BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Food Was Her Country

How can a god-fearing Catholic, immigrant mother and her godless, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? Food Was Her Country is the story of a mother, her queer daughter, and their tempestuous ...

Flawed

From the Emmy-nominated, NFB, PBS-aired animated short, Flawed is a true story of self-acceptance.

The Suitcase and the Jar

By (author) Becky Livingston
Categories: Memoirs

When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional turn. Rachel, an avid traveller, had one wish: to keep exploring the ...

Northern Wildflower

This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun.

Northern Wildflower is the beautifully ...

Unleash Different

Unleash Different illustrates how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Rich gives the reader a peek into how he rose from ...

Amma’s Daughters

As a young woman, Amma joined forces with revolutionary freedom fighters that worked in the Mahatma Gandhi–led Civil Disobedience movement. She was connected with a vast network of women whose courage ...

Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)

During the Sixties Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands, and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders, and overseas to be raised ...

Unchained Man

In 1914, Captain Robert Bartlett made a perilous trek of 700 miles across the frozen Arctic Ocean to save survivors of the sunken vessel Karluk. This episode was one of many that contributed to the Bartlett ...

Working for the Man, Playing in the Band

By (author) Damon Wood
With Phil Carson
Categories: Popular music

In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite’s millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music ...

Homes

Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone—and found safety in Canada—with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. ...