Have you ever wanted to read someone else’s diary? What if the writer of that diary lived almost 100 years ago?

Bernice Hodgins, born in 1916 in Seaforth, Canada, received a diary for her 12th birthday. She began to record her everyday life—jotting down all sorts of details about her days, whether it be outings with friends or school subjects she was struggling with. Entering into her teenage years, Bernice began to explore the dating world and confided in her diary the details of her romantic pursuits. As Bernice grew into her life as a young adult, she became more self-aware and started to think towards her future, making bigger and more life-changing decisions. All the while, her home city of Toronto hovered in the background as a secondary character in her life. Bernice’s daily stream of consciousness put onto paper in this series of diary entries taken as whole depict a coming-of-age story that is unfiltered and refreshingly honest.

Bernice’s inner thoughts provide a window into a different time. Her writing reveals social norms from an era when, for a teenage girl, a walk home with a boy constituted a first date. Yet, a modern reader can also see that some things never change, as Bernice’s concerns about her appearance and navigating friendships and romantic relationships still ring true. Bernice didn’t hold back as she revealed her fears and insecurities and eventually her desires to find love and settle down. Bernice’s personality and voice are vivid in her writing, and her diaries present a fascinating sociological window into the vibrant mind of a girl as she matures into a young woman.

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Is it possible to survive eating only one type of food? Have you ever wondered what makes the ideal human food? Do we even know what people need to eat to be healthy?

I designed a “Science Food” that I consumed at every meal for more than one year. Yes, you read that correctly. I did not eat food—I ate an engineered food supplement every meal for more than one year.

“Science Food” is an engineered meal replacement made from essential ingredients.

What are “Essential Ingredients”? Essential ingredients are the food related inputs that are essential, or critical, for survival. The essential ingredients include carbohydrates, lipids, protein, vitamins and minerals, fiber, and water. The ingredients of science food are simply these essential inputs at their required input levels.

Science food is very quick and it can help many people with busy lives. It is also very affordable compared with traditional food.

The Essential Ingredients journey continues in the next book called The Influential Ingredients.

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In a world that encourages creatives of all kinds to monetize their artistic expression and judge it by commercial standards, Lynn Harrison offers an alternative approach. In Songwriting as Soul Work, Harrison offers a perspective that challenges outlooks of popular culture and affirms the value of songwriting as a path toward personal growth and spiritual understanding.

Drawing from principles of Jungian psychology as well as the personal stories of songwriters themselves, Harrison offers simple ways to deepen songwriters' understanding of their work as a potentially lifelong spiritual practice and enable the accessing of their own inner wisdom. In this collection of nourishing short essays, Harrison explores the psychospiritual value of songs' symbols and metaphors, the potential to move beyond expectations of praise and commercial success, and the wellspring of meaning that awaits discovery through the songwriting process.

Valuable for experienced songwriters as well as those starting out, this book serves as an important reminder that the value of artistic expression is not determined solely by commercial success but rather by what it reveals about one's inner life and untapped personal resources. As well, psychotherapists, pastoral counsellors, spiritual directors, and other helping professionals will find in Songwriting as Soul Work wisdom and useful insights to assist in supporting their creative clients.

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Bringing together the rich complexity of her free verse poetry with original photography, Skyborne Insight, Homemade Love is a metaphor for poet Katharine Weinmann’s realizations about living, often brought into focus while flying. Personal experiences resonate with universal themes, inviting readers to explore their own questions about loss and grief, identity, and the nature of the world around them.

Evocative and lyrical, this is a meditation on the beauty found in life’s inevitable imperfections, the wonder of travel, and the everyday moments and choices that come together to heal and make a joyful existence. Readers will be uplifted and inspired to cultivate a wise appreciation and tender fierceness to navigate opportunities and challenges.

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Grayson is an autistic child learning how to navigate the world in his own unique way. Through gentle, rhyming storytelling, this book provides insight into the experiences and perspectives of an autistic child, helping caregivers, educators, and the general public better understand autism at a young age. It celebrates neurodiversity, encourages empathy, and promotes inclusivity by showing how every child’s way of thinking, feeling, and communicating is valuable.

By embracing and uplifting autistic individuals, we create a more accepting society where everyone is valued for who they are. Come see the world through Grayson’s eyes—you just might learn something!

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A Woman’s Quest to Become a Doctor in the 1890s

Seventeen-year-old Fanny Wheeler—a bright, small-town girl from Kansas—cannot fathom a life of cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing. She needs more. She dreams of curing illness and preventing suffering.

Without telling her family—or Matt, her loving, handsome childhood friend—Fanny applies to nursing school in Chicago and is accepted. Realizing nothing will stop her, her family and friends see her off as she leaves for the big city.

With her patience, skill, intelligence, compassion, and resilience, Fanny thrives at nursing school and catches the eye of Doctor Black. He and the head nurse encourage her to attend the Medical School in Chicago, which has recently begun accepting women. But that means staying at least three more years.

What will her family—and Matt, whom she misses with all her heart—think about her staying in Chicago longer? And what will it cost her to become a doctor, when so few women are?

Set during the Gilded Age, The Implausible Journey of Fanny Wheeler is an inspiring story about a woman’s steadfast and honorable pursuit of a career in medicine—against all odds.

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While navigating life in her new home, and the cold world of science and engineering, a young Maya Castro faces the challenges of social marginalization, gender inequality, addiction, and sexual confusion. An immigrant to Canada from Latin America, Maya desires to bring a new, more spiritual perspective to her chosen career—but the forces working against her seem almost impossible to overcome. To survive professionally and personally, she will need to draw on all of her internal resources.

Blue Grey raises awareness about a variety of timely and society-defining issues, such as the role of empathy in industry, the importance of human connection, and the suffering of people struggling with their mental health. Laura Soriano challenges traditional notions of professionalism in academia, inviting readers to consider what might emerge when courage, care, and creativity are allowed to shape the future of knowledge.

Both provocative and reflective, Blue Grey is a powerful call to reimagine not only education and industry—but the human spirit behind them.

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When suburban family man Robert is told his office is being investigated by the FBI after someone used a company computer to search pornographic websites on the dark web, at first, he isn’t worried. A loving husband and the father of two teen boys, he knows he certainly isn’t the culprit. But when he checks his work computer at home, he’s shocked to discover that someone in his house has been downloading the offensive material. He is even more shocked to learn that it’s his wife, a lawyer. Even though she was only doing research for a client, the family is soon caught up in a dangerous sting operation.

When imposters come to their door posing as the FBI, Robert, his wife, and the kids make a run for it, narrowly escaping with their lives. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they don’t know whom to trust when they are placed in witness protection and sent to another state. They must wait until Robert’s wife can testify against the criminals responsible, and they are never sure who might be lurking around the corner.

As they try to start a new life amidst fear and uncertainty, will the family unit grow stronger or fall apart? Who can they count on? Can they truly live with their new identities and leave behind everything and everyone they knew? Part thriller, part drama, this story shows the resilience of a typical American family who doesn’t know how strong they are until they’re pushed to the edge.

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Oliver is a construction crane, and he’s been hired to help build a condo tower where hundreds of people will live. It’s his job to lift big, heavy things way up into the air. Oliver and his friends hoist rebar, lift fly forms, and unload concrete as the building comes together floor by floor. He loves working with his friends onsite, but when the job is done, what will happen to him?

Every kid loves to know how things are made, especially the role of big trucks and heavy machines. Oliver the Crane embraces that curiosity and teaches kids how a tower crane works, what goes into building a high-rise condo, and what happens to machinery when it’s not on the job. Kids will learn all about the construction industry, and even parents might learn a new fact or two!

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This was never meant to be a book that offered tidy solutions. Instead, it’s a declaration. A refusal to stay quiet. A chorus of voices from women who have spent years, and in many cases, decades, pushing against an industry that often erases them…

You’re On Mute: 13 Lessons for Women Frustrated with the Tech Sector is an anthology by and for women in tech, or any sector where gender parity has stalled. Each chapter is crafted by a woman or gender-minority who has faced challenges in the tech sector but has nonetheless paved a path forward. Featuring women from Argentina, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Somalia, and the US; women who learned English from Oprah reruns, who taught themselves how to code at public library computers, who left countries, families, and whole lives behind; women who work at Google and Microsoft, in small-business, and in venture capital. And while the careers they have built are vastly different, they all have one thing in common: they have taken themselves off mute. Whether C-Suite executives, founders, change agents, coders or all the above, they are first and foremost, trailblazers.

And they each tell a story about the long, slow climb up the tech ladder and the sting of being told “we love you, but…”

This is a book about triumph and hope.

If you are concerned about the voices in tech that are influencing the next generation of technology and its impact on humanity, You’re On Mute shines a light on the shared frustrations many women experience, writing back with inspiring stories, practical advice, and hope for the future. You don’t need to work in tech to be concerned about the future of tech and the voices within it.

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Minna never imagined she would become a queen. After surviving a devastating attack on her hometown of Salpu Towers, she is raised by a wise elder and is eventually chosen to marry into royalty in the nearby Fenqui-Tunu kingdom. Her future is planned—until Barlas-Zane arrives unexpectedly after a long and dangerous journey. Their reunion reignites their love and disrupts Minna’s arranged marriage.

When she is still chosen to be the queen, Minna accepts her destiny and leads her people through a time of warring, political tension, cultural changes, and growing threats of invasion. She works to guide the Talaniuca people forward, seeking new opportunities for unity and prosperity. Her dedication to her family, her people, and her duties earns her lasting respect.

As Minna learns to balance love and sacrifice, her choices shape the lives of those around her. Guided by ancestral wisdom and a divine presence, she grows into a thoughtful leader who honors tradition while welcoming change. Treasured Angel is a story of destiny, of devotion, and of a woman’s quiet power to build a better future for the next generations.

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Titus is a lonely little snake. He wants a friend, so he sets out to find one!

First, he meets a monkey and asks the monkey if they could be friends. The monkey says no because snakes have scales, and the monkey does not have friends with scales. Titus is sad and discouraged but he doesn’t give up.

He next asks a bird, a turtle, and a river otter if they would be his friend. Will they accept him for who he is? Or will their differences get in the way of new friendship?

Titus Wants a Friend gently teaches young readers about empathy and perseverance as they follow Titus through the Amazon jungle, meeting different creatures and learning about what makes each one different—and uniquely special, just like Titus the snake.

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On nights of flight, a mother pressed her son against her chest—through jungles, graves, oceans, and silence. She carried him beyond war and betrayal into a future she would never see for herself.

Carry Forward is not only about escape from Vietnam. It is about sacrifice as inheritance, love as resistance, and the unseen weight every parent bears for their child.

With lyrical precision and unflinching memory, Truong Ly offers a love letter to all who gave everything in silence—those whose stories are etched not in monuments, but in the children who lived because of them.

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Once a nationally ranked long-distance runner, Canadian Peter Whitby abandons his career as an engineer and moves to a small US town in the Pacific Northwest where he can train year-round and pursue his running dreams.

After a chance encounter with a local entrepreneur, Peter finds himself drawn into the race of a lifetime with a substantial winner-take-all cash prize. With the help of a new training partner, a previous love interest and a coach with a dubious past, Peter has to find a way to outrun his insecurities … and beat the top long-distance runners in the world.

Capturing the joy of running and the spirit of competition, Running in the Dark is a story of determination, the pursuit of excellence, and overcoming self-doubt.

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Snowflake is a little bunny that lives in Forever Evergreen Forest. She loves sledding, skating, and building snowbunnies too! But she is a bit different from the other little forest creatures.

Snowflake cries a lot. She cries when she’s sad, she cries when she’s scared, she even cries when she’s happy! The other little creatures at school laugh at her and tease her. This makes Snowflake feel sad and lonely.

With Christmas just days away, she decides to write to someone magical and ask for a special kind of wish. Will the letter arrive in time for the wish to come true?

Join Snowflake on a journey of empathy, self-discovery, and the magic of a wish on a snowy Christmas Eve.

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When Lloyd Guerin Jr.’s beloved wife and soulmate, Betty, passed away after forty-two years of marriage, grief left him searching:

How could love endure beyond death?

The Phalarope’s Journey is a tender, courageous memoir of love, loss, and spiritual transformation. Woven from journal entries, letters, memories, dreams, and Christian mysticism, this is a deeply personal testament to a sacred partnership forged through faith, passion, suffering, and joy. With poetic grace and spiritual insight, Lloyd invites readers to walk alongside him through the mystery of grief and the unexpected moments of grace that follow. From the shared joys of family life to the heartbreak of saying goodbye, from the stillness of spiritual retreat to the revelations of butterflies on the Camino de Santiago, The Phalarope’s Journey is both a love story and a soul’s pilgrimage. At its heart is a call to community and an affirmation that only within the cauldron of belonging can suffering be transformed into new life.

Named for the author’s mythical sailboat, The Phalarope’s Journey becomes both vessel and metaphor, a means of navigating the vast inner seas of memory and meaning. As each chapter unfolds, it charts new waters: some familiar, others unknown, all part of the unfolding mystery of a life shared and a soul reshaped. In tracing one man’s path through grief and grace, this memoir holds a mirror to the reader’s own longings—for connection, for healing, and for a love that transcends even death.

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The question of whether justice is served by punishing victims of violence is at the heart of this story. Although set in 500BCE the question remains relevant today.

We meet a teenaged girl training to be a wife for some man who would purchase her. She becomes the translator for the ruler of this authoritarian country and merchants seeking to make trade deals. She is raped and punished for losing her virginity and imprisoned to await beheading. She escapes from prison, flees into the foothills where she hides until discovered by a swordsman sent to behead her. She stabs him and flees, once again by crossing over a mountain range to a neighbouring country. Here she finds safe haven and meets others who have fled from brutality. Listening to their personal accounts has her asking this question: How can victims of violence overcome their wounding?

Encouraged by the responses to her question, she takes us through her growing sense of identity that deepens her understanding of meaning. The process of her coming-of-age develops into a resilient determination to find both healing and purpose through active collaboration. She sets out to ensure that justice for people from all walks of life would prevail.

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It’s the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and France. Ten-year-old Evelyn Jackson and her parents live on rations, waiting for the sounds of the air-raid sirens above them and wondering what will come of their far-flung family in times of war. Eve stands tall, through bombings and evacuations, through an unfair beating and a paralyzing illness, and survives with her smile and her generous heart still intact.

Meanwhile, one of her uncles—Submariner Dominic King—serves aboard HMS Tuna.

Dominic, the boats Helmsman and along with the crew were under constant threat of German U-Boats and aircraft as they complete their ever-demanding war patrols. From delivering Marine Commandos off the coast of France to protecting the Arctic Convoys in the north Atlantic. Acting Leading Seaman Dominic King would go on to be awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by King George VI at Buckingham Palace for his bravery and courage while under fire. In events in their lives would bring them both together at the edge of the war.

Many families have stories like this from mothers and grandmothers; this one is Michael’s. His Majesty’s Sailor and the Girl in the Blue Coat presents heartfelt historical fiction based on real events and stories passed down from the people who were there.

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Riley’s teacher knows Riley is a bright student, but he learns differently than most other children. She wants to understand him better and help him be successful in school. Riley’s parents do their best to understand and support Riley too. One of the most important ways they do this is with unconditional love and forgiveness. They talk with him about being aware of what his brain is doing, and provide ways for him to live his best life.

One day Riley has a hard day at school. He hadn’t slept well the night before, and an unexpected assembly and a difficult math class have made him feel overwhelmed. He is able to manage his feelings at school, but when he gets home and his mom reminds him that cleaning his room and having a shower are on his schedule that day, he goes into a rage. Both Riley and Mom feel out of control. Neither wants this to happen and they do their best to navigate the big emotions, but it is still an awful time for both of them.

Learn with Riley, his mom, and his teacher about what it is like to live with Tourette syndrome. The more we learn, the better we can understand and realize that at the end of the day, love, forgiveness, and acceptance are what’s most important.

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Jarod and his brother are enjoying bathtime when something terrible happens: little Cian poops in the tub! Their mom cleans the tub, but bathtime is ruined for the night. A few days later, Jarod and his friend are at the pool … and it happens again! A mysterious object is found floating in the pool, and swimming is cancelled for the day. To make up for the disappointment, Jarod’s mom takes him and his friend to the beach. But at the beach, Jarod discovers there are ways we’re polluting the water there, too.

Who Pooped in the Tub? is a delightful, humorous book that tackles the important issue of pollution through the eyes of a child. Jarod learns that it’s important not to take away from the enjoyment of others by harming our shared environment. At the end of the day, he’s determined never to be the guy who poops in the tub!

It’s never too early to start teaching children environmental awareness. This book reminds us that our actions have consequences and that when we pollute the environment everyone loses. But we can make a difference by making good, responsible choices … such as never pooping in our communal tub!

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