PINCH ME A Long Walk From the Prairies Beth Rowles Scott || Beth Rowles Scott invites you to walk with her as she tells about her prairie childhood, her challenging career and her fulfilling senior years. At 63 she marries the love of her life, George Scott. Scott, a retired teacher and school administrator, in 1993 along with her husband George founded the African Canadian Continuing Education Society (ACCES), a non-profit organization and model NGO that has helped provide thousands of Kenyans with access to education. Pinch Me: A Long Walk from the Prairies reveals how Scott, a “fat little girl from Saskatchewan”, discovers a three-prong happiness formula: Someone to Love, Something to Do and Something to Look Forward To. Leaving her Prairie home for the greener pastures of the West Coast, she starts a new life in British Columbia where she becomes the first female principal of a secondary school in the province. After retiring from a successful career in education, at age 63 she meets the love of her life and together they establish ACCES, an organization that enables impoverished Kenyan children and youth to improve their lives through education. ACCES (which ensures that 100 percent of donations to its programs go directly to those programs) has given more than 1,100 scholarships to university/college students and has established ten primary schools serving more than 1,200 children each year in grades 1-8. Memoir / Education / Africa Paperback / 6” x 9” / 224 pages ISBN 978-1-894694-74-2 $19.95 CDN / $17.95 US

TREKKING THE GLOBE With Mostly Gentle Footsteps Written by Irene Butler Photographs by Rick Butler Newly retired baby boomers, Irene Butler and her husband Rick, chose to escape routine and trek the globe for a year. Disciplined adventurers,  who experienced all the joys and challenges of travel and still managed to stay within their planned budget. As they immersed themselves in cultures across four continents their experiences were wondrous, hair-raising and sometimes humorous. Irene was already a seasoned travel writer, so she decided to write a book to assist others in their travel plans and to provide armchair travelers with the an insider view of their experiences. Their personal challenge was to travel for the same cost as staying at home, yet adhering to their older travellers’ motto “we are not here to suffer”. Her book is full of tips and the lessons they learned, including the most valuable lesson of all, “expect the unexpected”. The result is Trekking the Globe With Mostly Gentle Footsteps, Twelve Countries in Twelve Months. TRAVEL / ADVENTURE / SELF-HELP Trade Paperback / 6" x 9" / pages Granville Island Publishing ISBN 9781894694797 Paperback $19.95 Cdn

INSTINCT SCIENCE AND OTHER POEMS Gurdev Boparai   POETRY Trade Paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / 100 pages Granville Island Publishing ISBN 978-1-894694-78-0 / $14.95 CDN Click here to see cover enlargement (284K pdf) Click here to read about Gurdev Boparai Click here to read news about Instinct Science