Why couldn t I just have cancer or something physical that I could fight and either beat or lose to?  Paul Suter was an elite endurance athlete who went from competing in Ironman-distance triathlons to being unable to take his dog for a five-minute walk. Despite suffering a serious concussion, he continued to train and compete until his exhausted adrenal system collapsed. Paul knew his body wasn t working, but couldn t convince the medical community that his illness actually existed. The ongoing search for a cure contributed to his depression and suffering; how could he continue to hope, when what he had didn t fit into any doctor s shoe box of remedies? Paul s relationship with his wife and training partner, Christine, was based on their mutual love of endurance sport. Over seven years, his illness and invisible disability threatened to destroy the bond that held them together. Paul s search for recognition of his condition and for an effective treatment was a quest to restore not just himself but his marriage and their future.

Flat Out in Pieces: Crippled by Concussion - An Athlete's Journey Back

Suter, Paul

Biographies & Memoirs

Tidewater Press

I, John Fox, of Rolfe, Iowa, aspiring anthropologist, am liberated from the chains of Podunk academia and American mores. Japan, here I come.  His Hopi princess bride has left him for the head of the philosophy department and his PhD thesis is stalled; what is left for an Iowa farm boy to do but to board a slow boat to Yokohama? John Fox leaves the academic desert of New Mexico for Japan, in search of fame and inspiration among the Ainu, the white aborigines of Hokkaido. While his adventures as an American innocent abroad take many a romantic and political turn, John discovers, as the Ainu believe, that everything is god . . . and bears.

The Kawai Scrolls

Literature & Fiction

Druehl, Louis

United States

In a locked airplane hangar outside of Dublin, a car engine revs. Fumes fill the air.  I love my M3, I really do, but today our twenty-year relationship is being tested, and the Beast is letting me down. The engine has been running for more than five minutes and I m still not dead.  Take one shy Irishman a recovering stutterer and a closeted homosexual and transport him from Dublin to Vancouver in search of sci-fi stardom and himself. This honest, uplifting and painfully funny memoir is about love, soapboxes and why you should never lie on national TV. It s the story of how the Beast that almost killed Robert ended up saving his life.

Just One More Drive: The true story of a stuttering homosexual and his race car

O'Brien, Robert James

For Clayton Monroe, the last hope for refuge is a struggling settlement at the far northwest corner of Vancouver Island. San Josef is his sanctuary from the imagined demons and real enemies who have pursued him for three decades, from the Civil War battlefields of Virginia and across the plains of Kansas to the gold rush gateway of Seattle. For Anika Frederickson, San Josef is her new home and her dream, a now failing community built on the promises of provincial government officials. The future of her colony, carved from the coastal wilderness by the tenacity of her fellow Danish idealists, is as uncertain as the storms that batter their farms. A man like Monroe leaves a burning trail behind him, and the autumn winds of 1899 bring a new arrival to Cape Scott, sparking an inevitable challenge to Clayton's safety and Anika's family. At San Josef, the rainforest and the river will bear witness. This powerful novel of redemption and revenge was inspired by a real American Civil War mystery.

San Josef

Macy, Harold

Umingmak: Stuart Hodgson and the Birth of the Modern Arctic

Ootes, Jake

Historical

It is 1944 and the young Canadians of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry have had enough of drills and night marches and waiting. Private Ewen Morrison is 21 years old when he joins the regiment in Sussex and meets his new platoon, including Reggie Johnson, an Indigenous soldier from Ontario's Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve. His new friend supplements the army's training with some of his own, helping to prepare Ewen for scouting missions against the enemy. Landing on Juno Beach, the men confront the brutal reality of war as they advance across northern Europe with the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Reggie's bravery, skill and authority soon earn him a field promotion, but not necessarily the respect of all the men in his platoon. Based on war diaries and regimental records, The Hawk and the Hare is inspired by the real-life experience of the author's father. This is not the story of generals and officers, but of the men on the ground and the hardships they endured. Exploring themes of friendship, culture and valour, The Hawk and the Hare honours the young men who fought to liberate Europe in the final months of the Second World War.

The Hawk and the Hare: Based on a True Story

Morrison, Janet Love

A funny and poignant story about coming of age after you've already grown up. Sloane Sawyer had it all planned--she and her best friend Stephie would graduate from high school, get out of Tippett Valley and have dazzling complementary careers. Sloane would become an award-winning graphic designer, creating band posters using Stephie's artwork. She would also have a loving husband, the requisite two kids and a house with a white picket fence. As she turns thirty, Sloane has a boring job and a boss who ignores her. She has no children, doesn't own a house, has gained fifteen pounds and questions how her video game-playing husband could possibly love her. And Stephie, working in a bar and living in Tippett Valley with the disreputable Randy, is increasingly distant. Even as Sloane clings to her dream, she comes to realize that she and Stephie won't be able to move forward until they finally confront an old tragedy.

Picket Fences

Hogg, Emma L.R.

Genre Fiction

When civil war broke out in his home country in 2011, Hassan Al Kontar was a young Syrian living and working in the UAE. After a series of setbacks, he was arrested in 2017 and deported in 2018. Unable to obtain a visa for any other country, he became trapped in the arrivals zone at Kuala Lumpur Airport. Exiled by war and trapped by geopolitics, Al Kontar used social media and humour to tell his story to the world, becoming an international celebrity and ultimately finding refuge in Canada. 
Man at the Airport explores what it means to be a Syrian, an "illegal" and a refugee. More broadly, it examines the power of social media to amplify individual voices and facilitate political dissent.

Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life

Kontar, Hassan Al

Community & Culture

As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle--class upbringing, and Lauren traded suburbia for a life of violence and criminality on the streets of Toronto. Told from the perspective of both mother and daughter, Walking Away from Hate chronicles Lauren's descent into extremism, her life within the movement and her ultimate reconnection with the family she once denounced and the mother who refused to give up on her.

Walking Away from Hate: Our Journey through Extremism

Manning, Lauren

Manning, Jeanette

Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family was harassed and lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone." Desperate to ensure the family's safety and to provide a future for his children, Jolie's father arranged three separate escapes. The first was a failure that cost most of their fortune, but the second was successful -- six of his children reached Indonesia and ultimately settled in Canada. The father and his youngest daughter drowned during the disastrous third attempt. Alternately told from the author's perspective and that of her father's ghost, Three Funerals for My Father is a poignant story of love, grief and resilience that spans two continents and fifty years. It serves as both an intimate story of one family, and a testament to the collective experience of hundreds of thousands of "boat people" and millions of refugees.

Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam

Hoang, Jolie Phuong

Parenting & Relationships

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