Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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Erasing The Five O'Clock Shadow
by Monica Miatello
A middle-class Roman Catholic Italian, hockey player, avid drummer, and popular kid, Monica Miatello (formerly Chris) knew she was different from the age of five. But it was the late 1960s—a time when information about gender dysphoria was...
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Extraction From Chad
by Rui Amaral
In this exciting and suspenseful real-life thriller, corporate security and safety expert Rui Amaral describes the hectic and dangerous, but ultimately successful, evacuation of an international team of oil and gas workers from a far-flung...
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Time and Patience
My Journey Through Stroke Recovery by Claudio Pettinaro
When Claudio Pettinaro collapsed onto the bathroom floor one winter morning, he had no idea his life was about to split in two—before the stroke, and after. What followed was a year defined by confusion, fear, emotional upheaval, and the slow,...
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Outrageous Synchronicity
Journey to the Sacred by Judith Crichton
Outrageous Synchronicity is a captivating memoir that will challenge conventional paradigms and inspire the reader to a deeper knowledge of life and relationships. Offering a unique blend of the mystical and the everyday, it traces one woman’s...
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Emancipated Blooms
Petals of Resistance, A Voice Unburied by Amara Shores
In this heart-wrenchingly sincere and unvarnished memoir, Amara Shores recounts a story of breaking cycles, healing generational trauma, and finding freedom after years of silence. Born into a family still reeling from the generational impact of...
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My Father's War
by Ben de Boon
How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or...
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Little Big Boss
A Métis Man's Stories of Life in Canada's Arctic by Alex Gordon and Michel Lupien
Alex Gordon left his home in Caslan, Alberta in 1958 for a summer job in Wood Buffalo National Park to earn money for university in the fall. Little did he know this would lead to a 20-year adventure working and living in Canada’s high Arctic....
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Society of Crows
by Robert W. Butler
The crows’ intelligence, sagacity, and penchant to interact with humans has captivated human imaginations for decades. Yet only a few people have had the opportunity or motivation to devote much of their life to trying to understand them. A...
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From Olive Roots to Maple Trees
George's Journey From Greek Soil to Canadian Success by Sue Theodorou and George Theodorou
George Theodorou was just fourteen years old when he defied his father’s wishes and left his family in Greece to work at sea. After travelling the world on cargo ships, he began his mandatory service in the navy, a gruelling experience that built...
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My Powell River
Growing Up In A Mill Town by Ron Olsen
Living in Powell River, British Columbia back in the 1950’s and 1960’s was a boyhood dream. Powell River was and is like a jewel in the crown. It had everything, mountains, lakes, forests, the ocean, and so much more, and it gave me a childhood...
