Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From  2.4 ImperfectFrom: You Only Live Twice |
Chase reflects on Mike’s telling of Mark’s funeral. They both grapple with the ideas of perfection and vulnerability. | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
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From  A squirrel running…From: The Wheel of Things |
- | Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  AfterwordGrandmothering From: The M Word |
An Afterword from Michele Landsberg on becoming a grandmother. | Michele Landsberg | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! CanvassingPart 5. Campaigning From: Women Winning Office |
In Canvassing Nash discusses canvassing. The chapter discusses what canvassing can be, who is is for, canvassing strategy, and even provides her own 12 tips for canvassing. | Peggy Nash | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Common-Good Governance Locally and Globally |
There is a wealth of precedent out there to inspire a commoning movement, though not necessarily yet as scaled up, more polycentric levels. | Heather Menzies | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Elders |
In this chapter, the author examines the deaths of her two uncles from AIDS, and the stigma and shame that charactarized her family’s response to this tragedy. | Miranda Recht | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  EpilogueFrom: To Wawa with Love |
Final thoughts about his father | Tom Douglas | 4 | 2012 | $0.40 Add |
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From  First Among EqualsStuart 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 | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Joe Hester: Anishnawbe Health TorontoHOW WE CARRY THIS PLACE From: Indigenous Toronto |
The story of Joe Hester and his work for Anishnawbe Health, where he is the current Executive Director. | Brian Wright-McLeod | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From  LossesFrom: A Lucky Life |
Family members he has lost | Richard B. Goldbloom | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Máret Ánne Sara’s Pile o’SápmiCommunity and Sovereighty: Section 3 From: Qummut Qukiria! |
This chapter reflects on the art installation of Pil Osampi. Discussing the Jovsset Ante Sara vs. the State of Norway, reindeer husbandry, the Norwegian court, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, … | Jan-Erik Lundström | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  My Second Funeral |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He is re-buried by his family. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Oscar Wilde’s Type (in Toronto)From: Any Other Way |
An excerpt from Of Toronto the Good: a Social Study: The Queen City of Canada as It Is , 1898. | C.S Clark | 1 | 2017 | $0.10 Add |
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From  The Town My Mother Left Behind Poland, 1939-45From: 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 | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Twenty SixFrom: Holden After & Before |
- | Tara McGuire | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! UntracedFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Conversations with Singh’s father while visiting in Edmonton. The struggle and process of getting him to open up and recount past events. | Jaspreet Singh | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
