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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

Amazing Women Athletes

This collection features ten women athletes from Canada and around the world beginning with our own, and mostly forgotten Olympian, Bobbi Rosenfeld, considered by many experts as this country's mos... more

Astonishing Women Artists

Reflections of the world through the eyes of creative trailblazers... The newest addition to the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series profiles ten phenomenal women with a passion for art. Politic... 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

Between Myself And Them

For the first time, adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability... This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to diffe... 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

Bobbie Rosenfeld

Sportswriters and broadcasters in this country agree that Bobbie Rosenfeld may be Canada's greatest female athlete of the twentieth century.A Sports Hall of Famer, Bobbie was born in 1904 in a smal... 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

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

Courageous Women Rebels

Women who rocked the world for freedom, justice, and equality Ten biographies of women reformers from around the world who have made a difference in the realms of politics, social equality, disabi... more

Dazzling Women Designers

Designing our World - from Fashion to Robots... The work of women designers touches every part of our lives. In the 1920s British furniture designer and architect Eileen Gray developed ideas for h... 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

Dynamic Women Dancers

Dancing to Change the World... The women profiled here have become masters of their art, dancing and choreographing their way around the world. All of them have helped transform their style of dan... 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

Emily Included

A Regular School - Emily Eaton was born with cerebral palsy. She couldn't communicate or control her movements like other kids, and she used a wheelchair. But that did not stop her from wanting to ... more

Environmentalists from our First Nations

The men and women profiled here are united by their work to protect the environment and to support indigenous rights. Their stories take us from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to the... 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

Exceptional Women Environmentalists

From Rachel Carson, the woman who started the modern environmental movement, to Severn Cullis-Suzuki, former host of Suzuki's Nature Quest, to Marina Silva, who fights to keep the Brazilian rain fo... more

Extraordinary Women Explorers

A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and innate curiosity about the world and its peoples fill the 10 biographies in Extraordinary Women Explorers. ... more

Fabulous Female Physicians

Women have been doctors for a very long time. From a great variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, women have overcome great odds to heal and help their communities. This new book of ten biogra... more

Fantastic Female Filmmakers

Go behind the camera! Women have been writing, producing and directing movies since filmmaking began in the early 1900s. From taming wild dogs to filming from the open door of a plane to being nom... 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

Fearless Female Journalists

Women who've changed the world by reporting on it... Ten inspirational biographies of women who risked everything - including their lives - to bring us the world's stories. Whether reporting from ... 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

girlSpoken

Being a teenage girl is not for the weak. From pen, brush, and tongue, girls and young women (ages 13-19) speak their truths, tell it like it is, and call for change. This collection of creative wo... more

Great Athletes from our First Nations

From Second Story's First Nations Series, Great Athletes from our First Nations profiles thirteen outstanding athletes in such diverse sports as figure skating, race car driving, skiing and bowling... more

Great Musicians from our First Nations

Music is their passion. Follow the journeys of ten talented musicians from the Native community as they make their way to the top. All of them, whether their music is traditional drumming or main... more

Great Women from our First Nations

This new title in the First Nations Series for Young Readers profiles ten outstanding women leaders. They include Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, a Matis broadcaster, journalist and First Nations advocate,... more

Great Women Leaders

Since the days of ancient Egypt, women have demonstrated their skills as leaders. The last couple of hundred years, however, have seen increasing numbers of self-made women of distinction take thei... more

Great Writers from our First Nations

A celebration of ten writers who have challenged stereotypes, told history from a perspective often silenced, and entertained millions of readers. Included is author Louise Erdrich, whose novel Lo... more

Hana's Suitcase

From the foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: "How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana's story the terrible history ... more

Hana's Suitcase - Book and Audio CD

"Hana's Suitcase should be required reading." - Quill and Quire. "Like the documentary, the book is a treasure for children and adults." - The Toronto Star. In the spring of 2000, Fumiko Ishioka,... more

Hana's Suitcase Anniversary Album

On the 10th anniversary of the publication of Hana's Suitcase, the beloved story now in a new book with over 60 pages of added materials. Also available as a Multi-Touch Enhanced eBook exclusively... more

Hana's Suitcase on Stage

Since its publication in 2002, the story of Hana Brady, a little girl who wanted to become a teacher, has captured hearts and minds of schoolchildren and adults around the world. Since its 2006 wor... more

Hear Me Out

More and more gay teens are talking. They are speaking about their lives, about the realization of their sexuality, and the consequences for themselves. These young people discuss the reactions of ... more

Heroine: A Journal

(Formerly announced as Women Who Rocked the World: A Not-Quite-Blank Journal) A striking journal featuring thirty bold and fascinating women who have defied convention, challenged gender roles and ... more

Hiding Edith

The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl who was saved from the Nazis by the courage of the entire French village of Moissac. Edith's story is remarkable not only for her own bravery, ... 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

Incredible Women Inventors

The latest addition to the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series profiles 10 incredible women with an itch to invent. Written in an accessible, engaging, and informative style, Incredible Women Inv... 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

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

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

Maddy's Amazing African Birthday

Maddy's trip to Africa was an experience she'll never forget, and for reasons that might surprise you...This is the true story of Maddy, who was given a once-in-a-lifetime gift for her tenth birthd... more

Magnificent Women in Music

This book features a selection of politically active, inspiring women who have made important contributions to music history. Their stories begin in the mid-18th Century with Maria Anna "Nannerl" M... 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

Men of Courage from our First Nations

Ten First Nations Men Who Inspire... The stories of these men are tales of courage, determination and honesty, often in the face of racism and adversity. Read about Larry Merculieff, who helped bri... 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

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

Nobel's Women of Peace

Working for Peace Around the World... Each year since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a person who has made a difference in the world. Twelve women have been given this award, and ... 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

Organizing Unions

Everything you need to know about how to form or build a union... "In navigating the changing workplace and labour laws of the 90s, Organizing Unions is definitely the finest compass workers and o... more

Our Earth

A windmill built from bicycle parts, a bridge made for a monkey, and a touch of magic... Young people are doing amazing things for the future of our planet. Here are true stories of kids from arou... more

Our New Home

From the diverse cultures of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Guyana, Somalia, and others, immigrant children write of their experiences leaving their homes and moving to a n... more

Our Rights

Kids have the power to make social change A girl who spoke out against her government for the rights of aboriginal children, a boy who walked across his country to raise awareness of homelessness,... more

Patrick's Wish

This is the true story of Patrick's wish... Lyanne's older brother Patrick was full of life and fun, a friend as well as a brother. When she was old enough to understand, Patrick told her that he ... more

Phenomenal Female Entrepreneurs

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

Power Surge

Frank, clear-eyed and consistent, this collection bucks the backlash against feminist ideas. With a twist on Lesbian Chic, Madonna and other icons, Cole analyzes the many forms of violence against ... more

Putting On a Show

An award-winning children's playwright tells all for kids... Using four of her original plays, which have toured in Canada and the United States, as the center piece, she talks about the history o... 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

Remarkable Women Writers

The acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series continues with profiles of ten women wordsmiths who made history in their own uniquely creative ways... From L.M. Montgomery and George Eliot to Margaret ... 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

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

Shanghai Escape

Shannen and the Dream for a School

First Nation Communities Read Selection for 2012-13! All children have the right to a school... This is the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community in Nor... 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

Spectacular Women In Space

Space is the final frontier and this collection features the biographies of ten women who have made an important contribution to the exploration of space. Included are Jerrie Cobb, who could only d... 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

Super Women in Science

Another addition to the acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame Series, this book features a selection of inspiring women who have made important contributions to science. It used to be thought that women ... 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

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

Terrific Women Teachers

Profiles of ten inspiring women educators from around the world... Each chapter includes photographs, sidebars and fascinating facts about these groundbreaking women: Maria Montessori, founder of... more

The Courage To Change

Teens talking to teens in a powerful book where formerly violent young people speak out to their peers... Not all teenagers start out with the skills and experience to make appropriate choices. Yet... 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 Secret of the Village Fool

The true story of an unexpected hero Munio and his younger brother Milek live in a sleepy village in Poland where nothing exciting seems to happen. One of their neighbors is a poor man named Anto... 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 Underground Reporters

In Budejovice, a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws and rules were introduced to restrict the freedom of Jewish people during the dark days of World War II. A small plot of land by the river was... 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

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

We Are Their Voice

Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? This question prompted a writing project that brought heartfelt responses from students from across North America and abroad. Their voices &nda... 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

Where's Mom's Hair?

A family faces Mom's cancer and medical treatments with a huge hair shaving party. Touching and humorous black-and-white photographs follow Mom (Debbie) as she and her family go through each step o... 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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