Biography & Autobiography
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Failing Forward In Saarland
by Claudette E. Bouman
Failing Forward in Saarland is the memoir of a transplanted Canadian with Caribbean roots, venturing with her husband and their daughter into Saarland, Germany. The memoir describes the year the family spent in this small forested land tucked...
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Sex, Tears, and Orgasms
Sweet, Gentle and Yet Strong Within by Lawrelynd Bowin
Sex, Tears, and Orgasms is the true story of an African Canadian woman’s journey to become whole several decades after suffering the trauma of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and sexual violence as a child in Guinea, West Africa....
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A Lifetime Ago in Baghdad
An Armenian Family History by Zagheek Markarian
Armenians can make anywhere home. They have faced different occupiers in their home country throughout generations while still maintaining their uniqueness. They have also flourished culturally in several different countries. Chameleon-like yet...
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Jaguar Heart
The Courage to Feel, the Courage to See, the Need to Forgive and Heal by Anna Dodds
Jaguar Heart is the true story of one woman’s spiritual journey as she went from feeling completely alone and different and less than those around her to finding a connection with the entire universe. It is also a book about hope for those out...
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Rediscovering Muhammad Yunus
How the founder of the Grameen Bank lost his glow after the glitter by Mohammad Jabbar
In 2006, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus made history by bringing the Nobel Peace Prize home to the micro-finance institution he had pioneered, the Grameen Bank, based on the idea that micro-credit model was such a meaningful tool for...
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Befriending Your Inner Monologue
by Chantal Seymour
Have you ever noticed that tiny voice in your mind bullying you, saying you aren’t good enough, and leaving you feeling anxious or hopeless? It’s possible to change this self-critical voice, but before starting, we first need to understand where...
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The Art of Being Irish in Hell's Kitchen
A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78 by James F. Olwell
Amid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s—an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland—young Irish Americans in New York began to question what it meant to be Irish in America. Led...
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Stone Cold Tea
by Winn Bray Rathbun
In Stone Cold Tea, a beautifully rendered creative non-fiction memoir, Winn Bray Rathbun takes us from early childhood in small-town Welland, Ontario, where she was the youngest in a working-class family of six, to her growing awareness much...
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From Baghdad to Toronto
A Journey of Values by Yahya Abbas
In our increasingly globalized, interconnected, and therefore volatile world, how can we expect to find success in business? Faced with the precarity of our current economic situation, what can we fall back on in our pursuit of a meaningful and...
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Metered Moments
Diary of a Cab Driver by Nipun Sharma
Conversations have the incredible power to connect people. Even a seemingly simple chat can transform a stranger into someone you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Almost no one knows better the power that conversations hold than taxi and...