Faith is more than memorizing key passages from the Bible, attending church on a weekly basis, or praying before bed. Instead, understanding the power of the Holy Spirit implies that one must incorporate various ideas of faith into... Read More

Anyone who has ever cherished a dream to go back to the land, raise their own food, and take steps toward self-sufficiency will enjoy this exploration of the authors’ years-long journey down that road. Long-time homesteaders in a... Read More

Children suffer when separation and divorce upset the equilibrium of their home life. Some couples manage this transition by maintaining civility and cooperating for the sake of their children. When a spouse has fallen for someone else,... Read More

There are times when a memoir is so honest and straightforward in depicting a traumatic event that it very subtly becomes a heartwarming epic of astonishing survival and stoicism. "Trust Not" is that book. With amazing detail (sometimes... Read More

In Joyce Wieland: Writings and Drawings, editor Jane Lind curates a collection of journals and sketches, granting readers a multi-dimensional look at the life of Canadian artist Joyce Wieland. Wieland, born into a “rough-and-tumble”... Read More

In the annual glut of summer beach reads, Jane Austen’s novels likely still hold a respectable place on many readers’ lists. Austen’s fictional recountings of the doings of her era’s English society and classes make for a... Read More

Growing up on a farm in the 1930s couldn’t have been easy, but Jane Lowrey-Christian (Sissy) and her older brother Bernard (Budgie) had a close and loving family to help them make the best of it. In nine brief stories, Lowrey-Christian... Read More

Quackless Duck, a toy rubber ducky, is left alone in the bathtub while his playmate and the playmate’s family are away. Quackless gets a visit from two young bear cubs who appear in an oddly crooked window. The duck’s “secret... Read More