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Indiana Calling Alberta
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When her husband of forty-five years passed away, author Ethel McKellar was beyond grief. She’d lost the love of her life, her soul mate. While her husband’s health had been declining for some time, the loss was no less sudden, no less devasting....
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Amazing Stages
Memories from a British-Canadian actress
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Amazing Stages is the riveting memoir of actress Marye Barton who emigrated to Canada in the mid-twentieth century where she worked hard to continue her career as a performer and to work through the “demons” of her childhood. Ms. Barton shares...
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Life at the Top of the World
Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle
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'Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle' highlights the story of Maria Maki Anttila, a Finnish-Swede residing in the northern hamlet of Juoksengi. Born in a sauna overlooking the Tornio River in the late 1800s, Maria...
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Coming Home
A Memoir
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We all have a story to tell, be it long or short, truly blessed or full of challenges. Coming Home tells just such a story, starting from the author’s humble beginnings as a shy, reclusive girl in a Mennonite community on Vancouver Island in the...
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The God We Serve is Awesome
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Olina F. Bailey has been through trials and tribulations as far back as she can remember, both in her time spent in the United States and her life in Liberia. God brought her through these with flying colors, performing many miracles for her. In...
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Yesterday's Sorrow
Writing my way to a new life
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At four years old, Akeba Canning saw the world as a paradise. Born to Grenadian parents in Trinidad, she spent much of her early childhood eating mangoes, chasing butterflies, and idolizing her older brothers. But at age eight, a sudden upheaval...
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Reinventing the Past
Memories of a Dry Land
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Armed with nothing but the flimsy evidence of a Bata shoebox filled with her mother's old photographs, Monique Layton reconstructs her colonial childhood in Morocco in the 1930s. Nothing is as it seems as the author guides her readers through a...
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Her Believable Lies
Surviving Intimate Partner Violence
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On May 7, 1988, Michelle got married. Shawn, the man standing before her, was her abuser, her controller, and the only serious boyfriend she’d ever had. In that moment, she felt like this wedding ceremony would mark the end of her life; it turned...
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10 Days in February... Limitations & 10 Days in March... Possibilities
A Memoir
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As a child in the 1960s, my biggest and happiest influences were: • living in the mountains of Colorado • experiencing Brownies and Girl Scouts • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ‘Little House’ books • Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan •...
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Why Are You So-
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For eight summers, my life went on the same way. The smell of lilacs, and when school was out, two tickets to the Calgary Stampede tucked into my report card, and a trip to Winnipeg to see Baba. And then Dad said we were moving. I said no, I...
