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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Life at Yellowhead From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence View James Lorimer and Company	Talks about life at Yellowhead Road Camp	Leatrice M. Willson Chan; Takeo Ujo Nakano	6	2012	$0.60 Add
From NEW! “Like a dream”: The Story of Armand Landry Chapter Eight From: Bombs and Barbed Wire View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Eight focuses on the story of Armand Landry, from Saint-François-de-Madawaska, New Brunswick, his time with the Royal 22nd Regiment or “Van Doos,” his constant companions …	Ronald Cormier	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! “Like a load of pigs”: The Story of Alcide Gallant Chapter Seven From: Bombs and Barbed Wire View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter Seven focuses on the story of Alcide Gallant, from Abrams Village, Prince Edward Island, describing his time Perth Regiment of the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade of 5th Canadian Armoured …	Ronald Cormier	11	2022	$1.10 Add
Man at the Airport How Social Media Saved My Life: One Syrian's Story twp	Man at the Airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an “illegal” and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate …	Hassan Al Kontar	232	2021	View
From MH2284 From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to tell the story of her escape, starting with her arrival in Indonesia.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	15	2021	$1.50 Add
From My First Funeral From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	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
NEW! My Road from Damascus A Memoir ECW Press	"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the …	Jamal Saeed	440	2022	View
From My Second Funeral From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	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
From My Third Funeral From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. His remains are cremated and brought to North America.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	3	2021	$0.30 Add
From Nursing in the Canadian Army Medical Corps Moore Baracks From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	Although Anna Stamers left no personal account or letters escribing her work, war diaries, records of service, newspaper reports, and letters and diaries of other nursing sisters give form and …	Dianne Kelly	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From O Canada From: Man at the Airport View twp	In the final chapter, Al Kontar writes about his experiences in British Columbia, and his Operation#NotForgotten campaign to aid refugess trapped on Manus and Nauru.	Hassan Al Kontar	10	2021	$1.00 Add
From On the Move England, Canada, and England Again From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	Anna Stamers left No. 1 CGH on May 21, 1917, after fifteen months of continuous service in France. Anna was granted a 17 day leave and returns to Canada where, due to poor health, she was granted …	Dianne Kelly	20	2021	$2.00 Add
From NEW! One Hundred Girls and a Scandal From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 10 discusses the scandal at the Dionne Spinning Mills, in Saint-Georges, Quebec, that Wanda over 100 other Polish women found themselves in when arriving in Canada after May, 1947. The …	Marsha Faubert	23	2023	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Ostarbeiter in Germany From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The …	Marsha Faubert	16	2023	$1.60 Add
From Parallel Worlds From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She visits her father’s grave.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From Part I From: The Matryoshka Memoirs View ECW Press	Part One details the story of Irina in wartime Germany in the 1940s and her life working in a prison camp hospital and in a prestigious family’s home, eventually starting a family. …	Sasha Colby	156	2023	$15.60 Add