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in march 2020, we decided that we would each write one poem a day for every day in april 2020 in honour of national poetry month. you may recall that period was considered the height of the lockdown in many places in north america- no one out on the streets, no one travelling to work or school. i stayed inside, along with my person and my cat, in a very tiny apartment. i worked from home. i had zoom meetings. i played scrabble with my person....

In celebration of more than 70 authors and 65 projects, we have curated this wonderful collection of writers with vast yet common experiences from homelands worldwide. The poetry and prose to follow moved and inspired us and demanded to be published. We begin this collection with poetic voices from the United Kingdom, India, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, and Zimbabwe. Sharing cultural diversity yet common themes and a sense of oneness wit...

Sharing some of his learnings and experiences from 39 years of teaching, Rick Griffing gives us a passionate and endearing book clearly written by someone who dearly loved teaching. He shares stories of his efforts to help teenagers examine their vulnerabilities while capitalizing on their strengths. The results had significant impacts on both the teacher and his students. The book is a well-organized selection of anecdotes, "tricks of the tra...

A poetic collection from one who has played with the file of addiction and dedicated to Those whose vision is Clouded by pain, Anger, and Hate. Love Will cleanse Our tumultuous souls Which dance between states Of sadness and pure ecstasy.

Now, the ship's lights slowly came closer to us. We were frozen in anticipation, our eyes glued to it!" During a quiet summer vacation, three children find themselves in the middle of a strange mystery. Their curiosity leads them to discover dangerous characters bent on making millions from stolen artifacts with incredible power. From Victoria, BC, to the grasslands of Russia, this tale takes the children on a scary adventure. The Vancouver...

Three teens are caught in an adventure for survival between their time, the past, and the future. From their first encounter with the mysterious woman with purple eyes, Billy, Ricky, and Sarah must use their magic and seer abilities to hunt down and overpower the Magician, who has caused widespread destruction through time and space. Volume 3 of The Vancouver Island Mysteries Series.

Billy's grade 7 year is not at all what he expected. Lampson School is not the same. It is cold and unwelcoming. Worse than that, there is something weird going on-a dark figure in a window, crows attacking him and his best friend Ricky, a strange girl, Amy, who looks like she belongs in the past, and his nemesis, Andrew is picking a fight with him. It doesn't seem to matter what he does, the school is out to get him, but why? It's not until t...

People in our modern Western culture search for happiness with unrelenting dedication. Despite that search, suffering persists due to our way of living: high levels of illness, depression, addictions, suicide, violence and the destruction of the natural world through climate change. We seek happiness desperately but are not finding it. The seventeen stories that comprise this book are my attempts to uncover, in various ways, why our seeking i...

A construction project to upgrade the Children's Petting Zoo in Meeachan Park unearths an archaeological site and inspires strange happenings and astounding transformations. Everyone and everything around this is faced with growth and change opportunities. Discussion of urban issues and possible resolutions. "Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true." - Aesop's Fables

An eclectic collection of 50 tiny tales which highlight incidents in a not-so-ordinary life of an occasional columnist for a local monthly newspaper. She is a fervent and hyper-focused maker of many delightful things - some of which are delicious and all of which are quick selling. The supplies for, and by-products of, her creativity accumulate in her home and she refers to it as her "housework avoidance program". This compilation is a great b...

Miss Menzie's class brings their favourite toys from home, and every day at Story Time, she tells the story of one of them. An Anthology of five books which were originally published separately and are currently still available as such. Includes 119 illustrations. The First Week's stories are: - A little lamb who learns to be resourceful and compassionate. - A young badger who expresses sadness by being mean. - A little mouse with social ...

A poetic journal chronicling the author's experience with rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. A profound and touching exploration of himself and the world around him that is carefully crafted in a variety of poem forms. "The story the poems tell is serious, but never so grim that we shut the book. The glimmering of hope, which grows during the journey through the poems, underlies them all. While never proclaiming a triumph, we are...

Sequel anthology to Sharing Our Journeys: Queer Elders Tell Their Stories. Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories is a volume of essays from authors who speak of the pain and ridicule of being different, courage in the face of ostracism, same-sex love and transitioning genders when and where they were illegal from a perspective of various BIPOC communities. "The success of community building begins with drawing one another into participation th...

Miss Menzies' students have a Class Menagerie made up of stuffed toys each child has brought from home. Every day Miss Menzies inteviews one of the toys for the class. Lambie-pie's neighbour Billy Badger is a boy badger who is older and a bully. He is the second toy to tell his story. Includes Billy Badger and Me pages for the child to draw and colour.

When my family line first started in its current form over a thousand years ago, we were still technically human. We had a couple of extras, but we flew under the radar of the Hunters. They understood that some people were a little different but not shifters, vampires, demons, or other beings. It has just been the last couple of generations that we have been hunted, and all because my grandmother fell in love with an angel. We have been runn...

Seattle 2016- Someone is creating revenant vampires. Can psychic necromancer Suzanne Murphy use her paranormal abilities to find those responsible? Or will she die trying? CONTENT ADVISORY: this horror/urban fantasy novel is not suitable for children or highly sensitive readers.

This is a collection of four short stories Richard wrote many years ago and sent them to us to look at, as he wanted to publish them as an anthology he called Guy Stories. With this small collection of his short stories, we celebrate Richard and the amazing friend he was. We honour his creativity, his compassion, and his quirky sense of humour.

Three's the Charm consists of two novellas and one short story that draw from European myths, fairy tales, and folk stories. These are definitely not sanitized Disney tales intended for children. The Persephone myth is re-envisioned to include significant female resistance with a little help from some imp allies. Snow White is mad, bad, and dangerous to know. The folk tale "The Two Sisters" includes extra siblings. Three's the Charm breaks the...

Kama Tarumi's intention is to tell a story of spiritual evolution as the result of poignant adventures, escapades, and experiences, capturing transformative and transcendent personal phenomenon in the hope that readers might be inspired, enlightened or spiritually benefitted in some way. It is not pornographic in nature--despite the fact that explicit sexuality and coarse words do appear. Sexual activity is an important part of life. Acts of l...

Seattle 2016- Someone is creating revenant vampires. Can psychic necromancer Suzanne Murphy use her paranormal abilities to find those responsible? Or will she die trying? CONTENT ADVISORY: this horror/urban fantasy novel is not suitable for children or highly sensitive readers.