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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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Productiveness
by Mike Vardy
Our approach to productivity is broken. The common principles and tools often improve the numbers, sure — but the numbers don’t tell the full story. Many have mastered the mechanics of productivity yet feel hollow in their success. The ceaseless pressure for endless growth, for maximizing every minute, for commodifying every ounce of energy and time — it’s crushing. It feeds a voice of panicked stress that doesn’t quiet when the clock strikes five. There has to be a better way to bring work and life into balance than forcing them further apart. Thankfully, feeling stuck isn’t the same as being stuck. We can experiment with new ways of working — ways that reconnect our professional ambitions with our human needs, our struggles and strengths, our desire for meaning. If you’re a professional or creative who’s tired of the culture of constant optimization, who values structure but craves depth, who’s reached a stage where “getting things done” is no longer enough — Productiveness offers a way forward. Productiveness reclaims what it means to be productive in a world that confuses busyness with value. Where productivity has become a relentless pursuit of quantity, productiveness restores balance between quantity and quality — between output and outcome, doing and being. Drawing on a lifetime of curiosity and practice in time management and creative focus, Mike Vardy explores nine enduring elements of productiveness — humanness, grace, prudence, cadence, nuance, tolerance, efficacy, trust, and will — principles that help readers reorient their relationship with time and attention. Through reflective essays and grounded practices, Vardy offers a path toward wholeness in work and in life. Productiveness isn’t a manual for managing time — it’s an invitation to partner with it. A guide to rediscover the art of being productive without losing your humanity in the process.
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The Price We Pay
Grief is the price we pay for love. By sharing the burden, we can find peace and joy to temper the pain. by Colleen A Friesen
In the wake of profound loss, grief becomes a journey of transformation for a diverse group of individuals seeking solace, understanding, and healing. Five years after the devastating loss of her son, Colleen Friesen—a compassionate woman no stranger to sorrow—forms a grief group called The Price We Pay. Drawing from her own experiences with loss, she guides its members through the complexity of grief in sessions held in a cozy café during Saskatchewan’s blistering winter. From Sarah, a college student who recently lost her father, to Ray, a young widower battling anger and guilt, to Paul, an Indigenous man whose loss of a friend unearths long-repressed grief and reconnects him with his heritage—they discover that while sorrow may isolate, it can also ignite a personal evolution, both within and beyond. Through their discoveries, revelations, and vulnerable moments, the group grows closer together, forming a lasting bond that becomes the foundation for their future journeys in life. Comforting, inspiring, and with interactive questions posed to the reader at the end of each chapter, The Price We Pay not only explores and embraces grief and the many forms it takes, but also expands on themes of resilience, connection, and the enduring nature of love.
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Premonitions of the Ghost
A Collection of Offbeat Fiction by Steve Godsoe
A jigsaw puzzle in a cryptic antique shop reveals an uncanny power. A patrol officer chases a phantom pickup truck to a tragic end along a bustling Ontario highway. An out-of-left-field baseball card influences a charitable sense of honour. An alt-rock star exchanges marbles for songs with an unearthly counterparty. And a mystical night flight leads to a discovery of true inner self. These and other bizarre twists of fate make for a collection of strange and wonderful stories that, while aiming to challenge our sense of reality, still entertain. Premonitions of the Ghost: A Collection of Offbeat Fiction brings nine distinctly different tales to the table—a table on high within an offshore lighthouse that overlooks an unknown sea. It seats ten, so there’s room for one more. Step inside and pull up a seat of your own . . .
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My Two Years in Colombia
by John A Leunissen
John has loved traveling his whole life, and in the early 2000s it was the country of Colombia that captured his heart. Always ready for something new, he recounts his adventures to beautiful beaches, history-filled cities and everything the local gay community has to offer, even when it wasn’t safe. More than once he found himself in guerilla-controlled areas, and he was even rushed out of a funeral because a guerilla group was in attendance! But even as a gay foreigner, John shows that taking the risk—with a good helping of common sense—is always worth it when exploring a new country, especially one that isn’t always first on someone’s list. My Two Years in Colombia is a memoir about John finding life, love and happiness in a country far away from home. Although there are always risks involved in travelling, he wants nothing more than to show that it’s worth it to experience a new culture and to create connections with its peoples that stand the test of time.
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The Difference Maker
How clear thinking, calm leadership, and everyday discipline create real impact by Bjorn A. Thorvaldson
In The Difference Maker, author Bjorn Thorvaldson draws on decades of real-world experience to offer readers simple frameworks for decision-making, communication, leadership, and navigating uncertainty. The Difference Maker is an influential work on developing and sustaining leadership and relationship skills, with grounded tools to help readers confidently move from being overwhelmed to finding clarity, building trust, and leading with purpose in life’s important areas. The Difference Maker is not only a book about leadership, nor is it only a book about personal development. Thorvaldson instead has created a field-tested framework that acts as a bridge between thinking, acting, and contributing, a bridge that will define and inspire readers to consistently turn awareness into action and create meaningful impact across work, relationships, and life. With The Difference Maker, Thorvaldson delivers time-tested arguments for a new mindset of leadership, of doing the right thing, inspired by conversations with grandparents while growing up and developed over years of client work and presentations. Thorvaldson suggests that leaders need to aspire to more of a difference maker mindset, to aim to “think clearly under pressure and give people reasons to respect them.” This mindset will encourage readers to make maximum impact at work and in life, following foundational principles of well-being and opportunity.
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Broken Silence
Finding My Voice in a World That Tried to Keep Me Quiet by Sarah Grigg
After surviving abuse in her childhood home in India, Sarah flees to the promised safety of an arranged marriage in Canada. But when she arrives, she discovers that her new husband is as dangerous as the trauma she left behind. Isolated from her family, culture, and support systems, Sarah has to find within herself the courage to leave—not once, but twice, as she fights her natural inclination to forgive and make things work. By believing in herself and having hope for the future, Sarah makes a beautiful life: one of motherhood, resilience, and joy. Broken Silence is a powerful, honest memoir that gives voice to experiences that are often silenced. It raises awareness about the long-term impacts of abuse, migration, and isolation, while also being a story of triumph, joy, and the power of breaking silence to reclaim one’s future. It shows readers that survival is possible—and that strength can exist even when we feel powerless.
