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2018., Scribner Call No: Bio E29c Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners--an act of generosity that would later save her life. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March. When the American troops liberated the camps in 1945 they found Edie barely alive in a pile of corpses. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor's guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past ... Today, at ninety years old, Edie is a renowned psychologist and speaker who specializes in treating patients suffering from traumatic stress disorders. She ... weaves her remarkable personal account of surviving the Holocaust and overcoming its ghosts of anger, shame, and guilt with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom ..."--Jacket.
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2019., Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Call No: Bio P887e Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"--and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power's distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official." -- From Amazon.com summary.
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2020., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: 920.071 M286e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBCs 'The National', comes a collection of first-person stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation - kindness, compassion, courage, and freedom - and inspire us to do the same. Mansbridge lives in Stratford, ON.
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2009., Lyons Press Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Overdrive collection.Summary Note: She had no choice in the matter--none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron--one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult engaged in a blood feud with his brother that, from 1972 to 1988, claimed up to two dozen lives and led one prosecutor to call their descendents a "Lord of the Flies generation." In this book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work, "Favorite Wife" is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity.
![Favorite wife [eBook] : escape from polygamy](/Library/images/~imageCT81090.JPG "Favorite wife [eBook] : escape from polygamy")
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2022., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: IND Bio C128h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano, who wrote his memoir under the mentorship of Lee Maracle, delivers an unforgettable memoir about a family that tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations. It unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity. Caetano is a writer of Anishinaabe and Portuguese descent and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. Originally from Orillia, ON, he now lives in Toronto, ON.
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-- How we sold our house, created a new life, and saw the world.2014., Sourcebooks, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: The author recounts how she and her husband decided to sell their house and live abroad full-time, making their way from Mexico to Turkey to Italy, and everywhere in between.
![Home sweet anywhere [eBook] : how we sold our house, created a new life, and saw the world](/Library/images/~imageCT78527.JPG "Home sweet anywhere [eBook] : how we sold our house, created a new life, and saw the world")
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[2019]., Random House Publishing Group Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. In this book, Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society." --
![How to be an antiracist [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101067.JPG "How to be an antiracist [eBook]")
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2018., William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Bio M956h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left. The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque -- by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful -- lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those ruminations are transformed when, in the wake of their deaths, Kate uncovers long-kept secrets that challenge her understanding of the unconventional Irish Catholic household in which she was raised. How to Forget is a considered portrait of a mother and a father, an emotionally powerful memoir that demonstrates how love fuses children and parents, and an honest examination of family, memory, and indelible loss."--
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2019., Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Call No: Bio B531i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Much has been written by others about the relationship Irving Layton and Harriet Bernstein shared, and most of it is inaccurate. This book tells the true story, and in so doing provides a look into the CanLit scene between 1974-1981. Students and admirers of Layton’s work will discover the genesis of many poems; other readers will find a unique and powerful love story, one that also probes issues of feminism, creativity, and self-creation." --Provided by publisher.
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2021., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Bio T455l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'Life in the City of Dirty Water' by activist Clayton Thomas-Muller is a memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy and offers a narrative and vision of healing and responsibility. Muller is a member of the Treaty #6 based Mathias Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan located in Northern Manitoba.
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2019., Tellwell Talent Call No: QWF Bio S362m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tommy Schnurmacher has written a book that could change your life. It changed his. As a writer, Montreal media icon Schnurmacher is an intense force of nature, a seismic swell of visceral empathy, laser-sharp wit and courageous self-analysis. Now meet Olga. Auschwitz prisoner A-25057, aka Mom, A fearless, dramatic and unpredictable maverick. An original. Exposing the souls of a family for all to see, Make-up Tips from Auschwitz is an addictive page-turner. Schnurmacher's voice resonates with a lyrical cadence all his own and an unsettling candor reminiscent of humorist David Sedaris and essayist Augusten Burroughs. Like the Oscar-winning film, Life is Beautiful, Schnurmacher revisits the Holocaust with rays of light in the darkness. Sparkling with chutzpah and charm, this is a story of a family's cultural collision and delightful dysfunction. With the growing pains of Shtisel, the earthiness of The Simpsons and the fierce family loyalty of The Sopranos, these newcomers from Hungary defy authority. They figured out early on that conventional values were not enough. It was their moxie that allowed them to succeed. Schmooze with the passing parade that includes John Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor and Crystal Nacht. You will laugh out loud as you meet a cast of supporting characters who redefine eccentric: the 50-minute therapist, the psychic rabbi and a superstitious hypochondriac named Paris. Once you get to know these mutineers from the mainstream, you will want to organize an intervention. Or at least a Passover Seder.
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2019., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Bio G685m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)"--
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2019., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives — a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys — she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
![Maybe you should talk to someone [eBook] : a therapist, HER therapist, and our lives revealed](/Library/images/~imageCT100550.JPG "Maybe you should talk to someone [eBook] : a therapist, HER therapist, and our lives revealed")
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2019., Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: Bio T367m Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A devastatingly honest memoir that reckons with the past in order to ask whether the things that happen to us--and the choices we make--dictate the people that we become. Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent early years of Yasuko Thanh's life, from a rough childhood to her teen years as a sex worker to her emergence as a writer. Growing up in a housing project in Victoria, BC, Thanh rebels against her extremely religious parents. She's an honours student, but also a nascent delinquent, cutting herself and getting arrested for shoplifting. By fifteen her parents have kicked her out. She runs away repeatedly from foster homes, acquiring a taste for drugs and alcohol and learning unlikely lessons about sex, power, and friendship. By the time she enters the world of sex work she feels completely abandoned--by her family, her friends, her school, and society. After a stint in jail at sixteen, she meets her pimp, Jesse, and falls in love. The next chapter of her life takes us from the motel rooms of Victoria to the streets of Vancouver, as Thanh endures further hardship: beatings, arrests, Jesse's crack cocaine addiction, and an unwanted pregnancy. It's the act of writing that ultimately becomes a solace from her suffering--but even as publication and awards bolster her, she remains haunted by her past."--.
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2019., Biblioasis Call No: QWF Bio O54m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies Mostar, a medieval town on the banks of the emerald Neretva, which flows from the "valley of sugared trees" through sunny hills to reach the Adriatic Sea. This idyllic locale is where Maya Ombasic's life begins, but when civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia and the bombs begin to fall. Her family is exiled to Switzerland, and after a failed attempt to return, they leave again for Canada. While Maya adapts to their uprootings, her father never recovers from the trauma, refusing even to learn the language of his new country. Mostarghia, a portmanteau of "Mostar" and "nostalgia", centers around Ombasic's often explosive relationship with her father, who was both influence and psychological burden: he inspired her interest, and eventual career, in philosophy, and she was his translator, his support, his obsession. Along with this portrait of a larger-than-life man described by turns as passionate, endearing, maddening, and suffocating, Ombasic deftly constructs a moving personal account of what it means to be a refugee and how a generation learns to thrive despite its parents' struggles."--.
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2016., VLB éditeur Call No: QWF FR Bio O54m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mostar, dans le sud de la Bosnie-Hezégovine, est une ville idyllique entourée de collines ensoleillées. La cité médiévale est traversée par la Neretva, le fleuve émeraude qui charrie jusqu'à l'Adriatique la douceur de vivre dans la « vallée des arbres sucrés », où naître chrétien ou musulman, serbe ou croate, est la dernière des choses qui comptent. C'est là que vit la jeune Maya quand les obus se mettent à tomber, d'abord un à un, puis en pluie drue sur la Yougoslavie. Dans l'abri anti-bombardements, les scènes tragicomiques que rapportent les habitants hilares n'empêchent pas la réalité du massacre de filtrer : la guerre est là, elle va durer, il faut partir. Maya et son petit frère s'enfuient dans la caravane des gitans ; ils retrouveront leurs parents à Split, d'où la famille s'embarquera avec d'autres réfugiés pour un exil qui la mènera en Suisse, puis au Canada. Tout au long de ce périple, Maya grandit et s'éduque, poursuivant jusqu'à Cuba un dialogue enflammé avec son peintre de père, homme blessé, prophétique, emporté, balkanique jusqu'au bout des ongles. La résignation révoltée de Nenad, ses enthousiasmes d'enfant cent fois déçus, ses explications savantes sur l'indigence des mots pour dire la vérité du monde et des coeurs scandent le texte sensible et baroque de Maya Ombasic, qui signe avec Mostarghia son livre le plus autobiographique.
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2021., Adult, Knopf Random Vintage Canada Call No: BLK 155.93 A235n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father's death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he'd stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment-a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon"--
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By Ward, Clint2017., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Call No: QWF Bio W257o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On All The Other Days is a memoir of the multi-dimensional renaissance journey of author, Clint Ward. It is a rare glimpse “behind the curtain” of a life well-lived, interwoven with epic proportions of high flying adventure, sportsmanship and world travel. After high school, a short stint in Canada’s Royal Canadian Air Force set him on his vocation as a professional aviator. Throughout a career that spanned nearly 40 years with Trans Canada Airlines and Air Canada, he piloted seven different aircraft, including 12 years as a Captain on the Boeing 747. In his spare time, he embraced a love for the melodic, dramatic flair and an innate passion for the creative: writing, storytelling, theatre and film, revealing the quest of a man who truly embodies the art of reinventing life in real time. Revel in the details of this literary and photographic odyssey of the best and worst of times penned by a prairie boy from Saskatoon growing up in the 30’s and chronicling eight decades of determination, luck, ambition, ultimate achievement and bloody mindedness! Clint enjoys life in a faster lane than most at 86 and is grateful for an opportunity to share his story that is still unfolding…On All The Other Days.
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2019., John Aylen Books Call No: Bio G618o Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sheila Barshay Goldbloom was born in New York City to idealistic parents both of whom had immigrated to the United States as young children. Her mother was an avid reader, an early Zionist and a supporter of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. She prized education above all and set Sheila on a path that would include four years at Mount Holyoke College during the Second World War. Victor Goldbloom, a Montrealer, met Sheila while a resident in pediatrics at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Their marriage brought Sheila to Montreal and eventually to Canadian citizenship. She joined the faculty of the McGill School of Social Work and pioneered in the development of curricula related to community organization. Here Sheila tells the story of her childhood, marked irrevocably by the death of her father when she was ten years old. Her life in Quebec was punctuated professionally by the increased engagement of the government in the delivery of education, health and social services, while her personal life, notably her husband's role as an elected official, afforded her a vantage point on the Province of Quebec available to few anglophone citizens. The events recounted here, from linguistic and religious divisions to the referenda on separation, will be familiar, but the lens of this woman, Jew, immigrant, activist offers an important and often surprising perspective.
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2019., Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 327.1273 S674p Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, this is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online -- a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
