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Télécharger le livre :  Watermelon Syrup
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Watermelon Syrup


Di Brandt , Jane Finlay-Young , Annie Jacobsen


Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two...

Parution : 2009-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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11,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Water Lily Pond
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The Water Lily Pond


Han Z. Li


This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife...

Parution : 2009-10-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen of Peace Room
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The Queen of Peace Room


Magie Dominic


What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a...

Parution : 2009-10-21
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Pursuing Giraffe
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Pursuing Giraffe


Anne Innis Dagg


In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying...

Parution : 2009-08-04
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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13,99
Télécharger le livre :  Broad Is the Way
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Broad Is the Way


Margaret Norquay


In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven...

Parution : 2009-08-03
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Must Write
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Must Write


Edna Staebler , Christl Verduyn


Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the...

Parution : 2009-08-03
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Food That Really Schmecks
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Food That Really Schmecks


Edna Staebler


In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks. Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a...

Parution : 2009-08-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Leaving Fundamentalism
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Leaving Fundamentalism


G. Elijah Dann


In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called “culture wars,” this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services,...

Parution : 2009-07-30
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  163256
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163256


Michael Englishman


163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and...

Parution : 2009-07-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming My Mother’s Daughter
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Becoming My Mother’s Daughter


Erika Gottlieb


Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the...

Parution : 2009-07-19
Format(s) : ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Where I Come From
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Where I Come From


Vijay Agnew


“Where do you come from?” When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been...

Parution : 2006-01-01
Format(s) : PDF
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Memoirs from Away
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Memoirs from Away


Helen M. Buss


How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada...

Parution : 2006-01-01
Format(s) : PDF
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  And Peace Never Came
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And Peace Never Came


Elisabeth M. Raab


“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the...

Parution : 1997-01-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Collection : Life Writing
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