Below are some of our most recently released books.
• Has your recent diagnosis turned your world upside down? • Are life’s challenges getting you down? Are you frightened? • Do you sometimes wonder if there is a God or think that He has abandoned you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Faith, Healing, and God can help you face, even embrace, your troubles. Annalyn Galarion is a cancer survivor. Her journey through chemotherapy, Stem Cell Transplant and CAR T-Cell therapy, radiation, surgery, blood and platelet transfusions, and countless other interventions showed her the often-horrifying treatments that people fear when they are given a cancer diagnosis. She understands, first-hand, how fear, depression, and questioning can ensnare us. However, instead of allowing her emotions to overwhelm her, she turned to God. Instead of blaming God or questioning His goodness, she clung to God’s promises. She concentrated on prayer, studied her Bible, and engaged with her Christian community. In these, she found strength, hope, and comfort. She came to understand that God can work in even the hardest of trials. This narrative is the author’s personal testimony of God’s healing and the power of prayer. Her trust in God and faith in His goodness provide a powerful witness that we can combat fear and have hope in any and all situations. Her brand of faith is not for the weak-hearted; it takes grit and determination to understand that God’s will for us is not always the easy way. Sometimes, we simply have to walk it out before we can receive the blessing.
A powerful memoir of a recovery journey from alcohol addiction to a life filled with joy, and mindfulness. Cheryl has not only transformed her own life through her recovery journey, but is also following a calling to be vulnerable and share that journey in the hopes of helping others find a more meaningful and joyful life. She shares with readers a number of recovery options, including her experience spent in an addiction rehabilitation facility. However, as she describes, recovery is not just about overcoming alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, sexual, gambling and other addictions; it is about embracing our lives and putting into place solid tools and routines to ensure success and finding more enjoyment in our remaining time on this planet. More importantly, this journey includes the many facets of maintaining sobriety that Cheryl follows today including a variety of tools for the reader's consideration. Her tools include Kundalini Yoga (the yoga of awareness), journaling, mindfulness and meditation to name a few, which she uses to support her ongoing growth and well-being. This book is for all people wanting to find a more peaceful and joyous life, not just those who start that pursuit with recovery.
Amongst the family albums her mother had kept, Margot Dixon found something very curious—Captain Samuel F. Scott’s old scrapbook. Who was this man? And why did her family have his scrapbook? As she read through the book, full of one-of-a-kind documents, she soon realized this intriguing scrapbook was much more than a family curiosity. From the items within the scrapbook and Margot’s own research, a fascinating story emerged, one of a life on the high seas in the late nineteenth century, sailing across some of the most dangerous waters, facing storms, shipwrecks, illness, war, mutiny, and tragedy. Born in New Brunswick, Captain Scott, along with his family, sailed across the world for various shipping companies. While sailing from England to India, his wife and two of his children tragically died. Returning to Canada, he remarried and, with his family in tow, sailed three times across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But, after years at sea and another tragedy, Captain Scott turned to gold mining in British Columbia, then explored business opportunities along the west coast of Canada and the United States before his untimely death. Based on the documents in Captain Scott’s original scrapbook, collected during his lifetime, 1847–1905, and then transcribed by Margot, Captain Scott’s Scrapbook provides an intimate account of one of Canada’s most remarkable post-confederate shipmasters.
Come and meet Lola and Sad Gary, two very special little goats! When Grace and Walter adopt twin orphan goats and bring them into their home, they also bring in a little bit of chaos! The goats poop everywhere, jump on the furniture, and eat any paper they find. But they sure are cute, and the twins quickly earn a place in Grace and Walter’s heart. Their new life is exciting, but full of challenges. How will Grace and Walter take care of these mischievous kids? And what will they do when the goats get too big to live in the house? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?? is a fun, charming novel for young readers—and it’s inspired by the story of a very real Lola and Gary! Readers will delight in hearing the joys, challenges, and adventures that come from raising two excitable young animals. With Lola and Sad Gary around, every day is full of joy and giggles.
In the 1970s, Angie’s sheltered, middle-class outlook is turned upside down when she falls in love with Robert, an incredibly handsome Black guitarist and brilliant, street-savvy school dropout. The pair lose touch when Angie leaves St. Louis’s Northside and returns home to Germany. Twenty-five years after their turbulent romance, Angie, worldly-wise and aware of her own emotional baggage, reconnects with Robert. She is devastated by the deliberate destruction of Robert’s neighborhood and that he, once so sensitive, “don’t care for noth’n no mo’.” Now going by his street name “Wolf,” Robert leads a double life that both enables and threatens his survival. As they rekindle their relationship, Angie gains a new perspective on the constant struggle and fierce resilience to be found in a community rendered invisible and slated for gentrification. Rooted in an intercultural love story, this memoir is a searingly honest, unflinching look at the reality of everyday colonial oppression in the forsaken Black ghetto where the scourges of the Drug War are interwoven with a lack of future and life’s joys are tainted by harrowing experiences and trauma. J’st to Live bears witness to a free spirit who found a way to live his understanding of freedom amid social forces beyond his control, no matter the price.
Born in 1933 in Fukuoka, Japan, Yutaka was a just a boy when WWII began. National turmoil was joined by personal turmoil when he and his brothers lost their parents, and along with them, their home. So began the first of Yutaka’s many moves, which took him all over Japan, then to Canada, where he moved with his family in 1973, and even China, where he did business in the last part of his career. Through determination and perseverance, he became an engineer and entrepreneur—designing, amongst other things, hockey sticks and booms—a career path that was beset with threats of bankruptcy and betrayal by partners along with unexpected kindnesses. Beyond the Billows is a detailed portrait of engineering in the 20th century and the Japanese immigration experience in Canada. It is also an expansive memoir, telling Yutaka’s personal story of hard-won success in business over three continents.