Memoir & Biography

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

In addition to writing 20 novels, 500 short stories, and 500 poems, Lucy Maud Montgomery was an avid scrapbooker most of her life. She collected fashion illustrations, fabric swatches, newspaper clippings (of marriages, deaths, and ... Read More »

August 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood

By Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and Cathy Stonehouse, eds.

Double Lives, an anthology of essays about the occasionally warring roles of writer and mother, is not for everyone. Though much of the book will appeal to busy mothers of all kinds, on the whole ... Read More »

June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister’s Life in the Canadian Bush

By Mark Frutkin

In 1970, like a hippie version of Henry David Thoreau, Mark Frutkin rejected the Vietnam war and left his native Ohio for Canada to live off the land, settling in a cabin in the woods ... Read More »

June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Full-Time: A Soccer Story

By Alan Twigg

Soccer is, without dispute, the world’s most popular sport. From casual games of kickabout to the heights of international competition, those who play and watch the game do so passionately. This passion is at the ... Read More »

April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Empty Casing: A Soldier’s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege

By Fred Doucette

Literature investigating the experience of soldiers in war zones is a well-explored genre. Whether it be the First or Second World War, Korea, or Vietnam, readers have been fully exposed to the effect this kind ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Cambodia Calling: A Memoir from the Frontlines of Doctors Without Borders

By Richard Heinzl

Among the frontline troops of international humanitarian aid, few share the rugged reputation of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an NGO that invites doctors to leave their comfortable offices and salaries for low-paying medical positions in ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Lost

By Cathy Ostlere

In September 1995, Cathy Ostlere’s family gathered in Calgary to celebrate the 36th birthday of her younger brother David. The birthday boy himself wasn’t there, but that was hardly unusual: it had become a family ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grabbing at Water: A Mother-Daughter Memoir

By Joan Lambur and Maddy Lambur

Mother-daughter relationships, an evergreen subject for a memoir if there ever was one, are at the fore yet again in this shared memoir from Joan Lambur, the head of a television distribution and development company ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf

By Marc Vachon with François Bugingo; Charles Phillips, trans.

Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order to survive. In his memoir, Rebel Without Borders, Vachon tells how he transferred those street ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Alchemy of Loss: A Journey Through Grief

By Abigail Carter

The alchemists sought a formula for turning lead into gold. In her memoir, The Alchemy of Loss, Abigail Carter uses the analogy to illustrate her own experience of the transformative power of tragedy. Carter’s story ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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