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Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-03
Collection :
Life Writing
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Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-07-31
ePub
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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-07-21
Collection :
Life Writing
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Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-07-19
Collection :
Life Writing
ePub
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Dodging down back-alleys in bomb-torn Beirut. Wheeling past God and traffic in Mombassa, Kenya. Slipping around the edges of Alzheimer?s disease, the Gulf War, and the eternity of CNN.
Set somewhere between here and the heat-death of the universe, Jim Oaten?s debut...
Editeur :
Anvil Press
Parution :
2008-12-05
epub sans DRM
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The stage was set with his memoir Human Beans, but the tale of the wild and weird adventures of Ron Pumphrey really begins right here and now . . . Ron Pumphrey came to public attention seemingly from out of nowhere. This mystery man, who is still larger than life, had...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2008-03-26
epub sans DRM
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Humor writer Ed Smiths inspiring story of his struggle to come to grips with quadriplegia after a motor vehicle accident.
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2002-05-13
PDF sans DRM, epub sans DRM
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Ghost Pine: All Stories True offers thirteen years worth of sparkling true stories from the life of author Jeff Miller, compiling the best of his long-running zine. From his youth in suburban Ottawa in the late 1990s, to travels across Canada and North America and his...
Editeur :
Invisible Publishing
Parution :
1999-12-31
epub sans DRM
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“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
1997-01-02
Collection :
Life Writing
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Life as a Reflection is a narration of a woman's path in spiritual awakening. In this detailed and intimate memoir I, the author, reveal the secrets of my inner journey, the rapid yet gradual and sustainable shift in consciousness. My story serves as a map for anyone on...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2026-01-20
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What is the life of a little rich girl in the 50’s?. Let’s go back to after-war in Europe for a childhood where parents were often absent. France is being reconstructed and wealthy shop owners are back to business willing to enjoy social life with little time to look...
Editeur :
Éditions Garuda
Parution :
2026-01-08
epub sans DRM
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What does it mean to be born in a country - yet constantly feel the need to explain yourself?
The Other Side of the Sidewalk (Invisibly German) is a powerful collection of five true accounts that chart a life caught between hope and disappointment, between legal ideals...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2026-01-07
epub sans DRM
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Battle with the Pen is a powerful journey through the author's lived experiences: raw, real, and deeply human. More than a memoir, it is a dialogue that challenges the reader to awaken, to care, and to act. Fereshteh writes with honesty and urgency, inviting us to...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-11-13
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« Ik moest vliegen… en sterven. »In dit aangrijpende getuigenis vertelt Yasuo Kuwahara, een jonge Japanse piloot tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, hoe hij werd opgeleid en gedwongen om deel te nemen aan de beruchte kamikaze-missies. Met zeldzame eerlijkheid beschrijft hij...
Editeur :
CurioVox
Parution :
2025-09-25
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When the Swedish Paralympic shooter Jonas Jacobsson was three months old, doctors determined that he was paralyzed from the waist down. It was likely he would spend his entire life confined to bed, and the message to his parents was clear: Leave him here!
His parents...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-09-19
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In 2019, Alexander von Humboldt was very present in the media, as his 250th birthday was celebrated. Television programs, newspapers, and new books euphorically reported on a man who had achieved superhuman things. There was talk of the "Shakespeare of science," the...
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BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-09-08
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"My Life Over Half a Century" traces the journey of a courageous woman who faces life’s most intense and varied trials. After the tragic loss of her sister, Adelaïde Dide fights tirelessly to find peace amidst the storms of existence, confronting sexism, jealousy, and...
Editeur :
Le Lys Bleu Éditions
Parution :
2025-08-01
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Time Travel in a Jeepney.
A German-Philippine Journey Through Time.
Two brothers. Two cultures. One moving journey.
Christian and Andrew share openly, honestly, and with a wink their childhood between life in a Franconian village and summer on a Philippine island,...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-07-07
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Michelangelo's place in the world of art is altogether unique. His supremacy is acknowledged by all, but is understood by a few only. In the presence of his works none can stand unimpressed, yet few dare to claim any intimate knowledge of his art…Michael Angelo was...
Editeur :
EHS
Parution :
2025-06-24
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This book recounts the journey of a Hmong family from their province in Laos to the Paris region at the end of the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-04-30
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