Autobiography: General
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Snippets from the Trenches
Freda Wagman (US)£18.99| /"The really extraordinary thing about this book is that it tells the story of how one mother embarked on her feverish course of involvement in the ...
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Snow Bodies
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...
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Soul to Soul
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel's life collapsed. Two and a half years later, her struggle to find mean...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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Survivors
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This is not just another Holocaust photo album. It is a special work that confirms optimism and vitality. It deals with the cycle of life and its w...
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Take It Lying Down
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Fisher Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /It's 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, ...
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The Legendary Betty Frank
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /She grew up playing on log booms and living in float houses, and at nine years old she learned to shoot a rifle and hunt game. Strong-willed and in...
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The Ranch on the Cariboo
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...
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The Trouble with Lions
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the...
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Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Emma Minde's portraits of the family into which she was given in marriage more than sixty years ago are instructive and touching. She offers rare i...
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They Called Me Otherwise
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£12.99| /The Scots conquered the world. They just forgot to tell anyone about it. This book remedies that situation. Packed with humour and wisdom, it is at...
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Those Who Know
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The elders in this book have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they ...
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To the Summit
Massey University Press£30.99| /This is the inspirational, motivational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to life in the mountain...
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Trail to the Interior
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cas...
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Very Big Journey
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£18.99| /When that good old horse took me away from Borroloola on the long journey to Darwin, it changed my life forever ... I stopped being an Aboriginal g...
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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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Waiting for Eli
Acadian House Publishing£17.99| /Waiting For Eli: A Father's Journey from Fear to Faith is a 176-page hardcover book about a Lafayette, La., couple and their infant son Eli who was...
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Wings of the North
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /This is a true story about bush pilots flying in Northern British Columbia. From beside a fleecy cloud where the icy mountain top hides a rising su...
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Women of Brave Mettle
Caitlin Press (CA)£17.99| /In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...
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Yes I Would Love Another Glass of Tea
Blue Dome Press (US)£15.99| /CD Audiobook + mp3 file. "Yes, I Would..." comprises a series of imaginary letters written to Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Embassy Letters were ...
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Yukon Tears and Laughter
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£14.99| /Born in the small, northern community of Whitehorse, before the building of the Alaska Highway, Joyce Yardley"™s childhood was full of friends, fam...
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