“What a Big Mouth You Have, Grandma” is for all new and upcoming Gen X Grandparents who are entering into this brave new world with their Millennial kids, and their kids. The rules have changed and the tongues are being bitten as we discover the theory and reality of Gentle Parenting, Baby Led Weaning, and why you can’t put a child in a car seat with a snowsuit on. Parenting trends and grandparenting reality explained, explored and gently humoured, with input from experts in their fields on how to negotiate this sensitive but ultimately satisfying minefield. What happens at Grandma’s house doesn’t stay at Grandma’s house, it’s in this book. A must read book for all new grandparents and their new parent Millennial kids.

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Have you ever had a favourite mug that came from a pottery? This is the story about a mug from a pottery. The mug gets decorated with a bird and so is known as Bird Mug. The story follows the journey of Bird Mug from being clay turning on the potters wheel, being decorated, fired in the kiln and then unexpectedly growing a collection of favourite humans.

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Get ready for an adventure! This book takes you on a journey through the alphabet, exploring fun places, exciting activities, and different ways to travel.

Travel the world from A to Z! Each letter brings a new surprise—from airplanes and backpacks to majestic mountains and yoga on a yacht.

Perfect for curious kids, this book helps children learn their ABCs, discover new words, and feel excited about travelling.

So, pack your bags and let your imagination soar as you explore the world, one letter at a time!

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From This Day Forward is an epic story about the search for a purposeful life, the many different paths of love, and the complex forces that bind people together across vast distances and in the face of great difficulties and through tough times. Losing his parents at age four, spending ten years in a Catholic orphanage, four years completing an apprenticeship program in the aircraft industry, and being caught up in the world’s upheaval and conflict made Walter von Bergen no stranger to challenges. Struggling to survive post-war Germany, with the Cold War between Russia and the Western world and the threat of a nuclear attack looming, Walter and Thea, his wife, feared for the future of their six children.

A letter from a cousin arrives, asking Walter to go abroad to inspect a landholding in Quebec, Canada, which he purchased sight unseen. For Walter, it was the perfect solution, and when Thea, anxious and bewildered, finally relented after his promise to return within the year if he was not successful, Walter set sail on The Seven Seas bound for Montreal. Once on board, Walter meets a fascinating cast of characters, each with their own reasons for making the journey, whose lives will quickly intersect in myriad and lasting ways.

But what does the future in the New World hold? Will Ingrid and her young son find the stability and freedom from judgment and persecution they so desperately need? Will Dan, the former journalist who delights in spreading venom among his fellow passengers, mend his ways before tragedy strikes? Will Thea change her mind about uprooting the family to join Walter in Canada after she discovers a letter that he has concealed from her? Will Walter’s shipboard romance derail their marriage?

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here i am

bent into the crease of my life

lost in the fold

the turn of the page

When the pressures of daily life threaten to overwhelm us, we forget to return to what matters most: nature, love, the people we care about. We forget ourselves. We live in the future, constantly waiting for the page to turn, instead of living in the present.

In the North I Saw Polaris reminds us to notice the world around us. To find inspiration—whether joyful or sorrowful—from our experiences. They can be the fuel to drive us creatively, as they have for poet Vernon Silver. For over fifty years, he’s found poems in the smallest moments and in life-changing ones. A snippet of dialogue, scuba diving the shipwrecks of Lake Superior, a global event like Tiananmen Square—a poem can emerge from any experience.

With a minimalist style, these poems explore themes of nature, love, human nature, and politics. They reveal the ways a past love can haunt the present, reflect on the beauty of nature, and shed light on Indigenous issues in Canada. Singular and poignant, In the North I Saw Polaris shows how poetry can return us back to ourselves, if we allow it. This collection includes poems from 1976 to present.

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A horrific resident-on-resident murder at the Toronto Manor Long-Term Care Home shocks the city and leaves people wondering what goes on behind the walls of the homes built to care for society’s most vulnerable citizens. To find some answers, a small group of friends come up with a desperate idea—sending one of them into the home in an “undercover” capacity to glean information and hopefully bring about change. Retired investigative journalist Larry agrees to be the plant, and what he discovers is worse than anyone imagined.

Inside the Manor, Larry uncovers drug theft, sexual assault, and violence, but his investigation ends abruptly and must be picked up by Abbey Roberts, RN and Director of Care, who fights to protect her residents with limited financial and human resources.

Terror at the Manor is the gripping second book in the Abbey Roberts series, and it pulls readers into the hidden realities of long-term care. Suspenseful and emotional this story exposes the shadows lurking in institutional care and the courage it takes to confront them.

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There are a thousand ways a prank can go wrong, but a vengeful magician and a demonic board game are the last things best friends Freddy and Tim expect when they try to make a fool of retired magician Ivan Prestoff. However, karma’s got teeth, and wishes can be deadly, as Freddy discovers when the game grants him a cruel wish he never expected to come true. With his abusive father dead, his Mississippi hometown besieged by murderous crows, and the cops on his tail, Freddy hits the road for Memphis on a quest to find safety with his long-lost mother. Along the way, the desperate runaway meets an assortment of strangers. Most are dangerous. All fall victim to the sinister power Freddy unwittingly carries along with him.

Back in Jackson, the repentant magician sets out with Tim, Tim’s skeptical mother, and clairvoyant Madame Wanda to find Freddy before the police do. Their goal: reassemble the missing pieces of the deadly board game to break its evil curse and send it back where it belongs—the depths of Hell. Will they reach Freddy before the curse claims more victims? Can the old magician make amends for the evil he has unleashed? Above all, will Freddy and Tim finally learn that kindness is more powerful than cruelty?

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Book Two continues the epic journey of James, a now 18 year old young man, as he returns to the land of Terrain, where he reunites with true friends and continues to battle monstrous enemies. This time he is joined by a group of friends from Earth who also show promising abilities. He no longer has any powers himself and carries disfiguring scars from his first foray into this magical world. Follow along on this new journey as James continues to battle the parasitic beautiful Overseers and the powerful evil Masters and through an heroic act; becomes something he despises. This series is an entertaining read targeted to young adults who like the fantasy world, but would be enjoyed by people of all ages.

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The book is a collection of poetry, verse and five short stories. It is a reflection on the author's observations of people, cultures, and commentary on the idosyncracies of humankind. Its content also draws attention to the disagreeable behaviour of our species towards each other, and sadly, the growing exploitation of our planet. On a more whimsical note, the book contains a light-hearted and satirizing look at life. While some of the content is thought-provoking, it is mostly relaxing and fun reading.

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Robert Schumann—one of the most imaginative figures of the Romantic era—and concert pianist Robert Silverman: in both lives, brief but psychologically complex sojourns in Vienna became decisive crucibles, testing ambition against reality and shaping the emergence of fully formed artistic identities.

Their two stories unfold in counterpoint in Schumann, Vienna, and the Cat, illuminating one another across time. In the first half of the book, Silverman traces his own artistic formation in Montreal to his decisive years of study in Vienna (1961–1963). Interwoven with this personal narrative is the parallel story of Robert Schumann, whose formative struggles and ambitions are followed to the moment he, too, left Vienna in 1839. The second half of the book is devoted to extended essays on Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16, and Humoreske, Op. 20—works born of those Viennese years and examined here through historical context, literary influence, and performance insight. The result is neither conventional biography, memoir, nor purely technical analysis, but a meditation in two voices on artistic maturity, self-scrutiny, and the long journey toward integration.

Schumann, Vienna, and the Cat offers readers—especially emerging classical musicians—a model of how talent is shaped through uncertainty, risk, and self-examination rather than immediate mastery. At the same time, it invites older readers to look back on their own formative years with renewed understanding, recognizing that maturity often emerges from precisely the turbulence that once seemed misguided or excessive.

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In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained in January 1986. Eventually, a loving foster home took him into their arms, where the daily fun and chaos plunged him headlong into his first lessons about North American life.

Told through the running metaphor of an abacus—each bead representing a person he lived with, a move, or a new survival problem—Koorosh’s story follows him from the group home as he transitions into adulthood. Along the way, he endures multiple basement apartments and roommates, graveyard shifts, backbreaking jobs, bad breaks, hard-won opportunities, and the long climb toward education, stability, and a career as an engineer. Throughout it all, he experiences reunion, loss, and the uneasy realization that his escape didn’t erase his past; it only changed the terrain.

I Want to Break Free is a raw, darkly funny, and often tender memoir of survival and reinvention, told by a narrator who never stops asking what freedom costs and who pays the bill.

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In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In her situation, what parent wouldn’t be tired, forgetful, and sleep-deprived? But that didn’t explain the weakness in her left side, the tingling feeling, and numbness. It didn’t explain why, on a relaxing summer day, Lisa had her first tonic-clonic seizure.

Songbirds Keep Singing: A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation blends personal accounts, research, and the author’s public health background as she searches for answers following her first seizure. Using her experience as both a survivor and nurse, Lisa explores the value of applying holistic concepts such as mindset, nutrition, exercise, gut health, hormones, and the environment alongside conventional medicine treatments to recover from a rare autoimmune disease. This book is a valuable resource for anyone navigating a complicated diagnosis who is curious about taking a multi-targeted approach to healing autoimmune inflammation comprehensively.

Empowering and informative, Songbirds Keep Singing is a must read for people with brain injuries and autoimmune diseases, caregivers and health care professionals. It offers a roadmap to robust health for anyone seeking to balance their immune system and improve brain health.

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Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, and it can be difficult to understand why. Is it possible to find hope even when things seem the most discouraging? It is—if we learn to listen for the voice of our soul and the wisdom it brings. In a series of rhyming verses, Where Are All the Answers introduces us to our inner soul and the message it shares: how we see the world shapes how we experience the world, and how what we put out into the universe can come back to meet us.

We may not find the answers we seek when we look to the world for guidance, but deep within ourselves lies the power to choose positivity and shape our reality into a tomorrow that looks brighter than today.

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The Witch and the Gnome is a magical children's book series unlike any other. What happens to books when we close them? The characters inside books come to life whenever a book is shut or the library closes for the night. The inhabitants of the books (including heroes, villains, dragons, pirates, fairy tale friends, and myriads of other fictional characters) courageously and freely step outside the confines of their respective books to visit one another, share adventures, and enjoy the magical world hidden within every story.

But not everyone uses this freedom for good.

The Witch and the Gnome are clever, selfish, and determined to mess up every story and manipulate it to satisfy their own selfish and capricious desires. They sneak and slither from book to book, changing plots, stealing magical treasures, deceiving the heroes, helping the villains succeed, and even stealing the thunder from the villains themselves. Every change creates confusion for the characters and chaos for the story.

The magical world of books is built on one foundational rule that must never be broken, namely: every story must remain exactly as it was written. If a single page, sentence, or word is changed, the story begins to unravel. Characters forget who they are, adventures lose their meaning, and the magic connecting all books starts to disappear.

Together, heroes from many different stories must set aside their differences and work as one to restore each tale to its original plot before the damage spreads and destroys the book’s timeline. Their courage, friendship, honesty, and selflessness stand as a stark contrast against the greed, deception and power hunger of the Witch and the Gnome.

At its heart, “The Witch and the Gnome” series is a collection of adventures that typifies the timeless and quintessential battle between good and evil. It celebrates the importance of courage, teamwork, integrity, and protecting the stories that inspire generations of readers. Every book has a purpose, every character has a role to play, and every story deserves to be told exactly as it was intended to be told by its author.

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When your body won’t give you answers, how do you keep living with hope? Simple Healing is a warm, reflective year-long memoir that invites readers to walk alongside Tanus Tosh McNeill as she searches for the cause of her debilitating headaches. When the medical system cannot provide clear explanations, Tosh McNeill turns to writing, reading, and intentional living as ways to steady herself through uncertainty.

With honesty and compassion, she explores how simplicity, mindfulness, and environmental awareness can gently restore a sense of balance and control. Choosing less—less clutter, less pressure, less striving—becomes a way to make room for resilience and quiet healing. Tosh McNeill reflects on chronic illness with clarity and consideration, offering reassurance to anyone who has felt overwhelmed by the unknown.

Drawing on her experience as a former teacher and teacher-librarian, Tosh McNeill also shares thoughtful reading recommendations and practical strategies for writing and simplifying daily life. These tools invite readers to reconnect with creativity, deepen self-awareness, and regain a sense of agency—even when circumstances cannot be changed.

Hopeful and empowering, Simple Healing speaks to anyone living with chronic or undiagnosed illness, navigating uncertainty, or seeking a gentler, more intentional way forward. It is a reminder that while we may not control the future, we can shape how we meet it—one mindful choice at a time.

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After months in the hospital, eight-year-old Bibi can’t wait to see her friends again. But as she gets ready for her first day back, her tummy flutters with nerves. What will her classmates think of her braces and the feeding tube in her nose? And will she ever catch up in math?

With gentle encouragement from her mom, a caring teacher, and kind friends, Bibi learns that asking for help is brave, and that confidence and friendship can grow, one small step at a time.

Inspired by a true story, Bibi Returns to School is a touching celebration of resilience, inclusion, and the power of community. Perfect for classroom read-alouds and family storytime, this uplifting book helps children understand and embrace differences. It is a reminder to each and every reader that we all learn and grow at our own pace.

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Now I want to tell you why I, Sunbeam, was created. One day Alice {Author} asked, "Lord, why did you choose me to write your stories? I can't type. My English is terrible. I don't have a computer and even if I did I wouldn't know how to operate it. How am I going to create the pictures without some kind of illustrations to go by? HELP! Why me, Lord? I thought you would give me something less difficult to do." God's answer was, "Trust me, Alice. I will supply all your needs. Alice, I want the children on Earth to know me better. I want them to know who I am and how much I love them. I want to fill their young minds with my words and with my love. I need someone who loves me the way you do to write these stories for me." God has kept his promise and supplied more than all her needs.

Sunbeam, relates to the little boy or girl in each of us through his stories.

[Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them, but the disciples scolded the people. Jesus said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

MAT. 19 V13-14]

The end

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Water Cycle is a collection of deeply personal poetry about love, the connections between people, and our relationship with our natural environment. It explores the link between philosophy, science, spirituality, and the human condition through beautiful, rhythmic wordplay and thought-provoking rhymes.

Poet Charlie Kennedy is a keen observer of nature and humanity, greatly appreciating and marvelling at our natural surroundings of earth, sea, sky, and space. From a young age, he has believed that spirituality and science are intrinsically intertwined, that soul and energy are one, and that experiences and emotions continue to exist in some form long after they are over. He shares that philosophy here for the first time.

His compositions are experiential and observational in essence and often accompanied by melodies. He invites readers to join him on a journey through the complexities—and the blatancy—of love.

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Clem the clementine’s life is pretty sweet; after all, she gets to live in a big bowl with all her fellow fruit friends. But one day, despite the sunshine from Clem’s favourite kitchen window, a cloud is cast over the fruit bowl: Gus the grape is feeling cranky, and he’s butting heads with the others. Clem hates seeing her friends disagree, so with a little help, she tries to understand Gus’s feelings and show him he’s not alone.

A fun, thoughtful, and endlessly a-peel-ing story, Clem and the Grumpy Grape invites children and adults alike into an important conversation about empathy and the root of negative feelings.

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THIS BOOK STANDS ALONE IN A BOLD WORLD, AND CHALLENGES THE NORMS OF SOCIETY. The collection tackles the Trump administration, Israel and Gaza, fatherhood, Canadian identity, and the struggle for artistic freedom in a world increasingly dominated by billionaires and technology. These writings urge readers to look up from their phones and textbooks, resisting, ass media and the ivory towers as they strive to liberate their minds especially the white noise of religions around the world.

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