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• A Path to Hope

  A Path to Hope is a set of three short works drawing inspiration from reflections written by Canadian choral music educators early in the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a collaborative commissioning project called Sonic Timelapse Project. Each movement was composed as a short response to a specific idea, emotion, or question found within one or more of the reflections as part of my own journey to finding hope in uncertain times. Each work includes short spoken sections featuring fragments from or inspired by the material in these written reflections. However, although this piece was born during a unique time in our history it’s themes of voicelessness, overcoming fear, and seeking hope, are timeless and universal. More at: https://www.katerinagimon.com/a-path-to-hope.html
• Halibut Cheeks and other Love Songs

  Here the politely unruly dances with the proudly undiscovered, while the untamed holds hands with the serene. These are our songs, classically composed and as diversely beautiful as Canada herself.
• Steal From the Best

  Our podcast features entrepreneurs and professionals, sharing their successes and failures in business and life. International guests on our podcast have (thus far) come from the United States and India. Our audience typically is interested in relatable stories and like-minded professionals, and hope to apply learnings to achieve their own success.
• Celebrating our Love and Compassion Podcast!

  The Love and Compassion podcast with Gissele offers 30-1 hour podcast conversations via audio and on YouTube. The purpose of this podcast is to help individuals be more loving and compassionate towards themselves and others and to have conversations about how to bring greater compassion into systems. The overall goal of our podcast is to be able to love one another and even be compassionate and loving to those who are hurtful with the goal of bringing greater unity into our world.
• Career Crossroads

  Getting to where you want to be in your career is not always as linear as we might think. Not everyone picks one career path and sticks to it for the rest of their lives, and lots of people are confused about what they want out of their career. On Career Crossroads, host Jonathan Collaton explores the stories of everyday people who have made pivots along their career journey. Starting with the question "what did you want to be when you grew up?", they discuss all the jobs they have had, the people that influenced them, and both the expected and unexpected decisions that led them to their present career.
• Let That Sh*t Go: Find Peace & Happiness in the Everyday

  It’s no wonder you can’t calm down: your to-do list is as long as your arm, your bank balance keeps dropping, you feel guilty for not calling your parents more often and there always seems to be a big deadline to meet at work. You need a serious breather—but you can barely find time to shower, let alone to exercise or meditate. In Let That Sh*t Go, Kate Petriw and Nina Purewal share the wisdom they’ve gained though decades of practising and teaching others to find peace of mind no matter how busy they are.
• Life, Love, Lemonade

  Life Love Lemonade is a powerful book about women's stories of making the most out of life's challenges. "Let’s be real; life can be hard. It gets messy, gritty, and incredibly tart. Lemonade is a collection of stories written by warrior women who share powerful, vulnerable, and bone-chilling truths that will inspire and empower you to find the lemons in your life, sip some tangy yet sweet lemonade, and unravel your tightly wound self a bit more . . . until you feel free . . . bold . . . courageous . . . and expansive enough to be who you are . . . who you are meant to be."
• Hard Road to Victory: The Chatham All-Stars Story

  This historical nonfiction children's book tells the story of the 1934 Chatham All-Stars. This team of all-Black athletes competed for and won the Ontario baseball championships 13 years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier.
• Pay What It’s Worth: You Don’t Need to Set a Price on Value

  In Pay What It's Worth, Tara Joyce provides an elegant framework for understanding how not setting prices can be a viable strategy for your small business. Consciously explore your relationship to money, to other people, and to exchanging value.
• The Art of Unbecoming

  A passionately articulated tale of courage and self-discovery, The Art of Unbecoming paints a bold, refreshing picture of what it means to search internally for healing, embrace vulnerability, and overcome the demons between our ears.
• Unperfect: Innovators, Trendsetters, and the Art of Problem Solving

  In Unperfect, we encounter seldom-explored problem solving principles from an urban planner who’s mapped every crowd disaster in the world, an aircraft seat designer turning our understanding of space upside-down, & more. You don’t need to tackle your problems alone. Let Unperfect be your guide.
• Shadow Boxing and Other Bizarre Adventures of a Blind Girl

  When I was thirteen years old, I found out that I was slowly going blind. In 1999, I was diagnosed with a degenerative, genetic eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition will leave me mostly, if not completely, blind. As a teenager who felt I could see fine, going blind felt far away. Now, at age thirty-two, I have lost the majority of my peripheral vision and going blind feels anything but far away. If you are going blind and wonder how in the hell you are supposed to cope with this, my story is for you. If you love someone who is going blind and wish that you knew how to help in some way, my story is for you.
• Hope Rekindled: A Heart Empowered

  The book is a compilation of poems, prose, quotes, and reflections on hope, healing, empowerment, and faith as we journey through life's trials and triumphs, and as we fall and rise. It invites us to listen to our heart's truth, to find the peace our soul longs for, and to be resilient in our pursuit of purpose and finding fulfillment. It allows us to consider how challenges can provide us with an opportunity to rekindle our spirit, renew our courage, and inspire our hearts to heal. And it encourages us to remember our common humanity and embrace kindness and compassion so we can make a positive difference and live in a more peaceful world, which I believe starts with hope and empowerment in the heart. The book also includes nine pages of full-colour photography, including inspiring natural landscapes, to complement the themes of the book.
• Amidst this Storm
• The Demonhuntress (graphic novel) Volume 2: Who Knows When Death Arrives?

  Who Knows When Death Arrives? is a graphic novel in the classical gothic mystery tradition about a young woman at a 1950s English boarding school who must contend with a hostile establishment to track a serial killer.
• After the Hatching Oven

  After the Hatching Oven (poems) explores chickens: their evolution as a domesticated species; their place in history, pop culture and industrial agriculture; their exploitation and their liberation.
• Fugir era el més bell que teníem (Fleeing was the most beautiful thing we had)

  This book is a literary reflections based on memory, exile and the imprint that the memory of others leaves on our skin, having as a central axis the memoirs of the father (a revolutionary kid during the Spanish Civil War).
• Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related

  Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
• Cluster

  Acclaimed poet Souvankham Thammavongsa returns with her fourth collection, a book about meaning. Meaning can sometimes blow up, crack something we had not seen, or darken what had been seen so clear to us. Meaning can happen with so little and go on to take so much from us. Meaning can sometimes take a long time to arrive, years even, if ever. And it's possible meaning does not mean, and that in itself could be meaningful.
• Ghost Geographies: Fictions

  Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat “defects” to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a better world. Meanwhile, a provocateur filmmaker drinks and blasts his way to a final, celluloid confrontation with fascism, while an enfant terrible philosopher works on his prophetic, posthumously panned masterpiece, Dyschrony. These are among the decadent and absurd characters who hover around the promise and failure of utopia across the pages of Ghost Geographies.