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The Wolves at My Shadow The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from what has become her home in Kobe, Japan, Ingelore records her memories of life in Berlin, the long train journey through Russia…
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- Darilyn Stahl Listort and Dennis Listort
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- 9781771990615.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 6 x 9, 324 pages
A Very Capable Life The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
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 cel…
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- 9781897425411.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 208 pages
Xwelíqwiya The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton’s early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw, as they call themselves today, kept secret their ways of life to avoid persecution by the…
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- 9781927356562.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 312 pages
A Woman of Valour The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
A Woman of Valour is the biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle, a French-Canadian woman who found love with a priest thirty-three years her senior. Against all social convention, they lived, produced three children, and built a life together after fleeing their village. However, after several years together, Bouchard’s husband ultimately chose to return to the priesthood, abandoning his …
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- 9781897425848.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 256 pages
The Wolves at My Shadow The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from what has become her home in Kobe, Japan, Ingelore records her memories of life in Berlin, the long train journey through Russia…
- Edition
- Darilyn Stahl Listort and Dennis Listort
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781771990615.01
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 6 x 9, 324 pages
A Very Capable Life The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
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 cel…
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- 9781897425411.01
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- Canada
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- 208 pages
Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who lik…
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- 9781771992534.01
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- 4.5 x 6.5, 80 pages
Under the Nakba Tree Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada
Mowafa Said Househ’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, when Mowafa visited his family’s homeland of Palestine at the beginning of the Second Intifada, he witnessed the effects of prolonged conflict and…
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- 9781771992039.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 216 pages
The Teacher and the Superintendent Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior,…
From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and schools along the Yukon River were George E. Boulter and Alice Green, his future wife. Boulter, a Londoner originally drawn to the Klondike, had begun teaching in 1905 and by 1910 had been promoted to sup…
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- 9781927356500.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 440 pages
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened to believe that they could take control of their lives. But how? Joining hundreds of thousands o…
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- 9781771990110.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 390 pages
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