Second Story Press imprint: 196 books

On the Edge

Women Making Hockey History

by Elizabeth Etue, Megan K. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996

Using personal accounts from star players, interviews with sport insiders and striking photographs, On the Edge provides a dramatic look into the business and politics of women's hockey.

Playing it Forward

50 Years of Women and Sport in Canada

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Over the last 50 years, the struggles to achieve equity in sport have become central to the feminist mission. This book contains an inspiring collection of stories from the women on the front lines: athletes, coaches, educators, and activists for women's sport, who have done so much to foster change....

Redefining Retirement

New Realities for Boomer Women

by Margret Hovanec
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

Boomer women are about to pass yet another milestone -- RETIREMENT! The first wave of women to enter the workforce in significant numbers benefited from the femnist revolution and fought for a place in the world of work. Now these women are leading the rush for the exits. As they near retirement age,...
by Sharon Kirsh
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001

Women have been doctors for a very long time. From a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, they have surmounted great odds to heal and help their communities. This book of ten biographies features women from around the world, past and present. Besid
by Suzanne Simoni
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

Women have been writing, producing and directing movies since filmmaking began in the early 1900s. From taming wild dogs to filming from the open door of a plane to being nominated for an academy award, women directors have done amazing things in the world of film. Fantastic Female Filmmakers tells...
by Heather Ball
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004

Since the days of ancient Egypt, women have demonstrated their skills as leaders. The last copule of hundred years, however, have seen increasing numbers of self-made women of distinction take their place on the world stage, many in positions of leadershi
by Frances Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

A thirst for adventure, a deep desire to push themselves beyond their comfort zones, and an innate curiosity about the world and its peoples drive the biographies of the ten women explorers profiled here. As explorers they bring skills in cartography, geography, history, anthropology, botany, photography,...
by Jill Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001

This collection features ten women from around the world, all amazing athletes who have gone the distance in their own way. The book profiles the largely forgotten Olympian, Bobbie Rosenfeld, considered by many experts to be Canada's most accomplished fem
by Kelly DiDomenico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002

Women breaking new ground in areas once thought beyond them, and establishing a legacy for others to follow -- that's what the Women's Hall of Fame Series is all about. Super Women in Science is no exception. Meet ten women from ancient times to today, wi
by Karen Krossing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003

Behind each tightly locked apartment door at rundown 64 Wilnut Street lie the hidden stories of the inhabitants. There is David, who tries to talk to his father's ghost, and Jennifer, who flirts with men she does not want. Asim, who faces hatred directed against his Muslim family, and Allie, who spends...
by Alice Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan. Relocating to North America, their flight falls on the fateful morning of 9/11. After the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, their plane is diverted to...
by Pat Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher. But she must leave school to help support her family, moving to the city to work as a maid in a wealthy doctor's home. As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill...
by Kathy Stinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public. She takes all of their parents’ focus, to the point where David wonders if they see him as anything more than...
by Jennifer Craig
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

After losing her job and learning she might also lose her house because of a bad investment, Jess, a fiercely independent and hilariously wry BC grandma, resorts to growing pot in her basement to make ends meet. She then has to juggle her public life as a grandmother and member of the town’s senior...
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