Biography & Autobiography, Women
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Chocolate and Sangria
A Story About Loving Neighbours by Anneliese Sawatzky
When an old man bangs on Anne’s door to complain about her noisy children, it brings her to tears—but also sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship. Determined to uncover the hidden charm beneath Stan’s gruff exterior, Anne takes it upon...
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Sole Runner
by Anim S.Swart
THE BRUTAL HEAT OF THE DESERT IN NAMIBIA. High altitudes, canyons, and rivers in Chile. Unforgiving terrain and temperamental weather in remote Mongolia. The cold of Antarctica. A duckboard course through twenty-four hours of daylight in Lapland....
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Returning Home
by Lillian Sam
A journey to strength, a journey towards reconciliation, a journey to the land: from residential school to Dakelh Elder, Returning Home is Lillian Sam's life story. Born in the late 1930s near Fort St. James, British Columbia, Lillian attended...
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Finding My Freedom
A Journey of Resilience, Hope, and Empowerment by L.F. Survivor
Finding My Freedom is the powerful memoir of L. F. Survivor’s deeply personal journey to self-empowerment. Having endured and survived sexual assault early in life, Survivor bravely shares the harsh consequences that her history had on her sense...
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The Girl Who Flew Over the Honeysuckle Hedge
Her Lifelong Journey of Coping and Healing with C-PTSD by J. Lauren Sangster
“I am brave in ways I no longer thought possible as my resilient part continues to move me forward… I know true triumph of the human spirit.” At five-years-old, young Janet raised out of her body and flew over a honeysuckle hedge. It was this...
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The Truth Is Negotiable
The Hidden Cost Of Saying Yes by Nicole Musgrave
There’s Always a Price for Saying Yes What begins as an exhilarating journey from Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands to Sri Lanka aboard the sailing vessel Hanuman quickly transforms into a harrowing adventure. The crew faces a relentless series of...
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North Country Lifestyle
by Jewel L Reierson
In 1975, Darlene M. Reierson, a self-proclaimed “city girl,” and her husband, Brien, embarked on what so many people dream of doing but rarely attempt: a completely off-the-grid lifestyle, eking a living in the unforgiving wilderness of northern...
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Indiana Calling Alberta
by Ethel McKellar
When her husband of forty-five years passed away, author Ethel McKellar was beyond grief. She’d lost the love of her life, her soul mate. While her husband’s health had been declining for some time, the loss was no less sudden, no less devasting....
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Amazing Stages
Memories from a British-Canadian actress by Marye Barton
Amazing Stages is the riveting memoir of actress Marye Barton who emigrated to Canada in the mid-twentieth century where she worked hard to continue her career as a performer and to work through the “demons” of her childhood. Ms. Barton shares...
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Life at the Top of the World
Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle by Sandra Saraka
'Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle' highlights the story of Maria Maki Anttila, a Finnish-Swede residing in the northern hamlet of Juoksengi. Born in a sauna overlooking the Tornio River in the late 1800s, Maria...
