Memoir
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From  Robert Ornelas, New York City, Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo“A part of the soul sickness for me was being ashamed. . . . What we were being taught about Indians was so minimal and so negative.” From: How We Go Home |
Robert Ornelas, who lives in New York City, and is of the Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is a retired substance abuse counselor. He shares how he understood and felt about being native as … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  School DaysFrom: Cure for Hate |
This chapter describes aspects of the author’s school career that may have contributed to his violent, white-supremacist views, including school beatings, defiant behavior, expulsions, and … | Tony McAleer | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Seventeen Kilometers Away but Worlds ApartFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her first day at a university in Israel, roughly seventeen kilometres from her village of Laqiya. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Sink or Swim in ParisFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts his first posting in Paris in 1969, at Canada’s UNESCO delegation. | Roger Turene | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Solidarity, Generosity, and Love Auvergne, 2015-17From: 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 | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Something like a great people (1975–1976)From: Dream Interrupted |
In this chapter, Pelletier traces Quebec’s political and cultural awakening in 1975–76, culminating in the Parti Québécois victory of November 1976. | Francine Pelletier | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From SourcesFrom: Cure for Hate |
Tony McAleer | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add | |
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From SourcesFrom: 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 NEW! St. Boniface CollegeFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts his time at Jesuit St. Boniface College in Manitoba, from 1956 to 1964, where the institution served as a cornerstone of Francophone cultural survival. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! State of Apprehended InsurrectionFrom: Eyes Have Seen |
In this chapter, Anderson examines his experience of Montreal’s October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act following FLQ kidnappings, and the … | Fred Anderson | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
 NEW! Staying PowerOn Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose |
Staying Power, Zena Sharman’s memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the … | Zena Sharman | 224 | 2026 | View |
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From NEW! Swing Low, Sweet ChariotFrom: Eyes Have Seen |
In this chapter, Anderson recounts his experience settling into a cramped Montreal apartment and exploring Little Burgundy, the Black neighbourhood known as the “Harlem of the North.” | Fred Anderson | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From Taking Revenge While Keeping Your Hands CleanFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences as a ten- year-old sheepherder in a rural Arab village,and how a man assaulted her while chasing a runaway cow. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! That’s an Order, Young Man!From: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences with political and diplomatic friction in Zaire. | Roger Turene | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! The AftermathFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the quiet aftermath of the 1984 Manitoba French language confrontation, as the legislative building fell silent and the national debate simply vanished. | Roger Turene | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From The BicycleFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experienes secretly riding a bicycle in defiance of her tribe’s rigid norms. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
