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Flora! A Woman in a Man’s World by Flora MacDonald and Geoffrey Stevens

January 10, 2022 by Alison Manley

Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.

The Ghosts of Walter Crockett: A Memoir by W. Edward Crockett

January 3, 2022 by James M. Fisher

In his new memoir, Portland-native Ed Crockett recounts his struggle to break the cycle of alcoholism, come to grips with the embarrassing specter of his father, to eventually find success on the same streets where his father once spent his days passed out and begging for money.

Be Free: Mountains, Mishaps, and Miracles in Africa by Angela deJong

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 by Bill Arnott

Be Free is a collection of personal travel essays that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across Africa as seen through the eyes of a solo female backpacker, Angela deJong.

The Last Good Funeral of the Year: A Memoir by Ed O’Loughlin

December 25, 2021December 22, 2021 by Valerie Mills-Milde

From Ed O’Loughlin, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Minds of Winter, a pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, and the life events that have shaped his identity.

Even the Sidewalk Could Tell: How I Came Out to My Wife, My Three Children, and the World by Alon Ozery

December 6, 2021 by Alison Manley

What does it cost to live an inauthentic life? If anyone knows, it’s Alon Ozery. Born in Toronto to an Orthodox Jewish father and a British mother, raised in Israel, and educated in Canada, Alon didn’t come out of the closet until he had a wife and three children.

On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein

November 8, 2021November 1, 2021 by Alison Manley

Part memoir, part history, part policy examination, and part roadmap for the future, On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein is captivating, rage-inducing, and most important of all, helpful.

The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 by Bill Arnott

Blending memoir and nature writing at its best, Svensson’s journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny, both as humans and as animals, and, ultimately, how to handle the biggest question of all: death. The result is a gripping and slippery narrative that will surprise and enchant.

A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood by Joanne Gallant

January 3, 2022August 7, 2021 by James M. Fisher

A Womb in the Shape of a Heart is the intimate story of Gallant's journey through miscarriage and motherhood, holding space for the complicated paradoxes of grief and gratitude, of life and death, and the impenetrable depths of a mother's love.

Off The Charts: What I Learned From My Almost Fabulous Life In Music by Kat Goldman

August 1, 2021July 31, 2021 by Shawna Butler

Off the Charts is a whimsical, uproarious tour through a fickle business that never seems to repay what performers put into it, and one woman’s highly intimate account of how she made the best of almost making it. Featuring a sparkling set of original illustrations by the award-winning Nina Berkson.

Northern Light: Power, Land, and Memory of Water By Kazim Ali

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 by Heidi Greco

Kazim Ali’s earliest memories are of Jenpeg, a temporary town in the forests of northern Manitoba where his immigrant father worked on the construction of a hydroelectric dam.

Senior Management: Parenting My Parents by Martha Vowles

May 7, 2021 by Lana Shupe

At age 55, author Martha Vowles became a first-time parent. Her new charges were reckless, accident-prone, pig-headed, over 80 years old and bigger than her.

Kerouac & Presley by André Pronovost

June 3, 2021May 2, 2021 by Jeffery D. Muzzerall

I was intrigued to read Kerouac & Presley, given my fondness for iconic writers, musicians, and mavericks. I suspect, without previously encountering the author, that he’s an “everyman” free spirit. He’s done more than visit literary and musical pilgrimages and … Continue reading

Fuse by Hollay Ghadery

April 7, 2021 by Rachel Fernandes

Drawing on her own experiences as a woman of Iranian and British Isle descent, writer Hollay Ghadery dives into conflicts and uncertainty surrounding the bi-racial female body and identity, especially as it butts up against the disparate expectations of each culture.

Still Waters – Kamal Parmar

March 6, 2021February 17, 2021 by Alison Manley

Still Waters is a Poetic Memoir of the sorrows and stress of a loving daughter watching her mother deteriorate into the throes of the dreaded ‘disease of the decades’, Alzheimer's Disease.

A Few Feet Short: an Uncommon Journey to Everest by Jamey Glasnovic

December 3, 2020 by Bill Arnott

From the Kathmandu Valley to the Middle Hills and the highest peaks on the planet, Glasnovic’s journey takes him through the cultural melting pot of northeastern Nepal and up into the Khumbu Valley, traditional homeland of the Sherpa people, finding his way eventually, and without any intention of actually climbing it, to the base of that most iconic of mountains, Everest.