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Onward

Onward

From: Exile

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Open 24 Hours

Open 24 Hours

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this essay, the author describes the importance of adult bookstores in his sexual awakening, and his relationship with, and marriage to, an HIV positive man. 8 $0.80 Add
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Opening Spaces in the Imagination: An Assessment

Opening Spaces in the Imagination: An Assessment

From: A Sense of Themselves

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Opium Eater
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Opium Eater

The New Confessions

From: On Opium

After years of being clawed by stiffness and pain the author describes clawing back the life pain took from her. She describes the effects of the opiates she takes for pain, the pain relief, and … 64 $6.40 Add
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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election
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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including … 19 $1.90 Add
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Organizations that Can Help

Organizations that Can Help

From: Walking Away from Hate

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Oscar Wilde's Type (in Toronto)

Oscar Wilde’s Type (in Toronto)

From: Any Other Way

An excerpt from Of Toronto the Good: a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as It Is , 1898. 1 $0.10 Add
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Ostarbeiter in Germany
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Ostarbeiter in Germany

From: Wanda’s War

Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The … 16 $1.60 Add
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Other People’s Houses
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Other People’s Houses

From: This Has Always Been a War

In “Other People’s Houses” the author explores housing or more importantly the lack of affordable, sustainable and accessible housing for working-class people across Canada. … 29 $2.90 Add
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oud/old
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oud/old

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. 3 $0.30 Add
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Our Lifelong Love Affair

Our Lifelong Love Affair

From: Pilgrim Souls

covers our emotional relationships and how they developed through our married life. 31 $3.10 Add
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Cry

Cry

From: Any Other Way

A poem from Michael Lynch’s collection These Waves of Dying Friends 1 $0.10 Add
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Our Rights Get Stripped Away

Our Rights Get Stripped Away

From: Rock Paper Sex, Volume II

In this chapter, Cull interviews a woman who entered the sex trade as an escape from a violent relationship. She feels that sex work saved her life, and feels that the laws governing sex work … 9 $0.90 Add
Out Loud

Out Loud

Essays on Mental Illness, Stigma & Recovery

Out Loud is a collection of more than fifty essays by people affected by mental illness. There are essays by those who have experienced mental illness themselves, by family and friends, by … 240 View
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From St. Helens Avenue to Dewson Street

From St. Helens Avenue to Dewson Street

From: Any Other Way

Makeda Silvera recalls how she found community and acceptance on Dewson Street 3 $0.30 Add