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Schumann, Vienna and the Cat
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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...
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I Want to Break Free
An Abacus Story
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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...
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Songbirds Keep Singing
A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation
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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...
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Simple Healing
A Year of Learning
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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....
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Circle Round
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My memoir is organized around Medicine Wheel teachings: Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Elderhood. It traces my life from White Anglo-Saxon Christian upbringing through marriage to a Black Mohawk man, exposure to Indigenous teachings, and...
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Retired Ground
A Climber's Odyssey
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He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more. In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical...
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will
Finding Joy and Purpose in Life After Child Loss
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Love You Like a Bus: Letters to Will is a mother’s raw, tender, and ultimately life-affirming memoir of love after loss. When Joni Bouchard’s twelve-year-old son, Will, dies suddenly and tragically, her world fractures. She continues their daily...
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I Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest
A Memoir
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Elaine Ross grew up knowing she was adopted. Brought into a loving family on the Canadian prairies at eleven months old, she felt secure in the life she was given and the parents who chose her. For many years, that story felt complete. Gradually...
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My Father's Father's Family
James Wilfred Estey & His Ancestors
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This book traces the remarkable journey of the Estey family across five centuries, from its earliest recorded origins in England in the sixteenth century to the diverse paths that eventually converged in New Brunswick and beyond. It follows the...
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After All...
Cherished Memories
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After All…traces the first 40 years of a small-town Ohio girl’s life. Coming from a family of 10 children, at 18 she leaves behind the certainty of the 1950’s and steps boldly into a bigger world. Through education, hard knocks, and an...
