We All Giggled

By Thomas O. Hueglin
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wa ...

Weinzweig

Edited by John Beckwith & Brian Cherney
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Music, Biography & Autobiography

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.

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The Arms of the Infinite

By Christopher Barker
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies

The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their ...

I Have a Story to Tell You

Edited by Seemah C. Berson
Subjects: History, Jewish Studies, Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Life Writing

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving ...

Florence Nightingale at First Hand

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history, yet questions have been raised as to her real achievements. Much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts ...

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale’s life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform c ...

A Duffle Bag, Close Friends and Lots of Memories

Edited by Michelle Fowler
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Biography & Autobiography, Battlefield Guides, Military History, Social Science, Women’s Studies

The foundation of this photo diary was a scrapbook created by Marion Swinton, from Hamilton, Ontario. Although Marion passed away several years ago, a caring neighbour kept her well-preserved scrapbook ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Ethnography, Social Science, Anthropology

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North.

A short biography is followed by essays describing ...

Bearing Witness

Edited by Kathryn Carter & Laurie Elit
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Life Writing

Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These ...

Leaving Fundamentalism

Edited by G. Elijah Dann
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Religion
Series: Life Writing

The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote an understanding of those who have been deeply involved in, ...