Big Girls Don’t Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space by Susan Swan
Although Swan had begun to write an earnest book about her experience of feminism in the 1970s, Margaret Atwood encouraged her to instead write a memoir about being tall.
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Seven Days in Halifax by Robert Ashe
Seven Days in Halifax is another piece of that history, detailing a seven-day event in 1970 called Encounter on Urban Environment, which was a road show where experts (from away) came to Halifax and held a series of town halls to speak to citizens, industry, and government to get a sense of Halifax.
Louis J. Robichaud: A Man for the Moment by Donald J. Savoie
Even less so did anyone expect that Robichaud would drag the province, in the face of often virulent and bigoted opposition, into a series of reforms that would eventually make New Brunswick a fairer, better-governed, more modern, and more economically sustainable place.
Family Secrets: A Daughter’s Search for Her Parents’ Hidden War by Alice Switocz Goldbloom
This book is three memoirs, daughter, mother, and father, all wrapped together in the often-untold story of the Polish experience in WWII. Alice Switocz Goldbloom is both the daughter and the author.
To Leave a Warrior Behind: The Life and Stories of Charles R. Saunders, the Man Who Rewrote Fantasy by Jon Tattrie
In this tale, Tattrie brings the reader on a journey of media, Nova Scotia, and our Black history beyond the pages by sharing stories of the people and their obstacles.
Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Battle to Become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb
Through 2023 and into 2024, Himelfarb attends the tournaments, interviews the players, and traces the journeys to get to the highest level of the chess world.
The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners by Todd Dufresne
It is the climate change book for our current moment, written with the force necessary to wake us from our collective slumber that has delayed action on climate change, deferring it to some unnamed later date, downloading the heavy lifting onto our children and grandchildren.
Walking into Healing: A Review of Colleen O’Toole’s Restoring Joy
The walk parallels O’Toole’s inner journey of healing from wounds caused by a family estrangement.
A Steady Brightness of Being, edited by Sara Sinclair and Stephanie Sinclair
A Steady Brightness of Being is a moving collection of letters by celebrated Indigenous Voices from across Turtle Island (North America) with titles like “Dear Relative,” “Letter to Clouds,” and “Dreaming, Listening, Belonging.”
Excavating Identity from a Near-forgotten History: Go-Between Girl by Andrea Gunraj
Go-Between Girl, by Andrea Gunraj, is a memoir told across a collection of essays that examines what it means to be the descendent of the racialized indentured class.
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Niko Stratis’s The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is a book for this moment when we’re re-evaluating algorithmic curation and rediscovering the human connections in our playlists.
Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu
Beaulieu asks, why are we writing?
The Translation Chain Project by Logan Kennedy
The Translation Chain Project by Logan Kennedy is a literary experiment that began with a spontaneous question: what happens if a piece of prose is translated repeatedly, with the previous translation used as the source? But what began as a playful idea led Kennedy to consider one the most pressing matters of our time: the rise of artificial intelligence.
Horses by Jake Skeets
Here, Skeet’s invasion of white space picks up where Eyes Bottle Dark left off and begins with the haunting image of a herd of 191 free-roaming horses found dead, thigh and neck-deep at a stock pond on the Navajo Nation, evaporated through extreme drought caused by “decades-long aggression by the United States and the changing climate”.
Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak
Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak is a memoir that is synthesizing the past in order to better live the future. As the subtitle indicates, through Katherine’s story she frames a way forward for a better society. Personally, I like what I don’t know anything about, so Katherine’s …
