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Forget Regret 

Forget Regret 

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

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?

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

“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...
Unhistoric Acts

Unhistoric Acts

WINNER OF THE 2023 HERITAGE RECOGNITION AWARD by Museum and Heritage Prince Edward Island/Musée et patrimoine Île-du-Prince-Édouard Unhistoric Acts is a first hand account by long time advocate for the women’s movement Dianne Porter. Working together as a force...