Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond brings together scholarly essays from faculty at the University College of the North (UCN), where the majority of students identify as Indigenous. Written from a wide range of disciplines, the chapters highlight how the faculty at UCN integrates Indigenous and Northern values into teaching and learning, with the goal of creating educational experiences that are culturally meaningful, inclusive, and supportive.

The contributors share strategies that build on Indigenous learners’ motivation and resilience, while emphasizing the importance of relationship-building, community engagement, and integrating Indigenous ways of knowing alongside Western educational models. Each essay offers practical approaches for developing student success both in academic settings and in life beyond the classroom.

By addressing the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization on education, this collection underscores UCN’s commitment to reconciliation. The essays demonstrate how post-secondary institutions can play a vital role in healing and empowerment, offering tools and frameworks for positive change in Indigenous education.

Educators, researchers, policymakers, and allies will find thoughtful perspectives here, while Indigenous students and teachers will recognize experiences that speak directly to their realities. More broadly, Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond invites readers to consider how Indigenous and Western knowledge systems can come together in meaningful ways.

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What happens when the faith culture that shaped your life begins to fracture?

In Reclaiming the Clay, a young girl grows up in a Dutch Calvinist immigrant community in mid-twentieth-century Canada, surrounded by family, tradition, and a deep sense of belonging. Through interconnected stories, a blend of fiction and memoir, Annita Maat draws readers into the everyday rhythms of church, school, and home, where joy and curiosity sit alongside discipline, loss, and questions that don’t easily go away.

Over time, those questions deepen into a crisis, ultimately leading to her expulsion from the very community that formed her. Yet the story does not end there.

Something else begins to take shape: a resilient faith shaped not by doctrine alone, but by compassion, humility, and shared responsibility. In that small, committed Christian community, wounded lives are welcomed, and healing begins in quiet, practical ways, day by day.

In the spirit of the Master Potter’s work in restoring what has been misshapen, Reclaiming the Clay is a powerful exploration of faith, belonging, and transformation.

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Some secrets do come back from the grave.

When Amelia Jackson returns to Swansboro, North Carolina, after studying overseas, she expects her work at the local museum to be a quiet opportunity to preserve the memories of the town’s oldest residents. Instead, the oral history project uncovers forgotten family histories, hidden journals, and secrets that powerful people have spent decades hiding.

As Amelia listens to the residents’ memories, she learns the troubling story of the mysterious death of a young woman in 1945. When another young woman is found dead by the waterfront, Amelia realizes that the past and present are connected. She embarks on a journey to solve the mystery, recruiting not only some of the town’s most animated living residents, but a few delightful spirits of women from the past as well.

Melissa Collins Harrell weaves together mystery, history, and a touch of the supernatural in Vanishing Voices: A Crystal Coast Mystery. Intriguing to teen and adult readers alike, the novel explores whose stories are preserved, whose are erased, and how justice can reach through the centuries to bring resolution and peace to the souls of the departed.

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Putting students first should be the first priority of all public school systems. Today that is not the case in New Brunswick where the system is mired in ongoing crisis, students are struggling in class, and the public is losing faith in its public schools. Leading Canadian education analyst Paul W. Bennett’s latest book, Struggling in Class: A Report Card on Education in New Brunswick, explains how it happened, assesses the state of the system, and provides a whole range of viable policy solutions. Written in collaboration with Community of Creative Citizens, it provides many lessons for anyone committed to improving our schools for the current generation.

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Every summer, a little old lady welcomes a hummingbird to her back garden. She keeps a hummingbird feeder in front of her kitchen window so she can sit and watch him as he drinks from the nourishing sugar water. To demonstrate his appreciation, the little hummingbird always leaves a red rose on the little old lady’s back step before he migrates south for the winter. Gradually, a deep bond of affection develops between them.

As the years go on, the little old lady becomes older and frailer. Eventually, she no longer appears in the garden or at her kitchen window. The little hummingbird notices her absence, but he does not know where she has gone. He longs to see her one more time. Where will he find her? And how can he show her how much he loves her?

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In school, we’re taught how to spell words and solve math problems—but we’re rarely shown how to handle some of life’s most important challenges.

In Life Skills, author, mother, and child educator Shakima Phillips guides children and teens in developing essential habits and mindsets.

This empowering book focuses on building:

• Self-care

• Gratitude

• Empathy

• Respect

• Communication

• Decision-making

• Responsibility and accountability

• …and much more!

Filled with engaging, step-by-step activities, Life Skills provides meaningful strategies and encourages support for young readers who want to grow into confident, capable, and successful adults.

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In today’s interconnected world, professional networking is no longer optional; it is essential for career growth. Yet many people understand its importance without knowing how to build, sustain, or use a strong professional network effectively.

Beyond the Business Card: Mastering Professional Networking for Career Growth is a practical guide for students and recent graduates, mid-career professionals, entrepreneurs, academics, and introverts who want to network with clarity, confidence, and purpose. This book moves beyond surface-level exchanges to show how meaningful professional relationships are built and why they matter.

Through a clear, step-by-step approach, Ann Ebunu explores personal branding, professional positioning, goal-driven networking, effective communication in both face-to-face and digital environments, and the long-term maintenance of professional relationships. Readers will learn how to build trust and credibility, navigate rejection and professional setbacks, work across cultures and industries, and ethically leverage networks for real career outcomes.

Emphasizing authenticity, integrity, and mutual value, Beyond the Business Card focuses on sustainable relationship-building rather than transactional contact-collecting. Whether you are entering the workforce, changing industries, or preparing for leadership advancement, this book provides practical tools to turn connections into lasting career assets.

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Parenting a child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be exhausting and challenging. In Canada and the United States, close to 9 million children and teenagers have been diagnosed with this disorder, but most people don’t know that almost 80% of these kids will also have other mental health issues, making life harder inside and outside the home.

In The ADHD Plus Phenomenon, Dr. Katherine G. Boyd draws from her long career in pediatric mental health to help parents address these additional challenges, including:

• Behavioral or conduct problems

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Gaming and/or social media addiction

• Learning disabilities

• Serious sensory issues

Each chapter tackles a different hard issue, such as how to respond to impulsive aggression and self-harming, how seriously you should take suicidal thoughts or threats, what to do about your child's lack of positive and consistent friendships, how to deal with the homework nightmare, and how to reduce family conflict to have a more peaceful household. Unpacking common misconceptions with scientific evidence, Dr. Boyd empowers families to support strengths and work through challenges together.

Every parent wants to see their child happy and successful. This book can prepare you to improve your child's life, bolster family relationships, and help your child with ADHD reach their full potential.

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Inspired by the author’s ancestry, this epic novel explores love, tragedy, and resilience in the lives of a large family before, during, and after World War Two in Scotland. When a Royal Scots soldier is sent to Hong Kong to help bolster the British Army, the British are eventually defeated in a gruesome battle. After the fall of Hong Kong while he is imprisoned by the Japanese for nearly four years he designs a tapestry to honour each POW who died in his Battalion. Just when he feels he can no longer go on living, a serendipitous encounter with a friend's sister becomes his inspiration to survive each tormented day in the camps.

Meanwhile, a young Scottish lass is struggling with the hardships of wartime and the atrocities she and her family must face every day. After the war, as she picks up the broken pieces of a world she no longer recognises, she learns of a life-changing connection she shares with the Royal Scots soldier.

A testament to the strength of the human spirit amidst adversity, this book illustrates how people can rise to challenges and survive the most difficult of times, whether it’s a young woman faced with the grief of losing precious family members or a young soldier navigating the horrors of war.

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Beneath the streets of Nazareth, a routine archaeological dig uncovers a hidden chamber untouched for two thousand years. Inside is a finely crafted wooden chest containing items powerful enough to ignite a global race for possession. Forensic and archaeological analyses could prove the find to be the most important discovery of all Israeli antiquities and, indeed, of all the world.

Dr. Leah Belyard, a brilliant American archaeologist, and David Abrams, her Israeli counterpart, are fierce rivals forced into a reluctant partnership when the discovery threatens to rewrite both science and faith. When a nefarious antiquities collector targets the artifact, the story becomes a web of treachery, car chases, heists, and sting operations, putting the scholars in mortal danger.

Blending meticulous archaeological realism and forensic analysis with cinematic scenes, the past collides with modern technology, and the question is not just what they have found and what it means, but who gets to decide what the world is allowed to know.

The God Strand: Unearthing the Code is a fast-paced, high-stakes archaeological thriller where science challenges belief, discovery invites danger, and the truth may be more explosive than anyone is prepared to face.

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One beautiful spring morning, Flora Fox decides to visit her friend Dudley the Owl, who lives in a distant kingdom. Once there, Dudley invites her to see a mysterious volcano in a nearby land; Flora is thrilled!

When they reach the volcano, they admire it from a safe distance. But then, Flora starts to explore on her own. Much to her surprise, she sees a group of hikers that is eager to remove a glowing stone that is trapped within the volcano’s wall.

Suddenly, the volcano begins to tremble. Flora tries to warn the group of the dangers of disturbing this ancient structure, but they ignore her. She knows that you shouldn’t take things that don’t belong to you—but can she make the hikers see the truth before it’s too late?

The Fox & the Volcano is an exciting fable that is sure to delight young readers for many years to come.

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Some people stumble into trouble. Marybeth “MB2” Buffington seems to attract it. However, when calamity comes knocking, she always manages to meet it with a grin, a quick comeback, or a linebacker-style tackle, depending on what the situation requires.

In I’m a Magnet to Stuff, Marybeth invites you to witness a life well lived, starting with her idyllic childhood in San Antonio, Texas, and extending throughout fifty years in banking. Through it all, her seamstress mother, her “can fix anything” father, and her friends and family members keep her laughing at every curveball—and herself. These pages are packed with true, bite-sized stories of workplace mayhem, family legends, encounters with all sorts of animals, side-splitting road trips, and the kind of “you have to be kidding me” moments that somehow always seem to find her.

Not every story ends with a laugh, but through it all, Marybeth’s voice remains warm, sharp, and relentlessly human.

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A collection of one hundred carefully selected poems written over numerous years, Wildflowers is a lifetime realized in verse.

Across eight sections, Koral Carpentier shows the breadth of her sincere, contemplative writing. She realizes vividly the indelible power of Canada’s breathtaking North, personal experiences of faith, the endurance of friendship and family, and countless other moments of awe, love, and mourning that are as personal as they are made familiar.

Capturing the course of many years of change, Wildflowers is a reminder and an invitation to live fully in the places and moments that make up a life.

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Most business books teach leaders how to build when conditions are stable. Panic Mode to Profit is for the moments when stability is gone. Payroll is at risk. Investor confidence is fading. Teams are losing trust. The market has shifted faster than the current strategy can survive. Every decision matters, and every delay creates more damage.

In those moments, panic is not the problem. Unstructured panic is.

This book gives founders, executives, and senior leaders a practical operating framework for making high stakes decisions in the middle of pressure. It shows how to slow the chaos, read the real signals, protect what still matters, and turn a dangerous interruption into a strategic reset.

Drawing from the realities of critical industries including healthcare, defense, aerospace, and semiconductor manufacturing, Panic Mode to Profit turns crisis leadership into a repeatable decision architecture leaders can use when the cost of guessing is too high.

Readers will learn how to:

• recognize early warning signs before a crisis becomes acute

• stabilize operations without panic driven cuts

• make decisions when information is incomplete and pressure is high

• separate survival instinct from real strategy

• understand how fear, ego, isolation, and fatigue distort judgment

• rebuild clarity, confidence, and momentum when the business is under strain

At its core, Panic Mode to Profit is built on one belief:

A crisis does not have to become the end of what you built. With structure, discipline, and the right decisions, it can become the moment that reveals your strongest advantage.

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You Are My Sunshine is a gentle, faith-filled poem from a parent’s heart to the children God has given us to love. In simple, soothing rhyme, it celebrates the dreams we carry before our children arrive, the light they bring into our days, and the steady comfort of God’s presence in every season of life.

Paired with warm, watercolor scenes of sunlit fields, tall sunflowers, sheltering trees, and starry skies, this book invites families to slow down, snuggle close, and remember that every child is a precious gift from God.

This is a story to read at bedtime, on hard days and happy days, as you whisper together: “Thank You, God, for this beautiful life, and for the sunshine You’ve placed in our hearts.

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Richly textured and lyrically written, Prairie Sonata is the story of Mira Adler and her journey from innocence to experience. Mira grows up in post–World War II Canada, in a close-knit Manitoba community founded by secular Jews from Eastern Europe. At the heart of her journey is the friendship that she develops with her teacher, Chaver B, a recent immigrant from Prague who is mysterious and intriguing and who Mira believes harbours a painful secret. Chaver B becomes deeply intwined in Mira’s life, and their relationship evolves, especially after he offers to teach her to play the violin.

Little by little, Mira chips away at Chaver B’s past and soon comes to the shocking realization of what brought him to Manitoba. What she learns about his history both outrages and saddens her, yet she cannot stop herself from uncovering the truth about his life. While Chaver B attempts to reconcile his feelings of guilt, Mira struggles to understand a world that seems to be vastly different from the nurturing and seemingly untroubled one in which she grows up. And despite what she learns about Chaver B, herself, and the world around her, when she is older, Mira yearns for the chance to go back to her childhood.

A coming-of-age story about music, love, friendship, community, and religion, Prairie Sonata is a riveting tale that will resonate with and captivate the reader.

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Dream big, stay positive, and never give up!

This beautifully illustrated book of affirmations is a toolkit for life, created for children of all ages. Filled with bright, cheerful artwork and uplifting messages, it teaches a powerful lesson: when you build a strong foundation of joy and self-belief, you can overcome any challenge.

Perfect for morning motivation, bedtime bonding, or a quick boost of confidence, these pages will inspire young readers to face the world with courage, kindness, and a happy heart.

Remember: keep your head up, look on the bright side, and chase your biggest dreams—one smile at a time.

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Life Along Yukon Roads is a visual journey through the wild landscapes of the Yukon, highlighting some of the larger animals’ travellers are most likely to see from the highway. From bears grazing on roadside dandelions in the spring to caribou moving through snowy winter forests, this small, accessible book celebrates the everyday wildlife encounters that make Yukon Road travel unforgettable. Featuring photographs taken along well-known routes such as the Alaska Highway and the South Klondike Highway, the book introduces readers to iconic species including bears, bison, moose, sheep, goats, elk, deer, caribou, and even the region’s unique wild horses. Rather than traditional field-guide entries, each animal is introduced through observations gained over years of photographing Yukon wildlife, offering insight into their habits, timing, and the roadside moments that make them uniquely Yukon. Ideal for visitors, road-trippers, and Yukon locals alike, Life Along Yukon Roads is both a keepsake and a gentle guide—encouraging readers to slow down, stay alert, and appreciate the remarkable animals that make the Yukon such a wild and unforgettable place.

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In Memoria, Hand Stitched is an art book, specifically a fibre art memorial book, and is a reproduction of the artist's handmade, hand stitched fabric book of some of Emily Dickinson's poetry about grief, pain, suffering, faith, and hope. It will appeal to a wide variety of viewers and readers: fibre art artists and others involved in or appreciative of textile art, fans of Emily Dickinson's poetry, and all those who are looking for an accompaniment in the journey of bereavement. It consists of 64 colour images of hand stitched pages.

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Embark on a visual voyage through a significant period in the lives of Portuguese immigrants—exploring their dreams, their labour, their challenges, and their contributions to the mosaic that is Toronto today. Composed by an artist who immigrated to Canada with his family in 1964, the black and white photographs in this book pay tribute to a community that continues to shape the cultural fabric of the city. Even as the landscapes change, the human presence remains central. Whether in bustling cities or quiet corners of the world, Gilberto’s lens seeks gestures, expressions, and moments of connection that bridge cultures and invite contemplation.

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