Humor, Form, Essays
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Robservations
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Six sisters, two brothers, a Monty Python–loving mom, and a military father all add up to one very full and funny house in Rob Clark’s Robservations. Growing up in a chaotic Catholic household in the ’60s and ’70s was rarely easy—forced haircuts,...
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Instagram Moms are Full of Sh*t
To Hell With Mom Shaming
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Are you done with reels that show moms who make it look so easy when some mornings you don’t even manage to get your hair brushed before taking your kids to school? Have you ever been mom shamed for something you’ve done or haven’t done for your...
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Mosaic through East-Facing Glass
A Collection of Personal Essays
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2020. Yeah, that. Everything stopped except Marg Heidebrecht's habit of writing for ninety minutes a day. Four years, forty essays later, the author of In the Shade: Friendship, Loss, and the Bruce Trail provides us with this new collection....
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Tales, Topics, Trivia and Travel
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Part fiction, part memoir, this comprehensive collection of short works showcases decades of writing by Lynn Gold. Comprising over two hundred individual pieces, Tales, Topics, Trivia, and Travel is wide-ranging, touching on topics such as...
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The Fuller Picture
Cam Fuller Looks at Life
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Sprinting into the grocery story at closing time because your kids need greencoloured snacks for school in the morning. Realizing that when your partner asks if that’s the outfit you’re planning to wear, you’ve planned wrong and will have to...
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Life's Little Stories and The Colored Glasses
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Prepare yourself to have fun! Yes, fun. Life's Little Stories and The Colored Glasses is a whimsical combination of people wearing Tommy Papantonio's collection of colored glasses from the dollare store and short stories he wrote from experiences...
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The Wine Writer
Bold Highlights Ambrosial Undercurrents
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Murlowe takes us to the hidden Andonnay Valley in search of an exquisite Prndl, stopping here and there along the way… Eventually, he became known as mono-oenologic and, one by one, his friends drifted away and didn’t see much of him. Bubbles! It...
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3 or 4 Years an Indian
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A little story about one girl’s attempt to claim her heritage, and the maneuvering by the Canadian government to discredit that heritage. This book contains a “gift of words” for Toronto, with views on substance abuse presented in the spirit of a...
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Social Studies
Collected Essays, 1974-2013
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Just let me turn down that armadillo steak I'm cooking for dinner; then I'll be right with you. Such an easy recipe. You should try it. You just soak your 'dillo meat in a pint of bourbon in which you've been soaking a cup of cactus needles...
