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Maple Leaves in Mango Trees
Finding Home in West Africa
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With retirement approaching and their children having flown the nest, lifelong nomad educators Raymond and his wife, Madeleine Mulaire, make the bold decision to uproot their lives and embark on another overseas posting to Guinea, marking their...
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Am I Literate?
Redefining Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Kate grew up in a home where words mattered. Inspired by her family’s love of reading, she pursued a degree in English Literature and began a career as a publicist. Confident in her mastery of language, Kate believed she was literate—until her...
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Walk With A Purpose
The John Volken Story From Dishwasher to Multi-Millionaire, Then Gave It All Away...
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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...
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My Song is My Testimony
Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton
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“I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you’re not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it’s your own story.” Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas—a city split not into two, she would argue, but into three....
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Crescendo to Becoming
A Memoir of My Life
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This book is truly Cav. Francesco Fiorentino's labor of love. It was originally written around 2010 but was abandoned when the author lost his forty-four-year-old daughter to cancer. Thanks to the insistence and inspiration of his twelve...
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Peace Corps Victim
A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal
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Witness the harrowing true story of an idealistic American Volunteer who ventured into the heart of Eastern Europe with the honorable intention of serving in the United States Peace Corps. What awaited him in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia...
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Wats, Wadis and Waterfalls
A Canadian Woman's Travel and Teaching Experiences in the Middle East and Southeast Asia
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Independence, optimism, and resilience characterize my life’s journey and are the main themes of this book, which is for the over-fifty women out there who are retired or starting a new chapter in their lives. You may think, "It's too hard, "I’m...
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The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well
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David Garlick, your favourite educational storyteller, is back with a new collection of short stories: The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well. It’s a ‘mostly true’ memoir that follows Garlick from pre-school to post retirement. The majority...
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Catholic Education in Ottawa
Difference Makers 1900 to 2020
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Difference Makers in Catholic Education traces the history of Catholic education in the Ottawa, Ontario area through a series of biographies, stories, and anecdotes. From the establishment of Catholic schools in the province in the mid-1800s to...
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Ikpiarjuk
My Challenges Teaching in a Land of Inuit
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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...
