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As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano.

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writi

William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero.

Before Amelia Earhart (1897-1939) became a world-famous pilot, she was a little tomboy from Kansas with a taste for adventure.

By building his own microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek advanced humanity's understanding of the oft-invisible world around us.

Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on t

Ever since her childhood on a Niagara farm, Debi has dug in the dirt to find resilience.

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo's landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family wa

Annahid Dashtgard was born into a supportive mixed-race family in 1970s Iran. Then came the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ushered in a powerful and orthodox religious regime.

Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution.

Harry W. Arthurs is a name held in high esteem by labour lawyers and academics throughout the world.

A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died.

At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the north

In this brutally honest portrait of what it's like to be a caregiver, Toronto writer Sonya K. Singh bravely serves up her own experience as a lifeline to others.

My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey's six years in the order in the 1960s.