Blue Butterfly imprint: 26 books
Pegahmagabow
Life-Long Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Francis Pegahmagabow was a remarkable aboriginal leader who served his nation in time of war and his people in time of peacefighting. In wartime he volunteered to be a warrior. In peacetime he had no option. His life reveals how uncaring Canada was about those to whom this land had always been home.
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A Mother's Grief
Thirty Years On
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book is an account of how the author dealt with the 'roller-coaster' of emotions she suffered as a result of the death of her daughter. It reflects on the stages of grief which she wrote about in her first book, 'One Step at a Time/Mourning a Child', (ISBN 978-0-9573670-3-6).
Now in, 'A...
No Return
A novel of the Canadian election that vanished in Muskoka's backwoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Canadians took politics seriously in the years following Confederation and Gordon Aiken’s novel about pioneer Muskoka and the fledgling nation’s capital shows why.
Unique events in the Dominion’s second election, in 1872, inspired Aiken to write about Muskoka’s returning officer, Richard...
One step at a time
Mourning a Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book is aimed at helping bereaved parents, and anyone who would like to support them, in their time of grief, especially in the first few weeks and months following the death of their child, but do not know how. It is written by the author from personal experience of having to cope with the death...
Pagoda of Light
A Falun Gong Story from Today's China
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet enlightening, path in life, especially for the two brilliant brothers...
Parkin
Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world.
Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he...
A Struggle to Walk With Dignity
The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age eighteen decided to join the railway as a passenger car porter....
A Passion for Justice
How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.
James Chalmers McRuer was not easy...
Clickety Clack
My Bipolar Express
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Clickety Clack is Joy McDiarmid’s self- portrait of bipolar mental illness and one of the most ambiguous sexual identities imaginable for a woman coming of age in the 1950s. Amidst gender and sexuality confusion, this Winnipeg woman began to look for romantic love and sexual fulfillment: sometimes...
Celtic Woman
A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d expect.
This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual...
by Roy Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
The fight to eliminate world poverty is being severely hampered by corrupt leaders in developing countries. According to the African Union, some $150 billion is lost every year to corruption in Africa. In China, it is estimated corruption diminishes the annual value of gross domestic product by 15%....
Local Library, Global Passport
The Evolution of a Carnegie Library
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Limited time offer.
A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership.
Several thousand Carnegie libraries were built a century...
Second Rising
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
People cannot readily be categorized, nor some books. Second Rising is one of them. In her publishing debut, Canadian fiction writer Catherine Wiebe is as refreshing as she is startling with this fictional memoir of birthing and memory, a chronicle of food prepared, bread baked, and human skin bringing...
by Dan Dowhal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
What’s in a name? Personal misfortune, or so it would appear if your name happens to be "Flam Grub." This touching contemporary novel shows how our lives are entwined with our names and how our destinies are never certain.
Full of humour and sadness, quirky wit, and quiet moments...
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