 public speaking competition for her BC school by sharing her story. | David Starr | 5 | 2016 | $0.50 Add |
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From  BeginningsFrom: Exile |
Belen Fernandez | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add | |
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From  NEW! Languages of DesireFrom: Len & Cub |
This chapter discusses language for talking about same-sex desire today and throughout history. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Behind the Iron CurtainFrom: Chrystia |
From Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill | Catherine Tsalikis | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Behind the maskFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  Being Jewish in America New York, 1954-56From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Being the Best YouPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Being the Best You Nash provides her own advice to any candidate running for elected office, which is to be true to yourself but be the best you possible. She does this by exploring topics … | Peggy Nash | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Belly of the BeastFrom: Alexa! |
Chronicles her time at the head of Nova Scotia’s NDP, and as the province’s only NDP MLA. Explores her work and legislative battles, her passion, charisma, and magnetism, as well as … | Stephen Kimber | 58 | 2021 | $5.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Belly UpFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Five focuses on the creation of the Willcock & Wankel Logging company, the timber industry and licences, “timber cruising,” uncle Harold and Ron, their life in Church House, their … | Kathryn Willcock | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From  BelongingFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black woman from Nova Scotia recounts how her relationship with her boyfriend when she was 16 became an obsession leading her mother to kick her out of the house. | Jade M. Brooks | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
 BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | Dustin Galer | 318 | 2023 | View |
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From  Best-before datePART 3: LIFE AFTER LEADING: THE NERVE TO REDEFINE YOURSELF From: Nerve |
The authors discuss the ending of a leadership position. They provide insight on their own experiences with selecting a successor, remaining focused through transitions, and how women can leave a … | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Betraying a ComradeFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add | |
 Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureQueer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis |
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This … | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 368 | 2021 | View |
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From Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureAn Introduction |
The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Between the Camel and the Range RoverFrom: Man at the Airport |
In this chapter, Al Kontar describes his inner conflict as he observed the deepening conflict in Syria from the United Arab Emirates. | Hassan Al Kontar | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
