Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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100 Ways to Live a More Positive and Beneficial Life
by Maxx Coughlan
Growing up in Brooklin, Ontario, Maxx Coughlan was bitter, angry, and overtly pessimistic. As he entered university, however, something changed—the negative thoughts subsided, and he began to live the life he wanted to live. After almost losing his ...
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Like the Glide of a Dragonfly
Healing and Finishing Strong After Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing by Natalie Lehto
“How do you breathe when the waves are so rough and the water crashes in your face? How do you breathe when big wave after big wave hits?” A rebellious teenager, Natalie Lehto is pretty much a good-time party girl, until the day she discovers she’s ...
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Tales and Torts
Stories of a Country Lawyer by Robert B. Kearl
“The newspaper headline declared in large bold letters: “Shoot Out At High Noon.” Reading the first paragraph of the article disclosed the truth of the old saying, “don’t take a knife to a gun fight.” The man with the knife lay dead on the ground, ...
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Secrets of an Elusive Father
A Story about Love, Sorrow and Loyalty by Caroll Lesage
Everyone has their secrets but at what cost? When author Caroll Lesage was connected with his half-sister, neither of them could predict the secrets they would unearth together about their father. From secret love affairs and love triangles to ...
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My Early Journey On The Road Paved by Christ
by Indra Sasenarine
"Well done, good and faithful servant...." Matt 25:23. My Early Journey on the Road Paved by Christ is for all those seeking to hear those precious words of Jesus spoken directly to them. When in search of God's direction for their lives, it is ...
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Fumes and Fine Dust
Working Under Chemical Assault: Neurological Effects by Vilma Vitanza
In a sense this book wrote itself. Excerpts from journals written over nineteen years of workplace exposure to chemicals depict the images and struggles within a gradually deteriorating brain that had once been completely functional. The author's ...
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Whatever Comes, Eat It
Living and working as an expat in Russia, Bangladesh, Thailand, UAE and South Korea by Kathy Binns
In 2004, Canadian Kathy Binns was offered a job teaching middle school in Moscow. Thus began an incredible overseas adventure that lasted seventeen years. With humour, candour, and a keen observational eye, Kathy recounts her memorable experiences ...
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My Part Time Life
How My Long List of Jobs Helped Me Grow A Six Figure Business in 365 Days by Erica Marchand
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE to shift your own narrative and start that business you’ve always dreamed about! Take it from Erica Marchand – she took the long road to entrepreneurship, working at over twenty jobs before starting Bear+Fox Apparel, a successful ...
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Beach Music
Stories of a Barbershop Quartet by André Brillaud
Beach Music: Stories of a Barbershop Quartet is a collection of fun, memorable, and entertaining vignettes from the fifteen years author André Brillaud has been a member of the barbershop quartet, Beach Music. The group “sang on beaches, boats, and ...
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Circling the Edge
Listening to the Whispers of the Wild Soul by Wilma G Rubens
Growing up in a Scottish Presbyterian family in the nineteen fifties, Wilma is completely at odds with her inner world. Craving something she could not name and defying cultural expectations, she leaves Scotland. Her search takes her all over the ...
