Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From 0.10 RehersalFrom: You Only Live Twice |
Mike shares a memory about learning to ride a bike with his little brother and crashing, after which they discuss death. Chase shares a memory of his mother teaching him about menstruation when … | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |
From A Guest of the Government of IraqFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes the experience of a Kurdish man from Iraq who was imprisoned by the Iraqi government and the trials he experienced trying to get his family to safety. | David Starr | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! A Limitless Capacity to ReboundFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Twelve explores the hardships faced by Louise in her later life and how these affected both her work and her own strength. The chapter discusses the decline in the bird populations … | Merilyn Simonds | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From A Natural WomanFrom: The M Word |
Amy Lavender Harris reflects on her experiences with pregnancy, PCOS, infertility, ‘natural’ mothering, and her daughter. | Amy Lavender Harris | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From Adaptation difficulties |
discusses difficulties he faced in adjusting to Angler, included in it is receiving mail that had been heavily altered so information from home was scarce | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! Andrew Maksymiuk 1891 – 1977From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter Eight focuses on Andrew Maksymiuk, the author’s mothers uncle and stepfather. Discussing his early life in Dzhuriv, working with his brother Nick in the Silesian coal mines, … | Myrna Kostash | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
From Changing Toronto’s Mind about DiversityFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1978-1980. As mayor, I was able to use my larger podium to speak up, bring attention to and encourage public discussion of important issues. This chapter recounts a number of such instances. … | John Sewell | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
From Chapter 11Character Assassination Attempt From: Fight or Submit |
- | Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From Chapter 12From: Northern Wildflower |
- | Catherine Lafferty | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From Chapter TenA White Settler Learning from the Land |
Reconciliation: A White Settler Learning from the Land | Janet McVittie | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
From Child’s eye viewFrom: The Wheel of Things |
- | Mollie Gillen | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! ConclusionAn Advantage to the Community |
The conclusion summarizes the long lasting effect that the arrival of the Black Loyalists had on New Brunswick, an effect that continues to be felt today. | Stephen Davidson | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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 |
From Dignity and EqualityFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Involvement of the CCLA in threats to dignity and equality. | Alan Borovoy | 47 | 2014 | $4.70 Add |
From EnvoiFrom: Pilgrim Souls |
final thoughts about the power of love | Jim Lotz | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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 |