Memoir
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From  The Sixties: PrincetonFrom: Lloyd Axelworthy |
In this chapter, Axworthy discusses his experiences at Princeton, set against the civil rights movement, Vietnam protests, and the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. | Lloyd Axelworthy | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 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! Thirty-Nine Stages of GriefFrom: Staying Power |
In this chapter, Sharman describes their grief over their mother Lynne’s death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. | Zena Sharman | 26 | 2026 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! "This Is What Happens When You Protest"From: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Coussa recounts her experience during a police assault on her and her friends during a Palestine solidarity protest in Montreal on 22 November 2024. | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add | |
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From  Tshuvah: AtonementFrom: Cure for Hate |
In this chapter, the author takes a closer look at his Holocaust denial in light of his new perspectives and abilities to acknowledge pain, that of himself and of others, with compassion. He is … | Tony McAleer | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Two LinesFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the constrained lives of Palestinian Bedouin women in a village shaped by the Nakba of 1948 and the Six-Day War of 1967. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From UltraviolenceFrom: Cure for Hate |
This chapter further traces the punk and skinhead identity development and community formation of the author in Vancouver, as well as explores his increasing use of masks and justification of … | Tony McAleer | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Vera Styres, Six Nations of the Grand River, Mohawk/Tuscarora“I was a ‘scabby, dirty little Indian.’” From: How We Go Home |
Vera Styres is of the Six Nations of the Grand River and she is of Mohawk/Tuscarora descent. She is a retired social worker. She speaks of her childhood in residential schools, and of coming to … | Sara Sinclair | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From We Made YouFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences navigating public speaking and confronting hostility from Jewish and Palestinian. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! “We should go now”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the tense spring of 1979 as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau prepared to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime … | Ron Graham | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From White Pride WorldwideFrom: Cure for Hate |
In this chapter, the author describes his continued development into a white supremacist via connecting with other skinheads and white supremacists internationally, across Canada and into the … | Tony McAleer | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! “Who was going to be what?”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the reorganization of Trudeau’s government following the 1974 federal election (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Why Open the Wound if You Can’t Heal It?From: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj discusses her experiences at Soroka Hospital in Israel, where Bedouin children stayed months or years due to a lack of basic resources at home. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Winston Moses, InuvikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Winston Moses of Inuvik as he recounts his cancer diagnosis and unexpected recovery. | Agnes R. Pascal | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From Wizipan Little Elk, Rosebud Lakota“On the reservation, you have the beauty of the culture and our traditional knowledge contrasted with the reality of poverty.” From: How We Go Home |
Wizipan Little Elk, who is Rosebud Lakota, tells his story. He is the Executive Director of the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation, where he manages development projects to create jobs for … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From Work is LiberatingFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes what it was like to defy her mother to work at her father’s store in Hebron. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
