Memoirs

Showing 11-20 of 37 title(s)
Sort by:

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 ...

The Queer Evangelist

By (author) Cheri DiNovo, CM
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Categories: Christian life and practice

In The Queer Evangelist, Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (CM) tells her story, from her roots as a young socialist activist in the 1960s to ordained minister in the ’90s to member of provincial parliament. As ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pourin' Down Rain

By (author) Cheryl Foggo
Categories: Biography: general

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...

South Away

By (author) Meaghan Marie Hackinen
Categories: Memoirs

South Away is an adventure story of the author’s bicycle trip with her sister from Terrace, BC, along the West coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Meaghan Marie Hackinen experiences apprehension ...

Rising

By (author) Sharon Wood
Categories: Memoirs

In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without ...

Tiny Lights for Travellers

By (author) Naomi K. Lewis
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Wayfarer

When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom. ...

Nitinikiau Innusi

Born into a traditional nomadic family, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue came to international attention in the 1980s and 1990s when she led protests against NATO’s occupation of Innu land in Labrador. ...

Creating a University

A collection of memoirs by more than 30 former faculty and staff of Memorial University—a series of “MUNographies,”—about personal and professional experiences working at Newfoundland’s only ...