Biography & Autobiography
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The Top Two Per Cent
Or How the 2023 Christmas Newsletter Got Out of Hand by Randy Burrows
In a year when PEI was navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona and preparing to host the Canada Winter Games, Randy Burrows captures the essence of family life with wit and heart. The Top Two Per Cent chronicles 2023—a remarkable period of...
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Roots and Wings
A Story of Faith, Family, and Fortitude by Marisa Agostini
Marisa Agostini’s story is one of resilience, faith, and perseverance. Born into the post-World War II Italian town of Montalto Uffugo, Marisa witnessed the challenges of economic hardship firsthand. In 1958, her family left their home and...
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404 Years
An Auto/biography by Cella Anne
In the early seventeenth century, the sounds of the Atlantic whispering in her ears, Elizabeth Haney rides a ship bearing her from England to the burgeoning colony of Virginia, where she will join her husband, John. It is there that the two will...
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This Is About Life
An Intimate Story of Cancer From the Turn of the Century to Covid 19 by Leslie Elizabeth King
“I cannot live if I am trying to kill part of myself.” Over the course of 20 years, Leslie King survived breast cancer, endometrial cancer, and breast cancer again. In her selected journals, she documents the realities of cancer treatment within...
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Hoping for a Miracle
A Memoir by Lynn-Marie McIlvain
Hoping For a Miracle is the true story of Lynn-Marie, an aspiring teacher, as she embarks on a ten-year journey to become a mother. She faces heartache and uncertainty along the way. At times, loneliness and devastation are hard to bear. Despite...
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SISU
How My Mother's Fight For Her Death Changed the Course of My Life by Shaana Hamm
GUTS . . . INNER STRENGTH . . . GRIT . . . DETERMINATION . . . PERSEVERANCE. THIS IS SISU. What would you do if the healthiest member of your family suffered an incapacitating hemorrhagic stroke? And what if their recovery suddenly morphed into...
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Remnants of Our Life with Your Dementia
A Poetic Memoir by David R. Topper
A poignant account in poetic verse of one man’s journey with his wife, into the all-encompassing realm of her dementia.
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Robservations
by Robert Clark
Six sisters, two brothers, a Monty Python–loving mom, and a military father all add up to one very full and funny house in Rob Clark’s Robservations. Growing up in a chaotic Catholic household in the ’60s and ’70s was rarely easy—forced haircuts,...
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Trailblazer for Women’s Health
The Remarkable Life of Dr. May Cohen by Robert Sarner
When it comes to advocating both for women’s reproductive rights and the advancement of women in medicine, few Canadians have had more impact than Dr. May Cohen. Born to Jewish immigrants and Communist activists during the Great Depression, May...
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Mastering The Battle of Belief
Establishing and Sustaining Positive Belief by Lynn Nola Stadnek
Are you struggling to be happy? Are you not content with life? Do you find that you fight to be positive? Mastering the battle of belief gives you insight into how to turn that around and why it’s important to do so. Physically everything...
