Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this preface, Roger Turene introduces his memoir. | Roger Turene | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
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In this preface, Dutil explains his microhistory approach centred on the year 1885, examining Sir John A. Macdonald’s life and Canada’s evolution. | Patrice Dutil | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Stoney Creek Woman |
In this preface, Moran explains the book’s origins, and how she recorded Elder Mary John’s life story at the request of Mary’s daughter Helen. | Bridget Moran | 6 | 1988 | $0.60 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 | |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: No Place For A Woman |
The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. | Antony Berger | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Exile |
Belen Fernandez | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add | |
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The co-author’s Preface to this new edition explains the origins of the new edition and the process it went to make sure it was an updated, accurate, necessary contribution. | Peter McFarlane | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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The Preface by the co-author Doreen Manuel, George Manuel’s daughter, shares her perspectives on her father and the purpose and updates of the new edition. | Doreen Manuel | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Going Public |
Julie Macfarlane | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add | |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: A Halifax Boyhood |
A short postscrip about why he wrote this memoire, the intention, thoughts after writing it, and what happened to him after the years that are accounted here | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax | Jim Bennet | 3 | 2015 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Len & Cub |
Dusty Green talks about the context and aim of this book and speaks on their personal experiences as a queer New Brunswicker. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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Preface by authors Marilyn Lerch and Peter Sawyer. | Marilyn Lerch | 2 | 2009 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Up the Coast |
An introduction to the methodology, maps, and the explanation of “up the coast.” | Kathryn Willcock | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |


















