Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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A Hotelier
by Gabor Forgacs
If you ever stayed or worked at a hotel, this book will take you to familiar places. The journey of an international hotelier is told through several stories, offering a peek behind the scenes. It also paints a picture of life in socialist Hungary ...
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Insatiable Annie
Reckless and Loose on the Streets of Toronto by A. M. Clarke
Do you remember a time before computers? AIDS? smartphones? social media? Can you recall when disco reigned supreme? smoking was common? young women hung out in hip-hugger, bell-bottom bluejeans and halter tops? you made calls on a payphone? Can ...
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The Blind Girl Sees
Seeing Through the Heart and Not the Eyes by Amber Needham
At fifty years of age, Amber Needham suddenly went from having perfect vision to becoming blind. Despite the life-changing tragedy of losing her sight and the frustrating challenges this created in her day-to-day life, she eventually came to accept, ...
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I Know a Little About a Lot of Things
A Chronical of my Life in Construction by Rick Tough
The book is a chronicle of my life and my life-long career in the construction industry throughout Western Canada. It begins, as my life did, in the 50’s and traverses through to this present day, reflcting on the many life experiences, challenges ...
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Memories - Short Stories of the Outdoors
by Bill Keller
Memories — Short Stories of the Outdoors is a diverse collection of real-life tales by a passionate outdoorsman. There are so many wonderful ways to experience nature. Paddling, fishing, hunting, skiing, traveling, or simply being outdoors doing not ...
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Poisoned Mind
The true story of Deidre Ann by Deidre Ann
Abuse moves in cycles. When you’re born into it, you know nothing else. Kindness, warmth, and love are foreign to you—it scares you—even though you long for it. When you escape abuse, it’s all you seek because it’s all you know. Deidre Ann lived ...
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My Love Affair with Fear
How Fear Enabled Me to Become Who I Was Created to Be by Brad Kilb
Brad’s life has been tested - his body ravaged by disease; his life spared during death-defying adventures; his fear as he speaks to an audience of 1,100. As tough as these moments have been, he shares his insights into ‘dancing with fear’. Brad’s ...
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Life of A Concubine's Granddaughter
A Baby Boomer's Story by Marie F. Chung
“Like a cat, I feel that I have lived through many lives—none of them sheltered. I’ve never had it easy, but then, I am not one to take the easy way out and I do not give up too easily. Actually, I have had more than my fair share of living, and ...
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You Have Control
by Steven Georgieff
You Have Control is a unique and highly personal memoir that delves into the author’s most intimate and painful experiences, and explores how they changed him with a view to freeing others from having to suffer a similar fate. After a successful ...
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When I Was 36
by Don Michael Wilson
This very touching book of poetry “When I Was 36” was written when the young author was trying to survive midlife and was sincerely trying to answer the questions that kept him awake at night. He was searching for deeper meaning in life by writing ...
