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Adelle Purdham

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Adelle Purdham (she/her) is an educator, parent disability advocate, and the author of the memoir-in-essays, I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself (Dundurn Press, 2024). Adelle’s essays are finalists in several creative nonfiction contests, and her prose and poetry appear in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, newspapers and online. Adelle lives in her hometown of Nogojiwanong (Peterborough), Ontario, and teaches creative writing at Trent University-Durham.

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A Palestinian coming-of-age tale that tells the story of Aziz, a boy figuring out his identity amid a backdrop of constant occupation, threat, and corruption. Full of nuanced characters, here is life on the streets of Jerusalem and its people in all o ...more
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A crime mystery novel set in a rural community at the turn of the 19th century, readers will be delighted to come to know Larkin Beattie and curious to uncover his many secrets that will keep you on your toes until the very end. Written with historic ...more
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“Waiting for Elyse to reach a developmental milestone is like seven years of waiting for the sun to emerge. When the moment comes, the effect is a ray of sunshine in an otherwise grey world. The golden hour is pure celebration, light.”
― Adelle Purdham, I Don't Do Disability and Other Lies I've Told Myself

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