Susan White Livres

This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection.

This book explores the policy and practice possibilities offered by a social model of child protection. Drawing on developments in mental health and disability studies, it examines the conceptual, political and practice implications of this new framework.

Faced with the pressures of her life, a Toronto novelist seeks refuge in a crumbling lodge in New Brunswick. As she embarks on this new chapter, she plans to bring her grandmother and disabled adult daughter along, hoping to find solace and a fresh start. The story explores themes of family, escape, and the pursuit of personal freedom amidst the complexities of long-term relationships.

Keefe Williams grapples with a childhood marked by neglect and the shadow of his parents' tragic death, which has defined his existence. His life takes a turn when Summer Barkley arrives in town, unaware of his painful history. As their bond deepens, Keefe begins to break free from his past, allowing him to explore and embrace his true identity. This coming-of-age story highlights themes of connection, self-discovery, and the power of relationships in overcoming personal trauma.

In The Virtuous Tart, Susan Jane takes you by the hand to guide you through wholesome alternatives to refined white sugar such as coconut sugar, date syrup, maple and raw honey; and shows you where to use superfood flours like quinoa and teff.

Thirteen-year-old Betony has always hated going to her cranky great-grandmother’s house. It’s old and stuffy and boring and the woodstove in the kitchen is always burning too hot. But her Gram doesn’t have any other family living close by on the Kingston Peninsula, so Betony ends up being dragged along all the time.She’d rather be pretty much anywhere…until one day Betony sits on her Gram’s favourite chair. She is suddenly transported into the past, and is experiencing her Gram’s life as if it were in her own memory. At first Betony is excited and curious, and begins to develop a close relationship with Gram, even learning to cook and quilt. But after she has experienced a few more of her great-grandmother’s memories, she realizes she is slowly

Rachel, after being shuttled from one bad foster family to another ever since her mother died in a car accident, is sent to a place that is a last resort for kids like her: a farm in the middle of nowhere run by a disfigured recluse.

Anna has left her boyfriend and moves in with her mother, who has recently taken to popping Prozac after her husband left her. When Anna meets Italian aristocrat, Giancarlo, she thinks he has saved her from sleeping on other people's sofas. But life is never that simple, as Anna's diary records.

Franny Callaghan feels invisible. With a missing mother only seen occasionally who speaks to the family through the closed door of her bedroom or the ensuite bathroom and a father and younger sister, who travel most of the time, home long enough to wash their underwear and re-pack before heading to the next competition so her sister can be an Olympic speed skater, Franny feels alone most of the time. Franny's brother died a few years before and is only seen in the photos on the wall. Her family hasn't spoken of him since the day of his big funeral and all the news coverage of the tragic accident that killed eight members of the Ridgewood High School Orchestra and one of his teachers. And Franny Callaghan remains... just the awkward middle kid in a family that used to look like everyone else's. What if Franny just took off to go see her brother's favorite band on the anniversary of his death? Maybe that would be the jolt her family so badly needed.

Nine-year old Taylor's younger brother becomes terminally ill and Taylor keeps a journal that tracks her and her family's life and loss.