Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  PELLATT THE PROMOTERFrom: Casa Loma |
1880 – 1910. Looks at Pellatt as a finance capitalist, electric power for the people and his road from prosperity to wealth | Bill Freeman; Vincenzo Pietropaolo | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Pen-friendshipsFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  Penultimate PerspectivesFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Reflection on philosophies and past activities and the role played by the defence of democracy, and some advice for successors. | Alan Borovoy | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From  People Don’t Make This Shit Up |
In this chapter, Cull interviews a woman who fell into sex work and exploitation through a relationship. After a suicide attempt, she lived in a shelter in Saint John’s, where she received … | Kerri Cull | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From Personal Best |
This interview features a woman who started sex work through camming, then moved on to stripping. She then began working in an adult massage parlour. She receives a lot of support from her … | Kerri Cull | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! piano/pianoFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
The chapter explores Dutch etemology. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Pier 21 — Boat Days, 1954–55 77From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at a typical day there when there was a influx of immigrants due to a boat landing while working for the Department of Citzenship and Immigration in the catering department | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From Pier 21 — Detention Quarters, 1954–55 73From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at working at Pier 21 due to landing a job with the Department of Citzenship and Immigration in the catering department right after high school 1954-55 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Pig Brains |
This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to detail her early life in Canada. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
 Pilgrim SoulsCaring for a Loved One with Dementia |
This memoir focuses on an experience all of us dread. Pat Lotz was an accomplished author and editor, active in her community, and a loving wife and mother. She succumbed to dementia which was … | 224 | View | ||
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From  Pioneering Women’s Rights New Orleans, 1975-79From: 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 | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Is Your Daughter Safe?: Reactionary Reflections on the Suicide of a PansyFrom: Any Other Way |
An excerpt from a tabloid covering the suicide of a man facing charges for indecent behaviour in 1930. | Newspaper Excerpt | 1 | 2017 | $0.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Placing the TextFrom: The Elective Mind |
The second section considers why and how the university classroom can provide a place for learning and transformation, as well as the role of texts in the classroom. | Réal Fillion | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Planning – Before the Flight |
Chapter 1 explores the planning that takes place before a flight. The chapter includes descriptions of author Doug Morris’ life and path towards aviation, the motivations behind becoming a … | Doug Morris | 33 | 2022 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Playing with a Dead FlyFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Talks about an incident at school and how he got in trouble and was given the strap by the teacher | Tom Douglas | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Please, We All Gonna Get ItTrans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure |
In this conversation, the authors share their experiences accessing health care, their thoughts on trans representation and chosen families, their relationship to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and their … | Rory Elliot with Alyssa Pariah and Gaysha Starr | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
