A Life Spent Listening
<strong >A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan… Read More
By: Hassan Khalili (CA)
<strong >A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan… Read More
By: Fred MacDonald (CA)
This is the story of the Charlottetown family as seen through the eyes of the oldest boy, Fred “Fiddler” MacDonald. This memoir tells of Frederick James’ journeys in the City, starting with his days as a newspaper and a… Read More
By: Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Pre-order only (Nov 1 2022) On Easter Sunday, 1908, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was summoned to treat a boy with osteomyelitis who had been operated on two weeks earlier. The young… Read More
By: Doug House (CA), Adrian House (CA)
Told in his own words, Edgar House’s life story gives context and depth to 20th-century… Read More
By: Ivy Bannister (CA)
On September 2, 1998, a fire in the cockpit sent Swissair Flight 111 plunging into the sea off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 men, women and children on board… Read More
By: Ailsa Keppie (CA)
When Ailsa Keppie puts on the hijab for the first time, it solidifies her commitment to her new, chosen religion. She gives up the lights and action of the circus… Read More
By: Deni Béchard (CA)
Almost unbelievable. You’ll swear it’s fiction.”You haven’t read a story like this one, even if your father was the kind of magnificent scoundrel… Read More
By: Eva MacIntyre (CA), John MacIntyre (CA)
How radically lives can be altered by sudden twists of fate . . . by luck . . . by backroom politics in a darkened corridor in Beijing. From an orphanage in Guongdong, South China and the 13,000 kilometre… Read More
By: Nancy Regan (CA)
An intimate memoir and guide to overcoming impostor syndrome, stage fright, perfectionism, and embracing our most authentic selves, from the former host of Live at 5.… Read More
By: Hung-Min Chiang (CA)
Born and raised in tumultuous times in East Asia, Hung-Min Chiang survived earthquakes, wars, foreign occupation, dictatorship, and illness before making his way to Prince Edward Island. While navigating his perilous… Read More
By: Michael Conway
Michael Conway grew up in Charlottetown’s historic north and east ends. After grade ten, Conway left PEI for a career in the Canadian Forces.
We follow Private Conway through the rituals of training — rigorous,… Read More
By: Adrian Payne (CA)
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By: Janet Coulter Sanford (CA)
In 1960, Roy Boutilier and twenty-four fellow Nova Scotians set sail for Tahiti aboard the newly built replica sailing ship Bounty. The ship stayed in Tahiti for almost a year while MGM Studios filmed the epic… Read More
By: Philip Riteman (CA)
Philip Riteman is a Holocaust survivor whose mission is to educate today’s youth on the atrocities committed against millions of Jews and Gentiles by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World… Read More
By: John Nick Jeddore (CA)
The remarkable memoirs of Mi’kmaw elder John Nick Jeddore, who recounts a lifetime of following in his ancestors’… Read More
By: Glen Canning (CA)
Winner, George Borden Writing for Change AwardOne of Indigo’s Best Books of 2021 So FarRehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a… Read More
By: Clive Doucet
This is the timeless story of a young boy and his grandfather. It is a voyage of discovery that starts for both of them when young Clive arrives one summer at his grandfather’s farm in Cape Breton.
Clive, with all… Read More
By: Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue (CA)
Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary… Read More
By: Francene Cosman (CA)
The summer of 1959 promises to stretch slowly forward, with one exception. The looming deadline, of entering the Saint John General Hospital school of nursing as a probationer student, interrupts… Read More
By: Séan McCann (CA), Andrea Aragon (CA)
Paperback edition of bestselling, powerful memoir co-written by the founder of Great Big Sea and his wife, exploring alcoholism, childhood abuse, and the fight to save their marriage, family, and… Read More
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