memoir

memoir

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An Accidental Awakening

Created on
18 Feb 2025
by
Stephanie Hrehirchuk
After a spinal injury derails her career and motherhood consumes her identity, Stephanie embarks on a year-long yoga journey that leads her through unexpected practices—qigong in the snow, fire ceremonies on her lawn, and walking on hot coals—all while balancing family life. Using the chakras as a roadmap, she takes readers on an adventure down an ancient path toward healing. Follow Stephanie as she stumbles through motherhood with honesty and humour into ancient wisdom, transforming her pain into peace and reclaiming her true self.
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Dafydd

Created on
8 May 2023
by
David J Forsyth
Originally conceived as a gift to the writer's grandchildren, this memoir is a compilation of recollections spanning decades. The story begins in the late 1940s. "Growing up on a West Flamborough farm in the shadow of World War II," writes the author, "rural life was hard but uncomplicated and filled with adventure."
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On Becoming Me

Created on
27 Apr 2023
by
Kirsten Pursell
This is the story of a confident young girl who became a lost teenager, wanted to disappear, started to find herself, discovered love, was wild, reckless, and confused, but ultimately found a way to be okay. Told in her words as she lived them through her diaries, journals, poetry, and letters.
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The Box in the Closet

Created on
14 Mar 2023
by
Jayne Doxtater
Jayne Doxtater had a fulfilling career in aesthetics, two wonderful children, and a loving marriage with the man she was sure was her true soulmate, Rick. But when she finds a box in the closet of their cozy ranch home that’s full of women’s lingerie, she is stunned. Is he having an affair?
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Memories of Aiyana

Created on
13 Feb 2023
by
Adam Gaffen
Aiyana Cassidy was born in 2080 in the Northern Imperium. Three weeks later, Kendra Foster-Briggs joined her. The world would never be the same. Their adventures (and misadventures) growing up would shape the rest of their lives and change the course of the future. For the first time, read these early stories as told by the only person qualified to do so: Kendra Cassidy! Enjoy these tales right from the source!
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Finding Our Niche

Created on
16 May 2022
by
Philip A Loring
Finding Our Niche explores the tragedies of western society and the cultural myth that we are inherently flawed, greedy, and unsustainable beings. It also offers the makings of an alternative: a set of examples that can guide us in reconciling our settler-colonial histories and identities in favor of a new and more sustainable vision for humanity.
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Better Off Bald

Created on
10 Apr 2022
by
Andrea Wilson Woods
Adrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager—until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers how much she wants to live. In Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, Andrea Wilson Woods chronicles her sister’s remarkable life from the time she was born to the day she dies at age fifteen. Written like a journal, Andrea takes the reader inside her and Adrienne’s journey explaining how she gained custody of Adrienne from their mother and how the sisters’ relationship evolved over time.