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A Life Spent Listening

By (author) Hassan Khalili
Categories: Memoirs

***2023 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD – HONOURABLE MENTION***

A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed ...

Horses in the Sand

By (author) Lorrie Potvin
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Inanna Memoir Series

A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman?s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, ...

Queasy

By (author) Madeline Sonik
Categories: Biography: general

The award-winning author of Afflictions & Departures turns her kaleidoscopic lens on England in the 1970s in Queasy, a series of linked memoirs. While still grieving her father's death and the end of ...

Woman, Watching

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, ...

It Should Be Easy to Fix

By (author) Bonnie Robichaud
Categories: Biography: general

In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to ...

Unvarnished

By (author) Emily Carr
Edited by Kathryn Bridge
Categories: Biography: general

Culled from the handwritten pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal ...

Petit éloge du mouton

By (author) Thierry Pardo
Categories: Autobiography: general

Le mouton habite nos fables, il endosse le rôle du doux, du gentil, mais aussi du grégaire, un peu naïf, toujours inoffensif. Pendant trois étés, Thierry Pardo a participé en tant que berger à ...

Rien de beau sur la guerre

Le 30 avril 1975, jour de la chute de Saïgon, Maï Nguyen fuit le Vietnam avec sa mère et ses sept frères. Elle a dix ans. Dans Rien de beau sur la guerre, elle refait le chemin parcouru de son enfance ...

Once a Bitcoin Miner

By (author) Ethan Lou
Categories: Currency / Foreign exchange

Part autobiography and part investigation, the book describes the wackiness, the fraudulence, and the cycle of Bitcoin boom and bust and boom. We begin with scandal and conflict in Canada’s cryptocurrency ...