Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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An Abnormally Normal Childhood
by John Case
First in a multivolume memoir, An Abnormally Normal Childhood follows John Case from birth to the age of eighteen, regaling readers with the details of his deeds and misadventures. While he grew up in a time of depression and war, John was largely ...
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Reflecting on WWII, Manzanar, and the WRA
by Arthur L. Williams
Through autobiographical and historical information, Reflecting on WWII, Manzanar, and the WRA provides a broad overview of life in California both before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, leading to the creation of the Manzanar War Relocation ...
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A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga
An Immigrant's Story by Joan Bismillah
Growing up ‘European’ in 1930s and ‘40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life … though marred by family tragedy. After she escapes her Victorian grandmother’s repressive upbringing to study midwifery, she comes face to face with the racial ...
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My Darling Patty
by Ellen Heenan Reddy
After her mother suffered a stroke , Ellen Heenan Reddy hastily packed her mother’s belongings and moved her from Michigan into Ellen’s Wisconsin home. Among those rapidly gathered items was a simple bag from Target found at the back of an ...
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In His Steps
The Life and Times of Wilberforce Cooper, Vancouver's Skid Road Priest by Peter J. Cooper
This book describes the experiences of the author’s great-uncle, Wilberforce Cooper, who was an Anglican priest ministering to the people of Vancouver’s downtown east side during 1921-1952. Reverend Cooper began his ecclesiastical calling in the ...
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George Works! Lad to Leadership
The Making of a New Canadian by George E. Daniels
British citizen by birth and Canadian citizen by choice, George Daniels pens a fascinating autobiography of a life brimming with love, loss, adventure, creativity, personal and corporate achievement and recognition by his peers, Parliamentarians and ...
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As The Bombs Fell
My Childhood During the Time the Nazis Ruled by Otto Schmalz
You almost never get to hear the other side of the story. What was it like to be a child living in Germany as the country descended into war? What did kids do while their dads were away fighting and the rest of the family was living in either ...
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Inside the Chisolm Trail
by Reverend L.D. Ervin
Janie [Mason] Chisolm…a descendant of a royal family who ruled Scotland between 1200 and the mid-1700s. No longer in power, the ruling family and ancestors (the Chisolm Clan) migrated to the Americas. Some of the “Clan” leaders, after settling near ...
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Losing My Country, Keeping My Soul
by Allan Glass
It was 1967, and life in America was the best. I lived and surfed in Miami, Florida, where the waves were as big as the bikinis were small, and every day was another party. The war in Vietnam was an abstract thing. We all knew it would be over soon. ...
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Sketches From Siberia
The Life of Jacob D.Sudermann by Werner Toews
A poignant biography of Jacob Davidovitch Sudermann, a teacher and artist from a Russian Mennonite community who, like so many others, fell victim to the bloodthirsty paranoia of the Stalinist purges and died in a Siberian gulag in 1937. Sketches ...
