Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Chronology of Desire
by Richard Young
Few of us have lived a life as full of change as Richard Young. From his adolescence in Acton, West London in the 1960s through his time in Italy, Hong Kong, and then China, all the way to his later life in the States, watching his family grow,...
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Laughter, Learning and Gratitude on a Journey with Alzheimer's
by Marlene Loney
This is a book about Alzheimer’s that is funny, positive and heartfelt. The author Marlene Loney documented the twelve year journey with her mother in short stories and ultimately reframed the tragedy of Alzheimer’s into a positive life changing...
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Feel Again
by Nicole Clark
Young, freshly married, and pregnant with her first child, Nicole Clark is met with devastating news: she has cancer, stage 2B. Suddenly, amid the hope she feels for this new life, she finds herself face to face with death. This leads her to...
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My Song is My Testimony
Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton by Bennie Lucille Williams and Jacquelyn Benton
“I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you’re not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it’s your own story.” Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas—a city split not into two, she would argue, but into three....
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Many Voyages in Strange Crafts
A Memoir by Captain William Rodick
Young William Rodick was determined to go to sea, like his sea captain father. Even though his father warned him against it, William apprenticed with a merchant marine and boarded his first ship in Liverpool, England, at the age of fourteen. This...
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Farm Stories
Coming of Age on a Mid-20th Century Alberta Mixed Farm by George Rock
George Rock grew up in the 1950’s on a central Alberta farm that was very typical in some ways, but unusual in others. Thanks to the Rock family’s inherited expertise, knack for innovation, and openness to ideas from colleagues and hired hands,...
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Mennonite to Mainstream
Abandoning the Old Colony and Growing Up in Rural Canada by Judy Ann
In a family history that stretches back five hundred years, Judy introduces readers to life under Old Colony Mennonite rules as experienced by her parents and grandparents in rural Canada and Mexico. Despite this history, it took Judy’s family...
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Imagine Emma
A father's grief journey by Rick Johnston
Every year, 2,200 families in Canada experience the loss of a child under the age of fifteen. Twenty-five years after the sudden death of his two-year-old daughter, Emma, Rick Johnston has written Imagine Emma: A Father’s Grief Journey as a...
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From Nothing To 90
Failures, Successes, Betrayal and Overcoming Doubt by Will Klein
In From Nothing to 90, Will Klein chronicles his life from hardscrabble beginnings as an adopted child in a Saskatchewan family struggling through the “Dirty Thirties” to early success as a newsboy and onto great business achievement despite...
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Only One Way
Hold To Jesus Christ by Maria Joy
THIS IS A GRITTY STORY Joy is a naive girl, curiously lured in by forbidden temptations. Being enticed, she is vividly engulfed, entrenched by foolish desires. Crystal Meth and twisted love pushed Joy past her limit of sanity. A world...
