Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Public personae: living in the public eyePART 2: LEADING WITH NERVE From: Nerve |
This chapter discusses being a female leader in the public eye. The authors talk about their experience with building a public persona, communicating, and dealing with public scrutiny. | Indira Samarasekera; Martha Piper | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Public Speaking and Speech WritingPart 4. Getting Your Story Out From: Women Winning Office |
In Public Speaking and Speech Writing Nash explores the challenges and benefits of public speaking and speech writing. In the chapter Nash discusses her own experiences with public speaking, and … | Peggy Nash | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Put Me in the Living Room and Cover Me with FlowersQueering Death From: The Care We Dream Of |
In this account of her mother’s death, the author elaborated on the do-it-yourself attitude she brought to queering her grief, and also the the healing relationship she developed with death … | Zena Sharman | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! “Puzzled and determined"From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines late January and February 1981, capturing a period when federal strategy faced pressure on multiple fronts (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister … | Ron Graham | 2 | 2025 | $0.20 Add |
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From  quarantaine/quarantineFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter concerns the sounds of Flemish, also called Belgian-Dutch. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Queenie and TedFrom: Any Other Way |
Kate Ziemen attempts to piece together the story of Queenie and Ted, a lesbian couple whose relationship lasted nearly half a century. | Kate Zieman | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Queens and Kings for a Year — Grade 12, 1953–54 63From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at Armdale High, the construction and being a part of a very small grade 12 class here 1953-54 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
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From In the Spirit of Beth: Queering Indigenous SpaceFrom: Any Other Way |
Nicole Naku Tanguay recalls the experience of planning a memorial service for a friend and queer Indigenous writer Beth Brant. | Nicole Tanguay | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! “Quite shaken”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the final week of July 1978, when senior advisers to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau weighed the decision to call an early federal election (as told by the … | Ron Graham | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
 NEW! Qummut Qukiria!Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North |
Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as … | 448 | View | ||
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From  NEW! “Quo Vadis?” |
This chapter traces the formation of the Brandon Union Group, a coalition of Italian-Canadian construction workers organizing for fair labour conditions in Toronto during the late 1950s and early … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! R.B. BennettFrom: The Prime Ministers |
In this chapter, Stewart examines the tenure of R. B. Bennett, Canada’s eleventh prime minister, who governed from 1930 to 1935 amid the Great Depression. | J.D.M. Stewart | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From raadsel/riddleFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter concerns Punjabi, the author’s father’s mother tongue. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 6 | 2020 | $0.60 Add |
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From  RaceFrom: Curry |
This chapter explores Ruthnum’s connection to Mauritius, Mauritius food, and the country’s history. There is a discussion of South Asian personalities in popular culture and the … | Naben Ruthnum | 27 | 2017 | $2.70 Add |
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From  RadioFrom: South End Boy |
1930s and 1940s Halifax. Radio | Jim Bennet | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
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From Radio, 1942–49 52From: A Halifax Boyhood |
Looks at the principle form of entertainment/popular culture, Radio 1942-49 | Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
