Biography & Autobiography, Women
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Annie
Where Did The Sunshine Go? by Donna Forster
Addiction, abuse, and evenings spent working on the street characterize Annie’s Story: Where Did the Sunshine Go? Based on real-life events, this fictionalized account is told from the perspective of the author, who volunteers as a street outreach ...
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Our Family Had Big Dreams
From English Schoolgirl to Canadian Scientist, and Expanding Horizons in Retirement by Jennifer Murphy
Our Family Had Big Dreams is a multi-generational story about working towards goals while living and learning along the way. Written with honesty, humility, and humour, author Jennifer Murphy’s memoir starts with the story of her parents in England ...
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The Hills Around Me
by Imtiaz Fiona Griffiths
A great romance and a life with horses form the lynchpins around which Imtiaz Fiona Griffiths’ nostalgic memoir revolves. Coming along for the ride, we have guest appearances by dodgy bookmakers, fast racehorses, slow tortoises, gregarious Jesuits, ...
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Unlimited Revisions
Exposing the Glitch: Confronting Female Complicity in Recovery from Toxic Relationships by Lorelie Friesen
By age fifty, Lorelie Friesen considered herself an educated woman who should have been living the good life. Instead, she found herself with a serious problem: how to justify staying in an abusive marriage. She realized it was time to look inward. ...
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One More Mile
Tested by Suffering, Carried by Love by Elizabeth Morgan
When I am honest with myself and God, I find that He stands ready to respond to every cry of my heart. This confident knowledge of God’s faithfulness fuels hope in my heart and gives me the emotional strength to carry on through chronic illness and ...
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Dancing Along the Needle's Thread
by Ellen M. Ehlers
You are invited to "Dancing Along the Needle’s Thread" with Ellen as she sews the fabric of her life together with a rich array of colourful strands. Inspired by her desire for learning and self-understanding, she weaves a personal tapestry with her ...
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She Called Her Joy
A sister lost and found by Tamela Georgi
"Who are you?" The mystery relative couldn't tell her. She was adopted. Tami had just discovered that she was a DNA match to a complete stranger. They were related. But how? Tami's mother, the family historian, couldn't help, either. She had ...
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They Called Me Alicia
A Memoir by Aracelly Contreras Borja
They Called Me Alicia is a true story about a young girl named Mercedes growing up in another time, place, and culture. Born in Quito, Ecuador to an unwed servant who could not afford to raise her, Mercedes is sold when she is four years old to an ...
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Lost But Never Alone
by MaryAnn Westgard
This is a true story of the life of MaryAnn Westgard in her own words and as she lived it. It is a story of how alcoholism can destroy a family and cause consequences that last a lifetime. It is a story filled with love, adventure, mystery, ...
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Between Blade and Bullet
The Mary Steinhauser Story by Margaret Franz
Mary Steinhauser is the only peace officer in the history of penal institutions in Canada to willingly offer up her life in the service of her country. It was during a 1975 prison escape attempt and 41-hour hostage-taking by three desperate inmates ...
