Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS |
This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … | Sassafras Lowrey | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Impossible ForgivenessFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter examines forgiveness in another context – should Nazis be forgiven for their acts during the Holocaust? | Ann Heberlein | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  IntermezzoFrom: A Lucky Life |
Some of the muscial talents he has met: Paul Robeson, Oscar Levant, Isaac Stern, Maureen Forrester, Russian artists that came to perform in Canada, Zubin Mehta, Jacqueline du Pre, Yo-yo Ma | Richard B. Goldbloom | 13 | 2013 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Land of My Birth France, 1988From: 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 | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Millie Redmond: The FlameHOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto |
The story of activist and community-builder Millie Redmond, born on the Walpole Island First Nation in 1917. In 1981, she was chosen as a Woman of Distinction by the YMCA of Toronto for Community … | Miles Morrisseau | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Re-enfranchising People as Commoners, Participants in Responsible Self-Governance |
The author suggests that restoring governance for a common good that includes the well-being of the whole planet will require revitalizing democracy at every level. | Heather Menzies | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! The Last EssayFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Confronts Singh’s mother’s death and the last essay she left him for her memoirs. | Jaspreet Singh | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The Tears of Heaven |
This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She learns of her father and sibling’s death and receives a letter from her father, which arrived months after their deaths. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Twenty FourFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Views from the FifthCommunity and Sovereighty: Section 3 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This chapter explores what reconciliation between the north and the south of Canada means. | Joshua Stribbell | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From  We’re All NorthernersStuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic From: Umingmak |
Readings in Part Four of this title, entitled "Turf Wars" discuss the challenges and conflicts faced by communities in the Northwest Territories during Stuart Hodgson’s career. … | Jake Ootes | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! xenofobie/xenophobiaFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On Dutch words with no English equivalent, and the impossibilty of some translation. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  2.3 How Could You Ever Leave Me?From: You Only Live Twice |
Mike considers how people in their second lives often plan their funerals, like his mother. He continues to share about Mark’s death and funeral. | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Afterword |
The Afterword of George Manuel’s biography, written by his granddaughter Kanahus Manuel, writes about her role in carrying the torch of the Indian resistance movement through Idle No More, … | Kanahus Manual | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Dr. Janet Smylie and ‘Our Health Counts Toronto’HOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto |
The story of Dr. Janet Smylie, a Métis physician and research scientist, and the project ‘Our Health Counts Toronto.’ | Erica Commanda | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Identifying Supporters-The Point of the CampaignPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Identifying Supporters-The Point of the Campaign Nash stresses the importance of meeting your community and suggests methods to meet and acquire more supporters from her own experiences. | Peggy Nash | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
