Biography & Autobiography
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Chasing the Muse: Canada
by Lloyd Walton
By adapting a code of conduct at a young age (the Code of the Trail), Lloyd embarked on a lifelong quest to live out his every dream. He became a pilot, he had a brush with the big time in the NHL, he flew with the Snowbirds, he had remarkable ...
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Is There Any Ice Cream?
Surviving the Challenges of Caregiving for a Loved One with Alzheimer's, Anxiety, and COPD by Judith Allen Shone
In 2018, the Alzheimer Society of Canada website showed over half a million people in Canada were living with dementia. That same year, the Alzheimer Association website reported that over 5.7 million in the US were living with a form of memory ...
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Another Land
Glimpses of Life in Prose and Poetry by Elizabeth Fleet
To visit Another Land, one must first embark on a journey, and then learn to appreciate new surroundings and be prepared for new experiences. Poet Elizabeth Fleet does just this in her collection of wonderfully lyrical poetry and insightful and ...
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I'm Still Standing
Saved by God's Amazing Grace: From Brokenness to Wholeness by Lorna Spencer
Lorne Gregory was on top of the world the day she married Jamie Jones. But within weeks of their marriage, it became painfully obvious that something was wrong. Believing deeply in her vow to love and support him for better or worse, Lorne pulls out ...
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We Marines
by Edward (Ned) Black
The Vietnam era was a time of turmoil and change in the United States, one of anger and anguish for some; especially among young men facing a call up for military service. Writings about this time have focused mostly on the protest viewpoint. But ...
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The Girl Next Door Meets Cancer
by Hayleigh Noel O'Brien
“I hope that my experience can encourage other women to pay attention to their bodies and trust their instincts.” These are the brave words of the late Hayleigh Noel O’Brien, who, shortly before her 31st birthday, was diagnosed with a form of ...
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Memories Best Forgotten
by Richard Parke-Taylor
Nothing is simple for Rickey Parkitt-Mann, an innocent and impressionable boy who relocates with his family to No. 1 Fighter Wing Air Force Base in Marville, France. The year is 1956, and at the tender age of six, Rickey is thrown into early ...
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Lady with the Iron Ring
An Engineer’s Memoir of Hope, Luck and Success by Nattalia Lea
In 1978, Nattalia Lea became the first woman to graduate from the University of British Columbia with a bio-resources engineering degree – an era when less than 0.5% of Canadian professional engineers were female. Then 26 years later, in 2004, after ...
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Deep Roots
A Personal Family History by Richard Endress
Everyone of us is who and where we are today because of the efforts and decisions of those who came before us -- our ancestors. This book traces the history of nine of my ancestral families, from their small farming villages in Germany, through the ...
