Memoir
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From  Land of My Birth France, 1988From: 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 | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Learning to StayFrom: Staying Power |
In this chapter, Sharman describes changing co-parenting relationships in her life and how that impacted her. | Zena Sharman | 20 | 2026 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Lianne Mantla-Look, BehchokoFrom: Book of Hope |
This chapter follows Lianne Mantla-Look, a Tłı̨chǫ nurse from Behchokǫ̀, through her 2015 stomach cancer diagnosis and surgery in Edmonton, Alberta. | Agnes R. Pascal | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Life After HateFrom: Cure for Hate |
The author shares the details of how the project Life After Hate helps people leave extremist ideologies. | Tony McAleer | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
 Lloyd AxelworthyMy Life in Politics |
Axworthy served as MLA in the Manitoba legislature for six years followed by twenty-one years in the House of Commons, more than half of those in the cabinets of Pierre Trudeau, John Turner, and … | Lloyd Axelworthy | 322 | 2024 | View |
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From  Love, Hope and WorkFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj follows a Bedouin family’s 2009–2011 retreat at the Dead Sea, where thirteen siblings gathered to honour their parents’ decades of devotion. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Love Me Back to LifeFrom: Staying Power |
In this chapter, Sharman describes her experiences at a queer "not-wedding." | Zena Sharman | 32 | 2026 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Marian Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo“Indigenous peoples’ reason for being is to be the caretakers of the air, the water, the land, and each other.” From: How We Go Home |
Marian Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the founder of Honor Our Pueblo Existence. She shares about the challenges the Pueblo people have had in working to steward their land in the face of … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! (M)otherFrom: Staying Power |
In this chapter, Sharman discusses the complex relationship between a queer parent, known as ZeeZee, and the cultural script of motherhood. | Zena Sharman | 22 | 2026 | $2.20 Add |
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From My ChampionFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her father, Abouee’s, fierce defence of his daughter Basma’s right to attend teachers’ college in Beer a-Saba during the late 1940s. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! My Colleague the MurdererFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene examines how Jeff Blackstock’s father, Canadian diplomat George Blackstock, poisoned his wife Carol in 1958, exploiting diplomatic immunity to evade prosecution. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From My New World New York, 1950-54From: 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 | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From New Home in the North Toronto, 1994-2003From: 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 | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From Not in My Name Toronto, Egypt, 2005-17From: 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 | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From Not My FlagFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the tension between Palestinian identity and Israeli civic life in Beer a-Saba, where the author raises her twin sons within a predominantly Jewish community. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Note to Readers and The Trauma ArchiveFrom: Staying Power |
This chapter is a note to readers regarding the content of the book and a description of the Trauma Archive, started by Sharman’s mother, a survivor and activist who founded support groups … | Zena Sharman | 26 | 2026 | $2.60 Add |
