Personal Memoirs

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Half-Light

Par (auteur) Amy Kaler
Catégories: Récits de voyages
Séries: Wayfarer

Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler’s Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, ...

Halfway Home

Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.

Modern midlife is finding oneself halfway home but without ...

There Is No Blue

Par (auteur) Martha Baillie
Catégories: Psychopathologie

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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...

Instead

Par (auteur) Maria Coffey
Catégories: Mémoires

A compelling memoir about opting for adventure instead of motherhood, and the lifelong outcomes of that choice.

 

Instead captures Maria Coffey’s adventurous life through her biggest decisions along the ...

The Definition of Beautiful

Par (auteur) Charlotte Bellows
Catégories: Mémoires

Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s

Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages ...

How to Clean a Fish

Par (auteur) Esmeralda Cabral
Catégories: Récits de voyages
Séries: Wayfarer

How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home. Offered the opportunity to live in Costa da Caparica for an extended period, Esmeralda ...

Agent of Change

Par (auteur) Huda Mukbil
Catégories: Mémoires

In Agent of Change Huda Mukbil takes us behind the curtain of a leading spy agency during a fraught time, recounting her experiences as an intelligence officer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. ...

All Things Move

Par (auteur) Jeannie Marshall
Catégories: Mémoires

A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.

What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie ...

Crying Wolf

Par (auteur) Eden Boudreau
Catégories: Mémoires

It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.

After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain ...

Thick Skin

Par (auteur) Hilary Peach
Catégories: Biography & Autobiography

Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister In The Brotherhood, is a deep dive into the secret language and hidden culture of one of the most esoteric heavy construction trades: Boilermaking.
For more than ...