Iguana Books imprint: 78 books
Lessons Learned
Stories for a Working Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
There are numerous “how to” books aimed at providing assistance to young people beginning their careers or established professionals looking to make transitions. This is not one of them. Rather than outlining how to work for a specific company, Lessons Learned: Stories for a Working Life is intended...
by Nancy McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Nancy McDonald’s career as a journalist included the television programs W5, Canada AM, and Marketplace; she then went on to become a sought-after freelance writer, penning everything from documentaries to live-action scripts to comic books. Boy from Berlin is her first full-length novel. She’s...
Caravaggio's Dagger
A pursuit of right action
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Many come to evil; many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst’s poems inquire, what is a pursuit of right action? Caravaggio, the murderous, brilliant 16th-century painter, depicted the decapitation of John the Baptist at the moment the...
by Gary Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
"Catch me the moon," cries Madeline. "Okay," says Poppa. He makes her a "moon box." But when she looks inside, the moon is never there. So Poppa finds a bigger box. And then one night, it happens...
by Fiona Gold Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since childhood, author Fiona Gold Kroll has been drawn to a photograph of her great-uncle, Benjamin Albaum, a Jewish man who disappeared from Paris at the beginning of World War II. A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of Fiona’s quest to discover his fate. Chasing Holocaust shadows across...
Real Dirt
An Ex-industrial Farmer's Guide to Sustainable Eating
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Real Dirt is a groundbreaking book for any reader interested in learning more about where food comes from. Harry Stoddart shares years of experience and knowledge in his quirky dissection of agriculture and what we eat. Among his many achievements, he has developed a farming system he believes is...
by Joseph Sciuto
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A seismic shift in Hollywood’s power structure occurred during the 1980s. Gone were the moguls and founding fathers of the motion picture industry — Jack L. Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Carl Laemmle, Samuel Goldwyn, and Darryl Zanuck. The studios were being taken over by technological giants such as...
Self Science
A Guide to the Mind and Your Brain's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Self Science takes the study of the brain out of the laboratory and into the light. After years of seeing how evidence-based practices ignore the individual and fall into generalizations, Dr. Mandy Wintink decided there had to be another way. Looking beyond her training in traditional neuroscience,...
Shattered Hopes
Canada's Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
On December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a distant land unknown to most Canadians. A crucial fall-out was the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, which Canada eventually joined, forcing 212 Canadian athletes to shelve their Olympic dreams, some temporarily,...
by Stephen Ilott
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Open the door to the unique world of professional organizer and declutterer Stephen Ilott. A self-professed domestic archaeologist, Stephen loves digging into others’ lives and helping them look inwards and organize outwards past their clutter. In this candid and often hilarious account of his career,...
Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier
Unlock Your Career Potential
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier: How to Unlock Your Career Potential is a practical guidebook for those who are stuck in their career journey or need help reaching their career goals. The Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier (SIWIKE) is what you didn’t know you needed to know about your career development, things...
Places, Please!
Becoming a Jersey Boy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
A Jersey Boys book. A Jersey Boys story. A Broadway memoir. A how-to guide to making it on Broadway. Everyone's heard of JERSEY BOYS. Thirteen million people have seen the show, totaling more than $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The cast members have performed on Oprah , the Today show, Dancing...
by Kateri Lanthier
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Why Reporting from Night? The title of this first collection refers to the surreal night flowering of memory and imagination. In these imagistic, playful poems, the sleep-deprived thought patterns of a mother of small children, the inventiveness of a child’s-eye view and the restless brain at 4:00...
Brain in Pain
A Wounded Healer’s Heart-Wrenching and Heart-Warming Guide to Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Brain in Pain gives a first-hand view of the world of schizophrenia and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness. Written by Peter Cohen, Brain in Pain is an invaluable window into his compelling world. Both candid and vivid, Cohen describes his experience of living and coping with a psychosis....