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The Food Doula Cookbook
$35.00THE FOOD DOULA COOKBOOK focuses on real food for real life, every step of the way. Whether you are feeling good and inspired to prep healthy meals for the week, or you are feeling terrible, have nausea or heartburn, and can’t eat much, you’ll find a big selection of recipes here to light up your taste buds, satisfy your cravings, and provide essential nutrition for you and baby, plus loads of advice and tips for food prep, meal planning, choosing the most wholesome foods, and cooking up nutritious, delicious meals.
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Light in the Forest
$24.95Light in the Forest is a book filled with beautiful paintings and an inspiring message designed to help children struggling with anxiety and fears find a way out of the darkness by following the light. In Light in the Forest, Holly uses her beautiful paintings of forest animals to help children struggling with anxiety and fear.
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Women on the Ballot
$34.95The current political reality has awakened in many women the urgent determination to be involved — but the journey from the sidelines to political power is seldom a straight path.
Enter Women on the Ballot, an essential roadmap designed to encourage, equip, and empower women to step up and run for political office. This is a book about women who saw things as they were, knew change was needed, and entered into Canadian politics.
Gleaned from more than 100 hours of interviews, Women on the Ballot offers compelling stories, insights, and advice from more than 90 Canadian women with diverse backgrounds across all levels of politics and party lines.
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Labyrinth of Green
$22.95Labyrinth of Green is a collection of poetry and photography by Diana Hayes. Her poems and photographs share maps and narratives for the inner journey, a labyrinth that leads to wholeness, to our own centre and back again out into the world. Here, both beauty and the forces of nature are revealed in delight, in grief and ultimately through awakening. Each of the book’s five sections explores aspects of this process. The reader enters a West Coast rainforest and walks toward the inner sanctum of the wetlands. Childhood and adolescence and the lessons of the underworld will be encountered. Ancestors provide solace and wisdom. The well of grief is visited. Dreamscapes of near-sleep, offering healing — as witness, as seer, as sage — conclude the final section, “where sleep’s wild embrace does not prepare you.”
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Willa’s House
$22.95Willa’s House, David Booth’s final book, is a tribute to women teachers, the joy in life’s small moments, and to home.
In Willa’s House, author David Booth takes us on a nostalgic walk back to the quiet contentment of calmer times. Based on a true story, this heartwarming chronicle of a teacher’s life in a small Canadian town illustrates the tragedies and triumphs that centre around this one home. These events demonstrate Willa’s strong ties to family, friends, and students as well as the ways in which she makes a lasting impact on her community. With her less-than-typical trajectory, Willa shows us that there is more than one way to lead a fulfilling life.
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The Woman in this Poem
$22.95Edited by acclaimed poet and author Georgia Heard, who became acutely aware of the beauty and power of poetry when working on an anthology of poems to comfort children after September 11th, The Woman in this Poem features the work of both renowned and lesser-known female poets from the past 150 years.
Organized into five thematic sections centered on the topics of Love, Motherhood, Work, Family and Friends, and Balance, this book not only offers wisdom, comfort, reckoning, and redemption to readers of any age or gender, but it also reminds us of how pleasurable and enriching it can be to lose ourselves in the power of well-crafted words.
ABOUT US
Plumleaf Press is a trade imprint of Rubicon Publishing Inc., an award-winning educational publishing company established more than 30 years ago. In 2015, Rubicon’s president and publisher Maggie Goh created the imprint Plumleaf Press, a passion project to create “books to linger over” — thoughtful, beautifully designed literary books that offer readers “sweet solitude,” inspire contemplation, provoke new ideas, and encourage serene, healthful lifestyles.
We welcome submissions of manuscripts or proposals.
Please send all submissions to info@plumleafpress.com
For submission guidelines click here.
OUR STORY
I crossed the Rubicon when I turned 40 — I left my job as Publisher of a leading educational publishing house and started my own small company, Rubicon Publishing Inc. Today, Rubicon is thriving, with thousands of titles sold in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Asia. And we are moving steadfastly into the digital era with exciting resources for students and teachers of the 21st century.
As we headed into 2015, I started the imprint Plumleaf Press, to create “books to linger over” — beautifully designed, literary books for readers, young and old.
As a lifelong reader, I have been enriched, from early childhood through to the present, with books that offer me hours of escape, bring joy and tears, enchantment, reflection, and inspiration — and that is what I hope that our readers will find with Plumleaf books.
I came up with the name Plumleaf Books by combining my father’s surname, Lee (李), which means plum, and my mother’s surname, Ye (葉), which means leaf.
In Chinese tradition, the plum, which blossoms even in the deepest winter, is a symbol of integrity, fortitude, tenacity, and blessing. A green leaf is a symbol of renewal and hope.
– Maggie Goh, Publisher, Plumleaf Press
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