From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the western shore of Ootsa Lake. Like many early twentieth century settlers who migrated to...

Author and naturalist Ackerman reflects on the time she spent caring for her husband, novelist Paul West, after a stroke took his ability to speak. With conventional therapy not working, Ackerman decided to step in and do everything she...

In this memoir, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his mother's religious period, his failed attempt to study commerce in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.

"“Our well beloved dead who died that we might live.” In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a...

Gripping account by Richard Hammond of life before and after his terrifying high-speed car crash.

Le génocide commence le 7 avril 1994. L'inconcevable boucherie gagne rapidement le pays entier. Presque toute la famille de Marie-Josée Gicali est aussitôt tuée, mais cette dernière réussit à échapper au massacre, ne devant...

Presents a gritty autobiography of a firefighter.

This is the true story of Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude and hope.

Epics of the West don't all belong to the last century. Here's a true tale of ranching in British Columbia told by a man who has built a cattle empire out of unexplored wilderness. In his first book, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Rich...