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Browse by Category Biography & Memoir
Always Someone To Kill The Doves: A Life of Sheila Watson
Fred Flahiff
Fred Flahiff
The riveting portrait of a renowned Canadian writer shaped by her times, turbulent marriage, clarity of genius, and by her moral sense instilled by a Catholic upbringing.
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Any Other Woman: An uncommon biography
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd
Monica Kidd, biologist, poet and award-winning journalist, travels to Slovakia and Alberta to unravel the mystery of her great-grandparents' lives.>>
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Apocrypha
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Stan Dragland & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Shaped over two decades, this collection is a passionate meditation on the meeting of life and literature, and a text of rumination, invention, and rhapsody.
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At the Zenith of the Empire
Stewart Lemoine
Stewart Lemoine
A deliciously funny, swirling speculative scenario of Sarah Bernhardt's historic 1913 visit to Edmonton and the active local live theatre scene of that time
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Back Roads
Ted Ferguson
Ted Ferguson
After collapsing from stress in a posh Vancouver restaurant, Ted Ferguson decides to abandon his workaholic lifestyle and move his family to the secluded back roads of northern Alberta, where electricity and indoor plumbing are a luxury.
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Big Rig: Comic Tales from a Long Haul Trucker
Don McTavish
Don McTavish
Big Rig takes us on some eye-opening, highly comical road trips, through the eyes of a driver and his fellow truckers over a forty year period.
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Collected Works of Pat Lowther (The)
Christine Wiesenthal
Christine Wiesenthal
The Collected Works of Pat Lowther brings together, for the first time, the complete contents of the poetry editions published by Pat Lowther.
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Crybaby!
Janice Williamson
Janice Williamson
In a dramatic arrangement of words and visuals, Crybaby! is the memoir of a woman dealing with intimations of incest, her infertility, and the suicide of her father.
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Doomed Bridegroom (The)
Myrna Kostash
Myrna Kostash
The Doomed Bridegroom narrates one woman’s attraction to rebel heroes, both real and imagined, in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the Mediterranean.
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Elk in the House (An)
Beverly Lein
Beverly Lein
When Beverly and Carson Lein, ranchers at the Seventh Avenue Elk ranch in Manning, chose the unique occupation of farming elk, they didn’t count on adopting and inevitably falling in love with one.
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From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Boyden speaks passionately, relating Aboriginal people in Canada to poor African Americans, Whites, and Hispanics in post-Katrina New Orleans. At the end of his lecture he presented a provocative manifesto to the audience.
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Hammerstone: A Biography of Hornby Island
Olivia Fletcher
Olivia Fletcher
Successful in its first edition, this is the long-awaited revised version of this popular tribute to Hornby Island. The creation of the island is revealed in beautiful prose and description.
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Knocking on the Moonlit Door: Reflections on Journeys to Europe
Margaret Thompson
Margaret Thompson
A collection of beautifully written personal essays that explore travel both to distant places and within the mind.
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Kreisel Lecture Series #2: Old Lost Land of Newfoundland (The)
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston discusses the myths and realities of his native Newfoundland. A master storyteller, Johnston peppers his lecture with impromptu asides, delighting his readers with true tales and well-spun yarns.
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Listening to Trees
A.K. Hellum
A.K. Hellum
Combining personal experience with fact, Listening to Trees tells the story of a man’s lifelong journey to salvage today’s declining forests.
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Long Trail (The): The Story of a Pioneer Family
Beulah Baldwin
Beulah Baldwin
This biographical account of the lives of the Freelands by their daughter begins with their 1913 winter trek to the hinterlands of Peace River from Edmonton to purchase a hotel sight unseen.
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Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
Roy Kiyooka
In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada’s most important avant-garde painters, with a tape recorder. In her native Japanese, she shared with him the fascinating memories of her migration to Canada.
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Nothing but Brush Strokes: Selected Prose
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
Phyllis Webb & edited by Smaro Kamboureli
This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb's struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things.
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Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canada
Barbara Kingscote
Barbara Kingscote
In May 1949, at the age of twenty, Barbara Kingscote left her farm in Mascouche, Quebec, and set out for the Pacific Ocean on horseback, reaching the West Coast just over a year later.
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Scraping the Surface
Lyle Victor Albert
Lyle Victor Albert
Scraping the Surface contains three plays by Lyle Victor Albert: Cut", "Scraping the Surface" and "Objects in Mirror."
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Smoke in the Cockpit: The Flying Adventures of Don 'Smokey' Pa
H.J. Smith
H.J. Smith
A Canadian aviation history at its best. Raised in Western Canada, Patry began flying professionally in 1937 over the uncharted mountainous territory of Alberta, BC, and the North West Territories.
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Snow Bodies: One Woman's Life on the Streets
Elizabeth Hudson
Elizabeth Hudson
The timely memoir of a troubled young woman who through drug dependence turns to a life of prostitution on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver.
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Weasel Tail
Michael Ross
Michael Ross
Intercultural issues in Canada's new West are met with humour, wit, and at times, heartbreak, in this collection of Joe Crowshoe's stories.
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White Lies (for my mother)
Liza Potvin
Liza Potvin
Based on fifteen years of her own journal entries, the author explores her scattered memories of being sexually abused by her father and grandfather and the impact of this abuse upon her relationship with her mother.
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