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Security Confidential
Insider Stories and Tales from the Private Security Industry
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In the world of private security, you never know what kind of chaos is waiting around the corner. Security Confidential is a compilation of insider stories from across Canada that answers the question, “What really happens when security...
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Until Death Do Us Part
The Tales of a Christian Wife
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This book focuses on the most difficult years of my life. The before and after my second marriage to a man I thought I knew intimately. During the seven-year marriage, I discovered how little I knew about living with a difficult person, and about...
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Otiosus
An Edwardian-Era Muskoka Cottage
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Edna (Grainger) Page provides an engaging account of one of the earliest cottages in the Muskoka District north of Toronto. Edna arrived at the newly constructed cottage in 1901, when she was only three years old. The family travelled by train,...
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One Man’s Odyssey
Memoir of a Marine Engineer and Raconteur
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Have you ever walked into a room and noticed off to the side a gaggle of spellbound listeners surrounding an apparent and compelling storyteller? You observe that inching ever closer the group suddenly erupts into an outburst of raucous laughter...
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Tales, Trails, and Tribulations of a Blue-Collar Hunter
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From a boyhood spent roaming the banks of the Kennebecasis River near Saint John, New Brunswick, to a lifetime of hunting across Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia, this book is a boots-on-the-ground memoir rooted in grit, gratitude, and the...
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Where the Sun Will Always Shine
The Writer's Story
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Esmeraldas, Ecuador, is a beautiful place for a story to begin. But a beautiful beginning doesn’t mean a story isn’t complicated. Aracelly Contreras Borja’s life—like everyone’s, though perhaps more than some—has paired that beauty with sorrow,...
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A Brotherhood of Unbreakable Bonds
My Life in The Canadian Armed Forces
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It was about 0215 hours when I was awoken by the first rocket hitting the camp, shortly followed by the second one. I know this because I felt the BOOM! in my chest. A feeling that I had not experienced since I was living on the airfield in...
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That One Night
A Brain Injury Survival Story
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What started out as an innocent, fun-filled night suddenly turns into a parent’s worst nightmare—their child dying in a heap of twisted metal on a moonlit street. Though she survives the car crash, Kelly’s life is forever altered that one...
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Purpose Still Lives Here
A Caregiver's Fight
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When former NFL player and Super Bowl champion O.J. Brigance was diagnosed with ALS, his wife, Chanda Minor-Brigance, suddenly stepped into a role she never applied for: full-time caregiver. Purpose Still Lives Here: A Caregiver’s Fight is her...
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Stormin Norman: Born to Battle
The compelling story of one of Canada's unsung World War II heroes as recounted by his own proud son
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A TRUE-LIFE STORY about a Canadian World War II Veteran, Artillery Soldier and hero who experienced MORE! MORE abuse by growing up in a household filled with PTSD, from a Stepfather who was a poisonous gas scarred World War I Veteran, MORE...