Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Down Clearbrook Road
A Girl in a BC Mennonite Village, 1946 –1951 by Anne Konrad
From Alberta, a young Mennonite girl arrives in BC, a"promised land of fruit and relatives. The fruit, it turns out, needs pickers and relatives want kids to work. Even her imagined fabulouse "States" is across a border. Her parents buy a farm on ...
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Dream Catcher and Reconciliation
by Wallace George du Temple
Wally du Temple, who was a social worker during the Sixties Scoop of aboriginal children, presents a convincing case for the need of reconciliation with First Nations and also with Mother Earth.
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Enduring Art, Active Faith
3 Generations Create! by Robert G. Proudfoot, Norma Proudfoot and Annora Proudfoot
Enduring Art, Active Faith is a collection of short stories, essays, poetry, photographs, and depictions of artwork (prints, sculptures, and paintings) prepared by three generations of Robert Proudfoot’s family. A sense of reverence, celebration, ...
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Overcoming Adversity
Resetting Goals by Nelson J Fowlkes
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY IS A LIFE STORY of a highly educated military veteran and health executive who overcame an unusual childhood, inter-city life and challenges circumstances. Before the passage of Civil Rights, 1964, He, like many others, ...
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Tales From A**Hole Road
Our Journey Through Harassment by Tim Stevich
When Christine and Tim Stevich decided to renovate a unique old house they had lived in for over a decade, located outside a small, rural town, they thought they had made the right decision. After renovating it into their dream home, they celebrated ...
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A Canadian Childhood
by Carolyn D. Redl
Carolyn D. Redl's memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and ’50s captures, in the vivid memories of one girl, a way of life that is a vital part of Canada’s social history. But it is much more than a recollection of rural ...
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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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Sorrows Can Swim
by Ngan Huynh
This raw and powerful autobiography follows the life of a registered nurse who turns to alcohol to help chase away her demons brought on by persistent physical and mental domestic abuse, rape, workplace bullying, and deteriorating mental health. At ...
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334 Duckworth St.
by David J. Barry
A filthy alleyway, a run down cold water flat, a determination for a better life and the adventures of a dreamer are what this story is all about. Neighbors and eccentric friends combine to make this a very interesting and humorous read. Even though ...
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Shattering the Glass Heart
Finding the Magic of Possibilities After Trauma and Loss by Louise M. Brandson, Laura L. Brandson and Rhiann A.L. Hosking
This moving account of loss, grief, healing, and spiritual awakening is written and narrated by three individuals: Louise Brandson, Laura Brandson, and Rhiann Hosking. It traces the aftermath of the sudden death, in a horrific automobile accident, ...
