Skip to content
Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf

  • @Your Library
  • Read This Next
  • Author Interviews
  • Book Lists
  • Book Reviews
  • Young Adult
  • Contact Us

Tag: memoir

Essay Collections & Memoirs

This week Laura and Nicole talk about personal storytellers and suggest titles that run the gamut from funny to heartbreaking. … More

book review, Canada, essay collection, memoir, public library

Interview with Rosemary Keevil

Rosemary Keevil has been a TV news reporter, a current affairs radio show host, and managing editor of a professional … More

addiction, Journalism, memoir, nonfiction, Rosemary Keevil

Home Ice

I started reading Angie Abdou’s fiction books several years ago, and have been following her on Twitter (@angie-abdou) for a … More

Angie Abdou, hockey, memoir, nonfiction

Interview with Peter Panetta

Peter Panetta is a mentor, educator, artist and adventurer. He currently lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario with his wife Norma … More

Autobiography, local author, memoir, Peter Panetta, Underground Gym

That Reminds Me- Collection of Memories of Some 60 Years Ago by Irene Winslow

Quite often I read books about how people lived generations before I was born, especially in a diary or memoir … More

Irene Winslow, local author, memoir, Thunder Bay

Sheila Watt-Cloutier in Conversation with CBC Radio’s Cathy Alex

On March 1st, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, whose book, The Right To Be Cold, is on the Canada Reads 2017 Shortlist, was … More

Audio, Canada Reads, Cathy Alex, CBC, CBC Thunder Bay, memoir, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right To Be Cold

Interview with Karen Connelly

Karen Connelly is the author of 10 books of bestselling non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She has won the Pat Lowther … More

Author Interview, Canadian Fiction, Karen Connelly, memoir, nonfiction, novel, Poetry, TIFA, Toronto International Festival of Authors, travel, travel memoir

Interview with Meghan O’Rourke

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye and the poetry collections Halflife and Once.  Her essays, … More

editor, interview, Meghan O'Rourke, memoir, Once, Poetry, The Long Goodbye

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

This book was hugely popular when it first came out in 2005 and continues to be seven years later. I’d … More

childhood, Dysfunctional Families, Family Relationships, Homelessness, Jeannette Walls, memoir, Neglecct, Parenting, Poverty

Stitches by David Small

Highly recommended! If you haven’t read a graphic novel before, make this your first! This memoir is AMAZING. It is … More

childhood, David Small, family, graphic novel, memoir, operations

Posts navigation

Older posts

Categories

Archives

Links

  • All About Romance
  • Bookish
  • booklistreview
  • Bookriot
  • Fantastic Fiction
  • Genre Fluent
  • Goodreads
  • Library Reads
  • TBPL @ Your Library (Archive)
  • TBPL Book Lists on Pinterest (Archive)
  • TBPL Online Catalogue
  • The Millions
  • Thunder Bay Public Library
  • Western Writers of America
  • What Should I Read Next?
  • Whichbook.net

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×