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Alexandra Shimo

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Toronto, Canada

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Nonfiction, Memoir

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Joseph Boyden, Barbara Gowdy, Alice Munro, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Jef ...more

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Alexandra Shimo studied at Oxford (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and did a Master's in journalism at Columbia before she went to work as a producer for the CBC and an editor at Maclean's. An award-winning journalist, she lives in Toronto. ...more

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	Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 1,214 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Argonauts

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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