Family & Relationships
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Hoping for a Miracle
A Memoir by Lynn-Marie McIlvain
Hoping For a Miracle is the true story of Lynn-Marie, an aspiring teacher, as she embarks on a ten-year journey to become a mother. She faces heartache and uncertainty along the way. At times, loneliness and devastation are hard to bear. Despite...
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SISU
How My Mother's Fight For Her Death Changed the Course of My Life by Shaana Hamm
GUTS . . . INNER STRENGTH . . . GRIT . . . DETERMINATION . . . PERSEVERANCE. THIS IS SISU. What would you do if the healthiest member of your family suffered an incapacitating hemorrhagic stroke? And what if their recovery suddenly morphed into...
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My Happy Place
by Ujala Rizvi
My Happy Place is a collection of journal entries Ujala Rizvi wrote over several years to process the positive and negative events that shaped her life. Life can move much more quickly than any of us expects—especially when there are many big...
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Where Are You Mom?
"Touched By Evil" by Anne-Marie Mac Donald Courtemanche and Sharon Dorival
When Anne-Marie Courtemanche was a little girl, she fell victim to a sadistic step-father, who physically and sexually abused her and her little sister and savagely beat their emotionally-withdrawn mother and siblings. Then her mother fled the...
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Project Opikihiwawin and the Sixties Scoop
How White Parents Helped Their Adopted Children Connect With Their Indigenous Heritage by Cheryl Simmonds and Jamie McKay
For decades, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous homes—a practice most well-known as the Sixties Scoop but one that began years before and continues long after....
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The Loss Of Innocence
by Anna
The Loss of Innocence is a book of poetry written by a child, who is a separate and distinct part of the adult. She prefers to be called Anna. She has no voice; her pain, fear, sadness, and loneliness have been buried inside for over fifty years....
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Yellow a love story
Discovering treasures hidden in dark places by Ian W. McSporran
When Ian McSporran travelled to Montreal, Quebec, for the Olympic Games in 1976, he had no idea he would meet the love of his life, his soul mate, and his best friend there. Within four years of meeting Gerda, he left England and emigrated to...
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Chocolate and Sangria
A Story About Loving Neighbours by Anneliese Sawatzky
When an old man bangs on Anne’s door to complain about her noisy children, it brings her to tears—but also sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship. Determined to uncover the hidden charm beneath Stan’s gruff exterior, Anne takes it upon...
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Go Fast Go Faster
An Advocate’s Journey by J. F. McDermott
Go Fast Go Faster is a tender, funny, and deeply moving story of a father’s love for his daughter, and how together, they continue to triumph over tragedy. In November of 1995, birth trauma left James McDermott’s daughter Mariel profoundly brain...
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Sail with the Tide
a Dad's View of Addiction by James W. Stewart
Sadly, few of us haven’t had our lives touched by addiction. Even more tragic, for many of us, it is our child who is suffering—and our child who we struggle to help. James W. Stewart is one such parent. When his late son, Joshua, started down...
