Creative Non-fiction
Finalist, 2024 Wishing Shelf Book Awards
“Bell is committed to engaging Canadians in a conversation about racism and social injustice. It’s uncomfortable conversations that lead to action.”
Trendy words, but when a Black woman took maternity leave from the corporation she spent eleven years working for, they refused to take her back. She claimed covert racism, but Bell said she was no longer a perfect fit. Discrimination, or employer discretion? Move over, Viola is a sardonic look at one woman’s nine-year battle against Bell Canada, culminating in a landmark 1987 case before a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. The resulting conversations challenge the many contradictions of identity, race, and social justice.
3500 kilometres. Nine treacherous land borders. Ten bush taxis, five buses, five motorcycles, and two canoes.
Ten Tall Tales from West Africa is an anthology of short stories from an epic road trip from Senegal to Togo. Take a whirlwind journey through the beautiful chaos of a part of the world that sees few visitors and fewer backpackers. The stories emerge from scribbled conversations immortalized in a tattered Moleskine journal. This literary introduction to West Africa is packed with mosquitoes, jollof rice, hustlers, oppressive heat, businessmen, bribery, Afrobeats, colorful dashikis, beaten up Renaults, wild jungles, dusty cities congested with kekes, and honest to goodness attempts to communicate in French and Portuguese.
The Bambara You Want
A resource for foreign nationals, diplomats, and healthcare professionals traveling to Mali, this book provides you with the beginner skills and confidence to interact with Bambara-speaking patients and colleagues. The 37 short lessons in this eight-week intensive program will help expatriates master key phrases and grammar to inflict on real Malians.
Bam! will help you master:
- Common greetings
- Navigation and directions
- Shopping and bargaining
- Dining out and travel
- Cultural competence
One doctor’s journal of humanity at its best (and worst)
Part memoir, part how-to manual, this book is a vaguely humorous glimpse inside (and beyond) the emergency room. It explores the failures, paradoxes, and absurdities of medicine, and the role of one imperfect emergency physician searching for the meaning within it all.
You’ll want to experience 2020 all over again
See the pandemic through the eyes of a veteran emergency physician, as he valiantly pushes a computer-on-wheels through the plague-stricken corridors of an urban Ontario hospital. Agonize in the barracks over misinformation, dystopian lockdowns, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, media manipulation, the prophecy industry, risk tolerance, and the accelerating decay of our social fabric. Frontline Healthcare Hero embeds you within the vanguard of our great patriotic healthcare bureaucracy.
This is not a book about salsa
Unless this book has nothing and everything to do with salsa. The Salsa Project is about meaningful meaninglessness, a photographic travelogue of an introvert's attempts to analyze life and happiness - all while on a quest to dance through forty countries in a single year.