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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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In A Life
A memoir peppered with stories of a lucky life in music and Bum Ticker adventures by Steve Goldberger
Steve Goldberger has been a working musician and recording artist for fifty-plus years. In his book In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Lucky Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures, Steve shares his personal stories from being in a country rock and bluegrass band called Black Creek in the 1970s and ’80s to playing and working with all kinds of roots-style musicians, both Canadian and international, in the Toronto and Niagara region. He also reflects on his Jewish roots and recounts his experiences working in his family’s business and coping with several health issues. Scattered throughout his stories are those from some of his musician friends, including such Canadian award-winning and successful musicians as Bernie LaBarge, Graham Lear, Wendell Ferguson, Jim Casson, Penner MacKay, and so on. Steve was even blogging before blogging was a thing. Back in 1998, after being diagnosed with an enlarged aorta that needed to be replaced, he started the blog The Bum Ticker to chronicle his experience with open-heart surgery, receiving responses from people all over the world. Some of the blog’s humorous and scary excerpts are included in this book. Music, friendships, dogs, love, sadness, death, humour, joy, and philosophical outlooks—In a Life has it all.
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Harris and Me
Living with Fragile X Syndrome by Cari Forteath
In 1980, Cari Forteath and her husband George welcomed their first child, Harris, into the world. They instantly fell in love with their son, whose first few months were peaceful. Soon, though, Cari and George recognized that Harris wasn’t hitting the developmental markers for his age. It was five years before Harris was diagnosed with Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic disorder that was little-known at the time. Armed with newfound knowledge, Cari and George helped Harris grow and thrive. Today, Harris is an inspiration to his community, from his place on the local hockey team to his job at Canadian Tire. He is proof that someone with disabilities can contribute and make a difference to others and the world around him. Harris and Me is both a family memoir and a support guide to help others whose children are living with disabilities. The book chronicles the family’s four decades “living with Fragile X,” with hilarious and heart-warming anecdotes from Harris’ first steps to his more independent adulthood. The book helps parents gain a better understanding of the challenges and joys ahead and reminds us never to give up on our children — or on ourselves.
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A World of Seven Gods
by Lindsay Angel
December, a young demon princess, has a past that is unknown to everyone around her. When a powerful sorcerer kills her adoptive parents and takes her on an everlasting path in the deep woods, where she is then forced to attend a god’s orphanage, she feels like something is missing. For most of her life, she has been looking for a specific someone: someone whom her father, the Demon King, sent her to Bezág for. However, she had not been told the name of this someone. Leah assassinates criminals for fun in her rural town under the noses of police officers. Along with the strange dual swords she woke up with inside her basic apartment complex, Leah must embrace the power that awakens inside her during a journey to find out who she is. Because she is the daughter of Selene, the Goddess of the Moon, Leah must be careful since demons lurk in the shadows everywhere she turns, and they are eager to get their hands on a godchild. As Leah disobeys the way of the Circle—the so-called discoverers of her title as a godchild—she is faced with a power that stands no chance against her own, though it possesses a strong hate for the immortal side of the world. Will she ever get back to the simple, criminal killing spree that she so dearly devoted her heart to, or will she forever be stuck in the World of Seven Gods?
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Fracture
by Sam Dian
They said it would power the future. But behind closed doors, it was always a weapon. In a world still haunted by the scars of war, a revolutionary energy project promises to reshape civilization. Clean, limitless, and on the verge of success, it should be humanity’s greatest triumph. But in the shadows, powerful forces are already rewriting its purpose—into something far more dangerous. As trust breaks down and surveillance tightens, those closest to the project begin to question who they’re really working for—and what happens if they refuse to fall in line. Spanning science, secrecy, and the silent machinery of control, Echoes of Sabotage – Fracture is the first book in a gripping sci-fi trilogy about what happens when progress is compromised, and the cost of doing the right thing is everything. Some discoveries are too powerful to be controlled. Some truths are too dangerous to stay buried.
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Leaving Lisa
by Michael McMullen
I didn’t know why I was awake and out on the town. Out on the town? Come on! I was in a diner two blocks from my home at 2:30 on a Sunday morning. If that was my new night on the town, I had sunk to a despairingly low degree of life vitality and social interaction. Truth be told, I was feeling disconnected from the real world of personal relationships and engagement with others, especially meaningful others. I had gone to bed but I felt restless, so I got up, got dressed, and wandered down to GoHo’s. I didn’t wander there aimlessly…. GoHo’s diner is a happening place. But it really revs up after eleven when people come there to people watch, or to enjoy the late-at-night, been-drinking, tummy-is-growling, “growl chow,” or just to engage in a battle of wits with the sardonic, acid-tongued head waitress. One night, Guy, a business executive who’s recently been blindsided by the abrupt departure of his rabidly ambitious wife, is quietly savoring GoHo’s meatloaf special. On an earlier sojourn to Goho’s he witnessed the cusp of the break-up of a glamorous power couple: Lisa, an emotionally damaged local media celebrity trying to reclaim her musical career, and Mackin, a former CFL All Star with a big secret. Providing context and savagely funny commentary to Guy’s observations is Mo, the head waitress, a single-mother who’s had to put her ambitions aside to care for the child she had as a teenage mother and the younger sister she rescued from their abusive background. Wittily expressed from all four of their perspectives, Leaving Lisa follows the over-lapping stories of these four habitués of GoHo’s as they face major turning points in their lives, each one leaving something behind to gain a new, as yet murky, future. Their increasingly entwined journeys will open up wildly different horizons than those that confronted them at the beginning, and none of them will ever be the same again. With wickedly sharp dialogue; sizzlingly sexy encounters; deep emotional insight; sharply defined characters; and a beating heart underscoring it all, Leaving Lisa explores dark emotional issues by way of a clever comedic touch.
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Rocky Rulers
by S.J. Terra
Petra, daughter of Pete, has spent her entire life in the safety of the Mountain Realm she calls home. Raised in the warm darkness of her father’s homefire den, her eyes have never seen the light of day. Petra has never known her mother; still, she is happy with her role and eager to begin an apprenticeship as a leather worker in the coming season. But something is not right in the Realm; food is becoming scarce, education is failing, and the ancient religion that has held her society together for hundreds of years is nearly forgotten. When a mysterious old woman approaches Petra and offers her the chance to save her community, Petra sets off into the brightness of the outside world, unsure of what or who she will discover. After a grueling journey, Petra finds herself at an All-Peoples camp, where people of all backgrounds come together to learn about each other’s cultures. Among the scaly, furry, gilled, and fish-tailed campers, Petra stands out as the only Mountain-dweller — or Rocky — in attendance, though there is another who attracts plenty of attention, too. Gabriel, with his enormous, feathered wings and flight suit that hides the true colour of his skin has more secrets than Petra could have ever imagined — secrets that will change her life forever.
