Biography & Autobiography, Historical
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Behind Closed Doors
Abuse, Survival, and Endurance at the Lourdes Home Orphanage by Clare L.D. White
Please take good care of my baby, thinks Maggie, as she places Dorita in the arms of a nun at the Lourdes Home orphanage in Gozo, Malta. The young mother has no way of knowing that Lourdes Home will eventually become notorious, its name...
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21 Smithfield Drive
Family Stories by M. Gail Stelter
21 Smthfield Drive is part family history, part memoir. Author M. Gail Stelter shares these stories across three sections: her parents' lives, leading up to and including World War II, her own childhood in the post-war years, and finally her...
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Journey With Foolish Trust
by Shirley Dyck Fraser
Journey With Foolish Trust is an insightful exploration of Mennonite heritage and faith, blending personal narrative with historical context. Shirley Dyck Fraser begins by sharing the story of her family’s life in rural Canada, offering a glimpse...
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The Broken Furrow
The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada by Jeffrey R. Thomas
If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic. From his childhood...
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Memoir of a Bourgeois Hippy
by Gene Anthony Mascardelli
Memoir of a Bourgeois Hippy is a rollicking coming of age tale chronicling the life of a spunky small town Canadian boy who discovers his bohemian and artistic tribe first in a small record and bookstore in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, then lands in...
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Timberland
The Story of William Perry: The Man Who Saved the Life of Henry Ford by Allen E. Walls
“A man came up behind Henry Ford with an axe and was going to kill him. William Perry grabbed the axe out of the man’s hands and then Mr Ford said, you have a job with me for life, and he did - until the day he died.” Excerpt from the oral...
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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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The Soldier, the Spy, and the Orphan
Fragments of Poland's Wartime History by Anna Brychcy
Amid the upheaval of two world wars, three individuals found themselves at the heart of Poland’s struggle for survival. Their extraordinary stories, shaped by war, resistance, and resilience, offer a deeply personal perspective on Poland’s...
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Dieppe, My Prison
by Jean-Guy Nadeau and Martin Chaput
Dieppe, My Prison follows the harrowing wartime account of Jacques Nadeau as told by Matin Chaput and Jacques’ son, Jean-Guy, from his early life and military enrolment in 1941 through his training and transport to England where he waited to be...
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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...
