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The Next Rooster
Chianti Classico's Next Generation
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The Next Rooster is a portrait of continuity in motion. Through 44 essays, it brings together the stories of families whose lives, vineyards, and futures are rooted in the hills of Chianti Classico, one of Italy’s most historic and dynamic wine...
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Observations of an Idiot
My Thoughts, My Story
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A few years ago, after a holiday in England, Brian Burdon began jotting down thoughts about what he had experienced over the years. Those thoughts grew into a book. In Observations of an Idiot, Brian shares his opinions and reflections on the...
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Beyond the Woven Curtain
The Story of Andrina Mitchell/Muir
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Andrina Muir (née Mitchell) lived a life shaped by faith, devotion, love, and resilience in a world of hardship and change. Born in a sod house in the North West Territory, her childhood was defined by carefree days, farm animals and her father’s...
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Letting Go of My Ocean View
a memoir
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How many times can a life be rewritten? Deborah A.M. Phillips has lived with four names, two mothers, three families, and twenty-eight moves. Adopted as an infant and raised across Canada and France, she spent years searching for the missing...
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Razado and the Saddle Tramp
A Vanishing Way of Life Remembered
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Horse ownership in all its wonderful weirdness, from a veteran Canadian journalist and best-selling author! After becoming drawn to horses and the British Columbia countryside, former crime reporter Robin Brunet gradually earns his spurs as a...
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Teatime for Tyrants
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Eight ambitious Academics: a Professor, his Assistant and six college students embark upon an unforgettable safari through East Africa's Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They cross the Serengeti plain, climb the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, swim in the...
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60 Years for Grenfell
The Legacy of Edith Sloan Griscom
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In 1919, Edith Sumner Sloan, a high society girl from New York City, decides to pack up her things and head north, to Newfoundland and Labrador. She volunteers for the International Grenfell Association, and teaches in a one-room schoolhouse in a...
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Adventures in My Trusty Boots
Women Geoscientists in Canada and Beyond
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There has never been a better time for women in Canada to enter the geosciences. As climate change inspires greater emphasis on green power, environmental stewardship, and Indigenous worldviews, support groups for women and other minorities in...
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Echoes of The Island
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We learned to plant crops, fish, love, and wait. Two places could hardly seem as different in ways of life than Alexandria, Egypt and Sherwood, Prince Edward Island. But in this collection of vignettes, author Ahmed Fathi Shalabi reflects on his...
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Cultivating Freedom
My Journey with a Narcissist
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What happens when the life you built slowly becomes a prison—and leaving feels like an impossible dream? In this raw, courageous memoir of surviving decades inside a psychologically abusive marriage to a partner with narcissistic personality...
