Personal Memoirs

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Open Every Window

By (author) Jane Munro
Categories: Memoirs

Open Every Window reveals the pain and power inherent in loving and being loved. A poignant evocation for anyone who has experienced loss, it will entrance with its lyricism and comfort with the writer’s ...

On Foot to Canterbury

By (author) Ken Haigh
Categories: Travel guides: routes and ways
Series: Wayfarer

Setting off on foot from Winchester, Ken Haigh hikes across southern England, retracing a traditional route that medieval pilgrims followed to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. ...

#BlackInSchool

By (author) Habiba Cooper Diallo
Foreword by Awad Ibrahim
Categories: Biography: general

#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in ...

Fuse

By (author) Hollay Ghadery
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Memoir and Biography

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the biracial female body and identity, especially ...

In Sight

By (author) Julia Levy
Categories: Medicine: general issues

In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gender bias in order to achieve academic and professional ...

A White Lie

The Women’s Voices from Gaza collection honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. In “A White Lie,” the first ...

Burnt Snow

The author, an Irish Immigrant, who for five years was partially raised by a Métis family in Winnipeg, heads north in a soul-searching mission to find himself and his place in life. The reflections of ...

Alone: A Love Story

By (author) Michelle Parise
Categories: Biography: general

Love, marriage, baby. Michelle Parise bought into the dream. But one day, her husband drops The Bomb and she’s suddenly alone. Michelle documents falling in love to the fallout of infidelity and everything ...

Menno Moto

In this memoir of an eight-month, 45 000 kilometre motorcycle journey across the Americas following his ancestors’ path south, Mennonite writer Cameron Dueck searches for common ground within his cultural ...

Casting into Mystery

By (author) Robert Reid
By (artist) Wesley W Bates
Categories: Memoirs

In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall ...