Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  The Long Ladder of Shame |
In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine. | C.L. Severson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Len’s CameraFrom: Len & Cub |
This chapter talks about Len’s passion for photography and gives some context for photography in the early 1900s. | Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
 The M WordConversations about Motherhood |
A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada’s best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, … | 320 | View | ||
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From  The Magic of ChristmasFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Shares his favourite Christmas Memory involving his Mother and a Wawa Garbage Dump and how the community came together | Tom Douglas | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From  The Maiden from AfarFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter concerns Arendt’s conflicting feelings of homesickness and alienation in regard to Germany. | Ann Heberlein | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Making of AhqahizuDecolonial Practices: Section 2 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This chapter explores the making of Ahqahizu largely through photos. | Anna Hudson | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Man’s ManFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author further explores his relationship with his grandfather and family history. | Richard Lemm | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
 NEW! The Mantle of StruggleA Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas |
Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, … | Irving Andre | 360 | 2023 | View |
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From  The Marco PoloFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add | |
 The Matryoshka MemoirsA Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, The Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance. |
Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp … | Sasha Colby | 252 | 2023 | View |
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From  The Meaning of Community ArtsFrom: A Sense of Themselves |
Carol E. Harris | 34 | 1998 | $3.40 Add | |
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From The Meaning of HopeOn Suicide From: On Love and Tyranny |
In this chapter, Hebelein discusses the suicidal thoughts Arendt experienced during her internment, and the suicide of her friend Walter Benjamin in 1940. | Ann Heberlein | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Most Glittering PostFrom: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough examines Winston Churchill’s early career (1909-1912) as well as his personal life during this period. He focuses on his work at the Home Office, his relationship with … | Barry Gough | 26 | 2017 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The National Chief |
Chapter nine of George Manuel’s biography details his path to become National Chief and president of the National Indian Brotherhood and the beginning of his term there, including people he … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From The National Indian Philosophy1971-1972 |
Chapter ten of George Manuel’s biography looks at 1971-1972, when as president of the National Indian Brotherhood, he focused on Indian control of education and rebuilding Indian … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
