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Grandma Joy and Me: A Journey of Healing, One National Park at a Time
by Brad Ryan
A heartrending, transformative true story following Brad Ryan and his grandmother Joy Ryan as they embark on a seven-year journey to visit every US National Park. Raised in Appalachia, Grandma Joy lived a life shaped by constraints and hardships, while Brad grappled with the weight of family rifts and unresolved pain. Together, they embarked on a quest not only to witness the majesty of America's wild landscapes but also to heal generations of struggles and misunderstandings. Over seven years, they sought to visit all sixty-three US National Parks. Grandma Joy and Me, follows a seven-year adventure of intergenerational healing, wherein a grandmother and grandson find themselves released from the injustices--real and imagined--that had long held them hostage.
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American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by Isaac Fitzgerald
Memoirist Isaac Fitzgerald (Dirtbag, Massachusetts) combines a love of walking and a fascination with pioneer Johnny Appleseed (aka John Chapman) in his traveling tale, in which he attempts to walk along Chapman’s historic route from Massachusetts to Indiana. A moving blend of memoir, history, and travelogue.
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Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze
by Jesse Winter
Award-winning journalist Jesse Winter takes us on a dangerous and often heroic journey to the frontlines of three Canadian wildfires, introducing readers to firefighters, volunteers and others who are facing the country's most devastating infernos. Weaving together incredible stories of everyday courage, danger and disaster, Winter offers a unique view into our current peril. Since 2020, wildfires have, on average, burned through five times more square kilometres than they did in the 1970s, destroying an area twice the size of Vancouver Island every summer. As Winter journeys to the country's most fire-prone areas, he asks what we are getting right and examines what we are getting perilously wrong. From there, he makes the compelling case that if Canada wants to survive its inevitably hot future, it needs to take the hard-won lessons of local communities to heart. The result is an account that feels immediate and intimate, urgent, and hopeful.
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The Last Farm on McNabs: A Family History of Twentieth-Century Life on the Island
by Bruce Scott
Steeped in mystery and raw beauty, McNabs Island, situated in the middle of Halifax Harbour yearns to yield up its history. Decaying estate homes and weathered road signs are all that remain of the once-vibrant farms and businesses that populated the island. The Last Farm, is a collection of stories, dictated to author Bruce Scott, by his mother who grew up on the island, provides a singular and highly personal perspective on the island's history. The reader is introduced to Scott's great uncle, Arthur Davis, and his bottle works and fairgrounds; Bill Lynch, the man who managed the Findlay fairgrounds; and Joseph Perrin, owner of the historically prominent Hugonin Estate, whose life on the island prompted many fascinating tales.
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Everything Changes Everything: Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk
by Lauren Kessler
A resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief. After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist, felt compelled to move, to do something different, to be somewhere else, so she set out alone on the famed Camino de Santiago, walking across Spain to create space between the life she'd lived and the life she had not chosen but now inhabited. Raw and luminous, Everything Changes Everything, is a story about facing what we would rather avoid, about the wounds we carry, hide, and sometimes heal. It is about the privilege of choosing hardship, the grace of temporary friendship, the solace of kindred spirits, and the power of movement to unstick what is stuck. It is also about unfounded optimism, unlikely laughter, and the way grief and beauty can coexist in a single step.
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The Book of Awesome Latinas: Inspiring Stories and BIOS of Hispanic and Latin Women Throughout History
by Mirtle Peña-Calderón
From the foremothers who blazed trails and broke barriers, to today's women warriors across a wide range of fields like medicine, literature, politics, civil rights, space exploration, and the arts, “The Book of Awesome Latinas,” presents seventy-four portraits of powerful and inspiring role models for chichas poised to become the superwomen of the future.
Each person featured in this book has broken barriers, defied expectations, and made a lasting impact within their communities. Through their courage, resilience, and steadfast determination, they will serve as powerful role models for the next generation, proving that when representation is lacking, we must be brave and bold enough to be the first.
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Dreamer's Daughter: Surviving My Childhood and Raising My Father
by Lori Thicke
A daughter's inspiring memoir of a childhood short on money, but rich in all the rest, and her eccentric and misguided father who fails spectacularly at everything except being a loving parent. In a mining town where hope is as tapped out as the gold, a mother abandons her two children, leaving them in the custody of their free-spirited father. Colorful and larger-than-life, Dacker Thicke is a dreamer whose schemes and small businesses never quite pan out. When they lose everything in a house fire, Dacker considers this the ultimate freedom and leads his children on a cross-country road trip that will force them to rely on his wits and dubious judgment. Amid the chaos, Lori must raise herself and her younger brother and, on occasion, her father. When she strives for independence, she discovers that it is hard to leave home when home has wheels and keeps following you around. A coming-of-age memoir, Dreamer's Daughter is a life-affirming story about forgiving our parents and ourselves.
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