Carolyn Kirby’s "The Conviction of Cora Burns" finds twenty-year-old Cora Burns desperate to discover what’s hidden in her memory’s shadows. It’s 1885, and she’s a child of the system. Raised in the Union workhouse, transferred... Read More

Thoughtful, inspiring, and moving, This Place: 150 Years Retold collects ten tales about the Indigenous communities of Canada and their troubled relationship with the country’s non-Indigenous inhabitants. The talented writers and... Read More

This memoir about academia, career frustrations, and changing times includes insights and humor. David R. Greatrix’s fictionalized memoir Farewell to the Good Old Days is about his life in academia. The story follows Greatrix’s life,... Read More

Proposing ways to make life better for everyone, one kind act at a time, "A Year of Living Kindly" is an optimistic self-help work. Donna Cameron’s self-help book "A Year of Living Kindly" is filled with sage advice on living a kinder... Read More

"Quite Mad", Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s mental illness memoir, is nothing short of mesmerizing—an ode to her years of struggling with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD, all of which she eventually accepted as a core part of her being. The book... Read More

"My Side of the Bed" is a keenly felt story of moving beyond betrayal. In her affecting memoir, "My Side of the Bed", Margherita Gale Harris copes with protracted marital infidelity, and struggles to get an annulment from her church.... Read More

Through yoga and a macrobiotic diet, Saeeda Hafiz was able to conquer the demons of her past and escape her family’s cycle of violence and drug abuse. In "The Healing", Hafiz tells her story in raw, unflinchingly honest prose, and the... Read More

"38 Hours to Montreal", with its many photos and its amazing ambiance of bleak Canadian winters, reminds us of what great history books used to be like. Speed, technology, and transition are the central themes of this fun, lively history... Read More