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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You Are Loved, You Are Enough
A Memoir about embracing life by Sheryl A. Oleksak
You Are Loved, You Are Enough is an emotional memoir of one woman’s journey towards self-love and self-acceptance. Sheryl Oleksak grew up as an only child in New York, with a narcissistic mother and a kind but mostly passive father. From a...
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She Never Stood a Chance
A Memoir by Karoline Chamryk
At some point in life, everyone will be forced to face their traumas and make the decision to either heal or keep repeating the same patterns. This book is for anyone shown a way of life that they never knew they could escape. Sometimes we get so...
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From Pediatrics to Medical Genetics
An Irish Doctor’s Journey by R. Brian Lowry
A chronicle of R. Brian Lowry’s long and full life, From Pediatrics to Medical Genetics: An Irish Doctor’s Journey spans Lowry’s experiences in wartime Belfast through his more than six decades devoted to medicine, and his role in the pioneering...
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I Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest
A Memoir by Elaine Ross
Elaine Ross grew up knowing she was adopted. Brought into a loving family on the Canadian prairies at eleven months old, she felt secure in the life she was given and the parents who chose her. For many years, that story felt complete. Gradually...
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Erasing The Five O'Clock Shadow
by Monica Miatello
A middle-class Roman Catholic Italian, hockey player, avid drummer, and popular kid, Monica Miatello (formerly Chris) knew she was different from the age of five. But it was the late 1960s—a time when information about gender dysphoria was...
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Resilience in Residence
A Story of Survival, Strength, and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living. by Ness Mickey
Ever looked at someone and wondered, How did they survive that? Want to know what it really takes to rebuild a life from the inside out? Resilience in Residence isn’t just Ness Mickey’s story of survival—it’s a guide for reclaiming your life and...
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Mindful Travel Sketching
A Memoir of Journeys Inner and Outer by Hiroshi Shimazaki
In this third and final volume of the Mindful Art series, Hiroshi Shimazaki explores what has always been at the heart of his sketching/painting activities, whether for academic research or for pure pleasure. Here he reminisces about times on...
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Little Big Boss
A Métis Man's Stories of Life in Canada's Arctic by Alex Gordon and Michel Lupien
Alex Gordon left his home in Caslan, Alberta in 1958 for a summer job in Wood Buffalo National Park to earn money for university in the fall. Little did he know this would lead to a 20-year adventure working and living in Canada’s high Arctic....
