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Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas

By Betsy Warland

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Paperback:

9781987915167 | Dagger Editions, May 9, 2016, cover price $21.95

And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa

Product Description: From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for Non-fiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land...read more

By M. G. Vassanji

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Hardcover:

9780385671439 | Doubleday of Canada, October 14, 2014, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780385671453 | Anchor Books, January 26, 2016, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: From M.

Canada Made Me

This travelogue-turned-exposÃ© of the "polite nation" at midcentury proved so shocking it took twenty-one yearsâdespite initial acclaim when released in 1958âto see a Canadian edition. A record of his three-month journey across the country, Norman Levine's vision of Canada's seedy and unpleasant underworld is now a laconic classic.

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9781771960601 | Biblioasis, January 26, 2016, cover price $16.95

9781771960236 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, June 9, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This travelogue-turned-exposÃ© of the "polite nation" at midcentury proved so shocking it took twenty-one yearsâdespite initial acclaim when released in 1958âto see a Canadian edition.

9780889841680 | Porcupines Quill, June 1, 1993, cover price $14.95

Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin

Product Description: A writerâs lifelong battle with mental illness. Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin is a weaving of the Montreal writerâs stories and selected diary excerpts and family photographs revealing a far-reaching creative personality who is haunted from the age of ten by the âmoods taking over...read more

By Gilah Yelin Hirsch

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9781550653830 | Vehicule Pr, January 10, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A writerâs lifelong battle with mental illness.

The Bleaks: A Memoir

Product Description: The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidgeâs life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his suburban house, arrests him and his two teenage sons, and whisks them off to jail for growing some marijuana plants in their basement...read more

By Paul Illidge

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9781550229851 | E C W Pr, October 14, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidgeâs life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his suburban house, arrests him and his two teenage sons, and whisks them off to jail for growing some marijuana plants in their basement.

Cardboard Ocean

Product Description: Bestselling author and TV personality Mike McCardell, known for his humorous and touching portraits of ordinary BC lives, turns a new page and crafts a bittersweet memoir of his own hardscrabble childhood in New York City.Written with all the warmth and ironic humour his fans have come to know and love, Cardboard Ocean is an affectionate evocation of a childhood in a rough setting, but with the thrills, chills and loves that will be familiar to anyone who was ever young...read more

By Mike McCardell

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9781550176643 | Harbour Pub Co, October 20, 2014, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Bestselling author and TV personality Mike McCardell, known for his humorous and touching portraits of ordinary BC lives, turns a new page and crafts a bittersweet memoir of his own hardscrabble childhood in New York City.

Love and Forgetting: A Husband and Wife's Journey Through Dementia

Product Description: Freedom 55? The so-called "Golden Years"? What if you are slowly losing your memories and your motor skills? Or what if you are the devastated witness as your partner struggles with dementia? Lewy Body Disease is a form of dementia second only to Alzheimer's in numbers, yet many doctors and almost no lay people have ever heard its name...read more

By Ken Sobol

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9781927583180 | 1 edition (Second Story Pr, September 23, 2013), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Freedom 55?

You Can Always Eat the Dogs: The Hockeyness of Ordinary Men

Product Description: In September 1975 at the age of twenty-three Canada's most prolific poet John B. Lee joined a teachers' pickup hockey team called The Skatin' Scolors. By the time he was in his mid-forties Lee was playing hockey seven times a week, sometimes twice a day and sometimes all day outdoors with his two young sons...read more

By John B. Lee (corporate author)

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9780887535130 | Black Moss Pr, September 23, 2014, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In September 1975 at the age of twenty-three Canada's most prolific poet John B.

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

By Stephen Reid

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9781927068038 | Thistledown Pr Ltd, October 1, 2012, cover price $17.95

The Dialectical Dancer: A Simple Tale

By Peter C. Newman (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9781550961348 | Exile Editions, June 1, 2012, cover price $26.95

Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way from Ireland to Canada

By Brian Brennan

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9781926855745 | Rocky Mountain Books, September 15, 2011, cover price $19.95

Taking My Life

By Linda M. Morra (other contributor) and Jane Rule

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9780889226739 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 18, 2011, cover price $19.95

Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live

Product Description: Featured on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONLonglisted for the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction."Clear-eyed ... Robertson is no stranger to confronting unsavoury truths...read more

By Ray Robertson

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9781926845272 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, October 18, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Featured on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.

Mordecai: The Life & Times

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9780676979657 | Vintage, July 5, 2011, cover price $21.95

Mordecai: The Life & Times

Product Description: Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century...read more

By Charles Foran

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Hardcover:

9780676979633 | Knopf Canada, October 19, 2010, cover price $34.00 | also contains Mordecai: The Life and Times of Mordecai Richler | About this edition: Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him.

Miscellaneous:

9780307376022 | Knopf Canada, October 19, 2010, cover price $34.00

Mordecai: The Life and Times of Mordecai Richler

By Charles Foran

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9780676979633, titled "Mordecai: The Life & Times" | Knopf Canada, October 19, 2010, cover price $34.00 | also contains Mordecai: The Life & Times | About this edition: Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him.

God Is.: My Search for Faith in a Secular World

By David Adams Richards

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Hardcover:

9780385666510 | Doubleday of Canada, August 18, 2009, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780385666527 | Anchor Books, March 23, 2010, cover price $19.95

Italy Revisited: Conversations With My Mother

Product Description: Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing. Italy Revisited serves as a double memoir, told in dialogue between a mother and a daughter...read more

By Mary Melfi

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9781550712865 | 1 edition (Guernica Editions, October 1, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Drawing out her mother's childhood memories of life in southern Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century, Mary Melfi takes an unconventional approach to autobiographical writing.

The Guthrie Road

By Rosemary Sullivan (corporate author)

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9780887534638 | Black Moss Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $17.00

Just Looking: And Other Essays

Product Description: Just Looking might have been titled âjust living.â McLean describes her lifelong task of trying to learn Italian; she speaks of âunmet friends,â writers who have influenced her life and art. Failing faculties are examined metaphorically: hip-replacement surgery is likened to shoring up the beams of an old house...read more

By Helen McLean

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9780980887921 | Seraphim Editions, April 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Just Looking might have been titled âjust living.

NELLIE MCCLUNG

Product Description: Feminist, politician, and social activist, Nellie McClung altered Canada's political landscape, leaving a legacy that has long survived her. She had a wicked wit, and her convictions and campaigns helped shape the Canada we live in today...read more

By Charlotte Gray

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9780670066742 | Penguin Global, March 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Feminist, politician, and social activist, Nellie McClung altered Canada's political landscape, leaving a legacy that has long survived her.

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