Biography & Autobiography, Business
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Kiss My ASSets
Women! Take your past and define your future in business and life by Kiki Rozema
Do you allow your past experiences to define your future? Past criticisms and failures to define the way you see yourself? Most of us do. Women especially. We feel torn down by the barrage of comparisons from a disapproving society, and too...
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A Life in Stages
Eighty-two years of living a good life, learning , working hard and enjoying the love of family and the companionship of friends and colleagues by Frank Farr
“The station where you begin your life, does not need to be your station at the end of your life. The choice is yours.” Growing up poor in wartime England, Frank Farr is an indifferent student, and once he gets into his rebellious teen years,...
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It All Started With Lasagna
The Life Story of Peter Mercanti and His Ingredients for Business Success, Leadership and Happiness by Peter Tassi
It All Started with Lasagna is a chance to get up close and personal with Peter Mercanti, a successful Hamilton businessman who came to Canada as an immigrant at age seven with his parents. With forthright honesty, Peter shares the story of his...
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Side Lake City
A Memoir of a Mennonite Boy Coming of Age in a Sawmill Bush Camp in the 1950’s and 60’s by Cameron Esau
Side Lake City tells the true story of a Mennonite family’s sawmill camp in northern Alberta. Set in the 1950s and ’60s, it is the memoir of Cameron Esau’s early life. As a young boy, Cameron’s father and uncles form a lumber business. But...
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Chase for Cocaine’s High at All Time Low
(Battle against cocaine being won?) by Tommy Khoa Dang Lieu
Law enforcement around the world have put a strangle-hold on the cocaine industry. As a result, drastic changes in the potency and physical properties of the cocaine available in the eastern Canadian market have occurred over the past 25+ years....
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'Happy' Norman, Volume IV (1989-1998)
Retail Treachery; U-Boats; Capers in Russia, China and the Caucasus; India Revisited; Two Beautiful Ladies; and Nyumbani by Keith J. Norman
Volume IV of Keith Norman’s expansive and absorbing life story takes readers through the period 1989 –1998. Keith is already in his sixties, an age when most of us are thinking about slowing down, but Keith, if anything, is speeding up! This...
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Those were the days of my life
by P.R. Beaudoin
"Those were the days of my life" is a book that relates stories to the reader, in a thoughtful, humorous and conversational way. The author colorfully communicates his life's adventures from a boy to a pilot, firefighter, father, entrepreneur and...
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Mastership
The Journey From Bankruptcy to a New Life by Master Lorne Davidson
In 1996 at the age of 48, Lorne Davidson declared bankruptcy and was forced to take a hard look at his life as a touring musician. With debts racking up and no answers in sight, he felt he had hit rock bottom. After a suggestion from his wife to...
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Off the Beaten Path
Autobiography of an Urban Planner's Sojourn Through Fourteen World Cities by John Lewis Taylor
Dr. John Taylor’s compelling memoir illustrates the life most people only dream of: traveling and living abroad while working in a profession that creates real change in the world. Off the Beaten Path tells the story of Taylor’s evolution from...
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'Happy' Norman, Volume III (1979-1989)
Volume III - Chasing Gold, African Adventures, and a Love Fest by Keith J. Norman
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man in Letters to my Grandchildren and Other Friends Anyone who studies contemporary history, business and management or aspires to succeed in life without selling out on their values and dreams should read...
