Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! GlossaryFrom: Qummut Qukiria! |
A glossary of words and language used throughout the text. | Anna Hudson; Heather Igloliorte; Jan-Erik Lundström | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  God FailureFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Spoon describes their childhood in a Pentecostal church in northwest Calgary, where strict gender roles shaped daily life. | Rae Spoon | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From  God’s WorksFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences preparing for for her Bedouin wedding. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From  Going BackFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
After a brief time away from the sex trade to graduate high school a black Nova Scotian woman goes with her boyfriend to Toronto to work as a stripper and sex worker as a way to show him how good … | Jade M. Brooks | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
 Going PublicA Survivor's Journey From Grief to Action |
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud—the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she … | Julie Macfarlane | 228 | 2020 | View |
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From  Going to WorkFrom: Chrystia |
In this chapter, Tsalikis explores Chrystia Freeland’s parliamentary duties and diplomatic strategies. | 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  NEW! Gone AlreadyFrom: Eyes Have Seen |
In this chapter, Anderson recounts 1966, higlighting his experience with the Mississippi Freedom Summer, violent encounters in Southwest Georgia, and border crossing into Canada. | Fred Anderson | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 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  NEW! Grace Martin, Fort McPhersonFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter recounts Grace Martin from Fort McPherson’s childhood at a residential hostel in the early 1970s, her colon cancer diagnosis and surgery in Yellowknife, and her resolve to … | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 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 GraduationFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her 1996 graduation at Ben-Gurion University, and cultural tensions between her Bedouin family and the Israeli campus. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Grassroots and Politics in WinnipegFrom: Lloyd Axelworthy |
In this chapter, Axworthy discusses two episodes in early-1970s Winnipeg: the People’s Committee for a Better Neighbourhood’s successful 1971 relocation of a low-cost apartment block, … | Lloyd Axelworthy | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 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! Greenville, Mississippi: Queen of the Mississippi DeltaFrom: Eyes Have Seen |
In this chapter, Anderson recounts the summers of 1963 and 1964 within the Mississippi Delta, focusing civil rights organizing in Greenville and the impoverished Issaquena County. | Fred Anderson | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
