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A Drastic Turn of Destiny

In Germany I was "Jewboy"; in Brussels I was "boche" in France I was "undesirable"; in Portugal I was a "refugee"; and in Jamaica I was simply a non-entity... I was a pariah in an exploding world. ... more

A Mother's Adoption Journey

For much of her adult life, Darlene believed she wouldn't make a good mother: "Besides, I couldn't admit to anyone that I didn't know how to do mother things. So I married someone who didn't want t... more

A Partisan's Memoir

An unforgettable story of heroism, hardship, and resistance... Faye Schulman was an ordinary teenager when the Nazis invaded her town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a large, loving famliy,... more

A Taste for Justice

From Bridgehead, the trading company owned by OXFAM-Canada which promotes economic justice through fair trade with the developing world, comes a cookbook with a difference... Recipes combine easil... more

Adoption Reunions

In Adoption Reunions, Michelle McColm takes the adoptee and birth parent carefully through the process of adoption reunion, from the initial search decision to coping with post-reunion letdown. She... more

Album of My Life

I am the daughter of nobody. I have no sisters. I am nobody's granddaughter or daughter-in-law, aunt or cousin. Who am I? My past is all gone. It disappeared... Ann Szedlecki was a Hollywood film-... more

Bad Date

In Bad Date, crime journalist Jane Yeats is on the scene again, full of her trademark smart-ass attitude and fondness for Irish ale - not to mention her problems with her next door neighbour, a cra... more

Bearing Up with Cancer

Endorsed by the National Ovarian Cancer Association, Gilda's Club and the Department of Gynecological Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital. Proceeds from the book will benefit the National Ovaria... more

Between Friends

In a world of gridlocked rush-hour traffic, fast-forwarded digital TiVo and thousand-channel internet radio, it's harder than ever to hear the subtle sound of pen writing on paper. Yet for centurie... more

Beyond Hope

In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost 60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate. Book 2 in the Hele... more

Big Carrot Vegetarian Cookbook

This acclaimed cookbook provides nutritious recipes from around the world for the sophisticated palate. "A top-notch cookbook." - Toronto Star "A rare hybrid, healthy food with pizzazz." - Joanne... more

Bits and Pieces

My family and I were in hiding. Suddenly I heard someone panting on the stairs... we didn't breathe. Who was coming now? Lodz, Poland, 1944. As teenaged Henia Rosenfarb sits with her family in a s... more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

A time when your sexuality could be your death sentence Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. Activists, ... more

But Hope Is Longer

Tamara Levine's article on straddling complimentary and mainstream medicine for the Cancer Knowledge Network Tamara Levine and But Hope is Longer in Healthwise Ottawa A Q & A with Tamara Levi... more

Butterfly Effect

"...the most eagerly anticipated lesbian mystery of the season." - Feminist Bookstore News. "This is a tough story in the hardboiled PI mode." - The Toronto Star. The fifth book in a highly suc... more

Cachée

Je suis prête mais écrasée de tristesse. Maman nous enlace et nous embrasse. "Au revoir mes enfants ! Quand vous partez, ne vous retournez pas" Avec ces derniers mots de leur m... more

Canadians Are Not Americans

A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hun... more

Consuming Passions

"I cannot recommend Consuming Passions too highly." - Calgary Herald. Twenty-two experts share their extensive knowledge on women's preoccupation with body size. They consider the continuum of ea... more

De génération en génération

Agnes Tomasov n’avait que 9 ans, en 1939, lorsque les lois antijuives ont fait leur apparition en Tchécoslovaquie, l’exposant à des moqueries et à la ségr&ea... more

Doris McCarthy: My Life

"...filled with delightful stories of her rich life and extensive travels, this is an essential addition to Canadian, artistic and women's history" - The Globe and Mail. Doris McCarthy: My Life is... more

Doris McCarthy: Ninety Years Wise

At 94, Doris McCarthy remained one of Canada's great living artists, prolific in her output. With a special passion for the Canadian landscape, she carried on the tradition of the Group of Seven. A... more

E/96: Fate Undecided

"Don't move. Don't open the door." My knees had turned to jelly and I was trembling uncontrollably. Sina grabbed her raincoat and declared, "I'm leaving. They'll be back and I don't want to end up ... more

Étoile jaune, étoile rouge

Je sens la main de mon frère, tremblante mais forte, agripper la mienne... Nous courrons, ma main dans la sienne... devant nous la liberté. Étoile jaune, étoile rouge... more

Farm and City Cookbook

"This book offers up anecdotes and personal stories, but the sensible and enticing recipes are what make this book shine." - The Sunday Daily News, Halifax. The Farm and City Cookbook draws on the... more

Flee, Fly, Flown

Click here to WIN a digital copy of Flee, Fly, Flown You’re never too old for an adventure. When Lillian and Audrey hatch a plot to escape from Tranquil Meadows Nursing Home, “borrow... more

Fleeing from the Hunter

I asked myself, Am I a criminal doomed for execution? I was determined to run away ... that thought never left my mind. On the run in Nazi-occupied Poland, thirteen-year-old orphan Marian Finkelma... more

Found Treasures

The first of its kind, this anthology showcases women's writing previously available only in Yiddish. A book of voices from an almost forgotten female heritage, it features eighteen writers who spe... more

Fragments de ma vie

Ma famille et moi nous cachions... Soudain, j'ai entendu quelqu'un qui haletait dans les escaliers... Nous avons retenu notre souffle. Qui venait à cette heure-ci? Lodz, Pologne, 1944. L&r... more

Frapper à toutes les portes

Alors que l’armée hitlérienne entrait en Tchécoslovaquie en 1940, Anka, âgée de 25 ans et mère de deux enfants, et son mari, se sont enfuis en Chine a... more

From Generation to Generation

The mountains were almost 3,000 metres high... We had to climb to the peaks, where it was frozen and slippery. One single misstep could mean certain death. Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of ... more

From Memory to Transformation

Not satisfied by the established roles assigned to them, Jewish women have begun to uncover their history, religion and culture using tradition and memory to inspire and transform their lives. In F... more

Gatehouse to Hell

I was stubborn. I didn't want to stay in Auschwitz. I didn't want to go to the gas chambers. I didn't want to be cremated. I didn't want to die there, and I kept pushing back. Felix Opatow... more

Getting Out Alive

He pointed his gun and bayonet at me and ordered me to stop, my jaw was bleeding, hanging down. I could not speak and I was shivering. Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick is killed, only to resurface. ... more

Gladdy's Wake

Radical politics and obsession link a family across three generations... New York City - The 1920s. Gladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfathe... more

Headline: Murder

How far will a reporter go to get her story when a politician is viciously murdered? When Pia Keyne, a feisty political reporter, becomes entertainment editor at a large urban newspaper she finds h... more

Holocaust Remembrance Series Teacher Resource

This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany the Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers - Guide comes in five parts with resources and activities - Explores major themes: i... more

Holocaust Remembrance Series Teacher Resource Set

This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany the Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers. This package includes the five-part teaching guide and a set of ten books The Guide... more

Honey, We Lost the Kids

Chalmer's Award-winning writer Kathleen McDonnell follows her acclaimed Kid Culture: Children, Adults and Popular Culture with a challenge to anyone parenting today. Parent alert: Honey, We Lost th... more

I'm a Great Kid! Facilitator's Guide Kit

I'm a Great Kid! is an innovative primary prevention skills program for children 8 to 11 years old that empowers children to think and act in positive ways. Follow up to the I'm a Great Little Kid ... more

I'm a Great Little Kid Facilitator's Guide

The Facilitator's Guide is designed for professional caregivers, educators and parents. The book provides information on understanding and recognizing child abuse, coping with disclosure, and the l... more

If Home is Not Here

I dove into the frigid river, the sudden shock leaving me gasping. By the time that I was two-thirds across the river, my strength was fading. ... Somehow, I managed to reach the shore - the unoccu... more

If, By Miracle

I didn’t see anyone outside the pit, so I jumped out…. I had the feeling that my mother was running beside me and calling out to me, “Michael, run faster and don’t look bac... more

Kid Culture

Is Saturday morning TV as bad as it seems? Should I give my daughter a Barbie? Have I failed as a parent if my son keeps asking for military toys? How is the violence they see around them affecting... more

Knocking on Every Door

There was a feeling of imminent danger... we were all subject to the mad and ever-changing rules of Hitler's Germany. We were desperate to find a safe haven. As Hitler's army sweeps into Czechoslo... more

L'album de ma vie

Je ne suis la fille de personne. Je n'ai pas de soeur. Je ne suis la petite-fille, la belle-fille, la tante ou la cousine de personne. Qui suis-je? Mon passé a entièrement disparu. To... more

La fin du printemps

Vers un nouveau monde, un rêve m’a emporté celui de ne jamais plus voir couler le sang. Mais puis-je vraiment me débarrasserdes rêves qui ont souillé ma jeune... more

Le Violon et Témoinage d'un enfant

Une trace de notre famille doit subsister, murmurait Velvel, et tu seras cette trace. Tu t’en sortiras.J’ai marché presque toute la nuit. Chaque froissement dans la forêt m... more

Legal Tender

Either high-powered Toronto lawyer Harriet Fordham Croft, or her lover, Leslie, is being stalked by a murderer. But why? By whom? Is it Harriet's ex-husband, whose pride won't tolerate a relationsh... more

Little Girl Lost

The more we felt the Germans' heavy boots in our lives, the more I knew I had to leave... but I was scared. Where was I going to go? What would I live on? When the Nazis invade her small town of Z... more

Looking for Angelina

DVD with accompanying guide by BOOST - Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention. Set in 1911, the award-winning film "Looking for Angelina" is the story of Angelina Napolitano. An Italian immigrant,... more

Love and Forgetting

Madwoman of Bethlehem

In mid-20th century Bethlehem, a woman finds that the only way to take control of her life is to feign madness. It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the "Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Women," having... more

Matricule E/96

Ne bouge pas. N’ouvre pas la porte. J’avais les jambes qui flageolaient et je tremblais de manière incontrôlable... Sina a attrapé son imperméable et nous a l... more

Memories from the Abyss and But I had a Happy Childhood

William Tannenzapf never wavers in his determination to survive and save his wife and baby girl from the evil gripping his hometown of Stanislawow. Blond, cherubic, Renate Krakauer was a "miracle b... more

Menopause

With diagrams, photographs and commentary by women who have gone through menopause, this thorough book continues to address the concerns that affect the health and well-being of mid-life women ever... more

Napi's Dance

Two women, one Blackfoot and one white, are united by their love of the prairie In the mid-1800s, southern Alberta was dominated by the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Snake Woman, from the B... more

Nettie's Vegetarian Kitchen

You can have fun and eat well with vegetarian food, says popular chef and cooking instructor Nettie Cronish. She pairs fast, easy-to-use ingredients with simple cooking instructions that emphasize ... more

No Safe Place

Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society. In N... more

Not An Easy Choice

If most North Americans admit they support a woman's right to an abortion, why does the controversy still rage? Are there issues that the pro-choice movement hasn't addressed and issues that r... more

Objectif: survivre

Il a pointé son fusil et sa baïonnette dans ma direction et m’a ordonné de m’arrêter. Ma mâchoire, pendante, était en sang. J’étais in... more

On the Edge

The acceptance of women's hockey into the 1998 Olympic Games accelerated the groundswell of interest in this highly-charged competitive sport. Despite the enormous popularity of women's hockey, pla... more

On the Road to Vegetarian Cooking

This book is for everyone: the beginner trying this style of cooking for the first time, the committed vegetarian who wants help with meal planning and is keen to try new culinary delights, and the... more

Outside Of Ordinary

Female writers share 32 transformative stories of traveling in diverse locations - some exotic, and some more familiar. List of Contributors: Sharon Butala, Charlotte Caron, Amy Coupal, Lorna Crozi... more

Pornography and the Sex Crisis

Can we do something about pornography without using censorship? Yes, says award-winning journalist and activist Susan G. Cole. Moving beyond the arguments that have polarized the country around thi... more

Rachel's Promise

Rachel's Secret

Rachel, a Jew, and Sergei, a Christian, find their worlds torn apart by violence in pre-revolutionary Russia... Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, Rachel knows that she wants... more

Reconcilable Differences

Separation and divorce can be a grueling experience. Spouses who once loved each other can be swept up by an adversarial system where they declare war on each other, forgetting all that was good be... more

Redefining Retirement

How to get the most out of the new phase of your life... Boomer women are about to pass yet another milestone -- RETIREMENT! The first wave of women to enter the workforce in significant numbers b... more

Restitution

Europe, on the eve of the Second World War, and a Jewish family feels the Nazi danger closing in... Led by their indomitable mother, Marie, the Reesers make a daring escape from under the watchful... more

Saving Rome

In her debut collection, Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, serves up the Eternal City as you've never seen it before, turning an insider's eye on the love, mystery and unhol... more

See Jane Run!

From the award-winning author of Sudden Blow and Bad Date comes another compelling mystery featuring Jane Yeats, a crime journalist with a passion for hard-boiled adventure, Harleys, and hops... Ov... more

Sexual Harassment

"June Larkin has written the definitive work on sexual harassment in schools. Every teacher, student of both sexes, and parent must read this book." - Dr. Paula Caplan, University of Toronto... In ... more

She Writes

She Writes is an anthology that features women writers in Canada. Elizabeth Ruth, Heather Birrell, Kristen den Hartog, Kelly Watt, Dana Bath, Teresa McWhirter and others make up this brilliant new ... more

Sometime Daughter

When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence. Suddenly, having endless hours to sit and think, she begi... more

Song Over Quiet Lake

The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon... As students at the University of British Colombia, Syliv... more

Souvenirs de l'abîme, et Le bonheur de l'innocence

Les obus ont explosé dans un bruit épouvantable et le ciel s'est rempli d'éclats de métal. Une fois le calme revenu, l'officier s'est relevé est m'a demandé... more

Spring's End

Into a new world I was brought by a dream Never to see blood spilled againBut can I really throw awayThe dreams that soiled my youth? A young boy who loved soccer as much as he loved to write, Spr... more

Still Ain't Satisfied

This collection of twenty-seven articles on the major women's issues of the 1980's shows why feminists had only begun to fight. Women were still paid less than their male counterparts, rape and wif... more

Sudden Blow

A motorbike-riding business writer is asked to investigate the death of a tycoon in the first of a new mystery series featuring the irreverent Jane Yeats. Meet Jane Yeats. She's a still-grieving wi... more

Support the Girls

Can a book about breast health be both beautiful and funny? This one is... When the women from a community in Central Ontario needed to raise funds to buy a mammogram machine for the local hospita... more

Survival Kit

For the second time, I found myself about to be interrogated…. I wouldn’t confess to being Jewish this time, knowing it would mean certain death. How could I die now, after all we had ... more

Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

"That's how we lived, surrounded by ghosts. They sat at the table while we ate our Sunday meal. They lay beside us in the bed as we slept..." In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina Roit... more

Tenuous Threads and One of the Lucky Ones

I had always liked ot play make-believe, but somehow they made me understand that this game was real. I never gave away my secret. As Eva Marx writes in her memoir, One of the Lucky Ones, ... more

That Summer in Franklin

A Long Ago Summer. A Long Held Secret... In 1955, two fifteen-year-olds with immeasurable optimism shared a summer working as waitresses in the small town of Franklin's flourishing Britannia Hotel... more

The Color of Silence

Two girls, both without a voice. One refuses to speak, the other is trapped in a body that won’t let her. At seventeen, Alex feels as if her life is over. She will never recover from the tra... more

The First Nations Series for Young Readers Teacher Resource

This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany Second Story Press' First Nations Series for Young Readers. This resource has been developed around the First Nations/Native American hol... more

The Kids' Power Series Teacher Resource

This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany Second Story Press' Kid's Power Series. Just as the series tells the stories of children who have taken action on issues that are importa... more

The Last River Child

A young woman struggles against a small town's superstitious fears at the turn of the last century... In the summer of 1900, a meteorite lands on the day of Peg Staynor's baptismal, barely missin... more

The Shadows Behind Me

I was surprised that Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, would talk to me not as a Jew but as a normal person.... I thought that I must be having a nice dream. For six desperate years, Willie... more

The Violin and A Child's Testimony

Rachel Milbauer, a vivacious and outgoing music lover, lay hidden and silent with her family and a family friend in an underground bunker in Nazi-occupied Poland for nearly two years. Adam Shtibel,... more

Traqué

Rien dans l’enfance de Marian Domanski n’aurait pu le préparer à la solitude et à vivre par ses propres moyens durant ses années d’adolescence: ni l&rs... more

Treasured Legacies

Irene Borins Ash captures the vitality of senior citizens in a series of photographs with biographical sketches and life philosophies. The fifty people featured represent a cross-section of the pop... more

Two Women

Two women: born on the same day, a hemisphere apartTwo women: blind, middle-aged twin sisters, their world shaped through the magic of stories Bernice Archer has raised her blind twin daught... more

Un terrible revers de fortune

Ces mémoires captivants s’ouvrent sur une description riche de détails saisissants de la culture des cafés européens et de la vie quotidienne à Leipzig et B... more

Under the Yellow and Red Stars

I feel my brother's hand, trembling but strong, grab onto mine. I hear his words, urging me to run, take hold of my body and move my legs. We run, his hand holding mine ... to me it feels like free... more

Uneasy Lies

Uneasy Lies has been hailed by The Globe and Mail as "excellent" and "highly entertaining." Eve Zaremba places her street-smart heroine as the head of security in a large, urban condominium. It see... more

When Your Voice Tastes Like Home

This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea and Kenya, Italy and Iran. They look and think differently. They have distinc... more

White Noise

Margaret Atwood describes Helen Keremos as "a cross between Lily Tomlin and Philip Marlowe." In this last book in the series, Sonny, a former client from Hong Kong, arrives in Vancouver and Helen ... more

White Space Between

Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction A family's story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montreal, in the serenity ... more

Wilderness Cookbook

"Chock full of tips, techniques, camp checklists, and ... recipes, it's one piece of equipment that campers will not want to do without." - The Compass "We can really cut down on the weight of the... more

Writing the Revolution

Feminist journalist and activist Michele Landsberg - From the front lines of the Women's Movement... One of the most respected voices in Canadian feminism, two-time National Newspaper Award-winnin... more

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