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It is difficult for any parent to have a sick child; to add the words “life-threatening” to the phrase adds an almost unbearable element. Every year, thousands of children in Canada are diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. As a parent of one of those children, the author takes you...

"It came with no warning pop. Compressed into a fraction of a second was the shrill, expanding screech of the approaching round and the explosion that rocked the hilltop. The players, sitting Indian-style at a game of back-alley bridge, were torn to pieces. It happened in the blink of an eye. August...

A Casual Traveler  is a collection of short travel tales and poems from the author's personal travels over a three year period. The stories take you to countries in Southeast Asia, North, Central, and South America. Motorcycle trips take you across Canada and the United States. The stories are...

Martin Bayne on Learning to Turn the Stream of Compassion Within looks with a soulful heart and a scholar’s mind at one of Mankind’s most difficult challenges: the ability to love oneself unconditionally. The author, a literary journal publisher who is a former Soto Zen Buddhist monk, journalist,...

Tangled Thoughts is an introduction, of sorts, to the life of Texas author David Hunnicutt. The book is a fun, easy read that challenges the reader to look deeply at life, and to closely examine their own hearts and minds. The “thoughts” and proses written within the work range from sweet to bittersweet...

Renata Zerner's Dance on the Volcano is a memoir written for readers who are interested in what it was like living in Germany during the Third Reich and World War II. She writes about her life when she was a young woman in an anti-Nazi German family living in Berlin. Her story focuses on the last...

Lawrie Adam, son of a Scottish coal miner, born on the brink of WWII, showed the talent and drive to succeed professionally in the world of entertainment. He worked as a salesman in a drapery store until his ability with his accordion resulted in him winning an appearance on a national TV talent show,...

Healing Bodies, Healing Hearts with Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan examines how Master Lijun Cheng and her students use qigong and tai chi to promote the health of body, mind, and spirit. It also explores how practicing qigong and tai chi contributes to making life more meaningful. First, the book introduces...

D.O.R. deals with the two tumultuous and somewhat comedic years that Vince Daley spent as an enlisted man in the Marine Corps from 1968 to 1970. Although draft-deferred at the time, he enlists in the Marine Corps as an Aviation Officer Candidate only to find himself seriously injured six weeks into...

Love and Danger in the Old West is stories of legendary characters and the women who loved them. The stories begin with the confrontation between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt. These two men clashed over a watch taken from Hickok because of an unpaid debt. However, this deadly confrontation had...

MAKING THE ROUNDS shares the stories and insights of a compassionate doctor who practiced family medicine in the small working-class town of Markle, Indiana. This memoir develops the idea that, as a standard of health, communal wholeness is as important as individual wholeness, that health involves...

These accounts are the real life WWII experiences of RCAF Flying Officer Russell Hubley. From his enlistment to discharge this biography covers his training and details of the many operations which made up more than two full tours. Sixty trips in a war where only one in four aircrews survived even...

As much as a place for social encounter, the bar is a scrapbook of American history. It is where news of the day is beaten into something more easily understood, and where plots and schemes are laid out and put into motion. It is where you find the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Wyatt Earp, and Ernest...

Many dream of living abroad but Shelley and her husband, Mike, did it. They left the security of their careers, the comfort of their home, and the familiarity of their neighborhood and moved to France. For ten months, they made their home in the village of Cotignac in southern France. From their yellow-stucco...