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For more than two decades, Hilary Peach worked as a transient welder, and one of the only women, in the Boilermakers Union. Distilled from a vast cache of journals, notes, and keen observations, Thick Skin follows Peach from the West Coast shipyards and pulp mills of...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2022-05-30
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Set in North Harbour, Newfoundland, this is one woman’s true story of fortitude and love.
In a life layered by tragedy and loss, Catherine Linehan’s ingrained response is to put one foot in front of the other and not succumb to grief. For the mother of ten children,...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2022-04-15
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Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, when Mowafa visited...
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AU Press
Parution :
2022-03-01
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Adam Mardero was diagnosed with Asperger’s at the age of nine, and what became the beginning of his journey to understand and accept himself. Uncommon Sense is a reflection of his self-discovery on his own terms.
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2021-10-02
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Peacekeeper's Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl.
Peacekeeper's Daughter parachutes the reader into the Lebanese Civil War, the...
Editeur :
Thistledown Press
Parution :
2021-09-30
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But the pilot didn’t pull back on the throttle—he kept it at full speed. I realized then that he intended to take off this way. I could see death staring me right in the face, and I yelled, “We’re doomed!" I drove my feet into the fuselage and my back into the seat. We...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2021-06-23
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Winner, George Borden Writing for Change AwardOne of Indigo's Best Books of 2021 So FarRehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. But her life was derailed when she went to a friend’s house for a...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2021-05-18
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One writer's deeply compelling story of growing up nonbinary in the 1940s and '50sAs a child, Keith Maillard asked his mother and grandmother, over and over again, "Am I a boy, or am I a girl?" Neither "boy" nor "girl" quite fit. But there were no other options. In...
Editeur :
Freehand Books
Parution :
2021-05-01
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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled...
Editeur :
ClassicBooks by KTHTK
Parution :
2021-01-01
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Shortlisted for the Brass Knuckles
Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of
Excellence!Finalist
for Book Cover Design at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing
Awards!In his first true crime memoir, undercover
operator Norm Boucher...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2020-11-15
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Finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize at the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards!Finalist for the High Plains Book Awards in the Nonfiction CategoryLaced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheeler’s creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous...
Editeur :
NeWest Press
Parution :
2020-10-15
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Early Days,Early Dancers documents the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler, and Celia Franca, herself a dancer and later the Company’s Artistic...
Editeur :
Inanna Publications
Parution :
2020-10-10
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This deeply personal memoir, co-written by singer- songwriter, renowned mental health advocate, and recent Order of Canada recipient Séan McCann and wife Andrea Aragon leaves no stone unturned. Detailing in powerful and lyrical prose a Newfoundland childhood...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2020-04-14
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On paper, psychologist Dr. Shalom Camenietzski seemed to have it all—a beautiful family, a thriving practice, and supportive friends and colleagues. But in reality, he lived a life of turmoil—obsessive daydreams of taking his life, flamboyant periods of mania,...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2020-01-25
Collection :
The Regina Collection
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In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school—and his path to healing.In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort...
Editeur :
Brindle & Glass
Parution :
2019-06-04
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Seeker: A Sea Odyssey begins as a fairy tale dream of finding Shangri la, and transforms along the way because of unrealistic expectations and a disintegrating marriage. It’s a story about venturing into an unknown and more exciting life, and the heartbreak and growth...
Editeur :
Miroland
Parution :
2019-05-01
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When Alexandra attempts to end an abusive marriage, her husband Tareq abducts their infant daughters from their Montreal home and deposits them with his family in a primitive village in Jordan. Trying to retrieve them through legal means, Alexandra comes face to face...
Editeur :
Miroland
Parution :
2019-04-01
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In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer’s development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of muted sound,...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2019-03-02
Collection :
Writers on Writing
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Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How he came...
Editeur :
University of Regina Press
Parution :
2019-01-19
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After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell everything she owned and sail...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
Parution :
2018-11-14
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