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The Wallowing Hour
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The wallowing hour is a soulful, artistic collection of poetry that touches on the loneliest as well as the most romanticized parts of life. It lets you in on a sneak peak of the author's deepest, darkest thoughts as well as the dreams she holds...
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In Retrospect at 15
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A pretty cloud of thoughts written by a white fifteen year old boy, living in America’s New England during the early 21st century. A celebration of youth and optimism. A testament to the adolescent virtue of ignorance. Just an art project,...
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By The Light of The Night
An Oromo Immigrant Story
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Life in Ethiopia during the era of Emperor Haile Selassie was bleak. The prospect of securing a job after graduating from university was unthinkable, especially if you were an Oromo and a Muslim who couldn’t afford enormous bribes. One way to...
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No Such Thing as Normal
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“Some of us never fit in… some of us were never meant to...” Life is miserable when you don’t know who you are. Nicole Robertson might appear to have everything: a loving family, a solid education, scholarships to prestigious schools and a bright...
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Holy Cream Puff
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Holy Cream Puff recounts the incomparable encounters of a young boy who revels in the joie de vivre of Maisonneuve, an East End of Montreal francophone community in the 1940s and 1950s. Charged with an abundance of humorous and mischievous ploys...
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Pathetica
A 1980's Memoir
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Dale was a shy Canadian teenager failing at school; Ryan was an American teenager pretending to be doing much better. Their unlikely "friendship" that started in the mid-1980's went on for five years of adventure along the west coast until it was...
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Plan to the Future
Simple Advice for Young People
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Simple advice for young people What does it mean to be accountable? Why is discipline important? Where is your education leading? When will life become meaningful? How can you be successful and happy at the same time? Answers to these questions...
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Growing Up Is Hard To Do
Reflections on your earliest beginnings to your late teenage years
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Growing Up is Hard to Do, yet there are very few comprehensive “how to” manuals for young people, to help them negotiate and understand what momentous changes occur on the winding road between infancy and adulthood. In this helpful, highly...
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The Average José
An Immigration Story
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Canada is a nation built by immigrants, and this is the story of one such man. In the 1950s, José Pires bid farewell to his wife of five days, leaving the island of São Miguel in the Azores and coming to Canada in hopes of building a life for his...
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Friday Memories
The Life and Times of June Friday MacInnis
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Born in 1931, at a time of ongoing change for Indigenous people all over the continent, this Ojibway Elder from Bear Island, in northeastern Ontario, started writing her memories so that her grandchildren and their descendants would know about...
