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Stories We Don't Tell is a live storytelling event held in living rooms across Toronto. For five years, hosts have warmly welcomed us and our audiences into their home where a lineup of performers share personal stories about their lives. Some stories are sad, or a little weird, or intimate, and others funny.
This anthology includes 61 stories that were all told in front of a live audience at one of our shows. The authors of these stories have generously...
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Whose poster hung on your wall as a teenager? Whose record did you wear out? Whose life story could you not resist? Fascination works in mysterious ways-it can be born out of inspiration, or repulsion, or both. In these daring essays, some of the most provocative writers of our time offer a private view on a public figure. In the process, they reveal themselves in beautiful and unexpected ways, blurring the line between biography and memoir.
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Focus on unreached people groups and the emergence of a global church have not yet eliminated massive gaps in the spread of the gospel. Differences between Hindu and Christian traditions account for the uneven reception of the gospel of Christ among Hindu peoples. Contextualization, best practices, and movements to Christ are central discussion points in response.
In “Cultural Gaps”, H. L. Richard brings Benjamin Robinson, a forgotten nineteenth-century...
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… A must-read if you want to understand the background of the Russian invasion into Ukraine and the conflicts of Eastern Europe in 2022...
In 1939, 13-year-old Zbigniew learns how to survive in eastern Poland when WWII breaks out. As the war progresses, he is caught between Nazi-German oppressors, the resisting Polish Home Army, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as well as Soviet guerilla, with bullets and bombs flying all around him. Through his memoirs,...
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The Spoon Knife Anthology collects the work of over 25 authors, including Autonomous Press partners, disability studies scholars, established prose and poetry artists, and emerging storytellers from a variety of backgrounds. Together, these writers deliver a series of meditations on compliance and consent that are simultaneously, intimate and alienating.
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Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award
Rise is collection of prose and poetry exploring the concepts of change, renewal, and rebirth. When things change, we experience a variety of emotions-from anger and fear to courage and hope. There is struggle and strife but also the opportunity to rise from the ashes and create, grow, and love.
In these pages, you'll find stories and expressions of joy and sorrow about love, friendship, family, marriage and...
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Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror is a collection of personal essays from horror lovers all over the world. This collection was written by women and non-binary horror lovers. Each of the essays beautifully shows how horror has changed the lives of those who love horror.
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• Rebecca McCallum
• Zoë Rose Smith
• Blayne Waterloo
• Jerry J Sampson
• Violet Burns
• Dulce Maria
• Gena Radcliffe
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Des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien pour apporter leur soutien auprès des réfugiés depuis 2015 en Belgique.En septembre 2015 s'est créée la Plateforme Citoyenne de Soutien aux Réfugiés en réaction aux politiques belges peu enclines à trouver des solutions durables et humaines à la crise migratoire que traverse le pays ces dernières années. Depuis sa création, des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien...
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The stories within these pages are the heartfelt offering of women all around the world who are shining a light into the realities of cross-cultural work and life. From the unexpected sacrifices to the ways that this life has marked them, and the vulnerable struggles rarely voiced out loud, this collection of stories will resonate no matter where you call home.
Laugh, cry and journey along with these women as they share words of joy and faith in...
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This volume describes how the role of the rebbetzin has, changed in the past seventy years. Cognizant of the significance of their lives as rabbis' spouses, fifty-nine women (and one man) have documented their experiences for future generations. What a treat to hear their voices! Their moving, funny, and insightful stories add vital texture to our understanding of the history of American Judaism since World War II, a time of major changes. The essays...
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After rummaging through some old things, Arlene Lynchuk-Klassen came across her late husband's handwritten memoir, which she has decided to share with the world. Life can have many twists and turns, and Bob Klassen's was no exception. From growing up in the 1930s, to joining the Air Force, to being a prominent musician and jeweller/entrepreneur, to marriage, divorce, and fatherhood, to battling life-threatening injuries, and more... Bob's life never...
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"I Travel the Open Road" contains a fantastic collection of classic travel writings by a variety of notable authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, and others. With pieces covering Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia, and the Americas, this collection offers the reader an insight not only into many different countries around the world, but also into history and the people and places of times past. Highly recommended for lovers of travel...
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After three years of publishing daily pieces online, the post calvin is proud to present the post calvin: selected essays. Editors Josh deLacy, Will Montei, Debra Rienstra, and Abby Zwart have gathered suggestions from writers and chosen pieces that represent the heart and soul of the post calvin.
The post Calvin is a daily online journal that features twenty-eight regular writers. Each writer is responsible for one day of the month, and guest writers...
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Writings from Vietnam is a compilation of letters written by Rod McKay to a young woman he had only known for two weeks before he went into the Army July 1968, a journal he kept for slightly over 3 months during his first months in Vietnam, May 3-August 12, 1969, a letter he wrote to his parents which was published in The Malheur Enterprise in Vale, Oregon August 6, 1969, and 9 pages describing one particular day which he recorded at the end of that...
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Widely believed to be the first national park in the world, Yellowstone is an American national park situated in the western United States spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. World famous for its wildlife and geothermal features, it contains a large range of biomes and is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. This volume contains a fantastic collection of classic accounts of the area together with a number of poems dedicated...
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During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over...
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“San Antonio Stories” is a collection of forty true tales, epic adventures, and intimate revelations from the heart of one of America's fastest growing and most culturally diverse cities.
There is the hilarious chronicle of being crowned Turkey Queen of Cuero, as well as stories of finding one's place as an immigrant or refugee, the heartbreak of being on the AIDS epidemic's front lines, and the redemption in writing My Little Pony fan fiction....
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In the spirit of Night by Elie Wisel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.
In 1994, Michel was the thirteen-year-old son of a Hutu pastor dreaming of becoming an airplane pilot when he heard something was wrong in Kigali, Rwanda. He didn't understand the politics, but an uncle appeared, a family meeting was held, then they were fleeing genocide. They were under gunfire. Soldiers were in pursuit. Everywhere were bodies, hunger,...
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In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. Though the refugee caps have been raised under President Biden, admissions so far have fallen short.
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