Humor, Form, Anecdotes
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Framed By Our Houses
Sunny, Rainy and Snowy Sketches of Canadian Living by William R. Marshall
What’s it like being the only Anglophones settling into the rural Beauce region south of Québec City, where no one keeps a lock on their door? What kind of struggles does one encounter as a young adult living in communal housing in Peterborough,...
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Stronger in the End
My 70 Year Swim from Chaos to Calm by Lynda Beth Unkeless
This engaging memoir shows women how to live—and how to age—with grace and gusto. Lynda Beth Unkeless has explored five continents and thrived on the kindness of strangers. Life, she says, is meant to be an adventure. In "Stronger in the End: My...
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123 Very Short Stories from a Long Life in Medicine
by Stan Lubin
A baby is born, after a long nerve-wracking labour. A family struggles to make the right end-of-life decision for an elderly relative. Addicts and eccentrics find themselves in hospital emergency rooms. And doctors are there: treating patients...
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Short Bear Tales
by Leonard Brett
Bears can be scary beasts…or do dumb things like getting stuck in garbage cans. In this charmingly illustrated collection of humorous poems and stories, author/illustrator Leonard Brett celebrates all things bears, particularly human/bear...
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Clinking Outside the Box
The World in a Glass by Harry Drung
“There can be no good living where there is not good drinking.” Benjamin Franklin Proving the wisdom of Franklin’s adage, Harry Drung, a long-time executive in the international wine, beer, and spirits industry, takes the reader with him to many...
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Cow, Sow, and Sheila
by Sheila Mae Harris
Sheila Harris and I have been friends for a long time. And the most amazing thing she ever did was marry a farmer. No one was more unsuited for farm life than this girl. And in the dead of night she would think. "What have I got myself into?" You...
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Before I Knew
A Village Boyhood on Vancouver Island by Scott Brian Montgomery
Stuey Moore is in trouble—again. When he’s not carving his initials on the family piano or stealing his mother’s prized curling gloves for dubious winter “sports,” the somewhat impulsive youngster is likely buying candy at Mr. Beck’s store, or...
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What a Coincidence!
It's The Stories We Tell That Define Us by Larry Proctor
“What a Coincidence!” is a collection of life stories, some of which are the author’s own and others that were shared with him. Some are coincidences. Others are simple experiences that shaped those who lived them. Some come in the form of...
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Six Under After Five
Growing Old is Mandatory; Growing Up is Optional by Lowell Leffler
A humorous collection of short stories that will keep you turning the page Hop into the author’s DeLorean and travel back to a simpler and less complicated time. A time when the most advanced technology included vinyl records, transistor radios,...
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Pun And Grimeish Mint
The Lowest Form of Humor in the Highest Number of Words by Lloyd Farley
"Pun And Grimeish Mint" is a humour book, filled with a number of long-form puns (5-6 sentences each, very roughly), playing off of pop-culture references, common idioms, and the like.. As far as a target audience, given that it is a pun book it...
