Social Science
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Sex, Tears, and Orgasms
Sweet, Gentle and Yet Strong Within by Lawrelynd Bowin
Sex, Tears, and Orgasms is the true story of an African Canadian woman’s journey to become whole several decades after suffering the trauma of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and sexual violence as a child in Guinea, West Africa....
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Nation Builders and Enemy Aliens
Four Centuries of German Experience in Canada by Gerhard P. Bassler
Today German Canadians are among Canada’s most assimilated citizens, often distinguishable from other Canadians by their name only. For centuries their pioneer farmers, economic developers, industrialists, professionals, musicians, artists,...
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Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory
An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive Home by Paul Wojdak
Paul Wojdak’s father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia’s repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they...
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North Star
The Legacy of Jean-Marie Mouchet by John Firth
“He was a man who had a purpose when he came among our people. He was very gentle with his purpose. He had a vision. He saw we had something that nobody else did. He gave us gifts which we remember to this day and still use. He changed us. He...
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Smoke and Mirrors
The Illusion of the Employment Services Sector by Sarah Delicate and Angela Hoyt
Smoke and Mirrors, The Illusion of the Employment Services Sector pulls back the curtain on the dark side of outcome based, government funded employment services. Despite the billions of tax dollars invested, the sector itself has become a...
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A Will within a Wheel
Women Racers of the 1890s by T.R. Ormond
Six-day races, record-breaking rides, and renegade leagues are at the heart of this fascinating short fiction collection that explores women’s competitive cycling in the late Victorian era. Each of the stories contained in this meticulously...
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At Your Service
Authorized Biography of Eugene "Uncle Gene" Verdu by Mike Stith
Some people spend a lifetime looking for their life’s purpose. Others just know. Eugene “Gene” Verdu had a calling. From the time he was a child, he knew he was meant to help others by any means possible. At Your Service recounts this universally...
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Our Home and Treaty Land
Revised and Expanded Edition by Raymond C. Aldred and Matthew R. Anderson
Our Home and Treaty Land addresses the critical need for non-Indigenous peoples to face their past with honesty in order to navigate a harmonious way forward. In this revised edition, co-authors Ray Aldred and Matthew Anderson take you on an...
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How to Adopt a Village in Africa
A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose by Sheena Ashdown
How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose is the memoir of how author Sheena Ashdown started a small NGO, the Africa Village Project Association (AVPA). As a young adult, Sheena travelled around West Africa, doing almost...
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Rediscovering Muhammad Yunus
How the founder of the Grameen Bank lost his glow after the glitter by Mohammad Jabbar
In 2006, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus made history by bringing the Nobel Peace Prize home to the micro-finance institution he had pioneered, the Grameen Bank, based on the idea that micro-credit model was such a meaningful tool for...