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Meeting My Treaty Kin

A Journey toward Reconciliation

UBC Press, On Point Press

This intimate story of one settler’s journey toward reconciliation reveals the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change – decolonization not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time.

  • Publication year: 2023
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Drink in the Summer

A Memoir of Croatia

Athabasca University Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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The Fire Still Burns

Life In and After Residential School

UBC Press, Purich Books

The Fire Still Burns is a tale of survival and redemption through which Squamish Elder Sam George recounts his residential school experience and how it led to a life of addiction, violence, and imprisonment until he found the courage to face his past and begin healing.

  • Publication year: 2023
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A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • Publication year: 2023
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Indigiqueerness

A Conversation about Storytelling

Athabasca University Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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The Mysterious Stranger

Universitas Press
  • Publication year: 2023
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Under the Nakba Tree

Athabasca University Press

In this moving memoir, a Palestinian man recalls his childhood in Canada and the struggles he faced at the intersection of indigeneity, national identity, and marginality.

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Charlotte Delbo

A Life Reclaimed

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication year: 2021
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Able to Lead

Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

UBC Press

Able to Lead tells the forgotten story of the life of double amputee E.T. Kingsley, a pioneering politician, and labour and justice activist.

  • Publication year: 2021
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Emergency Deep

Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander

University of Alabama Press
  • Publication year: 2021
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Being a Ballerina

The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life

University Press of Florida
  • Publication year: 2021
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Top To Bottom

A Memoir and Personal Guide Through Phalloplasty

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A witty, practical and insightful memoir and guide to the emotional and physical journey of having phalloplasty.

  • Publication year: 2021
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Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution!

The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A picture book about the trans women of colour who started an LGBTQ+ revolution.

  • Publication year: 2020
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This Way Back

West Virginia University Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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rough house

a memoir

Oregon State University Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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The World through the Dime Store Door

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press
  • Publication year: 2020
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Caroline's Dilemma

A Colonial Inheritance Saga

UBC Press

This extraordinary book skillfully blends diverse historical evidence to tell the harrowing story of Caroline Kearney and her struggles against the paternalistic inheritance laws of the nineteenth century colonial world.

  • Publication year: 2020
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Stone Motel

Memoirs of a Cajun Boy

University Press of Mississippi

Dispatches from the childhood of a Louisiana son raised in a roadside motel.

  • Publication year: 2020
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XOXY

A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist)

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This provocative and life-affirming memoir, by one of the world's foremost intersex activists, charts the author's journey from discovering she is intersex through to self-acceptance and becoming an international human rights defender, and the impact this has had on her personal and family life.

  • Publication year: 2020
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The Shoe Boy

A Trapline Memoir

UBC Press, Purich Books

The Shoe Boy is an evocative exploration of Indigenous identity and connection to the land, expressed in guise of a unique coming-of-age memoir set on a trapline in northern Quebec.

  • Publication year: 2020
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The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

University Press of Mississippi

A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life.

  • Publication year: 2020
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Everything is Relevant

Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018

Concordia University Press

A compelling and illuminating collection of Canadian artist Ken Lum’s diverse writings from the early 1990s to the present.

  • Publication year: 2019
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Bootstraps Need Boots

One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada

UBC Press, On Point Press

In this deeply personal memoir, Hugh Segal looks back on a life that took him from childhood poverty to the heights of Canadian politics and how these early experiences shaped his life-long advocacy for the poor.

  • Publication year: 2019
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A World without Martha

A Memoir of Sisters, Disability, and Difference

UBC Press, Purich Books

A World without Martha is an unflinching yet compassionate memoir of how one sister’s institutionalization for intellectual disability in the 1960s affected the other, sending them both on separate but parallel journeys shaped initially by society’s inability to accept difference and later by changing attitudes towards disability, identity, and inclusion.

  • Publication year: 2019
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Journey to the Center of the Mind

Health and Happiness through the Eyes of a World-Renowned Neurosurgeon

Universitas Press

Amidst the personal reminiscences of a world-renowned neurosurgeon and professor lie the knowledge and wisdom of a happy and fulfilling life, something we look for ourselves.

  • Publication year: 2019
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

Athabasca University Press

A poetic setting of a World War I soldier's diary.

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The Last Suffragist Standing

The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson

UBC Press

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician and an illuminating work on the history of feminism, socialism, internationalism, and activism in Canada.

  • Publication year: 2018
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Yuan Shikai

A Reappraisal

UBC Press

This first major comprehensive study of Yuan Shikai in more than half a century explores the controversial life of one of the most important figures in China’s transition from empire to republic.

  • Publication year: 2018
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Amma’s Daughters

A Memoir

Athabasca University Press
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The Constant Liberal

Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left

UBC Press

Challenging interpretations of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as either the founder of a progressive Canada or an unavowed and destructive socialist, this book argues that he was in fact a staunch defender of capitalist values who helped make the country more conservative.

  • Publication year: 2018
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