Biography & Autobiography, Women
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I Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest
A Memoir by Elaine Ross
Elaine Ross grew up knowing she was adopted. Brought into a loving family on the Canadian prairies at eleven months old, she felt secure in the life she was given and the parents who chose her. For many years, that story felt complete. Gradually...
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Confessions of an Amnesiac
by Jane Sperry Jones
READ THIS BOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK! This book contains discrimination, emotional blackmail, self-sabotage, emotional pain, impulsivity, coarse language, scenes with substance use, sexual depravity, drug and human trafficking, childhood sexual abuse,...
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A Zest for Life
My Stories by Merrijoy Kelner
With this highly personal and inspirational memoir, author Merrijoy Kelner invites her readers to sit down with her in some quiet, comfy corner and be regaled with stories of her long and fascinating life—complete with great loves, tragic losses,...
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Emancipated Blooms
Petals of Resistance, A Voice Unburied by Amara Shores
In this heart-wrenchingly sincere and unvarnished memoir, Amara Shores recounts a story of breaking cycles, healing generational trauma, and finding freedom after years of silence. Born into a family still reeling from the generational impact of...
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She Never Stood a Chance
A Memoir by Karoline Chamryk
At some point in life, everyone will be forced to face their traumas and make the decision to either heal or keep repeating the same patterns. This book is for anyone shown a way of life that they never knew they could escape. Sometimes we get so...
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Erasing The Five O'Clock Shadow
by Monica Miatello
A middle-class Roman Catholic Italian, hockey player, avid drummer, and popular kid, Monica Miatello (formerly Chris) knew she was different from the age of five. But it was the late 1960s—a time when information about gender dysphoria was...
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Carry Forward
Against the Tides by Truong Ly
On nights of flight, a mother pressed her son against her chest—through jungles, graves, oceans, and silence. She carried him beyond war and betrayal into a future she would never see for herself. Carry Forward is not only about escape from...
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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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Get A Muzzle On Her!
by M. Carol Jamieson
On September 14, 1962, twenty-year-old Carol Jamieson’s world shattered. In an instant—a car crash on a darkened road—and her young husband was gone, leaving her alone with their one-year-old son, Sean, and a future no one that age is prepared to...
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To B&B or Not to B&B
How My Dream Lodge Became a Comedic Nightmare by Sue Marko
“We all go into the B&B business with rose-coloured glasses. Our enthusiasm piqued, we’re excited to be the best hosts we can be and with optimistic dreams of the happily-ever-after. Then reality hits.” Embark on a laugh-out-loud journey through...
