Books

Nobody Asked... But I Remember spans seven decades of a life lived mostly in silence: a childhood in the remote Canadian north with a schizophrenic father and a mother who survived everything but said nothing; a rape at seventeen that she carried alone for fifty years; a series of jobs, houses, and relationships that taught her the art of...

Medical experimentation has been happening for more than seventy-five years in modern countries. We are aware of the experiments that occurred in Germany during WWII, but these were not the only times such experiments took place. After the war, many of the doctors that were guilty of medical travesties were brought to North America to continue...

The Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 took Violet’s young husband, leaving her penniless with a brood of small children. The youngest was not yet one year old, and she was expecting the sixth. Violet and her family had settled in a remote, isolated northern area that was booming and becoming quickly inhabited by optimistic homesteaders—most of them...

Children will empathize with Rufus (the firehouse Dalmatian) and his hungry sidekick, Maggie (the roving mouse) when they express their concern for the forest animals. Go with them on their adventure during an actual forest fire in the Okanagan Valley. This is a message of hope as they see that forest animals have ways of finding shelter in a...