Deirde Kessler's poems speak vividly, gently, and passionately to those who are nourished or in need of replenishment, by the natural world. She writes with both the precise eyes of a Darwin and the treasuring eyes of an Audubon or Georgia O'Keeffe. Even more, Kessler's landscapes, whether in Oregon, the American southwest, Tasmania, or Prince Edward Island, are vibrantly inhabited by the presence and traces of ancestors- aboriginal peopels, pioneers, myth-makers, and of the settlers and wayfarers of our own time, those who preserve and honour, and those who devour and destroy. Her poems known childhood and family; sibling love and worry, parents' bittersweet gifts to their children- the sinews that hold families together through distance, aging, and death.

Marrying the sensuous and the sensual, Last Tomato, is the lush first collection of poetry by Prince Edward Island writer Jane Ledwell.

The poems in Last Tomato trace the boundaries of the poet's Island home to take the measure of fullness and limitation, stasis and change.Last Tomato explores the meaning of lives lived deep into their roots- in landscape, in community, in family, in love.

Like many of us, John Eldon Green lived through the massive changes of the Twentieth Century. Gone is the Albany of his boyhood years -- the forge, the general stores, the two-room schoolhouse, the butcher and barber shops, and the railway station; gone St. Dunstan's University where he graduated in 1947; gone the days when Catholics and Protestants lived in two separate and often warring camps; and gone the era of the community self-sufficiency, when families, churches and neighbourhoods partied together and looked after their own.

All gone, but remembered with both fondness and frankness in this memoir.

During a long pioneering career in the field of Social Services, as a civil servant andDeputy Minister, Green was in frequent contact with Premiers, Ministers, and senior officials, both nationally and on PEI, but also with the poorest of the poor. His dealings withboth groups are recallled with candour and sympathy, and inthe case of the former, with an occasional flash of steel.

The reader will discover here a mix of courageous self-disclosure and penetrating insight into the society, all written with charm and vigour, and adorned with the wisdom of a reflective mind, and much self-effacing wit.

There is toughness here, and much tenderness, especially concerning his wife Mary and their family of seven sons and daughters, and ten grandchildren, who have been the inspiration forhis life.

Here is a collection that speaks of the courageous and solitary journeying of the heart as it grapples with its darkest days. In Lesley-Anne Bourne's fourth collection of poems, she boldly delves into life's deepest losses through the metaphor of the labyrinth. Bourne takes us on a searing journey into the depths of our own souls as the narrator anguiseswhich way to go. The struggle to eventually reclaim the self is what drives these poignant series of lyric-narratives. These poems will stay with you for a very long time as Bourne never gives up questioning the infinite possibilites that life offers in restoring hope.

In this, John Smith's first book of poetry, Prince Edward Island's poet Laureate offers up a dialogue about "being" exploring what it means to be human, as an individual, as one in relationship to others, and as a part of the earth and of the universe. As physics, algebra, and geometrycollide with his own philosophical questionings, Smith useslanguage to bridge the ephermeral and the infinite.

Beyond silence: Voices of Childhood Sexual Abuse is a collection of stories, poems and images by fourteen Island women in a labour of love for the children they were and for children today, everywhere. Beyond Silence is a response to the knowledge that many children are frightened in their own homes or in familiar environments with people they most trust.

The autors of Beyond Silence take a fresh approach to the ongoing work of childhood sexual abuseprevention by focusing on their knowledge and widsom as adult suvivors. The stories are raw and real, honest and terrifying. The autors refuse to be silenced and they're determined to make a difference.

Whether a parent, caregiver, relative, family friend, teacher, doctor, nurse or coach - all who read Beyond Silence can become better equiped to protect children.

SAGE is aPrince Edward Island registered non-profit charitable volunteer-based organization with the mandate to empower and educate community in the prevention of childhood sexual abuse.

Charles McMillan, a native of Prince Edward Island, is agraduate of St. Dunstans University, author of nine books, over 100 articles in professional management journals, and numerous pieces for newspapers and magazines. Raised in Charlottetown and at the family cottage in Keppoch, he is a Professor of International Business at York University. His family dates from the McMillans of Scotland, who first came to the Island in the 1970s.

Each of Judy Gaudets poems is a path to somewhere resonant, redolent of memories and anticipations both bittersweet and beautiful. She traces the paths both bittersweet and beautiful. She traces the paths the mind and body take purposefully as well as those they happen upon by chance or consequence. The poems light on home and history, travel afar, return again. They are marked by toughness of wholly looking and experiencing, and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the Earth's days, and our human ones.

Driven by curiousity about her own intense friendships and soul-to-soul connections, Dianne Hicks Morrow devoted thelast 10 years to asking these questions of 27 fascinating Atlantic Canadians from all walks of life.

In KindredSpirits, people as diverse as composer Norman Campbell, author Sheree Fitch, photographer Freeman Patterson, theatre director Duncan McIntosh, comedian dentist Marina Sexton, country doctor Jim Bowen, minister Elizabeth Stevenson, university president Wade MacLauchlan, and actor Deb Allen reveal their passionate connections to the people, places, and animals that inspire their deepest trust, their most intimate contact, and their unconditional love.

Kindred Spirits explores all aspects of the kindred-spirit relationship, whether from across a room in a shared home or across great timeand distance, in voices and perspectives as diverse as the people in the book.

"It's not what you've lost, it's what you have left." That statement became the life motto for Dan MacDonald, who battled back from grievous wounds recieved in the Second World War to forge a remarkable career as a politician of national stature. Behind the extraordinary political career, there is also the story of a successful farmer and devoted family man. His story remains an inspiration to many Prince Edward Islanders and Canadians and is one that is meant to be shared.

By author Satadal Dasgupta, The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban is a collection of articles based on empirical studies of various aspects of specific communities, enablingreaders to examine whether many of the theoretical and methodological gerneralizations in community studies are applicable to Canadian communities as well.