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Forget Regret 

Forget Regret 

by | Nov 27, 2024

When an unexpected accident altered everything for sixteen-year old Kamya Rilling, life was just beginning. Finding herself in a hospital bed with partial paralysis due to a traumatic brain injury, Kamya faced an uncertain future. Forget Regret is a powerful memoir...
With Love, Jawn

With Love, Jawn

by | May 21, 2024

An enduring family memoir set in the backdrop of Canadian history, including the Second World War, the 1950s and 60s. In With Love, Jawn, author Dorothy Willis celebrates the living legacy of her father, John Roland Willis. As a father, John broke through societal...
Are You Listening?

Are You Listening?

by | May 13, 2024

Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, and is forced to navigate a...
On the Edge of Being

On the Edge of Being

by | Sep 26, 2023

“I felt connected to the street girls, as if our silent smiles spoke a thousand words between us.” Sometimes painful and at other times shocking, On the Edge of Being is still hopeful. The daughter of a progressive Afghan governor, author Sharifa Sharif...