Catherine O'Hara, Minister of the Environment in the Government of Canada, explores uncharted regions in the Amazonian rainforest and comes out a change and more determined woman. Her life turns upside down after an official visit to China, leaving her with choice but to oppose her own Prime Minister. The results are electric.

The Unravelling is the story of how Canada made a covenant with its people — and how, over four decades of deliberate political choices dressed as economic necessities, that covenant was broken. Glen Pearson, who grew up in post-war Canada and watched the entire arc unfold in real time, tells this story with the moral seriousness it deserves: tracing the extraordinary post-war achievement of the Canadian middle class, the political forces that built it, and the ideological revolu...

Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, was a remarkably complex yet simple man, caught in the blood and conflict of America's greatest years of violence. His personality, rich and textured with years of poverty and affluence, rural realities and urban richness, ambition and humility. His lessons for today's faith communities are more necessary than ever.

At 81 years of age, Alberta Alexander discovers she had Alzheimer's. A Life Among the Stones tells of how this remarkable women bring the power of her personality to bear on the challenge. And to the delight of those around her, hidden treasures of personality and insight are revealed. And Alberta has one precious secret hidden in her garden - a secret that tells of a remarkable life.

With his life as a newspaper editor behind him, Callum Griffiths moves back to his childhood home in England's Lake District. There is much to recover from, but any chance of peace is brushed aside as the district is overrun by nationalism that little resembles the hopeful land he had known in his youth. Forming a meaningful friendship with a South Korean entrepreneur introduces him to the harsher realities of modern living. Callum decides to use his writing as a way of fighting back again...

The functioning of modern society isn't a science but a theory. Coming of Age is a plea for citizens to seriously consider the ramifications of their present lack of concern for detail and modern developments. The book delves into some of the greatest challenges faceing average citizens today.

A family farm in Ontario hardly seemed as the likely place for a remarkable series of events for the Buell family, but that's just what happened. The family pond at the back of the house seemed like any other in the region, but the secret powers it held would transform a family's life into something of adventure, discovery and hope. The four children - Wesley, Annie, Jonah and Meadow - learn of the world in a whole new way, and their parents discover a world of magic and possibility as a r...

Something is emptying out of Canadian life, and no one is quite naming it.The volunteers who used to come don't come anymore. The Legion halls and service clubs and community leagues are folding one by one. A country is retreating, house by house and heart by heart, into a comfortable and well-appointed solitude — even as it pours billions into building its future.In The Second Nation, Glen Pearson argues that Canada is making the same mistake twic...

Two people discover more than they bargained for when they first encounter one another on a hot air balloon ride over majestic Paris. Catherine Wiseman is a university professor struggling to find meaning in both her personal and professional lives. Lloyd Greenwell, a writer and philosopher, has come to question whether much of what he has published in recent years is, in fact, valid. In the great City of Light, both search for deeper answers together, only to discover that they are being ...

Two great continents intertwined on the world’s stage. And two larger than life characters determined in their separate ways to tell their stories. Chen Chang-Jin - the wildly successfulChinese billionaire working to utilize Africa’s vast natural resources in ways that would be benefit his homeland and raise his profile in the process. Achol Madut Yek - one of the poorest of the poor, trekking from south Sudan, through Darfur, and into Chad, in a journey that will captivate the eyes of the...

When Nora Calloway pays eleven euros for a small oil painting at a Paris flea market — a woman in a yellow dress, her back to the viewer, standing on a Montmartre balcony — she has no idea she is standing at the edge of a sixty-year mystery.The painting, it turns out, may be the work of Yasmine Bouchard: an Algerian-French painter who exhibited twice in Paris in the 1960s to near-total silence, disappeared in 1962, and was declared legally dead in 1965 — while quietly painting mast...

Scarlett Carlyle arrives in England from Canada to take over as director of St. Anne's Hospice just prior to Covid-19's assault on a troubled world. In the midst of a pandemic, she must seek to protect those in their final months of life while at the same time assisting the hospice to expand its influence. In the process, she befriends Bert Wynman, her neighbour and the inspiration for what would become a renaissance at St. Anne's.