History
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Angels in Swollen Crises
Stepmother by Chol-wdwuok
In November of 1991, with the Nile in flood, a breakaway faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) led by Riek Machar killed approximately 2,000 Dinka civilians in the southern Sudanese state of Jonglei in what would become known as the ...
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The Broken Silence
by Mohammed Javed
At a time in history when fear of ‘the other’ has become commonplace, The Broken Silence is a timely book that shows a glimpse in the timeline of how Islam has been marginalized in society. It examines the impacts of economic sanctions on vulnerable ...
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Tales From The Millinery Shop
by David Charles Hart
Tales From The Millinery Shop is an anthology that relates the experiences of women who work in a shop for the design and creation of women’s hats. The era is 1897 – 1924. The shop is in Schuylerville, New York. Schuylerville is eleven miles east ...
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The Big Nickel
by Colin Clay
In the first volume of his autobiographical history Colin Clay shared the events of his early life from 1932-1952 as a schoolboy near London, England before and during the second world war and later as a soldier in the Korean war. His second volume, ...
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Train for Thought
by Colin Clay
This is the fourth volume in Colin Clay's autobiographical series which tells of the seven years the Clay family enjoyed living in the town of Capreol, a railway community just a short distance from Sudbury, Ontario. Colin had served pastorally and ...
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The Man at Thetis Cove
An Historical Novel set in Esquimalt by Eric Faa
War Two now six years past. A worldwide ideological conflict between communism and capitalism has spawned war in Korea. Civil Defence preparations are rapidly pushing forward in Esquimalt and Victoria, with added measures in the event of a nuclear ...
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Chrysalis
Carpathian Liberty by Jozef Borovský
This book does not claim absolute truths, but it speaks for those who can no longer speak for themselves by the histories they witnessed, wrote about, and which defined their ancestors and descendants, including the most powerful woman that ever ...
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Weddings Around the World One:
Sikh Weddings by Arvinder K Grewal
As the new generations of Sikhs are born and raised outside India, the significance and meanings behind the historically rich Punjabi wedding customs and the Sikh wedding ceremonies are being lost because they are not being passed down. Weddings ...
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The Winds of Fortress Kula
The Journey of a Young Woman from Captivity to Freedom (1946-1947) by Dora Van Vranken
Five young siblings—three sisters and two brothers—face death by exhaustion, starvation or epidemics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. As ethnic Germans living there, the family had been arrested and their property confiscated by the ...
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The Hero of Mississippi Burning
by Mickel Moorer
1964 was the height of the Civil Rights and Wrongs Movement, and America was in turmoil. I was eight years old and visiting the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi for a family reunion. This story is about something I have remembered from that time, ...
