Vere's irrepressible spirit is an asset as he comes of age in Antigua. His is a hard-knocks existence marked by poverty and loss - but he is equally shaped by his family, his first love and island life. Beautifully told, his is the story of a Caribbean boy, trying to hold on to what's real and precious to him while learning to be a man.

Bend Like the Willow by Alberta author Susan Glasier is a many-layered story of a young naïve American girl who sets out for her first year of university and finds instead a shocking introduction into a cross-cultural marriage of contradiction, mystery and eventual heartbreak. "If I take you to my country," he tells her, "you must learn to bend like the willow or you will snap." Along the path to bending like the willow, she discovers that life in post-war Algeria with two babies is as fraught with danger and sadness as is the man she married. Both are burdened with hopes and expectations that can never be fulfilled. When war breaks out in the Middle East, he sends her away with his children promising they can return when there is peace. In the end, Bend Like the Willow is the tale of a woman who loves a man and a man who loves his country. He is so committed to honouring his love of country and tradition that he fulfills the promise he made to his wife's father⿿even though it means breaking apart four lives. "Susan Glasier has written a riveting memoir that reads like a novel. Bend Like the Willow is one of those rare books that gets under your skin and enters the bloodstream. It left me in tears."⿿Wolfgang Carstens, Epic Rites Press "I couldn't put Bend Like the Willow down⿿read it in two nights⿿it really got my attention."⿿Roy Cust, R C Appraisals

This book is the story of how one country, Vietnam,became two, while two hearts, Vietnamese and American, became one despite the turmoil and tragedy of war. Le Lieu Browne tells how she, a Vietnamese woman from the Mekong Delta whose father was killed by the communists when she was a young girl, met Malcolm W. Browne, the legendary American journalist and Vietnam war correspondent who became the love of her life. They married, covered the war and, after it, the world, until he died in her arms in the United States in 2012. Le Lieu's is an inspiring tale of the power and the beauty of the human spirit against all odds.

"Beware he who wrestles with monsters, lest he become a monster himself" - Nietzsche ... The suspicious death of an Aerospace Executive, Ted Barber, rocks the Defense giant, Global Defense Analytics. In an attempt to quickly investigate, the firm calls on retired CIA operative, Stanley Wisniewski. Time is of the essence, as the firm is days away from naming Langston Powell, the last person seen with Barber, as their next CEO. Stanley Wisniewski, with demons of his own, is haunted by the three deathbed promises he made some forty years ago to his father, a survivor of the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. Activating his old European network, he reunites with the mysterious Jean Paul. Together they begin to unravel this complex story of Good vs. Evil, and the weak suffering at the hands of the strong. Set in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., California, London, Amsterdam and Poland, two stories of Stanley and his father intertwine, creating the incendiary fuse to the climatic events in Warsaw.

A unique collection of Shaker songs and dances that keeps alive this important musical heritage