Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() Going to WorkFrom: Chrystia |
From Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill | Catherine Tsalikis | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Gold Range |
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 … | Margaret Macpherson | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Good and EvilFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter explores Arendt’s philosophical musings on the nature of goodness. For Arendt, the antidote to evil is not mere good – it is reflection and responsibility. | Ann Heberlein | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Got AIDS Yet? |
In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … | Aaron Nielson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Grade SchoolFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Elementary school | Jim Bennet | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Green Gables enshrinedFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Gregory Stewart’s MotherFrom: The Trauma Beat |
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 … | Tamara Cherry | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Grit and grace: making things happenPART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE From: Nerve |
This chapter discusses the combination of grit, results of what we do and grace, how we achieve these results . The authors reflect on their experience with grit and grace as female leaders. | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() Route of HerosFrom: Any Other Way |
Keith Cole recalls his experiences as a sex worker in Torontos boystown. | Keith Cole | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Hadesbeck’s HandlersFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add | |
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From ![]() Half-Breed Blues |
This chapter explores the lingering effect of a date-rape on the author’s romantic and sexual life. | Charles Conn | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Halloween Balls: From Letros to the St. CharlesFrom: Any Other Way |
Christine Sismondo tells the story of Toronto’s Halloween drag balls. | Christine Sismondo | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Hamilton, Grace Street, and Harbord CollegiateFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Early childhood to high school. | Alan Borovoy | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() HammerskinsFrom: Walking Away from Hate |
Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add | |
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From ![]() Sara Ellen Dunlop and the Music Room: A MemoryFrom: Any Other Way |
John Forbes remembers the Music Room on Yonge Street, an unliscened club that operated between 1962 and 1966. | John Forbes | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() Hanna and Saied’s StoryFrom: Any Other Way |
Kamal Al-Solaylee tells the story of Hanna and Saied, two Syrian refugees who discovered community and acceptance in Toronto’s LGBTQ community after arriving in the city in 2016. | Kamal Al-Solaylee | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |















