Grandma’s garden is a magical place. With a blue bucket in hand, Linh and Grandma explore the wonderful vegetables that grow in the warm, dark earth. Linh learns how to open a pea pod to eat the fresh peas nestled inside, which tomatoes are the best to pick, and where to find potatoes deep in the soil. There are so many incredible plants and vegetables, and Linh can’t wait to find them all. One, two, three… a dozen or maybe 200!

And after all the vegetables are picked, what will Grandma and Linh do with them? There’s more delight to discover in Grandma’s kitchen.

Grandma's Blue Bucket is a sweet, heartwarming story about the bond between a young girl and her grandmother. It shares the beauty of nature and the importance of eating good, healthy food. Grandchildren fill a grandparent’s heart with joy, wonder, and love—and this book shares that contentment with readers young and old.

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In 1889, Dr. Sylvain de Caseneuve arrives in New Ontario, a region recently opened to settlers, many of whom are French-Canadians. Swept up by the spirit of Mattawa's thriving community, his many endeavours to offer physical and moral care are thwarted by commercial interests and complacent government officials. 

Reviewing his diary, diligently kept over 29 years, de Caseneuve relives his tumultuous love affair and eventual marriage to Jasmine Fife, with whom he has a son, Maxence.  

Simmering hostilities, rooted in conflicting English and French priorities, lead him to worry about Maxence’s future and what lies ahead for his compatriots, whose cultural survival is threatened by Ottawa's priorities. Such trials ultimately lead to the failure of his marriage and a sense of alienation that compel him to leave Mattawa and to return to his homeland, alone and broken.

His hopes are rekindled as he bonds with his undergraduate son whose resolve to seek a better future for his people redeems his father's vision.

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When Elizabeth’s new classmate shares that she has celiac disease, Elizabeth is eager to help. Her solution? Try making something gluten-free! But cooking isn’t always as simple as it looks.

With encouragement from her mom and her own determination, Elizabeth learns that mistakes are part of the process and understanding kitchen science helps her improve her cooking. Most importantly, she discovers the value of perseverance: if you keep trying, you can get it right.

Full of fun and curiosity, this story introduces young readers to science in the kitchen in a way that’s easy to understand and exciting to explore. With two hands-on activities included, kids can experiment at home and see the science for themselves.

Elizabeth Explores Kitchen Science is perfect for readers who love to experiment, get creative, and discover that science is everywhere—even in the food we eat!

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Resilience on the Front Line is a practical, boots-on-the-ground guide for anyone working—or caring about someone working—on the front lines of trauma.

Drawing on nearly thirty years experience as a police officer and Wellness leader, author Mike Lockington offers 101 real-world recommendations to help trauma-exposed professionals, their leaders, and their families take proactive steps toward resilience and mental wellness. Whether it be policing, firefighting, paramedicine, nursing, corrections, or other trauma-exposed work, this book offers clear, actionable strategies grounded in lived experience and informed by a deep understanding of front line reality.

Unlike clinical texts or personal memoirs, this guide bridges the gap—combining credible insight with immediate advice. From within the broader framework of community safety and well-being, this book speaks to those working in Wellness units, executive leadership roles, and anyone supporting a loved one in these professions. With leadership guidance and honest stories from the front line, this book offers a powerful blend of professional wisdom and personal understanding.

Whether you're leading an organization, managing a team, or simply trying to stay healthy in a demanding job—this book is your field guide to resilience.

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The art world loves a spectacle. But at what cost?

In Top Tick, art collector and former finance professional David Birkenshaw pulls back the velvet curtain on contemporary art’s high-stakes circus, where branding often matters more than brushwork. Blending personal insight with auction data, he reveals a volatile marketplace in which only the top 1 percent of “brand-name” artists (think Warhol, Hirst, or Basquiat) hold their value, while the rest quietly vanish from gallery walls—and balance sheets.

From multimillion-dollar bananas to crypto-funded publicity stunts, Top Tick explores how hype, wealth signaling, and fashion routinely outpace artistic merit. This isn’t a takedown of contemporary art. Rather, it’s a clear-eyed look at how it’s traded, flaunted, and forgotten. A cautionary tale disguised as market analysis, Top Tick is essential reading for anyone who still believes “investment-grade art” is anything but an oxymoron.

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We all know not to let strangers into the house—but what about the Tooth Fairy? When JoJo’s second tooth starts to feel loose, she has second thoughts about letting this magical creature back into her room. She doesn’t mind that Santa comes every year, because she gets to meet him at the mall, but the Tooth Fairy is a total unknown. JoJo is determined to learn everything she can before deciding if she’s okay with handing over her teeth.

When every adult tells JoJo something different about their Tooth Fairy sightings, and no kid has seen her at all, JoJo decides to set up her own investigative experiments. Will she be able to learn the secret of the money-gifting magical creature? Can JoJo discover just who the Tooth Fairy is?

Tooth Fairy Confidential is light-hearted, entertaining read that encourages kids to ask questions and understand the world around them. Set at Christmas, it weaves together the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus to help kids answer all the questions they might have about these magical beings.

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Brenda and Arpita love hanging out in Brenda's treehouse and reading mystery stories. When an unreadable note blows into their clubhouse, they see their chance to solve a real-life mystery! The two best friends set out on a quest to discover its meaning.

On their journey, they discover many cultures that use different writing systems, including Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chinese, and Cree. But, at the end of the day, Brenda and Arpita will need to use their very best detective skills to discover just what kind of writing they’ve stumbled on—and what code they’ll need to decipher it!

Quest for the Code is an engaging, fun mystery book that explores the joy of discovery, the importance of self-reliance and hard work, and the mystery of cursive writing.

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Welcome to Edenvale, a small town … with big secrets.

When Private Investigator Kit Kotcka arrives in Edenvale, Ontario, to look into the background of a teenage mother whose infant child recently died of starvation, an ethereal smell of smoke haunts her. Kit’s task should be straightforward: to find the family and friends of the young mother, Fiona Orth, and find out what sort of person she is. Could Fiona be lying about how she was let down by social services who failed to recognize her child wasn’t thriving under his mother’s care?

Kit quickly discovers that the perfect small-town life is not as it seems in this tourist hotspot. Interviewing family, former teachers, and classmates, she starts to colour a mental portrait of Fiona, a brilliant but strange child with a checkered past. Kit teams up with Jack, a journalist who is doing his own research on a murder investigation within the same family in Edenvale. By combining their skills, they uncover a complicated web of family secrets that are threaded throughout the community.

With Kit sniffing around town and asking questions about events that were buried long ago, she disturbs a snake’s nest and becomes a target for someone who needs to ensure her silence. Kit soon finds herself in a race to uncover the truth about the tragedies this town has faced—before she becomes the next victim.

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Love knows no bounds—even when it crosses the boundaries of propriety.

In the Highlands of Scotland in the late 1800s, James Alexander Cunningham sets out for Edinburgh to study architecture at the university. While staying at his uncle’s home, he encounters a presence that awakens feelings he has never known before. Roberta. Their love blooms—passionate, fated. Until tragedy strikes, and everything is lost.

Decades later, another James Alexander Cunningham—also an architect—and his daughter, Roberta Alexandra Cunningham, share a terrifying recurring nightmare. Not only that, but their bond is unusually strong; Roberta has always turned to her father—not her mother—for comfort, protection, and a sense of belonging. But when she returns from university with a PhD in architecture, something shifts. A current stirs between them—intimate, unsettling. How can this be?

Set against the lush backdrop of Oxfordshire and the wild, heathered hills of Inverness, this bold and deeply emotional story of love defies the rules of time, memory, and society. Only a handful of trusted friends know the truth. But silence weighs heavily on everyone. Will one of them slip?

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If a plough strikes a rock, the furrow—the trench in the earth made by the plough—is broken. The otherwise straight line is disrupted, an imperfection you can’t hide. In competition ploughing, a broken furrow is catastrophic.

From his childhood in wartime Wales to his years working across Canada, author Jeffrey R. Thomas has experienced many rocks in his life. His memoir, The Broken Furrow: The Tale of a Welsh Farmer in Canada, is full of them. Maybe the first was when his father abandoned the generations-long tradition of passing down the family farm. Or when Jeffrey emigrated from Wales to Canada as a result. But no matter what life—and nature—had in store for him, Jeffrey persevered. He had to. That’s why Jeffrey and his growing family moved to Ontario to Manitoba to British Columbia—and back and forth—following where the opportunities took them, whether it was sheep farming, trucking, or sales. But after years of riding the highs and lows, Jeffrey retired—sort of.

Detailed and expansive, The Broken Furrow is more than a memoir about farming and rural living. It’s a story rich with history and adventure, an ode to all the incredible people Jeffrey has met in his long, perfectly imperfect life.

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When a little girl named Marigold Amelia Plum is called to the magical land of Chaireina by its Creator, the ever-loving and benevolent Magnus Opa, she is astounded by its enchanting beauty and the welcoming kindness of its fantastical creatures. And though it feels very much like a place where nothing bad could ever happen, she soon learns that this is not the case. As lovely as it is, Chaireina has long been under threat. Sly Sigmund the Soothsayer wants nothing more than to destroy all the good works of Magnus Opa and drain every ounce of joy from the land.

Marigold soon discovers that she is one of Magnus Opa’s very rare and very special “Chosen Ones,” with a heart capable of withstanding even the worst of Sigmund’s tricks and manipulations . . . and that her help is very much needed. Sigmund has tricked young King Azarel into surrendering the Apricus Amulet, which contains and protects all the unquenchable joy of Chaireina, as long as it is worn close to the pure heart of Magnus Opa’s anointed king or queen.

And so, joined by an assortment of truly marvellous new friends, Marigold must set out on an incredible Quest of Grit and Grace in the hopes of returning the amulet to its rightful owner to save an entire world from losing its joy forever.

A chapter book for older children (ages 6 to 12), The Amulet of Joy is a wonderfully entertaining story of self-acceptance, the triumph of good over evil, and the importance of having faith and courage in the face of adversity.

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A tale of constancy and betrayal, brokenness and redemption, Three Days Till Rapture is a working-class novel set in the wilds of northern Manitoba in the 1950s.

Grace is determined to save her errant young husband, Valentine Labeau – from himself, from his baser nature, from the drink. A charming guitar-player and singer, he’s a flawed man but a wonderful father to their children. Cheerful and feisty, Grace dedicates her tenacious love to Valentine’s entire troubled family.

But hardships pile upon losses and sorrows. And Grace is only a woman, after all, not a saint and not an angel.

Can she really save them all? Can she even save herself and the children?

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The Last Letter is an epic tale of the rise and fall of the fictional Carmichael dynasty through three generations, during a period of explosive growth of the Pacific Northwest.

During a punishing drought in the Midwest in 1898, a young homesteader is swept up in the hope and hype of the Klondike Gold Rush, and joins the great stampede to the Yukon. Readers experience the Gold Rush through the wide eyes of the nineteen-year-old farm kid. Through hardship and setbacks, liars and thieves, Seamus returns with a fortune, but the gold carries a curse.

When the present-day brother and sister discover the shocking truth about the curse, sibling ties are ripped apart. Jack is compelled to expose the truth, while cunning and powerful Olivia, will do anything to keep the families’ secret buried with the past.

The Last Letter takes readers on a great adventure, from the rough and tumble boomtowns of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, to the opulent boardrooms of the powerbrokers of today.

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Why is my sister so special,

And is that really true?

She is only my sister—

How come I’m not special too?

Hayley loves her family, especially her big sister Megan, but sometimes she wonders why Megan gets so much attention. Everyone says that Megan is “special”—but they never say that to her. Normally Hayley would rely on Bunny to make her feel better, but her stuffed friend is missing in action. It’s up to Hayley to figure out just what the word special means—and to learn whether or not she’s special, too.

Am I Special Too? is for all young children who question their value, especially in this big, confusing world. It holds special significance for young kids whose siblings have special needs, and for parents who want to open a conversation with their kids about what special means. Readers will learn about accepting differences, recognising one’s unique value and place in the world, and seeing that each one of us is special in our own way.

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Obsession cuts both ways.

Dr. Liam O’Keefe is a top surgeon in Washington, D.C., a master of control in the operating room. At home, it’s a different story. With three young children and a wife, Sara, who feels her career as an investigative journalist has been disregarded, the strain on their marriage is quietly reaching a breaking point.

Then Sara is found murdered just blocks from their home. While the police stall, Liam begins searching for answers, and possibly for redemption. What starts as a desperate attempt to make sense of her death becomes a slow unraveling of the life they built together. The secrets she left behind. The ones he has tried to forget. Everyone is a suspect. Even Liam himself. The clues start to fall into place, but the truth is just out of reach.

Set in the heart of Washington, this medical mystery peels back the polished surface of marriage, ambition, and control.

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¿Qué le impide alcanzar sus sueños? Rodeados a diario de mensajes negativos en nuestras vidas, nos callamos y nos contenemos por el miedo que nos rodea, apoyándonos en nuestras esperanzas de un futuro mejor sin dar los pasos necesarios para hacer realidad esas esperanzas.

Prisioneros de la Esperanza nos prepara para el viaje al interior de nosotros mismos a medida que nos despojamos de capas de negatividad del pasado para aferrarnos a nuestros sueños. A través de ejemplos de los retos de la vida, el autor Salvador S. Erazo nos enseña a escuchar nuestras llamadas interiores y a encontrar la pasión en nuestras vidas que nos impulsa a convertirnos en mejores versiones de nosotros mismos.

A través de la fijación de objetivos, las lecciones aprendidas y, en última instancia, dando ese primer paso hacia un nuevo más allá, Prisioneros de la Esperanza nos ofrece una mano que nos guía mientras nos enfrentamos conscientemente a nuestros miedos para dar la bienvenida a nuestras nuevas vidas.

Prisioneros de la Esperanza es su primer libro.

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"And the irony of life was how long it took me to realize how short it is."

In this unflinching collection of aphorisms, Isheiko Cleare reflects on love and loneliness, power and faith, childhood and identity. With a voice that’s inquisitive, wry, cynical, hopeful, intrusive, yet potently human, he distills life’s contradictions into lines you’ll want to underline and return to:

“She asked if I’ve ever been to war. I said yes. I was once in love.”

“Most men are debris of their childhoods.”

“Rock bottom taught me not to throw stones.”

These fragments of insight stand alone, yet together they form a portrait of a mind wrestling with what it means to live honestly in a world of masks, myths, and endless noise. For readers of contemporary poetry, philosophy, and anyone seeking flashes of clarity in the chaos of being human, Nomenclature of an Idle Thought is a reminder that no one is alone in what they think.

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Bobbi’s mom calls her the boss of the house. Bobbi loves having her mom’s attention. So, when her mom decides to foster Peter, a rescue pup from Lebanon, Bobbi is unsure whether there’s room for him in the family. She doesn’t like sharing her mom’s attention with Peter.

Peter is shy, scared, and nervous in his new home. He needs a lot of patience and love. Mom takes good care of him. Chuck, Bobbi's brother easily forms a friendship with Peter, but Bobbi is still jealous. Can she learn to accept Peter?

One day during a walk in the forest, Bobbi, Chuck, Peter, and Mom are surrounded by a pack of coyotes. They all feel scared. What will they do? Who will protect them? The answer is surprising!

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What if the path to healing your past begins with accepting your child for who they truly are?

Collective Souls is a powerful, fictionalized account of four women learning to reclaim their voices. Set in rural 1980s Canada, the story unfolds through interwoven narratives of the women as girls, grappling with poverty, displacement, and generational trauma—setting the stage for who they will become as mothers.

Each protagonist—fierce, flawed, and mother to an LGBTQ+ child—wrestles with where she fits: within her family, her community, and most of all, herself. All are determined to protect their children, even if it means facing truths that they have buried deep. This is a novel about motherhood as advocacy, about parenting not from perfection but from the desire to heal what you never had. It’s about the shift from silent shame to finding your voice, from survival to agency.

With tenderness and grit, Collective Souls invites you into these women’s kitchens, barns, bars, and backroads—and into the hearts of women learning, at last, to belong to themselves.

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What would it be like to live in a beautiful beach town surrounded by the wonders of nature? Open this book and find out!

In three English and Spanish stories about San Clemente, Ecuador, 12-year-old Kristin describes traditional ways of life in her beloved hometown—fishing, farming, and salt harvesting. Enhanced by her own illustrations (completed when she was just 10 years old), these portraits of hard workers shed light on a place brimming with its own special magic.

Read Little Beach Town Stories to enhance your language skills, learn more about the world, or gain inspiration for your own artistic efforts. The possibilities are endless!

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