Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Emancipated Blooms
Petals of Resistance, A Voice Unburied by Amara Shores
In this heart-wrenchingly sincere and unvarnished memoir, Amara Shores recounts a story of breaking cycles, healing generational trauma, and finding freedom after years of silence. Born into a family still reeling from the generational impact of...
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Resilient By Necessity
A Memoir Of A Journey from Lost Child to Finding Strength, Identity and Purpose by Alan G Fraser
What does it take to build an unwavering resilience that can meet any of life’s challenge head on? Alan Fraser knows. At five, Alan walked seven kilometers every day to attend school—snow, rain, or shine. At thirteen, he got his first job—working...
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Behind the White Picket Fence
Life In the North with the HBC by Ron Gosbee
Born in the early 1950s, Ron Gosbee grew up in unusual circumstances: living in remote Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) trading posts with his father, mother, and his two sisters. As the family sustained their distinctive way of life amidst the...
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In the Company of Men
Who We Are And How We Become by Patricia Carlson
When Patricia Carlson walked through the doors of a men’s homeless shelter in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1995, she had no idea how profoundly her life—and the lives of countless others—would be changed. As the first female director of a...
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21 Smithfield Drive
Family Stories by M. Gail Stelter
21 Smthfield Drive is part family history, part memoir. Author M. Gail Stelter shares these stories across three sections: her parents' lives, leading up to and including World War II, her own childhood in the post-war years, and finally her...
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Carry Forward
Against the Tides by Truong Ly
On nights of flight, a mother pressed her son against her chest—through jungles, graves, oceans, and silence. She carried him beyond war and betrayal into a future she would never see for herself. Carry Forward is not only about escape from...
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Around the World with a Spare Pair of Jeans
My Adventures Along the Hippie Trail and Beyond by Jean Ramer
With nothing but a backpack and an open mind, Jean Ramer was ready to turn life on its head. Fed up with a career spent in a classroom of unruly children, Jean decided a change of scenery was in order. The year was 1975, and the Hippie Trail...
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A Mystic's Journey
Ashram Kitchen to Silicon Valley by Sandra Wales
For any one that has wondered about the meaning of life and why we are here, this is the book for you. Sandra takes you from her “normal” middle class upbringing in a typical white Anglo-Saxon Protestant city, to opening the window to the wild...
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Family Shattered
A Daughter's Heartbreak Through Elder Manipulation and Exploitation by Piper-Lynn
“So,” I would ask, again and again, “you actually believe this is acceptable? That it’s normal for a caregiver to become this embedded, this involved?” The worst part was hearing it from the people closest to me. “But your dad seems happy,”...
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Remembering
A 45 Year Engineering Career by John McMillan
John McMillan began his mechanical engineering career in 1971, joining Combustion Engineering (C-E) as a junior engineer trainee for a six-month probationary period. He describes what engineering life was like in the 1970s when there were no...
