Biography & Memoir

'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head...

On Memory, Migration and Taiwan I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have...

Every day, we hear about and experience griefs, large and small, in our families, friendships, communities, and worldwide. The grief of a loved one passing. The grief of a way...

A haunting family memoir about what we owe our ancestors and our descendants, from an unforgettable new voice 'Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what...

A Multigenerational Family Odyssey From the author of Dear Scarlet comes a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents Beginning...

An inspiring exploration of womanhood, trauma and healing When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a...

A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION PICK A gripping and emotionally eloquent memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in...

A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocityBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung...

A journey from religion to reasonIn much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion...

A Guide to Building a Home For Your Soul From the celebrated poet, speaker, and educator comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself. In her...

The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime and boarded a...

A journalistic account of the abuse and enslavement of women and girls in AsiaA constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in...

How I Went From Being Lost to Getting My Life into ShapeBuild your self-worth and learn your values with this playful guide from YouTube comedy sensation Lilly Singh.'We need to...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...

A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced...

A Pathway to ReconciliationReconciliation belongs to all of us. In this book, drawing from the lessons that he has learned along his pathway from residential school to the leader of...

Humorous, witty, horrific, and poetic, Jamal Saeed’s story is Syria’s story: surviving 12 years in brutal military prisons, an enchanted childhood, his loves, Syria’s deadly upheavals, and his family’s escape.Jamal...

For more than three decades, Louise Erdrich has won prizes, critical acclaim, and the hearts of readers the world over with her spellbinding novels of Native American life. In Books...

This teaching memoir by an Indigenous spirit talker includes stories about the author's reconnection with his Mi'kmaq heritage along with techniques for connecting to Spirit and developing your own intuition...

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural...

Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants...