Biography & Autobiography
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The Chameleon
by JP Robinson
Born into a working-class family in England, Paul Robinson moved to Canada as a teenager. After training as a hairdresser, he soon owned a chain of popular salons in Victoria, BC, with his wife, Deborah, and travelled the world as an educator in...
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Dr. Danger
Life Story Of A Rural Veterinarian by Dr. Art Schatz
Dr. Art Schatz has been deeply involved with animals since he was born. During his childhood in rural Canada, his family had no local veterinarians nearby, so he learned to tend to the farm animals and turned that passion into a career. After...
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A Viable Suspect
The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case. by Barry Ruhl
For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario,...
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Money Grows on Trees
by Kimberley Z. Tent and Bryan Reid
Founder of Pioneer Log Homes and creator of reality HGTV series Timber Kings and Carver Kings, Bryan Reid believes that anyone, including the youth of today, can become successful in life and business with the right attitude and hard work. “If I...
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My Happy Place
by Ujala Rizvi
My Happy Place is a collection of journal entries Ujala Rizvi wrote over several years to process the positive and negative events that shaped her life. Life can move much more quickly than any of us expects—especially when there are many big...
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I am Saxon
A History of the Transylvanian Saxons by Karl Gagesch
I Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin of the Carpathian Mountains, the Saxons...
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Remembering
The Life of a Simple Man by John McMillan
John McMillan shares his life story with sincere honesty - every humourous and heartbreaking moment. He was raised on a small farm in southwestern Quebec, the only son of a fourth-generation farmer. His early memories include details, anecdotes,...
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Ripples from the Rupununi
Dr. Aidun's Healing Journey by Brian H. Cameron
Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millenia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of...
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Johannes Vermeer—Provocateur
Risk and Courage in Dissent by Neil Thomas Proto
The 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting mask, weaving the documented strands of terror,...
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Chocolate and Sangria
A Story About Loving Neighbours by Anneliese Sawatzky
When an old man bangs on Anne’s door to complain about her noisy children, it brings her to tears—but also sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship. Determined to uncover the hidden charm beneath Stan’s gruff exterior, Anne takes it upon...
