BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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The Art of Misadventure

By (author) Dave Brosha
Foreword by Curtis Jones
Categories: Biography: arts and entertainment

Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.

 

Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the ...

Shop Class Hall Pass

By (author) Karin Martel
Categories: Abnormal psychology

Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she is in a regularly scheduled, routine session with the department therapist to talk through ...

Dancing in Small Spaces

An unstintingly honest and surprisingly humorous memoir that charts a couple’s parallel diagnoses of Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia.

In 2011, Leslie Davidson and her husband Lincoln Ford were enjoying ...

Behind the Glass

The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to ...

Tuzo

Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.

In 1961, ...

Working for Canada

An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of ...

Lights to Guide Me Home

By (author) Meghan J. Ward
Foreword by Caroline Van Hemert
Categories: Travel writing

This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home.

 

Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed ...

Building Justice

By (author) Shauna Van Praagh
Categories: Legal history

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.

Ignoring early advice that he ...

Crude Genius

By (author) Gary May
Categories: History of the Americas

“An unknown and hitherto untold story of one of the true pioneers of the international oil industry.” William McGarvey was crowned the “Petroleum King of Austria,” dubbed “Europe’s Rockefeller,” ...

Our Voice of Fire

By (author) Brandi Morin
Categories: Biography: general

Winner, 2024 Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award
Winner, 2023 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Finalist, 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally ...