Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! Silence, MemoryFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 13 examines the individual trips Wanda and Casey took to Poland during the 1970’s. The chapter reflects on Wanda and Casey’s life and experiences of exile and trauma after the … | Marsha Faubert | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! SilencesFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Talks about the story told within an author’s silence. What is revealed by the stories omitted. Singh illustrates this through the story of his mother’s older sister—a story she … | Jaspreet Singh | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Sisters in StruggleFrom: From Bombs to Books |
Describes as context the recent history of the Sudan, and recounts one family’s experience living through the 1983-84 violence in the country, their journey to refugee camps in Ethiopia and … | David Starr | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! SixFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add | |
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From  Six Nights in the Albert Lane, 1917From: Any Other Way |
The transcription of police testimony given in court after a series of arrests were made in the Albert Lane in the spring of 1917 | Steven Maynard | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From  "Six of the Best"From: A Lucky Life |
Discusses his father being the first trained pediatrician in Montreal, his time going to school at Selwyn House | Richard B. Goldbloom | 8 | 2013 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! SixteenFrom: Holden After & Before |
Tara McGuire | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add | |
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From  Sixty-seven Pounds |
His illness leads to a break from Hockey and finding a job, his diagnosis with Hodgkin lymphoma and his transition into coaching | John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe | 23 | 2014 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Slow SeasonPart 5: Surfacing From: This is My Real Name |
Chapter 15 concludes the book with Brunet’s return to Montreal, work at Sally’s Club and giving up stripping. | Cid V Brunet | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  SmellsFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Smells of the city/time | Jim Bennet | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Chapter ThreeA Long and Ongoing Process |
Sámi Reconciliation in Practice: A Long and Ongoing Process | Irja Seurujärvi-Kari; Pirjo Kristina Virtanen | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From NEW! SmokeFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Singh shares a folktale told to him by his mother before telling a story from when he first moved to Canada. | Jaspreet Singh | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Soaring |
Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more. | Afiena Kamminga | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Social MediaPart 4. Getting Your Story Out From: Women Winning Office |
In Social Media Nash explores how social media has revolutionized political engagement in recent years. The chapter explores how social media can be used in campaigning, as effective Social Media … | Peggy Nash | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Solidarity, Generosity, and Love Auvergne, 2015-17From: 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  Some Personal Acts of Reconnection |
Reclaiming the commons begins by claiming your place within it–and in the process, awakening to a different understanding of yourself, even a different understanding of what’s real … | Heather Menzies | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
