Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() NEW! Part 2: Jackasses, Brain Farts, And a Magic ScrewdriverFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In Part 2 the author discussed the lessons he has learned and insight he has gained from his career as a psychologist. Topics in this part included finding psychological treatments that help … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From ![]() Part 3Hitting a Billion From: Billion Dollar Start-Up |
This chapter explores the growth of HEXO from a small startup to a company with a valuation of over $1 billion. | Adam Miron; Julie Beun; Sébastien St-Louis | 86 | 2021 | $8.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part 3Status for All From: Harvesting Freedom |
Part 3 details Gabriel Allahdua’s activist work against the injustices that migrant workers experience in Canada. Part 3 also explained Allahdua’s process of leaving the program and … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 37 | 2023 | $3.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part 3: Tune-Ups For RelationshipsFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In part 3 the author provided guidance for navigating our friendships, relationships, peer dynamics, and work partnerships in a healthy and fulfilling way. The topics in this part included … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part 4: Contentment CakeFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In part 4 the author introduced his concept of the Contentment Cake and his criteria for being content in life. Topics included in this part are techniques for developing positive self esteem, … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part FourTowards Strengthening the Movement |
This reading consists of the following essays: Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part FourFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part four describes the political and personal events that took place after Rosie Douglas became the prime minister of Dominica. It details the days leading up to and following his death, and … | Irving Andre | 89 | 2023 | $8.90 Add |
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From ![]() Part IFrom: The Matryoshka Memoirs |
Part One details the story of Irina in wartime Germany in the 1940s and her life working in a prison camp hospital and in a prestigious family’s home, eventually starting a family. … | Sasha Colby | 156 | 2023 | $15.60 Add |
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From ![]() Part IIFrom: The Matryoshka Memoirs |
Part Two picks up from the first as Irina and Sergei escape from Germany with their child, and immigrate to Canada. The author continues to include scenes from the modern day between herself and … | Sasha Colby | 80 | 2023 | $8.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part OneFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part one explores Britain’s colonization of the Island of Dominica, provides historical background of Rosie Douglas’ ancestors, and describes the nature of his upbringing. Part one … | Irving Andre | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part One: Section IThe Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region |
This reading consists of the following essays: The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002] – The Historic … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 55 | 2020 | $5.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part One: Section IINotes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it |
This reading consists of the following essays: 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz) – Organizing within and … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 46 | 2020 | $4.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part One: Small Towns |
Part One reflects on MacDonald’s childhood, his relationships with his brothers and sister, his mothers struggles with mental health, his passion for art, and the fall out from his parents … | Chris MacDonald | 62 | 2022 | $6.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part ThreeFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part three describes Douglas’ life after his return to Dominica in 1976 and leading up to the general election in 2000. It explores his contributions to Domica’s political … | Irving Andre | 76 | 2023 | $7.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: A New World |
Part Three is larger in scope and follows MacDonald from his late adolescence to the present day, his career as a tattoo artist, his brother Rob’s influence, family history and addiction, … | Chris MacDonald | 117 | 2022 | $11.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IMy Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power |
This reading consists of the following essays: The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018] – Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |










