Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  How to Make Big Decisions in a Way That Matches Your Values |
S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add | |
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From How to Take a Compliment Sometimes (No One Is Reading Your Diary; We All Struggle with This) |
S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add | |
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From How to Take Criticism (and How to Tell What’s Criticism and What’s Just a Pointless Insult) |
S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add | |
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From How to Tell People Things They Very Probably Won’t Be Happy to Hear, at Least at First |
S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add | |
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From  How Was This Possible? Auvergne, 2011-15From: 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 | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
 How We Changed TorontoThe inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980 |
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, … | 349 | View | ||
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From  NEW! HumFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Further explores Partition and the unease with which it was talked about. Singh recounts his grandfather’s stories, comparing them with his mother’s, plotting his lineage of storytellers. | Jaspreet Singh | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Hungry for SomethingFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Three follows Louise’s time as a nurse during the First World War at a Russian POW camp on the Eastern Front. The chapter follows her first meeting and later marriage to Russian … | Merilyn Simonds | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Hunt |
The chapter recounts Margie’s time with Lawrence, her first bird hunt, a malicious invitation from Mr. Puce, and reflections on the intentions of the teachers who came north. | Margaret Macpherson | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  I Am a Businesswoman |
In this chapter, the author interviews a young woman who works in an adult massage parlour. While she feels like an empowered business woman, she also believes that non-consensual interactions … | Kerri Cull | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! I Just Woke Up One Morning and I Was a Playwright’TRAILBLAZERS AND CHANGEMAKERS From: Indigenous Toronto |
An interview with playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. | Drew Hayden Taylor | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  I Taught My Kids to TalkFrom: The M Word |
Nancy Jo Cullen reflects on life as a single parent, doing the ‘right’ thing, teaching your children, how your children see you, adolescence, and more. | Nancy Jo Cullen | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From I Think There’s Been a Turn for the Better |
This chapter focuses on a sex worker who entered the industry to fund their transition from male to female. | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Get Mad – Play Rock ‘n’ RollFrom: Any Other Way |
Susan Cole recalls her experience forming a band in the 1970’s and the power of music to inspire a community. | Susan G. Cole | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  I Wanted to Better Myself |
Richard Toth recounts the story of Maurice. The story discusses his success in business, his motivations to learn as an adult learner, tractors, and the importance of writing letters in business. | Richard Toth | 5 | 2009 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! “I was always apprehensive”: The Story of Ulysse GallantChapter Three From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Three focuses on the story of Ulysse Gallant, from Moncton, New Brunswick, describing his career in the army with the New Brunswick Rangers before the war, joining the airforce and … | Ronald Cormier | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
