Memoirs

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Bridging Two Worlds

By (author) Martin Hoffman
Categories: The Holocaust

This is a rare account of the horrors of the World War II death camps from someone who experienced them. Fourteen-year-old Martin Hoffman escapes immediate death on arrival at Auschwitz by claiming to ...

zéro douze

By (author) Marie Chouinard
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Poésie

Eleven years after her first poetry book, Marie Chouinard comes back to writing with a story inspired by her early years, from zero to twelve years old. With a lot of humor and tenderness, Marie Chouinard ...

Sea Over Bow

By (author) Linda Kenyon
Categories: Memoirs

When her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon vowed to never risk a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man who convinced her to sail across the ocean with him. There are the ...

The Suitcase and the Jar

By (author) Becky Livingston
Categories: Memoirs

When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional turn. Rachel, an avid traveller, had one wish: to keep exploring the ...

Excessive Force

By (author) Alok Mukherjee & Tim Harper
Categories: Biography: general

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

Wild Fierce Life

By (author) Joanna Streetly
Categories: Memoirs

Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping and vivid portrait of life on the continental edge and one woman’s evolving place within it. Streetly’s vivid storytelling evokes a sincere respect for nature, ...

The World's Most Travelled Man

By (author) Mike Spencer Bown
Categories: Memoirs

The World’s Most Travelled Man is an eye-opening account of the universal human experience as seen from each corner of the changing world. Blending a romantic connection to nature through solitude and ...

The Dragon Run

By (author) Tony Robinson-Smith
Categories: Travel and holiday
Series: Wayfarer

From the mystical kingdom of Bhutan, a memoir about running, teaching, and what really matters.

Brit by origin, Canuck by marriage, Tony Robinson-Smith couldn’t imagine that he, his wife, 10 Bhutanese ...

A Blue Puttee at War

By (author) Sydney Frost
Edited by Edward Roberts
Categories: Memoirs

With never-before-seen photos and stories from World War I, Sydney Frost’s memoir is unique. It is the most complete account of the First World War by any member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment of ...

The Oil Man and the Sea

With Enbridge Inc. 's Northern Gateway proposal nearing approval, supertankers loaded with two million barrels of bitumen each may soon join herring, humpbacks and salmon on their annual migration through ...