Biography & Autobiography
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An Accidental Philanthropist
How A Small Family Foundation Made A Big Difference by Winsome Dunn McIntosh and Howard E. Covington Jr.
This is the story of how a chance encounter led to romance, marriage, and a partnership covering a half century of creative philanthropy by Michael and Winsome Dunn McIntosh. In the 1970s, they began using an unexpected inheritance to expand the...
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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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Travels in an Upside-Down World
A Memoir of time spent in the People's Republic of China by Derek Geoffrey Sidenius
This is a book about discovering China from both historical and personal perspectives. It covers a five-year- period from 1984, when China's modernizations were just taking hold, to 1989 and the student-led Tiananmen protest that culminated in a...
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Reflections
Wisdom for the Young and Anyone Else Curious by Trevor R Shaw
Suddenly, here I am with most of my life in the rear-view mirror and not much road left ahead. I am wondering–ok, “What’s it all about, Alfie?” This is an attempt to answer that question and to leave something behind that might be of some use. At...
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When the Vibration Begins
by Sjahari Hollands
Most of the ancient myths and origin stories concur that before anything existed there was a vibration. A light. When I was 23, I was opened in Subud and began the Latihan, making a connection to what I believe to be that same vibration. My book...
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A Healer and a Builder
The Life and Times of Dr. John R. Augustine by Philip W. Augustine
A Healer and A Builder traces the life and times of Dr. John R. Augustine from his early years in Kitchener, Ontario, through his medical education at the University of Western Ontario in the late 1940s and early 1950s, to his years in Thunder...
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Where's my phone?
"Finding Life’s Treasures in the Chaos” by Darshani Ramjan
Darshani is a busy mom, human resources manager, entrepreneur, and nutritionist who’s constantly juggling a million things—until she loses her phone. What starts as a simple search for a missing phone turns into a laugh-out-loud yet emotional...
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Outdoor Magic
The Power of Nature Connection by Grant Douglas Linney
In Outdoor Magic: The Power of Nature Connection, renowned career outdoor educator, presenter and climate activist Grant Linney inspires us to connect deeply with the natural world. Through a wide array of personal stories, he shows that repeated...
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Speak Up and Fight
A survivor’s fight for healing, justice, and the power to be heard. by Kaylynne Venn
For as long as I can remember, I've been a fighter. Before she reached her eighteenth birthday, Taekwondo champion Kaylynne Venn had experienced 23 emergency room visits, 11 nights in hospital beds, and over 10 attempts to escape the pain of her...
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Les Attoquées
An Acadian Story of Two Women Who Lean On Each Other to Survive by Léonard LeBlanc-Buckles
For decades, Maggie was confined to her childhood home and subject to her abusive brother’s whims. On that rural Cape Breton homestead, stripped of her freedom and her autonomy, she retreated into the only safe place she had left—her mind. When...
