Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal ElectionFrom: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including … | Matt Fodor | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Ostarbeiter in GermanyFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The … | Marsha Faubert | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Pandemic InsightIt Takes a Team From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Three focuses on the collaborative efforts within the hospitals to fight off the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include giving recognition to the behind the scenes staffing such as … | Heather Patterson | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Paper DartsPart 2: Statues of Lions From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 4 begins with Brunet’s travel to Sarnia, Ontario and the experience of stripping there. Topics discussed include friendships, rules, and different clubs. | Cid V Brunet | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Part 1Escaping the Basement From: Billion Dollar Start-Up |
In the first chapter, the founders of HEXO, now a billion dollar cannabis company, recall the founding of the company. The chapter provides brief biographies of each of the founders and their … | Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis | 62 | 2021 | $6.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Part Two: Section IIBreaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged |
This reading consists of the following essays: Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] – The Impact of the IMF … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 40 | 2020 | $4.00 Add |
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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 |
