Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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T-Bone
A Rancher's Story by Tim Brewin
Tim Brewin was born at Lethbridge in 1940, the youngest of 6 brothers and 3 sisters. He grew up on the family farm at Purple Springs, Alberta. He received his schooling at Hudson, Deer Park and Grassy Lakes Schools. He went to College at Olds, ...
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The Winds of Fortress Kula
The Journey of a Young Woman from Captivity to Freedom (1946-1947) by Dora Van Vranken
Five young siblings—three sisters and two brothers—face death by exhaustion, starvation or epidemics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. As ethnic Germans living there, the family had been arrested and their property confiscated by the ...
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Living Past Being a Victim
by Danielle Gallant Simms
Someone living in an abusive situation has to endure not only fear and physical pain but also feelings of isolation, shame, and hopelessness. Why is this happening? Why doesn’t he just leave? I can’t let anyone know what’s really going on. Danielle ...
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The Triumph of Social Democracy
Memoires of a Public Servant by Ajaga Nji
The Triumph of Social Democracy addresses the issue of participatory democracy particularly in developing countries that have survived party-state political systems. The book demonstrates the positive role that individuals can and do play in public ...
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Misfits & Supermen
Two Brothers' Journey Along the Spectrum by Steve Starger
The bond of brotherhood is hard to break, but a lifetime of dealing with familial expectation, bitterness, and psychological disorders can bend and warp it into something nearly unrecognizable. This story tells the tale of two brothers: Melvyn, the ...
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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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California Slim
The Music, The Magic and The Madness by Andrew J. Bernstein
There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors’ proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein’s California Slim aspires to far more than that—and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the ...
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The Tales of Doctor Harry
Retired Rural Family Doctor by Doctor Harry
How do you live life to the fullest and funniest? Harry Hall and his family know the secret. In his 57 years of medical practice, Dr. Hall worked in rural and remote areas around the world, from the Arctic to Oceania. He became a parent, then a ...
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I Am Tommy
On Stage and Backstage by Tom Wilson
The uncensored Insider Story of Three Decades in the Canadian Music Business. I was in a unique position. I was a musician who recorded hit songs and performed on stage in front of millions of fans. I was also an agent who met, booked and performed ...
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My Oyster
A life of traveling, exploring and becoming by Marilyn Bhadrena Restione
What takes a Depression Era New Jersey girl to an Indian Ashram, a Neolithic village on the edge of the North Sea, an Italian nunnery, to stand in the grotto of an ancient Greek Oracle and walk with Chaucer's bawdy pilgrims on their way to ...
