Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Tougher Than Nails
by Amanda Flores
“The next day he came for my children. The time to go had come…. The river was very strong and very cold…. When I heard the sound of the helicopter, my heart pounded….” Choices must be made whether bad or good. I went from hot El Salvador to cold ...
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Off the Beaten Path
Autobiography of an Urban Planner's Sojourn Through Fourteen World Cities by John Lewis Taylor
Dr. John Taylor’s compelling memoir illustrates the life most people only dream of: traveling and living abroad while working in a profession that creates real change in the world. Off the Beaten Path tells the story of Taylor’s evolution from his ...
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Broken to Blessed
by Angela Dawes and Vanessa Sullivan
Have you ever looked in the mirror and not recognized the person looking back at you? Have you ever looked at your body and thought you were facing your own worst enemy? Have you ever thought you had hit rock bottom only to discover you had further ...
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The Secret Tribe
A Memoir of Resilience by Janet A Handy
The Secret Tribe is a powerful, insightful memoir about one woman’s survival from childhood physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Janet A. Handy offers a new perspective on resilience; in the moment of abuse the critical question of “How do I ...
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A Boy Kept Silent
by Robert Lichti
Robert Lichti started life as a happy boy, living on the family farm. Tragedy struck May 21, 1962, the day his father was killed and nothing would be the same again. Robert was there when it happened, but no one thought to ask the six-year-old boy ...
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A Nobody's Dream ... Came True
by Gordon Crossland
When Gordon Crossland was growing up in the 1940’s in Orillia, Ontario, the town was not about to embrace a boy wanting to be a figure skater or ballet dancer. Male figure skaters were so rare that boys’ figures skates were hard to come by. However, ...
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Beyond the Garden Gate
by Juliette Jensen
I wrote “Beyond The Garden Gate” to honor a way of life that has passed. And will never be again. There are many things that happened I never wrote about. I’m glad I was raised in the country. It has given me a different view of life. I had a happy ...
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Long Journey Home
A Prague Love Story by Helen Notzl
A four-year-old girl survives a harrowing escape across the heavily armed border of Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother after the Communist takeover in 1948. The family leaves everything behind to flee to freedom in Canada. Years later, as a ...
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Buckshot & Johnnycakes
by Allan W. Waddy
'Buckshot & Johnnycakes' is a heart-warming true-life story of two 11 year old boys who met in the Scouting Movement in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia and spent the next 56 years of their lives sharing one ...
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Far East Meets Far West
by Evelyn Marvin Millman
This is basically a very personal story of a mixed marriage during the early twentieth century when marriages between certain ethnic groups was frowned upon and indeed in some circles despised. Canada at that time was basically peopled by European ...
