MAGNIFICAT: Under the Guanacaste Tree tells the stories of two women from different backgrounds and class statuses who find themselves fighting their personal and societal battles in this riveting saga about inequality, oppression, misogyny, and the power of love. Set in the fictional war-torn country of Ixcheltlán, the narrative takes readers through the deserts and jungles of Mexico and Central America, exposing them to the wretched poverty and heartbreaking violence of those volatile southern regions that play such a role in the formation of these women’s consciousnesses.

Sara, a Canadian woman, embarks on a long trek by bus, boat, and on foot to save her eleven-year-old daughter, who has enigmatically reached out to her with a plea for help. During her journey, she is shocked by the poverty, hopelessness, and violence that confronts her. When she finally reaches Ixcheltlán, she begins to serve the poor with other women who are just as passionate about justice and freedom for the marginalized.

Through her contacts, Sara learns of the work and wisdom of the campesina peace-maker Maria Luz, a poor woman with a rich vision for equality, who desires to bring freedom to her people through a message of peace and reconciliation. Eventually, the shadow of death descends on them both, threatening to destroy all they have set out to accomplish.

Suspenseful and impactful, MAGNIFICAT: Under the Guanacaste Tree will keep readers guessing to the very end.

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The narrative begins close to home, with immediate family stories that illustrate the unique experiences of the Polish-Canadian diaspora. Author Waldemar (Wally) Mikulski then takes readers on a genealogical quest through modern Poland, honouring individual family members by viewing their lives through the lens of some of history’s most defining moments—World Wars I and II.

Featuring archival family photos and presented in a distinct format, the book is many books in one. It examines everything from surname origins to heraldry and DNA, ultimately seeking to answer the universal questions: “Who am I?” and “Who are my people?”

“Truths & Legends bridges history and memory,” says Wally. “The ‘truths’ represent historically verified stories, while the ‘legends’ are rooted in family lore.” The book is a must-read for anyone interested in genealogy and history, and especially for those bearing the surname Mikulski.

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An Avian Alphabet began as a body of art work, twenty-six bird images, one for each letter of the alphabet, created through the printmaking process of woodcut. Hung as a frieze around the gallery walls, they formed the anchor for an art exhibition about birds at a small community art gallery in Fort Langley, B.C. in 2019. The exhibition was enriched by an evening of poetry where six poets read their works inspired by the birds in An Avian Alphabet. Later, to transform the project into a book, nine more poets were invited to complete the avian alphabet of poetry. This is a second edition; the first edition was hand-printed as a fine art book by Barbarian Press.

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Shayna loves colors—everywhere and on everything. So imagine how she feels when her mother gives her plain white rainboots to wear!

Stomping angrily in a puddle, she finds a tiny rainbow who’s been washed from the sky. The little rainbow has to get home, and Shayna’s the girl for the job.

Can she find a way to get little Rhaina back to her parents high in the sky?

Perhaps—with unexpected help from some animal friends.

Shayna Rescues a Rainbow is a heartwarming children’s picture book celebrating kindness, imagination, adventure and the joy of helping others. It reveals the power of friendship and determination and will inspire children from 3-7 to be both creative and caring. Kids will love following Shayna as she makes original and sometimes comical attempts to achieve her goal, all brought to life with colorful, beautifully detailed illustrations sure to spark curiosity and warm readers’ hearts over and over again.

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Meet Mylo, a playful one-year-old pup who loves his toys almost as much as he loves destroying them!

When Mylo stays home alone for the first time, he promises his mom that he’ll be a good boy and only destroy his toys. But when frustration takes over, Mylo finds himself in a much bigger mess than he ever imagined.

With his mom’s love and guidance, Mylo learns that even big feelings can be hard to control, mistakes happen, and it’s always okay to ask for help.

A sweet and playful story about big emotions, forgiveness, and learning that making a mess doesn’t make you a bad boy.

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Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Christian has lived a remarkable life. From the frozen river of Warroad, Minnesota to winning the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, Bill’s story is one of passion, determination, community, and love for the game that shaped his world: hockey.

In this stunning memoir, Bill recounts his humble beginnings and his introduction to hockey as a child in rural Minnesota. Before professional leagues, training camps, and financial compensation for career players, Bill and his brothers honed their relationship to the game, playing wherever they could. Passion and grit brought Bill and his brother Roger to the 1960 Olympics where they won the first gold medal in hockey for their country. Building his career during the volatile years of the Cold War, Bill recounts stories from behind the Iron Curtain, bridging cultural gaps through hockey, and offering a glimpse into a world now seen only in film.

From his hometown ice rink to the Hockey Hall of Fame, Bill has traveled the world, built a successful hockey stick business from the ground up, and cultivated a love for the game, helping bring the United States to the world stage as a hockey powerhouse.

This memoir also includes Bill's first-hand accounts of watching his son, David Christian, win gold at the 1980 Olympics and his grandson, Brock Nelson, win gold at the 2026 Olympics, becoming three generations of Team USA Olympics hockey gold together.

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Some children learn lullabies. She learned how to survive.

In Where Driftwood Howls, Jaclyn Wragg traces a childhood shaped by addiction, instability, and the quiet, suffocating rules of silence. Home is unpredictable. Love arrives tangled with fear. Safety belongs to other families—never quite hers. Growing up means learning to read every room, every mood, every unspoken warning.

Survival, however, doesn’t end with childhood.

As Wragg moves into adulthood, the past refuses to remain in the past. Chronic illness settles into her body like a long echo. Relationships strain under patterns inherited long before she had language for them. The cost of endurance surfaces in unexpected ways—through grief, memory, and the slow realization that breaking a family cycle may demand more courage than surviving it ever did.

Moving between lived moments and hard-won reflection, Wragg examines what it means to rebuild identity when the foundations of belonging were never secure. Her story doesn’t promise easy healing or tidy redemption. Instead, it confronts the complicated terrain of generational trauma, the body’s memory, and the deliberate act of redefining family.

Driftwood isn’t born weathered. It becomes that way after years of relentless tides.

Where Driftwood Howls is a memoir about endurance, inheritance, and the quiet rebellion of refusing to pass pain forward—even when the past continues to call.

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Mervin the maple tree has seen all kinds of things, but he’s never seen a leaf as curious as Lester!

Lester is a brand-new leaf, and he wants to learn all about the world. He asks Mervin about the animals in the tree, planes flying by in the sky, a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly, and the blossoms and seeds growing around them. Mervin and Lester soon become friends. But when autumn comes, Mervin and Lester are faced with a new part of life: the natural cycle of trees and their leaves.

The Curious Life of Lester the Leaf is a charming story that teaches children about animals, the seasons, and how to say goodbye to close friends. It’s a perfect teaching tool for parents and educators, with beautiful illustrations and a charming story to keep children engaged and having fun.

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Coming from an early childhood of abuse and abandonment, Audrey O’Marra began a lifelong search for healing, wholeness, and a deeper understanding of God. In Journey Toward the Shadows, she invites readers to accompany her as she explores ancient wisdom, particularly the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, which she presents as a response to a modern world shaped by consumerism, disconnection, and fear-based belief systems. Rather than offering dogma or easy answers, O’Marra encourages readers to question and explore their concept of the Divine from the perspective of their own lived experiences.

Along with her childhood trauma, Ms. O’Marra faced profound loss as an adult. These experiences led her to reimagine her understanding of God. No longer did she see the Divine as a distant, external deity; instead, she came to understand the Divine as presence and Being itself. This paradigm shift transformed the way she understood herself, her suffering, and the world around her.

For those carrying the weight of suffering or loss, or those seeking a fresh perspective on their own spirituality, Journey Toward the Shadows offers practical tools and inspiration for personal and collective healing. This spiritual awakening won’t come as an escape from life, but as a disciplined, ongoing return to wholeness that can transform both the individual and the world around us.

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We follow a boy named Nicholas through a typical week and learn everything that you need to do to be a good child, sibling, grandchild, friend, student, and neighbour. Every day he does something kind or helpful for someone. On Monday, he helps his parents, on Tuesday, he shares with his sister, and so on up to Saturday when he picks up litter in his neighbourhood. At the end of every day, Nicholas goes through his bedtime routine of washing up and brushing his teeth, and then he dances with joy before he goes to sleep. On Sunday, Nicholas dances all day in celebration of being a kind, helpful, and respectful person.

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What separates those who succeed from those who quit?

It's not talent. It's not luck.

It's vision, perseverance, and the willingness to keep moving forward when others stop.

In this inspiring and practical guide, entrepreneur and community builder Megan Warrender shares the personal and business lessons that helped her build a company from the ground up while navigating some of life's most challenging seasons. Through real-life experiences, leadership principles, and actionable exercises, she reveals how vision, perseverance, service, and relationships become the foundation for lasting success.

Inside, you'll discover how to:

Develop a vision that drives your decisions and fuels your growth

Overcome limiting thoughts and beliefs that hold you back

Take consistent action toward your personal and professional goals

Build resilience through challenges and setbacks

Lead with influence, service, and purpose

Create a strong team culture and unforgettable brand

Build meaningful relationships within your business and community

Create lasting impact through leadership and service

Success is never just about what you build. It's about who you become, who you help, and the impact you leave behind.

The journey starts here.

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It’s 1998 in New York City and forty something Emily McKenzie is ready for a challenge. New to sobriety and relationships, she has built a solo life for herself that feels safe, insulated from her tumultuous childhood. The risks she takes come in the form of improv performances, not romantic entanglements. That is, until she meets Jack, a Los Angeles-based TV actor starring in an off-Broadway play. At first, the relationship seems casual and fun, a summer fling with a fixed end-date. But when summer ends, they are not ready to part.

In The Secret of Broken Dishes, Emily and Jack discover an improv approach to life and love, saying “yes, and” to experiences and sometimes to each other. But life is more complicated than a four-minute skit. Can they create the relationship that works for them?

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Cancer - From Fear to Hope is a personal and authoritative memoir by Canadian oncologist Dr. William K. Evans. Tracing his career from early medical training in the sixties through his leadership roles in cancer system reform, Evans charts the transformation of cancer care from a time of fear and therapeutic pessimism to one of evidence-based treatments and growing hope.

The book offers a history as well as a medical insider’s view of evolving cancer therapies. Through candid reflections, patient stories, and firsthand observations, Evans shares how scientific progress, clinical trials, patient-centered care, and system-level reforms reshaped outcomes for cancer patients in Ontario and beyond. The book also documents the emotional and ethical dimensions of oncology practice, and the personal lessons learned along the way.

Written for both medical professionals and the general public, this memoir illuminates how far we’ve come in understanding and treating cancer—and why there’s reason for optimism in the years ahead.

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Aches, pains. Swift cognitive and physical decline. A sense that life is passing by unnoticed. These are common anxieties as one gets older, and some even hold them as unavoidable truths. It’s a fact that no one is getting any younger, but vitality of body and mind and joyful relationships with the self and others need not fade with age—with mindful presence and the willingness to change, fulfillment and freedom can grow with your years.

In this follow-up to Walter Young’s Finding Your Fountain of Life, you’ll find easy-to-follow, day-to-day and week-to-week steps to enriching your life, from simple habit changes like daily writing, accessible exercise, and food-buying alterations to reflections on goals and the people with whom we surround ourselves. Whether you’ve read the original text or are brand new to the Fountain of Life, the Finding Your Fountain of Life Workbook offers pathways to practical, joyful change not found in the trenches of stringent, extreme nutrition and fitness fads.

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Our foundational beliefs—formed through experience and shaped by inherited emotional patterns, culture, and environment—define how we see ourselves, others, and the world. Often, though, these beliefs distort our reality as though we are viewing it through a foggy lens. Fear-based emotions and long-held patterns can leave us emotionally drained, lost, anxious, or insecure. Yet, when we understand how subconscious beliefs, stress patterns, and emotional conditioning influence behaviour and well-being, the fog lifts—and we can focus on what truly matters.

Freedom Shift is a practical, transformational guide for anyone—especially women—who feels emotionally burned out, in transition, or disconnected from their true self. Grounded in science, real-life experience, and soul-centred wisdom, this book invites you to move away from self-fixing and toward deeper self-listening and care. Within these pages, you’ll learn how to:

• Let go of fear, resentment, and limiting beliefs holding you back.

• Restore emotional balance and inner peace.

• Build emotional resilience, self-trust, and self-compassion.

• Reconnect with your values, purpose, and inner truth.

• Live with greater clarity, ease, and inner coherence.

With a compassionate approach that honours both emotional depth and inner wisdom, this book includes meditations, journaling prompts, nervous system practices, grounding rituals, breathwork, visualization, and daily rhythm tools to help you return to a steadier, more aligned way of being and live from a deeper truth.

Empowering and holistic, Freedom Shift doesn’t just inspiration—it equips you with a practical roadmap to healing, self-awareness, and lasting emotional freedom. Explore guided meditations and supportive resources at freedomshift.ca.

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The research is clear: Family engagement enhances student outcomes. Why, then, is it still a standard approach to centre schools and teachers as the most significant place of teaching and learning for children and youth? What might a different approach look like—one that places the unique knowledge parents and families hold alongside that of teachers and welcomes everyone equally into the circle?

Fires of Change offers just such an approach to educators. This practitioner-focused book follows the course of one year, with each chapter attending to key parent engagement concepts particular to that time in the cycle of the school year. To evoke transformative change, chapters cover the what and the why of core principles and concepts. They include reflective questions and activities that promote action planning to effect shifts in readers’ teaching practice. Finally, chapter authors include narratives and illustrations drawn from their lived experiences as educators and parents. Beginning in August and ending in July, this is an ideal book for teacher book clubs, professional learning communities, and the independent or collaborative directed study of school staff, parent councils, and stakeholders in the educational sector.

Together, we can stoke the flames that enable new possibilities for schooling and education.

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When quirky, artsy Amaryllis meets a handsome stranger on university campus, her solitary and mundane life is turned upside down. Things are not what they seem. Her parents disappear and the strange but alluring man reveals he is an Archfae. She follows him into Faerie in search of her missing parents and soon realizes that she’s not who she thought she was either.

As Amaryllis’s journey unfolds in the Faerie realm, she encounters various magical beings—from Sirens and Pixies to Brownies and Nymphs—and discovers her powers as a fae changeling. Amaryllis must disguise herself and adapt, but she also makes new friends, fights various enemies, uncovers her family history, and falls in love with an Archfae … or two.

Romantasy fans will connect with Amaryllis’s spunky character as she faces trials and tribulations, tests her magic, learns who she really is, and embraces friendship, trust, and joy. Painting Flowers and Fantasies is an otherworldly coming-of-age adventure in which a young woman grows out of her previously sheltered and isolated existence to take risks and transform into the powerful hero of her own story. This is the first book in The Lost Changelings series.

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Exploring the scriptural record from creation to the prophesied end of the age, Biblical Universum presents the origins of the universe, Earth, and humanity through the lens of a Young Earth creationist perspective. With passion and conviction, Glen P. Carlin critiques modern scientific theories regarding the age of the Earth and celestial bodies, as well as the development of the universe, contrasting them with the biblical creation account. At the heart of the narrative is the belief that Scripture alone provides the foundation for understanding our world and God’s purpose for our lives.

In an engaging style, Mr. Carlin explores topics such as prehistoric life, the Genesis account, the nature of time, the significance of Eden and the Holy Land, and the role of Jesus Christ. This fascinating study reveals the relationship between scientific discoveries and biblical interpretation, providing readers with insight into how a literal understanding of Scripture addresses questions surrounding the origins of life and our world.

Biblical Universum presents the creative power of God as revealed throughout Scripture, emphasizing the central role of Jesus Christ as Creator and reigning King. Inspiring and thought-provoking, it invites readers to explore the connection between creation, humanity, and the prophetic future of our world, while considering the enduring truths found within the biblical record.

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As the seasons change, so does the café.

Cold brew gives way to pumpkin spice. Familiar faces disappear and return. People linger longer when the weather turns, seeking warmth, routine, or something they cannot quite name. Behind the counter, Mae watches.

Over the course of a year, she observes the small shifts that happen between people: the conversations that linger, the relationships that form and unravel, the moments of loneliness, desire, comfort, and connection that pass through the café every day. Some encounters change lives. Others leave only the faintest trace. Yet even the briefest interactions can alter the shape of a person long after they leave.

Intimate, atmospheric, and deeply human, The Usual explores the emotional lives unfolding in the spaces between orders, revealing how people seek connection, how they misunderstand it, and how what remains with us is sometimes not what happened, but what almost did.

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Experiencing the Camino may begin with a single step, but the lessons it offers can last a lifetime.

When Bonnie set out to walk the final 115 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago, she expected sore feet, beautiful scenery, and perhaps a meaningful adventure. What she discovered along her journey was something much deeper: a series of gentle, practical, and often surprising lessons from God.

Part memoir, part devotional reflection, Lessons from the Camino invites readers to walk alongside Bonnie as she learns to release control, choose gratitude in difficult circumstances, silence judgment, and follow trustworthy guideposts. Ultimately, she discovers that the Camino itself is not the answer to life’s questions—but it can create space to hear the One who is.

With warmth, honesty, humour, and deep faith, Bonnie shares stories from the trail and from her own life. Each chapter offers Scripture, personal stories, reflection, and prayer for readers navigating their own winding paths through life.

Whether you have walked the Camino, dream of walking it someday, or simply need encouragement for the road you are on right now, this book is a reminder that every step can become sacred when walked with God.

Buen Camino.

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