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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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Schumann, Vienna and the Cat
by Robert Silverman
Robert Schumann—one of the most imaginative figures of the Romantic era—and concert pianist Robert Silverman: in both lives, brief but psychologically complex sojourns in Vienna became decisive crucibles, testing ambition against reality and shaping the emergence of fully formed artistic identities. Their two stories unfold in counterpoint in Schumann, Vienna, and the Cat, illuminating one another across time. In the first half of the book, Silverman traces his own artistic formation in Montreal to his decisive years of study in Vienna (1961–1963). Interwoven with this personal narrative is the parallel story of Robert Schumann, whose formative struggles and ambitions are followed to the moment he, too, left Vienna in 1839. The second half of the book is devoted to extended essays on Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16, and Humoreske, Op. 20—works born of those Viennese years and examined here through historical context, literary influence, and performance insight. The result is neither conventional biography, memoir, nor purely technical analysis, but a meditation in two voices on artistic maturity, self-scrutiny, and the long journey toward integration. Schumann, Vienna, and the Cat offers readers—especially emerging classical musicians—a model of how talent is shaped through uncertainty, risk, and self-examination rather than immediate mastery. At the same time, it invites older readers to look back on their own formative years with renewed understanding, recognizing that maturity often emerges from precisely the turbulence that once seemed misguided or excessive.
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I Want to Break Free
An Abacus Story by Koorosh Eslami
In 1984, fourteen-year-old Koorosh Eslami left Tehran with his father to escape being drafted into the Iran-Iraq War. After living and studying in Türkiye, his unique adventure begins and he flees to Canada alone, illegally where he was detained in January 1986. Eventually, a loving foster home took him into their arms, where the daily fun and chaos plunged him headlong into his first lessons about North American life. Told through the running metaphor of an abacus—each bead representing a person he lived with, a move, or a new survival problem—Koorosh’s story follows him from the group home as he transitions into adulthood. Along the way, he endures multiple basement apartments and roommates, graveyard shifts, backbreaking jobs, bad breaks, hard-won opportunities, and the long climb toward education, stability, and a career as an engineer. Throughout it all, he experiences reunion, loss, and the uneasy realization that his escape didn’t erase his past; it only changed the terrain. I Want to Break Free is a raw, darkly funny, and often tender memoir of survival and reinvention, told by a narrator who never stops asking what freedom costs and who pays the bill.
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Songbirds Keep Singing
A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation by Lisa Lauter
In 2017, forty-five-year-old Lisa Lauter experienced mysterious neurological symptoms. For months, she didn’t feel like herself and doctors had no answers. A mother of three preteen boys, Lisa had many reasons to explain away her odd symptoms. In her situation, what parent wouldn’t be tired, forgetful, and sleep-deprived? But that didn’t explain the weakness in her left side, the tingling feeling, and numbness. It didn’t explain why, on a relaxing summer day, Lisa had her first tonic-clonic seizure. Songbirds Keep Singing: A Memoir of Healing from Autoimmune Brain Inflammation blends personal accounts, research, and the author’s public health background as she searches for answers following her first seizure. Using her experience as both a survivor and nurse, Lisa explores the value of applying holistic concepts such as mindset, nutrition, exercise, gut health, hormones, and the environment alongside conventional medicine treatments to recover from a rare autoimmune disease. This book is a valuable resource for anyone navigating a complicated diagnosis who is curious about taking a multi-targeted approach to healing autoimmune inflammation comprehensively. Empowering and informative, Songbirds Keep Singing is a must read for people with brain injuries and autoimmune diseases, caregivers and health care professionals. It offers a roadmap to robust health for anyone seeking to balance their immune system and improve brain health.
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Where Are All The Answers?
by Lyndie Seddon
Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, and it can be difficult to understand why. Is it possible to find hope even when things seem the most discouraging? It is—if we learn to listen for the voice of our soul and the wisdom it brings. In a series of rhyming verses, Where Are All the Answers introduces us to our inner soul and the message it shares: how we see the world shapes how we experience the world, and how what we put out into the universe can come back to meet us. We may not find the answers we seek when we look to the world for guidance, but deep within ourselves lies the power to choose positivity and shape our reality into a tomorrow that looks brighter than today.
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The Witch and the Gnome
by Maria Trinchi
The Witch and the Gnome is a magical children's book series unlike any other. What happens to books when we close them? The characters inside books come to life whenever a book is shut or the library closes for the night. The inhabitants of the books (including heroes, villains, dragons, pirates, fairy tale friends, and myriads of other fictional characters) courageously and freely step outside the confines of their respective books to visit one another, share adventures, and enjoy the magical world hidden within every story. But not everyone uses this freedom for good. The Witch and the Gnome are clever, selfish, and determined to mess up every story and manipulate it to satisfy their own selfish and capricious desires. They sneak and slither from book to book, changing plots, stealing magical treasures, deceiving the heroes, helping the villains succeed, and even stealing the thunder from the villains themselves. Every change creates confusion for the characters and chaos for the story. The magical world of books is built on one foundational rule that must never be broken, namely: every story must remain exactly as it was written. If a single page, sentence, or word is changed, the story begins to unravel. Characters forget who they are, adventures lose their meaning, and the magic connecting all books starts to disappear. Together, heroes from many different stories must set aside their differences and work as one to restore each tale to its original plot before the damage spreads and destroys the book’s timeline. Their courage, friendship, honesty, and selflessness stand as a stark contrast against the greed, deception and power hunger of the Witch and the Gnome. At its heart, “The Witch and the Gnome” series is a collection of adventures that typifies the timeless and quintessential battle between good and evil. It celebrates the importance of courage, teamwork, integrity, and protecting the stories that inspire generations of readers. Every book has a purpose, every character has a role to play, and every story deserves to be told exactly as it was intended to be told by its author.
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Simple Healing
A Year of Learning by Tanus Tosh McNeill
When your body won’t give you answers, how do you keep living with hope? Simple Healing is a warm, reflective year-long memoir that invites readers to walk alongside Tanus Tosh McNeill as she searches for the cause of her debilitating headaches. When the medical system cannot provide clear explanations, Tosh McNeill turns to writing, reading, and intentional living as ways to steady herself through uncertainty. With honesty and compassion, she explores how simplicity, mindfulness, and environmental awareness can gently restore a sense of balance and control. Choosing less—less clutter, less pressure, less striving—becomes a way to make room for resilience and quiet healing. Tosh McNeill reflects on chronic illness with clarity and consideration, offering reassurance to anyone who has felt overwhelmed by the unknown. Drawing on her experience as a former teacher and teacher-librarian, Tosh McNeill also shares thoughtful reading recommendations and practical strategies for writing and simplifying daily life. These tools invite readers to reconnect with creativity, deepen self-awareness, and regain a sense of agency—even when circumstances cannot be changed. Hopeful and empowering, Simple Healing speaks to anyone living with chronic or undiagnosed illness, navigating uncertainty, or seeking a gentler, more intentional way forward. It is a reminder that while we may not control the future, we can shape how we meet it—one mindful choice at a time.
