Biography/Memoir

41 products
Book cover for 'At the End: The Last Year in the Life of Emma Goldman' by David Lester, featuring a high-contrast graphic illustration of Emma Goldman in blue, orange, and yellow.
At The End
$25.95
Book cover for 'Bialystok to Birkenau: The Holocaust Journey of Michel Mielski' with a collage of blue, brown, and red overlaid on a photograph of an identity card plus white title text.
Bialystok to Birkenau
$19.95
Book cover for 'Capturing the Summit' by Trevor Marc Hughes, featuring a black-and-white historical photograph of a mountaineer on a rocky mountain path with large gold title text.
Capturing the Summit
$24.95
Book cover of 'Charlie: A Home Child's Life in Canada' by Beryl Young with a photo of a young man sitting on steps.
Charlie
$12.95
Book cover for 'The De Cosmos Enigma' by Gordon Hawkins, featuring a sepia-toned portrait of a bearded man and large white title text.
De Cosmos Enigma, The
$17.95
Book cover for 'The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke' by Ron Smith, featuring a pale yellow background, large black and orange title text, and a colourful abstract painting in the lower centre.
Defiant Mind, The
$22.95
Book cover for 'Emily Patterson: The Heroic Life of a Milltown Nurse' by Lisa Anne Smith, featuring a sepia-toned historical portrait of a woman and white title text on a dark lower section.
Emily Patterson
$21.95
Book cover for 'The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books and Authors by Alan Twigg, with five photos of authors across the top and an abstract illustration in the middle.
Essentials, The
$24.95
Book cover for 'Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge?' by Jim McDowell, featuring a sepia-toned portrait of a man on the right and a colorful totem pole on the left.
Father August Brabant
$24.95
Book cover of 'The Final Spire' with a mountain peak and blue text.
Final Spire, The
$24.95
Book cover for 'Have Bassoon Will Travel' by George Zukerman, featuring a sepia-toned photograph of a man holding a bassoon, with large yellow and white title text on a dark background.
Have Bassoon, Will Travel
$24.95
Book cover for 'He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank Calder and the Nisga'a Land Claims Accord' by Joan Harper, featuring a sepia-toned portrait of Frank Calder on a white and light green geometric background.
He Moved A Mountain
$21.95
Book cover for 'How I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story' by Doris Gregory, featuring a vintage black-and-white photo of a woman running through water on a beach, with cream and green text panels.
How I Won the War for the Allies
$21.95
Book cover for 'I Just Ran: Percy Williams, World's Fastest Human' by Samuel Hawley, featuring a vintage black-and-white photo of a smiling athlete in a Canada jersey with bold red title text.
I Just Ran
$23.95
Book cover for 'Itineraries: An Intellectual Odyssey' by Philip Resnick, featuring an aerial photograph of a winding river through autumn-colored landscape.
Itineraries
$21.95
Book cover of 'Jan's Quodlibet: A Year in Music' with a blue background and white illustration.
Jan’s Quodlibet
$25.95
Book cover for 'John Muir: West Coast Pioneer' by Daryl Ashby, featuring a stylized landscape illustration of a lake, mountains, and evergreen trees under a cloudy sky.
John Muir
$21.95
Book cover for 'Journeys to the Nearby' by Elspeth Bradbury, featuring watercolor-style illustrations of nature including an owl, ferns, mushrooms, a squirrel, and a beetle around the title.
Journeys to the Nearby
$22.95
Book cover for 'The Judge's Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer' by Eunice M.L., with an archival photo of Eunice in the centre.
Judge's Wife, The
$19.95
Book cover for 'A Long Labour: A Dutch Mother's Holocaust Memoir' by Rhoda Shandler, featuring a sepia historical photograph of a woman in a patterned dress and a black-and-white scene of damaged buildings, with a blue title band across the center.
Long Labour, A
$21.95
Book cover for 'Louis Riel: Let Justice Be Done' by David Doyle, featuring a sepia-toned historical portrait of Louis Riel with bold white title text.
Louis Riel
$24.95
Mad Sisters
Mad Sisters
$24.95
Book cover for 'Moon Madness' by Alan Twigg, featuring a sepia-toned vintage photograph of a woman with a backpack on a street, with yellow title text at the top and author name at the bottom.
Moon Madness
$21.95
Book cover for 'No Ordinary Risks' by Nancy Marguente Anderson, featuring a textured beige background with large cream and yellow title text and an illustration of people in a canoe going over rapids at the bottom.
No Ordinary Risks
$25.95
Book cover of 'No Time to Mourn' with a person in a coat and hat standing in a forest.
No Time to Mourn
$21.95
Book cover for 'Our Friend Joe: The Joe Fortes Story' by Lisa Anne Smith and Barbara Rogers, featuring a sepia-toned portrait of a man in a brown suit against a dark blue-gray textured background, with large white title text.
Our Friend Joe
$21.95
Book cover for 'Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia' by Alan Twigg, featuring a sepia-toned vintage photograph of a woman in a dark coat and hat, with large white title text.
Out of Hiding
$24.95
A black and white book cover titled 'Riding the Continent' with a vintage motorcycle and a seated man in an outdoor wooded setting. The author name 'Hamilton Mack Laing' appears at the bottom.
Riding the Continent
$19.95
Book cover of 'Service on the Skeena' featuring a portrait of Horace Winch, Frontier Physician.
Service on the Skeena
$21.95—$28.95
Book cover of 'Seventy-Two Seasons' by M.A.C. Farrant featuring three sheep looking at you.
Seventy-Two Seasons
$22.95
Book cover for 'A Speaking Likeness' by Joseph Plaskett, featuring an expressive painting of a seated man at an easel with a piano in the background.
Speaking Likeness, A
$37.95
Book cover for 'St. Michael's Residential School: Lament & Legacy' by Nancy Dyson & Dan Rubenstein, featuring a photograph of a dilapidated brick school with greenery in the foreground.
St. Michael's Residential School
$21.95
Book cover for 'The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia' by Connie Braun, featuring a golden grassy field under a blue sky with a red fabric scarf in the centre.
Steppes are the Colour of Sepia, The
$24.95
Book cover for 'Strongman: The Doug Hepburn Story' by Tom Thurston, featuring a sepia-toned photograph of Doug Hepburn in a wrestling singlet lifting a barbell against a black background, with a mustard-yellow title banner at the top.
Strongman
$19.95
Book cover of 'They Never Left Me' with images of a woman with her arms crossed standing in front of a tree.
They Never Left Me
$22.95
A photograph of a barn reflected in calm water, with a wooden fence in the foreground and mountains in the distance. A white banner across the lower middle reads 'To Touch a Dream: A Wilderness Adventure' with the author name 'Sunny Wright' at the bottom right.
To Touch a Dream
$21.95
Book cover for 'Uncharted Waters: The Explorations of José Narváez (1768–1840)' by Jim McDowell, featuring an illustration of a historic wooden sailing ship on blue water under a pale sky.
Uncharted Waters
$24.95
Book cover for 'Vladimir Krajina: World War II Hero and Ecology Pioneer' by Jan Drabek, featuring a forest background, a green banner with white title text, and a sepia-toned historical photograph of soldiers at the bottom.
Vladimir Krajina
$21.95
Book cover of 'Walrus: The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick' featuring a black and white photo of a man with a large bushy moustache.
Walrus
$24.95
Book cover of 'Wilderness Mother' with a woman and child in a snowy landscape
Wilderness Mother (30th Anniversary Edition)
$24.95
Book cover of 'Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps' with a woman in a Red Cross uniform.
Women Overseas
$21.95