Family and health
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight. ...
Called by Mother Earth
This raw and intimate memoir takes us inside the mind of a father who embarked on a ten-month journey through rugged and remote terrain in British Columbia in search of his missing son.
After setting out ...
Parenting Your Parents
A compendium of family scenarios for those dealing with the guilt, worry, and difficult decisions that come with eldercare.
- Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?
- How can you balance your ...
Does Coffee Cause Cancer?
In this fascinating, refreshingly clarifying book about food, food myths, and how sloppy science perpetuates misconceptions about food, a medical doctor on his way to a conference gets drawn into conversations ...
There Is No Blue
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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...
Childhood Unplugged
Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid
Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While some ...
I Want a Better Catastrophe
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers
WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis ...
N'oublie pas mon...
Noé et Noa accompagnent leur grand-père pour une commission. Au coin d’une rue, Grandpa s’arrête brusquement. Il a oublié ce que sa Rosie l’a envoyé chercher pour soigner son malaise. Noa suggère ...
Les attaques de panique
Palpitations, souffle court, vertiges, douleur thoracique... les attaques de panique sont foudroyantes, imprévisibles et, avouons-le, elle peuvent faire peur. Très peur. Heureusement, il existe des ...
Frequently Asked White Questions
Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who is tired ...