Memoir and Biography

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Wild Fierce Life

Unflinching and heart-stopping stories that evoke a respect for nature both in its fragility and its power. Wild Fierce Life is a heart-stopping collection of true stories from the Pacific Coast that build ...

Gypsy Fugue

A life story sure to inspire a new movement of self-discovery and soul-searching for years to come. A story that captures a life richly lived, celebrating fantasy, passion and the ideals that lie within ...

Imprint

By Claire Sicherman
Categories: Memoir

The emotional unravelling of a mind, body and soul -- a remarkably new and original take on surviving the Holocaust three generations later. Imprint is a profound and courageous exploration of trauma, ...

On Mockingbird Hill

In the same vein of tree planters and lighthouse keepers, Mary Kelly flips the over-romanticized lifestyle of fire observers made popular by Jack Kerouac and shows us how lonely freedom really is. When ...

Whale in the Door

By Pauline Le Bel
Foreword by Elizabeth May
Photographs by Richard Duncan
Categories: Memoir, Environment

The hidden life of Howe Sound and the transformative power of Coast Salish culture and environmental science. An exhilarating mix of natural history and personal exploration Whale in the Door is a passionate ...

North of Familiar

In 1974, Terry Milos moved to rural northern Canada, to pursue her dream of homesteading. Following the seventies trend of the back-to-landers, she and her partner left the city life for what they imagined ...

A Quiet Roar

By Heidi Redl
Categories: Memoir

Compelling and honest life of a stubborn BC rancher living tenaciously in the face of her Multiple Sclerosis condition. The devastating diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease does not ordinarily ...

How Deep is the Lake

Curious about the previous inhabitants of the lake where her family has spent the summer for over one hundred years, author Shelley O'Callaghan starts researching and writing about the area. But what ...

What the Mouth Wants

By Monica Meneghetti
Categories: Memoir, LGBTQ+

The redefinition of family values as seen from the eyes of a polyamorous, queer Italian Canadian obsessed with food.

This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti's unique life ...

Ootsa Lake Odyssey

From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the western shore of Ootsa Lake. Like many early twentieth ...