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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 Tale Worth Telling

Part of the I'm a Great Little Kid Series, which is published in conjunction with the Toronto Child Abuse Centre, who believe that empowering young children makes them less vulnerable.Written in rh... 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 easily a... more

A Woman's Agenda 2011

Organize your life with this easy to read, coil-bound agenda and be inspired by a different amazing woman's profile each month The women profiled in the 2011 Agenda are:1. Mathilde Krim (USA/ ITAL... 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

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 ... more

Big Carrot Vegetarian Cookbook

"A top-notch cookbook." Toronto Star"A rare hybrid, healthy food with pizzazz." Joanne Kates, author and criticThis acclaimed cookbook provides nutritious recipes from around the world for the sop... more

But Hope is Longer

Coming in October 2012 More practical than a simple memoir, Tamara Levine's book combines personal insight with information provided by the medical professionals who helped her navigate through he... 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 StarThe fifth book in a highly successful seri... 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 HeraldTwenty-two experts share their extensive knowledge on women's preoccupation with body size. They consider the continuum of eating b... 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 MailDoris McCarthy: My Life is a wo... more

Doris McCarthy: Ninety Years Wise

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

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

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

Gladdy's Wake

Radical politics and obsession link a family across three generationsNew York City – The 1920sGladys Sage escaped the backwoods of Northern Ontario, leaving behind the body of her stepfather,... more

Great Writers from our First Nations

Coming in September 2012 A collection of short biographies of First Nations writers from across North America. Each chapter includes photographs, sidebars, and a full biography of their work. The ... 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: ide... more

Holocaust Remembrance Series Teacher Resource Set

This comprehensive teacher's guide is designed to accompany the Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers. The guide plus set includes the five part guide plus eight books. This Package inclu... 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

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 Iâ€™m ... 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

June Callwood

This biography is the first ever for young readers on the inspiring life of June Callwood, one of Canada's greatest journalists and humanitarians. filled with images and details of June's life from... 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

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 relations... more

Looking for Angelina

Film 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

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

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

Coming in October 2012 Napi's Dance narrates the tale of two women in 19th century Alberta: Snake Woman, from the Blackfoot Blood tribe, and Eleanor, a young woman of English/Irish descent who arr... 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 addressedâ issues that rem... 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 Croz... 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

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 benef... 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 ey... more

Saving Rome

Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, knows just how far. In her debut collection, Williams serves up the Eternal City as you've never seen it before, turning an insider's eye o... 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.Overn... 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 TorontoIn this ... 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 begin... 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, Syliva a... 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 hospital,... 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

That Summer in Franklin

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

The First Nations Series for Young Readers Teacher Resource

This comprehensive teachers 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 holi... more

The Kids' Power Series Teacher Resource

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

The Secret of the Village Fool

Coming in October 2012 The true story of an unlikely hero who saved a family and two orphan girls. Milek and his brother, Munio, live in a sleepy village in Poland, where nothing exciting seems t... 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

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 ag... more

White Space Between

Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for FictionA family's story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the sere... 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 th... more

Writing the Revolution

Feminist journalist & 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-winning... more

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