Below are some of our most recently released books.
In 1956, a young Canadian family left behind the comfort and certainty of home to answer a call that would change their lives forever. What began as a mission of service in Egypt and Ethiopia became an extraordinary journey marked by courage, sacrifice, humour, heartbreak, and wonder. Told through the eyes of the oldest son, this deeply personal memoir captures the beauty and hardship of growing up in a rapidly changing Africa, where childhood was shaped by separation, resilience, and unforgettable adventure. At once tender and inspiring, this is a story of family, faith, and the enduring truth that the places we set out to change often change us most of all. For anyone who has ever wrestled with belonging, loss, purpose, or the hope of a new ending, this remarkable memoir is an invitation to remember that even the hardest journeys can leave behind a legacy of grace.
Marsha Mallow is excited for summer camp, but she’s nervous, too. Will she make friends? What if she has to do things she’s never done before? The first day at camp she meets Graham Cracker and Milky Chocolate. The boys are nice and invite her to hang out with them. It’s going well until they decide to go for a canoe ride. Marsha is feeling nervous. What if she falls in the water? What if the whole boat tips? Things only get worse when Graham makes a joke and she feels like they’re laughing at her, not with her. How will she ever get in the canoe now? A story about unlocking the power of friendship through empathy and understanding, Marsha Goes to Summer Camp shows us that each of us is great, but together we're so much s’more. It’s a reminder for kids of what understanding and supporting each other can achieve. Marsha Goes to Summer Camp is the second book in the Side by Side Books series, created as a teaching tool for parents and educators. The side by side format shows two different perspectives of the same story on the open book page, providing opportunity to engage children in discussions around empathy and understanding other perspectives. Side by Side Books are aligned with the Ontario Ministry of Education’s emphasis on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) as outlined in the Cross-Curricular and Integrated Learning framework.
Liberia has changed leaders, governments, and political promises—but why have the lives of ordinary citizens changed so little? In 1966, the landmark study Growth Without Development by Robert W. Clower, George Dalton, Mitchell Harwitz, and A. A. Walters exposed the contradiction of rapid economic growth alongside widespread underdevelopment, a contradiction that Liberia, sixty years later, has yet to overcome. Too often, thoughtful Liberians evaluate identical government actions differently depending on which party or president is responsible, but such selective judgment prevents the country from confronting its urgent challenges. Out of a deep love for Liberia and its future, Augustus Jonathan Flomo writes The Liberia We Must Build to compare the Weah and Boakai administrations while examining what each inherited, placing their performance within Liberia’s broader history of economic growth without development, abundant natural resources without sufficient benefits for citizens, and democratic aspirations without sustained institutional implementation. He updates that national reckoning through rigorous, evidence-based analysis of recent governance and calls on Liberians to judge every administration by the same standards, verify claims before assigning praise or blame, and measure national progress by the lived realities of ordinary citizens across all fifteen counties. This book challenges Liberians to move beyond partisan propaganda, confront the evidence, and build a nation where leadership, institutions, accountability, and economic growth deliver measurable improvements for every citizen.
Have you ever heard the term rescue dog? Are you one of many that believe your dog has a special purpose to be in your life? This book features a Newfoundland breed dog (IZZY) who “Pawsitively” teaches us a healthy way to deal with loss. As a United States Customs and Border Protection agent, IZZY and her Pal Fitzroy, also a Newfoundland, agent remind others that they are never alone and the comebacks are always better than the setbacks. This is the 4th book in the “Pawsitively”, kids’ book series of Service Dogs adventures. Appealing to dog lovers everywhere and those that have had to deal with loss, the chance to represent those who have been called home before us. IZZY will warm the hearts of the readers and remind them it’s okay to grieve, heal with the added bonus of a behind-the-scenes look at the diligence and dedication of the United States Customs and Border Protection.
A young girl vanishes, swallowed by darkness, her story lost to time. Decades later, a compassionate nurse inherits a quiet country home from a woman she barely knew, stepping into a mystery that refuses to stay buried. Joanna Waters has built her life around caring for others, keeping her own painful past carefully contained. But when her elderly client Charlotte dies suddenly and leaves her everything, Joanna is drawn into a world that feels both strangely intimate and unfamiliar. As she and her husband settle into the late Charlotte’s rural property, disturbing dreams begin to haunt her. The land itself seems alive with memory, and the deeper Joanna digs, the more she senses that Charlotte’s past remains to be finished in the present. As fragments of history surface, Joanna must confront the possibility that her connection to Charlotte runs far deeper than chance. Themes of loss, belonging, generational trauma, and redemption intertwine as past and present begin to blur. But some secrets resist exposure, and some truths demand a reckoning: what really happened to the girl with delphinium eyes and how is Joanna a part of her story?
Sunlight filters beautifully through enormous stained-glass windows depicting stories of biblical classics, including a dominant centerpiece of the Last Supper flanked by lesser images of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail, crucifixes, and fantastic angels. One image in particular catches Adam’s attention as he staggers through debris-filled aisles, stumbling over felled hardwood benches with drunken clumsiness, the echoes of which resonate through the nave. He steps up onto the chancel and schleps towards an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden… “Where’s my Eve?” he shouts at the top of his lungs… Through a strange twist of fate, eleven-year-old Adam escapes a predator’s lair, only to discover he may be the sole human survivor of a zombie apocalypse. Twenty-six years later, Adam is living large, with fine art, great music, great booze, handy-long-life batteries, and plenty of gardening expertise to keep him healthy. And what he doesn’t have, he invents, using the raw materials he has at hand…which is mostly zombies. A Robinson Crusoe for the zombie age, Adam discovers ways to employ snapping zombie-heads and flailing zombie arms that make life pretty posh on his secluded estate, but there’s one thing missing—love. And so Adam has to invent that for himself too. Wildly irreverent, slyly erotic, and infused with unexpectedly moving perspectives on man’s yearning for connection, A Life to Die For marries dark humor, a delicious yuck factor, and reams of inventiveness to answer the question: What would you do if you were the last man on earth?