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From  My First Funeral |
The ghost of the author’s father narrates this chapter, recounting his life and death. The author’s father died escaping Vietnam, on his way to reunite with his six older children in … | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Preface, A Note on the Board of Admiralty, and IntroductionThe Daemonic Duo From: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough provides an introduction to the board of admiralty and an overview of the history between Churchill and Fisher before the outset of World War One. | Barry Gough | 29 | 2017 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Where Does Hope Come From?From: From Bombs to Books |
Ziad Abo Nofel writes a brief account of growing up in Iraq, the American invasion and moving to a refugee camp between Iraq and Syria for six years before finally moving to Canada. | Ziad Abo Nofel | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! A Different Life: The Story of Blair BourgeoisChapter One From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter One focuses on the story of Blair Bourgeois, a member of the RCAF from Moncton, New Brunswick, discussing his training in England, the No. 425 “Alouette” Squadron, four-leaf … | Ronald Cormier | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From BeginningsFrom: From Bombs to Books |
A profile of Elaha Anwary, an Afghan refugee, who won the Grade 7 public speaking competition for her BC school by sharing her story. | David Starr | 5 | 2016 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapters 6-10From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "My Penelope Wove Nothing", "The Berlin Wall, Saddam Hussein, and the Wooden Penis", "Rufaida (1996)", "The Bank of Little Stones (March … | Jamal Saeed | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Early LifeFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
The early life of Nursing Sister Anna Irene Stamers is described as well as the history of her family in Saint John, New Brunswick, including the untimely death of her father and the financial … | Dianne Kelly | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From Fisher Ashore and AfloatFrom: Churchill and Fisher |
Historian Barry Gough examines Jack Fisher’s naval career from 1841-1906 including his apointment to the war office, and the work he carried out with particular focus on his personality and … | Barry Gough | 52 | 2017 | $5.20 Add |
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From June Sisters |
The author narrates this chapter, talking about events in her life and her family. She reflects on her relationship and memories with her father. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Prologue:Woodfibre days |
Talks about life before Pearl Harbour in Woodfibre BC | Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano | 5 | 2012 | $0.50 Add |
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From  The All-American BoyFrom: Imagined Truths |
The author relates his early life/childhood in America. | Richard Lemm | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Causes, Aims, and Course of Events |
On October 23, 1956, a revolution broke out in Budapest and spread all over the country in just a few days. The demonstrators, strikers, armed insurgents, leaders of the organizations of the … | János M. Rainer | 20 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The Olive FarmFrom: Man at the Airport |
In the opening chapter, Al Kontar reflects on the Syrian Civil War and his childhood on an olive farm in Sweida. | Hassan Al Kontar | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Bloody Colonial: The Story of Roger PichetteChapter Two From: Bombs and Barbed Wire |
Chapter Two focuses on the story of Roger Pichette of the RCAF from Campbellton, New Brunswick, describing his education, time as a tail gunner, time with the No. 142 Squadron known as the … | Ronald Cormier | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 11-15From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "We Didn’t Mean to Get Married", "My First Interrogation Session", "Cell Number Four", "Birds and Jinn", and "Show Me … | Jamal Saeed | 31 | 2022 | $3.10 Add |
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From Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, Legends, and Illusions |
Whether it could have been otherwise is the most frequent and poignant question for contemporaries and posterity alike when a revolution or an uprising has failed. Was defeat inevitable, or might … | Csaba Békés | 21 | 2010 | $2.73 Add |
