Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() Holding the LineFrom: No One to Tell |
In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes the weight of her work stress and how it manifested physically. She describes some joy she was able to find in her friends. | Janet Merlo | 8 | 2013 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter Eleven |
Holes and Grey | Khodi Dill | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
![]() Holocaust to ResistanceMy Journey |
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 |
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From ![]() HomeFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Talks about the house he grew up in | Jim Bennet | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Home AgainFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A young black woman recounts how she became pregnant and quit school and how her boyfriend forces her to get an abortion which becomes the reason she finally leaves him. | Jade M. Brooks | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Home. AgainFrom: Walking Away from Hate |
Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Home Sweet Home (Oru lea buoret go jodi)Community and Sovereighty: Section 3 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This chapter is an interview with Anne Lajla Utsi and Liisa Holmberg conducted by Anna Hudson. Discussing COVID-19, Sámi art, Indigenuity, and reflections on the Home Sweet Home Project. | Anna Hudson; Anne Lajla Utsi; Liisa Holmberg | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() HomecomingFrom: A Communist for the RCMP |
Dennis Gruending | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! HomecomingsFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter reiterates the depth of scars left behind by colonialism and the residential school system on Indigenous communities, scars left behind by Japanese Canadian internment and … | Ian Kennedy | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS |
This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … | Sassafras Lowrey | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() HondurasFrom: Exile |
Belen Fernandez | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add | |
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From ![]() Honest AnswersFrom: No One to Tell |
The chapter Honest Answers deals with former RCMP officer Janet Merlo’s experiences integrating being a mother with working with children while at work, as well as other cases that involved … | Janet Merlo | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() HoneymoonFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add | |
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From ![]() Honeymoon in a Revolution Cuba, 1960From: Holocaust to Resistance |
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 | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Honour the Earth: Activism in the EightiesHOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto |
Brian Wright-McLeod talks about Indigenous activism in the 80s and his personal experiences. Various Indigenous creatives are named and city life in Toronto explored. | Brian Wright-McLeod | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Honouring and RememberingFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
The sinking of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle captured the popular imagination for its wanton cruelty, drama, and the number of non-combatant deaths. Anna Stamers’ memorial service in … | Dianne Kelly | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |

















