Join award-winning author Joy Ross Davis in this personal and heartfelt true story. Joy's mother suffered from dementia, as well as acute hearing loss. Seeking release from the indescribable and never-ending demands of being a full-time caregiver, Joy began to write about her experiences. She had no idea so many people could identify with what she was going through, people in much the same circumstances. She had no idea how many people were comforted by her words—and that humor and laughter could help in the most trying circumstances. This book is an account of that time and those words, which provided much-needed help to so many others.

Families are our greatest source of refuge, even though we sometimes need to seek refuge from them. Bud was certain that if the leaves fell in the fall his Georgia Bulldogs would valiantly take the gridiron and make him proud. He was equally as certain that his maternal family meant him harm, physically and emotionally. Even though Bud had learned at an early age that family was not a team sport, this last series of events threatened Bud’s relationships with the people he cared the most about, his own family. Ride shotgun with Bud in his Pontiac Smokey and the Bandit Edition Trans Am as he navigates through the fog of aging and special interest to attain the rewards of his quest, sobriety and sanity.

Lionheart began what is now a collection of poetry that defiantly and unapologetically examines mans dark side-from self-mutilation, anger and hate to the myriad faces of death. Heartfelt and honest sentiments permit readers to peer into the author's heart and soul. Although some of the rhymes seem contradictory to the intense subject matter, Lionhearts macabre view of the universe is consistently rendered throughout with chilling images.

Angela tries too hard to avoid the pitfalls of her own relationship with her mother. The problems this causes in her relationship with her teenage daughter are no less real or easier to overcome.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING In Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths. Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario, she hadn't really thought about the fact that Ottawa wasn't designed for someone like her. Celina soon found herself both making waves and breaking down, confronting at night, alone in her Ottawa apartment, all the painful beauty of her childhood and her troubled early adult life. She paid the price for speaking out about micro-aggressions and speaking up for her community and her riding, but she also felt exhilaration and empowerment. As she writes, "This is not your typical leadership book where the person is placed in a situation and miraculously comes up with the right response for the wicked problem. This is the story of me falling in love, at last, with who I am, and finding my voice in the unlikeliest of places." Both memoir and leadership book, Can You Hear Me Now? is a funny, self-aware, poignant, confessional and fierce look at how failing badly and screwing things up completely are truly more powerful lessons in how to conduct a life than extraordinary success. They build an utter honesty with yourself and others that allows you to say things nobody else dares to say--the necessary things about navigating the places that weren't built for you and holding firm to your principles. And, if you do that, you will help build a world where inclusion is real. Just as Celina is now trying to do, in all her brilliance and boldness.

A stage play about the loss of innocence of a young girl and how it unfolds at a visit to her grandparents quite unexpectedly. Set in the early 1960 in London.