Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! PartitusFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Discusses Partition, Singh’s relationship to and removal from those events as something that occurred before his time that his mother scarcely talked about. | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Pompey Rumsey and CairoA Black Loyalist Love Story |
This chapter describes the relationship between Pompey Rumsey and Cairo and explores the discrimination that was faced by someone who married an enslaved person. | Stephen Davidson | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Respect |
This chapter explores Scoppa’s relationship with the Rizzuto family and his connections with Montreal’s Italian community. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Saving a Grand Old LadyPart I |
Part one of Saving a Grand Old Lady focuses on the life of Louise Bethune (born Jennie Louise Blanchard), one of the “exceptional women” admitted into the architecture profession … | Carla Blank; Tania Martin | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Sisters in StruggleFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and … | David Starr | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Someday My Prince Will ComeDisney and the World Without Shadows From: Disfigured |
Chapter 4 focuses on Disney’s interpretation of fairy tales, discussing topics including ‘Disneyfication’ of well-known fairy tales, elements of disability in Disney … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  StoresFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Stores in the city | Jim Bennet | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Take Me Away to Another WorldFrom: Any Other Way |
Rebecka Sheffield recalls the role that Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche played in her life and an encounter she had with Heche after moving to Toronto from Saskatoon. | Rebecka Sheffield | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Teacher to Journalist:Fredericton to Ottawa and Beyond |
1955-1960. His time teaching at New Brunswick’s Teachers’ College, In 1959 he left Fredericton for Ottawa and an opportunity at Radio Canada to become a political journalist, | Naomi E. S. Griffiths | 40 | 2011 | $4.00 Add |
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From  NEW! That’s the Navy for YouFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Four focuses on the author’s mother Joan O’Connell’s time working during the Second World War, working in the boeing aircraft plant, disposable income, dancing, her special … | Kathryn Willcock | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  THE BUSINESS OF SOLDIERINGFrom: Casa Loma |
1895 – 1910. The social life, Pellatt as a colonel, to aldershot for the empire | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From  The Dingle, 1945–46 23From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at The Dingle official sir Sanford Fleming Park and an incident that occurred their in his childhood 1945-46 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Fight for Water JusticeFrom: Still Hopeful |
In Chapter Four Barlow focuses on the fight for water justice and her own activism. The chapter focuses on topics such as the commercialization of Canadian water, the North American Free Trade … | Maude Barlow | 41 | 2022 | $4.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Fourteenth Mission: The Story of Joseph Laurie CormierChapter Four From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Four focuses on the story of Laurie Cormier of Moncton, New Brunswick, describing his time as a tail gunner for the No. 427 “Lion” Squadron of the RCAF, his capture as a … | Ronald Cormier | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! The Great White HopesFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter once again explores Indigenous history in Canada and discrimination against Indigenous people in the world of sports and beyond. The author talks about his personal experiences … | Ian Kennedy | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Hard Luck Shuswap Kid1920-1932 |
The second chapter of George Manuel’s biography outlines his early childhood up to age 12, an only child to his mother, and his father, who died when he was a baby. He was eventually raised … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
