Biographies (ouvrages généraux)

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Wine from Raisins

This remarkable memoir traces the life of Josef Svoboda—political prisoner, climate change pioneer, scientist, and a man of profound faith. From his earliest days in Czechoslovakia, Svoboda had to overcome ...

Struggling With My Soul

George Rich’s Struggling with My Soul is a story of growing up caught between two worlds. A Labrador Mushuau Innu, George’s family and people gave up their nomadic way of life to settle in Davis Inlet. ...

Where It Hurts

A 2017 finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-fiction, Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional ...

What the Mouth Wants

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family, and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic ...

Should Auld Acquaintance

Melanie Murray traces the footsteps of Jean Armour and Robert Burns through the village of Mauchline, where they met and married, to their final home in Dumfries, attempting to discover the woman who ...

Yakuglas' Legacy

“Ronald Hawker’s endeavour to explore the material objects—the pieces in the collections—and then make relevant, illuminating connections with broader social, political, and economic events is ...

The Embattled General

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner (1871-1961) was a capable but controversial Canadian general who played a critical role in the development of the Canadian Corps up to 1917 and contributed significantly ...

Matterhorn

Memories of day-to-day life in an exquisitely beautiful but isolated mountain community, working sixteen hours a day.

The author, Virginia May, grew up in post-WWII England, raised by a single mother. ...

Exiled for Love

A fast-paced memoir of Arsham Parsi, a queer Iranian activist forced to flee his country under threat of execution.

Exiled for Love follows Parsi’s incredible journey from his first understanding of ...

Terry Fox

This memory book takes the reader back to the 143 days in 1980 when Canadians watched, marvelled and idolized, then mourned and celebrated Terry Fox, a heroic young athlete running to the heart of Canada. ...