Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost by Neil Besner
Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents ― mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion ― and the author.
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Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel by Ron Crocker
Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel is a testament and a toast to Ray Guy’s brilliant writing. It is also a compelling biography of a complex man with an incredible gift.
Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo
From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.
I Am Because We Are: An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation by Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
I Am Because We Are illuminates the role of kinship, family, and the individual’s place in society, while revealing a life of courage, how community shaped it, and the web of humanity that binds us all.
Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist by Donna Morrisey
A deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer--told with charm and inimitable humour.
By the Light of the Crescent Moon by Ailsa Keppie
When Ailsa Keppie puts on the hijab for the first time, it solidifies her commitment to her new, chosen religion. She gives up the lights and action of the circus for the position of wife and mother, learns Arabic, and moves to Morocco.
Flora! A Woman in a Man’s World by Flora MacDonald and Geoffrey Stevens
Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.
The Ghosts of Walter Crockett: A Memoir by W. Edward Crockett
In his new memoir, Portland-native Ed Crockett recounts his struggle to break the cycle of alcoholism, come to grips with the embarrassing specter of his father, to eventually find success on the same streets where his father once spent his days passed out and begging for money.
Be Free: Mountains, Mishaps, and Miracles in Africa by Angela deJong
Be Free is a collection of personal travel essays that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across Africa as seen through the eyes of a solo female backpacker, Angela deJong.
The Last Good Funeral of the Year: A Memoir by Ed O’Loughlin
From Ed O’Loughlin, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Minds of Winter, a pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, and the life events that have shaped his identity.
Even the Sidewalk Could Tell: How I Came Out to My Wife, My Three Children, and the World by Alon Ozery
What does it cost to live an inauthentic life?
If anyone knows, it’s Alon Ozery. Born in Toronto to an Orthodox Jewish father and a British mother, raised in Israel, and educated in Canada, Alon didn’t come out of the closet until he had a wife and three children.
On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein
Part memoir, part history, part policy examination, and part roadmap for the future, On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein is captivating, rage-inducing, and most important of all, helpful.
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
Blending memoir and nature writing at its best, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood by Joanne Gallant
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart is the intimate story of Gallant's journey through miscarriage and motherhood, holding space for the complicated paradoxes of grief and gratitude, of life and death, and the impenetrable depths of a mother's love.
Off The Charts: What I Learned From My Almost Fabulous Life In Music by Kat Goldman
Off the Charts is a whimsical, uproarious tour through a fickle business that never seems to repay what performers put into it, and one woman’s highly intimate account of how she made the best of almost making it. Featuring a sparkling set of original illustrations by the award-winning Nina Berkson.