Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage
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An Immigrant Goes Back Home to Cebu
by Lillian Cui Garcia
An Immigrant Goes Back Home to Cebu is the author's memoir about living within and between the Philippine and Canadian worlds. While this is one professional immigrant's narrative about persistence and fulfillment in Canada, her host country, it is ...
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Shaped by Hate, Exclusion and Racism
How to Navigate and Rise in a Hostile Environment by Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe
This book tells a story of Tarcisse Ruhamyandekwe whose journey started at his birth in Rwanda. In his life, he has experienced so many acts of exclusion, discrimination and racism, so many times that his first reaction has been always to ignore ...
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Behind the Green Door
From the land of Windmills to the Land of the Maple Leaf by Erna de Burger Fex
Behind the Green Door is a collection of stories that will make you laugh but also may bring a tear to your eye while you read in vivid detail the challenges of an immigrant child and the struggles of being uprooted to a new land without ...
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Walk With Me, My Son
You and I Have Some Stories to Tell by Richard Asmet Awid
In 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects. So begins Richard ...
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The Painted Skirt
by Theresa Lee
Heartbroken after her short love affair, and her dream of becoming a concert pianist shattered, Inju returns home from her schooling abroad, and finds herself pregnant, alone, and without options in a strict Confucian society that is sure to condemn ...
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Jim Crow Also Lived Here
Structural Racism And Generational Poverty - Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by Leonard Albert Paris
Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispels that myth by recounting Leonard Albert Paris’s first eighteen years (1948–1966), growing up as a ...
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Emerging
A Prairie Girl's Journey of Faith by Rita Springer and trudy chiswell
Hailing from the Canadian prairies, Rita Springer has lived a remarkable life. Now thriving on Thetis Island, Rita and her dear friend, trudy chiswell, bare the truth of Rita’s inspiring journey with family and faith. Coming from a long line of ...
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Taking Chances
On a New Life in Canada by Otto Schmalz
In 1955, Otto Schmalz had been a single German immigrant in Canada for four years. It was time for him to go back to Europe and find a wife. In this, Schmalz’s fourth book of memoir, he takes us on an adventure that takes us from his return to ...
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Buharism
Nigeria's Death Knell by Emeka Nwankwor
This book poses the question: When does a President lose the moral authority to lead? • Is it when he steals an election and usurps the presidential mandate the people had given his primary challenger? • Is it when he orchestrates ...
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A Journey of Faith Across a Turbulent Century
Memoirs of a Refugee Pastor by Philipp Weingartner
How do you find the courage to go on when everything you knew is gone? That is a question faced by Philipp Weingartner several times in his life. Born into a family of insignificant farm labourers in a town, region, and country erased from our ...
