Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Troubles at the Admiralty From: Churchill and Fisher View James Lorimer and Company	Historian Barry Gough provides a thorough examination of Winston Churchill’s and Jack Fisher’s troubles at the Admiralty in 1915 as they relate to the Dardanelles and the …	Barry Gough	49	2017	$4.90 Add
From Turner Cup From: They Called Me Chocolate Rocket View Formac Publishing	His time with the Atlanta Knights and the Turner Cup Win	John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe	22	2014	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Turning the Tables From: On Account of Darkness View twp	This chapter tells the history of Walpole Island and discusses anti-Indigenous racism, telling the story of Bill Sands.	Ian Kennedy	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Upping the Ante RCAP and a Landmark Court Decision From: Unsettling Canada View Between The Lines	Upping the Ante explores the nationwide reaction to the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) report and all 440 of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommendations amongst …	Arthur Manuel	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From NEW! Victims People From: The Trauma Beat View ECW Press	In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of …	Tamara Cherry	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Winning the Nomination Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office View Between The Lines	In Winning the Nomination Nash explores how to secure the nomination process. Nash discusses electability, constructing a public narrative, endorsers, communications, and Nash’s own …	Peggy Nash	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Women’s Work From: Up the Coast View NeWest Press	Chapter Nine focuses on women’s work, food orders, defending the camp and children from bears when the men are away, the authors stash of nanaimo bars attracting bears, laundry and the …	Kathryn Willcock	37	2022	$3.70 Add
From Working Long From: No One to Tell View Breakwater Books	In Working Long, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes her work schedule and a typical work day, as well as more instances of sexism as they occur throughout her example work day.	Janet Merlo	11	2013	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Zimri Armstrong A Man Betrayed From: Black Loyalists in New Brunswick View Formac Publishing	This chapter tells the story of Zimri Armstrong and the other black loyalists who chose to leave the racism and discrimination they found in North America and attempt to find a better life in …	Stephen Davidson	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From NEW! "Sauce" From: Inside the Montreal Mafia View ECW Press	This chapter discusses the aftermath of Vito Rizzuto’s return to Canada.	Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! “A beating every day”: The Story of Léo Pitre Chapter Ten From: Bombs and Barbed Wire View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Ten focuses on the story of Léo Pitre from Jacquet River, New Brunswick, describing his time in Hong Kong in 1941 with the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers, capture …	Ronald Cormier	21	2022	$2.10 Add
From 0.9 Love Letters From: You Only Live Twice View Coach House Books	Mike shares about the first person he fell in love with and his letters with her, while Chase responds remembering a film of their shared favourite filmmaker about love letters, and sorting …	Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom	3	2016	$0.30 Add
From A Postcard from Germany From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He muses on emigration and escape from Vietnam, and recounts a scam and failed escape attempt.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From Afterword From: Disfigured View Coach House Books	The afterword reflects on portrayals of disability and wheelchair use in recent media.	Amanda Leduc	9	2020	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Afterword From: Earthkeeping View Goose Lane Editions	The Afterword: Mars, Anyone?.	Gary Saunders	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Afterword Andaiye and the Carribean Radical Organizing Tradition From: The Point is To Change the World View Between The Lines	This reading consists of the following essays: Andaiye and the Caribbean Radical Organizing Tradition (Anthony Bogues)	Alissa Trotz; Andaiye	6	2020	$0.60 Add