Tous les ebooks de la collection "Life Writing" - Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919 R.B. Fleming The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915–1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to 1919. Despite wartime censorship, Leslie and Cecil wrote frank and forthright letters that show how the young... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2011-04-07 Collection : Life Writing ePub 18,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Curtain Henry G. Schogt Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later,... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2011-04-07 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 10,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Bearing Witness Kathryn Carter , Laurie Elit Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2011-04-07 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 10,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies “I Want to Join Your Club” Norah L. Lewis “I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride.” In letters written to the children’s pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authentic voices of real children who lived in rural Canada and Newfoundland... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2010-10-30 Collection : Life Writing ePub 13,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Surprise of My Life Claire Drainie Taylor “It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2010-10-30 Collection : Life Writing ePub 14,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies I Have a Story to Tell You Seemah C. Berson I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2010-10-03 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 11,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted Carolyn Gammon , Christiane Hemker Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907–2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause TwicePersecuted is her story. Born in Dresden into... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-23 Collection : Life Writing ePub 10,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Through the Hitler Line Laurence F. Wilmot Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-22 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 10,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Tracing the Autobiographical Susanna Egan , Marlene Kadar The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-22 Collection : Life Writing ePub 39,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Watermelon Syrup Di Brandt , Jane Finlay-Young , Annie Jacobsen Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-22 Collection : Life Writing ePub 11,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Water Lily Pond Han Z. Li This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-22 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 11,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Queen of Peace Room Magie Dominic What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-10-21 Collection : Life Writing ePub 11,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Pursuing Giraffe Anne Innis Dagg In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-08-04 Collection : Life Writing ePub 13,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Broad Is the Way Margaret Norquay In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-08-03 Collection : Life Writing ePub 10,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Must Write Edna Staebler , Christl Verduyn Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-08-03 Collection : Life Writing ePub 13,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Food That Really Schmecks Edna Staebler In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks. Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-08-02 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 14,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Leaving Fundamentalism G. Elijah Dann In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called “culture wars,” this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services,... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-07-30 Collection : Life Writing ePub 11,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 163256 Michael Englishman 163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-07-21 Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub 10,99 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Becoming My Mother’s Daughter Erika Gottlieb Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2009-07-19 Collection : Life Writing ePub 11,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Where I Come From Vijay Agnew “Where do you come from?” When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been... Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press Parution : 2006-01-01 Collection : Life Writing PDF 13,99 €
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