Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Chapters 40-60

From: Double Pregnant

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chronisch/chronic

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

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This chapter explores what Dutch sounds like to English speakers. 4 $0.40 Add
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Coming of Age in an Age

From: Alexa!

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Starting with her childhood foray into ballet and its effect on her outlook and discipline, this chapter continues to chronicle Alexa’s educational pursuits. Includes her study in the field … 34 $3.40 Add
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Cormier’s Cove

From: The Golden Age of Liberalism

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1927-1948. Outlines Romeo LeBlanc’s family history, his early life growing up in Corimer’s Cove (including statistics on education, resources, etc at the time), goes over the cost of … 34 $3.40 Add
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Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions

From: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

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Whether it could have been otherwise is the most frequent and poignant question for contemporaries and posterity alike when a revolution or an uprising has failed. Was defeat inevitable, or might … 21 $2.73 Add
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Crossing a Threshold

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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The author’s trip to Scotland, to her family’s ancestral roots in Tulliro. 4 $0.40 Add
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Cunard School, 1943–46 17

From: A Halifax Boyhood

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Looks at going to school at Cunard School in Jollimore up to grade four 1943-46 ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Disability

A Fairy Tale

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 2 focuses on concepts of disability through time, discussing topics including the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, disability as something to be cured, … 28 $2.80 Add
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Edmonton to Vancouver

From: Beverley McLachlin

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An overview of McLachlin’s university studies and her early career in law. Takes you through her time at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia. A brief overview … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Essays 1

From: Out Loud

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A selection of 11 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … 49 $4.90 Add
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Evacuation from Woodfibre

From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence

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January 1942, the evacuation of Japanese from Woodfibre ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Exiting and Beginning

From: No One to Tell

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In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo begins with an account of being sexually threatened, followed by a negative performance assessment from the same sergeant. She details her RCMP … 12 $1.20 Add
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Fisher’s Reforms

From: Churchill and Fisher

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Historian Barry Bough analyzes Jack Fisher’s reforms in the admiralty from 1904-1911 especially related to technilogical advancements, efficiency for vessels, administrative changes, and … 58 $5.80 Add
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Getting Down to Work

From: How We Changed Toronto

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Deals with his first years in office – 1969 – 1972 30 $3.00 Add
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Gold Range

From: Tracking the Caribou Queen

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This chapter discusses the Margie’s family’s big move to the North, the history around the development of Yellow Knife as the capital of the Northwest Territories, their time living … 8 $0.80 Add
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Gregory Stewart’s Mother

From: The Trauma Beat

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In this chapter, Cherry examines the limited, and sometimes non-existent media coverage of homicides in neighborhoods with low income and high crime rates. Cherry analyzes homicides ignored by … 18 $1.80 Add