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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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Let the Sufi Flout
Surviving the Summer of ’57 in the Yukon by Lynn Arnason Friesen
At home in Toronto in 1997, sixty-year-old Maude Thorvaldson is jolted back to the most pivotal chapter of her life when a radio interview with an old friend unlocks a rush of Yukon memories—and the girl she used to be. It’s the summer of 1957, and nineteen-year-old Maude heads north to work on a federal experimental farm at Mile 1019 on the Alaska Highway. The only woman among six summer students, she’s hungry for “experience” before she returns home to a tidy future—and an engagement waiting in the wings. With no women’s quarters, she’s placed in a couple’s spare bedroom, then pulled into the orbit of the “Bunkhouse Boys,” becoming the focus of their petty rivalries, rough humour, and pent-up sexual energy. As the days stretch longer under the northern lights, Maude is pulled between Takasaki (“Tak”), a brilliant, lonely researcher whose friendship with Maude threatens to explode into something else, a handsome RCMP constable who keeps drifting in and out of her life, and Roscoe, an unstable farm worker who fixates on Maude in ways she can’t laugh off. Told through letters, diary entries, and sharp asides from Maude’s older, wiser self, Let the Sufi Flout is a funny, frank, and deeply human coming-of-age story about desire, freedom, and the messes we make while learning how to live.
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Our Global Health Care Journey Within God's Greater Reality
Memoirs and Reflections by Robert Taylor and Suzanne Taylor
Most individuals who embark on a health care career discover quite early that their working journey is one of responding to others’ needs. No matter what the circumstance or where the location, health care is a global need requiring a response from those prepared to serve others. The Taylors’ health care careers have taken them across Canada and throughout the globe over a period of more than fifty-years. Many of their global deployments have been to isolated settings with low-resources, to disasters, to war zones and to detention centres, where a wide perspective of health care response is required. At different times they have worked with faith-based missions, university programs, professional NGO’s and the Red Cross. Their faith in God and in His love for all humanity, and the confidence that He is always at work for good, has been a significant factor motivating their readiness to respond. Here are highlighted memories and reflections on what they have learned on their journey.
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Leadership Turnaround
by Ifie Sekibo
Leadership Turnaround is part memoir, part leadership manual, and part call to action for leaders and institutions. It grew out of Dr. Ifie’s lived experience transforming the long-dormant Société Générale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) into Heritage Banking Limited, one of the most remarkable institutional resurrections in Nigerian financial history. Written over seven years of research and reflections, the book explores not just the mechanics of organizational recovery, but the deeper human and psychological dimensions of what it truly takes to turn things around. The core themes are: Why vision without the right mental framework is “hallucination,” and how leaders must cultivate a possibility mindset even when circumstances say otherwise. Secondly, moving beyond the “heroic individual” model toward building teams where leadership is shared and multiplied. Also, the human side of leading through crisis and how leaders can unlock potential in themselves and their teams. Finally, the last two themes are the role of inner belief in sustaining leaders through periods strategy cannot illuminate and legacy as what enduring leadership ultimately leaves behind. The book is grounded in the Heritage Bank turnaround story, including its eventual collapse and Dr. Ifie did not shy away from failure, calling it one of the book’s most important chapters. It features a foreword by John Adair, the world-renowned leadership authority and it is deeply rooted in the African context, yet universally applicable and written as a letter to the rising generation of African leaders. It blends rigorous frameworks with raw, personal experience. The book is for executives inheriting struggling organizations, young professionals in Africa seeking practical leadership guidance, students of leadership wanting theory tested in real life.
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Sh*t People Don’t Know
The Backstory of Everything by Dr. Phil Tanner
Language is messy. Idioms are worse. We use them recklessly without asking ourselves why we do it. We expect everyone to understand us, but many of these phrases have outlived the societies that created them. Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? Why do people throw salt over their shoulder? How can you drop the ball at work but still be left holding the ball, especially after your boss just threw you a curve ball? Sh*t People Don’t Know pulls back the curtain on a language that behaves less like a rulebook and more like an inside joke. This is an entertaining deep dive into the strange origins of the words, phrases, customs, and superstitions woven into everyday English. You’ll also uncover the forgotten logic behind traditions, the surprising roots of major holidays, and the quiet fingerprints of secret societies, old-world rituals, and religion that still shapes how we speak and behave today. Some stories are hilarious, others are dark, and a few might make you squirm. Whether you’re a native speaker or just learning, this book reveals language for what it really is: a living record of human behaviour that is illogical, fascinating, and often ridiculous. Eventually, you’ll catch yourself thinking … “Well sh*t, I didn’t know that.”
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Best for Baby's Care
Infant Care with Raw Food Recipes and Home Remedies by Hope S. Fulefiled
Nourish your baby with raw whole foods and natural home remedies made quick and easy by Hope S. Fulefiled’s step-by-step guide. Much more than a recipe book, Best for Baby’s Care will teach you how and when to introduce new foods into your baby’s diet and how to use natural home remedies to remedy common illnesses and injuries. Hope S. Fulefiled uses easily accessible ingredients to create flavourful, raw purees that are baby-approved. Recipes like Heavenly Honeydew, Spectacular Spinach, Terrific Turnips, and Zesty Zucchini will expand your culinary repertoire and take the guesswork out of meal preparation. All you need is a blender to make satisfying, nutritious meals for your child. Equally simple is Hope S. Fulefiled’s breakdown of natural remedies for common illnesses and injuries, such as colds, pink eye, burns, and stings. Made with inexpensive household ingredients, these multi-purpose remedies are designed to save busy parents time and money. Whether you’re expecting your first child or welcoming the fourth addition to your family, Best for Baby’s Care can provide you with the know-how to keep your baby healthy and happy on a raw foods diet and treat common illnesses and injuries with effective home remedies.
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Four Years of Talking
by Steve Azaiki
Four Years of Talking is a compelling compilation of speeches, articles, and press releases delivered by Prof. Steve Sinikiem Azaiki during his tenure as a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives from June 2019 to June 2023. The book offers a candid and detailed window into the work of a legislator — not just on the floor of the National Assembly, but across national, and international platforms. The book is organized into two thematic parts: Bayelsa Politics and National Affairs. Among the defining moments captured in the book are Prof. Azaiki’s passionate response to the devastating 2022 floods in Bayelsa State, his position papers on the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill and the Electoral Bill, his stewardship accounts to constituents, and his consistent championing of education and human capital development. Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, wrote the Foreword, describing the book as “a clear portrait of robust representation.” The book is dedicated to Prof. Azaiki’s daughter, Kalizibe, who at thirteen fought cancer for two years — and won.
