Non-Fiction
Language Matters: Interviews With 22 Quebec Poets
Some of the best and most innovative English-language poets in Quebec reflect on questions of politics and poetics. >>
Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation
Author Sheilla Jones calls for a revolutionary change in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians by empowering First Nations people through modernized Treaty annuities. >>
Micro Miracle is the moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely. >>
Out of Grief, Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. >>
Rain on a Distant Roof: A Personal Journey Through Lyme Disease in Canada
Vanessa Farnsworth explores the frightening but fascinating world of Lyme disease in Canada. The narrative follows Farnsworth's attempt to understand the disease that's destroying her body and mind, and why the Canadian medical community seems indifferent to her illness. >>
Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s
Agnew's world changed as her mother — a Queen's and Harvard/Radcliffe-educated mathematician, a nuclear weapons researcher during World War II, an award-winning professor and researcher for five decades — began drifting away. This moving memoir looks at grief and love, at science and music. >>
Scatter the Mud: A Traveller’s Medley
Both an accomplished musician and travel writer with credits in The New York Times, GEO, Ms., Montreal Gazette, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald, to name a few, Lyon recounts her unique experiences with such panache that any armchair traveller will want to "scatter the mud" with her. >>
Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing
You can just sail away from your past. All you need is courage. >>
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