Discovering her grandmother's journal three decades after her suicide, the author learns of Regina Klein's suffering during World War I, her pain after being orphaned, and her confusing immigrations from Poland to Vienna to Paris and to the United States.

Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography is an anthology of essays and poems by eighty writers, artists, architects, musicians, patrons of the arts, and cultural theorists who were inspired by and answered the call of editors Lorne Beug, Anne Campbell and Jeannie Mah to share their favourite "Regina secret." Some submissions were quirky and whimsical, delighting in those things -- small, yet significant -- which bring joy and connect us to the place we live; others were more serious and more theoretical, examining power structures -- both past and present -- and how these have shaped and are yet shaping the city. Reflective, engaging and insightful, all express an abiding fondness for the city of Regina.

"Quiet As It's Kept" weaves a tangled web of deception as secrets, lies, and lust bring troubling consequences to the everyday lives of an African-American family. Author Janet West-Sellars paints a picture of powerful patriarch James Alexander Scott, who desperately takes all of his secrets to the grave. Scott's best friend, Dr. Edward Marshall, is the only person who knows those secrets. Scott's three adult children are nothing short of relieved when they learn of his death. They are all living out his legacy in varying degrees: to always distrust, to never commit, and to get revenge at all costs. His oldest daughter, Shirley, uses her body to gain power. His only son, Terry, struggles against the past and worries about the child he raised alone. The youngest daughter, Zee, is rejected by Scott, while he is haunted by the painful suspicion that she is not really his daughter. The death of Scott's wife more than forty years ago was inextricably connected to his own mortality. The Scott family learns about life, love, and the hope of redemption. They ultimately discover that forgiveness heals old wounds, but not before what's done in the dark comes to light in "Quiet As It's Kept."

Secrets. Everyone has them. Do you? How bad is your secret? Some of us have darker secrets than others. Meet the Baxton sisters: Patricia, Regina, Deidra, CeCe, and Sherilyn. They fight, they love, they laugh, and when necessary...some of them kill! These sisters each lead lives that are not what they seem. The question is, who will be discovered? Who will live and who will die? Secrets To Kill For is a fast paced, mind-boggling suspense thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat guessing all the way to the end!

With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she’d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there’s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn’t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother’s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.

This quarterly journal explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews, and psycho-education. Areas of concern include aging, disabilities, health, abuse recovery, trauma/PTSD, anxiety, and depression.