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I Want to Break Free
An Abacus Story
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In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained...
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Songbirds Keep Singing
A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation
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In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In...
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Wreckless
Stories from the Wild Life of Canadian Entrepreneur Nelson Skalbania
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Meet Nelson Skalbania. Most Canadians have heard of him: he's the man who gave Wayne Gretzky his big break in hockey. In real estate, he coined the term 'flipping.' He also owned (and sold) diverse commodities such as The Edmonton Oilers, Circus...
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Retired Ground
A Climber's Odyssey
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He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more. In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical...
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A Bruised Reed
A Personal History of Ukraine and Ukrainian Immigration to Canada
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Marek’s personal story is framed within Ukraine’s broader history of foreign domination, war, and cultural suppression. In the aftermath of WWI Marek, along with his wife Matrunka set sail to Canada. They establish a homestead in Alberta with...
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An Ayahuasca Odyssey
My Seven-Year Journey with Grandmother to Heal Depression
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The first time Silvia Remkins drank ayahuasca, a psychotropic medicine sacred to the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, she was hoping to experience mystical union with nature and the cosmos. The reality, however, was nothing like it. The deeply...
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Reflections
Poems and stories from a lifetime of observation
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The book is a collection of poetry, verse and five short stories. It is a reflection on the author's observations of people, cultures, and commentary on the idosyncracies of humankind. Its content also draws attention to the disagreeable...
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Figuring Out Life
A Memoir of my Early Years
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After the tragic death of his father, Smook, his older brother, Roger, and their mother must find their way forward against the backdrop of the Great Depression and WWII. Smook relates his school years, laced with memorable classmates and...
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Resilient
Unlearning the Pain, Rebuilding a Life
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How do you move forward when some of your earliest memories are coloured by abuse? How do you survive trauma that is, for many, unimaginable? Is it your responsibility to forgive those who hurt you, even if they won’t admit they did wrong?...
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will
Finding Joy and Purpose in Life After Child Loss
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will is a mother’s raw, tender, and ultimately life-affirming memoir of love after loss. When Joni Bouchard’s twelve-year-old son, Will, dies suddenly and tragically, her world fractures. She continues their daily...
