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  • The Door is Open

    Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer

    par Bart Campbell ...
    Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Finalist, City of Vancouver Book PrizeLong listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015The Door Is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. In an area most renowned for its shocking social ills, and the notorious distinction ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Celia's Song

    par Lee Maracle ...
    Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory.Celia is a seer who — despite being convinced she’s a little “off” — must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews.While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Turn Us Again

    Called to his dying father’s bedside, Gabriel Golden’s life is turned upside down after receiving his mother’s journal. The journal chronicles his mother’s life in post-war Britain, her genteel upbringing and her eventual marriage to Gabriel’s father, a complicated man raised in an aggressive, Jewish family who drinks to escape financial worries. Gabriel is shocked as the novel reveals dark ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $20.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

  • The House With the Broken Two

    A Birthmother Remembers

    par Myrl Coulter ...
    Winner, SFU Writer's Studio's First Book Competition (2010)Winner, Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award (2011)Unmarried and pregnant in 1968 Winnipeg, teenager Myrl Coulter found herself at a loss. Unable (and perhaps unwilling) to support her child, Myrl’s parents forced her to give the baby up for adoption. After being sent to a home for unwed mothers, Myrl gave birth in a ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Afflictions & Departures

    par Madeline Sonik ...
    Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeFinalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-FictionNominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-FictionAfflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Shore Girl

    par Fran Kimmel ...
    Collections Livre 32 - Nunatak First Fiction Series
    WINNER of the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice award!Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth.The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen years as she grapples with her mother’s fears and addictions, and her own desire for a normal life. Through a series of narrators—family, ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Yesterday's Dead

    par Pat Bourke ...
    It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher. But she must leave school to help support her family, moving to the city to work as a maid in a wealthy doctor's home. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith and the doctor's ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

    The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

    Collections series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression?even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • (you) Set Me On Fire

    par Mariko Tamaki ...
    This is a story about college, about fire and also about love. Allison Lee is seventeen and off to college in the fall. So far, she's been in love once (total catastrophe) and on fire twice (also pretty bad). Both love and fire have left their scars. Looking a little more burnt chicken and a little less radiant phoenix, Allison takes up residence in Dylan Hall (a.k.a. Dyke Hall) at St. Joseph's ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $8.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • The Sasquatch at Home

    Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

    par Eden Robinson ...
    Collections series The Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    The award-winning Indigenous author of Monkey Beach shares tales from her family, her life, and her culture.In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's ... En savoir plus

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  • Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story

    The Elizabeth Hawley Story

    Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years that followed, she began reporting on the political and cultural events taking place in her adopted homeland for the likes ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Projection

    Encounters with My Runaway Mother

    par Priscila Uppal ...
    Finalist: Governor General's Literary AwardsIn 1977, Priscila Uppal's father drank contaminated water in Antigua and within 48 hours was a quadriplegic. Priscila was two years old. Five years later, her mother, Theresa, drained the family's bank accounts and disappeared to Brazil. After two attempts to abduct her children, Theresa had no further contact with the family.In 2002, Priscila happened ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD