Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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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 am running”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the dramatic final weeks of 1979, when the Liberal Party toppled Joe Clark’s government and faced a leadership crisis (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … | Ron Graham | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! “I Built an Empire” |
This chapter examines how John Stefanini reshaped Local 183, a construction labourers’ union, during the mid-1970s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! “I Didn’t Want to Die on the Saddle” |
This chapter traces the career of John Stefanini, the Italian-Canadian leader who built LIUNA Local 183 into North America’s largest construction union during the 1980s and early 1990s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 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 NEW! “I think it’s terminal”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the autumn of 1978, when Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government faced an electoral crisis ahead of fifteen by-elections (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, … | Ron Graham | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 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  I want Her So Much I Feel Sick: An Interview with Rough Trade’s Carole PopeFrom: Any Other Way |
Jane Farrow interview’s musician Carol Pope. They discuss the impact that Pope’s music had on Toronto’s queer community. | Jane Farrow; John Lorinc | 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 |
