Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! Corrals |
The chapter reflects on coming into adolescence, Spike the dog, playing in arsenic ridden lakes, “stuffing the goose”, wanting a boyfriend, the horse in the lake, and Margie’s … | Margaret Macpherson | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Dignity and EqualityFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Involvement of the CCLA in threats to dignity and equality. | Alan Borovoy | 47 | 2014 | $4.70 Add |
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From  EnvoiFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
final thoughts about the power of love | Jim Lotz | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Epi-geneticsFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Recounts the time in his childhood that his parents tried to make Singh and his sister taller by hanging from trees. | Jaspreet Singh | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From  EpilogueFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga discusses the continuing efforts of Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler to find missing Indigenous young people and protect their rights. Please Note: A … | Tanya Talaga | 15 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Feast for the Dead |
This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to recall a trip to Vietnam with her daughters and recounts other memories growing up in Vietnam. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  He’s a WorkhorseStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Two of this title entitled "Reaching All Northerners" discusses Stuard Hodgson’s first months in the Northwest Territories. Topics discussed include his grand … | Jake Ootes | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Home AgainFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A young black woman recounts how she became pregnant and quit school and how her boyfriend forces her to get an abortion which becomes the reason she finally leaves him. | Jade M. Brooks | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Home. AgainFrom: Walking Away from Hate |
- | Jeanette Manning; Lauren Manning | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Honeymoon in a Revolution Cuba, 1960From: 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 | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Hoopville, 1950–52 56From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at Halifax hosting the university men’s basketball championship tournament from 1950-52 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 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  I Was in Charge of Kitty LitterFrom: Any Other Way |
Jane Farrow decribes the queer houses of Toronto, residences that were passed from friend to friend. More than residences, these houses served as gathering places, refuges, and communities. | Jane Farrow | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Impermanent HomesFrom: At Home |
Chapter 11 features interviews with Jacky Sawatzky and Jeroen Witvliet. This chapter focuses on artists who find belonging and home in any place they are travelling. | Lezli Rubin-Kunda | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Jump Jim CroweFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter focuses on the community of Dresden and systemic racism in this community and others in Southern Ontario, and the experiences of Black athletes here. | Ian Kennedy | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Karma |
This chapter discusses the aftermath of Vito Rizzuto’s death. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
