Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  NEW! The Fourth WorldA Global Movement From: Unsettling Canada |
The Fourth World discusses the struggle to find justice on the international stage when it has been denied at home. This chapter focuses on the history of the idea of a “the Fourth … | Arthur Manuel | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The GameFrom: The Teen Sex Trade |
A black Nova Scotian woman outlines her experience as a 17 year old who begins working in the sex trade at the urging of her boyfriend as the best way for the couple to make money. | Jade M. Brooks | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The Gang MotherFrom: Gang Life |
Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … | Mark Totten | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The Girl on the SubwayFrom: The M Word |
Deanna McFadden reflects on thinking about her life as a mother both before and after, transit, commuting, driving, her pregnancy, patience, and more. | Deanna McFadden | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The gleam and the gloryFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add | |
 The Golden Age of LiberalismA Portrait of Roméo LeBlanc |
This book explores the life and times of Roméo LeBlanc, one of Canada’s most popular and successful politicians and statesmen. Probably best known as the long-standing fisheries … | 376 | View | ||
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From  NEW! The Golden BirdFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter One provides a brief introduction to Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the self-trained amateur ornithologist and field nurse who is the subject of this book. The chapter discusses topics … | Merilyn Simonds | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! The Great Indian Bus Tour of TorontoTRANSFORMING THE CITY From: Indigenous Toronto |
Interviews with Heather Howard-Bobiwash, Jon Johnson, and Kory Snache. | Erica Commanda; Rebeka Tabobondung | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The Great UnravellingFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 9 explores the future of how disability will be in the present and near future, discussing topics like fairy tales and the ideology of able bodiedness, the political, social, economic … | Amanda Leduc | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Great White HopesFrom: On Account of Darkness |
This chapter once again explores Indigenous history in Canada and discrimination against Indigenous people in the world of sports and beyond. The author talks about his personal experiences … | Ian Kennedy | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Greatest Country on EarthFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author reflects on his life, American and Canadian culture and patriotism, and belonging. | Richard Lemm | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The Grudge |
This chapter talks about Rénald Joseph Ernest Serge Desjardins and Scoppa’s accounts of him. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The GulagFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 2 focuses on Casey (Kazimierz) Surdykowski, Wanda’s husband. The chapter tries to piece together Casey’s early life in interwar Poland, his family’s life as military … | Marsha Faubert | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The haiku club |
Discusses the Haiku Club at Angler | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 7 | 2012 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! The Happy Family Game |
In “The Happy Family Game” the author reflects on their relationship with their family. Discussing the idea of a ‘happy family’, the nuclear family, family under … | Lori Fox | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Hard Luck Shuswap Kid1920-1932 |
The second chapter of George Manuel’s biography outlines his early childhood up to age 12, an only child to his mother, and his father, who died when he was a baby. He was eventually raised … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
