The title of this collection balances Changing Places with Relocation and Empathy because, in each chapter, the authors bring closer the promise of change by reaching out to people who have been dispo
Twelve inmates of Canada's penal institutions tell their stories here in memoirs, essays, poems, and fiction. Some of the pieces are uplifting and hopeful; others are heartbreaking, steeped in remorse
Class Acts, Katerina Fretwell's seventh poetry (and art) collection, confronts the covert, historical caste/class system in the West. Section One details proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's injection
The poems in this collection are a voyage of self-discovery. They are poems of disclosure, of exposure, of allowing ones self to be vulnerable, of telling truths. The poet touches upon myriad themes s
The Hedge, set in early New England, is the story of an intelligent young governors wife who is repressed by the severe attitudes of the Puritans, to the point where she withdraws from society, and is
Silent Girl, stories by Tricia Dower, takes us into the remarkable and poignant lives of fictional daughters, sisters, friends, lovers, wives, and mothers through a story collection inspired by Shakes
Canadian contributors examine public sector unions in Canada during the era of austerity, taxpayer backlash, and restrictions on union rights over the past 40 years. An introduction reviews definition
Women and the Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview is Possible is an attempt to respond to the need for deep and lasting social change in an epoch of dangerous crisis for all humans, cultures
Coalition formation, broad-based campaign organizing, and activist education are among the methods discussed in this practical text for grassroots organizations attempting to advance their goals. The
Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life - a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy - as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Her childhood
Everyone knows someone who has been abused by a doctor and this book, a moving true story, is about the devastating impact of sexual abuse and one woman’s steely determination to recover and find just
Over Our Heads is a novel that weaves together the histories of two very different half-sisters who return home to deal with the aftermath that occurs when the grandmother who raised them dies. Emma,
Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial fra
All her life, Joy's been haunted by a man she's never met her visionary grandfather, the artist Lorenzo. At work on digging a New York subway tunnel, his pickaxe struck the remains of an ancient Dutc
Poetry. Lilly Barnes brings you the journey of a life lived in turbulent times. Its many stories are distilled from personal experience, honed and deepened into the shape and rhythm of poetry. The arc
Understories is an exploration of things visible mostly to the inner eye and memory, things below the surface. The book began as a riff on Mark Strand's brilliant title, "Planet of the Lost Things," a
Wild Women is a celebration of the wilderness as seen through the eyes of these three women artists: Joyce Burkholder, Kathy Haycock and Linda Sorensen. The book presents reproductions of each artists
One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters. One of the universal
Everyone knows someone who has been abused by a doctor and this book, a moving true story, is about the devastating impact of sexual abuse and one womans steely determination to recover and find justi
