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Tales of the Wilnots
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Growing up in Scarborough (Toronto) in the early 70's was truly awesome. Neighbours knew neighbours, kids could stay out late and feel safe, school was fun, and teachers and students truly respected one another. Meeting and forging life-long...
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Teatime for Tyrants
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Eight ambitious Academics: a Professor, his Assistant and six college students embark upon an unforgettable safari through East Africa's Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They cross the Serengeti plain, climb the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, swim in the...
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Far From Raven's Cliff
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Born into the shadow of Raven’s Cliff, Gerry Edwards learned early that childhood could be shaped by silence, fear, and the hard lessons of survival. In a farmhouse marked by alcoholism, madness, violence, and grief, Gerry found refuge in...
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Walking Through Mirrors
From Calabria to "America": Growing Up Canadian in an Immigrant home
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In Walking Through Mirrors, his second memoir, John Dominelli returns to the rooms, streets, train tracks, and creek beds of his childhood, tracing his life from a fraught birth in an immigrant household to the threshold of the three-year...
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The Principal Chronicles: The Third One's a Charm
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David Garlick returns with the final installment—he pinky-swears!—of the Principal Chronicles. Like the first two books in this series, The Principal Chronicles: The Third One’s a Charm is funny and heartfelt. These mostly true stories show David...
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Larry's Lives
Tragedy, Trauma, Triumph
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The death march to Nazi-occupied Ukraine of tens of thousands of Romanian Jews is one of the most horrifying—yet one of the least known—of the Nazi’s wartime atrocities. In this gripping memoir, Larry Rotenberg, now in his nineties, recalls in...
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The Next Rooster
Chianti Classico's Next Generation
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The Next Rooster is a portrait of continuity in motion. Through 44 essays, it brings together the stories of families whose lives, vineyards, and futures are rooted in the hills of Chianti Classico, one of Italy’s most historic and dynamic wine...
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Through the Grey Skies
A Mother’s Journey of Grief and Hope
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“It wasn’t supposed to be this way.” Every mother carries hopes and dreams for her unborn child, rarely imagining a motherhood journey that veers so far from the path she once envisioned. Through tender storytelling and honest reflection, Megan...
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Gone Canucking
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In November of 2016, following the first election of Donald Trump, immigration lawyer Dan White looked at his wife, Susie, and five words were spoken: “We gotta get outta here.” Their move from Tennessee to Canada was a process of cultural...
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Charles Henry Chapman
The Life of a Comic Book Artist
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A prolific British illustrator, CH Chapman (1878–1972) is best known for drawing characters such as Ally Sloper, Billy Bunter, and the rest of the Greyfriars School cohort. In this biography, John C. Chapman explores his grandfather’s long and...
