Biography & Autobiography, Educators
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100 Ways to Kill a Teacher
Cautionary Tales About Public Education in Canada by Margaret Aisicovich
What does it mean to be a cog in the educational system? This compilation of stories from a long and distinguished career in education will help those entering the field—or still in it—to understand the many pitfalls, heartbreaks, and limitations ...
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Reflections of the North
by Kirk W. Sauer
The Canadian north is still a mystery to most Canadians. What is it like to live in a constant winter temperature of 40 below zero, with barely 2 to 3 hours of daylight? What is it like to live in a community that lives off the land, where a caribou ...
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Dr. Benu Prasad Barua
Biography of A Regional Scholar by Banani Bably
This is a biography of my father, Dr. Barua. I always wanted to read story books instead of textbooks when I was a little girl. One day I discovered that I can tell my feelings and my surroundings in writing to my friends. When I got married to a ...
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Six Degrees of Freedom
Opportunities met. Risks taken. Lessons learned. by Peter Carlisle Hughes
Octogenarian aerospace engineer Peter Hughes identified 6 critical points in his life at which an important decision was required, and where the rest of his life could have been quite different, depending on that decision. In every case, he was ...
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Six Under After Five
Growing Old is Mandatory; Growing Up is Optional by Lowell Leffler
A humorous collection of short stories that will keep you turning the page Hop into the author’s DeLorean and travel back to a simpler and less complicated time. A time when the most advanced technology included vinyl records, transistor radios, ...
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The Life Of An Enigma
A Biographical Account of the Life and the Times of John Okogun Omovuon of Ewohimi (Ebhokimi), Nigeria by Joseph I Okogun
The Life of an Enigma is an engaging read about an interesting and memorable life lived under uniquely challenging surroundings and times. The book is also an anthropological, sociological, and religious inquiry into the cultures and traditions of ...
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Just Call Me 'Teacher'
A Memoir about My Career as a Correctional Educator by Rosemary Pineau
Teaching at all levels and at all institutions should be fun and rewarding. Teaching in a federal prison brings its own challenges and at the same time, its own rewards. Building trust between the teacher and the inmate learners is the first order ...
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Up To Me
An Autobiography by David A. S. Fraser
Here is a spellbinding autobiography by a Canadian author who has gone through a multitude of frank yet honest experiences that would qualify his lifetimes to rival at least half a cat’s allotment of nine. How does one experience at least six ...
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Jambos With James
A Mother’s View of Loss — Blessed to Broken to Blessed Memoirs of a Young Adult Son through the Eyes of His Mom by Mary T Heffron deBrueys and James Clifton deBrueys
While on a weekend vacation to see their beloved LSU Tigers play, Jim and Mary T deBrueys get a call that would stop any parent’s heart. “We’re calling to let you know that a boat transporting your son, James, and others has gone missing.” From that ...
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The Trouble With China
China since 1999, analysis based on four years in the Peoples' Republic by Peter Mitchelmore
If you’re interested in world economics, politics, history, or culture, you’ll run into China before long. Today’s People’s Republic of China is built on millennia of history and continues to influence present-day events—but what is the real ...
