BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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What It Means to Write

What exactly is creativity? Adrian McKerracher travels from Vancouver to Havana to Buenos Aires, leading readers on a journey to discover poignant new insights into a life of letters. Through encounters ...

Being Chinese in Canada

By (author) William Ging Wee Dere
Categories: Biography: general

Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.

Soar, Adam, Soar

By (author) Rick Prashaw
Categories: Biography: general

Adam D. Prashaw’s life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as “Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw” ...

Chop Suey Nation

By (author) Ann Hui
Categories: Biography: general

Part family memoir, part social history, and part culinary narrative, Chop Suey Nation explores the Chinese restaurants of small-town Canada.

Bridging Two Worlds

By (author) Martin Hoffman
Categories: The Holocaust

This is a rare account of the horrors of the World War II death camps from someone who experienced them. Fourteen-year-old Martin Hoffman escapes immediate death on arrival at Auschwitz by claiming to ...

A Name for Herself

 

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While ...

Benched

By (author) Nancy Morrison
Foreword by Stevie Cameron
Categories: Sentencing and punishment
Series: Reflections

Fifty years in a law profession she loves, twenty-four of which were spent as judge, Nancy Morrison has stories to tell. Being a former judge, Nancy could not have written this book during the 24 years ...

The Secret Marathon

By (author) Martin Parnell
Categories: Running and jogging

Martin Parnell’s third book takes the reader on an inspirational journey into a country once known for political chaos and female oppression, but now striving for women’s rights and equality for all. ...

Sea Over Bow

By (author) Linda Kenyon
Categories: Memoirs

When her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon vowed to never risk a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man who convinced her to sail across the ocean with him. There are the ...

Emperor's Orphans, The

By (author) Sally Ito
Categories: Second World War

From the shadows of postwar Canada and Japan to the vast Canadian prairies of the new millennium, The Emperor’s Orphans explores cultural identity through movements of place and voice. The story Sally ...