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"The Names of My Mothers" is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory,...

The world is coming to an end. That’s what Remy Delemme believes, anyways. While double-checking his lifelong to-do list to ensure he has led a rich life, he realizes he hasn’t come close to completing his goals. Panicked and short on time, Remy embarks on a chaotic road trip to complete the most...

Hunter was only a mule driver, and the problems of his kingless home did not concern him. But with the rescue of a beautiful slave, and his oldest friend’s connection to the ancient past, he would soon find himself at the center of the struggle for the freedom of Arlinga.

Out-of-town visitors keep turning up all over Chicago with their throats cut and the blood completely drained from their bodies. This is what’s known in the force as a “Heater,” one of the toughest, highest profile, and most bizarre cases ever to hit the city. As the bodies pile up, Chicago’s...

Flipping through a bag of old photographs, Lynn Hellers relives her traumatic childhood growing up in the low-income row houses of Kingston, Ontario, in the 1970s and 80s. Against the backdrop of the dramatic social and political upheaval of the era, Lynn’s young life is dominated by crushing poverty...

If every life is a tapestry, there are bound to be a few dropped stitches along the way. So it is for Ella, Raynie, Jessie and Meg. Friends since the 1970s, they are in pursuit of lost threads in need of mending. But before they can find them, the women become caught up in a nest of knots that test their...

Justin had given up hope on ever finding true love, but when he met Lily everything changed. Born into a traditional Chinese family, Lily was expected to do as she was told. Loyalty to country and to family was of utmost importance, while loyalty to self was not a common pursuit. Raised in a society...

Donald Mackinnon is a survivor. Anyone who has lived through twenty-seven bitterly cold Winnipeg winters, qualifies as a survivor. Now, he’s hoping to find his soul mate; the woman he will spend the rest of his life with. When he meets teacher Mary Santucci, he feels he’s found her. Their relationship...

In this richly told memoir, an American artist’s search for lost relatives overseas sheds light on other people in other places and obscure yet chilling aspects of World War II. Moving, amusing and heartfelt it explores the power of storytelling and memory, how past impacts present and the many threads that shape a family destiny.

At its heart, The Journey is an exploration of the struggle of being human. In his powerful poetry, Patrick Jean Charles takes an unflinching look at the minefield of emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges that are the hallmarks of a young adult’s reality. Poems in this rich collection...

Goldie and her little brother TJ grew up in a small coastal town in Maine in the late 1960’s with both a Mom and a Dad. Families went to church together and ate meals together. Most folks still had one car; Dad worked and Mom was expected to stay home. For entertainment, families watched black and...

In this remarkable new collection, her first in over a decade, Rose Styron confronts the death of her husband—step by step—in jewel-like poems. Seldom has a poet been so attuned to the ways in which, under the pressure of grief, time both opens and shuts—letting us into its minutes, shutting us...

The St Lawrence River, a constant presence during the author’s childhood, serves as a backdrop to her personal stories, along with inherited anecdotes from her older siblings. Rollande’s close relationship with her family depicted through vivid vignettes, are humorous and at times unexpected....

“Faraj” is a Farsi word meaning an opening, a blessing, a space of possibility. Ābtin journeys for a whole year, across deserts and mountains to the sea. The young Zoroastrian hopes to come to terms with his harsh father and his own ambivalence about the art of carpet weaving. He dreams of Mitrā,...