Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
-
Veils of the Heart
A Sufi Woman's Spiritual Journey by Munirah Maclean
Eastern and Western philosophy and experience clash as Munirah Maclean seeks to sustain her faith and values and find a place within the movement around the Sheikh. This far-reaching memoir follows Munirah as she converts to Islam, marries, and...
-
Remembering
The Life of a Simple Man by John McMillan
John McMillan shares his life story with sincere honesty - every humourous and heartbreaking moment. He was raised on a small farm in southwestern Quebec, the only son of a fourth-generation farmer. His early memories include details, anecdotes,...
-
An AVM Survival Story
Comeback Season! Jagger's Triumphant Journey by Janice Zatylny
While her son recovered from an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) rupture, Janice Zatylny kept a journal to document the daily events that transpired throughout their journey. By sharing her family’s story, she hopes to increase AVM awareness and...
-
The Chameleon
by JP Robinson
Born into a working-class family in England, Paul Robinson moved to Canada as a teenager. After training as a hairdresser, he soon owned a chain of popular salons in Victoria, BC, with his wife, Deborah, and travelled the world as an educator in...
-
My Happy Place
by Ujala Rizvi
My Happy Place is a collection of journal entries Ujala Rizvi wrote over several years to process the positive and negative events that shaped her life. Life can move much more quickly than any of us expects—especially when there are many big...
-
Chocolate and Sangria
A Story About Loving Neighbours by Anneliese Sawatzky
When an old man bangs on Anne’s door to complain about her noisy children, it brings her to tears—but also sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship. Determined to uncover the hidden charm beneath Stan’s gruff exterior, Anne takes it upon...
-
Go Fast Go Faster
An Advocate’s Journey by J. F. McDermott
Go Fast Go Faster is a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of a father’s love for his daughter, and how together, they continue to triumph over tragedy. In November of 1995, birth trauma left James McDermott’s daughter Mariel profoundly brain...
-
Escape from Transylvania
Journey to New Life by Zoltan Mihaly
It is 1984 in Communist Romania and Zoltan Mihaly is young, courageous, and frustrated with the limitations of life under communism and the Ceausescu regime. A member of an ethnic Hungarian minority within the historical region of Transylvania,...
-
The Athlete Whisperer
An Improbable Voice in Sports by Andrea Kirby
Andrea Kirby was not a former athlete and had no ties to television. Still, in 1971, this single mom talked her way onto a small television station as a sportscaster. A rare female in the all-male culture of her beloved sports, she was harassed...
-
Stories at the Kitchen Table
by Katherine Brady
In this captivating and often humorous collection of short stories, Katherine Brady recounts the true stories of her late father Terry, bringing them to the page from the table around which the family used to gather. The tales come from Terry’s...
