BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Leonard Cohen

By (author) Christophe Lebold
Categories: History of music

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from ...

Half-Light

By (author) Amy Kaler
Categories: Travel writing
Series: Wayfarer

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler’s Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, ...

Halfway Home

By (author) Christina Myers
Categories: Biography: general

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.

Modern midlife is finding oneself halfway home but without ...

Beryl

By (author) Dustin Galer
Foreword by Judy Rebick
Categories: Disability: social aspects

Beryl Potter was a reserved working-class mother of three living a decent life, or so it seemed, when a harmless slip and fall marked the unravelling of everything that she had known about herself and ...

The Mantle of Struggle

By (author) Irving Andre
Foreword by David Austin
Categories: Biography: general

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under ...

There Is No Blue

By (author) Martha Baillie
Categories: Abnormal psychology

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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...

Instead

By (author) Maria Coffey
Categories: Memoirs

A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice.

 

Instead captures Maria Coffey’s adventurous life through her biggest decisions along the ...

It's All about the Land

By (author) Taiaiake Alfred
Edited by Ann Rogers
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Biography: general

Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist ...

Wrath of the Dragon

By (author) John Little
Categories: Martial arts

NO RULES. NO PROBLEM.

Bruce Lee remains the gold standard that all martial artists are compared to. But could he actually fight? World Champions in karate competition have gone on record to point out that ...

The Definition of Beautiful

By (author) Charlotte Bellows
Categories: Memoirs

Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s

Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages ...