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This is the story of Oli, an owlet who lives in a tree in a forest. The tree gets cut down and becomes the centerpiece of a celebration in a city very far away. Oli remains stuck in the tree as he cannot yet fly. He is forced to travel an enormous distance from the forest to a city under very difficult conditions. Along the way, Oli meets some intriguing characters who befriend and educate him. His journey not only helps him strengthen his personality but it also provides a knowledge base for him. The result is that Oli is transformed into a wise and influential owl who realizes his wisdom can make a difference in the world.

As the great Mel Brooks said, " Humor is just another defense against the universe" -- and in these chaotic times, an irreverent and chaotic book like When the Rains Came, will definitely help you gird your loins AND laugh your head off. This entertaining collection of flash fiction, has been mysteriously spun out of the very deep, extended, chaotic, intense, personal experiences of a unique, one-of-a-kind person. David Wolinsky is a retired army officer, an entertainment attorney, restaurateur, businessman, a former memeber of Mensa, and currently, a writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with his cat Barney. If you are seeking a Zagat-style description, Wolinsky's work has been described as, " well-crafted," " surprising," and " highly entertaining." He's been compared to Mel Brooks, and it has been said that he offers " some of the best Jewish humor of recent times." His " brand of funny" was so good it even caused someone to " publicly snort chicken noodle soup out of my nose."

Stedmond Pardy's first book of poems The Pleasures of this Planet Aren't Enough was published by Mosaic Press in 2020 and launched his career as a boundary-pushing literary and poetic voice. His devoted readers can't get enough of his compelling YouTube and Soundcloud spoken-word performances. Stedmond lives by his own dicta: " An artist is an instrument through which the Universe reveals itself and word poetry is for every man, but soul poetry, alas, is not heavily distributed."

Deeply personal narratives of soldiers involved in contemporary wars now have become available because of the explosion of the internet and the proliferation of news media. However, our knowledge of personal narratives of soldiers in the First World War are very limited. This book filled an important gap in our knowledge of soldier life, their fears, hopes, aspirations and suffering! As the editor/author Gordon Reid states: " Many books of a scholarly or autobiographical nature on World war One have been and are still being published, but I believe this is one of the first to deal with the personal narratives of the lower ranks such as Privates and Corporals, right up to the Colonels and Brigadier Generals... This book contains interviews with over fifty veterans of which sixty percent are Canadians. The rest are mainly British, with a couple of Germans, a Frenchman and even a Canadian who served the American Army." The book also contains some 40 original photos and documents and maps culled rom soldiers' personal archives.

These essays -- moving, engaging, and deeply personal -- explore the themes of family responsibility, growing up, and growing older. As the author, a divorced single mother beginning a new life and career in her forties, delves into the details of her own situation, she illuminates universal truths about what matters most: love, fulfillment, and the pain and necessity of huge change. These pieces about a woman in midlife struggling to come into her own in a complicated world are rich in insight and written with warmth, humour, and clear-eyed, sometimes devastating, honesty. " Over a ten-year period, more than fifty of my essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on CBC radio, read by me. These intensely personal stories were published or broadcast on air almost as soon as I' d written them. For this former actor and lifelong diarist just beginning to emerge as a writer, they were a wonderful combination of writing and performance; the feedback I received sounded like applause. But those years, from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, were difficult. I was the single mother of two teenagers, struggling to make a living and find a new path through the world." Beth Kaplan

Singing Forever in My Memories is true to its title because Mike's shared verses cover a lifetime of the visions and experiences of a literary artist. In fact, the title could have been called a Swinging collection of memories that dance across the page in rhythmic patterns & accompanying, lyrical harmonies. The words become his metaphorical pictures, images and feelings of happiness, comfort and our own uncertainty about the future when like him, " Who am I & why am I here?" lingers still in our memories. Mike's poems become an album of his life filled with the benchmarks of his journeys and challenges over sixty years. For example, when a piece of burning cigarette foil become his concern for our survival on Earth in 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis). Then a 1973 update of the same poem became a team exercise with Arts students in a classroom. Then with his Vignettes he captures snapshots of Nature's landscape, which then reappears in a Walt Whitman-styled poem, " Life's Journey is a River" detailing the colours, smells, sounds, tastes, and touches of our journeys on the river of time and finally reaching the Oasis.

" INSPIRED BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNING SHORT STORY AUTHOR ALICE MONRO AND HER ABILITY TO MAKE SMALL TOWN ONTARIO FASCINATING, ROSALIND GILL SEES HER OWN WORK AS AN ATTEMPT TO DO SOMETHING SIMILAR FOR NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR." -Chris Quigley, The Western Star Following on the success of her first collection of short stories, Too Unspeakable for Words, Rosalind Gill's new collection of ten short stories mostly features women protagonists embroiled in situations of thought-provoking social conflict and explores their struggle to resolve their problems. In the words of the Author " I am a Newfoundland writer and Face into the Wind is an identifiably Newfoundland collection. I grew up in a story-telling family in a story-telling society. This is how we find meaning and make sense of things in my culture. As well, I have always been fascinated by language. I am also a literary translator and language academic. I see my writing as a unique, modern-day literary extension of traditional oral story-telling. The narration is infused with the ironic humour and imaginary of the Newfoundland language and cultural idiom and echoes the richness of oral Newfoundland English."

A unique and ground breaking collection of short fiction, the author's first collection written in English and will surely establish his reputation as a major English language literary force.

"Hume Cronyn is one of the most original poets writing today in Canada. Honed over decades of inspired writing and meticulously crafted, Cronyn's poetry is thematically rich, authentically brilliant and always illuminating."

A novel which challenges us to imagine the world-order in 2040. What if China dramatically reinvents global relations.Imagine the near future when the East assumes the reins of power in world politics, as well as global leadership in economic matters! On May 1, 2040 the headquarters of the United Nations moves from New York to Shanghai.The novel centers around Wei Shu, the woman President of the People`s Republic of China. She has piloted this project and choreographed every detail of this momentous event. In her diary, Wei Shu writes: `This day belongs to me as now I belong to China and China belongs to the world.``Who is this woman who has successfully ascended to absolute leadership both in China and the world...Jean-Louis Roy`s novel unravels Wei Shu`s origins, the legacy of her mother and grandmother, her career as a student and her ascent to power in China. He explores the relentless development of China over the past fifty years, its emergence as a global power in parallel with the dazzling trajectory of the rise to preeminence of this exceptional woman, Wei Shu.Jean – Louis Roy for decades has written extensively about the shift of power from the west towards Africa and Asia. His most recent publications include The Future of French: Cultural Competition in the 21st Century (2010), The Age of Diversity: The New Cultural Map ( 2016), Mansa Musai: Kankan Moussa: From Niani to Mecca – An Historical Narrative (2019), Africa.com: Digital, Economic, Cultural Transformations (2021) all published by Mosaic Press. For over fifteen years, Jean-Louis Roy has visited China personally, observed and studied its developments. This novel, his first, combines numerous themes and his acute combination as a trained journalist, professor and literary figure all combine to make Shanghai 2040 a highly valuable literary work and perhaps, also a prophetic work.Jean-Louis Roy`s career includes Editor in Chief of Le Devoir, Quebec`s Delegate General in P

A major collection of superb "e;flash fiction"e; writing by one of Canada's best authors. Ken Rivard has published two collections of poetry and eight collections of fiction during his literary career. "e;CanalWatch is a collection of flash fiction written over numerous visits to Ohau, the man made waterway in Honolulu which serves as the dividing line of Waikiki on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Each story is based on the passing image of a particular person, place, event, object or overheard conversation (whether real or imagined ) in or around the La Wai Canal. Readers are invited to sit in the brief story moment of each flash fiction peice. Most times each narrative turns back on itself with the first line of this story also becoming the last line, resulting in a kind of story portrait...Occasionally, readers may be asked to suspend their disbelief. Other times, the point in time being described may appear to be too real to be untrue. Often, a particular idea or image simply asks "e;what if?"e; Then the story takes off and brings the readers along for the ride. Enjoy the "e;what if's"e; and the "e;not so what if's."e; - Ken Rivard, from the IntroductionCritical Acclaim for Ken Rivard"e;Rivard's writing is honest, refreshing, startling, imaginative and gets the reader emotionally involved..."e; - W.P. Kinsella"e;A master of imagery...once again Rivard treats these personal subjects with humanity."e; - Wendy RaJalka, Calgary Herald"e;Amazing collection...Such thought-provoking portraits ...render the reader party to intense moments in private life..."e; - Virginia Gilllham, Canadian Book Review Annual"e;The most impressive of Rivard's work is its tendency towards a surrealistic, dream-like quality."e; - Bob Attridge, Newest Review."e;I was born and raised on a working-class Montreal street inhabited more by rats than people. We were surrounded by fields, factories, railroad tracks and trains where, as

I wish you could hear the song i'm listening to as i write this... explores the classic tale of adolescent rebellion but it is more complex. How do young people deal with the apparent universal desire for attention and fame? The social media today have made the fulfillment of this desire accessible to more people. But this work explores this issue very personally and deeply. When the young narrator asks her grandmother why is everyone in their family so eager to perform as a musician, the grandmother challenges her by stating "e; Who in this world doesn' t want to be famous? Who would shy away from attention, notoriety? Who would want to hide their talent?"e; The narrator- a talented singer who prefers to sing only for her own enjoyment - decides she would. Her confrontation with what is expected of her and her own struggle to understand why and how she is different is the hub of this novella.

"Literary Essays about the political climate in the 20th Century by The Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein, Q.C., Senator."--

Treadmill is a truly unique and historically significant novel and the only book written about life in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II written at the time by an internee.Hiroshi Nakamura, along with his family, spent the war years in Salinas Assembly Center, Salinas, California; Camp II of the Poston Relocation Center, Parker, Arizona; and Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. It was during this period that he put down on paper what he was observing, experiencing, and hearing and expressed them in this novel. Nakamura captures exquisitely the thinking and mood of the people. It accurately evokes the fears, anxieties, suspicions, cynicisms and passions brought out by camp life. Nakamura ‘almost' succeeded in getting Treadmill published in the late 1940s. While editors and publishers thought well of the novel, they would not publish it as it was ‘too sensitive' an issue. Professor Peter Suzuki discovered Treadmill while he was doing some research on internment camps of Japanese Americans.This revised edition of Treadmill contains a new introductory essay by Professor Tara Fickle discussing the historical importance of Nakamura's work. Also included are a series of photographs of Japanese internment camps in California taken by renowned photographer Ansel Adams taken in 1943. Adams had unprecedented access to life inside the camps and these photographs provide an exceptional visual accompaniment to Nakamura's story.

Celine Bower is a hometown girl living the quiet life and a successful veterinarian. She is twenty-six year sold. Then, she is drugged, kidnapped and gang-raped. The local police seem to be unable to find out who did it. Celine and her best frienddream of ways of getting even with the men responsible for her trauma and the crime. Thoughts of revenge consume Celine. Then a seemingly supernaturalforce gives her a sudden insight into who her unknown attackers are and also where she can find them. Systematically and unknown to anybody, she seeks out the assailants and strikes back viciously seeking her revenge Everyone in town begins to look for the mystery woman committing these acts of vengeance. Can Celine keep her true identity secret while she creates this new vengeful creature? Can she eliminate these predators before her own identity is revealed?

In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a book store, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback and Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain. A four-time nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, and winner of the 2001 Ellery Queen Readers' Award, Sellers' stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Down & Out Magazine and numerous anthologies. "e;Closing Doors"e;, which appears in this collection and originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, recently was awarded the 2020 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Short Story Award. Don Hutchison, acclaimed author of Great Pulp Heroes, said of Peter Sellers' stories: "e;A typical Sellers story there is usually one bad decision made, and on that hangs the plot-as well as the perpetrator."e;

The third novel by Robert Carr, following the success of Continuums ( 2008 )and A Question of Return ( 2015 ) both published by Mosaic Press. His work has been highly praised"e;A Question of Return is a profound, rich, layered and compelling story, a must read."e;Joseph Kertes, New York Times Best-Selling Author"e;...a terrific, compelling story...not a mystery novel per se, but it manages to carry a sense of mystery over more than a hundred thousand words - and this is called Art!"e; Ken Alexander, former Editor of Walrus MagazineAdvance Praise for Corby Falls"e;Robert Carr has brilliantly created a compelling story filled with characters who are both flawed and complicated with an underlying tone of tension and unrest while raising issues of mortality and truth."e; Elaine Mccluskey, author of The Most Heartless Town in Canada The novel is set in a small village, Corby Falls. Miles Rueda has lived for years in Toronto. His personal life is knotty, is divorced, has an ironic teenage daughter who lives with his remarried ex-wife but reluctantly shares weekends with him. Miles loves his daughter and his ex-wife intends to take her to Europe for several years.Miles realizes that something he's seen as a child many years earlier in Corby Falls was most likely a prelude to murder. All the evidence now points to the recently deceased Dr. Biranek, a former neighbour and prominent township resident. Miles reveals his suspicions of this murder to a group of friends The result of this revelation triggers unexpected consequences. A huge bequest left by Dr. Biranek to the township hospital is threatened and the largest employer in town is likely to close its doors. Miles fears for his own safety as well as his daugh- ter's safety. He recognizes that he is the cause and also center of these emerging problems . What to do? Miles is also close to a dead-end in his professional life. He is an engineer in the space industry, having worked for many years on the plan.