Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  At the Feet of the MastersFrom: A Lucky Life |
Discusses studying medicine and some of the masters who taught him. He studied in the 1940s and completed his residency in the early 1950s. Talks | Richard B. Goldbloom | 21 | 2013 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Balance of Power: the NDP in Minority Parliament 2019–2021From: From Layton to Singh |
Chapter 8 examines the NDP’s role during Trudeau’s minority government between 2019 and 2021. The chapter covers topics including the Wet’suwet’en resistance to the … | Matt Fodor | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Broadening the Reform AgendaFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. Further reform plans are outlined. Saving heritage buildings, transit etc | John Sewell | 20 | 2015 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Call You by Your Name |
In “Call You by Your Name” the author delves into their relationship with Lucky. Discussing relationships, cheating, bush life, camp relationships, abuse, manipulation, sex, shame, … | Lori Fox | 73 | 2022 | $7.30 Add |
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From  Canada and Hungarian Refugees: The Historical Context |
Fifty years after the event, the Canadian program of refugee intake following the abortive Hungarian uprising of 1956 is recalled as a pivotal moment in Canadian immigration history. And it was … | Harold Troper | 18 | 2010 | $2.34 Add |
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From  Chapter 8Building a Future, Fighting the Past From: Fight or Submit |
- | Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Chapter 8: River, Give Me My Son BackFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga provides an account of the death of Kyle Morrisseau, an Indigenous student from Keewaywin First Nation. Please Note: A collection can contain up to … | Tanya Talaga | 24 | 2017 | $2.88 Add |
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From  Chapter 9From: Northern Wildflower |
- | Catherine Lafferty | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Chapter 9Recreating the Structures of Belonging From: Legacy |
In this chapter, the author explores how Indigenous communities act as owners of their own communities in order to build the social capital necessary for community growth and transformation, and … | Suzanne Methot | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Chapter Seven |
Reconciliation and New Canadians | Ali Abukar | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapters 41-45From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "The House High on a Hill", "Damascus Spring and Khadija’s Death", "Minibus Visions on the Road to and from the House", "The Syrian … | Jamal Saeed | 44 | 2022 | $4.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Choosing Where to RunPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Choosing Where to Run Nash examines how to choose where to run and to best channel your passion for activism into elected office. This chapter explores topics such as where to run, … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Civilized |
This chapter explores Margie’s fathers attempts at a vegetable garden, isolation and uncertainty in winter, the ferry and ice roads, scarcity in the north, racism towards Mr. Wong, and her … | Margaret Macpherson | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Community Development and the Arthur Laing Gang1965-1967 |
In the sixth chapter of his biography, George Manuel begins his community development job for the Department of Indian Affairs, starting with training in Quebec City, before being placed in … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Discovering DementiaFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
In depth look at their discovery that Pat had dementia, the long process it took to be diagnosed, statistics about Alzheimer’s, defines dementia, the theft of memory, stages of dementia. | Jim Lotz | 35 | 2013 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Doc MacTavish and the Six-Year MolarFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Discusses the dentist that he went to and how the medical attention received was shoddy | Tom Douglas | 4 | 2012 | $0.40 Add |
