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  • The Inheritance of Shame

    A Memoir

    by Peter Gajdics ...
    Read the book that's getting conversion therapy banned in Canada Winner of the Independent Book Publisher Award, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction and the Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award. "Unforgettable... This book is appallingly appropriate in these times." — FOREWORD REVIEWS This resonant and acclaimed memoir recounts the six years that the author spent in a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Inheritance of Shame

    A Memoir

    by Peter Gajdics ...
    A powerful LGBTQ memoir of survival, trauma, and the unbreakable will to reclaim identity.At twenty-three, Peter Gajdics entered what he thought was therapy. What followed was six harrowing years of forced "conversion" under the control of a rogue psychiatrist, a man who used primal scream sessions, psychiatric drugs and cult-like tactics to try to erase Peter's homosexuality.Isolated in a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Parrot's Perch

    A Memoir

    by Karen Keilt ...
    The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but ... Read more

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  • Fixing the Fates

    An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies

    by Diane Dewey ...
    The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from ... Read more

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  • Saturday's Child

    A Daughter's Memoir

    by Deborah Burns ...
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  • The Mother of the Brontës

    When Maria Met Patrick

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    This biography of the mysterious Maria Branwell "portrays a woman of intelligence, social savvy, wit and strength as well as a love for books . . . engrossing" ( Historical Novel Society).They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Brontë in Regency England, let alone ... Read more

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