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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordinary Deaths

In Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, ...

Horses in the Sand

By (author) Lorrie Potvin
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Inanna Memoir Series

A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman?s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, ...

Woman, Watching

From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, ...

It Should Be Easy to Fix

By (author) Bonnie Robichaud
Categories: Biography: general

In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to ...

Unvarnished

By (author) Emily Carr
Edited by Kathryn Bridge
Categories: Biography: general

Culled from the handwritten pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal ...

Petit éloge du mouton

By (author) Thierry Pardo
Categories: Autobiography: general

Le mouton habite nos fables, il endosse le rôle du doux, du gentil, mais aussi du grégaire, un peu naïf, toujours inoffensif. Pendant trois étés, Thierry Pardo a participé en tant que berger à ...

Rien de beau sur la guerre

Le 30 avril 1975, jour de la chute de Saïgon, Maï Nguyen fuit le Vietnam avec sa mère et ses sept frères. Elle a dix ans. Dans Rien de beau sur la guerre, elle refait le chemin parcouru de son enfance ...