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Literature & Fiction

Selvon, Sam

Literary

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Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. is the story of how Munira Premji battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years. Written as a series of anecdotes based on entries from a blog the author started shortly after her first diagnosis--when her focus was simply on surviving--it tells an inspirational story about resilience, courage, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. It explores and shares the author's experiences at home, in the community, and in hospitals, revealing with utter honesty and catching humour her moments of utter darkness and light, of intense pain and blissful but precarious relief.Choosing Hope captures the psychological, physical, and emotional trauma of a cancer diagnosis and treatment. It is easy to read and anecdotal in style and will have special appeal to recently diagnosed cancer patients, survivors and their families, to caregivers, and to many others facing health challenges.

Choosing Hope: One Woman, Three Cancers

Biographies & Memoirs

Premji, Munira

Professionals & Academics

Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough in Greater Toronto, shedding light on its myths and its many stories set in the diverse immigrant communities that arrived in the 1960s and later. It presents us with a ?chorus of emotional reality,? in a community in its most vibrant state. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and an introduction by the editors.

Feel Ways: A Scarborough Anthology

History & Criticism

This book gives us a detailed look at the Muslim presence in Canada, starting with the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon and the Balkans in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern midcentury arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Told in their own words, the stories in this collection give us a rare insight into the lives of these pioneer Muslims. Punjabi men in the timber mills of British Columbia; Lebanese Arab peddlers on foot or horse cart on the rural highways of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba; men venturing north on dog sleighs to trade for fur; young women arriving to start families and soon to become family matriarchs; shopkeepers serving small provincial towns and big cities; and finally, students and professionals arriving in the postwar urban centres. Wherever they went, they bore the brunt of xenophobia and acknowledged kindnesses, as they adapted and sought out fellow worshippers and set up community centres and mosques. A Muslim identity was retained, adapted, and diversified.

Minarets on the Horizon

Hogben, Murray

Product Description Zul Premji's passion has been science and its use for the benefit of his fellow citizens. From a background of abject poverty in a village in Tanzania, he rose to become, progressively a laboratory technician, a medical doctor, and finally a malaria expert and professor of pathology in a public university. In his practice he observed the clash between tradition and modernization, between "the iPod and the mullahs." What he discovered is that more important than drugs and vaccines in combating widespread disease is the human spirit. Zul Premji tells his story in all its details--his family life, the obstacles of poverty and the impediments of politics, bureaucracy, and the human ego. Review "With prose that's well paced and matter-of-fact, Malaria Memoirs reads like an intimate conversation with a friend, someone who has lived a dedicated life full of achievements and is ready to share." --Literary Review of Canada"Malaria Memoirs is a captivating 181 pages of well-written chronological narratives from birth to retirement that unite with ligaments of valuable medical information . . . The book is more than a 13-chapter account on human resilience in acquiring knowledge, wealth and health. It is an invitation to the public to behold how the human spirit is the epicentre of healing and cure." --Dr Makokha, Professor of Literature and Theatre at Kenyatta University"This memoir is a rags-to-riches tale full of material on human frailty. It makes an excellent autobiography for those interested in medicine and research. It anchors Zul as a superb storyteller . . . Candid, honest and stimulating." --Wafaie Fawzi, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard University"Unique documentation . . . essential reading for anyone interested in the potential of malaria elimination in Africa." --Anders Björkman, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm"Zul manages to create the distinct impression that he is sitting in the living room talking to the reader . . . Anyone who is genuinely interested in malaria, Tanzanian politics, and health systems in developing countries will find his insights and anecdotes fascinating..." --Col (Rtd) Sayed I Ali, Kenya Air Force"Tremendously interesting and entertaining, Prof Zul's is a truly Tanzanian story to which the average person can relate." --Billy Ngasala, Professor, Muhimbili University Hospital, Dar es Salaam About the Author Zul Premji was born in Iringa, Tanzania, and attended school in two towns before obtaining his medical degree from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam. He later took an MSc in Medical Parasitology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians in London, and a doctorate in Infectious Diseases from Karolinska, Sweden. His specialization included clinical trials, antimalarial drug resistance and malaria case management. Over a career of more than forty years, he has held numerous academic positions in Tanzania, and has been an advisor to National Malaria Control. He now lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Malaria Memoirs: My Life Journey as a Public Health Doctor in Tanzania

Premji, Zul

His Sacred Army is the first volume of a quintet of novels, Prison of Dreams, which tells the story of the growth of the armed struggle in Sri Lanka in the eighties. Through the experiences of its characters, who desire simply to go about their ordinary lives, the quintet depicts the suffering and separations caused by the political exploitation of ethnic differences leading to a full-fledged civil war. His Sacred Army centres around the life of a young woman, Rajalakshmi, and the small island community of Nainativu to which she belongs. Nainativu is situated off the coast of Sri Lanka and is a site rich in folklore and religious significance. Rajalakshmi's simple dreams of employment to support her struggling family and marriage to her childhood friend Suthan are threatened by malicious gossip in the village and civil conflict in the nation. Her beloved Suthan faces the dilemma of whether to follow his father's political path of constitutional reform or to join the growing separatist movement.

His Sacred Army (Prison of Dreams)

Devakanthan, B

searching for eastman

Smith, Charles C.

Poetry

de book of Joseph

Mordecai, Pamela

United States

Through the story of one family, this book captures the history and experiences of the South African Indian pioneers from 1894, when an Ismaili, Jivan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the release of Nelson Mandela. Keshavjee describes vividly, with a dash of humour and pathos, life in urban South Africa under apartheid and the long struggles for human rights. Using historical sources and numerous remembered anecdotes, he highlights Mahatma Gandhi?s early work, which led to the formulation of Satyagraha (Passive Resistance), and Gandhi?s interactions with the Indian families that are remembered to this day. The book ends by describing the lives of the exiles in independent Kenya and Uganda?where they were forced out by Amin?and their arrival in Europe and North America. With 60 historical photographs, a family tree, and a facsimile of Mahatma Gandhi?s letter to Velshi Keshavjee in 1938, this unique account is not only a multigenerational family history but also a history of the Asians of Africa over a hundred years. With a Foreword by Ahmed Kathrada, leading anti-apartheid activist in South Africa.

Into that Heaven of Freedom: The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history

Keshavjee, Mohamed M.

Community & Culture

In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme-of-colour lens, Bodymap contains work created and performed with Sins Invalid. Bodymap maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.

Bodymap

Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi

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