Non-Fiction
Dan Yashinsky’s son Jacob died tragically in a car accident at the age of 26 when Dan fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. All his life, Jacob had struggled with Prader-Willi Syndrome, but rather than let it defeat him, he became an advocate for people suffering from PWS as well as people coping with various other disabilities. His voice has been captured and carried in this unique book, which goes beyond the terrible grief of losing a child to preserving and sharing his story. >>
Some people claim they would like to walk away from their lives. Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it an act of selfishness, or self-preservation? Provocative, candid, and engaging, these intimate essays explore the implicit complexities and contradictions when personal and professional lives both complement and clash. >>
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. >>
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