Biography & Autobiography
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My Happy Place
by Ujala Rizvi
My Happy Place is a collection of journal entries Ujala Rizvi wrote over several years to process the positive and negative events that shaped her life. Life can move much more quickly than any of us expects—especially when there are many big...
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I am Saxon
A History of the Transylvanian Saxons by Karl Gagesch
I Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin of the Carpathian Mountains, the Saxons...
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Ripples from the Rupununi
Dr. Aidun's Healing Journey by Brian H. Cameron
Somewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millenia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of...
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Johannes Vermeer—Provocateur
Risk and Courage in Dissent by Neil Thomas Proto
The 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting mask, weaving the documented strands of terror,...
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Chocolate and Sangria
A Story About Loving Neighbours by Anneliese Sawatzky
When an old man bangs on Anne’s door to complain about her noisy children, it brings her to tears—but also sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship. Determined to uncover the hidden charm beneath Stan’s gruff exterior, Anne takes it upon...
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Sole Runner
by Anim S.Swart
THE BRUTAL HEAT OF THE DESERT IN NAMIBIA. High altitudes, canyons, and rivers in Chile. Unforgiving terrain and temperamental weather in remote Mongolia. The cold of Antarctica. A duckboard course through twenty-four hours of daylight in Lapland....
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Go Fast Go Faster
An Advocate’s Journey by J. F. McDermott
Go Fast Go Faster is a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of a father’s love for his daughter, and how together, they continue to triumph over tragedy. In November of 1995, birth trauma left James McDermott’s daughter Mariel profoundly brain...
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Escape from Transylvania
Journey to New Life by Zoltan Mihaly
It is 1984 in Communist Romania and Zoltan Mihaly is young, courageous, and frustrated with the limitations of life under communism and the Ceausescu regime. A member of an ethnic Hungarian minority within the historical region of Transylvania,...
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The Athlete Whisperer
An Improbable Voice in Sports by Andrea Kirby
Andrea Kirby was not a former athlete and had no ties to television. Still, in 1971, this single mom talked her way onto a small television station as a sportscaster. A rare female in the all-male culture of her beloved sports, she was harassed...
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Stories at the Kitchen Table
by Katherine Brady
In this captivating and often humorous collection of short stories, Katherine Brady recounts the true stories of her late father Terry, bringing them to the page from the table around which the family used to gather. The tales come from Terry’s...
