Biography & Autobiography, Educators
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The Missing Puzzle Pieces
Finding My Birth Family by Joan Zaretsky
Joan Zaretsky was adopted as an infant, and grew up in a loving, happy home with adoptive parents who supported her to experience many opportunities. Following her retirement, and her adoptive parents passing away, Joan courageously endeavors to ...
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The Gift of Adversity
Stories and Strategies to Turn Trials into Triumphs by Lisa Standeven
The Gift of Adversity is a collection of stories and strategies from a life lived through challenge. It began as a means of healing after the workplace accident that claimed Lisa Standeven’s dominant hand, making her an amputee. Confronting physical ...
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With Hope in My Heart
Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist by Francois Mai
Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that’s exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Mai shares how and why he ventured into psychiatry, ...
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Vision and Values
My Path to Arts based Education by Gail Baker
Every good educator has asked themselves how they can reach their students most effectively. Gail Baker grapples this question from the perspective of both student and teacher in her memoir as she reflects on her 45-year-long career in the field of ...
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Walk With A Purpose
The John Volken Story From Dishwasher to Multi-Millionaire, Then Gave It All Away... by John Volken
Horatio Alger wrote in the nineteenth century about impoverished boys rising from humble backgrounds to lives of achievement through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. Alger should have met John Volken. He would have loved him, as many ...
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Trees For the Forest
by Paul Ownman
When he’s abruptly thrust into single parenthood of his two young children, Shane Murphy’s life changes dramatically. As he ventures into a new career to better provide for his children, Shane slowly changes his approach to life. Trees for the ...
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Ikpiarjuk
My Challenges Teaching in a Land of Inuit by Md Abdus Salam
We travel to India to see the Taj Mahal, Egypt to see Pyramids, Turkey to see Blue Mosque, Italy to see Colosseum, South America in quest of Inca civilization, and so on. But very few travel to Nunavut – A Land of Inuit. Md Abdus Salam – the ...
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As Far As I Can Remember
A Memoir by Francis Aiyeobalor Omoruyi
From Nigeria to Canada and back again: Francis Omoruyi’s immigrant story explores the challenges of corruption, racism, and crime, but also the joys of achievement, aspiration, and community connection. Born in a small Nigerian village, Francis was ...
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Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy
The Greatest Story Ever Told About Me by Me by Charles W. (Bill) Cox
Have you ever fantasized about pursuing a new career? Do you feel that a career change would be impossible given your personal responsibilities? Author Bill Cox has done it numerous times. Wash Behind Your Ears, Billy: The Greatest Story Ever Told ...
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Fifty Years in the Classroom and What I Learned There
by John Barsby
“It is easy for people my age to look on the schools of the past with a sense of nostalgia, seeing a golden age that never really existed. I am not among them. I recognize that the schools of today have much more to offer.” In Fifty Years in the ...
