Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Harvesting Freedom The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada Between The Lines	In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	224	2023	View
NEW! Holden After & Before Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose Arsenal Pulp Press	With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same …	Tara McGuire	356	2022	View
Holocaust to Resistance My Journey Fernwood Publishing	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	320	2019	View
How We Changed Toronto The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980 James Lorimer and Company	By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada’s largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, …	John Sewell	349	2015	View
Imagined Truths Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet twp	Memory is not only selective, it’s an amazing liar, con artist and spin doctor. History is what we choose to remember about the past in order to justify the present. Richard Lemm grew up in …	Richard Lemm	272	2021	View
NEW! Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Coach House Books	Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, …	Brian Wright-McLeod; Denise Bolduc; Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere; Rebeka Tabobondung	304	2021	View
NEW! Inside the Montreal Mafia The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa ECW Press	A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family. For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by …	Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin	240	2022	View
Legacy Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing ECW Press	Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other …	Suzanne Methot	370	2019	View
NEW! Len & Cub A Queer History Goose Lane Editions	Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly …	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	192	2022	View
Losing me, While Losing You Caregivers Share Their Experiences of Supporting Friends and Family with Dementia Fernwood Publishing	Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia — and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers …	Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger	224	2021	View
NEW! Making a Home Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People Fernwood Publishing	In some Canadian provinces, people with severe physical disabilities are simply warehoused in nursing homes, where many people, especially in the age of homecare, are in the final stages of their …	Jen Powley	136	2023	View
Man at the Airport How Social Media Saved My Life: One Syrian's Story twp	Man at the Airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an “illegal” and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate …	Hassan Al Kontar	232	2021	View
NEW! My Mother, My Translator Véhicule Press	In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his …	Jaspreet Singh	280	2021	View
NEW! My Road from Damascus A Memoir ECW Press	"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the …	Jamal Saeed	440	2022	View
Nerve Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First ECW Press	Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions. Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera had vastly different career paths on …	Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper	320	2021	View
No One to Tell Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP Breakwater Books	In 2012, Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination while serving in Canada’s national police …	Janet Merlo	232	2013	View