Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  PleasersPart 1: Baby Stripper From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 2 recounts Brunet’s early experiences and the process of learning the unspoken rules of the strip club and strippers. Topics discussed include competition, body image and aesthetics, … | Cid V Brunet | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Pleasure as the BaselineInterview with Dawn Serra From: The Care We Dream Of |
The interviewee discusses pleasure as a right that extends to the provision of health care, asking what would health care be like if providers asked "What is a win for you, to help you feel … | Zena Sharman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Poland, Nicaragua, and Uncertainties 1981-84From: 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 | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Political Eruptions in British Columbia1975 |
Chapter fourteen of George Manuel’s biography covers the organizing of the Indigenous peoples conference held in Copenhagen in 1975, resulting in the founding of the World Council of … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Pompey Rumsey and CairoA Black Loyalist Love Story |
This chapter describes the relationship between Pompey Rumsey and Cairo and explores the discrimination that was faced by someone who married an enslaved person. | Stephen Davidson | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Porcelain LegsFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Chapter One |
Possibilities and Challenges in Reconciliation | Ranjan Datta | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Postflight Checklists and Reflections |
Chapter 7 focuses on the plan once it has landed on the ground. Topics discussed include airplane docking, VDGS (Visual Docking Guidance Systems), ground marshals, Captains controls, bridges, … | Doug Morris | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Postscript‘History will give you your due’ From: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough offers final thoughts on the relationship between Winston Churchill and Jack Fisher he then examines the relationship between Churchill and Sir David Beatty during the … | Barry Gough | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Postscript: A Work DiaryFrom: Up the Coast |
The postscript is the author’s reflection on her fathers 1959 work diary. | Kathryn Willcock | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Power Protects ItselfPart 1. Who Gets to Lead? From: Women Winning Office |
In Power Protects Itself Nash explores some of the many barriers women face when entering politics. A few of the barriers examined in the chapter include systemic biases, Westminster … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Pre-Descent, In-Range, Landing and After Landing Checklist |
Chapter 6 discusses the landing process. Topics explored include ILS (Instrument Landing System), speed limits and how they calculate speed, keeping outside clean, small verses large aircrafts, … | Doug Morris | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Briefly discusses the living conditions in the northern mining towns in the 1940s and outlines how the authors family ended up going to one. | Tom Douglas | 3 | 2012 | $0.30 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Professor Borovoy describes how the memoir came to be written. | Alan Borovoy | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
The author, a young black Nova Scotian, outlines her methodology for writing this book and the decision to publish under her real name but maintain pseudonyms for any other individual connected … | Jade M. Brooks | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Almost Feral |
Gemma Hickey | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
