Memoir
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From  NEW! Hitting the Ground RunningFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recountshis first weeks at External Affairs in Ottawa in 1967 and 1968. | Roger Turene | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
 Holocaust to ResistanceMy Journey |
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 | 320 | 2019 | View |
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From Honeymoon in a Revolution Cuba, 1960From: 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 | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
 Hope Is a Woman’s NameMy Journey as a Bedouin Palestinian Activist in Israel |
The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society and an indigenous Bedouin in a Jewish state, Amal Elsana came into this world fighting for her right to exist. A shepherd at the age of five, she led … | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 447 | 2024 | View |
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From NEW! How Far to Go Too FarFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines how in August 1981, Manitoba’s French Language Services Secretariat began operating with virtually no infrastructure, under Premier Sterling Lyon. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From How Was This Possible? Auvergne, 2011-15From: 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 | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
 How We Go HomeVoices from Indigenous North America |
In myriad ways, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take … | 344 | View | ||
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From If This Succeeds, We All SucceedFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the 2006 effort by a Bedouin activist and the AJEEC organization to build a community-run kitchen in Hura, a Negev town, so that single mothers could … | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From In the Mountains of Auvergne France, 2017From: 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 | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Cure for Hate |
Dõv Baron describes a pivotal moment of transformation he witnessed in the journey of the author, and welcomes the reader into ideas about how they might best make use of the book. | Dov Baron | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: How We Go Home |
Sinclair states her intentions for the project How We Go Home to offer oral histories of living Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States and how her personal experiences have shaped her … | Sara Sinclair | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Out of the Sun |
In this introduction, Edugyan uses Sun Tzu’s metaphor of light and shadow to frame who is visible and who is hidden in written histories. | Esi Edugyan | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |
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From James Favel, Winnipeg, Peguis First Nation“You’re a stakeholder because you’ve got to walk these streets every day.” From: How We Go Home |
James Favel, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is of the Peguis First Nation. He describes his childhood in Winnipeg and his reaching out to his father as teenager, and reconnecting with his culture. He … | Sara Sinclair | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! James (Jim) Lynn, DettahFrom: Book of Hope |
In this chapter, Pascal presents the personal narrative of James (Jim) Lynn, an eighty-five-year-old chaplain in Dettah, near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories. His story centres on an … | Agnes R. Pascal | 2 | 2025 | $0.20 Add |
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From Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Sioux“My son’s buried by the river. . . . I vowed to him that he’s going to be safe, that no oil was going to touch him.” From: How We Go Home |
Jasilyn Charger of the Cheyenne River Sioux, shares her story of her childhood with her family and moving in and out of foster homes and mental health facilities. She then became involved in the … | Sara Sinclair | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Kirsten Flenty, InuvikFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Kirsten Fleuty’s 2017 breast cancer journey in Inuvik, from a stage-zero diagnosis to a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery in Edmonton. | Agnes R. Pascal | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
