Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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That Red Headed Yukon Guide and Trapper
by Terry Wilkinson
A Reader’s Digest of hunting and trapping Welcome to your vicarious wilderness adventure! With that red-headed Yukon guide and trapper as your leader, experience the joys and challenges of hunting and trapping … all without leaving your living room ...
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Busker and the Trees
Eight Decades of Struggle, Adaptation and Happiness by Adel Bishai
Like a busker juggling, we go through life balancing values as balls in the air...If one falls, the good busker picks it quickly up, resumes the performance and the audience applauds the skill in maintaining balance and harmony. Busker and the Trees ...
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Life Stories of a Glasgow Boy
My Story My Way by Edward Norton
At the age of fifteen, Edward Norton left school to become an apprentice ladies’ hairdresser at the top salon in Glasgow, Scotland. A few years later, he was competing in hairdressing competitions, winning awards (including a Scottish national ...
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Creeks and Crises
Then and Now by Hank Neufeld
Hank Neufeld has published an intriguing memoir which covers his early life as well as his retirement years. His boyhood, a time of confusion and surprising pleasures, hardly prepares him for his future, although Nature plays a wonderfully-intuitive ...
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Never Give Up
The Meaning of My Life - The Paul Rosen Story by Paul Rosen and Roger Lajoie
"I was ready to go away, to fall asleep, and to never wake up again. Paul Rosen was ready to do what he had told everyone else NOT to do for so long. I gave up." - Paul Rosen Everyone faces adversity in life. But Paul Rosen certainly faced more ...
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The Principal Chronicles
by David Garlick
The Principal Chronicles is a collection of funny and poignant short stories that follow the arc of one man’s life and career in education. These works of creative non-fiction—or, to be precise, of semi-autobiographical, pseudo-non-fictional ...
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Forever on Fire
A Love Letter to Never Fitting in by Angela Taylor
What does it mean to be wired differently? To be what experts describe as “neurodiverse”? Forever on Fire: A Love Letter to Never Fitting In explores these complex and sometimes confounding questions. Author Angela Taylor’s humanizing account of ...
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Love Anyway
A Mother Daughter Journey of Caregiving by Patricia Covone
A poignant memoir about a daughter’s life changing journey as her mother’s caregiver and the many challenges of caring for a chronically ill parent. Pat’s relationship with her mother, Anne, changed drastically when she moved in with Pat and her ...
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At the Garden's Gate
A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery in Growing a Sustainable Backyard Meadow, Working with Nature and the Land, Living the Wheel of Truths by Judith Dreyer
At the Garden’s Gate is the story of one woman’s personal journey in creating a meadow, when going “green” wasn’t an everyday word. As the author follows her passion to learn about medicinal and edible plants, a meadow evolves that supports ...
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Dawning Horizons
Teaching, Volunteering and Development Abroad by Henry Bergen
Spanning decades and continents, Dawning Horizons is a personal story – part travelogue, part political commentary. Bergen picks up from the final chapter of his first memoir, Four Years Less a Day – a WWII Refugee Story, and takes us to Africa and ...
