Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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Beyond Tribal
Reflections on Belonging by Anne Carr
Like most immigrants, Anne Carr and her husband, Geoffrey, adjusted their world view when they emigrated from Britain to Canada in the 1960s. The differences they found in their new country took them out of their comfort zone and made them question ...
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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 period ...
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All About Me
The Individual by Sotirios Majoros
When Sotirios Majoros’s thirteen-year-old daughter asked him a seemingly simple question, “What is life?”, little did she realize the explosion of thoughts and ideas that she would set off in her father’s mind. To answer her question, Sotirios found ...
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Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
by Judy A. Brulotte
A childhood memory of life on the farm in the 1920's through the 1960's--- Kerosene lamps, wood burning stove and furnace and dugout water. Dad's English roots and Mom's French roots, a family of eight children including the Friday child. The farm ...
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Honor Dishonored
by Don Garrett
Honor Dishonored is the true story of a platoon of young American Marines, serving honorably in a war that unfairly became synonymous with brutality and dishonor. While returning veterans of other military engagements were touted as heroes and ...
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The Surgeon's Apprentice
by John Case
Second in a multivolume memoir, The Surgeon’s Apprentice follows a young John Case through his medical and then surgical training in an era when penicillin was a new wonder drug. John’s experience training at two universities and eight hospitals ...
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I, Atsu
by Atsushi Uyeda and Teruko Uyeda
I was born in 1931 with cerebral palsy. At that time people with my condition did not live for long, or were institutionalized. Thanks to the loving kindness of my parents and family I have lived a long time. This book is a tribute to all parents ...
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The Abbotts
A Devonshire Immigrant Family in Canada. by Gail Ferguson
The Abbotts: a Devonshire immigrant family in Canada explores the history of a large middle class family who made the decision to emigrate from Devon, England to settle in south western Ontario in the 19th century. The choice to emigrate was not ...
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Out of the Ruins
Growing Up in Post-War Germany by Otto Schmalz
Like all other German cities, Hannover, West Germany, was in physical and economic ruin when the Second World War came to a close in 1945. Many of the war’s hardships continued for German citizens in the post-war years, and it was exceedingly ...
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Above the Pigsty
by Peter Van Essen
In 1943 Peter, a 21-year-old Dutch citizen, faces a choice: forced labour in Germany or go into hiding with the help of the resistance movement. After the war he faces another choice: remain in the Netherlands or emigrate from the war-torn country. ...
