Biography & Autobiography
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Making a Mark
Becoming a Public Purpose Community Developer by Mark Tigan
Like a great municipal development project, Making a Mark is a book that delivers on multiple fronts—part memoir full of interesting stories and people, part field guide to public-oriented community development, and all compelling read. Author...
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Survive and Live
Domestic Abuse True Story by Adrianna KD
For twenty-five years, author Adrianna KD lived a double life. Around friends and family, she was happy—happy with her marriage, her few friends, her increasing isolation from her family. Even in her own home, Adrianna had to wear her carefully...
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Radically Wild
True Tales of Adventure, Wilderness Survival, and Hard Lessons by Scott Sunderwald
What happens when wilderness runs in your veins? From a wild child hunting for frogs and foraging for mushrooms to a seasoned mountain man working in the rugged Northern Rockies, Scott Sunderwald’s life is a thrilling testament to adventure,...
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Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
by Michael R. Gaudet
In 1979, at age 19, Michael Gaudet was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure. Thanks to a kidney transplant from his brother, Michael survived and later rose to prominence as a Canadian painter of monumental murals. Dancing With Rejection: A...
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Leaving La-La Land
Escape to Reality by Robert K. Bosscha
Rob is working on renovating his condo when his life is turned upside down. One fateful day, his contractor hears him collapse from the other room. When Rob awakens in the hospital, little does he know, his life—and brain—have changed forever . ....
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Mental(ish)
A Memoir of Insanity and the Search for Stability by Melissa Pang Howard
Mental(ish) is a raw and unflinching exploration of Melissa Pang Howard’s journey through c-PTSD, chronic illness, and medical negligence. Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder at nineteen, she unravels the experiences that shaped her before and...
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Up at Gabby's House
by Kimberly Friesen
For Up at Gabby’s House, we’re making brand new memories Please know my door is open, visit any time you please There are few things more special than spending time with those you love the most—or looking back fondly at the many wonderful...
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Timberland
The Story of William Perry: The Man Who Saved the Life of Henry Ford by Allen E. Walls
“A man came up behind Henry Ford with an axe and was going to kill him. William Perry grabbed the axe out of the man’s hands and then Mr Ford said, you have a job with me for life, and he did - until the day he died.” Excerpt from the oral...
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Zigs and Zags
A Memoir of Ventures, Adventures and Misadventures on Land and Sea by John Dowd
THE ARC IS WIDE, the zigzags are many in John Dowd’s candid and compelling memoir of eight decades of ventures, adventures, and misadventures—from his youth in postwar New Zealand to grandfatherhood on a Canadian homestead. In between, Dowd...
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Instinctive Measures
The Guinea Pig Soldiers and the Poison Pill by Stephen Beardwood
When the battle ends, the real fight begins. For Stephen Beardwood, the war didn't stop when he returned home from deployment. Having been administered mefloquine, a controversial drug that had not passed clinical trials, he faced a different...
